So sorry I missed meeting you and seeing Russ Parsons again. I wanted to also hear all about Rancho PV Fruit Exchange. Would love to chat with you about it!

I went to the LA Community Garden Council Garden Gathering, it was a great event.

“If the youth of today were planting gardens instead of doing drugs, maybe they’d avoid all the gun-related activity as well.” Well… what if you told them they can grow food, clothes, jewelry, AND drugs that (1) AREN’T addictive (2) are in NO way toxic (unless, of course, you’re smoking the plant… one must weigh the benefits and dangers to this for themselves), and (3) are ANCIENT tools to access levels of consciousness otherwise belittled and forgotten in Western culture?

And then there’s the initiation…

“Unlike many commentators, I have no problem with the idea of Adam’s Original Sin (I don’t think Wilber finds it difficult either). Prior to initiation, we all hold the freewill delusion and are thus inherently subject to egoic guilt; we’re inherently then under the condemnation of (virtual, egoic) sin and (ego-) death. During entheogenic initiation, we are cleansed of that (virtual-) sinful mode of thinking, we have died our (ego-) death, have sacrificed our child-self, that sacrifice like that of Abraham’s lamb or the exit-doorway lambs in Egypt cleanses us, and we are no longer subject to (ego-) death and we have eternal (frozen-time) life.”

“Entheogen myth metaphor *is* religious myth, which *is* myth. When myth (inherently entheogenic) is rationally explained, often sounds strained; the goal is not to limit oneself to simple perfect metaphors, but rather, to *describe* loose-cognition experience, often in pointedly challenging and puzzling ways.”

“The main source of all religions and myth is entheogenic — either from entheogens or entheogens combined with techniques of meditation, dance, or ritual.”

–Michael Hoffman

We ARE the plants and we ARE ALLIES!