Throckmorton Blowfart Esquire IV, 33° An(archist) (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bitches_tyrone) wrote,@ 2007-12-22 16:04:00 |
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Pharmako/Poeia - Plant Powers, Poisons & Herbcraft, by Dale Pendell, is a bad ass book. I've been flying through it, and straying little. This does not often happen. The book details various plants, their uses throughout history, various preparations, myths and poetry and song about them, and perhaps becoming allies with some of them, toxins, the poison path, the danger of it all. The first in a series of three (got the other two on the way), I could hardly provide a higher book recommendation for those with interest in drugs or in plants. And for those with interest in both? Woof!
Here be a snippet
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants arrived in the mail today. Weighing in at 944 pages, it looks to also bear bad ass-ness. There're many plants I'll be giving a shot in the future, baby hawaiian woodrose, mimosa hostilis rootbark, kratom, wormwood, yopo, and who knows what else? Maya Ethnobotanicals, that's who. They've got quite a comprehensive collection of items, the most wide and varied I've come across yet (not that that's saying much).
This year has been the most fucked up of my life thus far (also not necessarily saying much), next year, however, will be the year of me getting "fucked up" the most.
At least this I presume.
I become more juvenile every day, and it is so damned enjoyable (if only for me). So many suffocate the kid in them.
Isolation is one of the keys of state power, so it's very important for us to get together and have fun. It is a political act.
-Dale Pendell
One must be forever drunken: that is the sole question of importance. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time that bruises your shoulders and bends you to the earth, you must be drunken without cease. But how? With wine, with poetry, with virtue, with what you please. But be drunken. And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass by a moat, or in the dull loneliness of your chamber, you should waken up, your intoxication already lessened or gone, ask of the wind, of the wave, of the star, of the bird, of the timepiece; ask of all that flees, all that sighs, all that revolves, all that sings, all that speaks, ask of these the hour; and wind and wave and star and bird and timepiece will answer you: 'It is the hour to be drunken! Lest you be the martyred slaves of Time, intoxicate yourselves, be drunken without cease! With wine, with poetry, with virtue, or with what you will.'
-Baudelaire
Pharmako/Poeia - Plant Powers, Poisons & Herbcraft, by Dale Pendell, is a bad ass book. I've been flying through it, and straying little. This does not often happen. The book details various plants, their uses throughout history, various preparations, myths and poetry and song about them, and perhaps becoming allies with some of them, toxins, the poison path, the danger of it all. The first in a series of three (got the other two on the way), I could hardly provide a higher book recommendation for those with interest in drugs or in plants. And for those with interest in both? Woof!
Here be a snippet
The great work is healing. If you can figure out how to heal yourself, then you know something for sure. You have expertise. So you have to be sick. And maybe you want to be really good at this healing, so you want to practice. And how can you practice without poison?Download it!
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants arrived in the mail today. Weighing in at 944 pages, it looks to also bear bad ass-ness. There're many plants I'll be giving a shot in the future, baby hawaiian woodrose, mimosa hostilis rootbark, kratom, wormwood, yopo, and who knows what else? Maya Ethnobotanicals, that's who. They've got quite a comprehensive collection of items, the most wide and varied I've come across yet (not that that's saying much).
This year has been the most fucked up of my life thus far (also not necessarily saying much), next year, however, will be the year of me getting "fucked up" the most.
At least this I presume.
I become more juvenile every day, and it is so damned enjoyable (if only for me). So many suffocate the kid in them.
Isolation is one of the keys of state power, so it's very important for us to get together and have fun. It is a political act.
-Dale Pendell
One must be forever drunken: that is the sole question of importance. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time that bruises your shoulders and bends you to the earth, you must be drunken without cease. But how? With wine, with poetry, with virtue, with what you please. But be drunken. And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass by a moat, or in the dull loneliness of your chamber, you should waken up, your intoxication already lessened or gone, ask of the wind, of the wave, of the star, of the bird, of the timepiece; ask of all that flees, all that sighs, all that revolves, all that sings, all that speaks, ask of these the hour; and wind and wave and star and bird and timepiece will answer you: 'It is the hour to be drunken! Lest you be the martyred slaves of Time, intoxicate yourselves, be drunken without cease! With wine, with poetry, with virtue, or with what you will.'
-Baudelaire
