Cosmic Cookbook #1

Cosmic Cookbook #1
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Psilocybin is the most commonly available and experientially accessible of these compounds. Therefore my plea to scientists, administrators, and politicians who may read these words is this: look again at psilocybin, do not confuse it with the other psychedelics, and realize that it is a phenomenon unto itself with an enormous potential for transforming human beings - not simply transforming the people who take it, but transforming society in the way that an art movement, a mathematical understanding, or a scientific breakthrough transforms society. It holds the possibility of transforming the entire species simply by virtue of the information that comes through it. Psilocybin is a source of gnosis, and the voice of gnosis has been silenced in the Western mind for at least a thousand years.

*** excerpt taken from "New Maps of Hyperspace" by beloved friend (mentor, transcendental alchemist, psychedelic bard...) Terence McKenna

Benny Zen

Benny Zen
Originally uploaded by Anantya.

Jesus I miss him.

My first dogs were Bassets and so you can imagine how stoked i was when magical Lizzy, Patron Saint of Wayward Creatures (winged, pawed, hoofed....), and I came across this wonder-mutt: 1/2 Black Lab - 1/2 Basset.

We called him "Banna"...looked like a Basset in a black Tux.

I miss that "little gentleman" and I miss the kind of (at least semi-) settled life that would allow me the luxury of this great magical world of relations.

Peace to you wherever you are Banna-man. Please forgive your wandering human-friend for having wandered (again) too far.