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The famous marble bas-relief from Pharsalos in Thessaly, northeast Greece, now in the collection of the Louvre.

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In THE FAR OFF LAND, Eugene Seaich discusses the perennially fascinating topic of such mind-altering drugs as mescaline, psilocybin, and LSD, both how they appear in Nature and in the laboratory. This road has been traveled before, but Eugene takes a fascinating detour. He goes back millennia, glimpses the future, and searches deeply within his own psyche leading to a better understanding of the mind and of consciousness. These chemicals can be used as tools to help people live better  lives, treat, mental illness, transcend ordinary ways of being and ultimitly to improve humanity . The reader might start learning about this "far off land," thinking that is an exotic destination. But after a few chapters, the engrossing prose will become  surprisingly  reminiscent of one's home turf. Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Co-author DEMYSTIFYING SHAMANS AND THEIR WORLD

It was a vast old religion, greater than anything we know: more starkly and nakedly religious. There is no God, no conception of a god. All is god. But it is not the pantheism we are accustomed to, which expresses itself as “God is everywhere, God is in everything.” In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not super naturally but naturally alive. There were only deeper and deeper streams of l ife, vibrations of life more and more vast. So rocks were alive, but a mountain had a deeper, vaster life than a rock, and it was much harder for a man to bring his spirit, or his energy, into contact with the life of the mountain, and so draw strength from the mountain, as from a great standing well of life, than it was to come into contact with the rock. And he had to put forth a great religious effort. For the whole life effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come int...

A consciousness catalyst? By  Steven Heivly  in  The Far Off Land An attempt at a philosophical evaluation of the hallucinogenic drug experience. By Dr. Eugene Seaich  ·  Edit doc  ·  Delete Writing, from the top of my head. From an idea .... Is LSD a consciousness catalyst? I think so. How? I do not know... but somehow. I always loved depictions of other worlds in movies, seemingly the heavenly ones (that I think are heavenly) actually turn out to be the dangerous and more hellish worlds, whereas the individual's consciousness is thrust more into a heavenly fight, with abundant meaning, purpose and life. I think of certain movies when I think of this, and in particular, the recent movie Sucker Punch. The girl (holding onto her hope and life) is thrust into an unimaginable situation where (holding onto her hope and life) is inevitably thrust into higher worlds, of which she becomes a powerful fighter and learns very deep knowledg...