• Erowid: an exhaustive source of information on psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related subjects. A lot to peruse including the vault, a gallery of hundreds of examples of “psychedelic art” many of which even manage to rise above what you might expect from that categorization. Similarly see: the Lycaeum.
• Enjoy this fine flash presentation on Imagining the tenth dimension.
• goods has helped to discover a large primordial ‘blob’, more than 10 billion light-years away. With a diameter of 200 000 light-years, the blob is twice as big as our Milky Way and the total energy emitted is equivalent to that of about 2 billion suns. Despite this, the object is largely invisible.
• “The cow says: moo.” Shamanistic resource on working with animal guides.
• Enjoyable essay: Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine.
• Long list of international equivalents to John Doe, Richard Roe, etc.
• Derived from the jungle Quichua verb ikaray, “to blow smoke” for healing, the Spanish word icaros designates the magical lyrics, incantations, either whistled or spoken, by Amazonian shamans in a variety of ritual contests, especially during healing sessions and during ayahuasca ceremonies, to establish contact with the spirit world. Listen for yourself: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
Already familiar with Erowid and Lyceum; very good sites.
I know one John Doe already: Joao Ninguem, in Portuguese, means Joe Nobody (that’s from an Os Mutantes lyric).
The shamanism links remiond me the other night I saw a show on PBS, episode one of How Art Made the World. Fascinating; explains prehistoric cave paintings as attempts to ‘nail down’ what’s seen in trance states!!! Awesome.