Pink Moan

June 5th, 2008 by Gnat

I’m coming off a string of a few weeks of not feeling great, thus haven’t been posting lately. There has been little more than psychic sewage, it seems, in my brain as of late. But I feel things in my body and brain are now stirring up again, so let’s hope I can shake off the shackles of resistance and write more soon. In the meantime, I thought it would be fruitful and mildly entertaining to post a handful of great links I’ve come across while mining the Internets (mostly while bored/procrastinating at work). Begin:

• Peru: Hell and Back
  This is a killer National Geographic article (March 2006) about the potent psychedelic brew, ayahuasca. Done in first person as a sort of innerspace travelogue, the female narrator describes taking ayahuasca with a group in the depths of the Peruvian jungle. This is the most honest, intimate account I’ve read yet regarding the ayahuasca experience.
• The Biology of Kundalini - A Science and Protocol of Spiritual Alchemy
  Damn this is a good site. I won’t even pretend to have read more than a sixth of the articles contained therein, or that I can understand more than a sixth of what I did read. It’s hard to explain I guess. The author, Jana Dixon, writes about various kundalini (coiled fire of life) awakenings throughout her life and the repercussions that followed. Her writing describes, in molecular detail, the nature and biology of life and consciousness. Pretty cool, huh? I pressed on through passages that were way over my head just to glean any grains of knowledge that I could. Check out “Biological Relation to Zero-Point Energy” if you dare.
• Bob’s Tiny Note
  The more you look at it, the more (or less?) it all makes sense. Methinks there is a pattern here, but it’s making my ears bleed to think about.
• I took LSD with Groucho Marx
  With a title like that, how could you resist reading? Paul Krassner, the ’60s writer/activist, describes his experience dropping with Groucho in preparation for the Marx brother’s role in the Otto Preminger film, Skidoo.