Nocturnal Celestial Emissions from The SeaGoose Nebula

The summer is truly the best time for music lovers, since most bands are touring and the big thing is summer festival season opens. Their have already been festivals but one that I am looking foreword to is The Forecastle Festival. This festival is right in the heart of Louisville and so for me no need to travel. The festival takes place July 10-12. So this weekend, at The Riverfront Belvedere, 5th and Main Streets, Louisville, Kentucky 40202.

8th Annual Forecastle Festival

This is the 8th Annual gathering of Forecastle and it was started in Louisville which is cool. But it is not only a music festival as the founder put it is “where the Midwest connects”. The festival includes music, art and activism. I really recommend you going to the site and checking everything out, especially the line up.  I hope to go all three days and am looking to see some new bands which I have never seen before such as The Avett Brothers. As well as some bands that I have seen and put on awesome shows like Widespread Panic, Umphrey’s Mcgee, and Yonder Mountain String Band. But their is so much more going on, it makes me very excited.

If you make it out have fun.

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Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

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After I finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman, some ideas that I had popped into my head again cause Neil Gaiman has some interesting insights to the thoughts. One is feeling alive, well not breathing. What I mean is that most people can agree that certain times in our life’s, while we are doing certain things we feel more alive then other times. SO the thought came to and I started to run over the many things people have done to regain that fleeting feeling of life. After thinking about it a bit I think that the idea of feeling alive is constant change, always keep learning and always keep growing from the learning’s, also keep trying. The more different things that happens to me the better I feel cause it causes me to use my mind. I find that when I have to problem solve and really work my brain I feel that best. The problem with me train on thought on this is, that I am only one person and I often wonder if the ideas I have hold true for everyone. There is no way for me to know and honestly it does not matter. I think that this constant desire in me for novelty and abstract thinking is the reason I was lead to psychedelics. I know we that like to explore the unimagined and ride the vibrations of reality all have gotten to it for different reasons, I think that I have come understand mine. But the feeling of doing something that you have never done is amazing and trying is amazing. But when you explore the world with psychedelics you do something that someone may have never done not the substance but the place you can go and see, so that’s pretty cool haha. But back to the matter hand the exploration of feeling alive as apposed to getting stuck in the pattern of the days. It is so easy to fall into the flow and become part of the muddled mass, and I have to say I have at time fallen into the pattern and feeling comfort given by knowing what is next. The goal of society is to handy cap. It tries to take the oddities the good ones or the bad ones and it just smashes then into a middle. The way it starts this is with school if you are special or learn in a different way it does not matter, you are made to learn with all the others. I like the theory of economics and the reason I bring it up is cause there is this saying which I am sure most have heard “carrots and sticks”. Society as a whole makes us people value these carrots and worry about these sticks that don’t matter. Big houses then you need shit to fill it, are the carrots. The sticks would have to be, you get feeling less of a person if you cant afford the things, it is very smart and a great way to control people to get them to do, and to give themselves for a very few amount of people who control the things.

I have no solution for a constant feeling of alive or the problem of joining the bland rat race. But I believe that the more we think about the more likely a solution will spring cause, one is may be strong, but many are all powerful.

Another idea I have been pondering on the concept is, is it possible to break your world clock? Let me explain, we have a good sense of time, the reason i think is cause we have been apart of it from birth and so most people can guess the time to close amount. But the truth is the only thing a clock is measure too is another clock. Their is no time it is just a mark for us to relate to another with. But the concept of time is not the central idea of the question that is something else, that is a vast exploration of time space. But my idea is it possible to break you concept of time within this reality? Could you one day decide to be no longer part of it? I don’t know why you would want too, well besides freedom. But it would be hard cause of jobs, and activities and a lot of other things that are tied into time. I am not done thinking about this and am gonna give more time on it. I really wanna learn more on the history of time, and how we came to use this system.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

Confront Reality.

I wrote this down on Saturday afternoon.

Everyday it seems we are all being sold on some beau ideal, and in doing so you have to regiment your life according to those strict and rigid rules that exist in that epitome.

When is a chair not a chair? Well when someone has no concept of what a chair is.

The only way to prove something is if someone else can reproduce it, is that not flawed logic in a world of individuals.

Life runs on a pretty stringent laws and probabilities and through psychedelics drugs, novelty in reality suddenly change and reestablishes itself. The only problem is recreating it becomes impossible even under the same substances, and circumstances that’s why they call it hallucination. (definition of Hallucination: a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.) My only problem is to say it is not real, well that’s a pretty big statement to make, because reality is not really real and is always changing based on sensory data received by the brain every second.  Walk around for a while looking at things and try and remember all the data that is beamed into your brain that causes you to change your statues to fit into the surrounding reality, how strong the wind is blowing, elevation of the ground, certain smells received by the noose, what your hears gather, all that the brain uses to create your surroundings. I guess that’s my argument reality for most is as only real as your current situation. The best example that can always be given is we used to think the world was flat and there was an edge of nothingness that a ship call fall in or on or through.

Television is very dangerous to watch, the makes your brain weak to all the semantical deception, and all the flashing things mostly to get you to believe you need things and that those things will make life better. Trying to influence your reality, and they do it well I mean they have the ability to visually and auditorially to control two very strong senses and thus drawing a watcher in. Quick thought: I once saw at who owned all the media and was a absurdly small amount of people.

I have said these things before, but I am not quite sure, well at least these thoughts are not original. But the point I think still stays valid to remind me. Let go of everything I know and start thinking that’s its all just suggestions and that no one really knows anything, it is all just conjecture and someone trying to make the best argument to get me and the masses to believe in a certain paradigm. Whether it be science, religion, television, or this that I am writing now. Remember truly believe some day you will day and all this conjecture wont matter, just stay at the place and reality that keeps you most comfortable, and that their cannot be happiness without sadness… it will come around, cause and effect.

-Peace and Love.

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I wrote this the other day when I came out of a good meditation, I did not edit at all just spell checking and even the definition of Hallucination was marked for me to look up, because I could not remember it then. I hope someone gets something out this for me it is happiness.

P.S.

Some pictures I would like to share with the world.

This is for a friend who was asking me about drawing and she wanted to know how to do things like shading and filling, I was telling her it is not that hard, it just you gotta have the tools, so here is a picture of the tools, not picture is the cotton swabs or tissue paper needed for shading. (I like the Nicole set it costs about $5 for all this.)

I drew this, today in the morning. Weed makes me draw dumb things

This is a picture of IO not a very good picture or anything I just wanted to show his eyes, the color of blue is amazing.(Look at the thing of right ear, the vet says its nothing but I don’t know i am concerned, cause there is nothing wrong.)

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind.

All you out there in the Internet land please do me a favor if you do I will owe you one, no joke. All I ask is that you give this podcast a listen, I honestly love it and am part of the community. Psychedelic Salon is a podcast created by Lorenzo, it is a series of speeches and talks by some amazing thinkers. I have heard the bulk of the episodes which is now on 160. The link to the site is on my left side bar, but here it is again: Psychedelic Salon, the link goes directly to the podcast page.

The Best place to start is from the beginning, the first show

Podcast 001 – “Psychedelic Thinking and the Dawn of Homo Cyber”

I also recommend the most recent episode just because Timothy Leary, is a good speaker. It is also good to hear the latest show.

Podcast 160 – “The League for Spiritual Discovery”

My favorite speaker is Terrence McKenna if you go back to my older posts which I have posted some work by the good Barb Terrence McKenna, but the reason I mention it is because there are so many lectures given by the Barb McKenna on the site.

I beg this of you again, please I really want as many as possible to hear this. You don’t have to have taken these medicines to be welcome in our community, everyone is accepted. I ask you to just listen, I will owe you one. Also you could be one and never even have known. Thank you for all those who do give this a whirl. Oh one more thing if you do like it and want some suggestions on which ones to continue with just ask and I help. These lectures make my mind race and I have had some great ideas due to them, they honestly make me feel, cause a good idea is priceless to me and this this podcast has given me many, I’m just trying to share it, in hopes it can make some others feel good.

I hope that it will be good for you.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind.

First things first Lady Salvia keeps herself hidden from those just looking for a quick high. I myself have seen her once and she told me “it was all OK”, and I take her at her word. Those are the most reassuring words from a vision I have had and to this day I welcome them and still carry them.

One thing: we are special because any one of us has the ability to reach higher plains of existence one just has to show and willing. The buaty is that once shown what else is out their you really start to see how much of everything is a distraction and of no real value and substance. Mother has provided everything we need to survive and everything we need to experience.

These words from me can apply to anything in your life that carries a lot of power Respect Salvia and always fear it; using it can open the doors to many intriguing visages of the mind and leave you looking for a response for some time afterwords. As for those who for some reason or another it does no affect or claim it does not effect I don’t know weather to pity or envy. I do know that as a person all I can do is keep searching for that novelty in any experience and in this sacred plant, novelty is abound. Sister and Brothers of the world remember what the great barb Terrence McKenna once said without novelty their would not be a Us, for just the idea of human is novel to the universe a free thinking entity that can question it’s reality.

I hope that one day all the children of light will meet in the place with endless warmth and love.

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These next two paragraphs are

From http://www.sagewisdom.org/:

Salvia divinorum is an extraordinary herb used in shamanism, divination, healing, meditation, and the exploration of consciousness.
It should always be used in a thoughtful, intelligent manner, and only by responsible adults that are of sound mind and clear intent.

“The purpose of these sacraments is to purify, and to open the road. When it opens,
it’s as clear as the blue sky, and the stars at night are as bright as suns.”
—Aurelia Aurora Catarino (Mazatec shaman)

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Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind.

We all should take some time to explore our minds.

Humans are not able to conceptualize things that they have not experienced. Now picture infinity not an infinity amount of something (which is still impossible) but an infinity amount of nothing/ everything. Due to the cycle of life and death we as human will never have the ability to picture the pure concept of infinity. What we as humans are good at doing is thinking logically, just like computer we can visualize 0:1, on/off, life/death. With the thought of what leads to thought, in your head you can meditate on why the brain is not able visualize a concept that it can create for ever and still make no progress. (this last statement is pure sentiment there is no way I can ever know for sure, ha)

The idea of psychedelic thought is new me,  I have not tried to write about it a lot and while I try to tune my writing frequency to it, please bare with me I plan on and will get better at it, now that I understand more about the practice, the idea is not new me the word and meaning is, I had never understood why my thoughts lead me in the direction of the grandeur humanistic experience or to try to control my brain, but I’m now very happy to know that others have tread many trails down this road and created thoughts for me to ponder.  First I find it that one person cannot truly explain what psychedelic thought, the reason is that I have heard this kind of grand thinking on every subject from lol, motorcycle maintenance (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: good book with a really interesting exploration of what quality is.) to economics. Also some don’t need psychedelics to think in such a matter, so don’t ever excuse a train of thought just because someone has not experienced what you think you have. But what is that way of thoguht that I speak off, to be honest I don’t think I am good enough writer to verbalize it but hey ill try. The structure of psychedelic thought is one of being loose and firm at same time you listen to an idea or create one, and you believe it; at the same time not believing it, its a pure form a listening you take information for the love having that piece of information as a reference, you make no outright snap opinion on it but rather you apply it to you and see if it fits what you know or believe, or have experienced and try to see if you can use the new thought, so not only is everything possible, but its all impossible because one is in the believe that experience is completely subjective. Taking that experience is completely subjective how can reality not be shifting to fit each individual. Ill try and explain, love is different to everyone, so is friendship and all other words, the reason is; we each have a difference experience when learning a word so the association that we have with that word is different.

Its hard to write it in a way that I find will make sense to other, but really what do I know what makes sense to others so please do not take insult, the only reason I question anything is because I am not quite sure if it makes sense to me, which I find kinda funny.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind.

Terence Mckenna: Reclaim Your Mind