tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post4140057256856244435..comments2024-03-25T17:38:01.020+08:00Comments on Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar: In the Shadows of SagebrushUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-58079337564035692222012-03-11T02:40:52.894+08:002012-03-11T02:40:52.894+08:00Already had done it as a result of Carlos Castaned...Already had done it as a result of Carlos Castaneda. But, the experiments were conducted after hundreds of LSD, mescaline and psylocybe. The experience is highly conditioned based on culture, as all of them are.snakespeakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05252319587620960557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-70120745816938646632010-11-08T23:06:24.806+08:002010-11-08T23:06:24.806+08:00European witches combined it with belladonna, and ...European witches combined it with belladonna, and sometimes hemp and/or opium, to make the infamous flying ointments. In Casteneda's writings it is also used to create the illusion that one is flying. It is also used in the ointment form there. As you state, ingestion is nearly always fatal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-47045275209272611972010-10-12T05:03:07.585+08:002010-10-12T05:03:07.585+08:00Datura also has atropine and scopolamine. Add phen...Datura also has atropine and scopolamine. Add phenobarbital to that and you get Donnatal -- so while you are having a heart attack and telling the truth about it, at least you won't be getting cramps.<br /><br />Note also that Datura is used in voodoo, hence --- zombies.Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607443504553459238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-79048527947727207842010-10-12T04:44:48.456+08:002010-10-12T04:44:48.456+08:00Datura is also mentioned repeatedly in "Intro...Datura is also mentioned repeatedly in "Introduction to the Middle Way", the renowned 7th century Indian Buddhist master Chandrakirti’s Madhyamakavatara. This is available in various versions, the one I have with commentary by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche is arranged according to Gorampa’s 15th Century commentary - available from the Khyentse Foundation.<br /><br />The context in which Datura is <br />mentioned is as an intoxicant, which, as with alcohol impairs the sense organs to the perception of truth. The rituals cited in the tantras you mention and others such as Guhyasamaja Tantra, I think are likely to originate from pre Buddhist tantra. Tibetan Bon tradition or Siddhi. <br /><br />From the Guhyasamaja Tantra "[M]aking an image of the enemy with the excrement and urine of those who follow the great Dharma, wrathfully burn it in a fire of thorn-wood, and even the Buddha will certainly perish. [...] So he said black mustard-seeds, salt, oil, poison, and thorn-apple [datura], these are taught as the supreme destroyers of all the Buddhas."<br /><br />This type of magic I think Milarepa became involved in before he saw the light of the middle way. It seems to be a trait of human nature we follow the easy path, assuming intoxicants provide the necessary alteration of mind to transcend samsara, failing to appreciate we are subscribing to an even greater illusion.<br /><br />This characteristic of Datura is also evident in other ways. Consider the way it is used today in western herbal medicine, albeit in very small doses due to its entirely allopathic effects. i.e. it is not considered curative, more suppressant of abnormal nervous system activity, due to its depression of parasympathetic nerve activity (i.e. it suppresses the nerves which keep you alive).<br /><br />Just one its constituents Hyoscyamine – in increasing doses produces happiness, stimulation, fantasy, hilarity, illusions, auditory and visual hallucination, rage, epileptic fit, deeper breathing, red skin with inc body Temp, culminating in central nervous system paralysis, coma and death<br /><br />With constituent differences inherent between varieties and dependant on growing location, climate etc, selecting the right amount of plant for a given effect is a dangerous lottery. Therefore never a plant to be dallied with, and hence its historic association with evil deeds.James Shorthttp://www.scottishherbalist.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-12219063819504236602010-10-12T04:38:16.780+08:002010-10-12T04:38:16.780+08:00if i remember correctly there is a native story of...if i remember correctly there is a native story of the two twins who arose from the underworld in between, from the last world to this one, and one was malevolent and one was benevolent, belladonna and datura...<br /><br />they were in human formAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com