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To: TH who wrote (298975)	12/19/2010 7:55:57 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Respond to of 306849

Interesting. While reading about Mayan culture and catching some rays on the patio this afternoon I decided to ask the Sun if I were addressing a Mayan or Egyptian deity. "Are you Ra?" Long pause... "Could be." Smart ass star.

To: TH who wrote (298975)	12/19/2010 9:41:17 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

never did that stuff -- maybe it would make me a better trader ... but I'm loonie enough already. You have this -- I am afraid of miners here, I am afraid of the market ... cash sucks, but I don't like to lose. I like some short cause every one is soooo doggone bullish -- including peyote/no-peyote fans. Re the tax "cut" -- may push the selling into early next year -- but it might not -- let's see. 2010 been berry gud 2 me ...

To: TH who wrote (298975)	1/3/2011 11:32:14 PM
From: Lazarus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

have you heard of this guy: Robert Gordon Wasson (September 22, 1898 – December 23, 1986) was an author, ethnomycologist, and vice president of J.P. Morgan & Co. ___ Wasson's studies in ethnomycology began during his 1927 honeymoon trip to the Catskill Mountains when his bride, Valentina Pavlovna Guercken (1901–1958), a paediatrician, chanced upon some edible wild mushrooms. Fascinated by the marked difference in cultural attitudes towards the fungus in Russia compared to the United States, the couple began field research which lead to the publication of Mushrooms, Russia and History in 1957. During the course of their investigations they mounted expeditions to Mexico to study the religious use of mushrooms by the native population, and became the first Westerners to participate in a Mazatec mushroom ritual. In May 1957 they published a Life magazine article titled Seeking the Magic Mushroom, which brought knowledge of the existence of psychoactive mushrooms to a wide audience for the first time. Together, Wasson and botanist Roger Heim collected and identified various species of family Strophariaceae and genus Psilocybe, while Albert Hofmann[4], using material grown by Heim from specimens collected by the Wassons, identified the chemical structure of the active compounds, psilocybin and psilocin. Hofmann and Wasson were also among the first Westerners to collect specimens of the Mazatec hallucinogen Salvia divinorum, though these specimens were later deemed not viable for rigorous scientific study or taxonomic classification[5]. Two species of mushroom, Psilocybe wassonii heim and Psilocybe wassonorum guzman, were named in honor of Wasson, along with Heim and Gastón Guzmán - the latter of whom Wasson met during an expedition to Huautla de Jiménez in 1957. Wasson's next major contribution was a study of the ancient Vedic intoxicant Soma, which he proposed was based on the psychoactive Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushroom. This hypothesis was published in 1967 under the title Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. His attention then turned to the Eleusinian Mysteries, the initiation ceremony of the ancient Greek cult of Demeter and Persephone. In The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978), co-authored with Albert Hofmann and Carl A. P. Ruck, it was proposed that the special potion "kykeon", a pivotal component of the ceremony, contained psychoactive ergoline alkaloids from the fungus Ergot (Claviceps spp.). en.wikipedia.org ___ The May 13, 1957 issue of Life Magazine headlined an article by R. Gordon Wasson, a vice president of JP Morgan & Co., titled, “Seeking the Magic Mushroom”. Included as Part III of its Great Adventures series and described as “the discovery of mushrooms that cause strange visions”, the article teaser states, “A New York banker goes to Mexico’s mountains to participate in the age-old rituals of Indians who chew strange growths that produce visions.” tinyurl.com