DatingGod

bukowski's roll the dice

if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.

if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.

do it, do it, do it.
do it.

all the way
all the way.

you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is.

Thanks Chuck

Jed McKenna's Notebook

Jed has a new book out. Not exactly new maybe, but new to hard copy. It's a collection of the bonus material from the ebook version of his trilogy. Of course, I have multiple copies of the print books, as well as copies of the ebooks, so of course I just ordered the hard copy of Notebook, though I won't order the ebook as that would be just silly, wouldn't it?

If you're happy in your life, and prosperity is cradled in your hands, a soulmate sings from your bed, and God is your close, personal friend, or these are things you both want and feel are really, for you, just up the road a bit, there is no need to order this book. If however you are attempting to chew your own head off to escape the trap, if the humans around you all look like agents or aliens or screeching robots, and you've become a real pill at social gatherings, here's where to go:

Jed McKenna's Notebook

. . . and for more posts on Jed: Go Here.

The Spirit Molecule

I just finished reading an amazing book: "DMT: The Spirit Molecule". I've been thinking a lot about ayahuasca the past couple of months, having several synchronicities around people contacting me with info, and then a friend lending me a copy of this book.

It tells the story of several research studies done on DMT, which is a naturally occurring molecule in most plants and animals, and which figures prominently in the pineal gland, and is a source of psychedelic experiences. The researcher, Rick Strassman, an MD and Psychiatrist, tells a fascinating tale that ties in the dark and the light, alien abduction stories, meetings with bright spirits and insectoid humanoids, time shifting, dimension hopping, plus really cool molecular biological scientific spiritual whatnot.

As I read the book, one of the most striking aspects was how the research volunteers experiences were similar to what I see in shamanic reality when I journey. Even down to the same sorts of beings. Part of me wonders if there isn't some sort of baseline of images and fears and imaginings coded within each human brain. How else to describe how I can meet with Praying Mantis Man, and many of the research subjects did, too. Unless, of course, he's real. As is all of the the rest of it. (My father claims to have been repeatedly abducted by aliens, but oh how that is definitely a tale for another post . . . )

I'd love to try DMT, but of course it's one of those Seriously Illegal Molecules, and I'd be nervous about trying something so powerful when it could be just cooked up in some wahoo's kitchen lab. Any of you guys out there ever tried it?

I did acid a few times back in my twenties, and I had some really wild experiences, and a couple of kinda boring ones. Maybe it was the quality. I've never done mushrooms. Someday . . .

The book is a great read. If I owned the copy I just finished, I'd pass it on. And I doubt you can check it out of any library, but you just might. It's shifted my perceptions, and I'm grateful for it . . .