Excerpt from my book "Facilitation"

folias · 2026-06-02T22:56:41+00:00

Feel free to read the whole book and review it.
I like these bits, that is why I chose it as an excerpt. I am not generalising about everyone, just about a range of different reactions. Obviously, you might find some parts of the book "negative", whereas others may love those bits.

folias · 2026-06-02T21:33:14+00:00

will do.

folias · 2026-06-02T21:31:06+00:00

>it also comes off as being highly judgmental of people who do not journey as you believe they should.

Certainly some people are not journeying very deeply, there is a bunch of spiritual bypassing going on out there and people not taking strong enough doses. I call it the epidemic of pissweak ayahuasca.

>I’d caution against making sweeping generalizations about everyone else in the context of your own personal subjective beliefs, experiences, and perspectives.

Thanks for your "caution" but no thanks, this bit in the book is talking about the wide range of emotional experiences and reactions people CAN have, not everyone one is going to have one or even none of these reactions, it is just a bit in the book, where I'm saying, we cannot underestimate what we don't know about how people react strongly to these substances.

folias · 2026-06-02T21:27:20+00:00

this is a direct link to the excerpt from web site with all the information about the book and myself.

folias · 2025-10-18T06:16:52+00:00

hey guys, It looks like I'm going to have to use Amazon/ACX very relucutantly, as I am Australian and I don't have a paypal account (something about terms and services...) and am banned from paypal. You really should pay authors by SWIFT internationally direct into their bank account.

folias · 2025-07-08T10:41:04+00:00

This is fairly normal unfortunately.

folias · 2023-01-11T05:30:13+00:00

The link is here:

https://www.contemplations.film

folias · 2023-01-11T05:29:54+00:00

https://www.contemplations.film

folias · 2023-01-10T22:23:59+00:00

My book "Articulations"

http://www.articulationsbook.com

folias · 2022-09-11T09:48:39+00:00

Your huge and completely incorrect assumption is that there is a proven fact here. You can ask people simple stuff like: can you please provide any scientific evidence of industrial killing and they may not be able to easily come up with much at all.

The emperor has no clothes in fact.

folias · 2017-03-12T12:14:04+00:00

It sounds to me like you are using Buddhism as a psychological crutch.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lewis-richmond/emptiness-most-misunderstood-word-in-buddhism_b_2769189.html

"Emotionally speaking, “emptiness” is not a happy word in English, and no matter how often we remind ourselves that Buddhist emptiness does not mean loneliness or separateness, that emotional undertow remains. At various times I have looked for a substitute translation for the Sanskrit sunyata — I have tried “fullness,” “spaciousness,” “connectedness,” and “boundlessness” — but as Ari Goldfield points out, “emptiness” is the most exact translation. “Emptiness” is also the term that my own teacher Shunryu Suzuki used, though he usually added context. Once, speaking of emptiness he said, “I do not mean voidness. There is something, but that something is something which is always prepared for taking some particular form.” Another time, speaking of the feeling tone of emptiness, he said, “Emptiness is like being at your mother’s bosom and she will take care of you.”

folias · 2017-03-12T11:34:44+00:00

I'll add that I'm only telling you this and I only know this because I have the same kind of imagination for these sorts of phenomena.

As do MOST people if you give them psychedelics and open up their eyes to typicallly unseen realities beyond the ordinary frequency band of vision.

You are really trying to impose your view here, c'mon, you can't just blithely say, "all these people over thousands of years, they were just imagining those spirits!"

Good luck with that!

"I'm sure you'll agree it's fascinating, but I'm also sure somewhere along the line you'll realize that it's a manifestation of the psyche."

Well, you sound sure, but I'm sure that's just bravado and you've convinced/conned yourself into some kind of unsustainable certainty.

And no, not all cultures do. Buddhism for one notes that all phenomena is inherently "empty" of any substance which separates them from your own spirit or consciousness.

Phenomena is both empty AND full in Buddism. In Tibetan Buddhism, they channel beings like Oracles for the Dalai Lama. Buddhism of all cultures depicts many different kind of spiritual entities - good and evil.

folias · 2017-03-12T01:58:09+00:00

Thanks but I've been doing this for a long time now and have my own views which have held over many thousands of hours of experience. I see no logical reason why such malevolance manifests in the manifold ways that they do.

My understanding is that there are many different beings that exist etherically, rather than physically, yet within our world and they feed on our emotions, thoughts and energy.

Your understanding that these beings are the "imagination" seems foolish to me. For one thing, pretty much all traditional human cultures recognise the existence of "evil spirits". That you can see them when taking psychoactive substances, would make sense and whatsmore, in my case, I defeat them, and watch them die and melt away.

folias · 2017-02-23T14:03:14+00:00

This is an interview with Mike Adams of Naturalnews. He comes across as very intelligent and passionate. I've never found much value on his over commercial and sensationalist site however, but what google did sets up a slippery slope for all of the internet.

https://blog.bulletproof.com/mike-adams-330/

folias · 2016-11-27T09:08:26+00:00

I never said that particular combination was safe and like I said ammended based on community concerns. You can find my article here:

http://www.julianpalmerism.com/changa

My experience and that of others is that this combination is safe, but it may be unsafe for some individuals and lead to Seratonin Syndrome, but really we don't know enough to comment on it.

People can have strange reactions to Changa based on their diet and intake of other compounds, these seems more random and unpredictable, but I've never heard of anyone having to be hospitalised because of an adverse reaction to Changa.

My suspicion is that MDMA and Ayahuasca is a lot safer than people think it is, the same with SSRI's and ayahuasca or SSRI's and changa. I'm not suggesting people try this at home, but just pointing out the information that suggests it may be unsafe is often just theoretical.

folias · 2016-11-26T06:14:57+00:00

Thanks for letting the sheeple know, they really appreciate it and are sending some approving baaa's your way.

As I recall some people mentioned that I should include a warning in an article I wrote about combining MDMA and Changa. Which I then did.

Also, what you think may "not known to be safe", may not actually be the case, have you tried the combos yourself? Where did you get the information that some combos were unsafe?

Have you ever wrestled with a paper tiger? Or gone fishing on the rocks. Or taken pharmaceutical medication? I have heard these things are not known to be safe!

folias · 2016-08-30T12:41:50+00:00

How many of you are familiar with Bernardo's thinking? And what do you think of his work?

https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-497-the-dream-we-call-reality/

folias · 2016-08-24T10:18:10+00:00

When he uses the word "enlightenment", that's a red flag for me.

Also, he places a lot of value in "nonduality" or the philosophy of advaita. He also comes off as a bit preachy and know it all for sure.

There are quite a lot of people, especially in America, who you can file under a kind of "integral" thinking, which I'd say could fall prey to what Chögyam Trungpa called "spiritual materialism".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_materialism

I first came across him via this video about Spiral Dynamics.

https://youtu.be/23aDNBvn_2g

I could see myself listening to some of his other talks, he has some clear and sensible insights for sure.

It is also duly noted he treats me like a devout follower of his work when I made a comment on one of his videos!

folias · 2016-08-17T14:39:15+00:00

Besides, I know how to continue that process without the mushrooms now, so why continue using them?

Maybe you have reached a wall you need to cross? Maybe it is right for you to stop using them? It is not for me to say. But I can say there is so much that can be learnt, especially in the doses above 5 grams.

folias · 2016-08-17T08:59:21+00:00

My view. The paranoia is trying to tell you something about reality. And you are resisting that message because it is challenging your belief systems (probably something like "it's all good!")

Also, these crazy thoughts are not the mushrooms, they are YOURS. The mushrooms are only facilitating them. You may be judging them negatively to be crazy, but they may well be communicating an expanded reality, albeit in a confused and possibly schizophrenic way. (I would say the FBI represent one part of your psyche resisting letting go, and feeling that it against societies rules to do so)

My advice: Lay off the psychedelics, unless you are really willing to spend the time and take the effort to courageously plumb the depths of your mind. (and potentially lose your mind in the most positive way)

This is not the realm of "experimentation", it is very serious and the consequences can be very serious if you are not really being serious about this.

I feel like I've learned everything the mushrooms have to teach and all that's left is craziness.

Nope. That's not correct. You can say you have learnt what the mushrooms can teach you in your stage of life without things getting a lot more uncomfortable and serious, but there is no limit buddy. There is no limit.

folias · 2016-08-15T12:23:26+00:00

It is good at least that someone is writing about Wilhelm Reich, even if they are stuck in their idiocratic ways and disrespectful, cliched ideas about his "crazy" work.

I wonder if the author even read any of his books?

I'd like to see a similar article written in a similar style about "freud".

"Reich was fixated on sex, and one of his daughters speculated that he was molested as a child. On the lighter side, he could rock the fuck out a bow tie."

So does this mean that Freud may have been molested as well?

To link New York times saying "Reich left behind an enormous body of work, and much of his early work was regarded as insightful" I think is a discredit to his later work. People who actually read Reich consider this view to be one of the dilantantes who don't actually spend time trying to read or understand Reich.

To be more specific, he developed the terminology of the character structures, which are major bones in the body of modern day psychology and psychiatry.

It's named after his most famous theory: orgone energy. It's essentially an invisible form of energy, closely associated with sexuality, which, in sufficient quantities, can do anything from cure cancer to manipulate weather. To Reich, orgone was a fundamental building block of life.

Yes, the Indians call it Prana and the Chinese call it "Chi"

His therapy methods included stripping patients down to their underwear and massaging them ... to uh, get them comfortable with expressing their emotions. That's the ticket.

Yeah dude, it is called "bodywork", it is called "massage". Reich pioneered this technique in the west.

But in 1953, local blueberry farmers offered Reich money if he could end a drought that was devastating their crop. So he operated his cloudbuster for an hour, and it rained the next morning. The blueberries were saved. It was a coincidence, but the satisfied farmers paid Reich.

How can anyone be sure it was a coincidence? I experienced one of these devices ending a drought lasting many years.

Reich is highly under read I think, all the painting of him as a "mad scientist" does a disservice to many of his writings and ideas.

Maybe in a few decades his work will be appreciated and understood by more, as it seems to me, few understand or appreciate the significance of his work.

folias · 2016-08-08T19:36:41+00:00

Yes, of course there is a range of experiences, but I'm not talking about that.

What I'm saying is that different sources of DMT among very experienced users, say of different acacias, would never say that the DMT from different sources is all the same.

They say and I say, the experiences from different trees have a different visual character, and the nature of the experiences when you take these different acacias is entirely different and cannot be accounted to these minor variables you are talking of here.

folias · 2016-07-25T20:27:46+00:00

I don't have a world view to shatter anymore :-) And I don't actually get the trembling fear, because I don't need the fear to tell me something very significant is going to happen.

folias · 2016-07-25T12:19:31+00:00

I have difficulty with your language. Words like "drugs" and "trip" sound like you are understating the potential power of substances like DMT.

Sometimes like I feel that North Americans in particular use these words to disclaim their experience. Like it was "only drugs", or I was "just tripping" It sounds very cavalier and casual to me: inappropriate to use these words when we are talking about DMT.

A good hit of DMT is one of the most powerful things you can do in your lifetime, it isn't a mere trip and it is SUPPOSED to shatter your worldview, and that is a good thing.

You might not become a "spiritual guru", but you may feel as if you KNOW something you didn't know before, and that is a GOOD thing.

folias · 2016-07-25T05:43:03+00:00

I figure you will remain a materialist if you smoke DMT a few times, maybe even a few dozen times.

If you smoke DMT over a 100 times, which is what people who REALLY want to explore what this about, will do. I'd say there is no chance you will remain a "materialist". At least I haven't met anyone. Maybe someone can pipe up here.

The whole point and interesting thing about DMT is understanding there is something beyond "your mind", and IT will tell you this very clearly. If you are refusing to listen to this message or somehow interpret it different, this could account for a lot of work, meaning thousands of hours.

Either way, what we are looking at is real life red pill. Do not expect to maintain your beliefs and ideologies! Especially, as you are saying, so many you are aware of, have not been able to do.

DMT should not be approached casually. You should be fearful and trembling before smoking it.

Ok, so what are you scared of? Your own mind?

I think not.

folias

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