February 2012
7 posts
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.
I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
I met a lady in the meads,
Full...
The Eight Circuit Model of Human Sensory-Somatic...
1. The Biosurvival Circuit (the Breath of Consciousness)
This circuit is imprinted in infancy, concerned with suckling, nourishment, cuddling, bio-security, etc. The imprinting of this circuit sets up the basic attitude of trust or suspicion which will last for life. First activated when a human being is born, and programs perception onto an either-or grid, divided into nurturing-helpful and...
Corespondence Between Friends
Sometime in 1957, the famed writer and mystic Aldous Huxley wrote his friend - famed psychologist and LSD supporter - Humphry Osmond, suggesting a word for the experience of cosmic manifestation in the form of an epigram “To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.” The word was interesting, coming from the greek “phanero-” meaning...
“Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through...”
How to Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, and Live It
To turn on is to detach from the rigid addictive focus on the fake-prop TV studio set and to refocus on the natural energies within the body.
To turn on, you go out of your mind and:
1. Come to your senses — focus on sensory energies.
2. Resurrect your body — focus on somatic energies.
3. Drift down cellular memory tracks beyond the body’s space-time — focus on cellular energies.
4....
“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your...”
– Terrence McKenna (via ocelott)
The Sick Rose
Oh Rose, thou art sick!
The Invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson Joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
-William Blake
October 2011
7 posts
On True Freedom
As we struggled to stay upright in our daily lives, the sun of a new day, that promise which we are always trying to catch up to, is endlessly racing around and coming up behind us again and again. And while, in a paralleled way, our goal is the same, we are older. We are run down from the battle of life; we are always one more day closer to death. It can be hard just to get up in the...
On the Machine
This is a call for awareness, an echoing cry of warning which I beg you to take heed of. If we are ever to retake our lives and freedom, the ones who are trying to destroy us MUST BE STOPPED. Forty years ago, many great men predicted the political take over that is happening RIGHT NOW. Our freedom, our humane rights are being attacked and torn apart by the power hungry villains...
On Infinity
What is infinity? What is eternity? Is it simply a very human expression of an incomprehensible amount, an unknown amount? Or is it the proposed *, that never ending line? Is there really the fabled stretching *, that endlessly pointing arrow which has no discernible beginning and no predictable end? How can we as humans –with our unexorcisably mathematically driven minds- even...
On True Love
Call me a romantic but I think about love a lot. We use the word a lot, as does the media, and over the years it seems to have lost its meaning. But anyone who has felt that true uplifting feeling when looking into a soul mates eyes, or sharing an intimate laugh with a true friend, or felt the warmth in a family members arms knows what I am talking about when I say “love.” But what...
Our Own Fault
It has been said that human nature is to turn away from problems, but it is also true that modern human nature is to turn blame away from ourselves. Human beings are solely responsible for the fall of our environment and race. It is the easy thing for us to blame the rise of technology and ideology for these problems, and while it is in a very big way, we are the ones who created these so...
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin
Que Cera Cera
Love and war. War and peace. Peace and divinity. Divinity and love. Love and war. War and peace. Peace and divinity. Divinity and love. Love and war. They are all inextricably related. Love is the opposite of war and war is the opposite of peace. We know divinity through peace and divinity begets love. It is a cycle because one cannot exist without the others. It is weird how...
Come Together!
So our first major gathering is coming up on October 15th, and you won't want to miss it. We'll be gathering for a day of astral meditation and cognitive expansion. It will be a large spiritual gathering of psychedelia and incarnation. EVERYONE AND ANYONE is invited! It doesn't matter your beliefs or where you're from; if you're interested in cognitive expansion and transcedental perception, come meditate and take sacrament and break bread with us!
We're holding it at our wonderfull Millbrook II of course. Newcomers, email me for the location at mentalmysticism@gmail.com.
It's going to be an intense and psychedelic day of religious discovery, come learn with us!
p.s. We already have about 80 people coming, and in the spirit of planning it would be jolly to know how many people are coming. If you know in advance OR WANT MORE INFO, shoot me an email at mentalmysticism@gmail.com
Namaste
On Existentialism
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This age old question has sparked much discussion and debate between philosophers and great minds throughout history. Sometimes compared to the debate between religion and science; this question truly represents the standstill battle between the irresistible force (feelings), and the immovable object (logical fact). In essence, this...
Native American Wisdom
On Life:
Man does not weave the web of life. He is simply a strand within it. What man does to the web, he does to himself.
On death:
Don’t stand by my grave and weep, for I am not there, I did not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamonds glint on snow. I am the sunlighht on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumns rain. Don’t stand by my grave and cry; I am not...
September 2011
11 posts
“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing...”
– — Timothy Leary The Psychedelic Experience (1995)
More On the 'What Is' of Mysticism
Feel free to ask any questions to establish a basis for what Mysticism is here. All other questions, comments, and posts should go under the Psychedelic Forum or Ask Me sections. MAKE DAMN SURE to check back in with the Manifesto, it will be forever evolving.
LSD: My Problem Child
“Slowly I came back from a weird, unfamiliar world to reassuring everyday reality. The horror softened and gave way to a feeling of good fortune and gratitude, the more normal perceptions and thoughts returned, and I became more confident that the danger of insanity was conclusively past. Now, little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted...
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it...”
– William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
What's Next?
So now that you have learned about our mission and our journey, it is time for you to take action in your own life.
Here is where your journey begins. Take to heart our ideals and our doctrine and adapt it into your own life. You are now member of our community.
Namaste
The Manifesto of Mysticism
The Manifesto Of Mysticism:
Introduction:
This is the basic charter of the doctrine of the newly founded philosophically-based religion; Mysticism. Although this is not a very detailed description in any way, shape, or form, it sets down the basis for this belief system that will grow as it is discovered, rather than invented. In other words; this is a religion based on cosmic-cognitive...
Welcome To The Journey (What is Mysticism)...
Welcome to the journey.
The journey to dicover your own personal meaning of life.
Mysticism is the culmanation of those of us who have gone on this journey, only to find that we can much better search for higher spirituality through psychedelic and cosmic means, rather than conventional religion.
Mental Mysticism (more often refered to simply as “Mysticism”) is a new philosophy...