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#91
The Library / Re: Poetry/prose/creative writ...
Last post by Intrepid_traveler - February 05, 2019, 10:13:15 AM
I had just boarded my second bus of the day. This ride is in most cases uneventful, and gives me some time to work in my notebook. The bus driver was a young black girl who was probably around my age, she seemed nice, she was incredibly polite, and I remember that she had a really pretty smile. I boarded the bus as usual, turned up my music through my headphones and began working in my notebook, and everything was peaceful, just a normal day, until the bus reaches a stop in which several lines intersect, at this stop there is generally a 5 minute lay-over before the bus begins moving again, and the drivers often take bathroom and cigarette brakes during this lay over. So, the bus driver leaves the bus to take her brake. A few minutes after she leaves skinny old bald man begins to become restless, and starts pacing the isles of the bus. I had spoken to this man the day prior, he had intruded into a rather civilized conversation regarding the grateful dead that I had entered into with another passenger moments before, and had rather rudely attempted to turn things into a "who is a bigger deadhead competition", I have no tolerance for these type of ego-inflating pissing-contests, so I simply found an out and placed my headphones back on. So, this same old man has begun pacing the isles of the bus, and shortly after begins complaining in a loud voice "where is this lady! She can't do this!", then other passengers began to join in with this old prick, all of them loudly complaining and pacing the isles of the bus. The whole time I was thinking "good God, chill out and give the poor girl brake". The driver then returns and the grumpy old bald man is fuming, he begins screaming at the poor girl "you are four minutes late!...and so on". I was completely disgusted by these people's behaviors, I really couldn't believe it. People are so quick to jump into negativity and hostility over the smallest things. The poor girl driving the bus was just trying to do her job, she absolutely did not deserve to return from her brake and have some bald old lunatic foaming at the mouth and making threats to report her just because she was a few minutes late from her bathroom brake. This bald old prick had to be over 50 years old and he was behaving like child throwing a tantrum.

...it would have ruined my morning had I not had my headphones. Thank god I didn't have to listen to all their negativity.

Ill never understand how people can live their lives constantly angry, feeding off of their negative emotions. This is why I think psychedelic exploration is crucial for a cultures well being, it creates fully developed individuals, rather than neotenized individuals. In tribal cultures there would often be psychedelic shamanic rites of passage that every member of the culture would participate in in order to become a fully developed adult.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmRuW7OMbvo

I feel that most will reach physical maturity while psychologically never conning anywhere close to reaching their full potential.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmRuW7OMbvo

I've always been incredibly laid back, calm, relaxed, mellow and happy. I like to maintain good vibes and a cool and calm atmosphere. It takes a lot to get a negative reaction from me, and any time it ever happens its generally as a means of self-defense. Honestly, nothing bothers me, I really have transcended that neurosis, I'm never bothered by anything.

There have been times where I was incredibly intoxicated on this or that substance where I had to enter a situation in which it was crucial that I function and maintain as if I was completely sober, and I have always done really well in these situations. I see emotions in a similar manner, an emotion is a chemical change which is occurring within your body/mind which is going to influence your mental state and behavior, now, I am also incredibly good at being able to function under the influence of emotions, I see it as being no different from functioning under the influence of a drug.

#92
The Library / Re: Poetry/prose/creative writ...
Last post by Intrepid_traveler - February 04, 2019, 09:56:51 AM
Just another one of "the days between"

The beautiful brunette girl from 26th street was present today, and as usual took her seat next to me. The bus driver was jolting the bus around with some poor gas and brake work which nearly caused the beautiful brunette girl from 26th street to come crashing into me, that would have been somewhat awkward, but Could have afforded me an opportunity to interact her, well, it was an opportunity missed regardless.

...she wasn't wearing her black and white leopard-print scarf  today, but she still looked amazing. From her bright gleaming eyes and beautiful brunette hair, she looked as gorgeous as ever, she even makes the color neon orange look pretty. It's so rare that you can encounter a person where you think "this person is absolutely perfect in ever way exactly how they are".

...I really don't want to let her go, but at the same time I'm not sure that she is ever going to initiate interaction with me.

After I exit the bus I always turn back and look in through the window at her as the bus is slowly pulling away, and she always looks so sad. Maybe it's because she is looking down at her phone, but she always seems to look somewhat downtrodden and disappointed, and while she still looks adorable I want her to be happy. I hope I am just misreading her emotions, perhaps she is just tired and on her way into work, I really hope that I'm not disappointing her by not talking to her something.

Well, there is always tomorrow, and hopefully I will see her again.

...in the end I think it's going to have to be me that best things going, and believe me, if it wasn't 5 am and if I wasn't half-asleep, stoned, and still in the process of waking up I would have talked to her a long time ago.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to be shot down, which is why I want her to talk to me...

Who knows, maybe tomorrow I'll talk to her.

I'm giving her rose on valentines day no matter what. I wish I could give her roses every day, but that would be weird, right?

The most incredible, gorgeous, and perfect girl in the entire universe sits next to me every morning...

...so why can't I bring myself to ask her to give me a chance to be with her?

Maybe this week ill get my miracle and she will talk to me.
#93
The Library / Re: Poetry/prose/creative writ...
Last post by Intrepid_traveler - February 02, 2019, 11:25:13 AM
My beautiful brunette girl from 26th street, my darling sugaree, sweeter than a sugar-cube of LSD, maybe next week ill get my miracle and you'll start talking with me.

I got to see her Monday through Thursday this last week, and she Sat next to me every time. I always feel so excited when I see her walking over to sit next to me. It was somewhat disappointing on Friday when she wasn't there, I always have a much better day when it starts by having such an amazing, gorgeous, and special girl sit down next to me.
#94
The Library / Re: Poetry/prose/creative writ...
Last post by Intrepid_traveler - February 02, 2019, 11:12:14 AM
Just as the Sun was sinking behind the rolling purple mountain landscape I turned to her in the radiating pastel glow of the sunset, I could see a soft orange light emanating from her chest.

...my beautiful darling girl, con la corazon de oro, my sweet Melanie, you are like angel with broken wings, and I know I have what it takes to make you fly again.

Any time you are feeling down my darling, read these lyrics and remember all of the Times when I snuggled up next to you with my guitar and would play and sing this song just to cheer you up. Ill always be there for you.

You are fucking awesome never forget!


Lift up your head weary one
I see that sorrow in your eyes
Life got you down again
But you've got to realize
It takes time to learn, it takes time to grow
So be patient and be kind, And
If you ask with ease and grace
All that you seek you will find
Dust to dust and ash to ash
This too shall pass in the time, and you
Got to trust, yeah you got to trust
Good things coming in time, and Life Goes On
Life Goes On

And you can count on me to be the one
That's never gonna leave you lonely
Count on me to be the one
That is gonna love you always,
When you're feeling sad and blue
I'll be there to see you through, so
Don't cry no more
I said don't cry, my darling

True it takes some time for one to refine
The steps upon the path you are leading
The harder the pursuit, it remains the truth
The harder it will be to achieve it
And though you feel like giving up
When the path gets rough
You must be string, life must go
Don't cry, my darling, don't cry
Dust to dust and ash to ash
This too shall pass in the time, and you
Got to trust, yeah you got to trust
Good things coming in time, and Life Goes On
Life Goes On,
Life Goes On
And you can count on me to be the one
That's never gonna leave you lonely
Count on me to be the one
That is gonna love you always
When you're feeling sad and blue
I'll be there to see you through, so
Don't cry no more
I said don't cry, my darling
-Iya Terra - Life goes on


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EveNzW_BWzc
#95
The Library / Re: Poetry/prose/creative writ...
Last post by Intrepid_traveler - February 02, 2019, 11:00:46 AM
Quote from: judih on February 01, 2019, 11:31:15 PM
i'm reading.
fyi

Wow. I'm still somewhat curious as to why, but I suppose that really doesn't matter.

...while I can't understand what would motivate someone to read this nonsense, simultaneously I find myself somewhat puzzled as to why I write it.

Well, I write about the beautiful brunette girl from 26th street because my friend Eliza told me that she reads all of my posts, and while Eliza may not be telling the truth, I still post in hopes that she actually is reading them. (It's actually been very difficult to to tell if the beautiful brunette girl from 26th is reading these posts or not. If she has been reading my posts she has been subtle enough with her responses in real life as to give me hints without giving herself away)

Most of this stuff was written for the beautiful brunette girl from 26th street, and there's a chance that she never sees any of it.

...the rest of the stuff, I can't say why I post it.

#96
SpiritPlants Radio / Within's Within: Scenes from t...
Last post by cenacle - February 02, 2019, 10:26:15 AM
Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution
with DJ Soulard
Show #655
East Coast Time: Saturday 02 February 2019 at: US East Coast: 11am-2pm
Repeats: Sunday 23 December 2018: 8pm-11pm
Repeats: Saturday 29 December 2018 8pm-11pm
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Tune in SpiritPlants Radio Online: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com
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On this week's show:
 
* Featured New Rock Album: Hookworms, *Pearl Mystic* (2013) . . . Found this English psychedelic rock band recently & wow! just fantastic! Musics to seep into, lose among . . . dark, dreamy, fall away from the earth music . . . this debut record is just wow . . .

* Featured Classic Rock Album: Silver Apples, *Contact* (1969) . . . Second LP from this American electronic rock band . . . like a different kind of dreaming . . . where the boxes bleep noisily & the buttons on the crazed computer are too loud & bright both . . .

* Storybook Time*: Continuing Chapter 18 of *The Unconsoled* by Kazuo Ishiguro . . .

* Readings from *Bags End News* & *Labyrinthine* . . .  & this week's featured artists are some of those featured on "Casey's Top 40 with Casey Kasem," back on 04.February.1995 . . . into this show's 21st year & ready steady go for more!

Webcasting to the globe & beyond from Ye Olde New England!
#97
SpiritPlants Radio / This Weekend on SpiritPlants R...
Last post by cenacle - February 02, 2019, 01:35:20 AM
Turn on . . . tune in! SpiritPlants Radio is on the air 24/7! And now for 15 years!

SpiritPlants Radio's website can be found at http://www.spiritplantsradio.com. On this site is the current weekday & weekend schedule & links to listen live, as well as links to the station's archives, blog, forum, chat, playlists, & song history.

During the weekdays you are invited to enter the (M)ystery-(F)low, whose themes include: Comedy Monday, Psychedelic Tuesday, Wild Card Wednesday, Jazz Thursday, & Rock Friday . . .

This  weekend features 3 DJs, including Soulard, Frogs, & Veronica! This weekend (February 2-3, 2019)'s scheduled programming includes:

Featured SpiritPlants Radio DJs:
*** Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution with DJ Soulard #655 | Show information: http://www.scriptorpress.com/withinswithin.html
*** In the Window with DJ Frogs #248 | Show information: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJFrogsWindow
*** Electronica with DJ Veronica #157 | Show information: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/shows.html#DJVeronica

Featured Programs:
*** Long Live Rock!: Phish - 31.December.2018 - New York, New York | Show information: http://phish.net/setlists/phish-december-31-2018-madison-square-garden-new-york-ny-usa.html
*** Psychedelic Lectures: Paul Austin - "Microdosing and the Psychedelic Third Wave" | Show information: https://highexistence.com/paul-austin-podcast-third-wave/
*** Jazz Cafe: Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus" (1962) | Show information: https://www.discogs.com/Vince-Guaraldi-Trio-Jazz-Impressions-Of-Black-Orpheus/release/7150621
*** Comedy Hour: "Animation Radio - South Park Marathon! | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park
*** News Hour: "World Week in Review" | Show information: http://www.scriptorpress.com/world_week_in_review.pdf
*** Storybook Time: Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" | Show information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)
*** Sound Collage Radio: DJ Soulard - "Sound Collages II" | Show information: http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/djsoulardsoundcollages.pdf

This weekend's programming commences the 2019 SpiritPlants Radio weekend schedule of new shows and featured programs. Your feedback (spiritplantsradio@gmail.com) will be greatly appreciated in helping to improve our station! And check out Dose One: A SpiritPlants Radio Psychedelic Sampler (http://soundcloud.com/spiri/spiritplantsradio_dose_one)!

We are always looking for new DJs to join our station (email us at spiritplantsradio@gmail.com).

Peace,
Raymond
Station Manager
#98
The Library / Re: Poetry/prose/creative writ...
Last post by judih - February 01, 2019, 11:31:15 PM
i'm reading.
fyi
#99
The Library / Re: Poetry/prose/creative writ...
Last post by Intrepid_traveler - February 01, 2019, 10:00:57 AM
Today was a day without seeing the beautiful brunette girl from 26th street. Though I did see her every day this week except for today. Such a strange situation, possibly to remain an eternal stalemate of quietly waiting for the other to act. There's so much potential there, and I can feel the buildup of that potential. It's an incredibly rich tangent of possibility.

...It's like a bifurcation in the time stream, on one tangent myself and the beautiful brunette carry on as we have without anything changing, and on the other things came together and we ended up together. It's like I can feel the energy pouring out of that cotangent alternate existence where we had come together, its as if that possible pathway is brimming with so much energy to the point where all cotangent pathways are slightly distorted as the waves of energy and possibility from that possible tangent go crashing around through hyperspace.

Out of all things that are possible, out of all things that can occur, what is it that determines which things, "undergo the formality of actually occurring" and which things do not?

Below McKenna offers some insight:

. During the experiment at La Chorrera, the Logos demonstrated that time is not simply a homogeneous medium where things occur, but a fluctuating density of probability. Though science can sometimes tell us what can happen and what cannot happen, we have no theory that explains why, out of everything that could happen, certain things undergo what Whitehead called "the formality of actually occurring." This was what the Logos sought to explain, why out of all the myriad things that could happen, certain things undergo the formality of occurring. It is because there is a modular hierarchy of waves of temporal conditioning, or temporal density. A certain event, rated highly improbable, is more probable at some moments than at others. -terence McKenna

...I spent some time looking for Alfred North Whitehead's writing regarding things undergoing "the formality of actually occurring" and came up empty handed.

These posts are always disorganized, and since I'm fairly certain that nobody really reads these things I don't make any effort to correct them, I basically just start typing whatever is on my mind and in the end you get what you get, which seems to be a clusterfuck of mismatched abstract concepts blended with bits and pieces of prose derived from the vicissitudes of my daily life.

I don't think I am going to see my beautiful darling sugaree, the gorgeous brunette from 26th street, until next week.

...maybe then she will get things moving and give me a chance to love her. I don't think it matters what she tells her friends, she really does like me. I don't think she should worry if her friends don't like me, I mean, one of my best friends Eliza wants to keep me as far away as possible from the brunette from 26th, yet I don't let it bother me, I don't care what anybody says if she gave me a chance I would proudly tell the whole world that she was my girl and that I loved her, I wouldn't care if jealous people or negative people tried to tell lies and talk shit.

Maybe next week my baby darling sugaree will come and ask me to give her my love.

...can she really be happier awkwardly sitting side by side with me, each of us pretending like we don't notice one another?

I know that I can be hard to approach, and I know that when I am writing I look very busy, and I know that it's uncomfortable getting the attention of a person listening to loud music through headphones, and I know that because I am so nervous and shy that my body language probably shows it, but I promise that if she could just bite the bullet and reach out to tap me on the shoulder that everything would go smoothly from there. ...well, actually, it's probably going to be somewhat awkward and uncomfortable, but once that first interaction is out of the way there should be no problems.

...if she is not interested I would only hope that she would have the decency and manners to tell me.

#100
The Library / Re: Poetry/prose/creative writ...
Last post by Intrepid_traveler - January 31, 2019, 09:48:01 AM
The change which actually took place in that world was in no sense revolutionary. Half an hour after swallowing the drug I became aware of a slow dance of golden lights. A little later there were sumptuous red surfaces swelling and expanding from bright nodes of energy that vibrated with a continuously changing, patterned life. At another time the closing of my eyes revealed a complex of gray structures, within which pale bluish spheres kept emerging into intense solidity and, having emerged, would slide noiselessly upwards, out of sight. But at no time were there faces or forms of men or animals. I saw no landscapes, no enormous spaces, no magical growth and metamorphosis of buildings, nothing remotely like a drama or a parable. The other world to which mescalin admitted me was not the world of visions; it existed out there, in what I could see with my eyes open. The great change was in the realm of objective fact. What had happened to my subjective universe was relatively unimportant. -A. Huxley

What Huxley describes above, unfortunately, seems to be the limit of what most will experience with psychedelic substances.

...which is a shame.

However, I will encounter individuals who will say "I have taken x, y, or z and it did not do anything remotely similar to what you claim it does", then, I will offer these individuals an invitation to consume a psychedelic substance with me, and strangely enough I have never failed to obtain consensus regarding these substances potentials after such an event.

...Not that Huxley didn't derive some truly valuable insights from his ventures with the compound, I think Huxley was able to obtain more than most, which is perhaps why I should have chosen another example regarding individuals expectations regarding these compounds.

There's a McKenna quote that States:
If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.-Terence McKenna

...I have always seen the psychedelic experience as a means of achieving such clarity, and as a result enjoy taking political or philosophical concepts and then giving them the "acid test" (while I use the term acid simply for the phrase, by giving something "the acid test" I simply mean seeing if the concept can hold up through psychedelic examination).

...well, as Huxley said "i have returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as "being in one's right mind."

...I might try some writing after I have re-upped on hash.
(I hate the terms "shatter" or "wax", if you want to be technical "hash" refers to an extract of the cannabis plant, and in my mind it doesn't seem to matter if the cannabinoids were extracted by traditional means such as by using cold H2O and bubble bags, or of the cannabinoid compounds were extracted with solvents such as butane or propane, in my mind, it's all hash. Now, of there is a need to be specific I prefer using the proper name of the substance, I.e. "butane extract" or "propane extract" or bho/pho combination extract.

fuck it. I have to go.

...oh, before I head out, I want to mention my beautiful darling brunette girl from 26th street, I still love you sugaree,  you looked amazing today. If you ever want or need anything you always know where you can find me. You know I would do anything you asked me to.
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