Publication SEEKING CONTRIBUTORS - Issue 3 Outline

[FlagellaStink]

Are we starting Sub forums for vol 3?
Hope i didn't jump the gun on this project too much, been brainstorming angles to get the best information for an article for the magazine.

Wow, this is incredible!

There is already a subforum for issue 3. Feel free to make a post about this idea, I'm sure people will have ideas about what direction to take this in. I'll try to do some brainstorming myself and respond as soon as possible.

After the Gallimore interview, I'll be contacting Pharmadrug Inc. to see if I can speak with somebody involved in their DMT technologies. Meanwhile, this sounds like a super fascinating project! Give me a while and I'll try to write something up for some ideas.

 

[FlagellaStink]

I haven't gotten to read thi whole thread, but I can write a few articles if you like. I can write on about guidework, how I work, and/or my experience. I can write articles that engage with tough topics in a critical, non dogmatic, and exploratory way.

One love

This sounds like a really nice idea. I'd like to see some more personal articles and ideas as well in addition to all the journalistic endeavors we're embarking on, so I think this would be really valuable if you were willing to write something up.

 

[Subtlevibrations]

I will find a good moment or two to write up my experience reports and then post them both in the volume 3 workspace as well as in the general experience report sub board.

If anyone needs any proofreading or editing done as we work on this, don’t be shy to send me a direct message to get my attention

 

[FlagellaStink]

One could really write a whole article or book on Dana, and i seem all over the place trying to nail down questions for him.

First off, this is the first I've heard of Pothead Books and it looks absolutely hilarious

On topic though, it seems like Dana would be the easiest to ask some questions. He seems particularly open, not to mention that the other psilocybin chain sounds pretty serious - partners and legal teams and all that... if you're willing to follow up with them, be my guest, but it might be more work than it's worth.

Either way, it seems like there's a lot to say about Dana, so that might be a good place to focus our efforts. From my brief investigation of him, it seems like he's said a LOT about weed, so investigating his views and plans for mushrooms might be more original and more fitting for the topic of the magazine. Perhaps you could ask about what dangers running his business poses, why he's so passionate about this, if he plans on expanding to more drugs/what his plans for the future are, and overall his insight on the current state of drug culture in Canada. Maybe even how he thinks others could take the initiative to expand this movement! I'm sure he'd have a lot to say.

I think it's better for the scope not to be too large. I think an article focusing on the emergence of psychedelic shops in Canada is timely and interesting enough for a full length article! And who knows, if Dana has enough to say, an article for a future issue might be in order.

Are you thinking to do interview(s) through email, over the phone, in person? Whatever your method is can change the way you'll phrase your questions. Again, thank you so much for taking initiative! You might be jumping the gun, but jumping the gun as a group is how stuff gets done. Keep me updated on what you're thinking, I'm happy to contribute to this in any way I can and excited to see where this idea goes.

(Don't let me deter you against the other chain though, I think a more professional business could provide some very interesting information and answers; just do whatever you're willing and comfortable with doing.)

 

[psychonuaghty]

The Nexian is an awesome publication! It's exciting to watch everyone's efforts coming together. There is no better form of production than collective intelligence at work. I am a bit surprised and honored that @Subtlevibrations mentioned me as a parent and possible contributor. Especially coming from such a talented writer and artist. I would be tickled to see the publication of my forum posts. They are brief writings but may fit well as part of a collection. However my humble tales of being a found adoptee and of being a psychonaut parent pale in comparison to some of the titanic contributions of others.
I will continue to brew my thoughts and see what more may come to me creatively. I am open to suggestions.
I love this energy and focus and will be brainstorming for quality contributions while following closely.

Thanks again!
Peace

 

[donfoolio]

For our unfinished magazine, I asked Gwyllm Lwydd to take some of his (or her, i am not sure) artwork which I absolutely love and (s)he was okay.
I could ask , not sure if (s)he is a nexian too, but quite possible.

Some art can be seen here:

gwyllm-art.com

 

[Subtlevibrations]

The Nexian is an awesome publication! It's exciting to watch everyone's efforts coming together. There is no better form of production than collective intelligence at work. I am a bit surprised and honored that @Subtlevibrations mentioned me as a parent and possible contributor. Especially coming from such a talented writer and artist. I would be tickled to see the publication of my forum posts. They are brief writings but may fit well as part of a collection. However my humble tales of being a found adoptee and of being a psychonaut parent pale in comparison to some of the titanic contributions of others.
I will continue to brew my thoughts and see what more may come to me creatively. I am open to suggestions.
I love this energy and focus and will be brainstorming for quality contributions while following closely.

Thanks again!
Peace

Would you be open to being interviewed surrounding those family themes for the psychonaut-parent article?

 

[Transform]

For our unfinished magazine, I asked Gwyllm Lwydd to take some of his (or her, i am not sure) artwork which I absolutely love and (s)he was okay.
I could ask , not sure if (s)he is a nexian too, but quite possible.

Some art can be seen here:

gwyllm-art.com

The name Gwyllm is, to my knowledge, traditionally a male, or at least all the Gwyllms I've met have appeared to be male. Not that that necessarily applies to anything nowadays, but that's how it was in any case.

Interview here:

The Art of Divine Inebriation: An Interview with Gwyllm Llwydd | Reality Sandwich

From living next door to the Grateful Dead to a 80s new wave band with iconic guitarist Nels Cline to the psychedelic music, and spoken word stream Radio EarthRites to famed acid blotter art, Gwyllm Lwydd exemplifies a certain kind of renaissance man receiving too little attention in the media...

realitysandwich.com

 

[psychonuaghty]

Would you be open to being interviewed surrounding those family themes for the psychonaut-parent article?

Yes. I would be open to that.

 

[donfoolio]

The name Gwyllm is, to my knowledge, traditionally a male, or at least all the Gwyllms I've met have appeared to be male. Not that that necessarily applies to anything nowadays, but that's how it was in any case.

Interview here:

The Art of Divine Inebriation: An Interview with Gwyllm Llwydd | Reality Sandwich

From living next door to the Grateful Dead to a 80s new wave band with iconic guitarist Nels Cline to the psychedelic music, and spoken word stream Radio EarthRites to famed acid blotter art, Gwyllm Lwydd exemplifies a certain kind of renaissance man receiving too little attention in the media...

realitysandwich.com

Thanks. Instantly I had a doubt and I wouldn't offend feelings of sexual identity. So anybody knows if he is a nexus member also?
We are friends on social media and I really like this collage, art nouveau style.

I think like many here, I am also a parent. For me it seems quite normal to be a psychonaut and parent, being surrounded by parents and psychonauts. But what is your methodology for the article?
Interviewing nexus members like psychonuaghty and alike??

Or going into some defined direction?

The theme is quite interesting, but something special have to come up about it, otherwise it seems, in my opinion, just common sense.

You could ask also, about psychonauts that are workers, students, music makers and so one - we are all just humans.

More in detail, for example: I bring my three year old daughter regularly to Ayahuasca ceremonies. For her, it is just as normal as all the other weird things outgrown people do.

That parenting also changes the way you see, you looks at our descendants, seems quite clear to me.

I am intrigued about your thoughts. In my experience, children always add som pureness to psychedelic experiences, and their naiiv and innocent behaviour helps to get people in front of ego death just right.

I have more than one anecdote about this.

Would love to hear more about your vision of this article.

 

[FlagellaStink]

For our unfinished magazine, I asked Gwyllm Lwydd to take some of his (or her, i am not sure) artwork which I absolutely love and (s)he was okay.

Wow, I took a look at his website, and these are some gorgeous pieces of art. If you have any other specific pieces in mind you'd like to see used in Issue 3, please mention them. There are quite a few that would work beautifully.

 

[DBTC CATP]

Autonomy is a huge aspect of the psychedelic experience and how it relates back to the difficulty I always face through a lack of autonomy; because I'm an adult with ASD; autism spectrum disorder. I was born and later diagnosed with "Asperger's" but they've changed the term to "ASD" and when my own father were alive and when he was young the realm of medicine didn't know jack-sh** about who he was or what was his motivations. He would go to prison later after being institutionalized in a backward way of treatment and a backward day of psychology (by the way; all of his motivations were survival).

Autonomy and the ability to decide my own future, decisions, and behavior is fundamental parts of the experience of living with ASD. The psychedelic experience relates; so much to what a person with autism faces; and experiences; through work and whether or not they've got a good job; and whether or not they've been through college, or schooling, and whether or not they "can" understand the world the way you do or your "more superior friends" understand it. ASD has a lot of negative connotation toward it as a learning disability but disability is treated with accessibility and with advancement in support systems; and early intervention to help that person go forward in their lives rather than being held back.

The part that is hardest for me has been to live up to expectations of other people. The part that has been easiest for me has been to get a little help when it's needed and when its gratuitous and when the person I'm around is supportive and doesn't see through me. My parents and siblings actually reject me but not completely. Not enough to make themselves feel bad. I experience more sympathy than empathy; really. I experience a weird phenomenal gaslighting. I may have short term memory difficulties but just that one bad trait happens to put me into a category of associations with other faults that aren't mine and that are not unique toward me.

Psychedelics have helped with emotional maturity; at least for me. I think they help me to experience and express those sentiments more so. They allow me to gain intelligence that I'm not capable of gaining; through their affective effects. This is indeed anecdotal and it's also indeed my lived experience as a person with ASD, someone that is not taken at face value, a person with a disability, a person with low self esteem, a person with anger (which is a sophisticated warning system telling you something; like all emotions; like our sense: Sight, Hearing, taste and smell, touch, and electro-sensitivity; (which humans have! We experience it unpleasantly and can die from large amounts of that stimuli; other organisms got the electro-sensitive numbers for the electro-receptive lottery!) that our brain sense something.)

I'm an atheist and a nihilist. I don't use opiates, barbiturates, alcohol, amphetamines, or smoke cigarettes. I do experience the substance use disorder of all of those things externally. I don't get a lot of parental love and overcompensate, and hurt inside, and try to learn or think about what to do about myself, and I'm not really perfect. I wish that I was but it's not like I need to be because that's just a healing fantasy and a role that I have played.

I've got a dual-diagnosis complicating it all. ADHD. My parents also both have bi-polar. The genetic makeup of mental disorder for me makes me either a circus animal or a... cooler circus animal (savant myth). And I don't want to be in some stupid circus; just look at the elephants in circus shows; they're dead; died from tuberculosis and slowly wasted to death; from time to time coming back with strength here and then falter there until their body gave out from the chronic conditions that TB conditioned in it's host; the amazing circus elephant.

I also am very rejecting of medicine and technology; even as I survive based in it in some form or another. A major hypocrisy seeing as I do not reject asthma medication and I use B. Caapi vine powder for depression (hoping to switch towards the more efficient Syrian Rue/P. Harmala source for the same thing but a more sustainable way of producing harmaline (and also considering the pharma monoclobemide- but that requires a system: like the medical system; which requires good insurance and likely private insurance; which requires me to trade conceptually my own values for someone's so that I appease their sense of evalue). There are a lot of prerequisite conditions to just be alive tomorrow; just for the next 24 hours).

I'm not sure if this puts it into perspective but here are the meds I remember being on (I'm only naming the one's i remember and i'm not looking them up eitherway, i can go back to my medical records for this thread but why?): concerta, geodon, tinex, resperidone, celexa, abilify; and that's all i can remember off the top of my head. Concerta, geodon, tinex, resperidon, celexa, and abilify are drugs i've taken during childhood and adolescence and i'm an adult that doesn't take jacksh** anymore and I choose instead to do something practical like going to therapy (or physical therapy for pain management and early intervention management of pain that arises from hard physical labor that stems from working a job); and not getting on meds immediately to solve a problem; and that goes similar for drug use generally; because I do use drugs like psychedelics and cannabis/cannabis compounds.

I've used blotter which isn't the most ideal thing because of a lack in ability to identify what's inside the blotter. I think that you really need to go thorough with TLC to have a fair knowledge of identifying the component in that piece of paper. This isn't mentioning the possibility of blotter paper that is specifically going to interfere with TLC. SO i do not like using any blotter. I like to use Psilocybin. I've used Peyote 10 times in a cult (New Haven/New Haven event parks- the family is tied into oil and all that but go figure it's also a group of hippies taking peyote in Missouri- they moved their locale though). This use of peyote is correlated with psychedelic tourism whereas my use in Psilocybin is separate from the tourism. I'm just now thinking about sobriety; including with regard to cannabis. I also like cannabis quite a lot, sometimes a bit much. DMT and betacarbolines are interesting and i've limited experience with tryptamines generally so I don't even know how to start on that....

(?) Is it stockholm syndrome or am I the idiot in rejecting the system of medicine and technology; for the failure of empathy and how it likes to mimic empathy? How a doctor mimics empathy but really.. it's pity. How a tech worker for apple, or meta, or crypto, or whatever; doesn't share my level of empathy for substance use disorder, homelessness, emotional and mental abuse (only empathizing if a person is literally beaten by a partner or parent or something more of the drastic sense; only when the physical life of another is at risk for termination by physical abuse; as though people aren't more than their worthiness and that worthiness equals the rights they can get good and efficient access to......) and more; like how those people do not care about the Dineh/Navajo whom lives everyday on the frontline desert with and without access to shelter, water, and electricity: the dineh ("The people" by the way, translated from their language into Eglish; also noting: their language is considered sacred, they also believe their people came from the stars and that's often from myths and legends and ceremony that only their own culture has the right to represent); nor women generally in the past 100 or more years until just recently they've become fed up with the concept of patriarchy; nor a random black guy which has a criminal background and cannot access opportunity.... How can I say it best? I don't know. I really don't have an answer there... it's not me over there, isn't it? I'm myself. (?)

Psychedelics were a lifeline to getting through with my ASD, ADHD, and the way that people think of me. It properly introduced to me this concept of self actualization, autonomy, responsivity (instead of reactivity), it helped me to smooth out the rough edges, it didn't solve all of my problems either but rather supported it as much as was conditioned to input and output....

Suitable enough

 

[FlagellaStink]

I love this energy and focus and will be brainstorming for quality contributions while following closely.

I'd love to include some of your writing

As for the parent interview, I'm sure you'd have some valuable insight. Once we get that up and running and have community questions coming in, I'm sure you'd have some great answers to provide.

Any contribution is a worthwhile one, thank you for offering your writing. I'll continue with updates on how this is shaping up.

 

[FlagellaStink]

Autonomy is a huge aspect of the psychedelic experience and how it relates back to the difficulty I always face through a lack of autonomy; because I'm an adult with ASD; autism spectrum disorder.

This is a great topic - harrowing, but important. I appreciate you taking the time to write this up. I think it'd make for a really profound addition to The Nexian.

I assume this is your article submission? If so, you're the first submission! I have some suggestions which I'll follow up on soon to make it more conducive to being a magazine article, but thank you for writing such a personal piece. I'll be replying to this again.

 

[Transform]

I've added a thread for a puzzle section. This should be self-explanatory (or is it? XD )

 

[FlagellaStink]

Not sure where or who to ask this - but does anybody know what font the original "The Nexian" title is in? Was it custom-made?

 

[SkunK]

First off, this is the first I've heard of Pothead Books and it looks absolutely hilarious

On topic though, it seems like Dana would be the easiest to ask some questions. He seems particularly open, not to mention that the other psilocybin chain sounds pretty serious - partners and legal teams and all that... if you're willing to follow up with them, be my guest, but it might be more work than it's worth.

Either way, it seems like there's a lot to say about Dana, so that might be a good place to focus our efforts. From my brief investigation of him, it seems like he's said a LOT about weed, so investigating his views and plans for mushrooms might be more original and more fitting for the topic of the magazine. Perhaps you could ask about what dangers running his business poses, why he's so passionate about this, if he plans on expanding to more drugs/what his plans for the future are, and overall his insight on the current state of drug culture in Canada. Maybe even how he thinks others could take the initiative to expand this movement! I'm sure he'd have a lot to say.

I think it's better for the scope not to be too large. I think an article focusing on the emergence of psychedelic shops in Canada is timely and interesting enough for a full length article! And who knows, if Dana has enough to say, an article for a future issue might be in order.

Are you thinking to do interview(s) through email, over the phone, in person? Whatever your method is can change the way you'll phrase your questions. Again, thank you so much for taking initiative! You might be jumping the gun, but jumping the gun as a group is how stuff gets done. Keep me updated on what you're thinking, I'm happy to contribute to this in any way I can and excited to see where this idea goes.

(Don't let me deter you against the other chain though, I think a more professional business could provide some very interesting information and answers; just do whatever you're willing and comfortable with doing.)

I will reply more indepth come the weekend, this week has turned into a gong show and my work company has me working Inna remote came with no wifi services till Friday. Just in a town nearby getting some dinner and personal items, son will be MIA till Friday evening.

Those are some great ideas for questions to start out with, I'll spend some time this evening at public wifi and do some brainstorming and more research on his mushroom shops.

I plan to interview him through email, so I can keep myself anonymous as best I can, unless you feel I'd get a better interview through a phone conversation...

Still haven't heard back from the other chain. But I still might follow up and send them a list of questions after this coming weekend and wait out a response; kinda go with the flow and collect information and see where the article goes..

I feel you on keeping the scope more to the point and not rambling on and drifting from the topic.

I'll respond to this more indepth in the next couple days.

 

[FlagellaStink]

I'll respond to this more indepth in the next couple days.

Email sounds good It's much easier for writing an article when the responses are already written down.

Thanks for all the work you're putting in, and no worries about being busy. Just do what you can when you can - we've got time. Excited to see what information you can collect.

 

[acacian]

I've always wanted to do a write up about integrating a holistic approach to DMT and the plants that synthesize it - and how our relationship to the plants brings a greater context to the experience, and is many ways essential to truly grappling with it. Spending a lot of time in nature around some of these teachers has really driven home the importance of that to me and I've wanted to write about it for a long time.

Is that something that might be of interest?

 

[FlagellaStink]

Is that something that might be of interest?

Absolutely!