pau
Rising Star
Good to finally take the plunge and sign up ... I've also been lurking on/learning from this great website for the last half a year.
This is Pau. Unlike Pau Gasol, I am not from Spain. Originally from sunny southern California.
Finding this site happened coincidentally about the same time I began writing a story about a 60ish guy whose first lysergious psychonauting was some 40 years ago at a Grateful Dead concert ....yes, Pigpen and TC were still in the band at the time, and they had a way of coming out on stage a hour late, completely wigged out and everybody knew it. What a blast! The light shows consisted of a big white sheet behind the band, and a couple of bearded guys in the back of the room on a ladder with a projector and some microscope slides full of food coloring and salad oil....the mixture would fry every 15 minutes or so and …. this is like the opposite of seeing trailers …. you'd think it was part of the light show when the globs of color stopped floating around and started turning brown and bubbling over. At least, there's a lesson there in how expanded consciousness helps one observe details and find interest in things others do not.
During the following 2 years this character experimented further with cannabis, shrooms and a cactal material, all in good fun. Then, he suddenly stopped it all upon entering the workforce. However, now jump ahead to the 21st century, about mid 2009, with his kids now grown and moved out, and living a not-entirely-by-choice life of semi-retirement, he somehow learns that Peruvians use cactus juice as a hair loss treatment (maybe a money making idea there!!!), and that his Mexican gardener's grandmother used to use San Pedro extract as an antibiotic. No way! Of course, in investigating this information, this character also learned many other things about the Trichocereus genus... things that reminded him of "unfinished business" stemming from those days in the early '70's.
Within a few weeks he had obtained and checked out the alkaloidal nature of these cacti, and was getting hands-on experience with different Trichocereus teks for T. pachanoi, bridgesii, scopulicola and one or two others. Once a week for the next six months, he learned about wormholes (one chapter in the story is entitled “Your Are Your Own Wormhole"), how get along simultaneously with several of his incarnations from the last few thousand years, and all the while his wife was getting really interested in all this. He felt this period of semi-retirement in his life was a blessing in disguise, in that his cactal-based experiences were showing him things about himself and life in general that were in many way, gifts.
The next thing you know, this guy is reading all about spice, and his curiosity has started to rev up just the way it did six months ago with cactus. However, he feels particularly challenged by the added complexities of spice teks compared to cactus teks, and of obtaining the ingredients, but perhaps it's just a matter of time until he figures out how he's going to take the next step. Plenty of ideas here on this website to write the next chapters! Maybe Brazilian plants grow in Los Angeles? Anyway, thanks all!
This is Pau. Unlike Pau Gasol, I am not from Spain. Originally from sunny southern California.
Finding this site happened coincidentally about the same time I began writing a story about a 60ish guy whose first lysergious psychonauting was some 40 years ago at a Grateful Dead concert ....yes, Pigpen and TC were still in the band at the time, and they had a way of coming out on stage a hour late, completely wigged out and everybody knew it. What a blast! The light shows consisted of a big white sheet behind the band, and a couple of bearded guys in the back of the room on a ladder with a projector and some microscope slides full of food coloring and salad oil....the mixture would fry every 15 minutes or so and …. this is like the opposite of seeing trailers …. you'd think it was part of the light show when the globs of color stopped floating around and started turning brown and bubbling over. At least, there's a lesson there in how expanded consciousness helps one observe details and find interest in things others do not.
During the following 2 years this character experimented further with cannabis, shrooms and a cactal material, all in good fun. Then, he suddenly stopped it all upon entering the workforce. However, now jump ahead to the 21st century, about mid 2009, with his kids now grown and moved out, and living a not-entirely-by-choice life of semi-retirement, he somehow learns that Peruvians use cactus juice as a hair loss treatment (maybe a money making idea there!!!), and that his Mexican gardener's grandmother used to use San Pedro extract as an antibiotic. No way! Of course, in investigating this information, this character also learned many other things about the Trichocereus genus... things that reminded him of "unfinished business" stemming from those days in the early '70's.
Within a few weeks he had obtained and checked out the alkaloidal nature of these cacti, and was getting hands-on experience with different Trichocereus teks for T. pachanoi, bridgesii, scopulicola and one or two others. Once a week for the next six months, he learned about wormholes (one chapter in the story is entitled “Your Are Your Own Wormhole"), how get along simultaneously with several of his incarnations from the last few thousand years, and all the while his wife was getting really interested in all this. He felt this period of semi-retirement in his life was a blessing in disguise, in that his cactal-based experiences were showing him things about himself and life in general that were in many way, gifts.
The next thing you know, this guy is reading all about spice, and his curiosity has started to rev up just the way it did six months ago with cactus. However, he feels particularly challenged by the added complexities of spice teks compared to cactus teks, and of obtaining the ingredients, but perhaps it's just a matter of time until he figures out how he's going to take the next step. Plenty of ideas here on this website to write the next chapters! Maybe Brazilian plants grow in Los Angeles? Anyway, thanks all!
