joshuahazen
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It could be... Stranger things have happenned. The legends of Jimi Hendrix. One thing is certain, That is one of the greatest songs of all time...
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It could be... Stranger things have happenned. The legends of Jimi Hendrix. One thing is certain, That is one of the greatest songs of all time...
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british_hempire
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Oh for sure, one of the greatest definitely, I've loved Hendrix since I was a kid, Voodoo Chile changed my life the first time I heard it.
Smokin Moose
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Talking about the third eye. I know that cinema of the psychie/mind caused by the Pineal Gland is simply brilliant! I saw this a while back...
Pineal power
By Chris Bennett - Monday, November 1 1999
The pineal gland is the key to psychedelic enlightenment.
The pineal gland, located in the centre of the brain, is about a quarter of an inch in size, reddish-gray, and weighs about one-tenth of a gram. Unlike other parts of the brain which come in pairs, the pineal gland is singular. Its location in the center of the brain and presence in other species indicates it is an older part of humanity's evolutionary brain system.
The pineal gland is present in all lower vertebrae. In other species, like birds, reptiles and frogs, the pineal gland is called the parietal eye or "third-eye" as its functions closely resemble that of an actual eye. In these other species, the pineal gland has components of an actual eye, with a cornea, rod and cone. It is considered to be the vestige of a functional sense organ of early primitive vertebrates.
Directly affected by the light taken in through the eyes, the pineal regulates sleep, menstrual cycles, mating seasons, hibernation, seasonal flight patterns and many other "instinctual" behaviors.*1
Tryptamine trippiness
Psychedelic researcher Dr Rick Strassman has explained how the pineal gland "is quite active in synthesizing compounds related to serotonin, an important neurotransmitter in the brain. Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers allowing communication among individual nerve cells. Most typical psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and DMT are active in brain sites which are also affected by serotonin. In addition, most of these drugs are similar in their chemical structure to serotonin."*2
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Strassman states that most of the above substances belong to the "tryptamine" class of drugs, and proposed that the pineal gland produces "one or two endogenous tryptamines found in human blood and cerebrospinal fluid. This latter fluid continually bathes the brain, and compounds found in it most likely affect brain function."*2
Strassman also explains how "psychedelic drugs, meditational states, spontaneous near-death experiences and other phenomena which may induce stereotypic death/rebirth and paradisal/hellish states act via the pineal gland."*3
Lyttle points to the universal mystic vision of God as an all-consuming white light, and postulates that on a physiological level, this experience is produced from chemical reactions in the pineal gland which is extremely light sensitive. "Light, the eyes and the 'third eye' or pineal gland form a triad which directly controls and regulates normal or altered consciousness and many bodily functions? these three factors are also directly related to, or implicated in, mystical states and the 'psychedelic' experience."*4
Visions of white light are not only associated with mysticism and psychedelic explorations, but are also a prevalent image recorded by those who experience the near-death state. A reason for this recurring theme in near-death states may be found with Dr Strassman, who suggests that after death, as the pineal gland shuts down, some of the chemical present in it may turn into "psychedelic" drugs!
According to Dr Strassman, the pineal gland may not only play an important role in death, but also in birth, possibly even in rebirth...
The pineal gland first becomes visible in the human fetus at the same time as does the clear differentiation of the fetus into female or male gender. The time for both of these events is 49 days, the period of time that, according to several Buddhist texts, the life force of a deceased individual coalesces around its next corporeal existence. If the life force does indeed enter through the pineal, the manifestation of this coming and going would be the release of psychedelic tryptamines, which would mediate the visionary experiences associated with near-death, and near-birth states.*2
Spiritual traditions
Certain initiatory cults, such as Tantrism, Kundalini and Gnosticism, acknowledged the role of the pineal gland in the spiritual process. The spiritual/instinctual life force was seen as a serpent, due to its physical structure extending from the genitals, through the spine and up into its single all-seeing eye in the pineal gland.
These spiritual systems focussed around the raising of this primordial serpentine energy, based in the genitals and at the core of the pro-creative process. Through certain yogic practices this energy can be reversed and forced to travel up the spine into the brain, where it is reputed to cause "enlightenment".
In the Kundalini system, which has seven distinct energy centers, the pineal gland has been variously identified with the "Ajnes Chakra" and alternatively the "Sahasrara Chakra". Both pre-Christian Mithraic and second century Gnostic texts also distinctly refer to the pineal gland in relation to seven distinct energy centers and this serpentine energy.
Not surprisingly, a common experience of those who have successfully raised their kundalini is the vision of all-consuming white light. More importantly, the devotee who successfully raises the kundalini experiences a radical switch in consciousness, obliterating the sense of individuation, and enters Nirvana.
Another potential reference to this curious little gland may occur at the end of the New Testament book of Revelation, where we find that the elect will know God intimately, "his name will be in their foreheads," which is where the pineal deeply lies. Noting the gland's strong connection with light, the rest of the passage is interesting: "There will be no more night; they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light."*5
Likewise in the Qabalistic tradition, the primordial archetypical man, Adam Kadmon, shines forth with a light from his forehead that was rich in complex patterns and linguistic symbols. Similar imagery occurs in the Persian tradition of the light-like sacred fluid, the "vivifying and spermatic" xvarenah. "Ahura Mazda is preeminently the possessor of xvarenah, but this 'flame' also springs from the forehead of Mithra and like a solar light emanates from the heads of sovereigns."*7
This mind-light from the forehead is also identical with the Eye of Shiva, which when opened in the individual burns away the concept of ego-bound consciousness, and when opened collectively has the potential to burn away the ties and fetters of the Old World Order.
Perhaps if enough modern psychonauts achieve the pineal experience we can push this new frame of mind onto the rest of ego-bound humanity. Here at the turning of the millennia, in the apocalyptic year of 1999, never has the potential for the state of mind which has been the goal of yogic sages, and psychedelic voyagers alike been so possible to attain for humanity as a whole.
Through philosophy we can understand it, through science we can identify it, through psychedelics we can experience it. So ask yourself "Are you experienced? - 'Cause I am!"*8
*1 The Columbia Encyclopedia, W. Bridgwater & S.Kurtz, Ed.'s, (Columbia University Press 1968).
*2 Strassman, Rick J. M.D.; Buddhism and Psychedelics: A Personal View, (1995)
*3 Strassman, Rick J.; The Pineal Gland: Current Evidence For Its Role In Consciousness, Psychedelic Monographs & Essays, Vol. 5, Thomas Lyttle, Ed., (1991).
*4 (Lyttle 1994)
*5 (Rev 22:24-25)
*6 Scholem, Gershom; Kabbalah, (Dorset Press 1974).
*7 Eliade, Mircea; A History of Religious Ideas, Vol.1; (University of Chicago Press 1978)
*8 Jimmy Hendrix
Source: Pineal power | Cannabis Culture Magazine
Pineal power
By Chris Bennett - Monday, November 1 1999
The pineal gland is the key to psychedelic enlightenment.
The pineal gland, located in the centre of the brain, is about a quarter of an inch in size, reddish-gray, and weighs about one-tenth of a gram. Unlike other parts of the brain which come in pairs, the pineal gland is singular. Its location in the center of the brain and presence in other species indicates it is an older part of humanity's evolutionary brain system.
The pineal gland is present in all lower vertebrae. In other species, like birds, reptiles and frogs, the pineal gland is called the parietal eye or "third-eye" as its functions closely resemble that of an actual eye. In these other species, the pineal gland has components of an actual eye, with a cornea, rod and cone. It is considered to be the vestige of a functional sense organ of early primitive vertebrates.
Directly affected by the light taken in through the eyes, the pineal regulates sleep, menstrual cycles, mating seasons, hibernation, seasonal flight patterns and many other "instinctual" behaviors.*1
Tryptamine trippiness
Psychedelic researcher Dr Rick Strassman has explained how the pineal gland "is quite active in synthesizing compounds related to serotonin, an important neurotransmitter in the brain. Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers allowing communication among individual nerve cells. Most typical psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and DMT are active in brain sites which are also affected by serotonin. In addition, most of these drugs are similar in their chemical structure to serotonin."*2
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Strassman states that most of the above substances belong to the "tryptamine" class of drugs, and proposed that the pineal gland produces "one or two endogenous tryptamines found in human blood and cerebrospinal fluid. This latter fluid continually bathes the brain, and compounds found in it most likely affect brain function."*2
Strassman also explains how "psychedelic drugs, meditational states, spontaneous near-death experiences and other phenomena which may induce stereotypic death/rebirth and paradisal/hellish states act via the pineal gland."*3
Lyttle points to the universal mystic vision of God as an all-consuming white light, and postulates that on a physiological level, this experience is produced from chemical reactions in the pineal gland which is extremely light sensitive. "Light, the eyes and the 'third eye' or pineal gland form a triad which directly controls and regulates normal or altered consciousness and many bodily functions? these three factors are also directly related to, or implicated in, mystical states and the 'psychedelic' experience."*4
Visions of white light are not only associated with mysticism and psychedelic explorations, but are also a prevalent image recorded by those who experience the near-death state. A reason for this recurring theme in near-death states may be found with Dr Strassman, who suggests that after death, as the pineal gland shuts down, some of the chemical present in it may turn into "psychedelic" drugs!
According to Dr Strassman, the pineal gland may not only play an important role in death, but also in birth, possibly even in rebirth...
The pineal gland first becomes visible in the human fetus at the same time as does the clear differentiation of the fetus into female or male gender. The time for both of these events is 49 days, the period of time that, according to several Buddhist texts, the life force of a deceased individual coalesces around its next corporeal existence. If the life force does indeed enter through the pineal, the manifestation of this coming and going would be the release of psychedelic tryptamines, which would mediate the visionary experiences associated with near-death, and near-birth states.*2
Spiritual traditions
Certain initiatory cults, such as Tantrism, Kundalini and Gnosticism, acknowledged the role of the pineal gland in the spiritual process. The spiritual/instinctual life force was seen as a serpent, due to its physical structure extending from the genitals, through the spine and up into its single all-seeing eye in the pineal gland.
These spiritual systems focussed around the raising of this primordial serpentine energy, based in the genitals and at the core of the pro-creative process. Through certain yogic practices this energy can be reversed and forced to travel up the spine into the brain, where it is reputed to cause "enlightenment".
In the Kundalini system, which has seven distinct energy centers, the pineal gland has been variously identified with the "Ajnes Chakra" and alternatively the "Sahasrara Chakra". Both pre-Christian Mithraic and second century Gnostic texts also distinctly refer to the pineal gland in relation to seven distinct energy centers and this serpentine energy.
Not surprisingly, a common experience of those who have successfully raised their kundalini is the vision of all-consuming white light. More importantly, the devotee who successfully raises the kundalini experiences a radical switch in consciousness, obliterating the sense of individuation, and enters Nirvana.
Another potential reference to this curious little gland may occur at the end of the New Testament book of Revelation, where we find that the elect will know God intimately, "his name will be in their foreheads," which is where the pineal deeply lies. Noting the gland's strong connection with light, the rest of the passage is interesting: "There will be no more night; they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light."*5
Likewise in the Qabalistic tradition, the primordial archetypical man, Adam Kadmon, shines forth with a light from his forehead that was rich in complex patterns and linguistic symbols. Similar imagery occurs in the Persian tradition of the light-like sacred fluid, the "vivifying and spermatic" xvarenah. "Ahura Mazda is preeminently the possessor of xvarenah, but this 'flame' also springs from the forehead of Mithra and like a solar light emanates from the heads of sovereigns."*7
This mind-light from the forehead is also identical with the Eye of Shiva, which when opened in the individual burns away the concept of ego-bound consciousness, and when opened collectively has the potential to burn away the ties and fetters of the Old World Order.
Perhaps if enough modern psychonauts achieve the pineal experience we can push this new frame of mind onto the rest of ego-bound humanity. Here at the turning of the millennia, in the apocalyptic year of 1999, never has the potential for the state of mind which has been the goal of yogic sages, and psychedelic voyagers alike been so possible to attain for humanity as a whole.
Through philosophy we can understand it, through science we can identify it, through psychedelics we can experience it. So ask yourself "Are you experienced? - 'Cause I am!"*8
*1 The Columbia Encyclopedia, W. Bridgwater & S.Kurtz, Ed.'s, (Columbia University Press 1968).
*2 Strassman, Rick J. M.D.; Buddhism and Psychedelics: A Personal View, (1995)
*3 Strassman, Rick J.; The Pineal Gland: Current Evidence For Its Role In Consciousness, Psychedelic Monographs & Essays, Vol. 5, Thomas Lyttle, Ed., (1991).
*4 (Lyttle 1994)
*5 (Rev 22:24-25)
*6 Scholem, Gershom; Kabbalah, (Dorset Press 1974).
*7 Eliade, Mircea; A History of Religious Ideas, Vol.1; (University of Chicago Press 1978)
*8 Jimmy Hendrix
Source: Pineal power | Cannabis Culture Magazine
exotic treats were hitting every major college campus in midwest usa by 1971 with the bulk of the goods coming from the bay area/boel. any weed/hash from this group tended to carry a name from where it was sourced; ie lowland thai, acapulco gold, mazatlan green, etc. this same group also brought high quality lsd to the masses and imho this is where the confusion with haze originates because the makers of acid were not shy about naming names from the onset; ie orange sunshine, windowpane, disney blotters, and yes, even the purple haze. during this era, a batch of pot came along that was so strong and trippy that it reminded folks of the lsd and you then have the origons of a strain name perhaps? and nearer to the time frame when pot is starting to have handles?
best guess is that i probably smoked some haze along with many other varieties during this era which imho, was the golden age of cannabis import to the usa. there has not been this sort of variety of high quality any time since then nor do i expect to ever see it again. i made no treks to the bay area however, my involvement in transactions back in the midwest was far greater than what most would consider wise so i managed to watch most of this parade. but things were foggy and my recall is poor and besides, this was just my day-to-day world and no reason for me to think some event is going on? at some point, this bay area group was shut down and the fleet of boats and planes stopped with some busted and some not. i saw the story in rolling stone but never got it read. what i did see was the next generation of treats from the bay area and it was not good cause powders replaced the smoke. but initially we were fooled. we thought cocaine to be a good thing, very hip as it was still fairly scarce? i learned differently in short order, about the time china white also joined the group, and san fran lost its luster in my eyes. but i do believe remnants of the original group are still there because every once in awhile i still manage to get a taste of something that once was, but now is some small one man show that has limited access to old time treats. say what you will about miami or nyc, the best to be had in the usa flowed through san fran bay imo. peace-biteme
this whole topic involves chasing the name "haze" which is a california label given by a grower who picked the seeds out of his lid and grew them out. i tend to agree with acid theory as to the origon of the name simply because that is as far back as it can be traced? peace-biteme
best guess is that i probably smoked some haze along with many other varieties during this era which imho, was the golden age of cannabis import to the usa. there has not been this sort of variety of high quality any time since then nor do i expect to ever see it again. i made no treks to the bay area however, my involvement in transactions back in the midwest was far greater than what most would consider wise so i managed to watch most of this parade. but things were foggy and my recall is poor and besides, this was just my day-to-day world and no reason for me to think some event is going on? at some point, this bay area group was shut down and the fleet of boats and planes stopped with some busted and some not. i saw the story in rolling stone but never got it read. what i did see was the next generation of treats from the bay area and it was not good cause powders replaced the smoke. but initially we were fooled. we thought cocaine to be a good thing, very hip as it was still fairly scarce? i learned differently in short order, about the time china white also joined the group, and san fran lost its luster in my eyes. but i do believe remnants of the original group are still there because every once in awhile i still manage to get a taste of something that once was, but now is some small one man show that has limited access to old time treats. say what you will about miami or nyc, the best to be had in the usa flowed through san fran bay imo. peace-biteme
this whole topic involves chasing the name "haze" which is a california label given by a grower who picked the seeds out of his lid and grew them out. i tend to agree with acid theory as to the origon of the name simply because that is as far back as it can be traced? peace-biteme
joshuahazen
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According to Kabbalah the soul enters the fetus at around 40 days, this is also around the time the heart of the fetus starts beating of its own accord.
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jingles
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That article was written in 76. im gunna have to change my name on hear....................
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british_hempire
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Hiya Jingles
Yeah, the Jingles in 76 was Sam, he later contributed to Ed R's writings as 'Sam Selgnij' and Selgnij is Jingles backwards.
Haven't you been around on the net for many years thought? I'm sure people won't mistake you for Sam unless you are similarly grumpy with people!
Hope you are well!
Yeah, the Jingles in 76 was Sam, he later contributed to Ed R's writings as 'Sam Selgnij' and Selgnij is Jingles backwards.
Haven't you been around on the net for many years thought? I'm sure people won't mistake you for Sam unless you are similarly grumpy with people!
Hope you are well!
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jingles
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I have been using this name a long time before anyone really knew J was sam. I still get pm though asking if i am sam.........
I started using this name knowing J was something to do with haze after reading the article in homegrown. As long as people know i am not trying to pretend to be someone else I am happy.. regards
kashrocks
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LOL...
Because of your handle I always supposed you were a sidekick of Sam...
Now I would be interested to hear why you think it was written in 1976.
The only date I can spot for this article is the date of publishing which is 1980.
Is it Sam who told you so or do you have another source ?
Peace.
K.
EDIT: I supposed so at least until I read your conversation with Sam about your old Blue Sat. mother at Icmag...now that I remember.
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bigherb
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Yes i think i even pmed you awhile back wen i first recognized you
Im not sure wat the 76 date has to do with the article aside from 76 cosmic boogie on the poster in there that was copy written in 75
1luvbigherb
Im not sure wat the 76 date has to do with the article aside from 76 cosmic boogie on the poster in there that was copy written in 75
1luvbigherb
La Buena Hierba
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Wernard have given me few years ago old seeds from the positronics times
will look in my collection i remember great outdoor strains
nice purple ones too
there are still genetics in strains tooday that hold positronics genetics
like Top44 that is Viking x skunk
on DW , Where there is smoke, there is fire
(but with this lot of smoke its sure a big Fire
)great read everybody keep finding info
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jingles
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LOL...
Because of your handle I always supposed you were a sidekick of Sam...
Now I would be interested to hear why you think it was written in 1976.
The only date I can spot for this article is the date of publishing which is 1980.
Is it Sam who told you so or do you have another source ?
Peace.
K.
EDIT: I supposed so at least until I read your conversation with Sam about your old Blue Sat. mother at Icmag...now that I remember.
Just because the article was published in 80 doesnt mean that was the year it was written. Theres reference in earlier editions of homegrown that don irving the guy who took the pictures in the article was in cali doing the story prior to 1980.
When i first read that article in 1980 i thought this jingles was one amazing man, It wasnt till 25 years later i realised the guy i had read about was infact sam over on ic, although i had allready spoken to him on OG and CW under different names...
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jingles
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Recognised me as who??
kashrocks
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Just because the article was published in 80 doesnt mean that was the year it was written. Theres reference in earlier editions of homegrown that don irving the guy who took the pictures in the article was in cali doing the story prior to 1980.
When i first read that article in 1980 i thought this jingles was one amazing man, It wasnt till 25 years later i realised the guy i had read about was infact sam over on ic, although i had allready spoken to him on OG and CW under different names...
Would you care to share these references ?
Peace.
K.
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bigherb
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As you ,jingles
do you not recall
Id love to see n truly appreciate any old posting you might hav of Sams at CW n OG
Although i doubt it
It's possible the article was written or had references from earlier No way 76 ,but wats the significance ?
1luvbigherb
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british_hempire
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Sam mentions 76 as the year he started selling seeds as Sacred Seeds.