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I've been searching for salvia divinorum sources. Few and far between. Won't ship to CO.

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Have a small bottle of ayahuasca sitting in fridge for about four years now...

Goin St Francis on us? Talking to trees?

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I haven't read, but I'm familiar with it.

Good travels to you

Just finished reading “The Game – nothing is as it seems” – although I have to admit I did skim read some of it (patience is an ongoing lesson!) Basically a very convoluted fairytale-like story which is claiming to put some of the ideas from the Ring Cedars series into context – but I’ve yet to get started on this, so that's somewhere down the road.

Some of the key ideas I picked out:

• Do you understand that Earth is a virtual reality?

• As above, so below.

• The program is designed to give you more experiences that confirm what you believe.

• If you feel afraid or worried, you’re not in the moment – you’re either focused on the past or the future.

• You’ll realise every moment has its own unique perfection, whether you like it at the time or not.

• The binary code also responds to the feeling of yes or no, or you could think of it as love or fear.

• When you worry ... you are actually causing the program to create more of what you don’t want.

• You carry everything you will ever need to know within yourself.

• You just have to learn how to wake up.

• All you do in response to any problem is say to yourself “All is well”.

• The more you believe in the existence of love, the more you see a loving world.

• Sometimes you just have to rely on the kindness of strangers.

• Reality is flexible ... that it moves according to your focus and beliefs.

• You can have anything you can imagine if you can wish without worrying.

• Even if there is unavoidable pain ... suffering isn’t necessary, it’s always a choice (I think this concept had a recent airing on your FB pages, Fred).

• You don’t need to fix the Game. The program isn’t broken – it works exactly as it was intended to work.

• Sometimes not knowing is part of the bigger plan ... it gets us where we need to go – trust the process.

So this is what I’ve pulled out of the book, I suppose because it’s what resonates with me. I suspect it actually says more about me and my life view than it actually says about the book!

BTW Fred, it was Nick who was talking about breaking free, so perhaps he might like to expand on this a bit?

With much love

On breaking free, I wanted to escape from society. I take medication daily to keep me from becoming what society calls manic. I feel like it is a spiritual emergence of some sort that has been trapped inside of me waiting to be released.

However, I've never found a safe way to release it as the previous six times have resulted in psych wards. I was hoping that Peru, nature, a good shaman, and the universe would guide me. After some major hiccups in my plan, I actually received a verbatim message from the universe during an ayahuasca ceremony.

The stars opened up for me and I heard a voice say, "Nick. You need to be a business man right now." After that, I decided to come back to society for a while and make some money and regroup. I am currently doing that and researching the best way to safely fulfill my plan of breaking free.

To try to make this long story shorter, breaking free for me would be a place/community surrounded by nature where I could get off my medication, experience the mania to its highest and see where it goes. I think there is a crazy amount of untapped potential inside of me and it kills me to waste it.

I take medication to be normal, but I was never born to be normal.

Peace and love,

Nick

Hi Nick, thanks for sharing and being so open about your aspirations. We all have to be able to function in this world in our own way and for many it means conforming (at least to some degree) to society's expectations of normality - but few of us want a boring life. Sounds like there's little danger of that with the challenges you've been having! Hope you find your community soon, but enjoy the journey in the meantime!

Much love.

The first book in the Ringing Cedars series is a relatively short read. Described by reviewers as Mills & Boon meets Carlos Castenada or The Bible meets Star Trek ;-)

The ideas put forward by Anastasia largely resonated with me, living in total balance and harmony with nature, effortlessly relying on nature for a complete life support system - quite an appealing idea. I like the idea about growing food that’s ideally suited to our own DNA make up, about the importance of honouring the bees who even in our own societies are critical for our food production – Einstein said something about humanity only being able to survive 4 years without the activity of bees! (I’ve come across the quote 3 times in different places over the last few weeks!)

Interesting idea of no ritual being made of mealtimes, grazing on what comes to hand as it’s required. Such a big contrast with the way things are in our society where food and drink have such immense cultural and social ramifications. And that’s without touching on the issue of all the pervasive psychological issues we have relating to food.

The timing of the story in 1994/95 is only around 25 years ago, yet I had the sense of it being a lot further back in time whilst reading it. The author and narrator, Vladimir, is not an attractive character – abrasive, aggressive, impatient, critical, selfish – a stark contrast with Anastasia’s way of being, and possibly chosen for that reason, so that we’ll perhaps be able to see more clearly his development as things progress.

Apparently some readers have felt an emotional connection to the book straight away and been inspired to all sorts of poetic writings – that’s not me – although I am interested enough to want to see how this develops!

Just thought I’d get this posted while things were still fresh in my mind – looking forward to what Nick has to say! And also Fred and Chris, if this sparks off any ideas?

Sounds like you've been on quite a journey with your health, Julie. I'm a vegetarian and eat almost 100% organic and thankfully blessed with robust healthy. I wish you all the best with you continuing journey.

Thanks for sharing those beautiful songs, Kristyne! And thank you Leonard Cohen for sharing your heart and soul with all of us!

An interesting conversation with a lifelong friend about the songwriter and the man, a discussion about Hallelujah from the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/opinion/my-friend-leonard-cohen-darkne...

Thanks so much for the story on Hallelujah Kristyne, I had seen a discussion on it somewhere, and no one had the correct answer..... I just stumbled on this version,,,by pentatonix,,, https://youtu.be/fwMowPviUAQ ,,,,,and it has the lyrics

just so, good sister, just so...

Since I first came across Hallelujah many years ago I've been haunted by its beauty and appreciated the occasions when it popped up unbidden in my life. I was amazed and delighted when I found this song on Jai-Jagdeesh's 'Of Heaven and Earth' which I bought totally on a whim without having heard it, and which is now one of my favourite albums! Just a very small example of how God moves in mysterious ways ....

I find it interesting (I site the Catholics, although they are all different, like everyone), how damn near EVERYBODY has been coerced into regular "transgression". The whole confession shtick seems to encourage people to "sin" and then just repeatedly ask for forgiveness...

But they ain't got nothing on the mainstream media as far as contradictions go.

The way it plays and preys on people's minds and emotions with distractions and confusion of a devious nature. Keeping everyone fixated and trapped in mostly lower emotions (fear, anger, sadness). If there's laughter, it's usually based on perpetuating stereotypes or repetitive animalistic laugh tracks...

But I DIGRESS.

So, yes, they get the politicians and celebrities, anyone with "power" or influence in their pocket so they can't rock the boat or disturb the paradigm. They underestimate us "little folk" breaking free.

I'm unplugging from it more and more these days. Going within for balance and holding to the center.

Aren't any answers "out there". And I'd like to see what's on the other side when this mess sorts itself out. Create a new and better world.

Adios Washington! Adios Disney! Adios parasites of human greed and misery!

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