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I recall many years ago, it was the night of a total eclipse, or Some hellish thing in the sky, a total eclipse of some kind, and Sun-water and adelle, who some of you may know, and I decided we would do this ayahuasca that I had in the back of the refrigerator for years, and this was like a long time ago, maybe 8 years ago, and I got it out, and I couldn't remember whether Don Fidel had said "always shake the bottle", or "never shake the bottle", so I thought to be safe we should shake the bottle, in case that's what he did say, so I did, and...and, you know, I've never had it hit me so hard, and we were...i had put on a record which I had previously found mildy entertaining, and the goal of the first 40 minutes of this ayahuasca trip became to survive the playing of this record, I mean it was so...I don't know, I have had other experiences, a friend of mine brought me a tape from tribal Afghanistan that I listened to one night in Hawaii on ayahuasca and I became so alarmed and freaked out and... I just... I could hear something in this music that just shouldn't have been there, I could hear that this wasn't wizened old rag-heads in mud huts...(inaudible)...these guys had connections to the Martians musician union of....(inaudible)......it was highly agitating.... -terence McKenna
Actually, if anybody wants to weigh in on the inaudible portions and improve my initial transcription it would be much appreciated. At 1:56 I believe the question which terence is responding to is asked, possibly just before that, at 2:05 or 2:06 I begin transcribing terence's response.
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I'm reminded of an experiment preformed by Louis Pasteur, in 1864, he was attempting to disprove spontaneous generation (which he did), however there were also some interesting observations regarding microbial growth which could be made
Any way, Pasteur developed a special flask with a curved neck, he boiled the contents of the flask, sterilizing them, and then, after a year at room temperature in an open vessel there was no microbial growth...that is until he broke the special neck of his flask allowing microorganisms access to the solution inside.
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Louis Pasteur built upon the scientists’ work that came before him and proved that life could only come from other life.
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Pasteur showed that his flask was free from microorganisms, even though it was open to the air. For a year, there was no microbial growth. Until Pasteur broke the neck of the flask. -quoted from the Pasteur link mentioned above
While the above may not be fully related, I thought it was an interesting note regarding microbial growth
Any way, under proper conditions, microorganisms, and fermentation* should be non-issues, or at least very minimal.
I have found that if the solution is poured into a clean container right after boiling and filtering was completed, and was then sealed in this air-tight container and kept at relatively cold temperatures, that there will be no noticeable growth of microorganisms, or fermentation, (however a re-boil before consumption is always encouraged just to be safe. )
*Fermentation is a metabolic process with produces gases, acids, or alcohols
I'm not recommending that any person consume old ayahuasca, though personally I have done it before without issue.
-eg
