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We Ought to Teach "Critical Thinking" in Elementary School. Since so many Republicans are Uneducated, Maybe if we Taught Them Young... They Wouldn't Be So Gullible... (That's a Word Meaning Easily Fooled) #TariffsAreTaxes

Classic MAGA moron - brainwashed idiot!
Critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment... Since we have millions of people that ignore facts... and do not Question Authority... Maybe we would do the world a favor if we taught this subject... before they dropped out of skool...


POP QUIZ! WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON??? Steve Bannon=Arrested, Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Maria Butina=Guilty, Paul Erickson = Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guilty, George Nader=Guilty, Elliott Broidy=Arrested
CAN YOU SPOT THE FREAKING TREND???
HERE IS THE ANSWER TO THIS CRYPTIC PUZZLE!

#ImpeachAmyBarrett

KEEP ABORTION LEGAL. I know a Woman that threw herself out of a speeding car and landed on her belly in order to Cause a Miscarriage... Really... At that time, Abortion was Illegal and She Really Didn't want to have that Baby... tRUMP IS ANTI-CHOICE.

KEEP ABORTION LEGAL... I know another woman whose boyfriend did not want her to have his baby... so he kicked her in the belly and she miscarried... There ARE better surgical methods... Really...

KEEP ABORTION LEGAL... I remember that a friend of mine drove his girlfriend to Tijuana to get an abortion. Was that "Hospital" the highest quality? It is likely that Actual Doctors in the USA give better Health Care than TJ's Finest. In Olden Days abortions were often performed by random lawbreakers... Not a great system... This is important because BOTCHED abortions can leave the woman sterile. Maybe she doesn't want a baby at age 15 but at age 22 she does.. A Botched abortion removes that option. NO Choice. 


MEME - GOP IS ANTI-CHOICE - KEEP ABORTION LEGAL - gvan42
GOP IS ANTI-CHOICE - KEEP ABORTION LEGAL
MEME - tRUMP IS ANTI-CHOICE - gvan42
 tRUMP IS ANTI-CHOICE
We Are Going to Force Girls to
Give Birth to Unwanted Babies! 

 

To Republicans, Right and Wrong JUST DON'T MATTER. A Morality Free Life. My Mom taught me to Do Good and Avoid Evil. Well, Republicans don't do that.

 They just ask Do We Win? Will it work? Will it give US an advantage? Total disregard for the Ten Commandments... 

That's the Reason SO MANY REPUBLICANS END UP IN PRISON... 
 
#Vote4Joe He's Not Insane!
#Vote4Joe He's Not Insane - meme - gvan42

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I had a Dream about a Painting in a Gallery. The gallery is three stories tall and each floor had a painting of a Redwood Tree to make up the triptych...

I can't pretend that I LIKE this art... Or that it is GOOD art... But that's what I dreamed... and since I find it difficult to get it out of my head, I had to draw it.






I'm certain that this has some meaning... SRL...

But the important part of the whole situation is that for years I've had the belief that I could build myself an "Idea Factory" and think of Concepts while I Sleep... Like: go visit an art gallery and look at the painting and then draw it when I wake up... Or read a book while I'm dreaming and then write down the plot when I wake up... Etc etc etc...

I'm reminded of the fact that the movie Star Wars was filmed in the Redwood Forest near Eureka... And that scene of the flying motorcycle chase took place on private property... Because you can't have explosions and fires and other special effects in a park or on public land... In That particular Forest, all the trees have been cut down... so you can't really visit the scene of the Star Wars movie... Because it's not there anymore... 

Other scenes were filmed on Highway 36 between Eureka and Red Bluff... And those are in a park and people can go and enjoy them... 

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"A Spiral of Deadheads" Science Fiction Story by gvan42 - and - "Ceremony and Ritual" - Psychedelic Poetry

Question Reality

DO YOU SEE SOUNDS? HEAR
COLORS? WELL...YOU DO NOW!

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Imagine that you are floating in a tub of warm water...
every muscle in your body is completely relaxed...
your mind drifts and contentment blooms 
like a time lapse film of a Rose... Awakening...
you leave your body and rise up to the ceiling...
you look back and see your body...
it is resting with a cup of tea in it's hand...
ahh...mint...
as you watch your body, your mind seeps 
thru the ceiling and you see the
world. there is a forest...
it is for...rest...

on the shore of a lake a spiral of deadheads dance around a fire.
the flickering light seems to be perfectly synchronized to the rhythm of the drums... alas...
the reversal of entropy is merely an illusion.
one of the deadheads reaches into the shadows and lifts a
five gallon can of gasoline...
it is tightly sealed. he places it on the fire...
they all move back...
it will take time for the gas to expand enough to burst the can...
a slender woman with strawberry blond hair
raises a conch shell to her lips and draws a deep breath.
she blows a long note signaling the
beginning of a new era of mankind.
everything is dripping with meaning.
significance saturates every
leaf of every tree ...
then a tiny hole appears in the gas can and 
a cone of fire reaches for the sky...
you contemplate metallurgy, welding and 
strength of materials...
then the gas can resigns itself to fate
and a ball of fire searches for oxygen 
and of course finds it.
the spiral of deadheads emit a massive
yeah! and you drift on...

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

This tale is not a verified experience... it was just a story someone told me about at a Grateful Dead concert... None of my friends EVER put a 5 gallon can of gas on a fire just to have fun... 

Infinite Rainbow by gvan42

Psychedelic Poetry - "CEREMONY AND RITUAL" - a story - Fiction - written by gvan42 about Trips to Philadelphia - Grateful Dead at JFK Stadium and The Spectrum Arena 


OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE SHIMMERING
COLONIAL ANIMAL…
FLOWING IN THE
CURRENTS OF THE MUSIC…
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire !

IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE 
BREEZE. THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK,
FEEL THE HEAT…
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL
REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.
THE CROWD ERUPTS IN OUTBURSTS OF FREE
-FORM MOTION
AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!
MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL AND
I RICOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM
ARENA BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS.
A CROWD OF DEADHEADS
SURROUND ME INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES…
THEY JUST…know… THAT I WILL LAUGH…
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

THANK YOU DR. ALBERT HOFFMAN
***************************************
This was written after attending a Grateful 
Dead concert in JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I was sitting up above the crowd 
in the bleachers and could see the dancers 
move more enthusiastically during peaks of 
the music… less motion during gentle passages… as the dynamics of the improvisation ebbed and flowed, the dancers moved accordingly… like 
sea anemones moving in the currents of the ocean… I also mention the Spectrum in Philadelphia… It has many blinking 
advertisements for Atlantic city casinos in 
the area where refreshments were being 
served…

MKULTRA: a CIA Mind Control Project in the USA during the 1950's and 1960's. They were looking for a way to use drugs as weapons of war. For example: LSD as a truth serum to aid in interrogation or as a way to simply get the "enemy" to lay down their arms, voluntarily... like, too stoned to fight... 
The project conducted tests on college students at Stanford University. Ken Kesey and Robert Hunter both volunteered to eat LSD and other mind control drugs and report on the effects. Later, Ken started having "ACID TEST" parties where the participants took LSD and danced to the Music of the Grateful Dead. Robert Hunter wrote lyrics for the Dead.

Just co-incidence?
      or were "the sixties"
             a CIA experiment to see what happens?

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Carlos Castaneda wrote many books about the Brujo Don Juan Mateus, a Yaqui Indian. He taught a different view of the world using medicinal plants and reality-stretching exercises.

The first book is called "The Teachings of Don 
Juan:  A yaqui Way of Knowledge". It's a Classic anthropological study of Mexican Indians. 
Required reading in freshman cultural-anthro at 
Chico State in 1973... The people in the book used 
the teachings to learn how to run thru the desert 
at full speed it total darkness using power from an "ally" that looked like a moth... Hence the images 
of men running... and Moths.  They were also able 
to travel instantly from one place to another... 
Often in these books, Carlos and Juan do things 
that are absolutely impossible... If you believe the traditional view of reality... However, the first set 
on the path of knowledge is to "question reality".

The book "Tales of Power" has many images in it 
that I used to make this animation... Like "finding 
your hands while dreaming": a way to take control 
of your dreams and use them to learn. 

Carlos Castaneda wrote of "seeing" people as 
luminous eggs... with bolts of power connecting 
their midsections to the world around them.
I'm re-reading all those books again... a worthwhile 
use of my time... The Teachings of Don Juan starts 
the series... A Separate Reality, Journey to Ixtlan, 
The Eagle's Gift, Tales of Power and The Second 
Ring of Power... These books document a cultural anthropologist 's study of Mexican Indians, 
psychedelics and Toltec Warriors.  The first book is about psylocibin, datura and peyote experiences 
but the author quickly outgrows these and 
embarks on a magical journey learning the 
ancient arts of "stalking" and "dreaming".

A complementary author is Don Miguel Ruiz... 
The Four Agreements... They work well together.

and I remember doing a POWER WALK after a Grateful Dead Concert... I took ONE STEP and Grocked Everything there was to know about That Location... and then I took Another Step... and 
Grocked THAT Location... and Many Silly 
Deadheads Mocked Me For Walking SO FAST! 
"Watch Out Everybody! This Guy is Speeding 
TOO FAST! Danger Danger!" and I walked that 
way all the way to my car in the parking lot...

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

Great Book: "The Four Agreements" by Don 

Miguel Ruiz, a Toltec Brujo from Mexico. (Doctor/Priest/Teacher.)


1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Don't make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.

Starting at birth we are told what to think by our parents, schools and church. These people give us free advice to help them live out their dreams. Their advice may not be in our best interests. By telling us what to think they mold what our reality looks and feels like. Even though we do not know it, we have made agreements with them to live our life according to their rules. Don Miguel Ruiz calls this "The Domestication of Humans". Like we have domesticated horses and bent them to serve our purposes, humans have been enslaved. The first step in breaking free of the bondage that our elders have placed us in is to realize that we are slaves. Then we may reject the agreements that were made without our knowledge and write our own. These new ways of viewing reality can be to our benefit.


Instead of living our lives helping someone else accomplish their goals, we can work to help ourselves realise our own goals. We can stop living the life of a slave and be free. The people that have been programming our minds are not neccesarily evil. They themselves have been programmed by their own parents, school and church and do not realize that they are carrying out the wishes of their elders. The Toltec Warrior's goal in life is to wake up and see the world as it is. We are all living in a dream world that is not of our own making. They are engaged in a battle for their own minds. READ MORE:



Tripping 

(1999 Ken Kesey / Merry Pranksters 

documentary)



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SERIOUS QUESTION: Does LSD Improve Long term Memory? What is YOUR Experience? One fact I have noticed is that some events SEEM MORE SIGNIFICANT and are easier to remember than others. For example:

Since I am 67 Years Old I'm starting to have trouble remembering events in my life. My Trips STAND OUT as Important Events in My Life...

Also, I find that reading and writing to Facebook Groups of people I know is useful for triggering memories. True Brain Training that works. This group inspired me to write down every event in my entire life... My AutoBiography... 
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One fact I have noticed is that some events SEEM MORE SIGNIFICANT and are easier to remember than others. For example: I saw all three Star Wars Movies in the Theater. I don't really remember that experience as different than my memories of watching reruns on TV. EXCEPT The Third Movie... I went on opening night and bought some LSD from a Tie Dyed Person in line... THAT MOVIE EVENT STANDS OUT! The Emperor saying "and now young Skywalker, you must die..." is VIVID! Also driving home I went thru some road construction with those super bright lights... It felt like I was piloting one of those spaceships from the movie... Yes, I have driven a car on LSD... The other time was at a George Harrison Concert... Right after he played the Concert for Bangladesh he went on tour with Ravi Shankar and Billy Preston. I was truly annoyed by the people in the audience who BOOED Ravi Shankar. I guess they didn't like Indian Music and were impatient to hear a BEATLE. The High point of the Show was Billy Preston doing Space Race... Anyway, I had difficulty finding the exit from the parking lot that night. No trouble actually driving but I got lost... 

 Some decades are a Mystery... Like the Late 1990s... I was drinking Alcohol. Don't Do That. There are better quality drugs... For Example: Marijuana, LSD, Peyote, Magic Mushrooms, DMT and that Unknown Chemical I Ate at the Grateful Dead Concert at RFK Stadium... all of a sudden I realized I was tripping on Something Totally Different... Maybe MDMA? The Stadium Lights swelled up to be 20 feet in diameter... and I did a SUPER SLOW POWER WALK all the way out to my car... People were Laughing at me because I took a step, waited until I GROKKED that exact location Completely, then took another step... and GROKKED that new location... Hey, it was totally different and worthy of study... They said: "Watch OUT for that guy, he's walking really fast and might run you over!" I had just read some Carlos Castaneda books and was interested in Power Walking... In his case, he was able to run through the desert in total darkness... my experience was the opposite.

 I also liked to eat Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds. They contain LSA, a chemical that is similar to LSD. It was really fun to drive my wife's sports car on the twisty mountain roads near Santa Cruz... 

 In a classic example of "Hey Kids, Don't do this at Home..." I do not recommend driving a car high on psychedelics. DON'T Do It! Hire a Chauffeur! or go way out into the woods on a backpacking trip... those are some of the best trips! Since you are far away from Law Enforcement... Crazy Behavior is Tolerated! 
psychedelic art by gregory vanderlaan gvan42 purple64ets
Quest for Knowledge
another silly picture created using AutoPsychedelicizer
functions built into Potatoshop!
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A Million Trips Later, What was LSD All About Anyway? Was it a Recreational Drug? Was it More Like a Telephone that Allowed People to Call GOD DIRECTLY?

Was it a Significant Event in The History of The World or as Trivial as a Roller Coaster Ride? We Did Get a Lot of Excellent Rock Music Songs. Is it Even Possible to Buy a "Stairway to Heaven" anymore? 

I Have Noticed that People Who Had the Psychedelic Experience Turned Out to BE NICE, KIND and HAPPY. GREED FREAKS Often Missed Out on "The Sixties..." 

The CIA Project MKULTRA Concluded that LSD Had No Value as a "Weapon of War." Does it Have a Value as a "Weapon of PEACE?" In General, Populations that Took LSD Turned Out To Be LESS VIOLENT than Similar Groups... Acidheads are often interested in Art, Music, Poetry, Organic Farming, Love, Peace, Ecology... GEE, What If Everyone Was Like That? 

We are Seeing a Movement to Legalize Magic Mushrooms... What About LSD and Peyote? What IF We Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics FIRST and then Recreational Psychedelics Later. The Main Advantage to Legalization is there Would Not Be the FEAR of Getting Arrested as a Setting for Your Trip. I Have Experienced that Tripping WAY OUT IN THE WOODS has a FREEDOM aspect to it. On Occasions where My Friends and I Were the Only People for Miles Around... We were More Relaxed than Tripping in Public. 

ANOTHER Massive Advantage is that the Chemical Fabrication of LSD Would be Better Quality. Often, Illegal Chemists Make a Substandard Product OR Sell an Entirely Different Chemical (DOM) and Call it "ACID" - I Have Spoken with People that Took DOM (sometimes called STP) and their Three Day Trip was Frightening and Awful. We Would Certainly Reduce the Number of Trips to the Emergency Room with Quality Control. 

What about all the recent talk about embracing Death? Will We Be Grateful?


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Embrace Rainbow Spiralism 
Two-Tone Coffee Mug FOR SALE!

Like a Tie Dye T-Shirt but... Digital... Of Course, Rainbow Spiralism is MORE than just a Shirt... It's a Way Of Life!

MindSprout Idea Factory. Forge Concepts while you Sleep. Create New Ideas While in "Another Dimension" ... It's Easy! --->Step By Step Instructions!<---

Step 1. ASK for an Idea just before you go to sleep.
{ I ask to visit an art gallery and 
look at the pictures during my dream }
Step 2. When you awaken, write down the idea immediately.
{ I draw a sketch }

You MAY ask for anything to explore during your Lucid Dream.
Like: Ask for the plot to a story...
Imagine that you are in a library and you read a book...
When you awaken, quickly write down what happened...

Remember... 
as you are falling asleep ask again and again and again...
"Tonight when I dream I will Visit an Art Gallery...
and When I Awaken I Will Remember 
What the Pictures were about... "
Psychedelic Art by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan - MINDSPROUT Visions
Any altered state can be a rich mine for new concepts.

Sleep and Dreaming is the most practical.
You Do It Everyday... No Cost for DRUGS... 
Sure, Edgar Allen Poe and
Lewis Carroll Smoked Opium to 
Visit Other Worlds BUT... 
Did You Ever Read their Biography? 
They Suffered A LOT!

Psychedelic Art by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan - MINDSPROUT Visions

Psychedelic Art by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan - MINDSPROUT Visions


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