Do You See What I See: Memoirs of a Blind Biker

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The following excerpt is from Russell Targ's book, Do You See What I See: Memoirs of a Blind Biker:

 

I am legally blind and always have
been. I have to be two feet from a painting or blackboard to see it with the
detail and clarity that you or anyone else sees it at twenty feet – otherwise
it’s pretty Impressionistic. That’s the meaning of 20/200 vision. I also have
been a magician, an enthusiastic motorcycle rider, a laser physicist, and an
ESP researcher and psychic spy for the CIA.

Strange,
say you? On the contrary, it seems natural to me for a person with very poor
vision to be interested in optics and perception – even extrasensory
perception. I learned from thirty years of ESP experimentation and meditation
that it is no more difficult to see psychically across the planet than it is to
see across the room. My recurring life experience is that “things are seldom
what they seem,” as Gilbert & Sullivan tell us in HMS Pinafore,
“skim milk masquerades as cream.”

Although
my physics professors at Columbia
University gave me a
wonderful grasp of modern physics, they told me less than half the story of the
reality of life. They left out the fact, for example, that it is possible to
experience a world where everything is made of love. And, with the help of
wonderful loving teachers, that’s the world I have been blessed to discover in
my seventy-four trips around the sun.

Aldous
Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy describes
such a world and the many levels of awareness that we can experience. Perennial
Philosophy being Huxley’s term for the highest common elements of all the major
wisdom traditions and religions. This Philosophy has as its first principle
that consciousness is the fundamental
building block of the universe – the world is more like a great thought than a
great machine. The Buddhists teach that nothing is actually happening in our
world, except for the meaning we give it. That, too, is one of the profound
truths that I have come to embrace about life.
Great writers have long recognized this. For example three of the great
romantic heroines of the nineteenth century, Anna Karenina, Madam Bovary and Gwendolyn, in George
Elliot’s Daniel Doronda, and were literally bored out of their minds “by the
dullness of it all” – even as they were surrounded by wealth, beauty,
revolutions, and social upheaval during one of the most tumultuous times in
world history. They all became mad housewives because they could find no
meaning in their lives. We’re not going to do that.

When,
at the late age of sixty, I finally internalized the idea that “I give all the
meaning there is, to everything I experience,” I profoundly reduced my own
suffering, heartache, and loneliness. I
began to understand that t
hings may indeed be happening, they are just
not happening to me. For example, the
car didn’t actually cut me off on my motorcycle, it just moved in front of me.
I can give it any meaning I like. Maybe the driver doesn’t see me or just
doesn’t like tall nearsighted Jews on motorcycles. More likely, it had nothing to do with me – he probably
didn’t even know I was there. We can learn
to let go of the idea that things happen to
us
. If you want to really suffer, try personalizing
everything. Even though I have no Buddhist credentials – I have not spent time as a monk. I am not
even a chipmunk. But I have spent many years working on the problem.

Indeed, at this stage of my life, I am much more interested in
questioning answers, than my previous specialty of answering questions. This
questioning is what led to my interest in what the Buddhists call emptiness or
sunyata
.
The short summary here is that when this basic principle – that we are largely
making it all up – is internalized, we can greatly reduce our suffering from
all causes. When we catch on to this fact, I have found that we can make the
decision to deliberately move our awareness from fear, resentment, judgment and
craving, to gratitude, peace, love and spaciousness. And that spaciousness,
freedom and fearlessness is real and available to us.

Generally, freedom appears when we finally become unbearably bored with the
repetition of the story of our suffering. For me, it appeared when I noticed
that I no longer needed anything, especially not even applause. That is to say,
no-thing will ever make me happy. Happiness ensues – it’s an inside job.

Our principle source of suffering is our defense of the story of who we
think we are – the story of Me. We defend our business card whether or not we
actually carry one. This is not an abstraction. I recently saw a public
television documentary on the Condition of our Prisons. One of the
prisoners interviewed was a well spoken young black man who had recently killed
a man. The prisoner explained, “I had to kill him. He dissed [disrespected] me
right on the street.” The idea behind emptiness teaches us that we can’t
be disrespected unless we have made ourselves available to be insulted. The self is just another part of our story
of who we think we are.

The world around us may look finite, but thirty years of research into
psychic abilities and verified out-of-body experiences have convinced me that our
awareness is limitless
in space and time – and therefore we are limitless. This is the basic
finding from our two decades of remote viewing research at Stanford Research
Institute. Through my work in this area I have taught thousands of people all
over the world how to get in touch with the part of themselves that is psychic.
And I am convinced by the data and my own experience that some aspect of our personality
survives bodily death.

Understand
me, please. I have come to realize that science, history – especially recent
historical events like September 11 – make it clear that no-thing exists and no
event occurs independent of profoundly interconnected causes and conditions.
Things that appear locally are often affected globally. And vice versa. It’s
part of the non-dual, nonlocal view that separation is an illusion.

Huxley
knew this, too. He tells us that we human beings can access all of the universe
through our own consciousness and our nonlocal mind. That it’s the mind that
fills all of space and time. Physicist David Bohm’s idea of
quantum-interconnectedness has been the hottest topic in physics for the past
two decades. Before that, separation is an illusion was first described
in physics by Noblest, Erwin Schrödinger in 1927 – and in the Hindu Vedas
thirty-five hundred years earlier – teaching that ones self is one with
the entire physical and nonphysical universe (atman equals Brahman).
This philosophy also maintains that we have a nature which is both local and
nonlocal, both material and non-material.

Finally,
the Perennial Philosophy teaches that the purpose or meaning of our lives is to
become one with this universal nonlocal consciousness that is available to us,
that is, to become one with our Divine, loving, spacious nature (which some
call God), and to then help others to share this transcendent experience of who
we are. This is also the nondual teaching of Jesus, that “The Kingdom of God is
within you,” rather than separate or up in Heaven. I have been exploring
the nature of consciousness and trying to pierce the illusion that this
material reality is all there is for many years, and if you bear with me, I
just might just convince you as well.

I
am very comfortable talking publicly about areas where I have some expertise,
such as lasers, magic, or ESP research. But recently I was asked to speak at a
large book-signing event in New York
City, right across the street from Town Hall. I know
for a fact that New Yorkers do not suffer fools gladly, if at all. So I was
nervous about my forthcoming talk on the concept of emptiness. I whined to my
wife that I was concerned about embarrassing myself in my old home town. But as
soon as I said the words, I remembered that the whole essence of the teaching
is that there is no self – certainly not one that can be
embarrassed. It’s all just a story. I felt entirely relieved, spoke easily and
sold lots of books. Once one has experienced emptiness, he is not likely to
fall back to egoic thinking, unless he has an impulse to ignorance.

Blind as I am, I have been riding
motorcycles for more than thirty-five years – a bit of a maverick riding the
byways of hi-tech Silicon Valley. The most
important thing I learned from this precarious existence is that it’s wise to
question reality – question what we think we are seeing and experiencing. This
questioning is what has kept me alive while flitting in and out among the cars,
busses, and potholes for all these years. In due time I will explain how I
managed to cloud the mind of the Department of Motor Vehicles year after year,
so that they would continue to give me a driving license even though I couldn’t
read their silly eye chart.

Me and Mr. Magoo

The
bumbling, nearsighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo has been a somewhat bruising
role model for me ever since he appeared in movie cartoons in the
nineteen-forties. Last summer on a painting adventure to Tuscany
with my artist wife Patty (Patricia Kathleen), I especially identified with
Magoo as I tripped through Italy
with its historical, crumbling and uneven pavement. It’s always been a sort of
French Impressionist world. But much better I admit, than with a white cane,
I’m sure! From a normal viewing distance of a couple of feet, Monet, Degas, and
Renoir paintings look perfectly realistic to me. (Before the Ronald Reagan “tax reform,” my
vision was good enough – bad enough – to get me a Federal income tax deduction
” on account of blindness.” But the Great Communicator decided to crack
down on all those blind tax cheats, and the deduction is now gone.)

I have
found that focus of attention is much more important than ordinary
seeing. I learned this as I struggled through the humiliations of my gawky
near-sightedness in elementary school. Exams were especially problematic for me
at around age ten. I had to parade back and forth in front of the entire class
with my notebook in hand, copying the questions from the blackboard before I
could sit down to answer them. Then as a teenager I dealt with painful
embarrassments of not recognizing my high school classmates – a continuing
lifelong problem. I couldn’t see the blackboards in college either. And there
were often no textbooks in physics courses taught by fancy Nobelists at Columbia during my
graduate study years.

Whose reality is this anyway? Perhaps out
of loneliness I became a proficient stage magician in my spare time, and got to
create my own reality in the world of science fiction. My sensibilities
especially resonated with A. E. van Vogt’s inspiring short novel Slan – a
hair-raising teen adventure story with two super-bright, evolutionarily
advanced, telepathic children, a boy and a girl, being pursued by the police
and government of a corrupt and decaying state who wanted to rid themselves of
the psychic Slan. What lonely teenager would not identify with that?

After
leaving Columbia,
I soon found exciting work in the earliest development of the laser, and much
later I created a ten-year laser program at Lockheed – my last corporate job –
to detect invisible air turbulence and prevent airplane crashes with a
premonitory windshear sensor. It seems natural to me that a guy with bad vision
would try to make sense of reality by becoming first a student of magic, and
then an optical engineer – eventually an ESP researcher.

Between
two optics research careers, I sought this clarity by co-founding an ESP
research program at Stanford Research Institute, now SRI International. This
amazing $20 million program (the real X-Files)
was supported by the intelligence community of the U.S. government – CIA, DIA, Army
Intelligence, etc., for almost twenty-five years. And magic, lasers, and ESP
are all part of the illusion that we call reality. With lasers of course, it’s all done with mirrors.

Even a Scientist Can Do it

During one experimental series at SRI, I was working with our
psychic policeman, Pat Price. One day he did not arrive for the scheduled
trial. So, in the spirit of “the show must go on,” I spontaneously decided to
undertake the remote viewing myself. Prior to that, I had been only an
interviewer and facilitator for such trials. In this series, we were trying to
describe the day-to-day activities of Hal Puthoff as he traveled through Columbia, in South America
on a vacation trip. We would not receive any feedback until he returned, and I,
therefore, had no clues at all as to what he was doing. I closed my eyes for my
first remote viewing trial and immediately had an image of an island airport.
The surprisingly accurate sketch I drew is shown below. The site was verified by Hal upon his return.
What we learned from this trial, is that even a scientist can be psychic when
the necessity level is high enough!

 

 
 


 
 

I
produced the sketch when I spontaneously took the role of remote viewer in the
absence of psychic Pat Price.

 

The photograph
shows the target, which was an airport on an island off San Andreas,
Columbia. I
correctly saw, "Ocean at the end of a runway."

 

With practice, most people
become increasingly able to separate out the psychic signal from the mental
noise of memory, analysis, naming, judgment, and imagination. Targets and
target details as small as one millimeter can be sensed. Moreover, again and
again we have seen that accuracy and resolution of remote viewing targets are
not sensitive to variations in distance.

Questioning
reality is the essential first step in the greatest opportunity we have as a
species – the evolution of consciousness. I believe we have completed our
physical growth. Our brains are big enough. I am proposing that species transcendence is the next evolutionary
step for us to take: starting first as animals looking for food, then to
moderately self-aware humans trying to understand nature, and finally to our
destiny as beings with personal awareness of our spacious and nonlocal consciousness
transcending space and time. Every society before the so-called Enlightenment
revered its prophets who had this larger view. Today, when we need such
prophets, they are ridiculed, or turned into side-show attractions – think of
Al Gore, Linus Pauling and Albert Einstein. The suffering, wars, depression,
and confused search for meaning we are experiencing are manifestations of our
inner selves sensing, and crying out for, but not yet grasping our true nature.
The hardware is fine, it’s the software that must be upgraded – and quickly, I
believe.

Mystics
get a bad rap in modern Western society. A mystic will never ask you to believe
anything. He or she will describe to you his or her life-changing transcendent
experience and the instructions allowing you to explore that path yourself.
It’s like a lab experiment. Try this and report back in a few weeks, and let me
know what happened. I have had this totally unexpected experience twice without
drugs, while sitting quietly with powerful spiritual teachers (my teacher
Gangaji, and also with Yukio Ramana) both Americans in the Advaita (nondual) lineage of the great contemporary Indian
Saint Ramana Maharshi. (Advaita means “not two”
in Sanskrit.)

In these almost indescribable experiences, I
felt as though my body was suddenly filled with warm loving syrup – love
without an object. I could see clearly through eyes of love that there was no
separation in consciousness between me and the other people in the room – many
bodies, one consciousness. It’s like in a dream, when you experience many dream
characters, some loving, some frightening – but in reality you can notice that
there is only you – the dreamer. In this epiphany I was overcome, almost faint,
with tears, love, laughter and joy in the sudden blissful experience of seeing
with crystal clarity the perfection of my life and the world. I have come to
understand that who we are, our fundamental nature, is this flow of
loving awareness. In describing this experience of unconditioned awareness, the
contemporary Buddhist teacher, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche writes in The Joy of Living that: “Clarity, like
emptiness is infinite. It has no starting point and no end.” My writing since
then has been in service to this vision and these experiences.

Students
occasionally fall in love with beautiful and charismatic Gangaji. I was once
present when she explained the situation to an over-wrought, love-struck male
student in a large meeting. She said in effect: “It’s OK to be in love with me.
I frequently reside in love, and you are welcome to reside there with me. Just
don’t get attached to this body or this form. As you know, bodies and forms
change, they come and go.” Such an awakened person can and does spend
increasing amounts of time peacefully “residing in love” and crystal clarity.

Through
my laser research I had the opportunity to work with the visionary physicist
Gordon Gould, who became the patent holder for the invention of the laser.
Interestingly, though Charles Townes and Arthur Shawlow received the Nobel prize,
Gordon got all the financial proceeds from the invention. In our work at TRG
Inc. (Technical Research Group), on Long Island, our little band from Columbia University did not build the first
successful laser, though we were on the right track, and did pioneering
research. The first laser was successfully operated by Ted Maiman at Hughes
Research Labs, in Malibu,
on May 16th 1960.
I well remember the date because it is my mother’s birthday, and also the
birthday of my former girlfriend of many years, who through her deep love
rescued me from spending my life living with the persona of the nearsighted
cartoon character Mr. Magoo.

I
spent fifteen years of my life working on the development of lasers. I then
went on to devote a dozen years to designing, building and flying airborne
laser wind sensors for Lockheed and NASA – an invention to protect airplanes
from air turbulence and windshear hazards that killed hundreds of people in
several crashes in the 1980’s. These systems were called premonitory sensors
because they could see into the plane’s future, allowing them to avoid
windshear instead of flying into it and crashing. Although the Air Force and
NASA liked and supported this highly successful and innovative research, the
airlines and the FAA decided that “safety doesn’t sell,” so our system has not
been mandated or put into general service. It also worked excellently at The
Cape to measure winds aloft to 80,000 feet for the Shuttle. I believe it could
have prevented The Challenger accident in 1985.

In
my other parallel life, I co-founded Stanford Research Institute’s (SRI’s)
research program, where we studied Remote Viewing (or ESP), which is an ability
we all have to quiet our minds and describe and experience objects and events
that are blocked from ordinary perception, either in the distance or in the
future. Our program ran successfully for an incredible twenty-three years with
a budget of $25 million, teaching U.S. Army officers on the East Coast how to
be psychic, while at SRI in California were using remote viewing to spy on
Russian and Chinese weapon systems. We also looked in on our hostages in Iran, searched for and found downed U.S. and Soviet
airplanes for the CIA, and were the first to describe an enormous new Soviet
submarine for other parts of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. We even
found a crashed Soviet plane in Africa, still
carrying a nuclear weapon. President Jimmy Carter gave us unwanted public
commendation for this, thereby blowing the secrecy of our program.

From
1972 to 1995 we were the real “X-files.” You could say that I had a
metamorphosis from Magoo to Mulder. Although our main responsibility was Remote
Viewing – ESPionage for the government, we also published our findings in the
world’s most prestigious scientific journals. Our work has been well replicated
in international laboratories. And our exciting nonlocal findings show that it
is no more difficult to describe a hidden object or person across the globe,
than it is to describe something across town. And most surprising of all is the
fact that the future is also available to a remote viewer just as clearly as the present.

New York artist, and lifetime psychic Ingo
Swann created remote viewing as we know it, and and Stephen Schwartz was the
inventor of “associative remote
viewing,” which we later used to successfully forecast the changes in the
silver futures market.

 


1974
Photo showing co-founders of the SRI program, Hal Puthoff and me, Russell Targ, together
with CIA contract monitor Kit Green, and psychic police commissioner Pat Price.

 

Pat Price and Ingo Swann
had already demonstrated that they could describe distant locations that a
co-experimenter was visiting. We had just begun a series of new and more
difficult experiments to describe distant sites, in which the remote viewers
were given only the site's geographical latitude and longitude. Our contract
monitor, a physicist from the CIA, had brought us the coordinates for what he
described as a "Soviet site of great interest to the analysts." They wanted any information we could give
them, and they were eager to find out if we could describe a target
ten-thousand miles away, with only coordinates to work from.

Armed with a slip of paper
bearing the coordinates, Pat Price and I climbed to the second floor of SRI's
Radio Physics building and locked ourselves into the small
electrically-shielded room which we used for our experiments. I joked with
Price that this trial was just like our many successful off-site experiments
around Palo Alto,
only further away. As always, I began our little ritual of starting the tape
recorder, giving the time and date, and describing who we were and what we were
doing. I then read Price the
coordinates.

Again, as was Pat's custom, he polished his
spectacles, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. He was silent for
about a minute, and then he started to laugh. He said, "What I see reminds
me of the old joke that starts with a guy in his penthouse looking up at the 3rd Avenue elevated
train." Pat then began his
description: "I am lying on my back
on the roof of a two or three story brick building. It's a sunny day. The sun feels good. There's the most amazing thing. There's a giant gantry crane moving back and
forth over my head…. As I drift up in the air and look down, it seems to be
riding on a track with one rail on each side of the building. I've never seen anything like that." Pat then
made a little sketch of the layout of the buildings, and the crane, which he
labeled as a gantry. Later on, he again drew the crane as we show it in the
previously Secret illustration shown here:

 

 
   


After several days we completed the remote viewing. We were astonished when we were told that the
site was the super-secret Soviet atomic bomb laboratory at Semipalatinsk, where it turned out they were
also testing particle-beam weapons to shoot down US satellites that were taking
these photos.

The accuracy of Price's drawing is the sort of thing that I, as a
physicist, would never have believed if I had not seen it for myself. The drawing in the next illustration was made
by the CIA from satellite photography of the Semipalatinsk facility. Price went on to draw many other items at the
site, including the cluster of compressed gas cylinders shown in the satellite
photo.

 
   

One of the most interesting things Price saw was not in the CIA drawing
at all, because it was inside the building that he was psychically lying on top
of and unknown to anyone in our government at the time. In this 1974 experiment, he described a large
interior room where people were “assembling a giant sixty-foot diameter metal sphere.” He said that it was being
assembled from “thick metal gores,” like sections of an orange peel, which he
carefully drew. But, they were having
trouble welding it all together because the pieces were warping. Price said
that they were looking for a lower-temperature welding material. We didn't get
any feedback on this for more than three years.
Then we discovered how accurate Price's viewings had been when the sphere-fabricating
activity at Semipalatinsk
was eventually described in Aviation Week magazine

SOVIETS
PUSH FOR BEAM WEAPON … The US used high resolution photographic
reconnaissance satellites to watch soviet technicians dig through solid granite
formations. In a nearby building, huge
extremely thick steel gores were manufactured. These steel segments were parts
of a large sphere estimated to be about 18 meters (57.8 feet) in diameter. US officials believe that the
spheres are needed to capture and store energy from nuclear driven explosives
or pulse power generators. Initially,
some US
physicists believed that there was no method the Soviets could use to weld
together the steel gores (sic) of the spheres to provide a vessel strong enough
to withstand pressures likely to occur in a nuclear explosive fission process,
especially when the steel to be welded
was extremely thick. Aviation Week, May 2, 1977.

 

Although we were happy to receive this confirmation, we were saddened
that unfortunately, Pat Price had died two years earlier. So, from the point of view of the experiment,
he made his perception of the sixty-foot spheres and "gores" without
any feedback at all. Price's detailed drawing of the sections of the large
sphere he psychically saw shows that his remarkable perception was a direct
experience of the site.
He was not
reading the mind of the sponsor, because no one in the United States knew of the spheres.
Nor could Pat have been precognitively looking at his feedback from the future,
because he died before the details of the sphere he saw were independently
confirmed.

We would consider Price to be in the ranks of the psychic superstars, and
it was a privilege to have been involved in the series of transcendent
experiments we carried out with him. I have been longing to talk about them for
more than twenty years. But until recently the secret was so tightly held that
I could discuss it with no one outside of our very small group of SRI
researchers and CIA sponsors. I feel
extremely fortunate to be able to describe these extraordinary events in my
lifetime, and to pay homage to Pat Price's abilities.

This 1974 experiment was such a
stunning success that we were personally forced to undergo a formal
Congressional investigation by the House Committee on Intelligence Oversight to
determine if there had been a breach in National Security. Hal and I went to Washington for the
interrogation. We were supported by our contract monitors – physicist, Ken
Kress, physician, Kit Green, Branch Chief for LSD (Life Science Division) at
CIA and Jack Verona, Deputy Director for Research at Defense Intelligence
Agency, also Senator Claiborne Pell and Representative Charles Rose, who had an
on-going interest in our work. Of course, no breach was found, and our research
into psychic functioning was supported by the government for another twenty
years. The House Committee told us to “press on.” We were taken to lunch in the White House
dining room in the basement of the residence. With its polished, wood-paneled
walls and gleaming silver coffee decanters, it provided a wonderful celebration
for us after our inquisition by a skeptical House committee in an over-heated
committee room. For lunch, they were serving roast pork, collard greens and
black-eyed peas, all contributed by a senator from Mississippi who had just
slaughtered one of his hogs – no kidding.

We
became very skillful in helping a wide variety of people come into contact with
the part of themselves that is psychic. In 1995 the CIA decided that since The
USSR had collapsed, the U.S.
no longer faced any serious enemy threats, and our program was ended. Since
then, I have been teaching remote viewing to groups of people all over the
world.

We at SRI never had an opportunity to search for
Osama bin Laden, but my good friend Stephan Schwartz and a team of remote
viewers at Virginia Beach produced a remarkably accurate description of Saddam
Hussein’s hiding place in a “spider hole” four months before his capture.
Stephan’s team published a report saying that: “Saddam will be found beneath an
ordinary looking house on the outskirts of a small village near Tikrit. The
house will be part of a small compound that is bordered on one side by a dirt
road and, on the other, by a nearby river” This document included a drawing of
the building with a square hole dig in the courtyard. CNN’s report said:
“Saddam was found near the village
of Adwar in the Tikrit
area in a small compound … a river runs nearby, and a road is in front of the
compound.” CNN 16
December 2003.

Although
remote viewing is not a spiritual path, the hindrances to spiritual awakening
are very similar to those that interfere with remote viewing. They come from
our conditioning which teaches us that we are nothing but bits of talking meat,
that there is no ESP, and that who we are is fully described by our story of
who we think we are. I have learned to
move from this conditioned awareness to spacious (naked) awareness we have to
give up our ego-based, self-centered, rigid and grasping mode of life, and move
into a flexible, unconditioned, nonjudgmental and joyful space. In order to be
psychic, it is essential to find a way to wake up and learn to recognize how
much of what you experience is the result of conditioning by parents, teachers,
and the cult we all belong to, which is called society. Another hindrance to
living in unconditioned nondual awareness is that one has to learn to live with
the seemingly paradoxical notion that most things you encounter are neither
true, nor not-true. “Neither this, nor not-this” is the essence of giving up
judgment and also suffering.

I
recently took part in a ten-day lucid dreaming workshop where the teacher,
Stephen LaBerge, taught us to awaken ourselves from sleep, during a dream or
nightmare and thereby recognize that it is only a dream. Similarly, to overcome
our societal conditioning we must learn to wake up from the dream of our daily
lives. That is, we must awaken from the dream the world is dreaming for us. I
have found that it is possible to
wake up and not be sleepwalking – at least not all of the time.

 

 

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Magic mushrooms are incredibly popular today. How they became introduced to into American culture isn’t usually a topic discussed while tripping on psilocybin fungi. We all may have María Sabina to thank for exposing the Western world to the healing properties of the psilocybin mushroom.

Guide to Magic Mushroom Strains
Are there different types of psilocybin? Read our guide to learn about the different magic mushroom strains and their individual effects.

Kilindi Iyi: Mycologist, Traveler, Teacher
Learn about traveler and mycologist Kilindi Iyi known in the psychedelic community for his research and exploration of psilocybin.

How to Store Shrooms: Best Practices
How do you store shrooms for optimal shelf life? Learn how and why the proper storage method is so important.

Shroom Chocolate Recipes: How to Make Magic Mushroom Chocolates
This recipe provides step by step directions on how you can make mushroom chocolates with the necessary ingredients. Read to learn more!

Why Do People Use Psilocybin? New Johns Hopkins Study
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicines has just published a new study on psychoactive effects of psilocybin. Read here to learn more.

How-To Lemon Tek: Ultimate Guide and Recipe
This master guide will teach you how to lemon tek, preventing the onset of negative effects after consuming psilocybin. Read to learn more!

How to Intensify a Mushroom Trip
Learn about techniques like Lemon tekking, or discover the right time to consume cannabis if you are looking to intensify a mushroom trip.

How to Grow Magic Mushrooms: Step-by-Step
This step-by-step guide will show you how to grow magic mushrooms at home. Read this guide before trying it on your own.

How to Dry Magic Mushrooms: Best Practices
Read to learn more about specifics for the best practices on how to dry magic mushrooms after harvesting season.

How to Buy Psilocybin Spores
Interested in psilocybin mushrooms? We’ll walk you through all you need to know to obtain mushroom spores. Nosh on this delish How To guide.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

Having Sex on Shrooms: Good or Bad Idea?
Is having sex on shrooms a good idea or an accident waiting to happen? Find out in our guide to sex on magic mushrooms.

Gold Cap Shrooms Guide: Spores, Effects, Identification
Read this guide to learn more about the different characteristics of gold cap mushrooms, and how they differ from other psilocybin species.

Guide to Cooking with Magic Mushrooms
From cookies to smoothies and sandwiches, we cover various methods of cooking with magic mushrooms for the ultimate snack.

2020 Election: The Decriminalize Psilocybin Movement
Are you curious if mushrooms will follow in marijuana’s footsteps? Read to learn about how the U.S. is moving to decriminalize psilocybin.

Oregon’s Initiative to Legalize Mushrooms | Initiative Petition 34
Oregon continues to push ahead with their initiative to legalize Psilocybin in 2020. The measure received its official title and now needs signatures.

Canada Approves Psilocybin Treatment for Terminally-Ill Cancer Patients
Canada’s Minister of Health, Patty Hajdu approved the use of psilocybin to help ease anxiety and depression of four terminal cancer patients.

Mapping the DMT Experience
With only firsthand experiences to share, how can we fully map the DMT experience? Let’s explore what we know about this powerful psychedelic.

Guide to Machine Elves and Other DMT Entities
This guide discusses machine elves, clockwork elves, and other common DMT entities that people experience during a DMT trip.

Is the DMT Experience a Hallucination? 
What if the DMT realm was the real world, and our everyday lives were merely a game we had chosen to play?

How to Store DMT
Not sure how to store DMT? Read this piece to learn the best practices and elements of advice to keep your stuff fresh.

What Does 5-MeO-DMT Show Us About Consciousness?
How does our brain differentiate between what’s real and what’s not? Read to learn what can 5-MeO-DMT show us about consciousness.

How to Smoke DMT: Processes Explained
There are many ways to smoke DMT and we’ve outlined some of the best processes to consider before embarking on your journey.

How to Ground After DMT
Knowing what to expect from a DMT comedown can help you integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible from your journey.

How To Get DMT
What kind of plants contain DMT? Are there other ways to access this psychedelic? Read on to learn more about how to get DMT.

How DMT is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make DMT? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how DMT is made.

Having Sex on DMT: What You Need to Know
Have you ever wondered about sex on DMT? Learn how the God Molecule can influence your intimate experiences.

Does the Human Brain Make DMT? 
With scientific evidence showing us DMT in the brain, what can we conclude it is there for? Read on to learn more.

How to Use DMT Vape Pens
Read to learn all about DMT vape pens including: what to know when vaping, what to expect when purchasing a DMT cartridge, and vaping safely.

DMT Resources
This article is a comprehensive DMT resource providing extensive information from studies, books, documentaries, and more. Check it out!

Differentiating DMT and Near-Death Experiences
Some say there are similarities between a DMT trip and death. Read our guide on differentiating DMT and near-death experiences to find out.

DMT Research from 1956 to the Edge of Time
From a representative sample of a suitably psychedelic crowd, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who couldn’t tell you all about Albert Hofmann’s enchanted bicycle ride after swallowing what turned out to be a massive dose of LSD. Far fewer, however, could tell you much about the world’s first DMT trip.

The Ultimate Guide to DMT Pricing
Check out our ultimate guide on DMT pricing to learn what to expect when purchasing DMT for your first time.

DMT Milking | Reality Sandwich
Indigenous cultures have used 5-MeO-DMT for centuries. With the surge in demand for psychedelic toad milk, is DMT Milking harming the frogs?

Why Does DMT Pervade Nature?
With the presence of DMT in nature everywhere – including human brains – why does it continue to baffle science?

DMT Substance Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to DMT has everything you want to know about this powerful psychedelic referred to as “the spirit molecule”.

DMT for Depression: Paving the Way for New Medicine
We’ve been waiting for an effective depression treatment. Studies show DMT for depression works even for treatment resistant patients.

Beating Addiction with DMT
Psychedelics have been studied for their help overcoming addiction. Read how DMT is helping addicts beat their substance abuse issues.

DMT Extraction: Behind the Scientific Process
Take a look at DMT extraction and the scientific process involved. Learn all you need to know including procedures and safety.

Microdosing DMT & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing DMT.

DMT Art: A Look Behind Visionary Creations
An entire genre of artwork is inspired by psychedelic trips with DMT. Read to learn about the entities and visions behind DMT art.

Changa vs. DMT: What You Need to Know
While similar (changa contains DMT), each drug has its own unique effect and feeling. Let’s compare and contrast changa vs DMT.

5-MeO-DMT Guide: Effects, Benefits, Safety, and Legality
5-Meo-DMT comes from the Sonora Desert toad. Here is everything you want to know about 5-Meo-DMT and how it compares to 4-AcO-DMT.

4-AcO-DMT Guide: Benefits, Effects, Safety, and Legality
This guide tells you everything about 4 AcO DMT & 5 MeO DMT, that belong to the tryptamine class, and are similar but slightly different to DMT.

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The Ayahuasca Experience
Ayahuasca is both a medicine and a visionary aid. You can employ ayahuasca for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual repair, and you can engage with the power of ayahuasca for deeper insight and realization. If you consider attainment of knowledge in the broadest perspective, you can say that at all times, ayahuasca heals.

 

Trippy Talk: Meet Ayahuasca with Sitaramaya Sita and PlantTeachers
Sitaramaya Sita is a spiritual herbalist, pusangera, and plant wisdom practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition.

 

The Therapeutic Value of Ayahuasca
My best description of the impact of ayahuasca is that it’s a rocket boost to psychospiritual growth and unfolding, my professional specialty during my thirty-five years of private practice.

 

Microdosing Ayahuasca: Common Dosage Explained
What is ayahuasca made of and what is considered a microdose? Explore insights with an experienced Peruvian brewmaster and learn more about this practice.

 

Ayahuasca Makes Neuron Babies in Your Brain
Researchers from Beckley/Sant Pau Research Program have shared the latest findings in their study on the effects of ayahuasca on neurogenesis.

 

The Fatimiya Sufi Order and Ayahuasca
In this interview, the founder of the Fatimiya Sufi Order,  N. Wahid Azal, discusses the history and uses of plant medicines in Islamic and pre-Islamic mystery schools.

 

Consideration Ayahuasca for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Research indicates that ayahuasca mimics mechanisms of currently accepted treatments for PTSD. In order to understand the implications of ayahuasca treatment, we need to understand how PTSD develops.

 

Brainwaves on Ayahuasca: A Waking Dream State
In a study researchers shared discoveries showing ingredients found in Ayahuasca impact the brainwaves causing a “waking dream” state.

 

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a pro cannabis Peruvian Shaman.

 

Ayahuasca Retreat 101: Everything You Need to Know to Brave the Brew
Ayahuasca has been known to be a powerful medicinal substance for millennia. However, until recently, it was only found in the jungle. Word of its deeply healing and cleansing properties has begun to spread across the world as many modern, Western individuals are seeking spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being. More ayahuasca retreat centers are emerging in the Amazon and worldwide to meet the demand.

 

Ayahuasca Helps with Grief
A new study published in psychopharmacology found that ayahuasca helped those suffering from the loss of a loved one up to a year after treatment.

 

Ayahuasca Benefits: Clinical Improvements for Six Months
Ayahuasca benefits can last six months according to studies. Read here to learn about the clinical improvements from drinking the brew.

 

Ayahuasca Culture: Indigenous, Western, And The Future
Ayahuasca has been use for generations in the Amazon. With the rise of retreats and the brew leaving the rainforest how is ayahuasca culture changing?

 

Ayahuasca Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
The Amazonian brew, Ayahuasca has a long history and wide use. Read our guide to learn all about the tea from its beginnings up to modern-day interest.

 

Ayahuasca and the Godhead: An Interview with Wahid Azal of the Fatimiya Sufi Order
Wahid Azal, a Sufi mystic of The Fatimiya Sufi Order and an Islamic scholar, talks about entheogens, Sufism, mythology, and metaphysics.

 

Ayahuasca and the Feminine: Women’s Roles, Healing, Retreats, and More
Ayahuasca is lovingly called “grandmother” or “mother” by many. Just how feminine is the brew? Read to learn all about women and ayahuasca.

What Is the Standard of Care for Ketamine Treatments?
Ketamine therapy is on the rise in light of its powerful results for treatment-resistant depression. But, what is the current standard of care for ketamine? Read to find out.

What Is Dissociation and How Does Ketamine Create It?
Dissociation can take on multiple forms. So, what is dissociation like and how does ketamine create it? Read to find out.

Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative
Curious about what it could feel like to have sex on a dissociate? Find out all the answers in our guide to sex on ketamine.

Special K: The Party Drug
Special K refers to Ketamine when used recreationally. Learn the trends as well as safety information around this substance.

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

Ketamine vs. Esketamine: 3 Important Differences Explained
Ketamine and esketamine are used to treat depression. But what’s the difference between them? Read to learn which one is right for you: ketamine vs. esketamine.

Guide to Ketamine Treatments: Understanding the New Approach
Ketamine is becoming more popular as more people are seeing its benefits. Is ketamine a fit? Read our guide for all you need to know about ketamine treatments.

Ketamine Treatment for Eating Disorders
Ketamine is becoming a promising treatment for various mental health conditions. Read to learn how individuals can use ketamine treatment for eating disorders.

Ketamine Resources, Studies, and Trusted Information
Curious to learn more about ketamine? This guide includes comprehensive ketamine resources containing books, studies and more.

Ketamine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to ketamine has everything you need to know about this “dissociative anesthetic” and how it is being studied for depression treatment.

Ketamine for Depression: A Mental Health Breakthrough
While antidepressants work for some, many others find no relief. Read to learn about the therapeutic uses of ketamine for depression.

Ketamine for Addiction: Treatments Offering Hope
New treatments are offering hope to individuals suffering from addiction diseases. Read to learn how ketamine for addiction is providing breakthrough results.

Microdosing Ketamine & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing ketamine.

How to Ease a Ketamine Comedown
Knowing what to expect when you come down from ketamine can help integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible.

How to Store Ketamine: Best Practices
Learn the best ways how to store ketamine, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long ketamine lasts when stored.

How To Buy Ketamine: Is There Legal Ketamine Online?
Learn exactly where it’s legal to buy ketamine, and if it’s possible to purchase legal ketamine on the internet.

How Long Does Ketamine Stay in Your System?
How long does ketamine stay in your system? Are there lasting effects on your body? Read to discover the answers!

How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make Ketamine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how Ketamine is made.

Colorado on Ketamine: First Responders Waiver Programs
Fallout continues after Elijah McClain. Despite opposing recommendations from some city council, Colorado State Health panel recommends the continued use of ketamine by medics for those demonstrating “excited delirium” or “extreme agitation”.

Types of Ketamine: Learn the Differences & Uses for Each
Learn about the different types of ketamine and what they are used for—and what type might be right for you. Read now to find out!

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

MDMA & Ecstasy Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to MDMA has everything you want to know about Ecstasy from how it was developed in 1912 to why it’s being studied today.

How To Get the Most out of Taking MDMA as a Couple
Taking MDMA as a couple can lead to exciting experiences. Read here to learn how to get the most of of this love drug in your relationship.

Common MDMA Dosage & Microdosing Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing MDMA.

Having Sex on MDMA: What You Need to Know
MDMA is known as the love drug… Read our guide to learn all about sex on MDMA and why it is beginning to makes its way into couple’s therapy.

How MDMA is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make MDMA? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how MDMA is made.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

How Cocaine is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make cocaine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how cocaine is made.

A Christmas Sweater with Santa and Cocaine
This week, Walmart came under fire for a “Let it Snow” Christmas sweater depicting Santa with lines of cocaine. Columbia is not merry about it.

Ultimate Cocaine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
This guide covers what you need to know about Cocaine, including common effects and uses, legality, safety precautions and top trends today.

NEWS: An FDA-Approved Cocaine Nasal Spray
The FDA approved a cocaine nasal spray called Numbrino, which has raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company, Lannett Company Inc., paid off the FDA..

The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Bioavailability
What is bioavailability and how can it affect the overall efficacy of a psychedelic substance? Read to learn more.

Cannabis Research Explains Sociability Behaviors
New research by Dr. Giovanni Marsicano shows social behavioral changes occur as a result of less energy available to the neurons. Read here to learn more.

The Cannabis Shaman
If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, founder of the 420 Cannabis Shamanism movement…

Cannabis Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Cannabis has everything you want to know about this popular substances that has psychedelic properties.

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a procannabis Peruvian Shaman.

CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
A ground-breaking study has documented the superior therapeutic properties of whole plant Cannabis extract as compared to synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), challenging the medical-industrial complex’s notion that “crude” botanical preparations are less effective than single-molecule compounds.

Cannabis Has Always Been a Medicine
Modern science has already confirmed the efficacy of cannabis for most uses described in the ancient medical texts, but prohibitionists still claim that medical cannabis is “just a ruse.”

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