Winter Solstice 2006

With contributions from:

  • Erik Davis
  • Jon Hanna
  • Alembic 23
  • Mambo Pachano
  • Keeper Trout
  • Leah Martin
  • and others...

  

TOPICS INCLUDE:

  • "Erik Davis Speaks..." about his new book, The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape, featuring the photography of Michael Rauner.
     
  • "Consumer Advocacy, Peer Review, and Fictional Figures in a Journal Article Quantifying Salvia divinorum Products," exposes the bad data and flawed methodology presented in a September 2006 issue of Pharmacotherapy.
     
  • "Mescaline For The Masses" explains one of the simplest kitchen extraction processes for Trichocereus cactus that we have ever come across.
     
  • "This is Not Coca" discusses the plant Synadenium grantii, which has persistently been misidentified as some species of Erythroxylum in certain ethnobotanical circles. Photographs of both plants are showcased.
     
  • "Ibogaine Visions" describes the work done at the Iboga Therapy House in Canada and shares four engaging trip reports from the House's clients.
     
  • "Network Feedback" provides a critical review of one approach to treatment as presented in Rick Strassman's article "The Inner Work;" informs readers of several entheopodcast web sites; updates horticulture enthusiasts on one of the original known sites in America where Trichocereus cv Juul's Giant was planted and is still growing; admonishes tactics described in "Tripping in Public;" alerts readers to snail mailing concerns; spits out all the juicy data on quid basification; reports on an attempt to distill diethyl ether from starting fluid; and waxes rhapsodic about the increase in availability and quality of DMT in recent years.
     
  • "Events Calendar" notifies readers of the Wesak Festival in Mount Shasta, the Ayahuasca Healing Retreat in Bahia, the SheShamans conference in Geyserville, the Consciousness & Nature Spirits gathering in Bahia, and a Pilgrimage to Damanhur in Italy with Alex and Allyson Grey.
     
  • The "Book Review" critiques the new coffee table art book from CoSM Press: Damanhur: Temples of Humankind.
     
  • All that, plus a Bibliography, and an Index for all the 2006 issues.

     

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