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THE ENTHEOGEN REVIEW
The Journal of Unauthorized Research on Visionary Plants and Drugs

Volume XI, Number 4
Winter Solstice 2002
ISSN 1066-1913
CONTENTS
The Journal of Unauthorized Research

on Visionary Plants and Drugs
Editor:
David Aardvark
Technical Editor: K. Trout

Copy Editor: E.V. Love
Contributors
Jon Hanna
Mark Pesce
Richard Glen Boire
L.E.G., NH
Theodore Genisis
C.E.G., ID
E.N., CA
K. Trout
Anonymous
Anonymous
P.G., Kent
David Aardvark
Anonymous
Gwyllm Llwydd
A Year of Trips & Tripping

Year of Jubilee
Pharmaco Prohibita
Network Feedback
Extraction Devices
Amanita Strength and Cultivation
Searching for Books
Darkroom Meditation
Acacia rigidula?
Catha edulis, Cathinone, and Methcathinone
Steam Distillation, Enemas, and Morning Glory Prep.
Mind Machines
Ayahuasca Snuff Documented
Homegrown in Britain?
Sacred Mushrooms in the USA
Events Calendar
Source
Book Reviews
Bibliography
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WINTER SOLSTICE 2002

by Jon Hanna
Various offers to speak at psychedelic-related
ARIZONA
gatherings, as well as the M IND S TATES III
Destination: the Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) conference, held

every other year in Tucson, Arizona, and the concurrent annual meeting of the
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC). Amongst consciousness studies aficionados, there is a sizable undercurrent of folks who are clearly
interested in firsthand psychonautical explorations. And, as is usually the case at
such events, the most fun was in meeting and hanging out with others in attendance. Whether it was discussing psychopharmacology over drinks at the hotel
bar, or sampling Datura smoking blends under a warm summer nights sky at the
End of Consciousness party, it is the interaction that makes these events great.
Of course, there were numerous presenters who shone as well. At TSC, Susan
Blackmores riffing on the contents of consciousness was particularly
enjoyable, as was a dinner discussion with her about her disillusionment with
parapsychology research. Blackmore, author of The Meme Machine (see
www.susanblackmore.co.ik), was a firecracker whom I am happy to say agreed to
be the M.C. for the Mind States IV conference in Berkeley, May 2325, 2003.
Other stand-outs were Rodney Brooks on robotics, Ray Kurzweil on artificial
intelligence, and V.S. Ramachandran on the neurology of aesthetics. My own
presentation, which was to be a slide-show on psychedelic art, was marred by the
fact that event organizers failed to provide a slide projector! Nevertheless, the
talk went over well to a packed house.
conference that I produced in Jamaica, kept me

trotting the globe at a more rapid pace than I am
used to. Due to this, I got a first-hand look at the
new security measures in place at various
airports in the USA. I suppose that I tend to fit
the stereotype of a drug user, more so than a
terrorist. From the number of times that I was
searched, I am beginning to think that I might as
well wear a T-shirt that says profile me on it
whenever I travel by air. (Come to think of it,
maybe everyone should wear these shirts when
hitching a ride on an airplane.) On my first voyage
to Jamaica, when leaving from the Sacramento
International Airport, they searched through all
of my bags and made me take off my shoes. No
problem. Then they did the whole process a
second time, right before I was about to board
the plane. Amazingly, it was the same woman
who took my shoes the second time, and I
remarked, What, did you do a shoddy job
before? This time, they found a $50.00
microtorch lighter in my carry-on bag, which they
confiscated. I guess that they thought I was gonna
hijack the plane with a tiny flame. (Oddly, they
let regular butane lighters on without any
problem, so I guess that in order to be a threat,
youve gotta have a very hot tiny flame.) On the
At SACwhich focused on the Dark Side of Consciousnesshighlights included

individual presentations and a panel discussion on Datura, featuring John Baker,
John McCloy, Leslie M. McQuade, and Robert Rio Hahn, as well as a wonderful slide-show of sacred sites by Stanley Krippner and Adam Fish, and a
humorous presentation related to first-person encounters with the psychic
Reverend Carrie, as told by Tim Lavalli.
I can heartily recommend that one attend both the TSC and SAC events.
way back from Jamaica, there was a really long

escalator down to the baggage claim area, with
a cop and drug-sniffing dog at the bottom. I guess
they want to give someone a lot of time for the
bullets of sweat to bead up on his or her forehead.
Since I wasnt carrying anything illegal, I gave
the dog some friendly pats on the head, and the
cop quickly ushered me past.
Outside the USA, airport security was much less
uptight about it all, again showing how ironic it
is that America claims to be the land of the free.
JAMAICA
While planning the Mind States Jamaica seminar, I heard the oft-repeated
rumor that Jamaica was too dangerous of a destination to hold such an event.
(In many cases, when asked, the person offering cautionary advice had never
actually been to Jamaica, but was merely repeating the same story that was
making the rounds.) Of course, it seemed most reasonable to actually take a
scouting mission to the island and see for myself.
After arriving at Montego Bay, the picturesque drive to Negril was about 1.5 hours.
And, as I expected, the island was gorgeous. There were many dilapidated shacks
along the drive, where nature was in the process of reclaiming that which man
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had built. Cows and goats occasionally roamed free and

crossed the road in front of traffic. There appeared to be no
laws against having open containers of alcohol in vehicles,
and I enjoyed a couple of cold beers on the way to the resort.
(Beer choices seemed to be limited to the Jamaican Red
Stripe and Red Stripe Lite, along with Heineken and
Guinness.) The driver was very friendly, shouting out to
numerous people that we passed.
The resort where the seminar was to be held is just past Lucea
at the start of Negril on Bloody Baya bit removed from the
center of town. The place was beautiful: huts on stilts, lush
vegetation, lizards, mongooses, a pool with a swim-up bar
to serve various tasty mixed drinks, mango trees, palms, the
beach access across the street with white sand, very warm
blue water, and a grill and bar for lunch. For people who have
been to the Palenque Entheobotany seminars and to the
Hawaiian AllChemical Arts seminar, this location captured an atmosphere that combined the best of both of these
other locales.
On the way into town, jerk chicken stands peppered the
roads. At Ms. Browns, Jennys Cafe, and Tedds toward
the west end, I noted that space cake and/or mushroom
tea was available. (Tedds seemed to garner the most praise
from the locals.) While cruising the beach, a couple of
friendly entrepreneurs approached me to see if I might be
interested in purchasing any of their mind-altering wares.
There certainly appeared to be plenty of Cannabis and hash
available. During my short stay on the island, three people
I met offered to take me on tours of their ganja gardens.
In the evenings, I caught some reggae bands performing on
the beach.
I didnt get any sort of vibe that Negril was particularly
dangerous; on the contrary, it seemed highly geared toward
tourism. The only time I experienced a strong sense of paranoia was while riding in a cab that was going way too fast for
the road it was on. (Add to this that they drive on the left of
the road there and that I had smoked a lot of dope that day,
and I was quite glad to finally have my feet back on the ground
at the resort.) It is true that a lot of hustlers tried to sell me
drugs, jewelry, hair-braiding, blow jobs, massages, and anything else they could think of. It is a poor country, and the
tourists are frequent marks for this sort of activity. But the
location was beautiful and seemed quite appropriate for
the event; I decided to go ahead with the Mind States III
conference there, and was looking forward to returning.
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SILVIA POLIVOY, ZOE SEVEN, and PABLO AMARINGO

at the AYAHUASCA HEALING RETREAT in Brazil
BRAZIL
I was pleased to be one of the presenters at an Ayahuasca
Healing Retreat (www.ayahuasca-healing.net) seminar
near Manaus. At the event I gave a talk on art, as well as a
talk on Salvia divinorum. I also lead several group sessions
with this plant, using an oral tincture and/or a 10X standardized extract. The sessions were set up in the evenings,
and the following day there was group sharing. While some
people did not have very strong effects, I was a bit surprised
to learn that some of the people who had taken the tincture
and were having very strong and unpleasant effects, still asked
for some of the 10X extract to smoke on top of this! One
woman had a very touching experience of reliving a childhood trauma from the perspective of her brother. Another
woman was ecstatic that she finally had some visions, which
the ayahuasca hadnt been providing her. One man felt as
though he was repeatedly being crushed under a steamroller.
The ayahuasca sessions were tough on me physically, with

flu-like symptoms, overheating, nausea, vomiting, and generally feeling crappy. At least for myself, traditional
ayahuasca feels much more toxic than those analogues that
I have done and enjoyed. After two of the four sessions, I
had had enough. However, this allowed me to act as a sitter
outdoors, for those who wanted to momentarily escape the
circle and get some fresh air or enjoy the amazing star-filled
night sky. We were blessed at the final ayahuasca voyage to
have former shaman Pablo Amaringo present, and he sung
icaros throughout the sessionsomething that he hasnt
done for perhaps 20 years! I felt very luck to have been able
to spend this time with Pablo, who also provided art
instruction during the days.
The Amazon in Brazil is incredible. A guide led us through
the forest and taught us about various medicinal plants. At
night we took a boat ride through the trees (at this time of
year, the river is so high that it floods the jungle), and the
guide jumped from the boat, caught an alligator, and
wrestled it on board! Some of the attendees went fishing for
piranhas, pulling fish out as fast as they could hook the lines
with fresh chunks of meat. Due to the ayahuasca diet, our
meals were not particularly spicy, but there was a bounty of
freshly caught fish every day to eat.
Event organizer and psychotherapist Silvia Polivoy, who
is convinced of the healing power of ayahuasca, made herself available throughout the week for anyone who felt
the need to speak privately about his or her session. Other
presenters included the artist Isabella Hartz, EEG
researcher Frank
Echenhofer, and
techno-shaman Zoe
Seven. Id definitely
recommend these
seminars to people
with an interest in
ayahuasca or in visiting the Amazon.
A view from our

transport boat.
At other times
of the year, the
water level is lower,
and this area is a
footpath.
One of the three monkeys that kept us company at the resort.
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ENGLAND
While in Brazil, I was fortunate to befriend an Australian living in London, who offered a place for my wife and me to
stay when we stopped over there on our way to Portugal. I
had heard before leaving for England that they had recently
decriminalized Cannabis there, and there were rumors that
coffeeshops similar to those in Amsterdam were popping
up. I wasnt able to locate any hard data before leaving

regarding exactly where I could find such shops, but I did get
some tips on where to score on the street from e-mail pals
that live in the area. On arrival, I learned that Cannabis had
not yet been rescheduled to Class C (this will occur in July
2003). The change in the law will mean that police will no
longer have to arrest someone who is smoking a joint, but
rather they can confiscate the drug and issue a warning or
perhaps a summons to court. (They still can make an arrest,
if they feel that the situation warrants it.) Nevertheless, the
word we got from friends was that some liquor stores were
selling Cannabis under the counter, if you knew to ask.
Clearly there is a much more relaxed attitude, knowing that
personal use will not be punished harshly in the future. Indeed, when we went to Camden Streeta hipster spot to
shopwe stumbled onto a shop where a cardboard sign
above the door offered Cannabis Tea and Mushroom Tea.
When we squeezed into the packed headshop, folks were
lighting up joints around a tiny table while drinking their
tea. I asked how strong the mushroom tea was, and the
guy behind the counter responded, How strong do you want
it? (They would make it as strong as I liked, but the price
went up commensurately.) We instead opted for a couple of
cups of Cannabis tea. There was plenty of shake prepackaged
in teabags for sale. But the real score was dime-bags in
Ziploc baggies. 10.00 got us what appeared to be around
a gram of very high-quality green bud. They were obviously
selling a lot of these, as the counter was constantly buzzing
with traffic. We sat down to enjoy our tea and I rolled a couple
of fatties, marveling at the civility of it all. Later on the street,
I spotted some teenagers drinking beers without getting
hassled. Not only are there no laws against having open containers of alcohol in public outdoors, but the drinking age
would appear to be 16 years old. (At least, at one pub we
visited, there was a sign up saying that they wouldnt serve
anyone under 16.) The absurdity of the Amerikan slogan
land of the free certainly hits home when one travels to
other countries. And then we were off again
PORTUGAL
Stopped in front of the AMSTERDAM OF LONDON

headshop/coffeeshop at 244 Camden High Street.
The makeshift cardboard sign above my head advertised
Cannabis Tea and Mushroom Tea.
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BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Into the belly of the beast.

Ground-zero, center of the floor, lights flickering behind
closed eyes, bodies moving as one organism to the music
blasting from stacked speakers When in that space, can
anyone question whether or not dance can be a primary religious experience? The BOOM Festival, like similar gatherings worldwide, acts as the containera sacred meeting
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other peoples garbage when throwing out my own, I thought

of how desperately this festival needs to embrace the Mans
leave no trace policy. On the flip side, encouraging vending allowed for a long row of booths offering art, massage,
Cannabis seeds, smart drinks, clothing, jewelry, pipes, and
sundry handmade crafts.
ALEX GREY sketches ERIK DAVIS as we wait for our planes.
ground for a new breed of spiritual converts hooking into

the group consciousness of shared God-mind. But it aint all
about the dancing
Nestled in the hills of Portugal near the Spanish boarder, a
magical tent city is built for a few days every two years. Its
hard to avoid comparisons to Burning Manin some ways
it seems better, in others worse. While the Man is about
radical self-expression, the BOOM seems more unified. The
Portuguese attendees are physically beautiful people. And
while frequently scantily-clad, they primarily are wearing
clothes, unlike at the Man. This lends itself toward a cohesive style of dress, typified by brand names such as Space
Tribe, with fractal mushrooms, spin-offs on religious symbols, Celtic knots, etc. The fashion and art of the psy-trance
movement is similar in structure to what was attempted by
the Grateful Deads artists: gather archetypal symbols
from the worlds religions and squash them all together. And
yet somehow it works better with the trance scene. While
these new symbols are clearly rooted in the past, they seem
to have been better channeled via direct experiences with the
hallucinatory overmindlogos manifest in colorful clothing
form.
While self-reliance rules at the Man, BOOMers are treated
to beer booths and food vendors. I have to admit the guilty
pleasure of consumerismpurchasing hot food that I didnt
have to make myself was a definite plus. The Man has the
ice thing down better thoughtrying to score ice for a beverage at the BOOM was impossible. The down side to having such vendors was the fact that recycling or even throwing away ones garbage in the ample trash cans was a concept totally lost on many BOOMers. There was a constant
blanket of litter in this area, and as I frequently picked up
The BOOM has a much better grasp on organized information exchange than the Man. Speakers such as myself, Morgan Brent, Erik Davis, Alex Grey, Charles Hayes, Zoe
Seven, and others, presented in the Dynamic Mythologies
Tenta place where one could learn more about experiential aspects of the psy-trance culture, including the visionary
sacraments that inspire some of us. (Personal-use quantities
of drugs are tolerated in Portugal, making this a good location for such a festival.) MAPS had a tent nearby, to help out
those who might be having difficult trips. And in the evening,
psychedelic animation and films were shown by Dr. Spook
and the Liquid Crystal Vision crew. I was a bit surprised
by the festival attendees lack of knowledge regarding those
ERIK DAVIS enjoying a cold European soda.
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drugs that were making the rounds. Several people told me

about the blotter or micro-dot mescaline that they had been
sold (which clearly wasnt mescaline). But the BOOMers
seemed quite eager to learn, and obviously were pleased that
the Tent had been made available for them. All in all, the
BOOM was a blast, and I definitely hope to make it back to
the next one.
Scrambling around the town of Lisbon, the architecture was
incrediblecastles, churches, cobblestone roads. We hit an
open-air market, where artisans were selling their crafts, and
I was immediately entreated to purchase a large bag of green
bud or a sizable chunk of hash for 20.00 euros each. When I
explained that I had to take a plane the next day, and couldnt
possibly smoke through it all, the man trying to sell it to me
didnt like my excuse and kept hassling me. It was heartbreaking to turn him down, since it was about four times as much
as one could have purchased for the same money in the USA.
And he was doggedly persistentmuch more so than anyone I ran into in Jamaica. When he finally took no for an
answer, it wasnt 60 seconds before another gentleman tried
to sell me an even bigger chunk of hasha fucking huge
chunk of hashthe biggest I have ever seen. He similarly
didnt want to hear my excuse as to why I wouldnt be buying it, and kept harassing me to purchase incrementally
smaller amounts of it. After several minutes he finally gave
up on me. Believe me, I wish that I could have bought some
A good spot to score shrooms. Photo by WWW.EROWID.ORG
JAMAICA AGAIN
NEW YORK
I figured that Id head to New York City, to help my brother
build a house in the woods. While there, I got the opportunity to go to an opening for an Alex Grey art show at the
Tibet House. (The show is running through January 3, 2003;
see www.tibethouse.org for more details.) The size of Alexs
work always blows me away. I got the chance to meet Julie
Holland, author of Ecstasy: The Complete Guide, who was
also in attendance. And then I hooked up with Charles
Hayes, author of Tripping, and we headed down to a beer
bar where we discussed psychedelics with a couple that we
had met at the opening. Overall it was a nice diversion from
hectic planning for the Mind States Jamaica event that was
just around the corner.
The Mind States III conference was enjoyable from many

more perspectives than I have space to get into here. Let me
conclude this travelog with a couple of stories related to two
of the speakers at this event.
Jonathan Ott: Recently traveling from Spain to Germany,
Jonathan got held up at Customs. It seems as though they
were curious about his slide carousel (he had been presenting a talk about coca and cocaine), and they noticed that a
number of slides that have pictures of crack rocks on them
or something similar.
Agent: What are these pictures of?
Jonathan Ott: Cocaine and coca plants.
Agent: Are you involved with drugs?
Jonathan Ott: Yes.
Agent: Are you currently on any narcotics?
Jonathan Ott: Yes. I took some painkillers for a tooth
problem.
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With that answer, the officials made it clear that Jonathan

needed to submit to a full-body X-ray, and if he didnt agree
to this, things would not go so well for him. Since he wasnt
a mule, the X-ray went off fine and they had to begrudgingly
let him go.
Richard Glen Boire: A guy had contacted me via e-mail
asking if he could purchase a ticket for a single talkone
that Richard was givingat the Mind States Jamaica conference. Since a couple of other people had asked me about
possibly buying single talk tickets to Alex Greys presentation, this request didnt seem that odd. However, when this
guy showed up with a buddy, they had narc written all over
them. The talk that they bought tickets for was titled
Rastafarians: Friendly Pot heads or The Next Al Quada?
Perhaps two-thirds of the way into the talk, someone asked,
Um what does any of this have to do with the Al Quada?
and Richard responded that his title was a joke, and that he
had thought that as the event producer, I would have retitled
his talk. (Not getting his joke, I left the title as he proposed
it.) His talk had nothing to do with terrorism. At this point,
one of the two guys who had paid specifically for his talk was
heard to exclaim, I fucking came all the way from the USA
for this shit! At which point they both got up and left. While
no one can say for certain why these guys were at Richards
talk, it would certainly seem as though the US government
must be scanning the web for any mention of Al Quada
and then sending agents to check things out.
JONATHAN OTT explains the neuroprotective

and nootropic effects of nicotine.
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Continuing Perspectives on Altered Consciousness
MAY 2325, 2003

Celebrating the 60th anniversary
of the discovery of the psychoactive effects of LSD!
Held at the INTERNATIONAL HOUSE in Berkeley, CA
for details on this event as they become available, see:
www.erowid.org/mindstates
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Year of Jubilee
by Mark Pesce for James Kent and Daniel Pinchbeck
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,
and ye shall return every man unto his family. Leviticus XXV:10
or its not, which means everything Ive ever thought or believed for the last 30 years has been some sort of joke, the
kind of practical joke that leaves you, broke & high dancing
naked at the foot of a Mayan pyramid on the Winter Solstice
of 2012, expecting that moment of perfect alignment when
the cosmic ray will sweep down and brush it all away, sans
teeth, sans eyes, sans truth, sans everything. A second
childhoods end.
I go too fastprobably the drugs coming onso let me step
back and walk into this territory: gently, slowly cherishing
the burning embers and broken glass, the clasped hands and
lovers looks, the simple and increasingly the complex, and
get some understanding which will, for now, have to stand
in for wisdom.
And give it to you in pieces, thought-bites, images plus time:
there is no essential sequence; one before another, one follows another, like pearls on a string, each complete, beautiful, identical, and only time to separate one from another,
but nothing about them, (nothing important anyway), says
anything but one thing, an arrow drawn tight in its bow,
pointed perfectly upward along the tangent ray infinity.
The same place where, in a moment, I believe, the Summum
Bonum, Elixir of the Metals, and true Philosophers Stone will
pound down to Earth. And put this way, I can relate the
strange eventful history of my 50 years as a series of lightning strikes in a roiling darkness, seeming to come ever closer
to the mark.
The last of thesethe Blast to Pleaseentirely holy fire, divine current a carrier wave for a more universal symbol than
the stuttered phonemes issuing from sunburned & blistered
lips, more meaningful than answered prayers which if
thoughtfully obeyed would leave one world and the second
and the third wiped out in an orgasm of hatred, more timely
than sperm meeting egg, the perfect and logical conclusion

to the Birth of Form, the arc stretching up across 12 billion
years, from bang to burst.
Or so I keep telling myself. And I know, having been informed
in college long ago (one of the only things I learned there)
that true is only true if it remains true after youve stopped
telling yourself what true is.
Listen: theres but a few moments left. No time for transcendence no time like the present. After which therell be no
more time.
And here, in the bandgap between chaos and eternity, in this
dense and active zone, everything has become so overloaded
that even the simplest words have wriggled free from their
moorings in the safe port of meaning, and every story so
transmitted tells a universal tale.
Stately, plump, buck naked, I was from my mothers womb
untimely ripd, an ill-starred child who kills his mother, and
I did the doctors work, gutting myself into orphanage with
a hideous episiotomy, rent a central artery and exsanguinated, slipping away before I had ever been lifted to breast.
Life is death, life is pain, and if I could never quite feel the
guilt of my own impertinence, neither would I bask in her
unconditional love.
Passed hand-to-handed off through a small forest of relatives,
each who gave me a little something: lemon cookies, a whispered prayer, and a swift backhand. Faint praise and a big
party to celebrate my exodus.
To Carthage then I cameDelenda est Carthagothe city set
on a hill as an example for all others to see. Look upon us, it
cried, with the voice of vainglory, for we are important. We
are all importance: that not contained within us is not worth
knowing. Everywhere the center, all and everything.
Here the Academy with its bright lights, the hallowed halls
of the Big City. I sat down at a table with all manner of delights spread before me, sweet confections and hearty meats,
and with an engulfing appetite I ate it all, took it within me,
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and from the first bite began to forget a world beyond these halls, a place outside the City. My food filled me utterly, and if I gave no thought to an existence
apart from this self-evident center of the human world, what did that matter?
I had arrived, received the truth, and been accepted into the mysteries. Worship of the neon night supplanted dedication to the evening star, and the ways
of Man seemed fairer and more beautiful than the logic of nature.
To Carthage then I came, tasted joy in diesel and might, and if not for the light
cast from my shadow, might have remained forever trapped in the Bardo of
the Gods, utterly destroyed in an instant of fire. But this would not be. I woke
up from a fitful sleep and gazed upon the objects of possession, the chains and
keys, leash and collar, and understood I had gloried in the light reflected from
a false Sun, projected through scaffolding and scrims, a stage play of the real.
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And so I passed through refiners fire, and came to know the One. Dross burned
away, the remainder quenched in a baptism of fire, I received the good news
with an open heart and in a moment the world changed, its shifting forms a
landscape of light and shadow, black and white. It only required faith in the
One, and from this all else followed, my foolscap and sackcloth, my crown of
thorns and rosy crossby His stripes I was healed, made complete in a way
the City could not offer. And thus the One became One point, One thought,
One duty, as evident as truth and conspicuous as air. This I grasped, and was
grasped by it, fitted out as a puppet suits its master, for my mouth became a
mouthpiece for the One, my hands His hands, my mind His mind, a slave to
him, honestly and utterly, with the promise of rich reward after a lifetime of
good stewardship.
But though I loved the One, and spoke the words, and did His bidding, beneath my gut a voice cried out in a language nearly forgotten and wholly recognizable: the sound of my soul. Which at first began with the plaintive call of
a longing for appetites unfulfilled, the demon and terror I had put aside when
the One burned through me. Which grew in time to a cry that this was not
enough, or would be only in a complete castration, cock and balls nailed neatly
to the cross, each perfectly at war with the other, and in this delicate balance
the rarest of opportunities: to act, for one moment, from myself, respecting
appetite and adoration, Eros and Agape.
And there could have stalled forever, in the outer chambers of the Temple, but
a stiff prick knows no conscience, has no allegiance to the One, seeking to stab
and stab and stab the wound that bleeds and heals. A moment of heat, and
the fire was gone. I had cut myself off in the spirit only to recover my body,
and years passed before I wondered why not the cross and the cock, thorn and
pricks?
I still have no answer.
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Because I could not believe the One, instead I fell to All, crashlanded Pleiadians with light bodies Gnostic & perfect, teasing the subtle from the rough clay which binds us, spirit and
soul, to the doomed decaying wreck of Earth, invaded by an
army of Martian Greys, Zeta Reticulans, cattle mutilators and
anal probes, black helicopters and a lie so Big none dare speak
its Name.
Light as air, blown back and forth from Pythagoras, Plato,
Hermes Trismegistos, Dee and Blake, Crowley and
Gurdjieff, Drunvalo Melchizedek and Zen Master
Rama, driven hither and yon across a seemingly endless sea
of perfect equanimity, all points equal and superlative, seductive in the apparitions of Angels from the next dimensional plane of existence who needed my help in combating
the Archons of the Demiurge, who needed, like Tinkerbell,
a handclap at the right moment in time to rescue us from
the thunderous approach to the abyss. My eyes, like candy,
looked sweetly upon the Testimony of Sages and Wisdom of
the Prophets.
It was all true, all of it. All of it made up, and perfectly true.
But even so, ridiculous. Closing my mind to the All made
the universe a less interesting place, but with the fog of a trillion truths gone, I knew what I must do: simplify, bring myself back to unadorned essence.
And so I scraped a hovel from hard land, felled the trees and
built a home, everything absolutely direct: food from my
hands to my mouth, heat from the wood I had cut, and an
absolute conviction that confusion arose as the consequence
of connection, and that, in excepting myself from the bounds
of community I would become calm, my perfect nature
revealed in unalloyed solitude.
And thus went mad, or nearly, for when the whine outside
diminished, the voices from the inner world overwhelmed,
amplifying every fear into panic, appetite into unquenchable
hunger, and disappointment into blind fury. My own mind,
companion in my hermitage, at last burst forth in a dark
hallucinatory creativity wherein the very fabric of existence
breathed against my presence in it. And in my darkest hour,
crouched in a fetal ball, she came to me.
What can I say of a daughter of the Gods? That she was fair
and bright as the Sun, dark and brooding as the Seas, quick
as silver and great in battle? Even these do not touch it, for in
her I understood the first and greatest of the mysteries: we
are alone, yet we are with others. To hear her voice, after so
much silence, was like rain in the desert, and brought forth a
life in me I had not suspected: that I could, through another,
be complete.
She took me to her palace, and bade me eat, and from the
moment I tasted her food, time moved awry, neither forward
nor backward, now or later, but an endless present of feasting and merry.
Time forgotten and ten years past, she the same ever-pleasing form, while I grew older and more imbecilic in a
Neverland of pleasures which delight the body and never
touch the soul. Life is suffering and I, quite clearly, was not
alive.
The moment of this thought the spell broke. All faded into
the fantastic mist from whence she conjured, and she stood
before me smiling.
You have chosen wisely. But more must come, and more must
pass, before you find your home.
Because of her I could anticipate a world of seductive voices
which promised perfect peace and endless love, stopped my
ears up against the impossible and absolutely believable lies
of perpetual rising, and found somewhere within myself the
power to resist the offering tailor-made to be absolutely irresistible, cursed my appetites and damned the Fates, until,
after a crucifying interval, their chants changed from promises to pleas, from pleas to whispered hopes, and then, thankfully, to silence.
But this was not the half of it. The world had more to offer
me, and made itself plainly heard: these I give you freely
Wisdom and wonder, comfort and power. But one or the
other. Choose! Thus was I torn, as my mind wanted one, my
heart another, and each would have gone their separate ways,
ripping me asunder, if I had not recalled her stern advice:
Both choices true, both choices false, both choices wrong,
both choices right. How then but the Middle Path? I wanted
bothhow I wanted both!and settled for neither, none
the richer, and none the wiser, but more myself.
And now I found myself before a great tree, its root the Earth
itself and branches threading upward to infinity. This tree
contained one fruit, red as sin with spots of pure light,
guarded by a dove and serpent. The dove forbade me eat but
the serpent countered, arguing any price be worth the taste
of such magical food. And I, the perfect fool, swayed by his
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But this mattered little, this was all according to plan, and
against this I had been given sun and moon, wife and daughter, each an emanation of divine love, visible in their eyes,
spoken in their voices, felt in their touch. These I had against
the coming tide, these the pillars to which Id lash myself as
I faced a rising sea of troubles: many comings and goings,
great earthquakes, wars and rumors of wars. I read the end
stories, each and every one, and knew these too would come
to pass.
But how could I escape the attachments of love? Life is death,
life is pain. And so I saw four horsemen in the sky, and the
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last of these, a rider on a pale horse, and his name was Death.
And he brought great pestilence into the world, and a
quarter of mankind died.
It was quick, mercifully quick, Ill grant Him that. No long,
drawn out leave-taking, just high fever and endless sleep.
Would that I could sleep. Instead I watch wife and mother,
child and daughter, lay down, never to rise again. And the
world is plunged into darkness. There is no sleep, there are
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this the end I am to witness, nothing but the stupidity of
death, repeated a billion upon billion times? Are we meant
to exhaust the sea of compassion?
I knew I endured the pain of my attachments, and resented
that I must release my love to release my hatred to release a
miracle.
And so, so slowly, I come to realize that this is the appointed

task, the appointed hour. Without the shock of loss, it could
not possibly be real. The universe risks everything on a single
throw of the dice, sacrificing whatever might be required to
guarantee the bet. We are powerless, perhaps, but not hopeless, and I have a promise to fulfill, even as the promise is
fulfilled.
Or so I keep telling myself.
Moments left. Moments. And I wonder what completion
means, and as the sun rises I start to understand that I too
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Pharmaco Prohibita
by Richard Glen Boire
Control culture seems to be taking a renewed interest in
esoteric visionary plants, with several recent cases foreshadowing potentially darker times to come.
In August 2002, members of the ayahuasca-using religious
group known as the Unio do Vegetal (UDV) won a major
legal victory when a federal court ruled that the groups use
of ayahuasca was likely protected under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). While this was wonderful
news, some of the underlying reasoning in the case was unsound, and has already been used to detrimental effect in
another US case involving an Atlanta man who imported
dried Psychotria viridis and Banisteriopsis caapi vines. Additionally, Salvia divinorum and its active principle salvinorin
A are being targeted by a bill (HR 5607) in the US Congress,
which seeks to place them both into Schedule I. Finally, in
November, the Supreme Court of Holland, ruled that while
living and wet psilocybian mushrooms are legal, dried
mushrooms are illegal.
The UDV case arose after US Customs agents seized several
bottles of ayahuasca imported from Brazil for use by members of a US-based branch of the UDV. Although the government did not file criminal charges, it warned the UDV that if
they imported any more ayahuasca the government would
treat the action as a federal drug offense. The UDV filed a
lawsuit alleging that ayahuasca was not a scheduled substance under US law, and that even if it were considered a
scheduled substance, UDVs use of it was protected by the
First Amendments Free Exercise Clause and by the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
In a 61-page ruling, Judge James Parker of the United States
District Court for the District of New Mexico, found that although the governments actions did not violate the UDVs
free exercise rights under the First Amendment, the seizure
of the churchs sacrament appears to have been in violation
of the RFRA. The RFRA is a federal law passed by Congress
in 1993 for the purpose of providing greater protection to
religious free exercise than even the First Amendment, which
had been significantly watered-down by a 1990 United States
Supreme Court decision. (See Employment Division, Dept. of
Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, 494 US 872 [1990].)
Judge Parker found:
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[The] Government has not shown that applying the [Controlled Substance Acts] prohibition on DMT to the
UDVs use of hoasca furthers a compelling interest. This
Court cannot find, based on the evidence presented by
the parties, that the government has proven that hoasca
poses a serious health risk to members of the UDV who
drink the tea in a ceremonial setting. Further, the Government has not shown that permitting members of the
UDV to consume hoasca would lead to significant diversion of the substance to non-religious use (Unio do Vegetal v. John Ashcroft, 1647 JF/RLF [2002] Opinion, p. 32).
The problem with the ruling was Judge Parkers finding that
ayahuasca was indeed a controlled substance. This is the first
time a court has expressly held that ayahuasca is indeed a
material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains
DMT and is thus within Schedule I. The UDV argued that
such an expansive reading of the material, compound, mixture phrase would lead to absurd results, like outlawing
our own brains, which endogenously contain DMT, and outlawing a host of plants that are generally considered legal.
One way to make sense of the phrase, argued the UDV, was
to interpret it as only applying to synthesized DMT, and not
to DMT that occurs naturally. The legislative history of
DMTs scheduling supports this reading. (Every time that
DMT was discussed, it was in reference to synthetic DMT.)
Judge Parker called these interesting arguments, but he
rejected them. Speaking about DMT-containing Phalaris
grass, Judge Parker explained:
During the hearing, the Plaintiffs presented evidence
showing that certain plants growing in this country, including phalaris grass, contain DMT. The Plaintiffs evidence included a document showing that the United
States Department of Agriculture even recommends using one kind of phalaris for erosion control. The Plaintiffs appear to argue that if people are allowed to grow
phalaris grass for nonreligious reasons, while the UDVs
supply of hoasca is confiscated, this Court should conclude that the federal government must be discriminating against the Plaintiffs on the basis of religion. The
Court does not believe that the evidence about phalaris
would necessarily lead to that conclusion. Individuals
with phalaris grass in their lawns may possess DMT in
some sense. However, if there are no indications that the
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people with phalaris lawns are consuming the grass, law

enforcement might legitimately choose not to prosecute,
for reasons other than that the grass is being used for
the secular purpose of having a lawn. Federal law enforcement entities might prioritize focusing on the UDVs
hoasca use not because the use is religious, but instead
because UDV members make much more extensive use
of hoasca by personally ingesting it than a person with a
phalaris lawn makes the grass. Before their tea was confiscated, UDV officials regularly distributed the tea to
church members for consumption.
The Plaintiffs observe that many plants and animals, including humans, contain DMT; and the Plaintiffs imply
that because the CSA cannot be read to ban humans, that
the statute must apply only to synthetic DMT. [But,] simply because banning humans would be absurd does not
mean that banning any non-synthetic DMT found elsewhere would be absurd.
Some evidence presented at the hearing suggested that nonreligious consumption of plants containing DMT does take
place in the United States. This evidence included materials
taken from the Internetadvertisements for plants containing DMT and testimonials from people claiming to have used
teas similar to hoasca.
With respect to DMT naturally occurring in the human
brain, Judge Parker was of the opinion that this was insufficient to make the law absurd when applied to non-synthetic
DMT found outside of the brain:
Although the UDV ruling concerned ayahuascathe liquid

teaand not the ingredient plants in their living or dried
form, Judge Parkers language has already been read by at
least one federal court judge to apply to plants that naturally
contain DMT such as Psychotria viridis.
Earlier this year, a federal grand jury in Atlanta indicted a
man on charges of illegal importation and possession of
DMT after US Customs confiscated an inbound shipment of
almost 1000 pounds of dried Psychotria viridis and
Banisteriopsis caapi. This was not an extract, or a combined
potion of the two plants. It was simply dried plant material.
When the man correctly moved to dismiss the case on the
ground that neither plant was a controlled substance, his
motion was denied, largely because the judge in the case
misread the UDV ruling as applying not only to prepared
ayahuasca, but also to the bare plants themselves.
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While both the UDV ruling and the Atlanta ruling were from
low-level federal district courts, and hence have little binding precedence value, they are important rulings because
subsequent courts facing similar issues will likely treat these
cases as informative. They could be the first legal footholds
to shutting down commerce in visionary plants that have
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The Atlanta case will play out over the next few months, and
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some similar charges and issues) is set for trial in January,
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Finally, even in Holland, where we have traditionally looked

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EXTRACTION DEVICES
Have you ever done a review of the soxhlet extraction apparatus sold by the Botanical Preservation Corps or the one
called Coldfinger Herbal Extractor sold by the Basement Shaman? Also, I am curious to know what would be
the least complicated or most efficient method of DMT
extraction from Arundo donax or Desmanthus sp. to yield a
smokable product? L.E.G., NH
It first is worth pointing out that the BPC is no longer offering these
units for sale. However, what they were offering was a standard
soxhlet extractor, which can be obtained from other sources (and
generally speaking, at substantially lower prices). ELEMENTAL SCIENTIFIC [POB 571, Appleton, WI 54912-0571, (920) 882-1277,
www.elementalscientific.net] is one place that offers such a device
for about half the cost that the BPC used to charge. Basically, this
device is a reflux extractor (see cover photos on this issue of ER).
The COLDFINGER HERBAL EXTRACTOR (produced by EDEN LABS, see
www.edenlabs.org) may appear different on the surface but it too is
also essentially a modified reflux extractor. It is similar to the old
ISO-II extractor, but uses a different condenser arrangement and is
constructed of different materials. As well, the ISO-II had its own
heat source (a light bulb), whereas with most of the COLDFINGER
devices, one must provide an additional electric heat source. There
are several different COLDFINGER HERBAL EXTRACTOR models, that will
extract different amounts of dried material. EDEN LABS makes the
claim that their lowest-priced model ($300.00) can extract 24 ounces
of material; the high end of this claim is exaggerated, and it can
only do about 2 ounces or so.
It has been rumored that people who have purchased products in
the past from EDEN LABS (formerly known under the names of TECH
ENTERPRISES, HEALTH TECH, and SEED TECH) have been investigated by
the DEA, which evidently obtained the companys customer list. While
we have no way of knowing for certain if this did indeed happen,
these sort of rumors lead us to the suggestion that in some cases it
may be better to deal with a retailer of products, rather than the
manufacturer. In this case, for example, one interested in these devices might be better off purchasing one from a retailer (such as the
BASEMENT SHAMAN, that you mentioned).
Contrary to the company literature, the C OLDFINGER condenser
arrangement is not novel but is a rather old idea. The reader might
ask him- or herself whether a high-priced piece of glassware is a
good investment. For ease of producing herbal elixirs, such a device
can prove a great boon, but it is also important to remember that
most of the entheogens extract just fine with a simmering or even a
room temperature soak for a week. The latter can provide results
every bit as good as a soxhlet, and it does not limit a person to

amounts small enough to fit in the extraction devices asked about.
Another important issue is heat. Direct comparison of soxhlet extractions on psilocybian mushrooms (BEUG & BIGWOOD 1981) has
shown that substantial losses can arise during the lengthy heating
involved in soxhlet extraction as opposed to something shorter, gentler, and low-tech. The biggest problem with an approach such as is
used by both a soxhlet and the COLDFINGER is that once the plant
material starts to extract into solution, the solvent is steadily evaporated by heat and recondensed by cold to cyclically extract the plant
material with freshly distilled solvent. This is a good thing in itself;
however, in order to work, it also requires heating the entire volume
of the resulting extract and keeping it at the boiling temperature for
the solvent chosen. This heating must be maintained for the duration of the entire extraction process since this is what powers the
refluxing of solvent.
Soaking at room temperature, in an airtight jar kept in a dark place,
works great for many alkaloids, especially tryptamines. Always, be
sure to initially add enough solvent, with stirring or shaking, to fully
saturate all dried material before adding the bulk of the solvent to a
jar full of dry powder. This thorough saturation should be done
initially even if intending to simmer a dried powder/solvent mix in
a pan.
A soxhlet or COLDFINGER can be handy, and makes for a nifty kitchen
gadget (albeit one of potentially dubious legality depending on what
is used in it), but its our opinion that for most people, a simpler and
less costly approach will prove satisfactory. A stainless steel pressure cooker, for instance would prove a far better investment to aid
in those extractions that require heating. A basic crockpot with some
water in it can also provide a nice heating bath for a vessel containing the extraction slurry. These are safe to use and are available at
low cost, although we would suggest obtaining one with a variable
temperature-selection dial rather than one or two preset temperatures. Or, place a dimmer switch in the line and check the temperature using a kitchen thermometer. For a dilute aqueous acid
solution, the extraction can be performed right in the crockpot.
As far as the least complicated or most efficient method of DMT
extraction from Arundo donax or Desmanthus sp. to yield a smokable
product goes, our first and most significantly productive suggestion would be to choose some plant other than A. donax. This species has never panned out into a functional plant, at least not here
in the US. Although DMT was reported as being recovered from
plants growing in India (GHOSAL et al. 1969), JOHNNY APPLESEED was
unable to detect it in all but one sample collected from various individuals in the US (APPLESEED 19931995). It is worth commenting
on the DMT recovered to date: in one case 700 grams of rhizome
gave 40 mg of DMT along with over a gram of mixed indoles (GHOSAL
et al. 1969) and in another case 20 mg was recovered from 200
grams of dried plant, which also yielded 520 mg of gramine (DUTTA
& GHOSAL 1967). Some Desmanthus illinoensis and D. leptolobus strains
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are worthless, while others are functional (THOMPSON et al. 1987;

APPLESEED 1993), but they are all a lot of work to harvest and process (though for a person in the Midwest who has no other DMT
source they could be a blessing).
When approaching an extraction, least complicated and most
efficient are frequently directly conflicting goals. The least complicated route would be to soak the dried powdered roots in an organic solvent then evaporate it. This will leave lots of unwanted
gunk in the residue. The most efficient method, in general, would
be the most labor intensive and complicated. For most plants and
most alkaloids that our readers are interested in, the most efficient
route is to start out by simmering in a stainless steel pressure cooker
with an aqueous acid (wed recommend citric acid, due to its safety,
ease of handling, and ready availability), and then take it through
standard acid-base partitioning with an appropriate choice of an
organic solvent, ending up with a free-base. This process has been
described in numerous past issues of The Entheogen Review, with
specific plants, alkaloids, and solvents. Whether one is looking for
an easy crude extraction, or a more labor-intensive purified compound, the key is to start with plants that are known to generally
contain high quantities of the target alkaloids. Growing out known
potent strains is always a good idea. For DMT sources, we would
recommend Diplopterys cabrerana, Mimosa tenuiflora, and Psychotria
viridis. EDS.
AMANITA STRENGTH
AND CULTIVATION
Contrary to published literature, I have found thatfor at
least myselffresh Amanita muscaria var. formosa is more
potent than dried mushrooms of the same harvest. Im
hoping to start cultivating A. muscaria. Where can I find
information about growing this entheogen? L.E.G., NH
All the literature we have encountered describes the fresh caps as
stronger and less pleasant than the dried material. Both appear active (at least in some people some of the time) but ibotenic acid also
causes pronounced side-effects such as sweating. As far as we understand it, the drying and/or heating (converting ibotenic acid to
muscimol in the process) is not done to make the mushrooms
stronger but is performed to lessen these unwanted side-effects.
Amanita muscaria requires a living host tree, so it cant be cultivated
in a lab or closet. However, in the recently released book Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy (the first US edition of Strange Fruit:
Alchemy, Religion and Magical Foods by CLARK HEINRICH), it has been
noted that it is possible to inoculate the roots of an appropriate tree
species, such as Monterey pine (Pinus radiata), with fungal spores
and create cultures outdoors, assuming a healthy, living host and
hospitable climate is available. The company JLF: POISONOUS NONCONSUMABLES was at one time selling treelets that had been
inoculated in this manner. EDS.
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Does anyone have a copy of the 1996 book Selection, Preparation and Pharmacological Evaluation of Plant Material by
Williamson, Okpako, and Evans? Im also looking for a
copy of the 1995 book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils by Julia Lawless, and a copy of the second edition
of Passion Flowers by John Vanderplank. I can pay cash or
trade (Anadenanthera colubrina, Argyreia nervosa, Peganum
harmala, or Salvia divinorum). Please contact me via ER.
L.E.G., NH
Those looking to purchase new and used books may find good deals
on-line. While a paperback copy of the WILLIAMSON, OKPAKO, and
EVANS book retails for $81.95, we were able to locate a new copy
via www.amazon.com for $67.32. Better deals are frequently available at www.half.com. Although we could not find the first title
listed above at www.half.com, we did spot several copies of the
book by LAWLESS ($15.72 best price; retails at $24.95), and several
copies of the VANDERPLANK book ($14.98 best price; retails at $29.95).
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DARKROOM MEDITATION
In the Vernal Equinox 2002 issue of ER you solicited comments from readers who are familiar with the darkroom
meditation as promoted by Mantak Chia. I was a student
of Mantaks eight years ago, when he toured the USA, giving seminars for his Healing Tao Center. I attended six or
seven levels, so I am pretty familiar with his stuff. In 2000 I
returned to using entheogens and devoured all the information I could find on the web. I soon came across Anandas
materials, and it was here I first learned of the darkroom
meditations, which he had been administering for some
years. Mantak Chia met Ananda in Europe, and it is there
that I believe that Chia first learned of the darkroom (despite statements that it is an ancient Taoist technique, which
it no doubt is). I have friends in his Healing Tao and from
what I know of his techniques, he knew little or nothing of
the darkroom meditation before this.
In November 2001, I created my own darkroom and sealed
myself up for 12 days. I kept extensive notes on audio tape,
and I hope to write up a more detailed account for a future
issue of ER. Id say that the main benefit from this technique
is that it allows one to stay in a modified state for a period of
time much longer than the usual trip. The greatest advantage came from the sustained release of pinoline (the eye of
understanding). Effects from endogenous 5-MeO-DMT
were brief, and those from DMT (the eye of vision) were
limited but cool, although there were no closed-eye visuals
or open-eye visuals (which in this situation would be the
same). I also know that Ananda will supply an herbal booster
after the eighth day or so, when the DMT turns on. This
seems like a good idea to me now, after having done it
without. Theodore Genisis (ntheogen@hotmail.com)
We would be curious to know what exactly is in the herbal booster
you mention? Is this a smoke of Cannabis or some other psychoactive plant? Or is this some manner of nutritional supplement?
It is important to understand that the claims for various proposed
neurochemicals directly causing the effects described are presently
supposition, not known fact. Were not saying that these darkroom
meditations might not produce interesting and potentially valuable
neurochemical changes. However, the manner in which these meditations are being sold contains too much faux sciencereplete
with untold details and sans any sort of referencesfor us to feel
comfortable about the neurochemical claims that are being made.
(In one account sent by a friend some months ago, he cited RICK
STRASSMAN as his reference proving DMT was the responsible chemical. To date, STRASSMAN has done no research that would prove this
claim.)
Attendees of MANTAK CHIAS seminars, who have been told that the
effects they experienced resulted from these three chemicals, may
indeed now equate particular portions of the experiences with these
chemicals as the cause. But that doesnt mean that there actually is
any such causal relationship. Wed be interested to know what sort
of experience the people describing darkroom-induced DMT, 5MeO-DMT, and pinoline effects have had, in terms of actually
bioassaying these three chemicals in pure form. It is hard to imagine
the effects that you attribute to DMT above were indeed related to
DMT, since you say you had no visuals of any sort. All DMT experiences that weve had, whether with eyes open or closed, have had
a highly visual component to them. Which makes us wonder what
about this part of your experience seemed in any way like DMT?
The darkroom technique is interesting, but the pseudo-science packaging is distracting and the presentations/discussions weve read
thus far provide mere supposition as proven biochemistry. (Such a
looseness of factual accuracy is never a good sign when encountering something new.) Perhaps it will all eventually turn out to be the
case exactly as described, but at the moment it is merely speculation
and hype.
We look forward to reading much more on this fascinating subject,
but it is our hope that future researchers and authors writing on the
topic will present facts and hypothetical packaging in a manner where
the two are clearly distinguished. We dont want our bone of contention to discourage people from experimenting with and reporting on these darkroom meditations, and we look forward to any
future first-person descriptions. EDS.
ACACIA RIGIDULA?
In Phytochemistry 49(5): 13771380, there is an article titled
Toxic Amines and Alkaloids from Acacia rigidula, wherein
44 alkaloids and amines were isolated and identified by
GC/MS, including nicotine, DMT, mescaline, several tetrahydroisoquinolines, and four amphetaminesincluding
methamphetamine. This plants makeup blew me away! I am
pretty sure that I have never seen it listed in any of my ethnobotanical books, but then I suspect this plant most likely
hasnt been used in the past as an inebriantI realize that it
could very well be a death sentence if imbibed. But for the
right chemist in the right place, it might represent a novel
challenge for compound isolation. Although my math approximates come up with mere milligrams per pound for
mescaline, there are other phenethylamines as well as
isoquinolines in larger amounts, and the tryptamines are
present in the 100s of milligrams per kilogram.
It would be interesting to find out more about the guajillo
wobblesa locomotor ataxia that afflicts sheep and goats
who graze on the related species Acacia berlandieri, which is
reported on in this paper. Does this plant kill stock animals?
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If so, what percentage? As with Phalaris grasses and Stipa

robusta, the interdisciplines of veterinary studies, ethnobotany, and organic chemistry turn up an interesting plant.
I have a few questions related to this paper. Have mescaline
and the other peyote alkaloids that occur here been previously found in any plants other than cacti? The plant grows
in Texas and northern Mexico; is it found growing in the same
area as peyote? Are there any botanical companies selling
seed or plants of this species? Could the reported 2Cyclohexylethylamine and/or N-2-Cyclohexylethyl-N-methylamine be considered PCP precursors?
This plant has got my imagination going. C.E.G., ID
There are many questions surrounding this paper. Sadly, the first is
determining its veracity. Over the course of about a year, the authors
have not responded to anyone we know of who has attempted to
contact them concerning the assorted inconsistencies in this paper.
They claim that available reference standards were used for identification of the materials. However, some of the compounds they
claim to have found were not only never before noted in the literature as plant alkaloids, but at least one of them appears to have
never been reported in the chemical literature as having been synthesized. Until Dr. CLEMENT can be contacted or these questions otherwise answered, we suggest viewing the results of this paper with
a grain of salt.
Mescaline has been reported in Acacia berlandieri, mentioned in another earlier paper by the same lead author, which is plagued with
similar unanswered questions (CLEMENT et al. 1997). As well,
N-Methyl-mescaline has been isolated in tiny amounts from another
Leguminous plant, Alhagi pseudalhagi (GHOSAL & SRIVASTAVA 1973;
GHOSAL et al. 1974).
Guajillo wobbles and Phalaris staggers have little if anything in
common so far as we can tell. The two Acacias weve discussed can
kill livestock but they do not appear to do so directly. Instead the
animals develop a wobbly gait, stop eating and drinking, and later
become prostrate. They can eventually die from this bad summertime combination. Most of the year these plants are considered nutritious and healthy to consume. The problem arises when they become the predominate vegetation during times of prolonged drought,
as they then form the bulk or entirety of the animals diets. During
this time of year losses can be quite high (due to the animals failure
to ingest adequate food and water to survive the heat of summer).
Its believed that N-methyl-phenthylamine, the main alkaloid present,
is the responsible agent, as it has been used to experimentally induce the syndrome. Strangely, this was disputed by CLEMENT who
noted that well-fed animals given this alkaloid had no problems,
while ignoring the well-known fact that well-fed animals have no
problem when grazing the Acacias either!
Interestingly, the growth range for these Acacias does indeed
overlap with peyote land.
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We are not aware that any of the specialty entheobotanical companies are yet carrying seed or plants of these particular Acacias, although they do appear to be available from some nurseries that
specialize in plants of that area. Possible sources include CIVANO
NURSERY on the web at www.civanonusery.com and MCNEAL GROWERS on the web at www.mcnealgrowers.com.
As far as the cyclohexyl[m]ethylamines potentially being precursors
for PCP production goes, it may be possible to use these as a precursor source (we arent certain), but it is unlikely that they will be
viewed as a precursor source by the government at least. EDS.
CATHA EDULIS, CATHINONE,

AND METHCATHINONE
I was introduced to mira (Catha edulis) while I was in Kenya,
where I was taught by fellow travelers and locals to chew the
red stems with gum. It took one or two hefty bundles to get a
buzz, but once it set in it was quite powerful. Not a wiry shaky
stimulation, but a slow deep-breathing sense of power and
magnitude. I actually felt like a larger human being. The effects lasted only as long as you chewed it, but security guards
I met claimed to stay awake for close to a week at a time.
Nobody bothered to chew the leavesonly the red stems
from fresh plants were chewed.
Back in the United States, I learned that Kenyan mira is considered the worlds strongest. I obtained a rooted cutting and
waited three or four years for it to reach a size where I could
harvest it. My mistake was planting it in far too large a pot,
so it spent several years filling its container. It took six years
before flowering, and then produced only a few flowers with
very few seeds. It is an easy plant to grow though, and is indistinguishable from many ordinary hedges. During the summers I would boil Swiss chard and pour the cooled broth onto
the mira. The result was a doubling in size over a few days.
This can be repeated one or two more times over the course
of the summer.
My first harvest was disappointing. I chewed both leaves and
bark and received only a mild buzz and a great deal of heart
stimulation. The increase in heart rate and what felt like an
increase in blood pressure (with veins sticking out on my
forehead and tension in my chest) were serious drawbacks.
My first extraction of the plant used dichloromethane, which
resulted in a solid black resin that produced effects that were
indistinguishable from the plant. Subsequent extractions
were done with methanol and included heating the plant/
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solvent mixture in a water bath to the near boiling point of

the methanol. Ive also let the mixture sit in a warm dark place
for three months as an alternate extraction method. Boiling
seems much more effective. The methanol extract was evaporated off. During this evaporation, an insoluble gunk fell out
of solution and this was filtered away. Eventually the residue
hardened into a clear red lacquer, which was scraped off the
plate and squeezed into a solid ball. Again, the effects were
no different from the plant itself. It made me jittery, sweaty,
my heart raced, and the veins on my forehead stuck out.
I synthesized cathinone from phenylpropanolamine, and
methcathinone from pseudoephedrine, in order to experience firsthand the difference between these molecules, their
precursors, their corresponding amphetamines, and the
natural plant. Pills were extracted to obtain the precursor.
The difficulty involved in separating phenylpropanolamine
from the pill binders cannot be exaggerated. With a theoretical yield of over 20 grams, I was only able to obtain 1.5
grams. My hat goes off to whatever chemist designed those
pills to balk folks like me. Pseudoephedrine was easier to
obtain (although still laborious to extract) from decongestant tablets. [It is worth pointing out that some states require
stores to report any purchases of pseudoephedrine over a box or
two. If you are buying any quantity of cold pills to extract the
pseudoephedrine, you would be wise to check into the laws in your
area and perhaps purchase small amounts from several stores.
Eds.] For successful oxidation, pseudoephedrine must be
racemized by heating with 14% HCl for 72 hours in a crockpot
(steam bath). [Were not clear what this means. Was it done in a
crockpot or using a steam bath? This makes a difference, since a
steam bath is hotter than a crockpot. Eds.] Oxidation was
then achieved via chromium trioxide with acetone as the solvent. [This process is potentially toxic if not cleaned up adequately,
and would not be a great choice for those with little experience
handling and disposing of such chemicals. Eds.] Yields were
more satisfactory, but still on the low side.
Comparing the effects of these two substances with their
plant relative yielded useful insights. Good comparisons between methcathinone and methamphetamine can be found
on the web, so I wont get into that here. Suffice it to say that
my experience substantiates the generally held view that
methcathinone is weaker and shorter acting (which is a good
attribute, in my opinion), and it causes and increase in blood
pressure.
set was speedy, and the effects brief, with a peak after 45 minutes not lasting longer than 30 minutes, and all effects were
gone after two hours. It was similar to the effect of the plant
itself.
I returned to my ball of red lacquer and my associate who
had taken half of the lacquer for private investigation. He
had consumed the entire half-ball at once (something to be
expected from this individual), and reported relatively intense stimulation that was well tolerated. I took my half of
the ball of red lacquer and dissolved it in acetone and added
a few drops of concentrated HCl, and to my amazement fluffy
purple-white crystals appeared. They weighed 440 mg. I consumed this 440 mg in two doses separated by 30 minutes.
The effects were similar but not identical to the chemicallysynthesized cathinone.
Ultimately, I think that Catha edulis is a superior source for
cathinone. A small investment today may produce great
rewards in 6 to 10 years. E.N., CA
Were curious about the comment about this contributors plants
doubling in size over a few days, which seems pretty unlikely.
Perhaps possible if starting with a small enough given size but this
cant be a reliable outcome for larger plants. Maybe we have a
different idea of what a few means?
We wonder whether there is a large difference in an individuals
sensitivity to this plant and/or if the alkaloid content from plant to
plant is highly variable. The ER editors have tried Catha edulis on
several occasions; both red- and green-stemmed versions. We found
these bioassays to range from totally inactive to moderately boring.
Evidently plenty of people respond differently than we do. Perhaps
it is due to our failure to ingest 12 hefty bundles? Weve heard of
people in the US getting strong effects from reasonable amounts,
but one editors ingestion of 66 grams of fresh picked leaf felt like
a weak cup of Ephedra tea and left me not wanting to try it again.
And the other editor feels that C. edulis is one of the most foultasting plants that he has had the displeasure to chew, and despite
repeated attempts he has gotten nary a buzz from the plant.
This brings up the example again that it is important to include
specific weights when presenting dosage reports (whether leaf or
extract); this can make a big difference in how valuable the information presented might be for others.
We were also under the impression that cathinone is a fairly unstable chemical, and as such we would not have expected it to survive the isolations described above. Although we found the above
report to be of interest, it provides us with more questions than
answers. EDS.
Synthetic cathinone produced intense euphoria at 300 mg.

Admittedly, thats a large dose, but it was worth it. The onTHE ENTHEOGEN REVIEW, POB 19820, SACRAMENTO, CA 95819-0820, USA
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STEAM DISTILLATION, ENEMAS,

AND MORNING GLORY PREP.
dotal accounts of psilocybian mushrooms being inactive as an enema, so perhaps indoles are not effective via this route without a
MAOI?
Considering the potent effects when creating absinthe, would

it be worth it to steam distill mescaline-containing cacti,
Salvia divinorum, morning glory seeds, or Cannabis?
So far as a ergine extraction goes, perhaps the problem is not with

the isolation method but with the material? There is some evidence
to suggest that ergine is not particularly psychoptic (see ER Vol. 8.
No. 4, p. 136), and that those visionary results that arise from the
ingestion of some morning glories may instead be the result of another component. For isolation of ergine, methanol works fine. For
isolation of the alkaloids in morning glory seeds, water works fine.
However, not all morning glory or woodrose are necessarily psychoactive or produce the desired psychoptic effects. While this author
has ingested them several dozen times, the most common result
resembled those reported by ALBERT HOFMANN, with his own bioassay of the pure compound ergine: a sensation of mental emptiness
and the unreality and meaninglessness of the outer world, [and]
a not unpleasant physical lassitude, which ultimately led to sleep
(HOFMANN 1980). In a lesser number of cases (true with both morning glory seed ingestion and extracts) an LSD-like effect resulted.
Baby Hawaiian woodrose seeds are more effective and reliable than
morning glory seeds overall, but this activity can in fact be harmed
or lost during the isolation and solvent removal to yield of a gummy
residue. I suspect two things: First, that the true psychoptic agent is
not present in all active morning glory seeds; and second, it is an
unstable compound and therefore subject to degradation during
extractions and evaporations. Defatting does not seem to be at all
important if direct ingestion of the resulting gum is desired, and it
may actually introduce a step where a nonchemist can screw up his
or her product during the process of drying the material after petrochemical extraction (in preparation for the actual extraction of the
ergine). K. TROUT
One of my own biggest hesitations on trying out new things

is the taste factor. So something caught my eye in the Rosetta
catalogthe paper titled A Multidisciplinary Overview of
Intoxicating Enema Rituals in the Western Hemisphere.
However, this article pretty much told me nothing of value,
so I took it upon myself to grind up 20 or so baby Hawaiian
woodrose seeds, soaked the powder in water for a full day,
and then using a Fleet disposable enema bottle, inserted it
anally and held it in for 1015 minutes. Nothing happened,
and I havent repeated it since, although I have plans on soaking it in wine and retrying it, as I guess according to the
article, alcohol does readily absorb rectally.
I would like to see a good kitchen extraction of lysergic acid
amide (ergine). Damn it, one that works. No more water extracts or bogus alcohol ones. I know that baby Hawaiian
woodrose seeds work, but I have never been successful with
an alcohol extract or defatting these same extractions, so
please help. Anonymous
It would not be worth the effort to steam distill any of the herbs or
seeds you mentioned. Steam distillation should be used for materials such as essential oils (i.e., terpenes and simple aromatic compounds) or some alkaloids with low boiling points (such as phenethylamine or nicotine). Cannabis might yield an interesting essential oil blend but this is really only a good approach for materials
with both good volatility and stable components. It might be a good
way to capture an essential oil fraction of Cannabis that could prove
interesting in perfumery, incense making, aromatherapy, or other
essential oil works. However, I suspect that steam distillation of THC
would probably give disappointing results.
ER currently has some researchers working on an article related to
enemas as an ingestion method, which should appear in a future
issue. Of course, I would love to hear from any of our subscribers
who have tried this method, whether or not it was successful. The
1015 minutes retention time that you mentioned seems too short.
Id suggest at least an hour, if not two or more. (Or at the very least
until full effects are clearly perceptible.) Keeping the volume of liquid to the least amount reasonably possible should help accomplish
this. That said, Ive heard anecdotal accounts of morning glory seed
enemas and of an enema using the methanolic isolate of morning
glory seeds similarly being inactive rectally. Straying farther afield,
DMT bioxalate has been reported inactive rectally (DESMET 1983),
and an unpublished bioassay by JUSTIN CASE using 185 mg of DMT
ascorbate found the same result (CASE 2002). There are also anec-
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MIND MACHINES
Back in 1988, Reality Hackers magazine described various
mind machines and made them sound interesting. Where
can one get these sort of machines, and has anyone used
them with entheogens? Thanks for any help you can provide.
Anonymous
One source for the mind machines that you mention is TOOLS FOR
WELLNESS (www.toolsforwellness.com). They carry several different
devices, but be forewarned that their catalog is a prime example of
New Age hucksterism. Shop around though, to compare prices and
different models, as these machines tend to be expensive.
When straight, mind machines can be useful for a number of purposes, including study and relaxation. A great source for information related to what these machines do and how they can be used in
conjunction with entheogens is the book Into the Void: Exploring
Consciousness, Hyperspace and Beyond Using Brain Technology,
Psychedelics and Altered Mind-States by ZOE SEVEN. Descriptions of
the functions of many of these machines can be found at
www.zoe7.com, as can details on how to order the book. Despite
the fact that this book has some pretty out there philosophical
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speculations, the data presented on mind machines is solid, and the

authors first-person reports of various combinations of these with
entheogens is fascinating and well worth checking out.
Combined with psychoptic drugs, mind machines can help to create
experiences that are amazing in richness and depth. However, the
use of a SYNETIC DSL mind machine left K. TROUT feeling a bit overloaded and washed out after the fact. As well, he noticed that after
a year or two of fascination he used the machine much less frequently, due to a learned ability to attain those mind states on the
natch that it initially helped to generate. EDS.
Images strongly suggesting some sort of mushrooms have been

found in burial sites, mounds, and other archaeological excavations
in the USA. Variously made of stone, copper, or fashioned of wood
overlaid with copper, they are generally cataloged as ceremonial
items, fetishes or pendants. Their existence raises many questions.
A couple of examples found in a cemetery at the mouth of the Wabash
(taken from MOOREHEAD 1910) are presented below.
AYAHUASCA SNUFF
DOCUMENTED
After years of odd reports suggesting that Banisteriopsis was
incorporated into some snuffs, an aspiring anthropology doctoral candidate named Robin Rodd recently reported both
observing and bioassaying Piaroa Venezuelan Anadenanthera
peregrina snuff prepared from seeds pounded to a paste with
fresh shoots of B. caapi before kneading with ash and heating to dryness (Rodd 2002). Resulting bioassays confirmed
earlier reports of an enhanced and prolonged action from
tryptamine snuffs when including small amounts of a MAOI
(Ott 2001). We look forward to more work in this exciting
area. Eds.
HOMEGROWN IN BRITAIN?
Magic mushrooms are my favorite. Are there any sources for
psilocybian mushroom spores in Great Britain? P.G., Kent
Yes, although oddly there dont seem to be a lot of vendors there for
such. However, you should be able to get spores and related growing equipment from KING BONG (POB 4042, Bournemouth, BH3 7YL,
United Kingdom, info@kingbong.com, www.kingbong.com). It is
quite possible that other mom and pop headshops may also carry
such products there as well. DAVID AARDVARK
SACRED MUSHROOMS
IN THE USA?
We know that there was psilocybian mushroom use in
Mexico, but I havent heard anything about such use in
America. Any ideas on whether or not this was going on in
the Precolumbian USA? Anonymous
Id love to see more work done on the association of the coprophilic

Psilocybe species with ruminants other than cows. Photographs exist on the web at www.mushroomjohn.com that show several growing on water buffalo dung in Thailand. Reliable reports of their occurrence on horse manure beds in the absence of cattle or cattle
manurefrom both Victoria and Lubbock, Texassuggests this is a
question begging for some attention. STAFFORD (1992) commented
on the failure of attempts to cultivate P. cubensis on deer dung. It
should be remembered though that deer are not grazers of grassy
pastures; they browse on new growth and tender vegetation. In
talks, TERENCE MCKENNA claimed that psilocybian mushrooms would
only grow on Bos indicus dung but its quite clear that Bos taurus also
produces dung capable of serving these mushrooms needs. Preliminary observations in Texas suggest that shredding fields or otherwise adding a layer of grassy material to the mycelial-hopeful matrix
(such as feeding herds with hay during winter) may be what enables coprophilic psilocybian mushrooms to spring forth more abundantly than those relying entirely on the scattered microhabitat normally present. This may hold a key to understanding why some fields
can be productive while others nearby are not. The hay or grass
would provide partially decomposed dung a microhabitat with adequate moisture for a period of several days. (Thanks to MT for bringing this to our attention.) It would be worthwhile to conduct a study
at an American bison (Bison bison) ranch to learn if its dung is
Psilocybe-worthy. (Grasses would have been both eaten and trampled
by the migrating herds.) If so, the existence of these psilocybian
mushrooms prior to the introduction of cattle would become at least
plausible.
Or, it could be that the mushroom representations are not of coprophilic species. Either way, they provide tantalizing clues suggesting
an overlooked area of Precolumbian study of North America.
K. TROUT
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Cortex Psychedelic Circus, with panel discussions on AustraliaEntheogenic Wonderland, Psychedelic Deep Ecology, The Initiatory Path, Doof Culture, and Safe Models and Spaces. Tickets are $130.00 AUS. For more information, see www.happypeopleproductions.com/Exodus.
Wasiwaska Research Center for the Study of

Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art, and Consciousness presents Experiential and Theoretical International Symposia in the Brazilian Amazon. Featuring four
ayahuasca and two breathwork sessions; literary, artistic, and
musical expressions of inner experiences (workshops); body
work, yoga, and excursions into the rain forest; and lectures
by Rick Harlow, Luis Eduardo Luna, Dennis McKenna,
Steven White, and Michael Winkelman. For more
information, see www.wasiwaska.org.
AYAHUASCA HEALING RETREAT

There will be lectures, four ceremonies with ayahuasca and
two with Salvia divinorum, group sharing, artwork expression, transpersonal exercises, and excursions. Spend ten days
in the Amazon forest. Located 1.5 hours from Manaus,
Brazil, the lodge has excellent facilities, phone, Internet, air
conditioning, a swimming pool, and rooms with private
bathrooms. Contact: silviap@house.com.ar.
STAFF:
David Icke, author and lecturer

Zoe Seven, techno-shaman
Silvia Polivoy, transpersonal psychologist
Isabela Hartz, visionary artist
Drifts Angel by Robert Venosa
JANUARY 2030, 2003
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Sources
by Jon Hanna
ACE TECH
POB 324
Lutz, FL 33548
(813) 948-2142
acetech11@yahoo.com
http://acetech.netfirms.com
Ace Tech sells a Magic Mushroom Test Kit ($45.00), which

can be used to check for the presence of tryptamines in plant,
animal, and fungal matter. Psilocybin, psilocin, DMT, lysergic acid molecules, auxins, and any other molecule that contains the indole ring will test as positive if they are present.
Unfortunately, it cant specifically note what indoles are
present, and other indoles that might not be too interesting
such as serotonin would also test positive. So this might be
useful as a general field testpresuming that it can be used
as a field testwhen mushroom hunting in the wild, but
other identification methods should be used in conjunction
with it. There is no indication that I could see on their web
site as to how many tests it can perform per kit. There was
also a curious lack of information in other areas. For instance,
there appeared to be no indication of what specific test is
being used or how it is to be performedneither is a small
omission. Many indole-sensitive reagents cross-react with a
wide variety of compounds including non-indolics, which can
lead to false positives. While I applaud the commercial availability of test kits, I feel that customers should be provided
with more information about what the kits actually do. Only
rarely can such test kits be performed without potential exposure to strong acids or other chemicals. Tests such as those
used by professionals in field testing are often unsuited for
amateur use. While the convenience of a prepared test for
indoles would be great, I suspect that all customers would
want to know what they are buying. Ace Tech didnt respond
to an e-mail asking about their tests.
Ace Tech also sells: herb dryers/desiccators (a small one is
$10.00, a medium one is $20.00, and a large one is $30.00),
spore prints for Psilocybe azurescens ($45.00) and P. cubensis
($30.00), Papaver somniferum seeds ($10.00/100 grams),
safrole ($50.00/100 ml), and red phosphorus ($100.00/10
grams). Add $6.00 to any order for S&H charges.
Chemicals such as safrole and red phosphorus are used in

the production of MDMA and/or methamphetamine. It
seems a little bit dicey that they are being offered through a
company such as this, alongside opium poppy seeds and
mushroom spores. I think that I would steer clear of this
company altogether, despite their possibly useful test kit.
ALKEMISTS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

1260 Logan Avenue, B-3
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 754-4372
(714) 668-9972
phytolab@alkemist.com
www.alkemist.com
Alkemists Pharmaceuticals offers a unique analytical approach that combines Microscopy with Digital Photo-Documentation and analytical chemistry techniques, depending
upon the sample being analyzed for the proper identification, characterization and/or content determination of botanical samples. Our specialty is the systematic identification and evaluation of botanicals and their marker compounds for quality control, utilizing Digital Photo-Microscopy (DPM) and High Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) and/or High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC).
It is a goal of Alkemists Pharmaceuticals to compile a
detailed reference compendium of ethnobotanicals. They
have been working with Botanical Dimensions and other
interested parties, and hope to in the future publish an ethnobotanical monograph that presents some of their findings.
They are looking for novel, usual, or unusual plant suspects
that are either known or suspected to be of ethnobotanic significance, that [they] can analyze and catalog microscopically
as well as chromatographically fingerprint and/or quantify
for some known active constituent. They need a dry sample
anywhere from 1 gram to 10 grams minimum, and 25 to 50
grams is ideal. (If sending a fresh sample, it must be sent in
such a manner that allows it to arrive without rotting.) They
ask to be notified before a sample is sent, so that they will be
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sure (when possible) to have an authentic sample on hand

for comparison purposes.
For individuals or companies who wish to discover just what
some plant they have contains and how much it contains,
prices for quantitative analysis by HPTLC with scanning densitometry are $200.00 (one sample), $185.00 each (25
samples), $175.00 each (610 samples), and $150.00 each
(11+ samples). Or if you are interested in finding out if you
have the plant you think you have, then simply doing a qualitative analysis with either microscopy or HPTLC could be
your guarantee you have the right plant or extract. The prices
for these analyses are $125.00 (one sample), $120.00 each
(25 samples), $110.00 each (610 samples), and $100.00
each (11+ samples). It strikes me that working with
Alkemists Pharmaceuticals may be a good way to gather
some data on lesser-known plants where legally possible,
particularly those of obscure chemistry.
ART VISIONARY MAGAZINE

Damian Michaels
GPO Box 1536
Melbourne
Victoria 3001
AUSTRALIA
+61 3 9503 8807
artvisionary@optusnet.com.au
www.artvisionary.com
A sporadically-produced art magazine that occasionally deals

with artists influenced by psychedelics. A limited number of
the first two issues are available from the address listed. The
third issue is recently on the newsstands for $10.50 (USA),
and it features art from Ernst Fuchs, Alex Grey, Philip
Rubinov-Jacobson, and others. A two-issue subscription is
available direct; postpaid rates in Australian dollars are
$18.00 in Australia or $27.00 from any other country. Funds
must be paid in Australian currency. Definitely get a subscription to this.
BLUELIGHT
www.bluelight.nu
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SAFE DRUG USE!

(Yes, in all caps.) This is a totally absurd remark, which certainly doesnt reflect a middle-of-the-road attitude. People
use licit and illicit drugs on a daily basis in safe and effective
ways.
Clicking on the FAQs link in their Forums box, the first
post to the site that I checked out was a document on MDMA
titled A Rough Guide to Ecstasy. It states that Hallucinating
whilst on MDMA is not uncommon especially with higher
doses, this can include open eye visuals (oevs) and closed
eye visuals (cevs). While MDMA does cause some perceptual changes, I have never heard of anyone aside from the
misinformed mass media who would term these changes
hallucinations. Also in this document, when discussing the
possibility that street Ecstasy is tainted with heroin or cocaine, they state neither heroin or cocaine are orally active
in the amounts that you would find in pills, which is also
absurd, since 100 mg of heroin taken orally would have an
effect similar to 500 mg of codeine, and cocaine taken orally
at 100 mg would also certainly be active. 100 mg would easily fit in a pillhell, the ibuprofen pills in my medicine cabinet contain 800 mg! This Guide states that MDA is more
speedy than MDMA, another comment that hardly seems
right.
While one certainly cant judge a whole web site on the content of one document posted to it, and while the abovedescribed Guide does indeed have some good information
in it, it also exemplifies the fact that entirely reliable information can be quite difficult to come by on the web.
Bluelight seems to be largely made up of forums, where
the people asking and answering questions really dont have
a great deal of knowledge on the topics that they are discussing. For this reason, the effectiveness of this site to impart
truly useful harm reduction data seems to be a bit limited.
The site is not entirely useless though; it provides a good
albeit somewhat scarysense of the generally low knowledge level of some of the people who use illicit drugs. And
Bluelights home page frequently has links to the latest
mainstream media articles on the topic of illicit drugs
(which also may be riddled with errors, of course).
A drug information and harm reduction web site. With a

focus on MDMA/Ecstasy, Bluelight claims to offer a
middle road between the myths and rumours of street level
drug culture, and the often impenetrable jargon of more scientifically rigourous sites. Strangely, their catch phrase is:
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FRESH HEADIES
POB 474
Lions Bay
B.C.,V0N-2E0
CANADA
(866) 635-8464
freshheadies@hotmail.com
www.bubblebag.com
Producers of the ice-water hash preparation system called

the bubblebag. This system allows one to produce a highgrade hash from a low-grade or non-saleable leaf and bud. It
uses ice and ice-cold water to harden and detach the trichomes from the leaf, and then a system of bag screens to
create different grades of hash with the highest grade being
pure trichomes. The process is relatively simple and only
takes just over an hour to complete, so it is much more efficient than using screen boxes, particularly if large quantities
are being prepared. They sell a 1-gallon six-bag kit for
$110.00, a 5-gallon three-bag kit for $15.00, a 5-gallon sixbag kit for $220.00, a 20-gallon four-bag kit for $380.00 and
a 20-gallon six-bag kit for $460.00. (The more bags used, the
higher quality of product that can be obtained.) I suspect
that the bubblebag will become a standard contraption in
the future used by most commercial and personal growers,
to produce quality from quantity.
JUXTAPOZ
POB 884570
San Francisco, CA 94188-4570
(888) 520-9099
anna@hsproductions.com
www.juxtapoz.com
My absolute all-time favorite magazine, Juxtapoz contains

articles, interviews, and tons of cutting edge art. Low Brow
is the self-described style (tattoos, tikis, hot-rods, mud-flap
chicks), but there is a lot of variety and non-mainstream art
contained herein (chalk art/fantastic realism, for example,
in one recent issue), and they occasionally dabble in
psychedelia with artists like Alex Grey, Mati Klarwein,
Stanley Mouse, and others featured.
Edited by Robert Williams, Juxtapoz comes out six times a
year and is a mere $13.95 via crappy mail (which means that
your issue is likely to arrive having been thumbed by every
postal employee whose hands it passes through, with bent
pages and wrinkled covers) or $27.00 sent in a first-class
envelope. Having been too cheap to splurge on the more
expensive mailing cost, I now find myself wanting to reorder every issue that I have gotten, to have some pristine back
up copies of this inspiring publication. Canadians should
send $25.00, and folks from other foreign countries should
send them $30.00 (in USA funds only). Id recommend ordering this via the phone rather than their web site, which
seems a bit glitchywhen I recently attempted to place a
gift order for one year sent first-class, the interface wouldnt
allow me to enter in a separate shipping address and for God
knows what reason it charged me $40.81! (They made things
right when I griped though.) Crappy web interface aside, the
rag rocks. When Juxtapoz comes in the mail, I always stop
whatever Im doing and crack it open immediately; its drugs
for your eyes, baby.
HYDROFLOW
3649 SE Yamhill Street
Portland, OR 97214
(866) 862-GROW
(503) 230-0899
info@hydroflow8000.com
www.hydroflow8000.com
Hydroflow digital timers make it possible for you to explore

the numerous combinations of light/dark cycles that are not
feasible with traditional 24 hour timers. Making adjustments
to the number of hours in your plants day can lend to amazing results. By breaking away from the standard 12 on/12
off boundaries, you can be free to experiment with any multitude of light/dark cycles without being restricted to a 24
hour day. You can blast your plants with 18 hours of light
and 12 hours of dark to increase harvest by up to 20%, or
shorten the cycle to 6 on 12 off and harvest up to 25% faster
with 50% less electricity use. Go with the model that best fits
your needs2000, 4000, or even 8000 watts, all controlled
by one unit. And now all models come equipped with two
auxiliary outlets that will automatically turn on when the
lights turn off. This means you can run fans, air conditioning, or whatever you need on when the lights are off.
Although I dont know anyone who has used these timers,
the idea of increasing ones daylight hours to 18, while keeping the night hours at 12, strikes me as a brilliant way to increase ones yield by making bigger flowers. Kudos to the folks
at Hydroflow for coming up with this device. Prices for 120
VAC timers are $165.95 for the 2000 watt version, $191.95
for the 4000 watt version, and $245.00 for the dual 4000 watt
version. The 4000 watt and dual 4000 watt models are also
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available in 240 VAC versions, at slightly higher prices.

I suspect that these timers would be a wise investment.
LSD BLOTTER ART

438 East 1700 South #3
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
lsdblotterart@hotmail.com
www.lsdblotterart.com
A vendor of contemporary blotter acid art. Although they

dont sell vintage blotter, they do sometimes offer reprints
of vintage stuff and they can also put serious collectors in
touch with sellers of the old hits. Their web site has galleries
for Timothy Leary, the Grateful Dead, Alex Grey, and
miscellaneous others (including some prints signed by the
artists or by psychedelic noteworthies). They also have a
couple of contributor showcases where one can view blotter art that is in private collections and not for sale through
the site. And they even offer some smaller sized prints, for
the budget collector. Prices range from a mere $6.00 for the
smaller prints (3 7/8 inches square) to $300.00 for the Alice in
Wonderland Mad Hatter design signed by Ken Kesey. Quite
a number of full-sized sheets sell for around $20.00 to $35.00,
and it strikes me that these might be good for a collector of
such ephemera to take to some future conference where
members of the psychedelic illuminati might be speaking and
get them signed, since this clearly increases their value
dramatically.
PEACE ROCK POSTERS

PMB 25C
6346-65 Lantana Road
Lake Worth FL 33463
(877) 802-0924 TOLL FREE
(561) 649-2881
(561) 649-2883 FAX
info@peacerock.com
www.peacerock.com
Peace Rock offers a large selection of rock posters and handbills from the 1960s and 1970s. They sell only original vintage itemsFillmore posters, Family Dog posters, black
light posters, handbills, various ephemera, and more. Prices
range from $25.00 for a mint-condition 1967 Berkeley
Bonaparte Acid Man poster, to $6000.00 for a reprint Acid
Test poster, hand-colored and designed by Ken Kesey and
other members of the original Merry Pranksters.
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POLLINATOR COMPANY
Nieuwe Herengracht 25
1011 RL
AMSTERDAM
00 31 20 4708889
00 31 20 4715242 FAX
info@pollinator.nl
www.pollinator.nl
Another vendor of ice-water hash-making bags, these guys

sell the Ice-O-Lator in various sized models, ranging in price
from 40.00 to 180.00 euros. They also offer hash presses,
smoking accessories, Cannabis seeds, grow supplies, manicuring tools, books, psilocybian mushroom kits, spore
syringes/prints, and more.
QUALITY HEALTH, INC.

401 Langham House
29-30 Margaret Street
London W1W 8SA
ENGLAND
+44 207 580 2043 INTERNATIONAL FAX
0207 580 2043 UK FAX
sales@qhi.co.uk
www.qhi.co.uk
Quality Health, Inc. is a supplier of smart drugs, antiaging drugs, hormones, amino acids, herbal and other
supplements, and other pharmaceuticals. Products offered
include: Ampamet (aniracetam), cats claw, choline, chromium picolinate, Desmopressin (DDAVP), DHEA,
Diphantoine (phenytoin), Ester-C formula, GH3 (Original
Aslan Formula), ginkgo biloba extract, Glucophage
(metformin hydrochloride), glucosamine sulfate, grape seed
extract, Hydergine (ergoloid mesylates), Hydergine FAS,
Inderal (propranolol), Intelectol (vinpocetine), Jumex
(deprenyl), kava-kava complex, L-arginine, lecithin (61%
phosphatides), L-glutamine, L-lysine, Loniten (oral
minoxidil), L-tryptophan, melatonin, Mnesis (idebenone),
Neupramir (pramiracetam), Olmifon (adrafinil), Parlodel
(bromocriptine), Premarin (conjugated estrogens), Progynova (estradiol valerate), Proscar (finasteride), Provigil
(modafinil), Reminyl (galantamine), Retin A Cream, SAMYR
(pharmaceutical SAMe), saw palmetto extract, selenium,
Sermion (nicergoline), St. Johns wort, UCB Nootropil
(piracetam), yohimbine hydrochloride, and zinc picolinate.
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RAC RESEARCH, INC.

POB 630306
Bronx, NY 10463
contactus@racresearch.com
www.racresearch.com
A relatively new research chemical supply company. Although similar companies largely seem to be scam operations these days, I have actually heard from one correspondent who has placed and received three orders from RAC
Research, and been happy about this companys service and
product quality. Their products are sold in gram quantities,
and they carry 5-MeO-DIPT ($185.00), 5-MeO-DMT
($210.00), AMT ($120.00), 5-MeO-AMT ($270.00), DPT
($185.00), and dextromethorphan ($20.00). Id be interested
in hearing any more feedback from folks who might place
orders through RAC Research.
RALPHSTERS SPORES
POB 1667
Nampa, ID 83653-1667
ralphrw@cableone.net
http://RalphstersSpores.com
A new company selling spore prints and spore syringes for

Psilocybe cubensis, P. cyanescens, P. samuiensis, and Panaeolus
cambodiginiensis. Their prices look competitive. They also sell
various substrates and a mushroom grow system called the
Hydra-Pod, which looks like a great product for smallscale growers.
RED ANGELS
Mars Antrim
POB 951
Lakeport, CA 95453-951
redangels@mail.com
http://fly.to/redangels
Producers of the Secrets of Soma ($29.95) video documentary

of an Amanita muscaria picking and preparation session, the
husband and wife team of Rex and Venus has been using A.
muscaria mushrooms for over 20 years, frequently on a daily
basis. Rex stated that he stopped counting after 5000
ingestions.
Although the video is an amateur production, it does a good
job depicting the fact that the couple is dedicated and sincere in their devotion to Amanita muscaria. It kicks off with
Rex chewing big bites from a huge A. muscaria, and there

are numerous scenes throughout of him eating more. They
mention that it is good to consume doses gradually over a
period of time. They explain the preparation of a stew/tea,
and provide tips on freezing, drying, and storing mushrooms. They relate the fact that their kids were born while
Venus was on A. muscaria, which she states eases the pain
in childbirth. Rex opines that the belief that one must fast
before consumption is a myth, although such behavior will
cause the mushrooms to come on a bit quicker and stronger.
He also claims that the mushrooms have an appetite suppressant quality. There is the presentation that all dried
mushrooms represent a lessened potency, and they note that
dehydrating can cut the potency by 60% to 80%, while solar
dried mushrooms might be cut in potency by 40%. Nowhere
is the idea mentioned that drying or cooking the mushrooms
might decarboxylate ibotenic acid to muscimol (possibly reducing side-effects). Indeed, there is no mention made at all
of the negative effects that many people get from eating these
mushrooms. On the practice of drinking urine, Venus states:
Once recycled through the body, it becomes a waste by-product and takes on an impure vibration. We do not recommend
using soma in this manner, because it negates the spiritual
essence of God. This method is Satans sacrament, the
Devils brew.
Although they caution that one shouldnt eat white, yellow,
or brown Amanitas unless an expert has identified them, they
go on to mention that Rex did consume a white Amanita that
his son had found for him. They then state that non-red
Amanitas can produce a visionary/spiritual effect where it
seems as though one is operating at higher speeds. There
is unfortunately no explicit discussion of the fact that some
Amanitas, such as the white or greenish Amanita phallodies,
are deadly due to completely different chemistry.
The video is peppered with spiritual ramblings and references to the Rig Veda. Rex waxes enthusiastic about the experience of God-energy that Amanita muscaria can produce.
Overall, while it was interesting to see folks who have such a
strong allegiance to the use of this mushroom, I was disappointed that they didnt include more specific descriptions
of the effects that they got from their use. The video could
have presented more hard data and it would have benefited
from a section where the couple was interviewed by someone knowledgable in the fields of ethnomycology and
entheobotany, in order to tease out more detailed information about how the mushroom had enhanced their lives.
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SHAMANS OF THE AMAZON

POB 111
Suffolk Park, 2481, NSW
AUSTRALIA
dean@shamansoftheamazon.com
www.shamansoftheamazon.com
Shamans of the Amazon is a documentary by independent

Australian filmmaker Dean Jefferys. The movie features one
of the final interviews conducted with Terence McKenna
before his death, as well as an interview with Yatra De
Silveira Barbosa regarding the legal situation surrounding
ayahuasca use in the Netherlands. Also featured are two shamans from Ecuador, Enrique and Raphael, as well as the
art of Pablo Amaringo and Alex Grey. Jefferys film is a
personal account of his return to the Amazon with his pregnant partner and their one-year-old daughter. (As a relatively
new parent myself, it seemed quite bold that Jefferys
brought his young child into the somewhat harsh conditions
of the Amazon, until I considered that children have been
growing up there for years.) Of course, the ayahuasca ceremony is part of what is covered, and one ayahuasca shaman had some interesting and on-target medical advice for
Jefferys and his partner. One thing that struck me was how
angry a young shaman was with the affect that the USA and
corporate interests were having on his native land. Truly we
have to be more aware of what is going on in the name of big
business/government, and Jefferys film does an excellent
job of helping the viewer to comprehend this reality.
There is a QuickTime preview of the movie available at the
web site, and you can purchase the video for $25.00. Jefferys
also produced the film Amazon: The Invisible People, which is
available in video format from the web site for $15.00, (or
order both for $35.00). Add $15.00 (Australian) for S&H (international). Jefferys hosts an e-mail list, and a newsletter
about ayahuasca, DMT, and neo-shamanism. You can also
read about his tours, coming events, and some reviews at his
web site, as well as check out a few links.
SPEAKING PLANTS BOTANICALS

POB 36084
Dallas,TX 75235-1084
sales@speakingplants.com
www.speakingplants.com
Speaking Plants Botanicals is a fairly new botanical supply company that has a good variety of offerings. Due to a
recent court case against another such vendorAlan Shoe-
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maker of http://chinchilejo.yage.netwho was busted for

importing a dried herb that contains DMT (see pages 130
132 of this ER for details)Speaking Plants has indefinitely discontinued their sale of Anadenanthera colubrina,
Desmanthus illinoensis, D. leptolobus, Diplopterys cabrerana,
Mimosa tenuiflora, Psychotria viridis, and Virola sp. This is interesting from the point of view that a specialty botanical
company has voluntarily stopped selling dried herbs that are
not specifically scheduled and hence would seem to be legal.
The case against Shoemaker clearly has them concerned
that the law against mixtures that contain scheduled compounds could be interpreted to include natural plants that
are not currently scheduled. And it is obvious that Shoemaker has to go through the hassle, expense, and stress of a
trial (which in itself may be enough to cause one to avoid
selling these herbs until some more concrete decision is
reached related to this law). Nevertheless, it seems odd that
Speaking Plants would have only discontinued their DMTcontaining herbs, and not discontinued the herbs that they
sell which contain other scheduled compounds (such as
ergine, cathinone/cathine, and mescaline). Surely if Shoemaker is convicted for importing a dried herb that is not
specifically scheduled but which contains a scheduled compound, this ruling could be applied across the board to any
dried herb that contains a scheduled compound. One might
still be able to argue that any such live plant that contains a
scheduled compound is being grown solely for ornamental/
horticultural purposes. But the days of easy access via numerous entheobotanical vendors may be numbered, particularly if they on their own become concerned enough about
potential legal ramifications to stop selling those plants that
contain controlled substances.
Speaking Plants carries: Acorus calamus, Agave liliaceae,
Amanita muscaria, Argemone chicolote, A. mexicana, A.
polyanthemos, Areca catechu, Argyreia nervosa, Ariocarpus
fissuratus, Artemisia absinthium, A. compositeae, Arundo donax,
Banisteriopsis caapi, Brugmansia arborea, Calea zacatechichi,
Carnegia gigantea, Catha edulis, Coffea arabica, Cola nitida,
Coryphantha macromeris, C. vivipara, Datura inoxia,
Echinocereus coccineus, E. neomexicanus, E. triglochidiatus,
Ephedra equisetina, E. sinica, Eschscholzia californica, Heimia
salicifolia, Humulus lupulus, Ipomoea tricolor, I. violacea,
Lactuca virosa, Leonotis leonurus, Leonurus sibiricus,
Lophophora decipiens, Marrubium valgare, Mimosa pudica,
Mirabilis multiflora, Nepeta cataria, Nymphaea caerulea, Papaver nudicaule, P. somniferum, Paullinia cupana, Pausinystalia
yohimbe, Peganum harmala, Piper methysticum, Sassafras
albidium, Sceletium tortuosum, Stipa robusta, Trichocereus
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pachanoi, T. peruvianus, T. terscheckii, Turnera diffusa,

Verbascum thapsus, Voacanga africana, and a number of other
plants and plant products. They also offer books, journals,
videos, incense, smoking blends, psilocybian mushroom
spore syringes, and more.
Speaking Plants sell a kilo of Salvia divinorum for $250.00,
which is among the lowest prices that I have seen offered.
For those who are unaware, federal bill HR 5607, introduced
on October 10, 2001, seeks to schedule S. divinorum and
salvinorin A. People looking to stock up on this plant while
it is still legal may wish to order from Speaking Plants.
WEED WORLD
POB 1332
Coventry, CV8 3YA
ENGLAND
++44 1974 821518
(877) 474-3321 TOLL FREE
(905) 619-2903 FAX
weed1@dircon.co.uk
www.weedworld.co.uk
Weed World is the United Kingdoms answer to High Times.

Although a professionally-produced full-color glossy rag, it
has a more laid-back attitude than HT does. Casual first person yarns weave through the pages, along with news (both
local and worldwide), product reviews, recipes, legal updates,
reader letters, comics, music reviews, grow tips, interviews,
and more. I like to occasionally check in with Weed World to
see what the state of affairs is in England and other parts of
Europe. The most recent copy I picked up was issue #40,
which caused me to realize that they have been publishing
for quite a few years now. I decided to try and dig up the first
copy of this that I had seen, and couldnt find itor so I
thought. What I found was titled A World of Drugs No. 2,
and yet it looked suspiciously similar. Not full color, but there
was that word world, and it was produced in the UK
Checking their web site, I learned that A World of Drugs was
their predecessor, first published in 1991.
In issue #40 of Weed World I noticed a couple of photos of
buds with the fan leaves drying but not yet trimmedsomething that one would never see these days in the highly manicured pages of High Times! And it reminded me of the old
days, when HT actually did show naturalistic shots such as
this, which werent pumped with glowing blue backlighting
or scantily clad smoker-models. Yes, Weed World is a little
more relaxed something that bespeaks the topic at hand.
Weed World comes out six times a year, and it runs about
$6.00 at the newsstands in the USA. One can subscribe in
the UK for a year by sending them 18.00, or in Europe for
22.00, or in the USA for $32.35 (USA funds) or in Canada
for $43.15 (Canadian funds). For UK or European subscriptions, send payment to the address listed above. For USA
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KRATOM
Ive frequently gotten questions asking where people can
purchase Mitragyna speciosa (kratom). In the past, I was only
aware of Shaman Australis selling tissue-cultures, and
Basement Shaman selling plants. However, the situation is
slowly improving. For live plants, we can now add Native
Habitat [POB 644023, Vero Beach, FL 32964, (561) 7788361, Lee@NativeHabitat.com, www.nativehabitat.com]
into the fray. They have plants for $45.00, dried leaf for
$40.00 per ounce, and fresh leaves for $25.00 per ounce.
Interestingly, while the plant is traditionally used for its
stimulant/opiate-like effects, the Native Habitat web site
remarks, It does nothing for uscan somebody tell me what
we are doing wrong? I have heard from others who have
tried the dried leaves of the plant from various sources and
gotten only mild or no effects, and I have also heard from
one person who used to get effects from a batch of these leaves
but they simply stopped working for him at one point, to his
dismay. Its hard to say what is going on. New vendors of
dried leaves include Pure Land Ethnobotanicals [2701
University Avenue, PMB 463, Madison, WI 53705-3700,
info@ethnobotanicals.com, www.ethnobotanicals.com],
who offer 10 grams for $25.00, 25 grams for $52.00, and
100 grams for $160.00, and Ethnogarden [POB 27048,
Barrie Ont., L4M 6K4, Canada, ethnogarden@sympatico.ca,
http://ethnogarden.com] who offer (in Canadian dollars) 28
grams for $47.00 (about US $30.00), 56 grams for $86.00
(about US $55.00), 112 grams for $160.00 (about US
$102.00), and 455 grams for $575.00 (about US $365.00),
and also sell packets of about 100 seeds (of unknown viability) for $15.00 (about US $9.50). Ive heard that they have
plans to stock a full-spectrum alkaloid free-base of kratom as
well. Herbal-Shaman [POB 8892, Wichita, KS 67208,
(877) 685-9199, www.herbal-shaman.com] will soon also
be stocking dried leaf.
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Book Reviews
Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions & Herbcraft
Excitantia and Empathogenica by Dale Pendell. 2002.
(Mercury House, POB 192850, San Francisco, CA 94119-8250,
www.mercuryhouse.org), ISBN 1-56279-125-7 [7 X 9.25 paperback, $21.95]. 294 pp., black-and-white illustrations throughout,
with index.
Im a sucker for the references section in a book of scholarly design; I

thrive on informationthe more relevant, the better. If it moves further
into the realm of cross-references, I
am on my knees with delight. There
are enough cross-references in
Pharmako/Dynamis to enthrall me.
The book is a cornucopia of arcane
his/herstories of plants and their effects on human civilization. Information swims through these pagesinformation untold and unrevealed,
except for the most curious amongst
the connoisseurs of plant inebriants.
Information to get lost in information to find yourself in information
that reveals secrets information to
set a course for distant shores with
You can literally open up this books pages anywhere and be
on your feet with the text. I did not read it in the traditional
sense the first time around, but scouted through the references, scooted over to the relevant chapter, read a bit here,
read a bit there, then delved into the chapter in toto. Mr.
Pendell suggests that you read it in any manner that you
like, and I found my random access approach to be a
rewarding exercise.
Excitantia: The book starts out with some of the more familiar inebriantscoffee, tea, and chocolate. Pendell traces
the history of each from their regional points of origin, and
then delineates the preparation, the chemical constituents,
and the social impact, from native populations to the world
at large. Along the way you discover that these plants arent
so familiar as one assumes. As ones knowledge of the plants
history grows, the attraction to use them becomes all the
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more engaging. (Or are they using us in their agenda?) This

section includes other less known plants and one infamous
alchemical concoction: betel, guarana, kola, Ma Huang (Ephedra sinica), qat, coca, and even amphetamines are covered.
The information on these runs from short to quite extensive.
I especially appreciated the chapter on
guarana, which I used extensively in
the early- and mid-90s. Because of
this familiarity, I felt that the chapter
devoted to it could have been longer,
but I loved what was there.
The chapter on Erythroxylum coca is
also well presented. Even though I was
more familiar with this subjectdue
to the massive amounts of press it has
received over the yearswhat made
this chapter work for me was the poetic approach and reverential feel to
the phrasings and pacing found there.
It is a beautiful piece of work that restored the respect coca had lost in my
personal pantheon of plants.
The Ma Huang chapter is absolutely
fascinating, presenting elements of history and myth to suggest that Ephedra sinica may be the source of the soma of the
Rig Veda. While this theory is in direct contention with R.
Gordon Wassons popular proposition that soma was
Amanita muscaria, whether or not you end up agreeing isnt
the issue here. Rather, the ride that Pendell takes one on
while tracing this subject is a delight unto itself.
Empathogenica: This section covers nutmeg (Myristica
fragrans), MDMA, and GHB. The section on nutmeg brought
me back to an earlier part of my lifea time when tripping
took on some interesting forms. Known for its use in correctional institutions and by kids who couldnt score, I never
tried nutmeg myself, but I knew many who did. It sounded
like an intense body load fraught with some peril, but nonetheless it was there for those who needed it. This chapter
covers some of the spice wars history: from the Arabs
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importing to the Venetians (who ran the whole ball of wax

through the Renaissance until the Portuguese sailed into the
picture), to the Dutch and English tangling over control of
spices coming from the far east and the spice islands into
Europe.
The MDMA chapter is exhilarating and exciting. The accompanying whirlwind of images pulses through it at 180 bpm.
Pendell ends this section with a paean of devotion.
One of the main elements that attracts me to Pendells writing is his mastery of the poetic aside. Nuanced yet explicit,
he evokes the muse so well that one finds it entangled in all
of his writing, even the technical aspects. Yet for myself, the
most satisfying parts are the explicitly poeticthose that
captivate with the small flip of a word, placed just so. Poetry
is an ancient key to deeper realms; Pendell knows this and
exploits it to everyones benefit. He has honed his craft well,
to the delight of this reader. If you pick Pharmako/Dynamis
up in a store, go to these sections first. Of special note are
the Wandering and the Vision Quest and Dream Stutters
chapters, as well as the shorter pieces entitled Hecates
Garden and Nigredo: A Turn of Darkening. These are
worth the price of admission. I have read them repeatedly,
and gained from doing so.
Though the layout of Pharmako/Dynamis is similar to its predecessor Pharmako/Poeia, they are truly separate works. Yes,
the theme is carried on, but the impact and much of the transmission is different. Both books stand firmly on their own.
The impact of Pharmako/Dynamis is very much in league
with The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, but with
added gifts. After reading these works, you begin to look at
plants in a far different way. We are inculcated to think that
we have dominion over the flora and fauna, but do we? After
reading Pollan and Pendell, I am not so certain. If you follow the underlying logic of both books, you may come to the
conclusion that we have been doing the bidding of the plant
world, albeit unconsciously. Pharmako/Dynamis a welcome
edition to my library. I believe that most readers of
The Entheogen Review would share in this assessment.
Gwyllm Llwydd

Shamanic Snuffs or Entheogenic Errhines by Jonathan Ott. 2001.

(Entheobotanica, Kronengasse 11, CH-4502 Solothurn, Switzerland, info@nachtschatten.ch, www.nachtschatten.ch), ISBN 1888755-02-4 [6.25 X 9.25 limited edition of 1026 copies, handbound in leather, with cloth-bound slipcase, signed and numbered,
$100.00]. 160 pp., 1 color and 11 black-and-white illustrations, with
index.
My first impression of this book was the smell of its leather

covergorgeous, and quite appropriate that a book on
snuffs would engage the reader in such a manner. Indeed,
the slipcase, the binding, the luxurious paper (which contributed its own crisp smell), the line drawings by Elmer W.
Smith, the excellent typography, and even a woven burgundy
place-holding ribbon, all make this offering a class act and
the most beautifully-produced book that Ott has published
to date. Indeed, I suspect that it is the most beautifullyproduced book in my entire library. Although the price is
high, this limited edition is certainly a quality presentation.
The books introductionnay Inspirationkicks off with
a description of snuff use from Columbus and explains that,
while current fashion is to smoke tobacco, in the past, snuffing it was more prevalent. Ott points out in the context of
visionary tryptamines, that it was the snuffs that led to an
understanding of the proposed ayahuasca effectsomething that has been given much more focus in recent years.
As well, he notes: [I]t would scarcely be fair of me to approach the subject of the shamanic snuffs whilst religiously
keeping my nose clean, so to speak. Accordingly, punctuated
by sniting and perfunctory emunctories, I have placed my
proboscis at the service of pharmacology, exploiting one area
of my anatomy at least, in which I can justifiably claim to be
better-endowed than most! The long and the short of it is
that Ive embarked yet again upon an ambitious program of
psychonautic bioassays And it just gets better and better
from that point, with Otts unique brand of humorous prose
shining a piercingly clear light through the darkness, like
Rudolphs nose on Christmas Eve.
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The first three chapters of Snuffs are historical accounts, relating the traditional ethnobotany and the chemistry of
Anadenanthera snuffs, Virola snuffs, and Nicotiana snuffs,
over hundreds of years of use. The proliferation of ethnographic terms and data-dense writing style can make these
chapters a bit hard to read. Nevertheless, they are goldmines
of information, relating countless specifics regarding the active plants, sundry additives to the snuffs, who took them,
how they took them, when they took them, and more.
Easier reading is found within the fourth chapter, LesserKnown Snuff Sources, which provides quick glimpses into
numerous other plants that have at one time or another been
consumed through the nose. Tidbits are presented related
to Acokanthera oppositifolia, Acorus calamus, Anacyclus pyrethrum, Annona senegalensis, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Artemisia sp., Asparagus africanus, Banisteriopsis caapi, Cannabis sp.,
Capsicum sp., Datura sp., Dimorphandra parviflora, Erythroxylum coca, Fomes fomentarius, Ilex guayusa, Ipomoea sp.,
Justica pectoralis, Maquira sclerophylla, Pagamea macrophylla,
Piper sp., Salvia sp., Securidaca longipedunculata, Senecio sp.,
Suda gyptiaca, Tagetes sp., Tancium nocturnum, Terminalia splendida, Tinospora bakis, Trichocereus pachanoi,
Tricholine sp., Veratrum californicum, and Zanthoxylum
zanthoxyloides. Ott also describes plants that have been
traditionally used as hound- and horse-snuffsa visionary
veterinary vademecum.
I suspect that the primary reason that most contemporary
psychonauts will want to obtain this book, however, is to
glean the practical-use data that are provided in chapter five,
Shamanic-Snuff Psychonautica. It is herein that Ott
provides the highly valuable details from his own rigorous
experiments with 5-MeO-DMT, Virola resin, bufotenine,
nicotine, and the concurrent administration of harmine and/
or harmaline in some cases (compounds that appear to
dramatically increase the potency of 5-MeO-DMT and
bufotenine, even when taken intranasally or sublingually).
With each of the experiments reported on, Ott abbreviates
the compounds: 5-MeO-DMT becomes M, bufotenine becomes B, and nicotine becomes N, with the corresponding N [intranasal], S [sublingual], O [oral], V [vaporized], and R [intrarectal] being used to denote the method
of consumption. (As M is street vernacular for both mescaline and MDMA, hopefully its use here to denote 5-MeODMT wont add another such confusing term into common
use.) Ott also includes a description of the isolation and
purification procedure that he used on Anadenanthera
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colubrina var. Cebl seeds to obtain bufotenine, a procedure

that doesnt appear to be overly complicatedsomething
that a kitchen chemist with access to some labware and
solvents might be able to perform.
The main bombshell of this bookif it can be described
as such, since the information has been floating around for
some years nowis that bufotenine is indeed visionary. Ott
redacted his own previous comment in Pharmacotheon (based
on the literature rather than first-hand experience) where he
had stated bufotenine is not active orally at 100 mg doses.
He now reports that this dose orally is most decidedly active, albeit mild. Intranasal doses are more active than oral
doses, and Ott found bufotenine to be even more potent via
vaporization, particularly when inhaled through the nose.
Despite the fact that Ott admits to his own mis-characterization of bufotenines activity in a couple of his past books,
he nevertheless takes aim at one particular article by others
that made the same mistake that he did, in what Ott clearly
feels was a grander fashion. However, as Ott earlier remarked
in Pharmacotheon, Since the symptoms of cardiopulmonary
distress described following the administration of bufotenine
can hardly be pleasurable, and few among us would wish to
see our faces the livid color of an eggplant, it is doubtful anyone would intentionally administer this drug, and as the
folks who wrote the article that Ott criticizes cite
Pharmacotheon as one of their sources, it shouldnt seem too
surprising if they would have shied away from personal bioassays after reading what Ott had to say! Indeed, it seems
highly doubtful that Ott himself would have ventured into
the realm of bufotenine bioassay, if it wasnt for the fact that
some Anadenanthera seeds that had traditionally been used
for snuffand which Ott himself found to be visionary
tested out as having virtually nothing but bufotenine in them.
It is quite understandable that the authors whom Ott takes
to task would not have similarly stumbled onto this finding
via bioassay, since their primary interest was toad secretions,
which contain numerous more deadly bufo toxins, along with
the bufotenine. Nevertheless, Ott is to be commended for
his further investigations into an area that many would not
have trod, due to the preponderance of evidence from past
studies of bufotenines activity seeming to indicate that it
might be a dangerous path to walk.
During his psychonautical exploration, Ott also discovered
that a previous report in the Shulgins book TIHKAL of 5MeO-DMT being inactive orally (based on a sole bioassay of
35 mg), may have been due to that individuals biochemistry, rather than an inherent lack of oral activity for the
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compound. Ott found 30 mg of the free-base (encapsulated)

to indeed be activeon a similar level to 10 mg taken intranasally or sublingually.
I was a little disappointed that this book didnt cover the
pharmacology of DMT via sublingual or intranasal ingestion.
Ive heard a few reports related to DMT ingested in this manner, but seen nothing published anywhere. Jonathan
pointed out to me that his was a book that focuses on
shamanic snuffs and not general tryptamine pharmacology,
and that DMT does not figure in the composition of the
traditional snuffs, except as an occasional trace or minor
secondary product. While this is true, I suspect that an aside
which detailed DMT pharmacology would have been
welcomed by most readers.
In the pharmacology data that was presented on those
tryptamines that do figure heavily as active components in
traditional snuffs, threshold doses were found via sublingual
and intranasal ingestion. But there wasnt any mention of
fully active doses without the addition of a MAOI. Following the publication of this book, I heard about people who
dramatically increased the threshold sublingual doses that
Ott mentioned for 5-MeO-DMT, and who were unable to
obtain what they considered to be fully active doses. They
did get some noticeable effects, but nothing at all like those
from smoking or oral ingestion with a MAOI. There would
be, no doubt, more debate surrounding what constitutes a
fully active dose than there would be surrounding what
constitutes a threshold dose for any given compound. Still,
it is reasonable to think that even a threshold dose for one individual may be quite different in milligram amounts than
it would be for another individual (as exemplified by the report of no oral activity for 35 mg of 5-MeO-DMT that was
put forth in TIHKAL being challenged by Otts own report
of activity at 30 mg). Hence, Otts threshold doses should
only be seen as guidelinesamounts that worked for him
(though it should be noted that he claims to have a relatively
high tolerance to tryptamines, before one jumps headlong
to any conclusions based on the TIHKAL/5-MeO-DMT dose
comparison). But it is also worth noting that just because a
visionary threshold dose is reached, this doesnt necessarily mean that larger sublingual or intranasal doses will be
fully active in the same manner as via smoking or oral consumption concurrent with a MAOI. Obviously more data
points are needed on this topic. Those who chose to enter
into the fray are encouraged to follow the strict methodology that Ott describes in his book to ensure that the material remains under ones tongue: dry the mouth before
applying the crystals, then recline with ones head proppedup and the tongue elevated to block the throat, and keep any
saliva in the mouth for about 45 minutes. Who said taking
drugs wasnt hard work?!
The book ends with a poem, Arboreal Afflatus Tano Talking Tree, and contains a comprehensive bibliography and
detailed index. I heartily recommend Snuffs as a valuable
reference book for anyone interested in the history and
pharmacology of the traditional snuffs. It is a beautiful, wellwritten, and informative compendium, and an inspiration
for those choosing to pursue further psychonautical investigations. A German version of this book is planned as well.
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Index
Symbols
1-(3-chlorophenyl)-piperazine 71
1-(4-methoxyphenyl)-piperazine 71
1-benzylpiperazine 71, 72
111 Great Homeopaths 115
1,4-butanediol 71, 75
2-Cyclohexylethylamine 136
2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)propylthiophenethylamine 71
2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)propylthiophenethylamine 20
2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylthiophenethylamine 71
2,5-dimethoxybenzaldehyde 71
2C-B 20, 31
2C-I 32, 105
2C-T-2 71, 105
2C-T-7 20, 21, 63, 71, 105
3-MeO-tyramine 60
3-Pound Universe 9
3,4,5-trimethoxybenzaldehyde 71
4-Acetoxy-DET 63, 105
4-Acetoxy-DIPT 105
4-methyl-N-methyl-coclaurine 97
4-phosphoroxy-NMT 33
5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) 21, 32
5-MeO-6-OH-aporphine 97
5-MeO-AMT 105, 106, 107, 145
5-MeO-DIPT 71, 105, 145
5-MeO-DMT 2, 3, 4, 40, 68, 69, 72,
103, 105, 107, 112, 135, 145, 150,
151
5-methoxyindole 71
5-methoxyindole-3-carboxaldehyde 71
5,7 dihydroxyflavone 71
A
Aardvark, David 36, 40, 64, 101, 102,
139
Abbey Ethnobotanicals 113
absinthe 138
Acacia berlandieri 135, 136, 152
Acacia complanata 111
Acacia rigidula 135, 136
Ace Tech 141
Acer saccharinum 40, 116
acetic acid 12, 27
acetone 36, 137
Acid Test 144
Acokanthera oppositifolia 150
Acorus calamus 71, 72, 73, 110, 111,
146, 150
Ad-Busters 62
adenosine-5-triphosphate 71
adrafinil 144
Adriaans, Nico 37
Afro-blend 76
agar 11
Agaricus bisporus 10
Agave liliaceae 146
ai pilau 44
Ainsworth, C. 66, 79
akashon 4
akua 47
Al Quada 123
Alan 98
Alchornea castaneifolia 72
alcohol 3, 8, 16, 25, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53,
55, 56, 94, 98, 118, 138
Alejandro, Darkiking Don 114
alembic 104
Alexander III, Pope 10
Alexander, Jason 74
Alford, Alan 74
Alhagi pseudalhagi 136, 152
Alice in Wonderland 144
Alkemists Pharmaceuticals 141, 142
AllChemical Arts (conference) 118
Allegro, John 74
Allen, J.P. 54, 79
Allen, John W. 41, 46, 74, 79
Allies 2
allocryptopine 7
allopolyploid, induced 34
Alper, Kenneth R. 37, 38
alpha-chloralose 71
alpha,O-dimethylserotonin 106, 107
Alpinia galanga 101
Alpinia officinarum 101
Alternanthera lehmanii 111
Alternatech Solutions 113
Alternet 63
Alzheimers disease 30
Amahuaca 58, 79
Amanita caesaria 10
Amanita muscaria 10, 41, 64, 71, 73, 74,
76, 77, 134, 145, 146, 148
Amanita muscaria var. formosa 134
Amanita pantherina 104
Amanita phallodies 145
Amaringo, Pablo 39, 119, 146
Amazon: The Invisible People 146
American Anthropological Association 58, 92
American Indian Movement (AIM)

82, 89
Ames, D. 20, 40
ammonia 3, 27
Ampamet 144
amphetamine 31, 32, 76, 135, 137, 148
AMT 71, 105
Anacyclus pyrethrum 150
Anadenanthera 73
Anadenanthera colubrina 39, 69, 72,
102, 103, 134, 146
Anadenanthera colubrina var. Cebl 150
Anadenanthera peregrina 103, 116
analgesia 27
Ananda 135
anaphrodisiac 94
Ani 96
aniracetam 144
Anishnabe 114
Annona senegalensis 150
anonanine 97
antidepressant 7, 21, 36, 40
antifebrile 97
antihypertensive 97
antioxidant 32
antipsychotic 97
antipyretic heart tonic 97
antitussive 94
Apache 82
aphrodisiac 97, 101
apomorphine 97
aporphine 97
Appleseed, Johnny 1, 4, 101, 108, 133,
134
Arago, Jaques Etienne Victor 41, 44,
45, 46, 47, 79
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi 150
Areca catechu 71, 72, 110, 146
Arvalo, Benito 60, 61
Arvalo, Guillermo 59, 60
Argemone chicolote 111, 146
Argemone glauca 6, 7
Argemone grandiflora 7
Argemone mexicana 6, 71, 72, 146
Argemone munita sp. rotundata 6, 8
Argemone plieacantha 7
Argemone polyanthemos 7, 73, 146
argemonene 7
Argyreia nervosa 71, 72, 73, 111, 134,
146, 151
Ariocarpus fissuratus 40, 146
Ariocarpus retusus 40, 73
Armatocereus arboreus 60
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Armatocereus laetus 60
armepavine 97
Art Visionary Magazine 142
artarine 7
Artemisia 150
Artemisia absinthium 71, 73, 146
Artemisia compositeae 146
Artemisia vulgaris 73
Arthur, James 74
Arundo donax 111, 133, 146, 152
ascorbic acid 71
Asparagus africanus 150
aspirin 20
asthma 59
Astrophytum asterias 40, 67
Astrophytum capricorne 67
Astrophytum myriostigma 67, 68, 73
Atlantis Bookstore 62
ATP 71
Atropa belladonna 73, 111
Atum 95
Aua 87
Augustus, Roman Emperor 49
Aurelius, Marcus 49
Aurora, David 74
auxin(e) 35, 141
Awayan, Abd el Hakim 74
ayahuasca 118, 119, 130, 131, 139, 140,
146, 149, 152
Ayahuasca Healing Retreat 29, 119
ayahuascero 114
Aztekium ritteri 40, 73
B
B.H., IL 113
B.K. 67, 79
B.N. 107
Babaji 114
baby Hawaiian woodrose 72, 138
Bacillus anthracis 18
Bacopa monniera 72
baeocystin 33, 34
Bakalar, James 77
Baker, John 117
Banisteriopsis 58, 139
Banisteriopsis caapi 39, 71, 72, 73, 110,
111, 113, 130, 131, 139, 146, 150,
152
Banisteriopsis rusbyana 72
barbiturates 75
barley 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57
Barneby, R.C. 102, 116
Basement Shaman, The 107, 133, 147
Batista, L.M. 103, 116
Baumann, B.B. 79
Beal, Dana 37, 111
Beals, Ralph 93
Beck 74
Beckworth, M. 44, 45, 79
154
beer 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 80, 118,
120, 121, 122
Beifuss, Will 111
benzofuran 21
benzylamine 101
benzylpiperazine 72
berberine 7
Berkeley Bonaparte Acid Man 144
-carboline(s) 3, 61
betel 148
Beug, M.W. 133, 152
Bianchi, Antonio 59, 60, 79
Big Medicine (Phalaris grass strain) 2
Bigwood, Jeremy 133, 152
Bison bison 139
Black Elk 83, 84
Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala 83
Blackberry Winter 92
Blackmore, Susan 117
blackout technique 4
Blair, John 82
Blake, William 127
blood pressure 20, 136, 137
blood test 16
Blue Ridge Garden 113
blue star (morning glory) 67
Blueberry (Cannabis strain) 33
Bluelight 142
Boal, Mark 20
Boas, Franz 86, 87, 89, 91, 92
Bodhi Tree 62
body aches 60
Bohr, Neils 74
Boire, Finn 123
Boire, Richard Glen 123, 130
Bolt, P. 53, 80
Book of the Dead 95, 96
BOOM Festival 70, 120, 121, 122
Borzicactus 60
Bos indicus 139
Bos taurus 139
Botanic Art 103, 113
Botanical Dimensions 141
Botanical Preservation Corps 8, 133
Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens,
The 9, 102
Botany of Desire, The 149
Bouncing Bear Botanicals 71
Bradbury, Ray 74
Bramley, William 74
Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis (Willdenow)
Berger 61
Bremness 97
Brent, Morgan 121
Bridges, Beau 74
Broken Arrow 82
bromocriptine 144
Brooks, Rodney 117
Brown, Jerry 74
Browns, Ms. 118
Brugmansia 35, 36, 73, 111

Brugmansia arborea 146
Brugmansia suaveolens 58
Brunfelsia 111
Brunfelsia grandiflora 72
Bryan, Karena 74
bubblebag 143
bufo toxins 150
bufotenine 150
bull 88
Burger, Julian 114
Burning Man 121
Burroughs, William S. 62
Bwiti 37, 38, 98
C
C.E.G., ID 136
C.S.C ., CO 66
cacao 8
cacaoyari 89
cactahuasca 60
Cactus & Succulent Plant Mall 67
caffeine 71
calcium 14, 27, 40
calcium chloride 14
calcium sulphate 14
Calea zacatechichi 72, 73, 76, 110, 146
Calgary Herald 24
California Cactus Center 22, 23, 24
Callaway, Jace 74
canachiari 58
cancer 72
Cannabis 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 32, 33, 39, 48,
67, 73, 75, 77, 78, 94, 101, 107,
110, 111, 118, 120, 121, 132, 135,
138, 144, 150
Capsicum 150
Carlos Castaneda: Academic Opportunism 81, 82, 85, 93, 116
Carnegia gigantea 146
Carneiro, Robert 58, 79, 87
Carrie, Reverend 117
Carthage 125, 126
Casale, J.F. 12, 40
Case, Justin 68, 69, 79, 138, 152
Cassidy, Sean 74
Castaneda, Carlos 81, 82, 83, 85, 92,
93, 116
Catarino 86, 87, 88, 89
Catha edulis 57, 136, 137, 146
cathine 146
cathinone 136, 137, 146
Catholic 10
cats claw 144
cattle 41, 45, 47, 84
cbil (also see Anandenanthera colubrina)
103
Celastrus paniculatus 72
Celeus, King of Eleusis 49, 50
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
Centeno, Juanita 83
Center for Addiction Research 37
centipede 107
Centruroides 66
Cerletti, A. 16, 40
chai 58
Chem. Pharm. Bull. 101
Chia, Mantak 4, 135
Chills 31
Chiricahua 82
Chock, A.K. 43, 79
chocolate 148
choline 144
Christ, Jesus 84
Christiana 38
chromium picolinate 144
chrysin 71
chuchupana 58
chuchupano 58
chuchupawa 58
Chumash 83
Cicero 49, 79
citric acid 12, 134
Civano Nursery 136
Clarkes early flowering (morning
glory strain) 67
Claviceps paspali 50, 51
Claviceps purpurea 50, 51, 52, 57
Clement, B.A. 136, 152
clenbuterol 71
cluster headaches 15
CNS-depressant 97
coca (also see Erythroxylum coca) 122,
148
cocaine 21, 31, 36, 37, 75, 76, 122, 132,
142
Cochise 82
coconut milk 101
codeine 24, 65
Codex Seraphinianus 39
Coffea arabica 73, 146
coffee 8, 148
coffee filter 23
coffeeshop 120
Cola acuminata 72
Cola nitida 146
Coldfinger Herbal Extractor 133
Columbus [Cristobal Coln] 149
coma 20, 32
Concar, D. 66, 79
condensate 104
Confessions of a Dope Dealer 110
confusion 20, 35
Conscious Dreams 132
Consciousness Technologies 1
Conspirator 78
Controlled Substance Act 130, 132
Convallaria majalis 111
convulsions 20
Copelandia cyanescens 14
Cora 85
Cordyline terminalis 45
corn 88
Corynanthe pachyceras 111
Corynanthe yohimbe 110, 111
Coryphantha macromeris 73, 146
Coryphantha vivipara 146
Cosmic Serpent, The 100
Cosmic Shrooms 113
Cosmic Trading 31
Costantini, E.S. 60, 79
Costes, C. 27, 40
Cox, J.H. 45, 79
crack 75, 76
cranberry juice 94
Crowley, Aleister 127
Crowley, Amado 74
Cruz, Anselmo Palma 114
cryptopine 7
cuckoo 115
Cuisine Franois, Le 10
Culture and Truth 83
Cures Not Wars 38
Current Anthropology 87
Cystisus scoparia 72
D
D.L, CA 68
Daemonorops draco 77
Dali, Salvador 74
damiana 76
DanceSafe 31
Dark Side of Consciousness 28
darkroom (meditation) 4, 135
darnel 57
DASH/INTASH 37
Datura 39, 117, 150
Datura inoxia 73, 146
Datura metel 35, 73
Datura meteloides 73
Datura stramonium 45, 73, 110
David, James 82
Davis, Floyd 78
Davis, Wade 60, 74, 79, 121
DDAVP 144
de Medici, Catherine 10
De Moraes, E.H.F. 103, 116
De Rienzo, Paul 37
DEA 16, 63, 133
Death 128, 129
death 17, 20, 21, 32, 38, 49, 50, 51, 52,
54, 65, 78, 83, 84, 89, 91, 96, 104,
105, 125, 128, 129, 135, 146
Decker, Darold 67
Dee 127
deer 84, 88
Deering (scale) 19
dehydroepiandrosterone 71
DeKorne, Jim 111
demerol 21
Demeter 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 80
demethylcoclaurine 97
deMille, Richard 87
Denholm, D. 67
deprenyl 144
depression 21, 98
Desjardin, D. 41, 46, 47, 79
Desmanthus 110, 133
Desmanthus illinoensis 72, 73, 76, 133,
146, 152
Desmanthus leptolobus 133, 146
DeSmet, P. 138, 152
Desmodium gangeticum 72, 73
Desmopressin 144
Deva Ethnobotanicals 110
dextromethorphan 71, 145
DHEA 71, 144
diarrhea 20, 60
Daz, J.L. 97
diazepam 75
dichloromethane 136
Dictyoloma incanescens 40, 116
dimethyl-5-methoxytryptamine (also
see 5-MeO-DMT) 72
Dimorphandra parviflora 150
DiNiro, Robert 74
Diphantoine 144
Diplopterys cabrerana 72, 73, 76, 110,
111, 113, 134, 146
DIPT 71
DiRienzo, Paul 111
distillation 103, 104, 138
divination 95
divinorin C 40
dizziness 97
dl-armepavine oxalate 97
DMSO 36
DMT 2, 3, 4, 39, 40, 58, 62, 66, 69, 80,
98, 103, 104, 107, 113, 130, 131,
133, 134, 135, 138, 141, 146, 151
DMT: Spirit Molecule 113
DNA 31, 34, 57, 100
Doblin, Rick 112
Dolby, Thomas 74
Don Juan Papers, The 87
dopamine 71
DPT 71, 105, 145
dream 81, 88, 90, 94, 95, 96, 100
Drierite 14
Drug Enforcement Administration
(also see DEA) 63
Drug Recognition Card and Pupillometer 75
Duboisia hopwoodii 39
Duffy, Patrick 74
Dunn, Christopher 74
Dutch Passion 110
Dutta, S.K. 133, 152
DXM 63, 71
155
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
E
E-Bay (www.ebay.com) 63
E.N., CA 137
eagle 90
earaches 59
Earthalchemy 71
Echenofer, Frank 119
Echinocereus coccineus 146
Echinocereus neomexicanus 146
Echinocereus triglochidiatus 71, 146
Eckhart, R. 31, 40
Ecstasy (also see MDMA) 20, 32, 33,
40, 66, 79, 142
Ecstasy: The Complete Guide 32, 122
Edelstein, J. 21, 40
Eden Labs 133
EEG 37, 119
Eisenmann, Robert 74
Elbert, S.H. 43, 44, 45, 46, 80
Elemental Scientific 31, 133
Eleusinian Mysteries 55, 80
Eleusis 49, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 80
Eliade, M. 42, 79
Eliet, Simon 115
Emboden, W.A. 6, 7, 8, 36, 40, 94, 95,
96, 97, 116
emetic 97
empathogenic 4
Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith
89, 130
Endoconidium temulentum 57
enema 93, 138
Enrique 146
Entheobotanica 69, 151
Entheobotany (conference) 113, 118
Entheogene Bltter 111
Entheos: The Journal of Psychedelic
Spirituality 45, 84, 87
Ephedra 38, 72, 137
Ephedra equisetina 71, 146
Ephedra minima 73
Ephedra nevadensis 73
Ephedra sinensis 73
Ephedra sinica 110, 146, 148
ephedrine 20, 75, 76
Epiphyllum 58
Epithelantha micromeris 73
ergine (also see lysergic acid amide)
138, 146
ergoloid mesylates 144
ergonovine 50, 51, 52
ergopeptide 51, 52
ergot 38, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57
ergotamine 97
Erowid (www.erowid.org) 30, 31, 32,
101, 105
Erowid, Earth 32
Erowid Extracts 31
Erowid, Fire 32
156
Erythrina mulungu 72
erythromycin 71
Erythroxylum coca (also see coca) 148,
150
Eschscholzia californica 71, 76, 146
Eskimo 87
Ester-C formula 144
estradiol valerate 144
estrogen 144
ethanol 3, 16, 25, 27
Ethnobotany of the Hopi, The 101
Ethnogarden Botanicals 103, 113,
147
Ethnography of Franz Boas, The 89
Ethnoplanet 77
ethyl p-methoxy-trans-cinnamate 101
etorphine 27
Eucalyptus 4
Eupatorium perfoliatum 4
euphoria 98, 101
euphoric 94, 108
Euripides 49
Evans, A. 54, 55, 79
Evans, Fred J. 134
Eveleth, B.M. 47
Evernia furfuracea 57
Exodus Art, Music, and Circus
Festival 140
Experiment at Petaluma 62
extraterrestrial 100
EZ-Whip 30, 31
F
Facchini, Peter 24, 25, 27
Fahey, Todd Brendan 113
Fairley, P. 53, 79
Family Dog 144
Fang 37
Farley, J.R. 45, 79
FDA (Food and Drug Administration) 63, 112
Feher, J. 45, 46, 79
Fernandez, James Renate 37
Festi, Francesco 50
Ficus insipida 72
Fikes, Jay C. 81, 91, 93, 116
Fillmore 144
finasteride 144
Finley, Angela 111
First Amendments Free Exercise
Clause 130
Fish, Adam 117
fly agaric (also see Amanita muscaria)
41
flying saucers (morning glory strain)
67
Flynn, Captain 82
folinic acid 31
Fomes fomentarius 150
Forensic Products & Services 76

Forestal, Micheline 114
Forte, Robert 74
Foster, S. 36, 40
Foucart, P.F. 54, 79
Foundation for Shamanic Studies
115
four oclock 101
Frazer, J.G. 54, 79
Free Spore Ring 72
Freedom Book Company 111
Freeman, Derek 92
French, John 104
French press coffee extractor 13
Fresh Headies 143
Fuchs, Ernst 142
Fungophile 70
furanone 75
Furst, Peter 74, 84, 85, 93
G
galangal 101
galantamine 144
Galium odoratum 111
gamma butyrol lactone 75
gamma hydroxy butyrate 75
ganja 118
Garcia, Consuela 35
Garden of Eden, Vol II 97
Gartz, Jochen 13, 33, 35, 36, 74
Gaskin, Stephen 33
Gates, Bill 74
Gateway to Inner Space 57
Genesis of Eden, The 73
genetic inclusion 33, 34
Genisis, Theodore 135
GH3 144
GHB 10, 19, 74, 75, 148
GHB-like 102
Ghosal, S. 133, 136, 152
Gibson, D. 103, 116
Gibson, William 62
Giger, H.R. 62, 74
ginger 101
Ginkgo biloba 110, 144
Gips, Elizabeth 32
Glick, S.D. 37, 38
Glider 74
Glucophage 144
glucosamine sulfate 144
Glycyrrhiza lepidota 73
glyph 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 79
Gnostic Garden 103
God 84, 90, 93, 98, 100, 121, 126, 127,
128, 143, 145
Goldies 30
Gollnhofer, N. 37
Gonalves de Lima, O. 39, 40, 103,
116
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
Gothic Beauty 62
Gottlieb, Adam 33
Goutarel, R. 37
Goyon, Jean-Claude 57
gramine 133
Grandfather-Fire 84
grape seed extract 144
grapefruit juice 25
Grateful Dead 110, 121, 144
Green Earth Ethnobotanicals 73
Green Heat, Inc. 113
Greens 38
Grey, Alex 62, 121, 122, 123, 142,
143, 144, 146
Griffith, William 25
Grinspoon, Lester 77
Gruenewald Manufacturing Co. 31
guaifenisen 20
guajillo wobbles 135, 136
guarana 148
Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch 127
gypsum 14
H
Hades 49
Hadrian, Roman Emperor 49
Hagenow Laboratories 31
Hahn, Robert Rio 117
hair test 16
hallucination 142
Hambly, P. 17
Hanes, K.R. 17, 36, 40
Hanna, Jon 30, 40, 71, 110, 141, 151
haoma 10
haploid 34
harmaline 2, 3, 76, 105, 150
harman 60
harmine 2, 3, 71, 76, 105, 150
Harner, Michael 58, 115
Hartz, Isabela 119, 140
hash 118, 122, 143, 144
Hathor, Egyptian Goddess 57, 96
Hawaii Medical Journal 47
Hawaiian (Psilocybe cubensis strain) 12
Hawkin, Stephen 74
Hayes, Charles 111, 121, 122
HD Seeds 73
Heads 111
Healing Tao Center 135
Health Tech 133
heart rate 20, 136
heavenly blue (morning glory strain)
67
Heavens Stairway 73
Heffren, Richard 36, 40
Heimia myrtifolia 73
Heimia salicifolia 72, 73, 146
Heinrich, Clark 74, 134
Helen of Troy 53
hemorrhoids 59
hemp 77
Hempseed Cybershop 73
Henry II 10
Herbal Explorations 111
Herbal Medicine Bag 73, 113
Herbal Merchants Rating Page 74
Herbal-Shaman 2, 147
Herodotus 53, 54, 79
heroin 21, 24, 37, 38, 75, 76, 104, 142
HGH 74, 75
High Times 111, 147
Hiiaka 45
Hill, Chris 31
Hippie 11
hoasca 130, 131
Hoffman, Mark 41, 45
Hofmann, Albert 9, 35, 38, 39, 50,
51, 56, 57, 62, 69, 102, 138, 152
Hogshire, Jim 25
hojas de la Pastora 35
Holland, Julie 20, 40, 122
Holmstedt, Bo 74
Home Depot 33
Homer 49, 53, 95
Homeric Hymn to Demeter 49, 51, 54,
55, 56, 80
homorunine 7
honey 87, 88
Hooper, Judith 9
Hopi 101
horse dung 43, 47
horses 41, 45, 47
HR 5607 130, 132, 147
huamai-lani 44
Huanaymey Tree 114
Huang 97
Huichol 62, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88,
89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 114
Huichol Mythology 81
Humulus lupulus 71, 72, 73, 146
huna 42, 44
Hunt, D. 61, 79
Hunt, George 89
Hurtas, Demosdenes Ramirez 114
Huxley, Aldous 9, 37
hybrid species 34
Hydergine 32, 144
Hydra-Pod 145
hydrochloric acid 3, 14
Hydroflow 143
hydrogen peroxide 27
hydroponic 26, 36
hydroxy-sesquiterpene 61
Hymenaea courbaril 72
Hyoscyamus 39
Hyosycamus niger 73
hypertensive crisis 105
hypomania 20
I
ibogaine 37, 38, 98, 99, 100, 104, 105,
111
Ibogaine Project 37
Ibogaine Story 38, 111
Ibogaine: Proceedings of the First
International 37, 104
ibuprofen 142
Ice-O-Lator 144
idebenone 144
Ilex guayusa 150
Ilex paraguayensis 73
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils,
The 134
Inayenikidili, Nele Buna 114
Inderal 144
Indiana State Police 63
indole 71, 138, 141
Indra (slang for ibogaine) 38
Indra Shamanic Products 104, 105
Infinite Ayes 98, 105
Innocent III 10
Inouye, Daniel 90
Inquisitor, The 113
Intelectol 144
International Coalition of Addiction Self-Help 37
International Conference on
Altered States 109
Heritage 83
Science 28
Interspiritual Fellowship of Mystic
Experience 32
Into the Void: Exploring Consciousness,
Hyperspace 138
Inuit 87
Ipomoea 150
Ipomoea carnea 72
Ipomoea purpurpea 72
Ipomoea tricolor 110, 146
Ipomoea violacea 73, 76, 97, 110, 146
ISI 30, 31
Iso-II 133
isolienisine 97
isoquinoline 7, 97, 135, 152
IT-290 71
itaoqui 89
J
J.L. Hudson, Seedsman 19
J.S., OR 66
Jacob 9
jaguar 82
Jakamarra, Walangari Karntawarra
39
157
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
Janigar, Oscar 32
Jansen, Karl 62
Jasminum offinalis 72
Jatropha curcas 72
jaundice 114
Jefferys, Dean 146
Jeffords, Thomas 82
Jennys Cafe 118
jhankri 114
JLF: Poisonous Non-consumables 63,
64, 102, 103, 134
Jones, G.M. 113
Jones, Tao 94
Joplin, Janis 21
Journal Biol. Chem. 101
Jumex 144
jurema 40, 103, 116
Justica pectoralis 150
Juxtapoz 143
K
Kaempferia galanga 72, 101
kahuna 42, 43, 46, 47
Kak-Tall-A-Tree 32, 33
Kane 44
Kangsinmu 114, 115
kanna 76
Kapoor, L.D. 26, 27
kapu 46
Kapuaiaia 44
kava 43, 44, 45, 73, 79, 144
Kent, James 125
Kernyi. C. 55, 79
Kernoi 56
Kernos 56
Kesey, Ken 32, 144
ketamine 62, 65
khat (also see Catha edulis) 57
kiri 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91
Kin, Jorge 114
King Bong 139
King, Chris 73
Kinoshite, K. 27, 40
Kisag 30
Klarwein, Mati 143
Knipe, R. 44, 79
Knoware 113
Knut ml 37
kola 148
Korzay, Meral 83
Koshalya 114
Kottak, Conrad 84, 85
kratom (also see Mitragyna speciosa)
147
Krippner, Stanley 117
Kroeger, Paul 74
Krupat, Arnold 87
kukae 43, 44, 47
kukae-akua 44, 45
158
kukaelio 43, 47
kukaeuau 43
Kuna 114
Kurzweil, Ray 117
kutam 88
Kuzminska, K. 27, 40
Kwakiutl 86, 89, 92
kykeon 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56,
57
L
L-arginine 144
L-carnitine 71
L-dopa 71
L-glutamine 144
L-lysine 71, 144
L-tryptophan 71, 144
L-tyrosine 71
L.B., Whaletown, B.C. 17
L.E.R. (Legendary Ethnobotanical
Research) 102
La Varenne, Francois 10
laau hoomalule kino 45
laau ona 45
laau-hano 45
Lacandon 114
Lactuca virosa 71, 73, 77, 110, 146
Lagochilus inebrians 39
Lakota 82, 84
Lamb, Bruce 87, 88
lassitude 51
Lavalli, Tim 117
Lawless, Julia 134
Lazar 6, 7, 40
LD50 20
League of Spiritual Discovery 98
Leary, Timothy 37, 62, 144
Lebot, V. 43, 79
Lechters 30
lecithin 101, 144
Lee, G. 45, 46, 47, 79
Lee, Martin 111
Legends 73
Leland 30
Lentinula edodes 9
Leonotis leonurus 72, 73, 76, 146
leonuridine 7
leonurine 7
Leonurus sibiricus 7, 8, 72, 73, 146
Lespedeza bicolor 72
Levi-Strauss 86
Leviticus XXV:10 125
Lewin, L. 58
lidocaine 71
Lieberman, Dan 38
liensinine 97
Life Enhancement Pharmaceuticals
74, 75
Lightning Powder Company, Inc. 75
Lil Shop of Spores 112

lilies 94, 116
Lilly, John 32
lily 42, 45, 76, 94, 95, 96
Lincoff, Gary 74
Lindau, G. 57, 79
Lindgren, J.E. 58, 59, 80
Liquid Crystal Vision 121
Littlefish, Kanucas 114
Llwydd, Gwyllm 62, 149
Lobelia inflata 72, 73
Lobo, Susan 91
Lockwood, Taylor 74
Lolium temulentum 57
Loniten 144
Lophophora decipiens 146
Lophophora diffusa var. Koehresii 71
Lophophora fricii 71
Lophophora williamsii var. decipiens 71
Lophophora williamsii var. texensis 71
Lotsof, Howard 37
lotus 94, 95, 96
Lotus Paradise, The 113
Lotus Tech 76
lotusine 97
LSD 9, 31, 36, 50, 51, 65, 66, 69, 75,
76, 80, 98, 101, 107, 110, 138, 144
LSD Blotter Art 144
LSD: My Problem Child 69
Luce, J.V. 54, 57, 79
Ludlow, Fitz Hugh 33
Lycopus virginicus 72
Lygodium venustum 58
lysergic acid 141
lysergic acid amide 138
Lyttle, Thomas 38, 81, 111
M
Ma Huang (also see Ephedra) 148
maestro 114
Magic 108
Magic Garden Herb Co. 113
Magic Mushroom Cultivation 13
Magic Mushroom Kalender 2000 33
Magic Mushroom Test Kit 141
Magic Mushrooms in Religion and
Alchemy 134
magnesium 27, 40
Makai-ke-oe 44
mana 42, 44, 46
manbo 114
Mandragora 72
Mandragora officinarum 39, 73, 110
Mani 10
Manichan 10
manure 10, 40
MAO-A 101
MAOI 2, 21, 60, 61, 101, 104, 105, 106,
107, 139, 151
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MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)

58, 121
MAPS Bulletin 62
Maquira sclerophylla 150
Maraakame 114
Marchand, Mr. 10
Marcus, Joyce 84, 85
Margaret Mead and the Heretic 92
marijuana 91
Marinol 110
Marrubium valgare 146
Mash, Deborah 37, 38
Matas Romero (Psilocybe cubensis
strain) 12
Matricaria chamomilla 71
Matucana madisoniorum 60, 73
Maui 45
Maxwell, Jordan 74
Maya 116
Maya Ethnobotanicals 77
Mayan 84, 114
Mayoruna 100
Mazatec 35, 36
MBDB 63
MBE Tech 63, 72, 105
mburucuy 60
McAlpine, K.L. 11
McBride, L.R. 44, 45, 46, 79
McCloy, John 117
McCoy, Andrew 30
McIntosh, Sandy 92
McKenna, Dennis J. 59, 74, 79
McKenna, Terence 4, 55, 56, 62, 74,
80, 139, 146
McNeal Growers 136
McQuade, Leslie M. 117
MDA 32, 142
MDMA (also see Ecstasy) 16, 20, 21,
31, 32, 66, 75, 105, 112, 141, 142,
148, 149, 150
Mead, Margaret 92
Meadows, M. 30, 40
Meckes-Lozoya, M. 103
meditation 4, 36, 40
Mehler, Stephen 74
melatonin 4, 144
Melchizedek, Drunvalo 127
melting candle cactus 23
Meme Machine, The 117
menehune 44
Merlin, M.D. 41, 46, 79
Merry Pranksters 144
mescaline 9, 20, 23, 32, 39, 40, 59, 60,
68, 80, 98, 107, 122, 132, 135,
136, 138, 146, 150
Message Company, The 29, 109
Metaneira, Queen 49, 50
metformin hydrochloride 144
methadone 75, 76
methamphetamine 75, 76, 135, 137,

141
methanol 3, 97, 136, 137, 138
methaqualone 75, 76
methcathinone 136, 137
methionine 31
methylcorypalline 97
methylene chloride 3
methylergonovine 80
Michaels, Damian 142
Micron Majick Mycology Market
112
micropipette 3
migraine 15
Mika, E.S. 27, 40
Miller, Richard A. 101, 116
Mimosa hostilis (also see M. tenuiflora)
39, 40, 102, 103, 116
Mimosa ophthalmocentra 103, 116
Mimosa pudica 146
Mimosa scabrella 102, 103, 116
Mimosa tenuiflora (also see M. hostilis)
39, 71, 72, 73, 76, 102, 103, 104,
110, 111, 113, 134, 146
Mimosa verrucosa 103
mind machine 138, 139
Mind States III 117, 118, 122
Mind States Jamaica 117, 123
minoxidil 144
mint 49, 50, 51, 52, 53
MIPT 105
mira 136
Mirabilis japonica 101
Mirabilis multiflora 101, 102, 146
Mitragyna speciosa 107, 147
MJB Botanicals 76, 77
Mnesis 144
moclobemide 104, 105
modafinil 144
Moffitt-Cook, Pat 114, 115
Montezuma (sic) 8
Montgomery, Elizabeth 74
Montgomery, Rob 4, 103, 116
Moorehead, W.K. 139, 152
Morinda citrifolia 45
morning glory 67, 138
morphine 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 40, 65,
76
Mountain Oaks 8
mourning doves 81
Mouse, Stanley 143
Mukherjee 97
Muss, Charles 57
mushroom head 42, 44, 46
mushroom helmet 41, 42, 44, 46
Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of
Mushrooms 74
Mushrooms Russia and History 9
mycelium 10, 11, 34
mycophobia 9, 10
Myerhoff, Barbara 85, 93

Mylonas, G.E. 49, 50, 52, 54, 56, 80
myoclonus 20
Myristica fragrans 73, 148
Myrtillocactus geometrizans 71
Mystery School 29
N
N-2-Cyclohexylethyl-N-methylamine
136
N-Me-tyramine 59
N-Methyl-mescaline 136
N-methyl-phenthylamine 136
N-methyl-tyramine 80
N.B., New York Botanical Garden
102
N.L., CO 64
N.Y. Ethnobotanicals 113
Nachtschatten Verlag 33
nagual 81, 88
Naive, Emmanuel 37
Narby, Jeremy 100
narcotic 45, 65, 66, 75, 94, 96, 97, 113,
116, 122, 128, 151
Narrenschwmme 13
National Institute on Drug Abuse
66
Native American Autobiography 87
Native American Church (NAC) 83,
84, 90, 115
Native American Voices, A Reader 91
Native Habitat 102, 147
Native Seeds/Search 8, 69
nausea 51, 52, 61, 97, 98, 104
Nauwald, Nana 39
Navajo 84
NDA International 37
Neeley, P. 51, 80
nele 114
Nelumbium 94
Nelumbo nucifera 76, 77, 94, 97
Nepeta cataria 71, 72, 146
nererine 97
nerve damage 31
nervine 97
Neupramir 144
neuropeptide 37
neurotoxic 32
New England Journal of Medicine 32
New Scientist 66
New York Botanical Garden 101
Nganga 38
nicergoline 144
Nicotiana 97, 150
Nicotiana glauca 72
Nicotiana rustica 72, 73, 111
Nicotiana tabacum 73
nicotine 123, 135, 138, 150
NIDA 66
159
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
Niemoeller, Mark 64
nightmare 81
NIK drug testing kit/NIK Sticks 75
Nishibe 97
nitrous oxide 20, 30, 31, 40
Nix, Nelleke 81, 85
Nixon, Richard M. 83
Nbrega de Almeida, R. 116
Noctiflora 73
NoDoz 8
noni 45
Nootropil 144
nopal 58
Norberg, Sheldon 110
nornuciferine 97
Noro, T. 101
Northern Lights (Cannabis strain) 33
NovaScreen 36
Nowacki, E. 27, 40
nuciferine 97
Nuphar 97
nupharine 97
nutmeg (also see Myristica fragrans)
148
Nyctaginaceae 101
Nyidhon, Phawo 115
Nymphaea alba 94, 96
Nymphaea caerulea 72, 76, 77, 94, 96,
97, 146
Nymphaea lotus 94
Nymphaea nouchali 96
Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea 94
O
O.H., Sweden 105
obsessive compulsive disorder 15
Odyssey 53
of the jungle 103
Oglala 83
ojha 114
okolehau 45
Okpako, David T. 134
Old Coyote, Steve 114, 115
Oleoresin lupulinae 110
Olmifon 144
Olsson, Mikel 32
Om-Chi Herbs 77
One Nation Under God 90
OPD Chemical Buyers Directory 112
opiates 26, 27, 75
opium 7, 24, 25, 26, 27, 40, 42, 65, 75,
76, 77, 132, 141
Opium for the Masses 25
Opium Poppy Garden: The Way of a
Chinese Grower 25
Opium Poppy: Botany, Chemistry, and
Pharmacology 26
Oprah Show, The 66
Opuntia 58, 59, 60, 61, 80
160
Opuntia acanthocarpa 59
Opuntia basilaris 59
Opuntia brasiliensis (Willdenow)
Haworth 61
Opuntia clavata 80
Opuntia sp. Mill 59
Org B. 25
oripavine 27
Osiris 54, 96
OToole, Peter 74
Ott, Jonathan 7, 9, 10, 19, 35, 36, 39,
40, 46, 51, 59, 62, 74, 80, 97, 103,
105, 122, 123, 139, 149, 150, 151,
152
overdose 6, 19, 20, 21
Owiruame 115
owl 115
Oxy 27, 66
oxycodone 27
oxygen 31
P
p-methoxy-trans-cinnamic acid 101
P.G., Kent 139
P.H., NM 108
Pachter, I. J. 39, 40, 103, 116
Pachycereus pecten-arboriginum 73
Pacific Exotic Spora (P.E.S.) 33, 34
Pagamea macrophylla 150
Palace of Knossos 55
Palace of Minos 79
Palmaceas 60
Panaeolus 80
Panaeolus cambodiginiensis 145
Panaeolus cyanescens 14
Panke, Walter 32
Papaver bracteatum 27, 65
Papaver giganteum 76
Papaver nudicaule 146
Papaver somniferum 27, 40, 45, 65, 71,
73, 141, 146
Papaveraceae 6
Pardanani, J.H. 59, 80
Parker, Judge James 130, 131, 132
Parlodel 144
Paspalum distichum 50
Passiflora 2, 60
Passiflora edules 60
Passiflora incarnata 73
passion flower 2, 60
Passion Flowers 134
Pasteur Research Center 10
Paullinia cupana 73, 110, 146
Paullinia sorbilis 72
Pausinystalia yohimbe [or P. johimbe] 73,
146
PCP 75, 76, 136
Peace Rock Posters 144
pearly gates (morning glory strain) 67
Peganum harmala 1, 61, 71, 72, 73, 76,

108, 110, 111, 134, 146
Peireskia sandents (sic?) 60
Peireskia scandens 60
Pele 45
Pendell, Dale 6, 7, 36, 40, 74, 148,
149
pentazocine 75, 76
peptide 50, 51, 52
Persephone 49, 54, 80
Peruvian Journey, The 113
Pesce, Mark 125
PET scan 36, 66
petroglyph 42, 44, 45, 46, 79
Peucedanum japonicum 39
peyote 55, 58, 68, 69, 81, 84, 85, 88,
89, 90, 93, 98, 100, 114, 132, 136
PF TEK 11, 12, 14
Phalaris 1, 2, 21, 103, 130, 131, 136
Phalaris aquatica 73
Phalaris arundinacea 1, 2, 39, 72, 73,
152
Phalaris grass var. Yugoslavian red 76
Phalaris staggers 136
Pharmacophilia or the Natural Paradises
9
Pharmacotheon 150
pharmahuasca 2
Pharmako/Dynamis 148, 149
Pharmako/Poeia 149
phawo 114
phenethylamine(s) 20, 36, 104, 105,
135, 152
phenylpropanolamine 137
phenytoin 144
Phoradendron flavescens 72
Phragmites australis 72
Phthirusa pyrifolia 72
Phytochemistry 135
PIHKAL 40
Pike, Bishop 83
Pill Identifier Wizard 110
Pinchbeck, Daniel 125
Pindar 49
pineal gland 2
Pinkley, H.V. 58, 80
pinoline 135
Pinus radiata 134
Pipe, Bible and Peyote among the Oglala
Lakota 83
pipe, lantern globe 64
Piper 150
Piper methysticum 45, 71, 72, 73, 110,
146
piperidine 38
pipilzintzintli 35
Piptadenia colubrina 40, 116
PJT Botanicals 103
Plants in Human Affairs 29
Plants of the Gods 39
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
Plato 127
Point Source Productions 113
Polivoy, Silvia 119, 140
Pollan, Michael 149
Pollinator Company 144
Pollock, Steven H. 13, 15, 41, 46, 80
Polydamna 49, 53
poppy seed 141
potassium 27
potentiation 104
pramiracetam 144
precipitate 104
Premarin 144
prickly poppy, Hawaiian 6
prickly poppy, Mexican 6
proanthocyanidin 51
procaine 76
Progynova 144
proline 51, 52
Promind Foundation 58
Prophets Conference, The 29, 70
propoxyphene 75
propranolol 144
Proscar 144
protopine 7
Provigil 144
Prozac 32, 110
pseudoephedrine 137
psilocin 12, 13, 16, 33, 40, 76, 111, 141,
152
Psilocybe 15, 34, 139
Psilocybe azurescens 14, 33, 34, 141
Psilocybe baeocystis 14, 152
Psilocybe cubensis 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16,
33, 34, 112, 139, 141, 145
Psilocybe Cubensis Azurescens 33
Psilocybe cyanescens 14, 145
Psilocybe mexicana 14
Psilocybe samuiensis 145
Psilocybe semilanceata 14, 16, 34, 105
Psilocybe tampanensis 14
psilocybian 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 33,
36, 42, 69, 72, 130, 132, 133, 138,
139, 144, 147
psilocybin 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 31, 33, 76,
105, 141, 152
Psilocybin Cultivators Bible 13
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World 15
psilopunch 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Psychedelia Australis 78
Psychedelic Experience FAQ 12
Psychedelic Illuminations 62
Psychedelic Monographs & Essays 38
Psychedelic Resource List 108, 113
Psychedelic Sourcebook 111
Psychedelics Encyclopedia 9
Psychoactivity III 109
Psychonautical Supply 62
Psychotria viridis 71, 72, 73, 104, 110,
111, 130, 131, 134, 146
Psylocybe Fanaticus 11, 16, 108

Ptychopetalum olacoides 110
puakala 6
Public Law 103-344 90
pukita 43
Pukui, M.K. 43, 44, 45, 46, 80
Pure Land Ethnobotanicals 104,
105, 113, 147
purgative 101
pussy willow 35
Pye, Lloyd 74
Pythagoras 127
Q
qat (also see Catha edulis) 38, 57, 148
quail 81
Quaker 83
Quality Health, Inc. 144
Quamoclidion 101
Quesalid 86
R
R.D., MO 67
R.G., WA 108
R.K., AZ 20
R.K., WA 108
Ra 95, 96
rabbit(s) 81, 88
RAC Research 145
Radin, Paul 91
Raffauf, R. 59, 80
Raimi, Sam 74
Ralphster's Spores 145
Ram, Suni 114
Rama, Zen Master 127
Ramachandran, V.S. 117
Raphael 146
Rappaport, Roy 84
Rare Herb 113
Rasmussen, Knud 87
Rtsch, Christian 33, 35, 36, 39, 40,
44, 57, 80
rattlesnake 81
Rauwolfia serpentina 4
raven 115
Raymond 98
Reagent, Cobalt Thiocyanate 76
Reagent, Cocaine Free-Base 76
Reagent, Diazepam/Valium 76
Reagent, Dille-Koppanyi 76
Reagent, Duquenois 76
Reagent, Ehrlichs 3
Reagent, Ehrlichs (modified) 76
Reagent, Ephedrine (use as) 76
Reagent, KN 76
Reagent, Mandelin 76
Reagent, Marquis 76
Reagent, Mayers 75
Reagent, Meckes (modified) 76
Reagent, Meth Test (use as) 76

Reagent, Methaqualone 76
Reagent, Nitric Acid (use as) 76
Reagent, Talwin (use as) 76
Reality Hackers 138
Red Angels 145
red phosphorus 141
Red Rock 77
reflux extractor 133
Reid 97
Rekhmire 54
Religious Freedom Restoration Act
130
Reminyl 144
Renoir, John 74
research chemicals 21, 77
Resinovic, Marko 38
Resonance Project, The 2, 62
Retin A Cream 144
retort 104
Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent 81
Rev. MeO 69, 80
Rex 145
rheumatism 59, 60
Rice, Ann 74
Riedlinger, Thomas Jenden 49
Rig Veda 145, 148
Rio Tigre and Beyond 87, 88
Rios, Manuel Crdova 87, 88
Rivas-Vasquez, Don Agustin 114
Rivea corymbosa 73, 97
Rivers Source 77
Rivier, L. 58, 59, 80
Robbins, David 85
Robbins, Josh 20
Robles, Steve 112
Rodd, R. 139, 152
roemerine 97
Rohde, Hartwin 111
Rohner, Ronald 89
Rohypnol 76
Rolling Stone 20, 63
Rooibos tea 72
Rosaldo, Renato 83
Rosenberg, D.E. 69, 80
Rosenthal, S.M. 101
Rosetta 138
Rough Guide to Ecstasy, A 142
Rubinov-Jacobson, Philip 142
Ruck, C.A.P. 49, 50, 51, 54, 56, 57, 80
Ruppert, Michael 113
Rushkoff, Douglas 113
Ryder, Winona 74
S
S. Bear, CA 23
Sabina, Mara 35
Sacred Succulents 22, 33, 67
safrole 141
161
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
Sage Student 36, 40

Sallares, R. 55, 57, 80
Salvia 35, 36, 150
Salvia apiana 72
Salvia chinensis 72
Salvia divinorum 33, 35, 36, 39, 40, 71,
72, 73, 76, 77, 109, 110, 112, 113,
118, 119, 130, 131, 134, 138, 140,
147
Salvia divinorum Growers Guide 35
Salvia divinorumDie Wahrsagesalbei
33, 35
SALVIA Source 113
SALVIA Space 77, 113
Salvia splendens 71, 72
salvinorin A 35, 36, 40, 130, 131, 147
salvinorin C 36, 40
Salzmann, Manny 74
SAMe 144
Samorini, Giorgio 38, 40, 50, 59, 74,
79
Samuel, D. 53, 80
SAMYR 144
San Pedro (also see Trichocereus
pachanoi) 22, 23, 33, 36
Sandoz Pharmaceuticals 51
Sarothamnus scoparius 73
Sassafras albidium 146
Satan 145
Saunders, Nicholas 33
saw palmetto 144
Sceletium tortuosum 76, 77, 110
Schuldes, Bert Marco 111
Schultes, Richard Evans 9, 39, 59,
79, 80, 102, 103, 116
Scirpus atrovirens 39
Scoparia dulcis 72
scopolamine 71
scorpion 66, 107, 108
Scrophularia nodosa 72
Scutellaria laterifoli 110
Scutellaria nana 72
SDI LABS 74, 75
Secret Chief 105
Secret Chief, The 9, 37
Secrets of Soma 145
Securidaca longipedunculata 150
Seed Tech 133
Seeds Direct 73
Selection, Preparation and Pharmacological 134
selenium 144
Senecio 150
senguinarine 7
Serenoa serulata 110
Serjania triqeta 72
Sermion 144
serotonin 66, 107
serotonin agonist 21
serotonin antagonism 16
162
serotonin precursor 21
serotonin syndrome 16, 20, 21, 32, 40
Seven, Zoe 119, 121, 138, 140
Shaman 113
Shaman Australis 147
Shaman, Jhankri and Nele Music
Healers 114
Shamanic Snuffs or Entheogenic Errhines
149
Shamanismo 23
Shamans Garden 113
Shamans of the Amazon 146
Sharanahua 58
Shayan, S. 36, 40
Sheberstov, V.V. 27, 40
sheep 41
sherikite 88
shiitake 9
Shipibo 58, 59, 60
Shirts n Things 30
Shiva 39
Shoemaker, Alan 146
Shroom Juice 76
Shulgin, Alexander T. Sasha 6, 9,
16, 40, 61, 62, 68, 74, 80, 105,
106, 107, 150
Shulgin, Ann 9, 62, 74, 105, 150
Siberian motherwort 7
Siebert, Daniel 35, 36
Siegel, Ronald 9
silica gel 3, 23
Sillans, R. 37
Silva, Ramon Medina 85
Silveira Barbosa 103, 116, 146
Silverman, D.P. 79
Silybum marianum 73
Sirius, R.U. 113
Sitchin, Zechariah 74
Sitla 114
Slade, Neil 74
Slim Matas Romero (Psilocybe cubensis
strain) 16
Slovenian Ibogaine Foundation 38
small pox 114
Smith, Elmer W. 149
Smith, M.S. 59, 67, 68, 80
Smithsonian 89, 91
snake(s) 81, 84, 88
Snake, Reuben 81, 83, 84, 89, 90, 91,
116
Snow, Otto 27, 66
snuff 139, 149, 150, 151, 152
Sociedad para la Preservacin de las
Plantas 36, 40
Society for the Anthropology of
Consciousness 28, 117
sodium chloride 27, 40
sodium hydrosulfite 27
sodium sulphate 27, 40
soksi 101
Solanum dulcamara 72
soma 10, 37, 145
Sophocles 49
Soutar, I. 36, 40
Southwest Ethnobotanicals 113
soxhlet extractor 133
Space Tribe 121
Spasenovski, M. 27, 40
Speaking Plants Botanicals 146, 147
Spears, Britney 74
Spence, L. 54, 55, 80
spirit world 81, 83, 89, 90, 91
Spook, Dr. 121
spore 10, 11, 18, 33, 34, 112, 134, 139,
141, 144, 145, 147
Squire, S. 80
Srivastava, R.S. 136, 152
SSRI 106
St. Johns wort 144
Stafford, Peter 9, 139, 152
Stamets, Paul 15, 34, 74
Staples, Danny 49, 50, 57, 80
Stasack, E. 45, 47, 79
Steinmetz, Paul 83
Steltenkamp, Michael 83
Step Inside the Sacred Circle 81, 85
Sternbach, H. 20, 40
stimulant 66
stimulation 107, 136, 137
Stipa robusta 73, 136, 146
Stolaroff, Myron 9, 37, 105
stomach ache 60
Strange Fruit: Alchemy, Religion and
Magical Foods 134
Strassman, Rick 36, 40, 69, 80, 113,
135
Stropharia (Psilocybe cubensis strain)
12, 16
Stuart, R. 58
stylopine 7
Suda gyptiaca 150
Submatucana madisoniorum 60
sulfuric acid 14
Summerfield, Robin 24
sweating 20
syncretism 83, 84
Synetic DSL 139
Syrian rue (also see Peganum harmala)
1, 2, 3
T
T.F., IL 18
Tabernanthe iboga 37, 38, 39, 98, 104,
105, 113
Tabor, C.W. 101
Tabor, H. 101
Tabrah, F.L. 47
tabu 41, 42
tacuatzi 88
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
Tagetes 8, 150
Tagetes lucida 7, 8, 72
Tagetes minuta 8
Takei, George 74
Talbot, Steve 91
Tambu 73
Tancium nocturnum 150
Tanita 20
Tanita 1210-100 Carat Scale 19
tannin 51, 52, 56
Taoist 4, 9, 135
tapu 42, 43, 44, 46
Tarahumara 69, 114
Target 33
Taub, Eric 37, 38
Taussig, Michael 84
Tavakay, Alexander 114, 115
tchai 58, 59, 60, 61
tchai del monte 58
tea 148
Tech Enterprises 133
Tedds 118
Teiman, Lawrence 30
Telluride Mushroom Conference 70
Tennen, Stan 74
teonanacatl 9
Teresi, Dick 9
Terminalia splendida 150
terpene 138
terrorism 17, 18
terrorist 65, 117
testosterone 74, 75
tetracaine 76
thanka 4
THC 76, 132, 138
thebaine 27, 65
theobromus 97
thin layer chromatography 2, 3, 4, 141
Thompson, A.C. 134, 152
Thon 53
thorn apple 73
Thresher, The 112, 113
thunderbirds 91
Thutmose III 54
Ti 42, 45
Tibet House 122
TIHKAL 9, 105, 150, 151
Tilia americana 72
Tingle Leaf Imports 113
Tinkerbell 127
Tinospora bakis 150
TMA-2 68, 105, 107
Tmapa, Ram 114
Toad 31
toad secretions 150
tobacco 36, 84, 90, 97
to 58
tolerance 68, 69, 107
tonic 97
Tools for Wellness 138
Torres, Donna 39
Tosuner, Lebriz 85
Toward a Science of Consciousness
28, 117
tow 58
toxic 1
toxin 38
Traditional Chinese Medicine 101
tranquilizing 97
Travolta, John 74
Trichocereus 22, 23, 32, 60, 104
Trichocereus bridgesii 22, 71
Trichocereus bridgesii KK919 73
Trichocereus bridgesii var. monstrose 73
Trichocereus cuzcoensis 73
Trichocereus pachanoi 22, 23, 39, 71, 73,
104, 146, 150
Trichocereus pachanoi KK339 73
Trichocereus peruvianus 22, 23, 24, 71,
73, 110, 111, 147
Trichocereus peruvianus var. matucana 73
Trichocereus santiaguensis 73
Trichocereus sp. SS03 22
Trichocereus terscheckii 71, 73, 147
Trichocereus werdermannianus KK917 73
Tricholine sp. 150
Trip 31
Tripping 122
Trismegistos, Hermes 127
Tropic World 22
Trout, K. 19, 21, 24, 32, 58, 59, 61, 64,
67, 68, 69, 78, 80, 101, 102, 104,
108, 138, 139
Trouts Notes 62
Trouts Notes Some Simple Tryptamines 16
True, Phil 91
tryptamine(s) 1, 3, 4, 16, 36, 71, 98,
101, 104, 105, 106, 112, 128, 133,
135, 139, 141, 149, 151
Tunera diffusa 71
Turkey red (Phalaris arundinacia strain)
1, 2, 39, 72, 76
Turner, D.M. 33, 36, 40
Turnera afrodisiaca 72
Turnera diffusa 147
Tuthmosis III 54
Tuvan 114, 115
Tylenol 65
tyramine 60
tyrosine 71
U
U.S. Postal Service 18
Unio do Vegetal 130, 131, 132
Unio do Vegetal v. John Ashcroft 130
urine test 16, 63
V
Valds III, Leander J. 36, 40
Valeriana officinalis 73, 110

Valium 21, 76
van den Hurk, Hans 132
Van Hoy Publishers 115
Vanderplank, John 134
Vanderveen, R. 59, 80
vaporizer 103
venom 108
Venus 145
Veratrum californicum 150
Verbascum thapsus 73, 147
Verbena hastata 72
vertigo 51, 98
Viagra 74, 75
vinegar 12
vinpocetine 144
Virola 76, 111, 146, 150
Virola theiodora 39
Vita-Mix 23
vitamin B12 31
vitamin C 12, 13, 14, 32
Voacanga africana 72, 73, 147
vodka 25
vodou manho 114
Vogt, Hans 9, 13
volatizer 64
Von Braun 128
von Reis, S. 79
Voogelbreinder, Snu 94, 96, 97, 116
W
Wakonda 84
Wallace, Bob 58
Wasiwaska Research Center 70, 140
Wasson, R. Gordon 9, 35, 36, 41, 42,
43, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 74,
80, 148
Wasson, Valentina 9
wedding bells 67
Weed World 147
Weidman, Fred 33
Weigand, Phil 85
Weil, Andrew 74
Western Biosynthesis 63
Whip It 30, 31
whipped cream chargers 30
white star (morning glory strain) 67
White Widow (Cannabis strain) 33
Whiting, Alfred F. 101
wilde dagga 76
Wildflowers of Heaven 17, 67, 113
Willard, William 62
Williams, Robert 62, 143
Williamson, Elizabeth M. 134
Wilson, Colin 62
Wilson, Robert Anton 113
wine 49, 51, 55, 56, 94
Winnebago 84, 89, 90
Wirshing, W.C. 20, 40
163
VOLUME XI, NUMBER 4
Wise, Edmond Orange 83

Witherspoon, Gary 84
Wizard of the Upper Amazon 87, 88
wolf 86, 88
Wondrous Mushroom, The 57
Wood, M. 57, 80
World of Drugs, A 147
Wounded Knee 82, 83
X
Xanax 21
Xanthydrol 3
Y
Yachaj 9
Yaqui 93
Yasgur, Jay 115
Yasgurs Homeopathic Dictionary and
Holistic 115
yohimbine 71, 144
ysypvori 60
Yugoslavian fresh cut (Phalaris grass
strain) 76
Z
Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides 150
Zarathustra 9
Zavtone 113
Zen 127
Zero M., TN 67
Zeus 49, 53
zinc picolinate 144
Zingerberaceae 101
81
URL LISTINGS
www.amazon.com 134
www.armorholdings.com 76
www.artvisionary.com 142
www.basementshaman.com 107
www.bizspirit.com 109
www.bluelight.nu 142
www.bongmart.com 30
www.bubblebag.com 143
www.chicochemical.com 63
www.civanonusery.com 136
www.copvcia.com 113
www.crackdown-drugtesting.ltd.uk 76
www.drugs.com 110
www.e-chemicalsupplier.com 63, 71
www.edenlabs.org 133
www.ethnobotanicals.com 147
http://ethnobotanicals.org 72
www.ethnobotanysource.com 72, 77
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The Journal of Unauthorized Research

on Visionary Plants and Drugs
Editor:
David Aardvark
Technical Editor: K. Trout

Copy Editor: E.V. Love
Contributors
Jon Hanna
Mark Pesce
Richard Glen Boire
L.E.G., NH
Theodore Genisis
C.E.G., ID
E.N., CA
K. Trout
Anonymous
Anonymous
P.G., Kent
David Aardvark
Anonymous
Gwyllm Llwydd

Year of Jubilee
Pharmaco Prohibita
Network Feedback
Extraction Devices
Amanita Strength and Cultivation
Searching for Books
Darkroom Meditation
Acacia rigidula?
Catha edulis, Cathinone, and Methcathinone
Steam Distillation, Enemas, and Morning Glory Prep.
Mind Machines
Ayahuasca Snuff Documented
Homegrown in Britain?
Sacred Mushrooms in the USA
Events Calendar
Source
Book Reviews
Bibliography
Index
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Winter Solstice 2002

The Journal of Unauthorized Research

Technical Editor: K. Trout

A Year of Trips & Tripping

Information presented in The Entheogen Review comes from many

Row, row, row your boat.

The Entheogen Review

This journal is a clearinghouse for current data

Design & Layout

The Entheogen Review

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A Year of Trips & Tripping

Various offers to speak at psychedelic-related

gatherings, as well as the M IND S TATES III

Destination: the Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) conference, held

conference that I produced in Jamaica, kept me

At SACwhich focused on the Dark Side of Consciousnesshighlights included

way back from Jamaica, there was a really long

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BOUNCING BEAR BOTANICALS

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had built. Cows and goats occasionally roamed free and

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The ayahuasca sessions were tough on me physically, with

A view from our

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up. I wasnt able to locate any hard data before leaving

Stopped in front of the AMSTERDAM OF LONDON

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Into the belly of the beast.

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other peoples garbage when throwing out my own, I thought

ALEX GREY sketches ERIK DAVIS as we wait for our planes.

ground for a new breed of spiritual converts hooking into

ERIK DAVIS enjoying a cold European soda.

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drugs that were making the rounds. Several people told me

A good spot to score shrooms. Photo by WWW.EROWID.ORG

The Mind States III conference was enjoyable from many

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With that answer, the officials made it clear that Jonathan

JONATHAN OTT explains the neuroprotective

3128 - 16th Street #225

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Continuing Perspectives on Altered Consciousness

MAY 2325, 2003

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