welcome peeps to the daily annie cactus report......
ive created this thread for all general discussion of cacti and odd cacti related topics.
this is a good forum, and has an advantage of being un cluttered , and good info from the start.
we want all new members to be able to find info easily, and research topics without distractions.
in the interest of reducing future fog and clutter on the forum,
ill use this thread for comments, suggestions, and previews of coming threads.
those familiar with my work , realize dont do alot of threads.
but i try and make the ones i do do , blockbusters.
many time, side issues and off topic things arise, that cant be dealt with n those threads.
this thread can be a rally point for that.
id really like to express to all, including myself,
that its a great treasure to have an uncluttered forum.
we all should make every attempt to keep topic spure, and threads clean for info .
so, ill use this thread for my daily, and, as need commentary.
im gonna preview a few things here on this thread,
but im also interested in what the member think about things.
id also like to talk with all of you about cactus, forums, and the future of the grow in general.
peeps have noticed im a mod here also.
i need say nothing beyond the obvious.
lets all be here to be friends and grow cactus.
the future of cacti, rises above.
lets us be archived as a good growers of good will.
the future will thank us....
ok peeps about every day, ill post something of interest/ comments here.
pleaes fel free to join me ain this epic general thread,
and lets keep the grow threads on topic same time.
all the luv....i the new age.
next up aerophora previews......
and, some very thought provoking ideas for the future.
Even though this place still needs to grow, I will also try to contribute something daily. I will eventually post some pics, but for the time being this will suffice.
by all means invite friends and post pics.
i suspect we all know what makes for a good forum.
good grows, good pics, solid threads on topic for reference,
and a sense of community and discussion,
in an organized way.
obviously . globally, there are several thousand of us on dozen forums ,
with a strong interest in advanced cactus growing teks.
let us be a hub for the future of cacti.
peeps come for the grow and show, and hopefully stay for the charm............
im thinking i need to put up a massive seed tek.........
any specific requests on what ya wanna see?
maybe if you could touch on pest control and damping off?
certainly, but im considering those in seperate threads.
i realize sometimes im slow in assembling teks to publish.
part of it is i have sooooo much info and pics, im lost sometimes where to start.
the other thing is my schedule.
im a door girl at adlut resort club house.
i only work weekends, but i do over 40 hours from friday evening to monday dawn.
its sorta dangerous, very adult, incredibly loud drunk and stoned environment.
im usually left exhuasted till noon on tuesday.......
that said, our season of work is slowing down for summer,
wich should enable me to start several new threads soon.
some of the cornerstones on pest and disease IMO , is neem and ariflow....
that'd be great. I'll soak up everything I can. Sounds like a rough weekend.
lol
reading some stuff kosmo put on shroomery.
they are terrorized merely by my name .
and ive been banned for like 2 yrs now............................
omg
last night at the club this dude showed up with a top hat full of BASEBALL sized lophs.
i was pretty impressed.
he will return , there will be pictures............
hopefully the seed tek kicks off this week also!
new members are drifting in almost daily now.
lets offer a big welcome, and make sure they are infused with the grow spirit!
we need a light thread also...........
im trying to evaluate all the needs of the forum,
and what threads we really should have to cover alot of basics.
reconfigure lab/ inventory, supplies this week.
evaluating the cactus online community.
looks like most forums are in shambles cactus wise.
we all have alot of work this season.
seeing new members every day or so......
welcome.
i suspect every one is gearing up for some good threads.
i havent forgot you guys.........
been really pinned down at my insane job.
and been caught up watching violet tek threads on the " rabbitry"
even after being banned for 2 yrs, the violet teks are still daily hot board topics.
amazing.
we have altered the trajectory of both cactus and fungi grows in the last decade.
still lots more work to do...............
absolutely more to come.
deep thought on next presentation........
likely " seeds and seedlings"
got a new chrome book, configuring.
this forum is so peaceful.
the advanced cactus growers are a civilized group indeed.
welcome to the new members.
i recognize some of you from other forums.
post up!
although i havent posted much lately,
i intend to post lots as time goes by.
i do check in every day though.
messages will be answered.
excellent.
i see talent and some great threads coming.
summer...........
summer.
im still around
working on getting rich again this month.
being poor was making me yawn.
i had to stop it..........
good to see new members and everyone gearing up for fall grow season!
Has anyone tried aeroponics with cacti?
Ive got a dozen monstrose laying around waiting to be potted and I've been misting the roots to keep em limber.
I'm wondering with cactis low need for nutes, would they grow like this?
Has anyone tried?
welcome sprac...............good top see ya.............
we suspect it would work.
our loph " aerophora" tek is based on that sorta...................
as always im around.
battles for tor control of the club are distracting my grow...........sux.
hope to be back to the grow very soon.
crushing my enemys at work ,
has realy been taking alot of effort lately.
start a thread sprac, show us your latest work!
Right now I'm at kinda a stand still; have about 60-80ish bridge seedlings (can't get a good count, foggy brained) and 4 sand pedros thatr'e a few inches tall and 13 monstrose that are waiting to be potted. Was gunna put them under lights for the winter/fall but after some research I think they'll be alright in my bay windows; who needs a kitchen table to eat on :P
I will take pix when i have a camera, working on some other stuff right now like getting rid of this old (atleast a decade when we bought the house) carpet that is surely what's destroying my lungs and getting some seeds together and lights for indoor lophs.
Will start a thread when I have time and camera. You have a thread on the aeorponics?
im still paying attention here....
war@work has calmed down some , with me dominating the field ATM,
at stake ,an island empire that could restore me to treasure.
naturally it was distracting.
things have calmed to the point where i can consider new presentations......
good to see all new member and new poss/ threads.
good stuff, its what sets us apart.
as soon as i get a chance, id like to comment on a few threads ive noticed......
just got back froma week vacation. left my brridge seedling by the window, they never got misted as they were supposed to be so when i got back alotof em were birght red almost pink and somekind of dark looking but it doesnt look like ive lost any.
as i suspected the lack of water made them unfit to be in the bright sun as theyve always been by the birghter part of the table but were being misted a few times a day. so i brought them back to darker part of the table and have misted a few times and they look like theyll be fine, theyve grown some too.itll give em character.
got another big almost 3 foot tall bridgesii very well rooted. that was potted abuot 1-3 days before i left and now it has a few of those black spots near the top. im starting to think those are being caused by something elseother than to much water as this bridge was healthy and the soil it was potted in was just a little moist as the soil is alot of the time when u get it at the store. all of my cacti are in a mix of sand perlite and shpagnum peat moss. I try to get the mixture more or less uniform for all my cacti with a little bit more perllite and a little less sand. tops are covered with sand for aesthetics, to discourage parasitic flies and to help hold them in place as i dont want anything wet touching green parts of the cacti.
I've still been looking for loph seeds but im not in a hurry to get much more; i have stuff i need to get in order before i can really crack down on the cacti. Most of the carpet is gone and my lungs and brain are startting to hit an upswing. also trying to let some relationships fall by the way side without making to many more enemies here.
glad to hear the flies are starting to retreat at work
patience sprac, and planning.........
welcome paperjack!
The seedling are fine now and will be getting peres to graft to soon. Also alot more seeds on the way. going to cut a piece off my crested pachanoi and graft to a very well eslablished bridge stump.
I'm wondering about LEDs,I see all these peoplesaying you'll need to spend alot but I fot a 60 "piece" red and blue led that crews into a regular socket. I'm guessing that is 6o watts; I thinkmost pieces are 3 or 5 watts but 180 watts seemsti high (if they were 3 watts a diode in each piece) These were under 5 bucks and i should be able to source more so I'm thinking that might work.
Anys ideas ont the LED thing? Still trying to procure loph seeds; my triches are inmy bay south facing window
sprac , your gonna need way more light than that.
no matter what your gonna need 30-50W sq ft. @ 1 foot.
thats your target, study specs on lights..
google research on makes, models, and LED chips will yield info galore.
done right, youll need sunglasses.
always show caution with power LED.
keep your face out of them , and wear blue block sunglasses / safety glasses
im giving paperjack a chance to catch up on his thread.....
welcome deaths angel.........
im always watching peeps.
just been hyper busy.
the maid is actually running the farm lately.
combo of club and building new studio killing me.
stay tuned though.
we are far from done publishing stuff.
welcome oliver F
new ice bong.
you know annie and maid are thankful.
happy holiday to all.
jappy turkeyday and post turkeyday capitalism day anne and all
procuredsome loph seedbut could use more of course
i was thinkging of tryinthe "tajeaway tek" if youve heard of that or just open air but this time wash my sand with l bleach and the h202 first and leave opena air and mist with distilled water ina cleanarea,,, not sure why my lophs died last time but burde are still doing fine
imalso wondering if gibberallic acid soak would help germrates,maybe will try 15 with soak and 15 without
the led i have seemslike you should have glasses on to go near;my gut tells me 8 of those would be atleaest enought for a sqft once theyre really growing,need ti get peres and leaern how to graft, have a smallloph button i might try to graft using the stab method with apsilocereus for scion one that cerus has good roots
will be trying the crested pach to bridge graft soon
hvae a bunch of papaver somniferum seeds to start learning to germand grow soon ;)
then i have my5hostilis seeds and hoepfully soon moretotrygerming again; also looking into acuminatas
tried a dry tek on some cacti in the middlefo that still;will post reults and get an updated growlog etc going soon oncei have some courrt/jail problems out of the way, trip to peru and get out of the states may be in order
thats about all im working on now,wish i had full lab and more money to play with
muchlove
don't leave us in suspense sprac! what'd ya do?
spracs all about suspense.........
lets see if he pops up again,
as he may be distracted for the holidays.
happy holidays peeps.
after the season of frivolity,
lets get back to the important work of cacti cultivation!
yowza.
just woke up and its 2016 already.
lets get motivated.
year of the super cactus?
welcome mew............
cheers to those here :) year of the cactus it is! ;D
i like that type of art mew........
where are you coming up with this stuff?
AH living here in the peruvian andes has its proximity advantages :)
more soon :)
p.s. we need a wachuma history thread with images like this....
ok peeps,
im still super busy.
ive effectively taken over the club ( excellent)
however, ive also managed to spearhead a new project.
this time were using actual sunlight, coir, and hydro grafting, in combo.
results pry in a month or so.............
in the mean time, im thinking a general grow and show status thread for al members.
i know you guys are out there working on the ultimate cactus patch.
id be interested in updates!
at some point soon, ill have more time as season wanes.
and then, we grow forth!
all the love.
gee guys, kinda quiet lately..........
lets get excited about a project or something.
I'm pumped up anne halonium!
damn guys awful quiet.
ive got some projects going, but not ready to show yet.
anyone got any good updates?
I had big plans for last fall/this summer and it all feel through. Hope to get some projects underway after another move.
welcome donkeyslong.
its a distracting summer here for sure............
i can make more noise if you want anne. i've got lots to say.
roach, can you talk about your plans/what went wrong?
We are pleased to see some our favourite ghosts of past forum incarnations here. We hope all are doing well and love to see a forum starting well from the (under)ground up.
We look forward to contributing to the revolution of advanced entheogensis.
All the love
❤
good to see you guys are at the wheel.
my schedule changed, so im in the mood for some projects.
stay tuned.
anyone watching the grafting contest on the shroomery?
we could upstage that while in an induced coma.
maybe we need a contest?
contest eh? is anyone down for a KRISHNAMURTI CHALLENGE? A CHANCE TO WIN BIG BIG MONEY???
ya chief a contest.
a good grafting contest.
im loosely watching the boomery grafting contest.........
and seriously?
whats up with you chief, you had some projects going last time i looked.
me and maid got off road racing scooters.
we have been flying up and down the beaches all over the island last few weeks.
that said, my schedule has changed and im building up for some projects..............
well anne, getting ready to do some astrophytum myriostigma grafts. learned lots over the winter about soil mixes for lophophora. went from using the store bought to a mix of the following:
1. 1/4 chip graval
2. 1/4 limestone
3. pearlite
4. worm castings
i think the peat based mix brought on some disease. likely a fungus that killed a number of plants. so i'll be using some variation of this from now on. learning perfect drainage is key to allow for frequent waterings with light fertilizer to speed up growth for lophs on their own roots. trying to source pumice too but tough around here. sounds like it might be easier from wherever you're from. playing around with a couple cup grafts like you showed.
i'm down for a grafting contest on here if no one wants to have a KRISHNAMURTI CHALLENGE. krishnamurti challenges are way cooler though.
KRISHNAMURTI CHALLENGE
tell me more.
i might be feeling it.
i have a new grow configuration that id like to test,.................physically and mentally.
indeed! madam, the KRISHNAMURTI CHALLENGE is quite simple superficially, but increases in complexity proportionate to the swelling profundity of the participant. it works like this: just read one book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, then eat 1+ foot of cactus or equivalent (legally of course!) and describe your experience. the smartest brain thoughts win the BIG BIG MONEY!!!
gawd i have to read?
(i mean my maid has to read)
i got thru HS and college having the maid read cliff notes................
actually im not reading averse, and thats pry the easy part.
my thing lately is no time for cactus on the cob .
its killing me.
i used to have endless time to trip,
the new economy keeps me time defecient.
^ that said im still into the idea.
noticed some new members.........
welcome.
hey chief,
what happened to the lophs in hydro mason jars?
that one intrigued me.
also,
we have a number of members who are XHTTL capable, and successful.
yet many other forums are floundering with slow moving grafts.
why is that?
the boomery / shroomery 2016 graft contest is so sad,
someone should swoop and sweep up.
i get discouraged seeing those guys flounder endlessly.
im always baffled that the tech is available, but not widely applied.
what am i missing?
the mason jar cacti are rerooting madam. the speaker found them painfully difficult to maintain given the particulars of the set up, at least relative to growing nine per three inch pot. the shape of the cups, the unscrewing of the lids... but the speaker has not given up on your method. the short lived experiment certainly proved there is validity to what you present. soil will have to do for now. there are still many subtleties to discern regarding soil for lophs, pereskiopsis, and trichocereus.
what is time anyways madam? certainly we see that the self, or i process is composed of the past. that is, the residual experience recorded by the brain, splits experiencing into the experiencer and the experienced, thereby creating the self and the subjective environment. memory, or time, is the result of this capacity to store residual experience. so then consciousness, is the cumulative relationship between the capacity to store experience residually and the environment free of subjectivity. understanding then, is the movement towards congruency with the what is. whereas memory, is the residue left on the brain through incomplete experience. so we see that there is both memory and understanding stored by the brain to bring about the subjective approximation of self and that of environment, the experiencer and the experienced. certainly there is a force that cleaves the divide between memory and understanding. only together can we discern what is that force. in isolation, that force will forever remain a mystery. that is the KRISHNAMURTI CHALLENGE madam. that is right relationship.
so then what is it to be time deficient? fundamentally? what is it madam, to find the self without time?
sounds complex
i sorta evolved to the " zen of the moment" type attitude.
i tend to live exactly in the second im in.
believe it or not,
alot of my teks come to me in a" no thought mode" almost like a meditation.
the stuff just comes to me, and i dont know why.
poms/ hydro cactus , and grow variants all essentially came to me in dreams.
as for the cactus thing, the problemo is in the lids.
were working on a milk bottle version with 7-8 head per container. ( PINT SIZE)
note,
i am no longer on nexus.
extreme censorship led to a ban.
i no longer endorse them.
alot of forums are victims of success.
at first they are good, but then eventually they fill with kids and trolls.
the primary need to pay for the site, prefers numbers of clicks at the expense of info.
people see this, then the sites degrade further,
as actual growers flee from the rising swamp of self reinforcing noobs.
thankfully this site keeps it clean and info based.
i believe thats what really drives a good forum............the teks.
people will always migrate for the grow info.
any forum that banks on waves of noobs for numbers, at the expense of good teks, is eventually doomed.
mycotopia, nexus, mycotek, all have been greatly damaged by this practice.
let us not fall into that pit.
i am building up for some new teks here however...................
certainly the complexity is in the layers of subjectivity that exist between the capacity to accumulate experience and actuality. the ideals. the approximations of the self. the approximations of environment. the associations tied to things, concepts, to people. certainly that is what is most complex.
as for your techs coming to you in those moments of inner silence, those moments without conflict, without duality, that is undoubtably true. isn't it so madam, that truth cannot be sought after? cannot be chased psychologically? that truth, is not something we can pursue, but rather something that is constantly bombarding the senses for the entirety of our existence? isn't it so, that truth is that indefinable movement from which we have/are emerged/submerged? and that it is subjectivity, with its fears, its approximations, its beliefs, its preconceptions, that destroy truth? that destroy understanding?
if that is so madam, then it is discernible that your techs came into your consciousness in those moments of stillness. for truth, understanding, is coming to you, not the other way around. if we watch very closely, in ourselves, around us, then we can see that truth is never something we can chase down and apprehend. instead it is our senses that reflect it. but the reflective capacity is weakened by the imposition of subjectivity, of seeking, of belief and preconception. isn't that so madam? that we are deeply immersed in understanding - but so often we are wearing the scuba suit of subjectivity.
so what does it mean to be deficient of time? what do we mean by time? there is chronological time. and certainly you are not deficient of that. you are a relatively young woman. healthy. intelligent. so you are not deficient in time chronologically. then, there is psychological time. memory, as it accumulates, creates time. it creates the past, and then uses the past, through the present to project expectation. the accumulation of memory forms subjectivity. and subjectivity brings about compulsion. surely one could, theoretically, sit under a tree in this supposed state of non duality, drooling and such, completely free of the layers of subjective thought, and free up a tremendous amount of time.
but that will not occur. instead, the elements of memory, build compulsion. time, which is memory, builds impulse through the accumulation of self approximation and expectation. put differently, the self learns, through the aggregation of experience, to perceive through certain layers of expectation. and that is what has happened to your time. chronologically there is an abundance of time, but psychologically, there is constraint, inwardly there is expectation. there is the seeking of a certain approximation of the self - the future. so we live within the shadow of this approximation. isn't that is madam? isn't that what happened to your time?
ya ive tried analyzing it all...................
in my world i wake up, and peeps have to get high , get laid and get paid.
and everyone is incompetent kids, including my maid.
so naturally i have to do it all and then some, or the whole system breaks down.
when i was infinitely rich, it was easier as i could farm stuff out/ outsource.
now that i live in dire abject grinding poverty, i actually have to spearhead projects myself.
this is both a time and buzzkill, and really inhibits the larger goal of global insta hallucinogens.
^ i know............... dont ya hate it when that train slows down.......................
im thinking we need a good seed tek here.
stuff i read on the forums , indicates people really have a hard time with seeds and sprouting.
and we need a graft contest also.
im also wondering if we should expand a little past cactus.............
most forums are filled with rehash and rumor and speculation.
we have the potential to keep it clean and add some showcase teks in general.
indeed, a seed tek would be ideal. perhaps a soil tek for lophophora grown on its own roots.. even some experimentation with regard to lighting for lophs grown on their own roots. the speaker recently spoke with someone who asserts that a 4 cm plant, grown on its own roots from seed is quite possible in 1-1.5 years with proper care. but many factors must be nailed.
it is discernibly necessary to move past the cactus. as the cactus is merely one integrated component of actuality. and actuality, mechanically, is the you and the speaker. we may have our particular differences subjectively, historically, but mechanically, abstractly, we are the same not only as each other, but as the cactus which brings us together.
so we see that peeps must get high. they must get paid and laid. this is compulsion. the self, which is the accumulator of experience, of memory, of the past, extrapolates the past through the present to conceptualize the future. conceptualization creates insufficiency in the present, which is compulsion, drive, the need to get paid, laid, or sit in the shade.
now, incompetence arises only through comparison. for there to be incompetent, there must be the comparative idea of competent. and for the self to approximate the other as incompetent, there must be the ideation that the self is comparatively more competent. this is surely one of the gross examples of subjectivity. there are others, which are considerably more subtle.
then there is the matter of the system. the system, while gross with particulars, can be subtle with regard to subjectivity. the system is the relationship between the individual and the many. and it is the cumulative individual compulsions that engender and sustain the system. so naturally, it breaks down in the absence of compulsion.
then we have the matter of analysis. madam, is self awareness through analysis a possibility? can one consider the self, which is the past, and bring about an understanding of the process of the i mechanically or will the consideration of the past merely bring about an understanding of what the self is subjectively? does not the very movement of self consideration refurbish the approximation of the self, and never deepen the understanding of the self as a process?
next, there is the matter of global insta hallucinations. to the speaker, there is already an expansive global hallucination called subjectivity. there is reality, which is mutually discernible, and then there is subjectivity, which is the cause of conflict both inwardly and outwardly. that is, the world is split nationalistically, religiously, financially, politically, and socially- quite systemically. madam, when the you, and the i, speak of this global insta hallucination, are we not speaking of a movement along the same plane of consciousness? the same plane of consideration? madam, what to you, is global insta hallucination?
global insta hallucinogens ya say?
yes. and cactus foremost.
i believe everyone on earth should have access to high quality hallucinogens.
especially the natural ones.
and i believe in using the most advanced grow teks we can use,
for speed, encouraging biodiversity, and science in general.
i also think we need to prep for " plants in space" ( moon / mars)
and plants on space stations.
my experiments have shown cacti are ready for space.......................
someone is gonna eat a loph on mars sooner or later .
^ annie will be exactly there.
so the idea of hyper cacti and other natural hallucinogens, ready to go, appeals to me.
the medical pot people won the medicine because they grew alot of pot.
they do it with the best teks and equip they can find.
activists, made alot of noise fer sure........
BUT , the cannabis war was won thru tek and supply and manpower............
in the new age, humanity is pressed by a rapid loss of biodiversity.
peeps need to make an effort to stop the loss.
alot of cacti are rare or in some degree of danger.
i believe all wild molesting of cacti should CEASE,
and only farm grown cacti be acceptable to the community.
i know some people hate me spoiling the fun on that,
but fact is , teks exist to make almost anyone self sustaining on cacti in 12-18 months.
^
so, when i do my teks, or publish anything , thats the point.
and yes chief , i agree lophs done right are pretty fast.
4 cm in that amount of time done natural is reasonable. ( 18 months)
^ keep in mind , hydro cacti can do almost 2cm a month under LED.
( i keep forgetting i haven shown any nylon ones yet)
ok,
the mystical stuff.
i see where your at.
i just hate writing about stuff like that, or trip reports.
in some ways, this stuff is powerful and personal to the pro tripper.........
im in the , " understand but sorta speechless " camp mostly.
this thread is becoming the " ask annie anything corner"
good.
i dont want general BS about me spilling into other threads.
ive decided that the next thread is gonna be " annies attic and archives of cactus odditys"
we need something with some pizzazz.
^ it will work like this.
about every day or so, im gonna post a set of pictures of cacti on a topic.
and then comment and take questions.
ill pic the focus pictures as we roll with it.
it will be a picture based thing, ill keep comments minimal
any legit question will fly, and you guys can add pics also ( encouraged)
it should a good general primer for all types of cactus experiments.
any thing off topic , or about me will be shifted to this thread.
tell all the friends.
check your archives next few days..........
im checking mine.
in the new age.......
now what is belief, and what is discernment? do you ever wonder what it is that cleaves this divide? what divides belief, preconception, presupposition, approximation from discernment, understanding, truth, actuality, reality? do you ever wonder what mechanically divides thought which is belief, and thought which is discernment?
you see madam, the speaker has no beliefs, as to marry a concept to the self psychologically is to restrict one's thought/action/perception. put differently, by saying 'i believe' one is then bound by internal logic and reasoning to adhere to a certain standard, to a certain preconception, at least partially. therefore belief, mechanically, does effectively destroy/limit discernment/perception.
so what is discernment? surely discernment is perception free of subjectivity. that is, to discern is to see oneself and the environment free of subjectivity. that is, to meet the present free of the boundaries of the many limiting beliefs, both subtle and gross.
so we see that when we believe, when we meet the present through a screen of preconception, when we meet the present through the residual images of the past, we limit the capacity to palpate the pulse of actuality as an individual and therefore as a collective. that is, the collective result of belief is always conflict. conflict between that which is considered and that which is. one cannot, mechanically, meet actuality without obfuscation when seeing through the veil of belief.
so that is why the speaker holds no beliefs. that is why the speaker cannot immediately verify or deny your stance on any particular subject. the speaker can only meet you in conversation free of subjective defensiveness and we, together, find out what is true.
then there is the matter of if what we are discussing here is mystical? to the speaker it is factual. not some empty assertion. we are meeting together in communion, discussing reality not mysticism. but reality can become both mystical and factual through subjectivity. that is, circumstance can be encapsulated by the brain as both factual or mystical, interesting or mundane, good or bad and so on.
so the question then becomes, what is it that approximates certain similarities between our conversation and 'stuff like that' or 'trip reports'? surely our conversation is unique and not the past. so can we, in actuality, encapsulate it with a certain definition? what happens if we together have a conversation free of encapsulations?
now, when something is personal, that is, when something is subjective, it is not actuality. actuality is that which is discernible mutually, universally. it comes about when all parties perceive without the subjective slant. therefore the closest we will get to actuality is through the movement of mutual discernibility. this is due to the very nature of awareness, that is, past, skews the present and conceptually creates the future.
the speaker is not asking you to discuss yourself personally. if we discuss ourselves personally we just widen the gap between the self and actuality. rather the speaker suggests that we discuss what is actual, what is discernible mutually. and when we meet each other in duality, conflicting opinion, we take this as an intimation that one or both of us is looking through the veil of subjectivity so therefore not seeing actuality. when this happens and we don't identify, rationalize, or condemn our subjective stance, but instead look at it earnestly, we find out truly what is the self, what is reality. relationship is consciousness and to be is to be related.
now, is this not linguistically what is the psychedelic experience madam? certainly it is not just elves and patterns? but an unveiling of the self? an unveiling of reality free of subjectivity?
welcome keikee /new member.
for those watching the " annies attic thread"
gimme a minit, last week was distracting.
were gonna have alot of fun with that thread.
chief, i hear ya on alot of that stuff.
the cactus people do well to reflect deeply on such types of thought.
and we need more of that.
wich is why i have this thread going,
is so the peeps can wander/ wonder and wonder on various topics,
that the cactus mind can appreciate.
i do notice the new members.
im also hoping the see some pictures from some peeps soon.
id like to see this forum be strong on cactus pictures.
im thinking also, that this is a cactus forum,
BUT
it might be cool to have a very limited but solid link library and some archived stuff for reference.
madam, it seems there is not much action on this forum. just the speaker and the madam. so perhaps we could discuss together what is right interest with regard to cactuses?
Hi Annie :)
I'm back I guess. Around this spring, shrooms got me off themselves for half a year... they have a tendency of doing this to me, but I guess it was for my own good. Just recently went back to the nexus and noticed you're not around anymore. I wonder what got you banned... Does it have anything to do with the psilocybin extraction topic?
I miss your tone of irreverence, it was a good spot of color in a crowd of zealots. ;) Anyway, I'd really not dismiss the Nexus yet, despite its drawbacks. This place, though, would need some marketing. :D Are you still active here? :)
Anyway, I intend to kick off a Violet tek grow soon. Maybe get my hands wet with XHTTL. I've run out, as a friend and co-grower suffered a paranoiac / moral panic episode on shrooms, and destroyed the whole crop and a great majority of our spore prints.
@psyduckmonkey,
sir, what does it mean to miss irreverence? perhaps we can examine it together and find out. perhaps sir, we can look at this problem earnestly to find out together what is real.
now to 'miss' means, in this case, to notice the absence of something. this implies memory of that thing which is missed. irreverence is a perceived lack of respect. so there is a perceived reduction in the general lack of respect since @annehalonium left the shroomery. now this irreverence was not cast out in all directions, but specifically at those approximated as zealots. so at @psyduckmonkey senses a insufficiency, due to expectation, of irreverence aimed at zealots.
now insufficiency is preconception isn't it sir? that is, they are two sides of the same medal. the moment there is a predefined expectation that is not actualized, there is insufficiency. so insufficiency is unfulfilled expectation.
now if insufficiency is preconception what is a zealot? surely a zealot is a term applied to an environmental encapsulation, and so it too is preconception. that is, residual experience is encapsulated and labelled via comparison. so for there to be zealousness, there must be comparison. so for a sir to find comfort in irreverence of the zealot, there must too be internal irreverence. and when that internal irreverence is circumstantiated, there is comfort, identification. so mechanically, unactualized irreverence of zealousness engenders insufficiency.
are we together so far sir?
Haha. Yes, something like that. :)
Anyway, let's inject some life into this grow forum.
@psyduckmonkey,
Oh indeed sir! Oh indeed! Now sirs and sirsettes, it seems it is time for @psyduckmonkey and the speaker to inject some life into this forum!
Now where shall we begin sir? Perhaps we could, together, discern what divides meditation from action? Or perhaps what divides perception from thought or action? Perhaps sir we could find out what is right action with regard to psychoactive cactuses?
Where shall we begin sir?
There is some very interesting information here.. with the way people grow and think it will only take a few more years before this place is overflowing.
I am using my Area 51 198w all white cree on my pereskiopsis and trichs and so far they loving it.
I am the teamleader.
Do I detect a note of sarcasm here ???
No i really meant it actually
what does it mean to be the team leader sir?
Good question indeed.