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Plants probably aren't conscious, but if they were, I think they'd feel like how I felt on Salvia.	[Dec. 15th, 2009\|10:11 am]
The stupidest, most unscientific thing I have ever read in my life. Way to just make shit up and not, you know, cite things, or provide evidence, or use peer-reviewed legitimate source material. This was kind of interesting, though. Not indicative of plants being conscious, however; it would seem to be more of a stimulus-response kind of thing. It's amazing how much living organisms can do without being "conscious", which makes it even more remarkable that humans should be conscious at all. Why the sudden interest in botany? Well, I tried Salvia, and had a stronger trip than anyone else I know who tried it did. I can't even describe it. For those who don't know, Salvia divinorum is a species of sage plant used historically by the Mazatec people of the Oaxaca region of Mexico. It's distinct from other common psychedelics, such as LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin, in that it does not contain alkaloids, but rather, is a kappa-opioid receptor agonist. As its odd chemistry would suggest, it's unlike anything else I've ever tried ever, and I've had interesting and vivid experiences involving cannabis and psilocybin. This was different. I forgot where, who, and what I was. I can't even describe what I saw, but it was like... I don't think I can describe it because space and time didn't quite do normal things, if that makes any sense. I remember being pulled and swaying back and forth while splitting up into "slices" in unison with other objects, which I knew somehow to be objects like the coffee table and my purse, but they became different-looking, this weird landscape... and I remember feeling kind of brushlike somehow, and branchey, and everything else being that way too, and having an impression of being made of something like a stick-and-ball model of a complex macromolecule. Except all at the same time somehow. It felt terribly familiar and real, as if I'd been there before, or even always been there, and I remember an impression similar to a distant but important childhood memory. I didn't remember that I was tripping; when I started to phase back into reality (things that had unravelled... and everything was one and the same, without seperation... like this one giant manifold, some kind of extra-dimensional Reimann surface sort of thing... things came back together), I was perplexed that my momentary other reality had been the result of salvia, and the sudden remembering of my self and of consensus reality was a bit jarring. Some people have described the Salvia experience as like becoming a plant, and I can definitely see that. At any rate, my consciousness itself was completely dissociated from other aspects of my "self", like normal perception of consensus reality and even memories of my own past and identity. It was almost like pure being, a sort of sudden moksha. Do I believe something supernatural happened? No. But I think this plant could provide unprecedented insight into how the brain works and the mechanisms by which information is synthesized into what is perceived as existence and experience. Salvia gave me a subjective experience of an entirely differently organized kind of consciousness. Obviously, normal cognition, perception, and self-identity are largely neurological processes that can be severely fucked with to yield a completely different experience of being.
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(no subject)	[Nov. 17th, 2009\|03:56 pm]
It seems there is rampant anti-intellectualism even among the most intelligent nowadays, and that bothers me at a very deep level.
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What is this, I don't even...

[Oct. 27th, 2009|09:11 am]

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http://raquelreed.buzznet.com/user/journal/4921341/im-real-live-wire/#

Um... what? I mean... I don't even... what is... this is just... ineffable. I mean, wtf, Raquel?

( More under the cut )

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(no subject)	[Sep. 30th, 2009\|07:11 pm]
...what?
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Cosmopolitanss and Cthulhu	[Sep. 27th, 2009\|04:32 pm]
Too... drunk... to crochet... http://cthulhucrochet.blogspot.com/2008/05/tiny-cthulhu-free-pattern.html I am making that... but I'm TOO DRUNK TO CROCHET. Which is pretty drunk. And no, I'm not at a party or anything. I'm alone in the house. Pathetic? Yes. Psychotic? Probably.
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[Sep. 26th, 2009|10:31 am]

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arts and crafts, crochet, mushrooms

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http://www.rheatheylia.com/index.php?page=patterns&id=3

I AM GOING TO MAKE THIS BUNNY. IT'S NAME WILL BE MUFFY.

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mushroom mushroom!! (badgerbadgerbadger)	[Sep. 25th, 2009\|01:41 pm]
Posting on mushrooms. http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/cambrian.html That picture is like... HOLY SHIT ANOMALOCARIS!!! ( Giant Images and Stuff Behind the Cut )
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[Sep. 25th, 2009|10:19 am]

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biomorphs science evolution

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LOOK AT MY GIANT PINK DEATH BAT!!! It is a product of EVOLUTION!

Why does everything I make end up looking like a bat?

Biomorphs: more fun than it probably should be...

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[Aug. 30th, 2009|05:19 pm]

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I popped a bunch of Dexadrine last night and smoked too much weed and started tripping.

Stuff I Gawked At in Amazement
- the Hubble Deep Field
- Hubble pictures of nebulae
- Salvador Dali paintings
- MC Escher drawings
- the iTunes visualizer

The trip was completely unexpected, but altogether not unpleasant.

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My Omegle Experience

[Aug. 29th, 2009|05:59 am]

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So there's the site called Omegle. I've heard it brings /b/-centric lulz, so I decided to try it out.

( Person 1: Boring as Fuck )

( Attempt 2: I Try to Be Funny or Something and Fail )

( Attempt 4 or something: More of the same )

( Attempt #???: Attempt at a Cerebral Discussion )

That was pretty much when I got bored. Fail.

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10 Books that Influenced Me in Some Way	[Jun. 28th, 2009\|10:51 am]
I got bored at made a list of my Top 10 books that influenced me in some way. ( under the cut )
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drunk=HAIL LENIN	[Jun. 6th, 2009\|11:06 pm]
SO MOTHERFUCKING MAJESTIC. tears in eyes Oh, mystical Tequila, you make Communism so awe-inspiring.
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[Apr. 17th, 2009|12:59 pm]

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I bought a StairMaster-type thing today. This bitch is back on track and ready for some weight-loss action!

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OMG OMG OMG!!!!!	[Apr. 16th, 2009\|06:27 am]

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I need new music.	[Apr. 9th, 2009\|10:45 am]
Recommend: - A genre - A band - A song.
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Haven't updated in a while, so...

[Apr. 9th, 2009|10:27 am]

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I took a medical withdrawal from USM and am now back in Pensacola. I'm going to take some classes at the local junior college to make up the credits, and then hopefully get into the University of West Florida and continue studying anthropology.

New PCD song. w00t.

Also, I <3 Courage Wolf. He's Nietzsche-tastic!

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