#mike jay

[memoriae-lectoris]

In 1620 the Mexican Inquisition declared peyote a “heretical perversity… opposed to the purity and integrity of our Holy Catholic faith,” making it the first drug ever to be outlawed in the Americas—thereby launching the first battle in the war against certain plants that continues to this day.

The gravity with which the authorities treated peyote is plain from its inclusion on the list of questions priests put to penitent Indians to judge the state of their souls:

Art thou a sooth-sayer? . . .

Dost thou suck the blood of others?

Dost thou wander about at night, calling upon demons to help thee?

Hast thou drunk peyote, or given it to others to drink, in order to discover secrets . . . ?

Between 1620 and 1779, the Inquisition brought ninety cases against users of peyote in forty-five locations in the New World. The records of those cases suggest that raíz diabólica, the “diabolic root,” was used in one of two ways.

In the first, a curandero, or shaman, would use peyote for the purpose of healing or divination. According to Mike Jay, the author of Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic, “the clairvoyant power of the peyote trance was used to reveal the location of a missing object, the cause of an illness, the source of a bewitching, prognostication of weather or the outcome of battles.” Peyote brought knowledge that could help solve problems.

The second use was collective and ceremonial: missionaries reported scenes in which whole villages would sing and dance all night long under the influence of peyote. “To the hostile eyes of priests and missionaries these ‘feasts’ were no more than drunken orgies,” Jay writes. “More sympathetic witnesses would reveal them as ritual practices of astonishing complexity, woven deep into the fabric of the participants’ lives.”

#peyote #drugs #medication #17th century #1620s #inquisition #18th century #mike jay #racism #first nations #book : your mind on plants #mexico

[porgenspengler]

Made this as a joke to explain my thesis topic to my buddy

#rlm #rlmblr #red letter media #mike stoklasa #jay bauman #sillyposting

[thesparhawke]

'To comprehend the ravings of a madman,' he [Jacque-Joseph Moreau] wrote, 'it is necessary to have raved oneself, but without having lost the awareness of one's madness, without having lost the power to evaluate the psychic changes occurring in the mind.'

Mike Jay, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic

#mike jay #Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic #quote #lit #jacque joseph moreau #madness

[surviving-misfortunes]

Happy Fuck You It's January!

#rlm #jay bauman #mike stoklasa #red letter media #its not quite new year my time but i need to get my posts out <3

[jxitrash]

Ennard! My beloved!

#five nights at freddy's #fnaf fanart #fnaf ennard #molten freddy #michael afton #fnaf 6 #five nights at freddy's sister location #freddy fazbear's pizzeria simulator #fnaf sl #fnaf pizzeria simulator #fanart #digital art #jai's trash #artists on tumblr #drawing ennard without his mask is more fun than it should be #I DREW THIS NEARLY A YEAR AGO HOW IM JUST NOTICING MIKE'S MISSING FOOT

[fuckthatroomupgood]

they should invent a Pulitzer category for YouTube descriptions and give it to Mike Stoklasa every year

#red letter media #neil breen #rlm #rlmblr #mike stoklasa #jay bauman #rich evans #best of the worst #i MUST fuck him

[redlettermediathings]

The dead don't die. No one is ever really gone. Etc.

#redlettermedia #jay bauman #rich evans #half in the bag #red letter media #gorilla interrupted #best of the worst #mike stoklasa #jackpackard #jack packard #stan lee #james dean

[mystycor]

Why don't you get it? Can't you get it? Understand.

#skully #mh skully #mike mh #mh #marble hornets #slenderverse #the operator #slenderman #jay mh #jay merrick #jessica locke #digital sketch #drawing #my artwork #creepypasta

[twixnmix]

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC photographed by Glen E. Friedman in New York City, 1987.

#beastie boys #run dmc #1987 #nyc #1980s #adrock #mca #mike d #rev run #jam master jay #dmc #1980s fashion #1980s music #hiphop #hip-hop

[modest-babie]

Sooo.. is there a discord server where ya'll talk or ? 😳

#mikejay #mike stoklasa #jay bauman #mike jay #i'm desperate

[littlemisstired]

i did this i think back in 2021 or so but i never posted it here on THE RLM fan site. Fucking flintstones lookin ass boys

#my art #red letter media #rlm #mike stoklasa #jay bauman

[blasto-the-hanar-specter]

What a cute and neat little slice of RLM history.

#look at Mike's drawings #so cute! #hes got the stink lines and everything #also the signatures #rich's is so pretty #rlm #rlmblr #red letter media #mike stoklasa #rich evans #jay bauman

[verklemmteastwood]

remember when they fixed vcrs? i don’t

anyways, imagining hitb as a clerks-style cartoon was a lot of fun and i really wanna do more with this

#art tag #red letter media #mike stoklasa #jay bauman #rich evans #mr. plinkett

[surviving-misfortunes]

Lightning Fast VCR Employee En-snoopification

#rlm #red letter media #jay bauman #mike stoklasa #redlettermedia #fanart #rlmblr #my art #sorry i was gonna draw the background but decided to post as is for now #if i work on it later ill repost it i suppose #snoopy

[lunabug2004]

There really is no straight explanation for this look.

or this whole range of expressions (the eyebrow raise?!)...

Or... y'know... any time this boy looks at Will Byers at all...

Okay this could go on forever so I'll stop here but... Mike Wheeler, the closet is glass.

#like idk bout yall but i dont look at my bestie like this #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #mike wheeler i know what you are #byler is canon #mike wheeler is in love with will byers #mike wheeler is not straight #mike wheeler is a boy kisser #there's no other explanation #Jay's saying stuff :) #Jay's talking ST <3

[ryujibauman]

It's Christmas🎅🎄❄️☃️🎁🦌

#rlm #rlmblr #redlettermedia #mike stoklasa #jay bauman #is jack stinky are there not enough seat space #cute sweater jay too bad you're not in the panel to show it off