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Do any of you have any information about the effects of weed/hash on hepethatis C?

Hepethathis C is a virus that hurts the liver, so of course alcohol is no good. But i was wandering if weed had any known effects on the virus?

Also, i am researching plant medecine for healing the liver from this virus.
According to wiki:
"As an example, extract of Silybum marianum and Sho-saiko-to are sold; the first is said to provide some generic help to hepatic functions, and the second claims to aid in liver health and provide some antiviral effects."

If anyone has any extra info or personal experience to share, it'd be greatly apreciated:)

i have a question about a seed my friend brought back from a trip in the mountains. Meeting a tamang baba (one of the many nepale ethnic groups. tamangs having a long history of shamanism), he was given a few seeds, which are said to be used for rituals by tamang shamans.

does anyone know of a nepale seed called phonetically something like "sanjevani, sanvani?". the seeds come from a small fruit, with about 4 seeds a fruit. they are darker color. the trip is supposed to induce first some vomitting, then about a 10 hr trip.
i will post picture of seed when i can.

Any clue?

Super breakfast salad recipe:
Fresh tomatoes, lady fingers (okra), chili, olive oil, rock salt, freshly squeezed lemon juice, super seeds.
Clean and cut your veggies. In a seperate container, cut your chili finely.
Mix it with olive oil, so that the chili flavor sips into the oil. Add super seeds.
Mix everything. Add lemon juice before serving.
Enjoy!

Hello Planters,

Picture of a baba in Goa, sitting under a banyan tree with various freaks chanting and smoking.

After a year in India and Nepal,  i am back in Europe for a bit, until I go back to buddha land.
During this year, I worked with Tibetan monks for 4 months, followed by a season in Goa for party time. I camped under a Banyan tree for a month with babas, smoking many chillums, dreaming ketamine dreams and a little Albert Hoffman for a night.
I walked the Himalayan mountains in Nepal, saw weed plants grow as wirld as Nepal is, rode the busy Kathmandou streets on bikes and went deeper in my budhist studies.

You can see some pics here:
http://www.fuzzytravel.com/manue/
Life is an adventure, so keep your teeth healthy to bite at it fully.
All peace and love to the planters out there:)

Hello Planters,

If any of you are graphics poeple and need some commercial work, i am leaving a job for the next few monthes due to travelling.
The man i work for needs a new graphic person for that period. It is commercial work (safe boxes, and water bottles moslty), nothing artistic, just keeping date lines.

If any of you is interested by some extra money and has qualifications and proofs of it (also need a legitimate way to get paid such as a business or registered free lancer), please contact me and i will relay your info to that man.

I am getting ready for a trip in India and Nepal, so i've been reading the modern traveller's bible, ie The lonely planet book.
I also discovered travelblog.org, which gives fantastic trip reports, with stunning images. I highly recommend this site for anyone planning a trip around the world, or those just interested in travelling writing, and yes exquisite pictures, better than on most travel sites.
As for any trip, it is fascinating to see how diferently people react/experience  similar situations.

If any of you have any travel tips through India or Nepal, i would love to hear any recommendations, as it is my first time in this part of the world.

//http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/

I'll try keeping  a travel blog as well, which i'll give url laters;)

Here is the place where i will be asking my next garden questions. Hotel Hollywood. Nested in  a colonial house setting, I thank our aikido teacher for offering it to us.

Colonial houses were built in the 60's by the gov, in order to let the workers have some "feel like vacation" time, as well as a place to relax and grow some veggies. Years after, some people have made those garden shacks into year long livable houses.

Ours has running water during hot monthes, and no electricity. So I will be looking into alternative sources of energy. If anyone has insights into solar panels, or other sources of energy, I am ready to start studying the options.
So please do share your experiences with such situations.

And when you come by this neck of the woods,  give us a ring, and lets share a sunset:)

For more pics of Hotel Hollywood, see here:
//http://www.gamatron.net/Hotel_Hollywood/index.html

For another colonial house exemple, see here:
//http://www.fuzzytravel.com/manue/74-tranquillos-danish.html



check out some of Copenhague kolonihusets:
//http://www.arcspace.com/khave/vennelyst/index.htm

i started a new forum.

the forum is just at its begining, so give it time to grow, and do help with suggestions or other thoughts.

i hope to see some of you there, for challenging, open and fun discussions.

//http://athanor.eamped.com/

[Preparation:]

Bread pudding, aka, lost bread cake.
Preparation: 20 mns
Difficulty: super eazy.

As i'd like to eventually make myself a nice recipe libray, here is my bread pudding pics:
//http://www.gamatron.net/bouffe/bread_pudding.jpg

Ingredients:
- about 6 slices of old dry bread (white bread only, the black breads dont work for this recipe)
- 60 g melted butter ( about a half stick of butter)
- 4 dl milk (about a cup and a ½)
- 60 g sugar (about 2.12 oz). The recipe calls for 100 grs of sugar, but I’d rather put less sugar in the recipe ( I find most recipes to be over sweet), and add on jelly or chocolate paste laters.
- cinnamon
- Vanilla
- dried raisins or any dried fruits you like.
- extras : nuts, herbs of your choice.

Heat up oven at 175 C or 335 F.
Take your old bread, and break it in enough chuncks to cover the bottom of your oven pan. Melt your butter and pour it onto the bread. Mix your milk, eggs, sugar and extras together and pour it over the bread chuncks. Press the bread, using the palm of your hands.
Put in oven for 30mns, and VOILA! You made a bread pudding.
Now, to the fridge or closet, pull your favorite smearing paste, and go sit in front of the tv or in your balcony to enjoy your lost bread!

It is the type of recipe that becomes even better the day after, when the eggs/milk mixure has turned into a nice flan like consistency.

Misc facts:
We all have pieces of old bread that didn’t get eaten. Instead of tossing them aways, here is a recipe to turn your old bread into a healhty and filling treat.
Called french-bread by some and served as a fancy desert in many restaurants, the french call it “pain perdus”, which means lost bread. It is the old way to use the dry bread, and was used by every grand ma, and campers alike. In camping, it’s also a great way to use your old bread from the week, end to have a nice evening by the camp fire.

Recette en francais:
//http://manue23.blogs.psychologies.com/aventures_psychedeliques/2007/02/ain_perdu.html

Since we all come and live in diferent parts of the world, and since recipes come in the metric system as well as the foot and cup system, here is a nice page with conversion tables:

http://www.onlineconversion.com/cooking.htm

here is a nice collection of mp3.
"Each title selection is part of a well-rounded, intelligent view of classic literature, history and philosophy."

//http://www.thoughtaudio.net/

[Quotes from the abbé:]

A good bye and good trip to Henri Grouès, also called the Abbé Pierre.
Voted for many years as the French favorite man; a wwII resistant, a rebel Capucin priest who dared saying yes to condoms, a direct disorder to the Pope's orders; creator of Emmaus, an international organization helping the needy; an inspiration leaves this world for his next trip.
Famous for his cry out to help in the cold winter of 1954, when a woman died freezing in the snow after getting evicted from her room. From this event he fought to pass a law that made it illegal to evict someone during too cold weathers.
L'abbé Pierre died at 94, living this world a better place for all those he helped, and for those that will be helped by his services which will outlast him by many thanks and prayers.

Bon voyage l'abbé...

Quotes from the abbé:

"Hell is the others" wrote Sartres. I am intimately convinced that it is the opposite. Hell is oneself cut from the others. "

"The responsability of each of us implies 2 things: to want to know and to dare saying it"

"We can not, under the pretext that it is impossible to do everything in one day, do nothing at all"

"L'Abbé Pierre (born Henri Antoine Grouès in Lyon) (August 5, 1912 - January 22, 2007), France. Abbé (which means father and is also found in abbot) is a courtesy title given to a Catholic priests...."
Read the rest of his bio here:
//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abb%C3%A9_Pierre

Picture by Henri Cartier Bresson:
//http://www.henricartierbresson.org/

Now, i know that aparently "alternative housing " does not belong in the "medecine lodge" category, but i consider that our environment and the way we live in balance with it, can be a great healer.
let's be honest, it is harder to heal when we live in downtown BigCity full of traffic and noise, than it is when we can retreat to a more quite and peacefull environments.

Therefore i chose to put this thread in the Medecine Lodge. if someone has a better suggestion, it is welcome.

Here is to present  a hobbit house, constructed in Wales, by a family, hard hand work and 3000$. thank you Kemp for that inspiring link, it made my day:)



go find out more about this house and how it is possible for you too, if so it is a direction you would like to go with in your life:
//http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm

and here is great site with info on the Bucky Ball inspired architecture, with the domes:
//http://www.geodesic-greenhouse-kits.com/

lets share alternative housing ideas, links and suggestions to how acheive it in our life

 

Failing to teach them how to handle real life.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 98,00.html

A new report reveals that children today struggle with questions they could have answered 30 years ago, says Sian Griffiths
For a decade we’ve been told that our kids, just as they seem to be getting taller with each generation, are also getting brighter. Every year new waves of children get better GCSE, A-level and degree results than their predecessors. Meanwhile, in primary schools, the standards in national maths and English tests at 11 head in one direction â€" relentlessly upwards.

Last week came the bombshell that blew a gaping hole in this one-way escalator of achievement.

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Far from getting cleverer, our 11-year-olds are, in fact, less “intelligent” than their counterparts of 30 years ago. Or so say a team who are among Britain’s most respected education researchers.

After studying 25,000 children across both state and private schools Philip Adey, a professor of education at King’s College London confidently declares: “The intelligence of 11-year-olds has fallen by three years’ worth in the past two decades.”

It’s an extraordinary claim. But it’s one that should startle parents and teachers out of complacency. Shocked by the findings, experts are questioning our entire exam system and calling for radical changes in the way our children are taught in primary schools.

In their painstaking research project Adey and his colleague, psychology professor Michael Shayer, compared the results of today’s children with those of children who took exactly the same test in the mid-1990s and also 30 years ago. While most exams have changed (been made easier, if you listen to the critics) this one is the same as it was in 1976 when pupils first chewed their pencils over the problems.

In the easiest question, children are asked to watch as water is poured up to the brim of a tall, thin container. From there the water is tipped into a small fat glass. The tall vessel is refilled. Do both beakers now hold the same amount of water? “It’s frightening how many children now get this simple question wrong,” says scientist Denise Ginsburg, Shayer’s wife and another of the research team.

Another question involves two blocks of a similar size â€" one of brass, the other of plasticine. Which would displace the most water when dropped into a beaker? children are asked. Two years ago fewer than a fifth came up with the right answer.

In 1976 a third of boys and a quarter of girls scored highly in the tests overall; by 2004, the figures had plummeted to just 6% of boys and 5% of girls. These children were on average two to three years behind those who were tested in the mid-1990s.

“It is shocking,” says Adey. “The general cognitive foundation of 11 and 12-year-olds has taken a big dip. There has been a continuous decline in the last 30 years and it is carrying on now.”

But what exactly is being lost? Is it really general intelligence or simply a specific understanding of scientific concepts such as volume and density? Both, say the researchers. The tests reveal both general intelligence â€" “higher level brain functions” â€" and a knowledge that is “the bedrock of science and maths” says Ginsburg. In fact it’s nothing less than the ability of children to handle new, difficult ideas. Doing well at these tests has been linked with getting higher grades generally at GCSE.

So why are children now doing so badly? Possible explanations are numerous. Youngsters don’t get outside for hands-on play in mud, sand and water â€" and sandpits and water tables have been squeezed out in many primary schools by a relentless drilling of the three Rs and cramming 11- year-olds for the national tests.

“By stressing the basics â€" reading and writing â€" and testing like crazy you reduce the level of cognitive stimulation. Children have the facts but they are not thinking very well,” says Adey. “And they are not getting hands-on physical experience of the way materials behave.”

Ginsburg says parents too can do their bit. “When did children stop playing with mud, plasticine and Meccano and start playing with Xboxes and computer games?” she asks. Parents should switch off the television and “sit children around the dinner table to debate issues such as ‘What should we have done about the whale in the Thames?’ ” says Adey.

If these experts are right â€" and our children are losing the ability to think, the burning question is: what is the value of what they are being taught in primary school and of all those test results that every year rise to new heights? Paul Black, professor of education at King’s College, London is one of the experts so startled by these findings that he now wants ministers to reassess what our children are being taught.

“The decline shown up by this research is big and it is worrying,” he says. “It casts doubt on claims that standards are improving . . . There is not much evidence, in fact I don’t know of any good evidence, that the things tested at the moment in national tests at the age of 11 and 14 are of long-term benefit to learning . . . The government should look at this again.”

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), the exams watchdog, has called in the research. Asked whether it may prompt changes in what is being taught in our schools, a spokesman said: “We are cautious about research where questions never change because times change and the world changes.”

And our children’s knowledge and intelligence is changing too â€" but not, perhaps, in the direction ministers would have us believe.

[an utter waste of your time]

I  am sure most of you hippies are active recyclers, maybe even go shop at co-ops, and are able to buy in bulk, saving plastic baggs and packaging.

There is one good news and one bad news about this.
the bad news first:
recycling paper, seperating cans, and plastic might be an utter waste of your time, and might actually pollute more than it helps the environement. On top of it, this pollution cost you and your community, the tax payers, some extra money. Now it does create jobs, but is sorting through shit really the types of jobs we want to create?
Why would recycling be so bad?
Well, for exemple paper. To recycle it, recycling plants use chlorine to get the ink out, a chemical extremely harmfull to the environement.
Also, think about how much gaz was used to get those trucks from each of your houses and apartement complexes to the recycling plants.
You seperate things in your kcthen, yet, it all goes back into one big rotting pile when it gets to the factories!

now, the good news:
buying from bulk at your local co-op IS the best you can do for the environement. It saves on packaging, and it saves people from having crappy jobs designing cereal boxes after toothbrush adds and whatnot.

For more details and information about aspects of recycling which you might be surprised by, check out the excellent Penn & Teller show: Bullshit!.
//http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7734998370503499886&q=penn+and+teller

In the end, the best for the environment is a mindfull consumer, and a non wastefull one. so, think about it twice next time you buy candies that are each individually wrapped, next step is wrapping the air and selling it by the ballon, with a nice clean logo on it that says "save the earth, buy fresh air"

What about you? do you recycle, and would you be ready to stop if you realize it is just a  nice and conforting fashionnable trend? What facts do you know about recycling business that might help make up our minds?
what trick do you know that saves resources? such as the sticker on your door that says "no advertisers or i'll shut you"?

//http://www.pennandteller.com/

January 11, 2007

Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11.

All Hail Eris! Praise Bob.

Green plants, alive, like
the stone Buddha â€" rock solid â€"
â€" as twilight descends

To commemorate the memory of this great man.
Share how this writer affected your life.


//http://hostgator.rawilson.com/main.shtml

For all those out there that practice or have questions about martial arts, here is a begining thread:)




I 'll start with an extract from a little book i am reading. A highly recommended book, short, crisp and to the point.

The book is "Inner Voyage of a Stranger". Pathways to a New Perception. 2002.
Written by Kenjiro Yoshigasaki, a Master in ki-aikido, direct line from the creator of aikido Morihei Ueshiba.
Publication: Werner Kristkeitz Verlag.

Part 3 : Perception

"Most people use two words to describe the inside of the body. Thought and feeling. This actually means words and non-words. Thoughts are words in our body, which may be pronounced or written, and feeling is something that is not a word but is recognisable and could eventually be expressed using words. Psychology has given the public the idea that by expressing your feelings you can maintain good psychological health. If you are interested in helping others, that idea may be a suitable one. On the other hand, you will be dependant on other people’s help by expressing your feelings to others.

However, if you are interested in living your own life, it is better not to express your feelings.
You must get back to the basic understanding that when body perception is expressed in words, it is called a feeling. By expressing it, you actually distort it because you associate it with some memory.

That is why the concept of feeling is useful to understand and eventually to help others but it is useless and harmful if applied to yourself. Furthermore, when you percieve inside your body, you will find it to be very rich like music or painting. It is much richer than feelings, which are only words. At the same time it is true that most people do not understand the richness of music or painting and just stick to words about them. You must learn to listen to your body just like listening to music or looking at art without interpreting with words."

If you'd like to have this homemade Samadhi image in full, click //http://manue23.blogs.psychologies.com/photos/uncategorized/empty_mind_2.jpg

I've been editing some super cool little music videos.
So, for all you psy heads, check out a Derango song in a woods party with beautiful sunset and scenery, an Alrune tune with cows and horses grooving it out, and an Electrypnose one full of algues.
for you rockers, listen to a Queens of the Stone Age song, while sitting on the streets of paris, visit the flea market, and go on a train.
For you more classic folks out there, there is a Django tune on a train from Paris to Rouen.

Enjoy Very Happy Very Happy

check them videos here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/gamatron

To all the Planters out there, a merry X Mess, Happy New year, SoulsMass and all that good pagan stuff:)
Have a nice turkey, goose, duck day, stuff yourself, drink and be merry.

ps: there card is for you to take, just add your own words. And thank you to Santa's sexy helpers for this pic;)

i found this fuzzytravel blog , and couldnt help it, i had to get one.
so check out some of fuzzy's adventures.
today pics of markets in Paris. a thing not to be missed when visiting the town also knows as Paname and Lutecia.
http://www.fuzzytravel.com/manue/116-paris-markets.html

say chhheeeessseee;)