The Temple of pAmphAge

Sick of intermittent results and the discouragement it’s provided, I’m about to embark upon a chemical journey to try another route toward the mastery out of body experiences. I’m open to any and all suggestions on which substances you think would be fairly hypnotic without arresting a person’s ability to keep the mind awake while allowing the body to loosen awareness enough to fall asleep. The rarity of gathering up any potential recommendations is not really an issue to keep you from posting, please note.

My friend who has set out on the road recently and me myself in the upcoming months are going to be experimenting with harmine extracted from Syrian Rue seeds, and also various other herbal and chemical methods of attaining certain states of consciousness geared towards our respective goals.

In the case of the harmine (aka telepathine), speaking for myself, my primary goal will be enhancing telepathy and all other forms of psychic powers such as remote viewing while aided with the addition of selected binaural tones.

Otherwise I also aim to lead a series of experiments to ease the induction of hypnogogia for the purposes of a more speedy entrance into OOBE states as we ride the razor’s edge of sleep to do so. Hope to post more on this entire subject so you all can do the play at home thing, but here is just the beginning for now:

(http://deoxy.org/neuroalchemy.htm)

Neuro-Alchemy: Beta-Carbolines as Potentiating Agents
by J.B. Fleming

"I began to get high-and then the whole fucking Cosmos broke loose around me" —Allen Ginsberg

During the nineteen twenties, ethnographers returning from the Amazon jungle gave strange accounts of tribal shamans who used a telepathy-increasing plant drug to direct the course of their societies. The drug was a hallucinogenic drink which had several different native names including Ayahuasca, Yage, Caapi, and Natema. It was brewed from a species of woody vine called Banisteriopsis along with various admixtures which commonly included the leaves of Banisteriopsis rusbyana, Psychotria viridis, and Brugmansia.

Native users of ayahuasca were reported to experience collective hallucinations of jaguars, snakes, and jeweled birds. These visions were often accompanied by contact with dead ancestors, the ability to see future events, and telepathic communication among tribal members. Secondary effects included heightened sexual responses, vomiting and diarrhea. Ayahuasca’s purgative effects also made it useful as a general medicine to stimulate health and fight diseases.

Harmine Toxicologists were fascinated by the drug and soon extracted the active compound from the Banisteriopsis vine, naming it Telepathine. However, in the nineteen thirties, research interest in ethnopharmacology faded and the matter was left to rest. The case on ayahuasca was reopened in 1957 when researchers discovered that Telepathine was actually Harmine, one of several compounds from the beta-carboline family of hallucinogens. Secondary alkaloids called Harmaline and Tetrahydroharmine were also identified.

The beta-carbolines were first isolated in 1841 from the seeds of Peganum harmala, a small, bushy herb known as Syrian Rue which grows along the Mediterranean and throughout Central Asia. It is also reported to have escaped cultivation and can now be found throughout the American southwest. Middle Eastern people have long used Syrian Rue as a folk medicine and for the unique red dye in Turkish and Persian rugs. Egyptians employed the seeds as an aphrodisiac and the plant has been considered as a possible (although unlikely) candidate for the mysterious Soma described in the Rig-Veda. Beta-carbolines have since been identified in several more plants including Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata), Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), and even within the human pineal gland.

LSD
Psilocybin
DMT
Bufotenine
Ibogaine
The beta-carbolines are members of the indole family of alkaloids which includes the highly illegal drugs LSD, Psilocybin, DMT, Bufotenin, and Ibogaine. Interestingly, the beta-carbolines have never been scheduled as illegal substances. All of the indoles possess a structural similarity to the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine. However, the beta-carbolines have a unique quality called MAO inhibition that sets them apart from other psychedelics.

Monoamine oxidase (MAO) is an enzyme produced in the human body which serves several regulatory functions. Within the nerve terminals of norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin neurons MAO acts to modulate the amount of neurotransmitter present. MAO bonds with the transmitters and deactivates them preventing the build up of excessive neurotransmitters at the nerve synapses. MAO is also responsible for deactivating many of the toxins that are present in the foods that we eat. Tyramine is an example of a toxin found in many common foods including aged cheese, red wine, pickled herring, figs, and yeast. Without the presence of MAO to inactivate it the consumption of tyramine would be followed by a severe, and possibly life-threatening increase in blood pressure.

In addition to the beta-carbolines psychoactive effects they are also powerful, short-term, MAO inhibitors. For the six to eight hours that the beta-carboline trip lasts MAO activity is suppressed, allowing serotonin to build up at the neuron synapses. This action may be responsible for some of their mental effects. It also means that the body is vulnerable to any toxins that might be consumed.

The South-American indians learned to take advantage of this condition by adding DMT containing plants to the ayahuasca mixture. Normally DMT is inactive when taken orally. Up to a gram of this powerful psychedelic can be consumed with no noticeable effect. However, when combined with beta-carbolines, DMT is absorbed through the stomach and its normally short action is extended for several hours. Although the principles of MAO inhibition were not described by Western science until the nineteen fifties the indians have exploited it for hundreds of years.
Western Experiments with Beta-Carbolines
In the 1960s Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo carried out a series of experiments using pure harmaline taken intravenously. He reported its effect in his book The Healing Journey as producing vivid mental imagery which took the form of dreamlike sequences accompanied by physical sedation and nausea. His subjects, all drawn from an urban background, often described the same jungle imagery of snakes, vines, jaguars and birds that native ayahuasca users reported. Other researchers since Naranjo have concluded that the beta-carbolines when taken orally do not produce a psychedelic state except at near toxic doses. Instead they seem to create a hazy, dreamy mental state along with an uncomfortable lethargic condition closer in effect to tranquilizers than psychedelics.

It appears that the real value of the beta-carbolines lies not in their psychoactive effects but in their ability to potentiate other psychedelic substances. Over the years there have been numerous accounts of this potentiating quality from underground sources. In Terence and Dennis McKenna’s book The Invisible Landscape and its companion book True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna the effects of a Banisteriopsis and Psilocybe cubensis combination are described. In a series of events that culminated in what they called "The Experiment at La Chorrera" the brothers drank an infusion of boiled Banisteriopsis vine and consumed Psilocybe mushrooms supplemented by smoking dried shavings of Banisteriopsis. What resulted was a spectacular, month long experience of an extremely bizarre nature best left up to the McKenna’s to recount.

Another set of experiments using beta-carbolines to synergize DMT was carried out by "Gracie and Zarkov". Their collection of samizdat reports titled Notes from the Underground detail their use of beta-carbolines to prolong and intensify the effects of synthetic DMT, Psilocybin and LSD. Their procedure was to extract beta-carbolines from Banisteriopsis vines, Passionflower, and Syrian Rue seeds. After drying the extracts were smoked and followed by DMT or other indole psychedelics. The effects of the beta-carboline extracts when taken by themselves are described as "…not particularly psychedelic or hallucinogenic. One feels calm. …At higher doses, dizziness and nausea sets in with very little increase in the high. Closed eye imagery is at best hypnagogic."

Jim DeKorne in his book Psychedelic Shamanism also looks into the potentiating action of beta-carbolines. Working with "Mushroom Ayahuasca", a combination of Syrian Rue extract with Psilocybe cubensis, DeKorne describes its effects as; "This is in no way a ‘recreational’ compound… One is quite simply ‘flattened’ by the mixture. Like most authentic ayahuasca experiences, some gastrointestinal upset is par for the course, but by then one’s consciousness is so profoundly transformed, that nausea and vomiting are somehow beside the point."

There is a possibility that ayahuasca "analogues" can be created using plants found in North America. The goal is to render the DMT found in certain plants orally active by combining them with threshold doses of short-term MAO inhibitors such as the beta-carbolines. Jonathan Ott provides a wealth of information on experimental ayahuasca mixtures in his books Pharmacotheon and Ayahuasca Analogues. Ott’s detailed experiments using harmine extracted from Syrian Rue seeds and DMT clearly show that DMT can be rendered orally active when combined with low doses of beta-carbolines. However, a suitable source for pure DMT is problematic. Much research must still be done in this area.

Given time, underground researchers will find an easily obtained and legal plant which contains DMT. This will enable home users to create what Dennis McKenna calls Ayahuasca borealis, the North American equivalent of the legendary Amazonian ayahuasca brew. Once this technique is perfected it will possible for anyone to explore the psychedelic experience free from the stigma of criminal activity and profiteering drug dealers.
References and Suggested Reading

1. The Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg
2. Psychedelic Shamanism by Jim DeKorne
3. Hallucinogens by Marlene Dobkin De Rios
4. Hallucinogens and Culture by Peter T. Furst
5. Notes From The Underground by Gracie & Zarkov
6. The Invisible Landscape by Terence and Dennis McKenna
7. True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna
8. The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna
9. The Healing Journey by Claudio Naranjo
10. Ayahuasca Analogues by Jonathan Ott
11. Pharmacotheon by Jonathan Ott
12. Plants of the Gods by Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann
13. Psychedelics Encyclopedia by Peter Stafford
14. The Natural Mind by Andrew Weil
15. The Marriage of the Sun and Moon by Andrew Weil

NOTE: The principles of MAO inhibition are extremely complex and potentially dangerous. The information presented in this article is highly speculative. Self experimentation is not recommended.

http://deoxy.org/neuroalchemy.htm (with images)

LIBER XXXVI THE STAR SAPPHIRE
www.hermetic.com/osiris/analysisstarsapphire.htm

Ritual by Aleister Crowley Analysis by Frater Osiris 2003

One day upon discovering this, I looked at the rite in a new and surprisingly way as sex magick

1. Let the Adept be armed with his Magick Rood [and provided with his Mystic Rose].

The Rood is the phallus and the Rose is the vagina. Note that the Rood is a cross, particularly the Cross of the Crucifixion; it also means lance.

2. In the centre, let him give the L.V.X. signs; or if he know them, if he will and dare do them, and can keep silent about them, the signs of N.O.X. being the signs of Puer, Vir, Puella, Mulier. Omit the sign. I.R.

The proper signs to use are the N.O.X. signs, which conceal a certain method of energy work. Note the correspondence between the chakras and the hand positions of the signs:

Puella—Root and Heart chakras

Puer—Navel and Brow chakras (N)

Vir—Brow chakra (O)

Mulier—Crown chakra (X)

This sequence moves energy from the Root chakra to the Crown chakra and is analogous with the path of the Kundalini serpent. While making the signs, activate the chakras involved and move the energy between them.

The order of the Signs given above is taken from Liber Reguli. The instructions in the Star Sapphire give a different order of the Signs, ranking them by grade:

L.V.X.—Plexus (Adeptus Minor 5=6)

Puer—Navel and Brow chakras (Adeptus Major 6=5)

Vir—Brow chakra (Adeptus Exemptus 7=4)

Puella—Root and Heart chakras (Babe of the Abyss)

Mulier—Crown chakra (Babe of the Abyss)

This arrangement separates the N.O.X. Signs by gender. The signs of Puella and Mulier are further differentiated by their sexual attitude. Puella is also referred to as the Sign of Chastity, the virtue practiced in the 7th Degree of the OTO. Mulier is also referred to as the Sign of Babalon, who is characterized as a whore. The two Signs represent a bridge between the “celibate” Lovers Triad and the sexually active Hermit Triad of the OTO initiatory system.

3. Then let him advance to the East and make the Holy Hexagram, saying: Pater et Mater unus deus Ararita.

4. Let him go round to the South, make the Holy Hexagram and say: Mater et Filius unus deus Ararita.

5. Let him go round to the West, make the Holy Hexagram and say: Filius et Filia unus deus Ararita.

6. Let him go round to the North, make the Holy Hexagram and then say: Filia et Pater unus deus Ararita.

The Holy Hexagram is defined in Chapter 69 of The Book of Lies. It refers to mutual oral sex. The heads and legs of the interlocked man and woman form a hexagram.

The orations give further instructions, indicating which gender will take the dominant position in each quarter. Thus in the East the man would lie on top of the woman in the formation of the Holy Hexagram, while in the South they would switch positions, and so on. Alternatively, the orations may only indicate the nature of the energy being invoked by the Holy Hexagram, the union of opposites. In any case, the formula ARARITA should be uttered aloud in each quarter. ARARITA is notariqon for “One is his beginning; one is his individuality; his permutation is one.” It is a planetary formula, having seven letters.

“The use of this Name and Formula is to equate and identify every idea with its opposite; thus being released from the obsession of thinking any one of them as <<true>> (and therefore binding); one can withdraw oneself from the whole sphere of the Ruach” –Aleister Crowley, The Holy Books of Thelema.

7. Let him then return to the Centre, and so to the Centre of All (making the Rosy Cross as he may know how) saying Ararita Ararita Ararita.

The “Centre of All” is Pan.

“Making the Rosy Cross” is a term for sexual intercourse. Remember that the Rood is a cross. The operators should exclaim ARARITA three times at the moment of orgasm

Note that at this point, the climax of the ritual, the planetary formula ARARITA has been uttered seven times. Seven is the number of Venus, and 7 X 7 = 49, the Mystic Number of Venus.

8. (In this the Signs shall be those of Set Triumphant and of Baphomet. Also shall Set appear in the Circle. Let him drink of the Sacrament and let him communicate the same.)

The Sign of Set Triumphant is the Sign of Apophis from the L.V.X. Signs, not the Sign of Mater Triumphans as commonly reported. The Sign of Baphomet is the Sign of Mulier from the N.O.X. signs. The two Signs are very similar in appearance, but the first is masculine in nature while the second is feminine. When the two Signs are superimposed on each other during intercourse, they form a hexagram; the woman lies with her arms and legs extended, while the man lies on top of her with his arms extended and his legs together.

Set is samekh-teth, symbolic of the Sacrament. In the tarot, teth depicts the physical act of intercourse and the energy generated thereby, while samekh shows the product of that sexual union, the charged sexual fluids commingled in the vagina that is the Sacrament of the operation. In Hebrew, set means “transgression” or “sin” and enumerates to 69.

There are other interesting correspondences between samekh and teth. They are the vertical and horizontal middle paths on the Tree of Life; samekh connects the Sun and the Moon, while teth joins Mercy and Severity. Also, teth is Leo and samekh is Sagittarius, and the sigils of these zodiacal signs are symbolic of the vagina and the phallus.

The pronoun “him” in the third sentence refers to the male operator. The Sacrament is consumed by both operators, with the man communicating the Sacrament to the woman. It is suggested elsewhere in Crowley’s writings that the Sacrament be dissolved and absorbed in the mouth to obtain the fullest effect.

9. Then let him say: Omnia in Duos: Duo in Unum: Unus in Nihil: Haec nec Quatuor nec Omnia nec Duo nec Unus nec Nihil Sunt.

“All in Two: Two in One: One in Nothing: These are neither Four nor All nor Two nor One nor Nothing.”

What number is missing from this oration? Three, the number of the Sacrament. It the product of the All in Two, it is the Two in One, and as One becomes Nothing when sacrificed.

10. Gloria Patri et Matri et Filio et Filiae et Spiritui Sancto externo et Spiritui Sancto interno ut erat est erit in saecula Saeculorum sex in uno per nomen Septem in uno Ararita.

This oration may be broken down into two sentences. “Glory to the Father and the Mother and the Son and the Daughter and the Holy Spirit without and the Holy Spirit within which was, is and shall be, world without end.”

The first sentence describes the six Elements found in the Greater Ritual of the Pentagram: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Active Spirit and Passive Spirit.

“Six in One through the names of the Seven in One, Ararita.”

The second sentence is a definition of ARARITA in reference to the first sentence, which describes six Elements in one “world without end.”

11. Let him then repeat the signs of L.V.X. but not the signs of N.O.X.: for it is not he that shall arise in the Sign of Isis Rejoicing.

The Sign of Isis Rejoicing would indicate that an actual child was conceived through the sexual act, which is certainly not the case.

copyright (c) Frater Osiris 2008

Izabael

I see you do Salvia Divinorum.

How do you incorporate its use with magick rituals? Are you able to perform a ritual on Salvia as I am not able to ‘’stick to the plan” as it were.

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doesn’t work if you do it everyday

just fyi

quit for a month and then try it