New Psychedelic Root Discovered

My proposed name for the Acacia confusa-based ayahuasca is FORMOSAHUASCA: after Formosa acacia (i.e., the beautiful acacia), presumably after Ilha Formosa (i.e., the beautiful island, the original Portuguese name for Taiwan).

Thanks for publicizing it here! :-)

Thank you for so much encouragement! I do believe that more experiments are needed. I also believe that we should control our enthusiasm at this point, and make sure that it's not toxic to the liver, etc, etc, etc. (Though some medical research seems to suggest that it's actually good for the liver...)

It would be excellent to explore the history of East-Asian shamanism, but we have to make sure we do not conflate the many traditions from a huge continent. Different parts of Asia are worlds apart (even different Chinese provinces may be as culturally distinct as different European countries).

 

Also please keep in mind that the medicinal use of acacia is a Taiwanese phenomenon. I have no indications that it exists in the traditional Chinese herbalism. I believe that applying the label "Chinese" to the acacia use is quite misguided.

The human body-emotions-mind is a simultaneously multi-dimensional antenna, capable of empathic integration with all of existence, though not always (even not usually) conscious and operative as such. Substances such as Ayauasca (DMT) sometimes allow human attention to be associated with other kinds of audio-visual-touch vibrational forms (often subtler light forms), seemingly of another dimension or “realm”, but really part of our same total existence. These substances can help change what human attention is associated with, something like a channel changer changes what is displayed on a visual screen, to view all kinds of audio-visual forms of light, and our attention is involved with one or many forms simultaneously, or not, as is chosen. Just as there are numerous vibrational frequencies (audio-visual-touch vibrational forms and "realms") in all of existence, into which human attention can be empathically integrated, "tuning fork substances" such as DMT can and do "tune" attention to become sensitized to and empathically integrated with many of these frequencies of existence which are not common to much of humanity today. In the past times, just as today, those who choose to empathically integrate with any and many of the vibrational "options" in existence, do so depending on the "tuning fork substances" one uses, whether nature based plant herbs or minerals or pharma-based "chemicals". In fact, even within todays "generally accepted waking state world", humans have numerous "very different views" of what this "waking state world" really is. The "very different views" are because of the different "tuning substances" a human ingests and empathically integrates with daily, which tunes the human antenna. Thoughts and emotions are "tuning fork substances" just as are foods, herbs, environments, people, animals, etc. Whatever "tuning substances" are repeatedly ingested and combined with, this will determine the dominant tuning of receptions and empathic involvements in the optional frequencies of existence, and thus determine any kind(s) of "world views". At times, human attention is spontaneously tuned in sync with "tuning substances" such as DMT, THC, LSD, et al, and the always existing source Universal Spiritual Consciousness becomes obvious as our true nature and being. Truly, there is Universal Spiritual Consciousness into which human attention can empathically integrate. Universal Spiritual Consciousness doe not arise out of the body-brain as human attention does. Universal Spiritual Consciousness is the source of all existence. All vibrational frequencies of existence are modifications of Universal Spiritual Consciousness. Empathic understanding and loving kindness for all existing forms comes forth when human attention merges with Universal Spiritual Consciousness. Living is then artful omnipathic relationship with all. This is the way of true shamanism, the help of true spiritual friends throughout all human time, who, using any and all substances, live to serve the tuning of everyones human attention into empathic Unity with Universal Spiritual Consciousness, which is always already the Source and Substance of our own human attention. May all our Ayauasca et al involvements be auspicious moments of tuning our human attention into omnipathic Unity as Universal Spiritual Consciousness. Such enjoyment is worth repeating! : )