Hancock on drugs, entities, DNA

by **banned** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:39 am

...I had nothing to do with Jack getting, er, banned. Kinda ironic though eh? I'm still basking in the afterglow of rdr's words (given the smacking around I've given him now and then, generous ones) <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":p"> .

by **hanshan** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:41 pm

<img src="http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/DWillman/q_parker.gif" style="border:0;"/> <img src="http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/redriver/images/QuanahParker-sm.jpg" style="border:0;"/> <img src="http://www.markreubengallery.com/bs_nativeamericans/best_nativeamericans/1207.jpg" style="border:0;"/> <a href="http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/DWillman/peyote.htm" target="top">Peyote, Quanah Parker and the Native American Church</a> "The white man goes into his church house and talks about Jesus; the Indian goes into his teepee and talks to Jesus." <blockquote>Quote:<hr> <a href="http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/PP/fpa28.html" target="top">PARKER, QUANAH</a> (ca. 1845-1911). Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Quahadi Comanche Indians, son of Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker,qv was born about 1845 near the Wichita Mountains in what is now Oklahoma. He was a major figure both in Comanche resistance to white settlement and in the tribe's adjustment to reservation life. Nomadic hunter of the Llano Estacado,qv leader of the Quahadi assault on Adobe Walls in 1874 (see RED RIVER WAR), cattle rancher, entrepreneur, and friend of American presidents, Quanah Parker was truly a man of two worlds. The name Quanah means "smell" or "odor." Though the date of his birth is recorded variously at 1845 and 1852, there is no mystery regarding his parentage. His mother was the celebrated captive of a Comanche raid on Parker's Fort (1836) and convert to the Indian way of life. His father was a noted war chief of the Nocone band of the Comanches. Despite his mixed ancestry, Quanah's early childhood seems to have been quite unexceptional for his time and place. In 1860, however, Peta Nocona was killed defending an encampment on the Pease River against Texas Rangersqv under Lawrence Sullivan Ross.qv The raid, which resulted in the capture and incarceration of Cynthia Ann and Quanah's sister Topasannah, also decimated the Nocones and forced Quanah, now an orphan, to take refuge with the Quahadi Comanches of the Llano Estacado.<hr></blockquote> <blockquote>Quote:<hr><a href="http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/nachurch.htm" target="top">American Peyote</a> religion as an organized, relatively formal phenomenon can be traced to western Oklahoma circa 1880. By then such Southern Plains tribes as the Comanche and Kiowa had been placed on reservations, where once free Indians had to live under burdensome restrictions in conditions of poverty. Under such conditions new religious movements that addressed the terrible decline in fortune Indians had suffered and that promised relief from oppression spread quickly throughout Indian America. One such movement was the Ghost Dance, which had its most prominent phase in 1890 but largely collapsed with the Wounded Knee Massacre at the end of that year. Peyote religion, on the other hand, spread rapidly far beyond the area to which the plant is indigenous, eventually finding adherents in hundreds of tribes. Especially important was Quanah Parker, a Comanche chief who is said to have first taken peyote in Mexico in the 1880s as medicine for a difficult illness, or perhaps a serious injury. Quanah (as he is usually referred to), whose mother was white and who was a leading advocate of white-Indian cooperation, became a leading advocate of peyote and was instrumental in turning back laws that would have forbidden its use. By the time of his death in 1911, peyote was being used by several tribes in Oklahoma. Second only to Quanah in influence was John Wilson, a Caddo Indian by affiliation (actually of mixed Caddo, Delaware, and French blood). In 1880 Wilson became a peyote roadman, as the ceremonial leader is known, and began to attract a substantial following. His version of the Peyote ceremony had more explicitly Christian elements than Quanah’s, reflecting, probably, Wilson’s own Catholicism. However, both versions reflect a thorough mixing of traditional Indian and Christian themes.<hr></blockquote> never underestimate the shortsightedness induced by arrogance

by **hanshan** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:11 pm

LSD Studies With Autistic Children <a href="http://www.neurodiversity.com/lsd.html" target="top">www.neurodiversity.com/lsd.html</a> the ice thaws (a little) <a href="http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/795_psyche.html" target="top">Medical Possibilities for Psychedelic Drugs</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Early research suggested medical promise for psychedelic drugs. According to a 1992 report by Richard Yensen, Ph.D., and Donna Dryer, M.D., director and medical director at the Orenda Institute, a 1960s' study of 135 alcoholics found that six months after treatment with LSD, 53 percent of a high-dose group reported abstinence compared with 33 percent of a low-dose group. Alcoholics receiving conventional therapy had a 12 percent improvement rate. In a study of 31 cancer patients suffering from anxiety, depression and uncontrollable pain, 71 percent showed improvement in their physical and emotional status after each LSD session. According to Yensen, researchers also observed that many cancer patients receiving LSD reported that their desire for addictive pain medicines, such as morphine, had diminished or vanished, along with the pain. An article in the winter 1995 edition of MAPS, published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, reports success with another hallucinogen, ibogaine, in the treatment of chemical dependencies. The article's author, Howard Lotsof, founder of NDA International Inc.--a private organization based in Staten Island, N.Y., that treats drug addicts overseas--discusses several treatment successes, including a medical doctor whose addiction to a pain medication vanished after receiving four doses of ibogaine. Lotsof reported in the article that "29 of 35 patients successfully treated with ibogaine had numerous unsuccessful experiences with other treatment modalities."<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://www.maps.org/news/index.html#7" target="top">7. Ayahuasca Case Heard in the Supreme Court</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>On November 1, The Supreme Court heard a case pitting the federal government against a Brazilian Ayahuasca Church based in New Mexico, the Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal (UDV). The New York Times and others covered the story. The federal government banned the UDV from using ayahuasca, also known as hoasca, because the DMT-containing substance, taken in the form of a brewed tea, is illegal under federal drug laws. In 1999, U.S. Customs officials seized a shipment of ayahuasca and subsequently raided a church member's home. UDV eventually sued and last year the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's finding: the federal government did not prove that the drug posed a significant danger to its congregants or that use of ayahuasca would lead to non-religious use or abuse. The Drug Enforcement Administration was forced to register UDV as a legal importer and distributor of ayahuasca. The Bush Administration, however, appealed the case to the Supreme Court. Pending the Supreme Court's decision in this case, UDV members are allowed to import and to use ayahuasca for sacramental purposes. The Supreme Court has not yet issued its ruling and will probably not do so for several months. However, some sophisticated observers of the oral arguments have said that it is a possibility, but not a certainty, that either the UDV will win the case or the Court will not rule but send the case back to a lower court for further litigation, while enabling the UDV to keep using ayahuasca while the lower court's case goes forward. Time will tell.<hr></blockquote> ....

by **antiaristo** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:16 am

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Mystery of the munchies solved Ian Sample, science correspondent Thursday December 22, 2005 The Guardian The mystery of the munchies, the craving for food experienced by cannabis users, has been unravelled. Neuroscientists hope that by piecing together the brain circuits involved in switching on the urge to eat they will be able to identify ways to block the craving with new anti-obesity drugs. David Talmage's team at Columbia University, New York, whose work appears in the journal Neuron, took slices from parts of the mouse brain called the lateral hypothalamus, known to regulate appetite. They then used ultra-slim electrodes to measure the electrical activity along single neurons. Cannabis produces a "high" thanks to an active ingredient called tetrahydrocannabinol, but a similar chemical or cannabinoid is also produced naturally in the body. The researchers found that when neurons were exposed to the natural cannabinoid they became more excitable. The researchers then tested neurons from mice bred to lack an appetite-suppressing hormone, leptin. They found that when these neurons were exposed to the natural cannabinoid they were even more excitable. The researchers believe leptin suppresses appetite by "short-circuiting" the effect of cannabinoids by changing how calcium ions flow along neurons. Calcium is needed to make cannabinoids in the body. "What this gives us is a neural circuit for the well-known munchies effect that makes you hungry," said Dr Talmage.<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,2763,1672389,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/...89,00.html</a>

by **Connut** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:57 pm

An interesting entry in Whitley Streiber's journal, giving his insight into the "alien's" purpose for us and our planet. I found it encouraging: <a href="http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/">www.unknowncountry.com/journal/</a> "... What kills souls is quite simple: choice. They choose to die because they despair of themselves. They die of lack of love. Our lives must be rich with compassion both for ourselves and others. This is what enables us to thrive and live in the body of consciousness that is this universe. The body is a brief passage, a place of decision. It is here, in this engine of forgetting, that we can only decide from our essential truth whether we are going to go on or not. This is as true for the species as it is for each one of us. I have chosen life. I believe that this species is worth saving, that we can ascend into a great journey if we so choose. So when I see us being captured by the people of the death wish—those who concentrate on material wealth, who ignore suffering, who fight, who lie, who ignore the needs of the planet—I feel the touch of despair. ...." Hope you find the information interesting too, as it encouraged me. Cheers, Connut

Hancock on drugs, entities, DNA

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re: on the road...

re: studies before the fall

Re: re: studies before the fall

Interesting Take on Soul and Soul Death

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