Magic Mushrooms Shop weekly news digest September 28th 2015
Every week The Magic Mushrooms Shop brings you a selected and brief ‘’News Digest’’ of what we feel are some of the most interesting articles related to psychedelics, Magic Mushrooms, drugs in general, the inner self (meditation and mindfulness), and anything we find ‘’trippy’’, we hope you enjoy it!
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Hitler and the Nazis Were Seriously into Their Amphetamines and Opiates (Source: vice.com)
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Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia (Source: news.mongabay.com)
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LSD, magic mushrooms and ecstasy 'could help treat anxiety, PTSD and addiction', experts say (Source: dailymail.co.uk/)
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Apparently many of those involved in Hitler's party, from the army to Hitler himself, where regularly and compulsively consuming drugs. Norman Ohler's latest book Der Totale Rausch pulls the curtains on the Nazi drug habits, fascinating reading in deed.
So what did all these Nazi's take? Hitler for starters was a fan of Eukodal taken intravenously and received more than 800 injections over the years. Eukodal is the German brand name for oxycodon, a synthetic opiate.
Another drug of choice where Morphine and Methamphetamine, as a matter of fact, Normand Ohler suggest that the Blitzkrieg (rapid invasion of Poland and France by Nazi forces) was fuelled by crystal meth... The Blitzkrieg was actually a Methkrieg...
Today's army are no different. Americans used Modafinil in Afghanistan and during the Korean war, massive amounts of speed was administered to their pilots.
Full VICE article here: http://www.vice.com/read/total-intoxication-nazi-use-of-meth-876
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It is no secret that one of the great tragedies of our age is related to indigenous traditions, stories cultures and knowledge disappearing across the world. This is why the initiative taken by the Matsés peoples of Brazil and Peru is simply amazing. They have created a 500 page encyclopedia of their traditional medicine and it details every plant used by Matsés medicine to cure a missive variety of ailments.
The Matsés have only printed their encyclopedia in their native language to ensure that the medicinal knowledge is not stolen by corporations or researchers as has happened in the past. Instead, the encyclopedia is meant as a guide for training new, young shamans in the tradition and recording the living shamans’ knowledge before they pass.
Read the full story here: http://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/amazon-tribe-creates-500-page-traditional-medicine-encyclopedia/
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What do you know about Steven Pollock?
For starters he was a mycologist and mycologists happen to study fungi. Pollock believed that many modern medical treatments could effectively be replaced by mushrooms, psychedelic mushrooms to be precise. He was murdered on January 31st, 1981.
Pollock wrote extensively in publications like the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs on the potential of shrooms to treat illness and improve overall life quality. He also sold ready-made magic mushroom grow kits.
Thirty-plus years later, and medicinal magic mushrooms still just sound funny, despite psilocybin’s promise in the treatment of anything from obsessive compulsive disorder, to cigarette addition, to headaches. But Pollock’s philosopher’s stone fungus (P. Tampenensis)11 lives on, in the Netherlands of all places, where thanks to a legal loophole it is widely sold under the less arcane moniker, Magic Truffles.
Read the full story here: http://www.madscientistblog.ca/mad-scientist-18-steven-h-pollock/#sthash.QYr1y2XU.XtayXp0Y.dpuf
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More than 40 years ago Timothy Leary urged America to ''turn on, tune in, drop out''. He conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project and advocated the use of LSD.
Experiments using psychedelic drugs - substances that have a strong effect on one's 'conscious experience' - grew in the 1950s and 1960s until they were stopped as LSD and other drugs were outlawed.
Today there seems to be a new interest in using these mind altering substances to find new therapies. Many universities leading research in that field have shown some success with the controlled use of these drugs.
Read the full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3226569/LSD-magic-mushrooms-ecstasy-help-treat-anxiety-PTSD-addiction-experts-say.html
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There is value to be found in negative thoughts, everybody has them, but no everyone know's how to deal with them in a... positive way.
This article will show you not to reject your negative thoughts, but to lean towards them to redefine them, change the reality as you know it and to help your own mind to suffer less.
Seven steps:
1. Observe (without judging) your emotions.
2. Notice the thoughts behind the emotions.
3. Channel your inner two year old.
4. Look at the “evidence” for your belief.
5. Come up with other possibilities.
6. Find evidence for at least one possibility.
7. Repeat.
What is the moral of our story? Don’t let your thoughts and fears limit you. They may seem like gospel truth, but nothing actually is. Everything you think, everything you feel, is up for questioning. If it doesn’t make sense to your mind, it can be redefined.
Read the full text here: http://tinybuddha.com/blog/7-ways-to-learn-from-your-negative-thoughts/
Thanks for reading and see you next week!
Magic Mushrooms Shop
September 29, 2015