Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:00:32 -0500
Sent To: AdvancedReikiTopics@yahoogroups.comShamanism: Drumming and/or Drugs By Reverend R Clark <clark@acceleration.net>
Greetings Judith and ALL!At 12:18 AM 11/8/2004, Judith wrote:
“Just say NO to drugs”“I said "no" to drugs, but they just wouldn't listen.”
- No.
- ?“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald“Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.”
- Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey in "Airplane!" Paramount Motion Pictures, 1980“Blacksmith and shaman come from the same nest”
- Yakut proverb“To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life. Spiritual practice can bring us to this awareness without a trip to space.”
- Jack Kornfield in "A Path With Heart"“An Apache trained acquaintance of mine used to throw his head back, laugh into the sky and say - "What will you buy with your attention today?" ”
- Scout Cloud Lee, "The Circle Is Sacred"“Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.”
- Robert Fulghum, "Maybe"“Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.”
- Jean Shinoda Bolen (Close to the Bone)“To my inner perceptions, the whole of creation is constantly in a state of birthing - myriad possibilities, potentials, insights, energies, and qualities are emerging daily - and we are deeply woven into that process as midwives, participants, creations, creatures, and co-creators all rolled into one.”
- David Spangler in Parent as Mystic, Mystic as Parent“The work of religion is to open our eyes to see a world where everything swirls with meaning.”
- Richard Rohr in Quest for the GrailHi Bob, yes indeed,drugs are encouraged in shamanism.We had a woman visit us today that just got back from the amazon. She spent months learning with five shamans. She talks highly about the mind altering drugs they use.
She even went as far as saying that you can't have a 'real' journey/healing without the drugs. When she left the room to go to the restroom, our teacher/leader shaman told us that Mike Harner (core shamanism) who had encountered this drug thing as well found that the proper beating on the drums is all that is needed.
- They are a valid path for some.
“Drumming rhythms can influence the human body because of a phenomenon of nature called entrainment. Entrainment is defined as a synchronization of two or more rhythmic cycles and was first discovered by Dutch scientist Christian Huygens in 1665. While working on the design of the pendulum clock, Huygens found that when he placed two of them on a wall near each other and started them at different times, they would eventually end up ticking in unison. Entrainment has been found to be a universal force in nature and will act on any two or more vibrating bodies as long as they have similar rhythmic cycles <http://www.reiinstitute.com/rei-article.html>.”
- There are many other paths besides auditory driving, although drumming Is my favorite.
I will stick with that. I don't want to use mind altering drugs. I hold the amazon shamans in high esteem but one can do shamanism without the drugs.That is what I concluded.I have taken jouneys that were amazing and no drugs were used.
- In other ways auditory there are many stock, off the rack, brainwave entrainment musics available ones like Hemi-Sync or Steven Halpern - I've Loved Spectrum Suite especially for years, and here is a kule new release or most anything else he's done from Inner Peace Music and here is a link to a new style that doesn't rely so heavily on headphones. I Love the Hemi-Sync. Especially the ones for delta wave sleep, for the times I really need to get Deep rest. Also, ones based on the heartbeat are sweet, harkening back to early memories in the womb clear up to the moment. Thanks and Praises.
- Holosync®; and REI have off the shelf stuff and custom, tailor-made, affirmations in your own voice, one-o-a-kind kind a deals, there. Holosync® will let you listen on-line free with hype and send you a free sample CD if you answer a questionnaire a givem your eddress and your address.
- If you are into technical stuff like recording there's a software program that will encode the brainwave entrainment binaural beats into what ever foreground music you wish to use. Shareware it costs about a hundred dollars US to register it and it is downloadable for un-crippled trial from. The binaural beats are barely noticeable if at all, so your favorite music comes through just fine with the added payload of brainwave entrainment to a particular state.
- I channel Reiki through acoustic instruments played with the hands. Percussion and tuned percussion for the most part. I also recognize that accurate speakers and modern recording methods are getting closer to the ideal of acoustic instruments and have therapeutic value as well.
- "Nada Brahma" Sanskrit for "The World IS Sound" pretty much bottom lines this facet of my practice. Color and light is a kule vibe of a more frequent sort, as is Reiki and Prayer. These modalities are all connected in my way of thinking, part and parcel, All is sound and music hung on a field of silence and utter stillness, the center of the wheel where motion ceases, Source.
- These materials are not risk free. They can combine with foods and medications to produce dangerous side effects and this is true of things far more common. In and of themselves the dosages are often calibrated in less than a milligram and so present low impact to the body. Interestingly, it seems that rather than producing a state of seeing things that are not there, Entheogens are powerful allies that permit a lifting of the veil to see more clearly into the inner working of things. It's been described as a bit like climbing a tall tree to orient oneself in terms of the "Big Picture." Mindset and setting are ostensibly crucial to all such endeavors of Spirit. Because back in the day when LSD was legal and experiments were run with Divinity students, ALL of the ones in the study had visionary religious experiences. It seems desirable to employ some means that works to get us out of the state where we are entranced with our illusions (what is termed "ordinary reality") into a visionary state that is if anything More Real. How you get to the "commanding view" at the top of the tree or the "summit" of the proverbial mountain with many paths to the top, seems trivial.
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
- Benjamin Franklin“It's not how high you are, it's "Hi, how are you?"”
- Mike Sugarbaker“A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an a$$hole.”
- Frank Zappa“I don't take drugs: I am drugs.”
- Salvador Dali (Spanish painter and sculptor)“One of my psychedelic excursions had gotten off to a bad start, and I was sinking into a really satanic bummer. As I looked about me at people turning evil, shrunken, colorless, old, and weird, I suddenly thought, "Well, what did you think it was that needed to be loved?" And just like that the doors opened and I was in paradise. ’No resistance’. This does not mean that you must be physically passive or meekly put up with bad vibrations or rip-offs. This means no resistance in your mind. Be free in your head, act out of love, and do what feels good. There is no action that is always right or wrong the only true variable is the love with which you act. As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox the more you open your consciousness, the fewer unpleasant events intrude themselves into your awareness.”
-Thaddeus Golas, "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment"“MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.”
- Doug Ferrari“When I was young we didn't have MTV; we had to take drugs and go to concerts.”
- Steven Pearl“This is Frank Zappa saying, Don't do speed. Speed turns you into your parents.” (this used to play Often as a public service announcement <PSA> on radio station WHFS at 102.5 FM in Bethesda, MD, USA, during the early '70's. It was followed by a nearly inaudible whisper, “...but grass and acid are O.K.,” which may have been Frank, or one of the Mothers of Invention.)
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
- Hunter S. Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005)“A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.”
- Hunter S. Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) (as quoted by William F. Buckley, Jr., who added: “Though one should be prepared to vomit rather frequently and disport with pink elephants and assorted grotesqueries while trying, often unsuccessfully, to make one's way to the toilet.”)“Better living through chemistry.”
- Dow Chemical advertisement“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.”
- Matt Lauer, on NBC's Today show“Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
- Abbie Hoffman“I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.”
- Richard Nixon, as US President" “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz.”
- Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"“Comin' into Los Angeles, Bringin' in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please, Mr. Customs Man.”
- Arlo Guthrie, "Comin' into Los Angeles"“But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.”
- Bob Dylan, "Rainy Day Women Numbers 12 & 35"“When you smoke herb it reveals you to yourself.”
- Bob Marley“Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now, I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.”
- Bob Marley“We're pro-choice. We think everyone should have the right to smoke pot or not.”
- Floyd "Bud" Gaugh (founding member of Sublime)“Electrical banana is gonna be a sudden craze. Electrical banana is gonna be the very next phase. They call it Mellow Yellow....”
- Donovan "Mellow Yellow"“Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.”
- Freewheelin' Franklin, one of Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers“Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them.”
- George Andrews, "Drugs and Magic"“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall.”
“Remember what the doormouse said, Feed your head!.”
- Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"“We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.”
- Jerry Garcia“Out here on the perimeter there are no stars, out here we is stoned, immaculate.”
- Jim Morrison“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”
- Jim Morrison“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
- Jim Morrison“Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.”
- Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze"“Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.”
- Jimi Hendrix, in his cover of "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan“Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.”
- Jimi Hendrix“I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.”
- Frank Zappa (From the second of two FZ interviews which were transcribed from an imported CD called "The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk" Conducted sometime in early to mid 1984)“I watched the needle take another man.”
- Neil Young, "The Needle and the Damage Done"“It's better to burn out than fade away.”
- Neil Young“He'll fly his astral plane, takes you on a trip around the bay, brings you back the same day, Timothy Leary....”
- Moody Blues, "Legend of a Mind"“The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better when shared with friends. You can't get really high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilerates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts.”
- Stephen Gaskin“We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the grasslands of Africa, people not on drugs were behind the curve. The fact is that, in terms of human evolution, people not on psychedelics are not fully human. They've fallen to a lower state, where they're easily programmed, boundary defined, obsessed by sexual possessiveness which is transferred into fetishism and object obsession. We don't want too many citizens asking where the power and the money really goes. Informed by psychedelics, people might stop saluting. "Take your political party, your job, whatever, and shove it.”
- Terence McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) "Tripping"“I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.”
- Terence McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) "Tripping"“I get by with a little help from my friends, get high with a little help from my friends.”
- The Beatles
, With a Little Help From My Friends“Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona, for some California Grass.”
- The Beatles, "Get Back"“Drivin' that train, high on cocaine.”
- The Grateful Dead, "Casey Jones"“What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same. Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine; All a friend can say is, "Ain't it a shame?.”
- The Grateful Dead, "Truckin' "“My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”
- Timothy Leary, "The Politics of Ecstacy"“Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.”
- Timothy Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996)“His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways... while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.”
- Tom Wolfe, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968)“If the door of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to a man as it is, infinite.”
- William Blake“We could jam in Joe's garage, we didn't have no dope or LSD, but a coupl'o'quarts o'beer, would fix it so the intonation, would not offend your ear.”
- Frank Zappa, "Joe's Garage"“Who are the brain police?”
- Frank ZappaWhy do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?
“To me, cigarettes are food.”
- Frank Zappa (Response to an assertion that his nicotine habit conflicted with his anti-drug stance)“I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.”
- Frank ZappaEver notice that people who spend money on beer, cigarettes, and lottery tickets are always complaining about being broke and not feeling well?
“You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
- Frank Zappa“I bet if you reached total enlightenment while drinking beer, it would make beer squirt out your nose.”
- Jack Handey“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
- Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist and theorist (July 26, 1875 – 1961)“One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.”
- Howard Da Silva as Bartender Nat in The Lost Weekend" Paramount, 1945“You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.”
- Dean Martin“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink I feel shame.
Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams.
If I didn't drink this wine, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered.
Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver." ”
- Jack Handey“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”
- Frank Sinatra“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
- Henny Youngman“24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.”
- Stephen Wright“When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!”
- Brian O'Rourke“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”
- Dave Barry“To some! it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a can!”
- Dave Howell“Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”
- John Ratzenberger (as Cliff Clavin, in the TV Sitcom Cheers)" “Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.”
“Reality is for people that can't handle drugs.”
“It's better to have something to remember than nothing to regret...”
“Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, and then again, neither does milk.”
“I just read that Prozac is no longer the No. 1 selling anti-depressant drug.
That makes me feel sad.”
“I can walk on water, but I stagger on alcohol.”
“Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.”
“Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.”
“I graduated with a 4.0 ... Blood Alcohol level.”
“Alcohol is the cause of some problems and the solution to others.”
“An alcoholic is someone you don't like that drinks as much as you do.”
“A drunk who works at an upholstery shop is a recovering alcoholic.”
“If you can remember the '60s, then you weren't there.”
“LSD melts in your mind, not in your hand.”
“New and Improved TIDE now has LSD. In each box, you get a trip to the Laundromat.”
“Drop Acid, Not Bombs!.”
“I'd be rich if I could invent a pop-top beer can that wives can't hear open.”
“I think that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.”
“When you go to the drugstore, why are the condoms not in with the other party supplies?”
“Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.”
Confusion say: “Man who mixes Rogaine with Viagra will end up hard headed.”
“I don't do drugs anymore 'cause I find I get the same effect just by standing up really fast.”
“I've never had a problem with drugs. There's lots of drugs. I've had problems with the police.”
“I used to do drugs... I still do drugs. But I used to, too.”
Confusion say: “Chemist who fall in acid, get absorbed in work.”
“Whether or not sex is better than pot, depends on the pusher.”
“Beer--->It's not just for breakfast anymore.”
“Beer--->The Reason I Get Up Each Afternoon.”
Confusion say: “Man who smoke pot, choke on handle.”
“I live in my own little world. But it's ok...they know me here.”
Confusion say: “Woman who stand on toilet is high on pot!”
“If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.”
“Legalize maru...mawa...moua...mawo...ummm...Pot.”
“12 months of drinking low-calorie beer is 1 Lite year.”
“People who drink light ’beer’ don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot.”
Confusion say: “Sex on beach is like American beer, very near water.”
“God made pot. Man made beer...Who do you trust?”
“Never smack a man who's chewin' tobacco.”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.”
Confusion say: “Couple who cross LSD with birth control pills, get a trip without the kids.”
“Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.”
“The probability of forgetting something is directly proportional to ....
to .... uh .... oh never mind”WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may:
- lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.
- create the illusion that you are tougher, smarter, faster and better looking than most people.
- cause you to think you can sing.
- cause pregnancy.
- cause you to tell your friends over and over again that you love them.
- make you think you can logically converse with members of the opposite sex without spitting.
- make you think you are whispering when you are not.
- leave you wondering what the hell happened to your…
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Tequila Cake Recipe
(Be sure to read the entire recipe before starting!)1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
4 large eggs
Nuts
1 bottle tequila
2 cups of dried fruitSample the tequila to check quality. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.
At this point it's best to make sure the tequila is still OK. Try another cup... just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the dang fruit up off floor. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver. Sample the tequila to check for tonsistikity. Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something.
Check the tequila. Now shift the lemon juice and add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window. Finish the tequila and wipe counter with the cat.
And then start drinking plenty of water.
Related:
Drumming 'n Drugs
Drumming As A Form of Prayer by Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi Awatisgi)
Drumming Peace One Oh One
Drum Reiki
Drums: How they beat stress by By Ann Trieger Kurland
Finding Healing Music in the Heart by Corey Kilgannon
Healing, Drumming & Praying by Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi Awatisgi)
Melodic Instruments at Drum Circles
Sound
Prayer
Shamanism: Drumming and/or Drugs
Voices at Drumcircles: Testimony and Theories
