I'll check out her work and see! Thanks :D

Ahh, bummer! Wish I could hear it!

Is the talk online? I'd be curious to listen to it!

Each type of mushroom has been different qualitatively beyond just the different mindset I've had going in.
Anyone else had similar (or different) experiences with this?

I've never understood the claim by some that all psilocybin mushrooms are interchangeable experience-wise and the only thing that matters is just the amount of psilocybin. That has never been my experience.

The call for papers on the Mormon experience of psychedelics if anyone is interested in submitting one!

My hope with this anthology is to provide a resource for Mormons looking to compare their experiences with others, to learn what an experience in a faith-based context might look like, and hopefully reduce some of the stigma surrounding psychedelic use among Mormons.

Remove that and people will search and go elsewhere to find community that respects their own experiences and search.

It's also shameful that the LDS church has threatened some people's membership because their search for God took them to a place that doesn't match the dull orthodoxy.
Psychedelics have the opportunity to reinvigorate people's faith if they're allowed to explore within the confines of their faith.

It's so sad to me that friends, family, and workplaces will and have shamed so many people into not sharing important experiences with their loved ones.

I put out a call for papers on the Mormon experience of psychedelics recently and the response has been both incredible and depressing. So many active members have reached out, which is incredible, but nearly all of them wish to stay anonymous because it might tank their credibility.

The mice that have been scurrying through the walls for months have now started squeaking to each other.
Cooperation is imminent. My cat's downfall is being plotted. They know she murdered one of them.
They are coming.

I've never had the apparently common dream of having teeth fall out. But ever since my cat got her teeth removed over a month ago I have a near daily nightmare of her or my other cat's teeth falling out or not healing after surgery.
Guess that's where my priorities lie!

The immunomodulatory effects of psychedelics in Alzheimer’s disease-related dementia Dementia is an umbrella term for chronic and acquired loss of cognitive abilities due to a wide range of diseases and brain injuries. This disorder causes gradual and slow diminishing of memory, inabi...

Found this neat abstract (yay paywalls): psychedelics are the next big aid for dementia.
What I'm hearing is do drugs until the day you die!
www.ibroneuroscience.org/article/S030...

Multicultural picture books

My wife got a bunch of free multicultural picture books from a conference she went to. Picture books have gotten incredibly good. I'm stoked to eventually get to read these to kids!

One of the best things to come from my mormon upbringing that I still use and appreciate!

I'd love to hear more about it! That's really neat!

I always seem to pull the tower, still am. My wife never does, though, and she's been pulling the tower like mad lately, too!

The Good Place is my ultimate comfort show. It's seriously one of the best shows ever written.

Someone's gotta infiltrate those top journals with weird shit to make them more interesting again!

My grandma despises crows and has a massive murder that visits her backyard and screams at her daily (she yells back too!)
Meanwhile I can't get a single crow to stop by my yard for the life of me 😭🤣

Today's harvest! Let the dehydrating and canning recommence!

And if people encounter in the experience a "demon" whether or not it is reality, the felt sense of a protection ritual's influence on the suggestive state is likely going to be positive.

It's obviously best practices when coming from any sort of animist or occult worldview.
But I think it would make sense without that framing too as a psychological protective act. We're ritual creatures and even adding in a basic "protection" ritual soothes the unconscious mind.

I wonder if there's been any data collected on integrating a protective ritual into a psychedelic trip and its effect on the outcomes.
I'd assume there'd be a reduction in adverse challenging experiences across the board. There has been in my workings with people.

New post up on my substack! It's all about datura, my latest rabbit hole.
It's long been used as a medicine for various ailments despite the current negative sentiment towards it.
Next up will be a post looking at the magical and ritual uses of it!
alexcriddle.substack.com/p/on-the-med...

Some have blocks or struggle to get there and at the very least psychoactives help get them there (and this isn't accounting everything else they might be doing as a part of the magical workings).
Seems like the ancients got this and used it to their advantage.

enacting out their actual death, enacting a surgery playing on the "placebo effect". But it's drumming up a certain energy in consciousness that aids in the enacting of change.

consciousness is always key. It's a fundamental medium of magical workings and aids in the enacting of change.
Jodorowsky's psychomagic seems to be about getting a person to believe something psychosomatically

But it referenced the -client- and maybe they couldn't get in the right headspace.
This ties in with psychomagic because of course the headspace of the person plays a factor in whether or not the spell works. Yeah, sympathies and everything else is important but