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Tumblr, It’s been a while and I’m sure a lot has happened in all our lives since the last time I was on here. Lots of growth, lots of novelty. Here’s a wall of text I wrote while I was backpacking a couple of weekends ago. Hope all of you are doing well these days and staying afloat in this increasingly mad world...🕉

Things have been stressful for me here lately. My Grandmother was recently diagnosed with ALS and it has progressed very rapidly...we don’t know how much longer she has. It’s like my whole words shattering apart, I’ve been meditating a lot here lately and I’m having an abundance of synchronicities and predictive dreams now, the visions in my trances have been very strange too. Madness tethers with rigid reality in ways that are both ecstatic and frightening but I mostly stay calm and focused even when it gets very overwhelming. Am I realizing my enlightened being or just simply going bonkers? It’s a lot to bear for one point of awareness like myself, all this suffering in the world, a hostile angry growl around every corner. The collective fear that exists in our current present moment is accelerating rapidly through humankind spreading like a “dare I say” a virus. And that’s where the forest comes in. I hiked out to one of my favorite spots today to sit in quiet awareness by a fire. There’s something magical about being alone in the woods by yourself on a early fall night. When I sit and listen I realize the forest is very much alive and that I truly belong to nature. There is great peace to be found with the realization that all humans and life on this planet belong to the natural landscapes. We are never alone and we are truly cherished and loved by the planet although we have strayed very far from home. The forest is just so connected to every thing we do and it will eventually take us all back into Gaia’s embrace. With all the craziness going on in my life and in everyone else’s life these days, there is one resounding call and that is we should not forget about the forest...we should not forget about home. I love you all and hope you can find peace and awareness in the current days here on planet earth.

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“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

Carl Sagan. The photo, taken by the Voyager I in 1990, shows the Earth from nearly 4 billion miles away.

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I never knew I could be so attached to a fish.... He had a long creative life of organizing marbles and moving stuff in the tank, he was a recluse like me, and I spent many a night watching him work his magic in the tank in the dark. You will be missed Mr. Algae Eater, may you pass safely to the fish bardo...😭

#i may have spent the last thirty minutes crying in the dark over a fish #grieiving my pet fish

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“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”

-Terence McKenna

#terence mckenna #earth day #2020 #gaia #pacha mama #shamanism #ecosystems #environmentalism #environmentalist

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Happy Gaia (Earth) appreciation day, Tumblr!!!

(Art: by Mercury Mycelius)

#my art #gaia #earth #earth day #visionary art #psychedelic art #pagan #nature #trees #ecology #environmentalist #psychonaut #trippy art #psychedelic #gnosis #visions #mushrooms #forest #ecosystems #nature lover #in love with nature #gaian mind #mother earth #pacha mama #shamanic #shamanism #wiccan #druid #hippie #trippy

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Techgnosis - by Mercury Mycelius

#my art #visionary art #art #psychedelic art #psychedelic #trippy art #technology

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Shout out to all those scraping for resin and drinking stem tea today cause they done smoked up all they ganj back in March. Times r hard for a lot of people right now.

#420 #resin #quarantine #frugality #resin bowl

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Happy 420, y’all!!!

(Art by: Mercury Mycelius)

#420 #psychedelic art #weed #ganja #dank #sativa #indica #2020 #weed art #marijuana #high life #trippy art

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Bicycle Day is observed around the world on April 19th, though it’s not exactly a celebration of the bicycle. Instead, the international holiday honors the fortuitous trip made on a bicycle on the day Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the psychic effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide while riding home from his lab. As the world commemorates the 77th anniversary of LSD this Bicycle Day, here’s a look back at how the good doctor stumbled upon the unique drug. “I did not choose LSD,” Hofmann later said. “LSD found and called me.”

Born in Baden, Switzerland, Hofmann had an intense experience as a child that guided him into the world of chemistry and plant science. As a boy walking in the forest near his home, Hofmann had a vivid moment which he became enchanted by the natural world. “As I strolled through the freshly greened woods filled with bird song and lit up by the morning sun, all at once everything appeared in an uncommonly clear light,” he wrote in his book, LSD: My Problem Child. “It shone with the most beautiful radiance, speaking to the heart, as though it wanted to encompass me in its majesty.” Hofmann’s research would eventually become the way he could translate this profound childhood visual experience into something he could experience for the rest of his life. Homann first synthesized LSD in 1936, while he was working as a research chemist at Sandoz Laboratories. The company was big in the chemical business back then, responsible for inventing substances like saccharine. At Sandoz, he was tasked with working with medicinal plants to isolate, purify and synthesize their active compounds for pharmaceuticals. His studies of ergot, a rye fungus, and its various active compounds, led to the creation of several lysergic acid compounds, and his 25th attempt was aptly named LSD-25. “I had planned the synthesis of this compound with the intention of obtaining a circulatory and respiratory stimulant,” Hofmann wrote in his book. “The new substance, however, aroused no special interest in our pharmacologists and physicians; testing was therefore discontinued.” Five years passed, and LSD-25 sat on the shelf. Hofmann continued his work but he couldn’t shake the feeling that LSD-25 may have other properties that were missed in the initial testing. On a hunch, he re-synthesized it on April 16th, 1943. In the lab that day, he accidentally absorbed around 20 micrograms of LSD-25 in his skin and recorded in his journal that he had a remarkable experience, one he could only connect to the substance. A few days later, on April 19th, Hofmann took his experiment further and ingested 250 micrograms of LSD-25, with his assistant’s knowledge. The day moved fast, and his journal marked the shifts. He dosed himself at 4:20pm; diluting the 250 micrograms of crystal in 10cc water and noted it was tasteless. At 5pm, he added, “Beginning dizziness, feeling of anxiety, visual distortions, symptoms of paralysis, desire to laugh.” The journal went dark after that. Two days later he added that his trip had been most intense from six to eight p.m. – and that during that time, he rode home on his bicycle.

In 1943, wartime vehicle restrictions forbid personal cars on the road, so Hofmann had no choice but to get home on two wheels – though he had, luckily, asked his assistant to escort him home. During the infamous bicycle ride, Hofmann really tapped into the psychic effects of the drug. His assistant said they traveled home safely and at a rapid rate, and Hofmann recanted the event in great detail in his book. “Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux,” he wrote. “It was particularly remarkable how every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a door handle or a passing automobile, became transformed into optical perceptions. Every sound generated a vividly changing image, with its own consistent form and color.”

An amazing discovery, Hofmann wasn’t exactly screaming from the rooftops right away, though he knew LSD-25 was significant. Unfortunately, even after decades of research by scientists and government agencies, LSD was forced underground by prohibition in 1966. “To Albert, LSD was his wonder child that became a problem child,” says Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of California-based (MAPS). “LSD is now is about a third of the way back to being seen as a wonder child with problematic potentials when taken without sufficient support and integration work. The amazing interest in microdosing is creating a new positive reputation for LSD in a new context.” Many educators and scientists remained positive about LSD over the years, and in 1985, Northern Illinois University educational psychology professor Thomas B. Roberts established April 19th as Bicycle Day, a special day to bring together the psychedelic community and commemorate the epic moment of Hofmann’s self-discovery.

LSD continues to find importance in scientific and social circles around the world. “With the challenge of nationalism, fundamentalism and mental illnesses, LSD is more important in 2018 than ever before,” says Doblin. “LSD is a tool of exploration into our inner worlds where the future of our species’ ability to thrive on this planet will be determined.”

#lsd #bicycle day #albert hoffman #2020 #sandoz #chemistry #acid #lsd 25 #discovery #lucy #blotter art #trippy #psychedelic #history

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Bicycle Day

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On April 19, 1943, chemist Albert Hofmann intentionally experienced the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (#LSD) for the first time, culminating with a historic journey on a bicycle.

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Vintage poster from the first Bicycle Day in San Francisco, celebrating the first LSD trip.

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Hope y'all had a good Bicycle Day 🚲🌈💓