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I bought the dip with $7 to my name. You’re welcome.

Tip of the Day: In iOS, reducing white point (Accessibility>Display & Text Size) by ~75% is a useful way to extend battery life and reduce brightness when indoors.

I’m so glad it resonated with you! That place is like a second home to me and the other students I was with were amazing and it sparked so many adventures into neighboring towns. Our class came up with this idea of taking a night walk in the woods circling the town by moonlight and 8-10 of us did that every night before bed lol. My calling ended up being a supporter and patron of artists rather than pursuing art myself, but I had the best time of my life there.

I’ve never gone to their Paris program but of course you would have tremendous access to museums and shops/restaurants that you can’t get in the countryside, but the countryside has its own charms like being around lots of horses, cows, hiking in nature, incredible sunrise/sunsets with almost no skyline, much more isolated in a way that’s beautiful and calming

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25 years ago, my great friend and mentor, Terence McKenna, passed on from this world. I met him in the spring of 1997 and was so fortunate to have had him in my life for 3 short years...he taught me more in those three years than I had learned in the decades before and continued to teach me long after his death. He was a true shaman...a true medicine man.

His memory lives on all over the internet - and certainly in my heart and mind - but I'm not sure people really know how and why he became such an advocate of psilocybin.

Below is a snippet from Terence's journal, written in the amazon jungle 54 years ago. He and his brother Dennis (who remains with us and continues to do remarkable work) and a small band of friends embarked on an adventure that would shape all of their lives.

It is accounted in the book True Hallucinations and is an amazing story...If you've never heard of Terence, I'm happy to make this introduction.

RIP my friend.

February 23, 1971

Are we indeed now in some way camped on the edge of another dimension? Yesterday afternoon Dave discovered Stropharia cubensis in the damp pastures behind the house where we had hung our hammocks. He and I gathered thirty delicious psilocybin-saturated specimens in about a half an hour. We each ate about six and spent last night on an enormously rich and alive, yet gentle and elusive, trip. In between strange lights in the pasture and discussion of our project, I am left with the sense that by penetrating the local psychedelic flora this way we have taken a giant step toward deeper understanding. Multifaceted and benevolent, as complex as mescaline, as intense as LSD - the mushroom, as is said of peyote, teaches the right way to live. This particular mushroom species is unclaimed, so far as I know, by any aboriginal people anywhere and thus is neutral ground in the tryptamine dimension we are exploring. Through this unclaimed vegetable teacher one can gain entry into the world of the elf chemists. The experience of the mushroom is subtle but can reach out to the depth and breadth of a truly intense psychedelic experience. It is, however, extremely mercurial and difficult to catch at work. Dennis and I, through a staggered description of our visions, noticed a similarity of content that seemed to suggest a telepathic phenomenon or some sort of simultaneous perception of the same invisible landscape. A tight headache accompanied the experience in its final stages, but this was quick to fade, and the body strain and exhaustion often met with in unextracted vegetable drugs such as peyote and Datura was not present.

This mushroom is a transdimensional doorway which sly fairies have left slightly ajar for anyone to enter into who can find the key and who wishes to use this power—the power of vision— to explore this peculiar and naturally occurring psychoactive complex.

We are closing distance with the most profound event a planetary ecology can encounter.

The emergence of life from the dark chrysalis of matter.

I pay close attention to his writings on art.

“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”

Curiously, the founder of this school of painting was Ted Seth Jacobs, who might be best known for painting Whitley Strieber’s alien book cover for Communiun. One of my memorable experiences was visiting Ted’s house in France while he was still alive and seeing how he lived and worked.

http://beyondcommunion.com/communion/9910tsjacobs.html

For anyone interested in a classical painting and drawing school, I spent many months here and highly recommend it!

https://studioescalier.com

Andrew Robinson: “If reviewing products wasn't my job, B&O (Bang & Olufsen) speakers would likely be the only products l'd buy for myself.”

Thanks for your feedback! One of my role models is Isabella Stewart Gardner so that was what led me to Edith Sitwell, because she also supported living artists.