This month's newsletter dives deep into Blue Lotus: getting to the bottom of the confusion around what it actually is, explaining its pharmacology, and sharing the ways in which we build a container for intentional entheogenic use here.
https://sigillosacro.com/on-entheogens-blue-lotus/
If you find it interesting or useful, please share with a friend! Any visibility helps us build revenue streams that make this project feasible -- especially important as we're supporting two new long term residents here at the Ranch and always getting more involved with supporting our broader community, as well.
#Entheogens #Drugs #BlueLotus #Plants #Spirituality #Witchcraft #Pagan #Animist
Nymphaea caerulea and Nymphaea nuchali: the confusing world of a once-revered Egyptian water lily Blue Lotus is a unique companion. At once purported to offer aphrodisiac, sedative, euphoric and psychedelic effects, it was used by the Ancient Egyptians almost as ubiquitously as alcohol or tobacco are used by some other
The Kiowa Peyote Meeting
Release Date: 1973
Label: Folkways Records
In 1964, Harry Smith (who compiled the Anthology of American Folk Music) was held for a week in the Anadarko, Oklahoma, jail on suspicion of stealing guns, and there he met several Kiowa Indians who i
Just released the first in my series on entheogenic substances: an introduction that sets the stage for recreating context for the use of such substances, addressing ecological impact, cultural appropriation, and more.
If you find this valuable, please consider sharing with a friend! Let me know if there are any specific substances you'd like me to discuss in the upcoming series, and as always, I'd love to use this to open discussion and hear your thoughts on the matter.
Blessings ~
https://sigillosacro.com/an-introductientheogens/
#substances #psychoactive #spirituality #meditations #entheogens #plants #fungi #writing
Our conversation on entheogens begins first with a few prerequisite statements. First, while I will only discuss those entheogens whose use is legal where I live, laws change frequently, and depending on where you live what is legal here may not be legal there. Second, I am in no way
For my next newsletter, I was going to go in-depth on consciousness alteration, including a mention of various types of and techniques for attaining altered states of consciousness.
This, of course, brings up the entheogenic substance conversation. I will not, in a newsletter, ever discuss the use or cultivation of anything not legal in my area. But! There are many, many aids to consciousness alteration which are legal.
So I suppose the question is: after the initial discussion of consciousness alteration, would you be interested in discussion of various legal entheogenic substances? If so, are there any in particular you'd like to see discussed?
#entheogens #substances #pagan #witchcraft #witch #spirituality #consciousnessAlteration
The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin
βEven before I had the money, even if I never had the money,β Akasha tells me, smiling, staring at me with the wide, blue eyes of a true believer, βI was free.β
https://www.wired.com/story/rise-fall-dark-web-psychedelics-kingpin-dmt/
I'll be at Breaking Convention - https://breakingconvention.co.uk
A multi-disciplinary conference offering the latest ground-breaking research and insights into psychedelics ππ΅π±
17 - 19 April 2025, Exeter UK
Who else is going?
Get in touch if you'll be there and want to meet! I love to chat with new people β¨
#BreakingConvention #BreakingConvention2025 #psychedelics #entheogens #conference #neuropharmacology #ethnobotany #philosophy #history #anthropology #art #archaeology #therapeuticPractice
One last photo to end this thread on San Pedro π΅.
It is a San Pedro cactus intertwined with a Brugmansia (Angel's trumpet), which is closely related to Datura, another psychoactive plant. Although there, it was purely an ornamental plant.
#sanPedro #huachuma #cactus #cacti #plantMedicine #entheogens #psychedelics
Another pot of boiling San Pedro π΅! This one from Ecuador.
Unlike the one prepared with fresh cactus that I shared earlier, this one is made from dried powder.
Unfortunately, I wasn't there to follow the whole process, and I don't know the details.
#sanPedro #huachuma #cactus #cacti #plantMedicine #entheogens #psychedelics
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Jamez Barrett π ΰ₯ βΆ
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Daniel Khent
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