now, somehow this thread must end up being about religion

i wrote this while coming down:
life is a subjective experience. do with it what you will.

last night i realized that mentally speaking, speed and mdma are opposites. speed is an ego-boosting experience while mdma is an ego-melting one. i much prefer ego-melting.

there is no absolute measure of a life's purpose or meaning, everything is relative.

this is kinda off topic but...

I don't see the concept of God as any more than an extension of socially created hierchies into the heavens. The higher up in rank you go (peasant, landlord, governer, king, etc these are just made up but you get the drift) you get fewer and fewer people who possess more and more power. Thus, for someone conditioned to such hierchies, its not far off to assume that there must be one big guy at the top of the pyramid who is the master of everything. Naturally since this is the Big Boss you want to be in his good books, but of course since God aint giving direct orders it falls into the hands of religious institutions to let you know what God really wants you to do and save yourself from sin and eternal damnation!!!

yes and the jewish holy book is the BIBLE minus the new testament

so if no bible none of the 3 would be in existence

two VERY cracked out people at tams

hmmmmm i wonder who they were

=)

if there were no such thing as peanuts, there would be no such thing as peanut allergies, and thus all the people that died through negative reactions with peanuts would have lived..

thus, potentially altering the entire course of world events...different marriages would have taken place, different children being born, causing different things to happen..

IF NOT FOR PEANUTS, YOU MIGHT HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN!!!

and oh yah, they would have to change the words to "take me out to the ball game" cause everybody would be asking what the HELL is a peanut?

well there probably wouldn't be islam either since it grew out of the biblical religions

i think the question is all backwards though

religions don't exist because of religious texts

religions texts exist because of our thirst for answers to unanswerable questions and our acceptance of a prescribed way of thinking and behaving imposed by a higher authority

so if the bible didnt exist people would most likely adopt and follow another religious teaching...after all, if they were willing to submit themselves to the bible (which defintely could have used a much better editor in my opinion!) than most likely they would end up doing something similar even in the bible's adscence

and of course since the bible itself, but more importantly how it is understood and interpreted, is more a reflection of ourselves and our society than anything else, then nothing would really be much different unless other factors cause *us* to be different

oh yah, the musical highlight of the night:

that bush 'speech' sped up and mixed in with hard dance music, HILARIOUS!! ...and it worked!

p.s. to whoever took those pictures...tsk tsk...dont u know that any non-Megan+Gen pictures takes up valuable memory in the camera which would MUCH be better used for more Megan+Gen pictures

good times =)=)

BIG space. like it took me about a half hour just to figure out how all the different passeges connected. sorta reminded me of aria. once i got used to it tho, the location rocked.

the people there were great. really. you all created an amazing vibe in that place. people seemed to be having the time of their lives, which is of course is very contagious. i ended up having a loooong but very worthwhile conversation with someone i just met, something i will remember and take out of this party.

the concept of the party, musically speaking, seemed to be to best represent as many different genres of electronic music as possible: everything from jungle to robotik tek to epic trance. of course this meant that some parts of the night i got into the music much more than others, depending on what was playing. overall tho i would rate the quality of music played as high.

so my final words...

kirk 6, you throw good parties!

let's all swap bodily fluids and die!!

for me it was divine..

yes it was cold if u just stood around, but as long as I was dancing I was fine...plus there were huge bonfires to chill at

the crowd was among the best I have experienced..reconnected with people I hadn't seen for awhile plus meeting plenty of new people

the place was beautiful..at night it was illuminated by lasers and blacklights, but as the sun came up in a cloud of purple the green forest all around was finally illuminated

so if anyone has pictures please post them somewhere!

rather than do a rollcall for who's coming to the party, it would be probably be better to do a rollcall for who's NOT coming...it would be alot shorter =)

Wow, its really incredible how much society has changed. I wouldnt be surprised that in 50 years from now what we do now will be viewed as sick also.

you can buy this student passport at Mcgill, it costs 5$ and u get in Saphir for free all year

that's why i'm always there...but the 1st floor disgusts me

i should be heading off to school any minute now...yet instead i'm sitting here posting on ravewave

how strange

anyone interested? ...

Cocaine Research

Researchers in McGill University’s Dept. of Psychiatry are conducting a study about men (age 18-40) who have used cocaine during the past year. The study involves four 24-hour hospital stays, an interview, the ingestion of protein drinks, and the administration of cocaine. Participants will be compensated for their time. The principal investigator is Dr. Leyton. If interested, please email: mcgillresearch@hotmail.com, where you can leave your name, telephone number, and number of cocaine uses in the last year.
Dr Leyton

i second that...i'll be @ musikhall saturday to try to get a $5 ticket hehe

last IDJ i picked up a few extra flyers...been giving them out to peeps that sound interested...like today i'm walking round the mcgill ghetto, and i hear jungle coming out of some people's boom box chilling on the street. so i just randomly introduce myself and give out a flyer..turns out there from toronto and are looking for jungle in montreal! they were actually really happy...new idj regulars??

[ www.freetekno.toronto.on.ca ]

good luck!!!!

if people who take drugs get smarter...then how do u explain them keep on going to raves?

j/k lol

peyote, san pedro and a few other plants have mescaline as their active ingredient

apparently, the active ingredient of ayahuasca is DMT

thanks! hi chelsea ;)

don't know too much bout the actual plant ayahuasca..its not a cacti tho..
[ www.erowid.org ]

i'll check out the senior's home for one-boobed ladies

ok that was just sick

WoW..

it seems that IDJ just keeps on getting bigger and better

plus the flyer is AWESOME..props to kataleptic

As a few of u know, I just recently got back from travelling in South America. One of my most incredible experiences on this trip was visiting the jungle in Ecuador with an indigenous family, where I got to participate in an ayahuasca ritual. Here are a couple of pics, just for fun...

trekking in the rainforest


the Shaman and his catch (which we ate for breakfast)


the tent we constructed, in which we would later spend trippping on ayahuasca


me and the shaman preparing the psychedelik malicowah plant, with red natural bodypaint


preparation of ayahuasca, the 'vine of the dead'

i hitchhiked today for the first time to Toronto....its easy as in faster then the bus and free

1. take metro to cote vertu
2. take bus to fairview shopping centre
3. walk though centre to Trans Canada highway
4. stick out thumb

you'd have to pay me to work out in a gym...no way i'm paying them =)

you'd have to pay me to work out in a gym...no way i'm paying them =)

you'd have to pay me to work out in a gym...no way i'm paying them =)

you'd have to pay me to work out in a gym...no way i'm paying them =)

hmmmmm...

august 20, flight La Paz to New York
august 21, overnight bus from New York to Montreal
august 22, IN DA JUNGLE!!

plus catching up with u all montreal peeps :)

ps. to anyone interested, san pedro is available in the market in Cusco for $1.50 a dose

!!!!

This plant is amazing. It´s not a long trip, maybe about 2-3 hours, but its intense - probably the most i´ve ever hallucinated. The Shuar indegenous people live in the jungle, near the Ecuador-Peru border, and I was lucky enough to participate in a shuar shamanic ceremony while camping in the middle of the rainforest. Pictures to come when I get back to Canada.

Seb; that's incredible :)

Based on who his parents are, I'd say your son will be the luckiest kid ever!

check out the mcgill classifieds online...thers tons of out of town students who want to sublet their place for the summer

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i mean, thread.

OK here are some of my (rambling) thoughts:

1. As a result of our socialization through various institutions (family, school, social networks, work, etc) our minds become limited to certain structures of thought. Our brains, in other words, become accostomed to certain ways of thinking, and these "paradigms of thought" become imprinted in our minds.

2. How we perceive our environment (the world around us) is directly affected, and to a certain extent controlled, by the structure of our minds. Morover, our mind acts as a filter, blocking out or altering those perceptions that do not fit our paradigm of thought. As a result, we only consciously perceive the tiny portion of our environment that complies with our way of thinking, and can be processed by our structure of thought.

3. There is a chemical trigger in our brain which somehow breaks down our normal pattern of thinking, temporarily "freeing our mind" from the socially learned structures of thought, and thus allowing us to perceive at a different level then normally possible. We become activity aware of our mind's ability to shape reality, and on the same token, are able to perceive much of what our minds had previously filtered out. For currently unknown reasons, psychedelics (LSD, psylocybin, and mescaline) have the capability to activate this trigger.

Consider an analogy: our brain structure is a tunnel, and we travel through this tunnel through the course of our lives, only consciously perceiving what our mind allows us to (the vision at the end of the tunnel). Thus, in our normal reality, we are in fact practising "tunnel vision". Psychedelics temporarily free our minds from normal patterns of thought, thus breaking down the walls of the tunnel, and allowing us to perceive everything around us in its entirety.

For me, enlightenment simply refers to the illuminating of the perceptions that normally exist only in our subconcious, ie that we are not normally aware of. I don't see enlightenment as neccesarily knowing any "answers", and in fact, someone who is "enlightened" will probably have more questions then answers, as opposed to the one who practices tunnel vision, and thus beleiving that he understands the world (since the less we perceive, the easier it is to explain our perceptions).

Of course, this leaves many questions unanswered:

What is one to do with all these new perceptions?
What is the purpose of new perceptions?
Is it better to remain unenlightened?

I think there are two common reactions by people that experience psychedelics:

1. A re-evaluation of the life one currently leads, with either a re-affirmation of one's previous path, or a complete change in life path triggered by a new state of consciousness OR

2. Confusion brought on by the new perceptions, unsatisfation with previous life path due to new perceptions, internal struggle.

Of course, all of the above is just one way of viewing psychedelics, i'm not even sure its correct, but I hope you can follow what I'm saying.

heh I just came back from this, krinjah tore the place up

here's an interesting thought:

Time, as we measure it, is based on revolutions of the Earth around the Sun. Let's imagine, for whatever reason, that the Earth began drifting either further away (or closer to) the sun, thereby resulting in stretched (or compressed) day-lengths. Would time itself be affected, or just our perception of it?

yup they are good...some of them are alot funnier than others though