From:    Todd Rourke                            Area: Magical Plants
To:      All                                     8 Jul 92 12:29:34
Subject: Greetings                              UpdReq 

Cerebral Babylon BBS; East Providence, RI U.S.A. is now carrying happy
to announce its participation in this echo. If someone would be so
kind as to pipe us a copy of the 'rules' for this area, it would be
MUCH appreciated. Info on the moderator, etc. would be nice too.

-TR, SysOp: Cerebral Babylon/PODS 93:9009/0
                             FIDO  1:323/110
                             ICN  91:401/1
... Simmering in the samhain of my soul.


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From:    Allan Thomas                           Area: Magical Plants
To:      Kirk Biglione                           6 Jul 92 07:06:00
Subject: Out of the Jungle                      UpdReq 

KB>I'm sure this is an FAQ, but I've just recently been inspired by "Food
  >of the Gods".
Didn't know there were any "locals" in this conference.  What is
an FAQ?  Have you been to any of McKenna's speaking events?
Allan
 * OLX 2.1 TD * .


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From:    Jw Milton                              Area: Magical Plants
To:      Loki                                   26 Jun 92 12:44:00
Subject: Re: HMMM..                             UpdReq 

LO>is something else you can do.  Eat a bunch of hot, spicy foods like picante
LO>sause or halipenos. It will burn your tongue and your body will produce
LO>endorphins to deaden the pain.  The endorphins will spread to all areas and
LO>preduce the effects of opium.  Have you ever watched somebody eating hot
LO>foods, they know damn well it is burning them, but somehow they can't seem 
to
LO>stop. Common sense would tell you to stop doing something that burned you, 
an
LO>yet you go on and on until it runs out.  I assume it the effect of producing
LO>endorphin that produces this masochistic behavior.
Amazing!  I didn't know this, but it would explain my own
strange drive to eat food that is so hot no one else can
touch it.  I use high grade Cayenne (never cook Cayenne),
rated at 40,000 BTU (that is really how they rate it!),
which is about as hot as it gets.  I have often felt that
eating REALLY hot food somehow did change your consiousness,
but I never thought of the above.
Thanks for the info, I'm off to lunch :)
jw

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From:    Frater Almost                          Area: Magical Plants
To:      Todd Rourke                             9 Jul 92 19:59:28
Subject: Greetings                              Sent UpdReq 

Greetings back at'cha! :)  93!  This is the echo where we discuss how to grow, 
cultivate, improve, harvest, etc. ethno-botanical plants, etc.  In other 
words.... It's a place to talk about plants that can be used  to improve 
magick and how to use them, what their dangers are, how to grow them, and how 
to care for them.  
      
It is simply a nice little place to sit and talk about things like the 
Shamanic Experience.
    
Only two things that I really don't aprove of here:
     
    1... Nobody, but nobody, goes off on anybody else for their beliefs!  
Arguing about "Wicca vs. Thelema vs. ToS vs. CoS" can be saved for the Oasis 
Echo or for another echo.
     
    2... Nobody breaks the law or helps to break the law or whatever.  No 
illegal connections, no illegal phone numbers or anything for finding 
connections, no over-the-counter (or under the counter) dealings of any sort, 
etc.  This echo is just here for information.
      
Oh, and a small clause:  This is not the "Herbal Home Remedies" echo. We 
prefer to think of ourselves as never being sick. :)
       
But, all in all, I do not (ever) threaten to revoke anyboddy's access, or 
whatever.... Such threats are idle and get us all nowhere so... pretty 
much.... Welcome to the Magickal Plants Echo! :)  Pax. 93
      
---Frater Almost:  Moderator


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