If anyone is in the area please attend, Pretty much everyone will be there, plus if anyone buys a ticket Pm me and I will see about getting a discount. If I can get enought people to go I get to be Mike crowley's quest at a dinner party with sasha shulgin, dale pendell, and others. If you are local please,please go.
sacredelixirs.com/
It is in northern cali bay area.
Neo
me not be local, me be loco :P
Pretty good, ahr; A bi-lingual pun in a second and third language. :lol:
lw
Mmmmm, dinner with sasha and pendall.
I'll take extra wavy gravy please.
Isn't sasha still in the hospital? Last I heard he was hospitalized.
Yeah he is supposed to make for sunday night for a talk on ayahuasca. I guess he is doing better that is all i know.
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Hey!! I think Gwyllm did the art for the sacred elixers site!!
Sweet!
That spiritplants print he did for us is still holding up nicely....... at least it's still one of my favorite shirts.
Is anyone here planning to attend the event? It's a bargain as far as price, and nicely located here on the West Coast...
Was wondering,
Lj
Me and another from the nook are going for sure.
How did you get turned onto Crowley? Didn't he write about the secret drugs of Buddihism or something?
I know I've got links of him somewhere...
Lj
Someone from chat pointed me in his direction, and yes i Believe he wrote that book......
Do U live in the bay area?
I've been listening to the tapes. It sounds like many interesting subjects were covered. I really like the Places of the Vision Seekers talk. Perhaps a investigation into modern sites is in order?
The speaker mentions some of the common characteristics of these places that are often overlooked. When looking at these sites, one should consider things that would take on significance in altered states. Archeologist typically look at these matters in a mundane way (ordinary consciouness) and overlook many things.
Places of the Vision Seekers
Paul Devereux
Sacred Elixers Conference
The importance of set and setting is well known in regard to the use of psychoactive substances. This presentation looks at the properties of some Old World and New World ancient sites where vision questing took place, and where traditional entheogens were definitely or probably used. This environmental aspect of traditional usage of entheogens has been poorly covered to date, yet the properties of the sites can tell us much about the nature of the visions had at them and about how they could enhance and direct ASCs. In particular, the newly-discovered acoustic properties of some sacred places is discussed.
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Brief outline of characteristics.
1. Look unusual - sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious.
-Buffalo Rock in Manatoba.
2. Astronomic significance
-Stonehendge / great circles
3. Light and Sound
-Waterfalls
-echos
-acoustics
-natural amplification
4. Geophysical Effects
-unusual compass readings
-radioactive
5. Luminousity - creates moods
Yeah, I got copies of both days too. Am particularly interested in hearing more about the Pachycereus pringlei cactus that some guy was talking about saturday...... I forget his name at the moment.
yea, I was thinking Los Cabos is like a 40 minute flight from P.V.
Look at the fine dining in Los Cabos - http://www.loscabosrestaurantguide.com/ ... cactus.htm (http://www.loscabosrestaurantguide.com/cardon_cactus.htm)
The trip to home depot may be even closer.
where can one get copies of the tapes?
Shulgin was the one talking of the pachycereus.
I could make you a copy. It is an audience recording and it is requested that it not be distubuted for profit, commercial purposes, etc. The sponsors of the conference may release a dvd or something later.
I was kind of put off the pachycereus by that Sept. 2002 Wired Magazine article Professor X. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.0 ... ssorx.html (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/professorx.html) I may have been too quick to dismiss it.
Yes, it was the Shulgin's and Earl Crockett discussing pachycereus pringlei.
Ohh yeah, thats right. Thanks for the link TooStoned.