We Knew You Were Out There

I think we may all just have sown a seed here on the Basement Shaman's new blog! I hope it will bear fruit (and share it) for all that attend and grow into a place that's informative, provocative, playful and a friendly meeting ground for all you pioneers, bioneers, and students of the strange, luminous intelligence of the universe.

We're in this to make a better ride for all. If we can be of help, please let us know. By hearing from you, you make us smarter. We've lots of questions....an occasional answer, and on good days, sometimes really good answers.

We'll be contacting those of you who recently posted over the next few days to get your physical addresses so we can send along our tokens of thanks for helping to jumpstart things. And wow, the idea of gifting each other is really the crux of it all. Gift each other....a simple and yet astonishingly potent idea.

Ah, and careful with thos San Pedros kids! They really are marvelous spirits. Most homes in high Andean desert are flanked San Pedro to provide protection to the home and its inhabitants.

Better technology for plant growing? Yes, you bet! We hope to soon offer super-efficient LED-based plant lighting. If you know of any other appropriate technologies you'd like to see us offer please let us know. We really do listen to your suggestions!

The buzz, hype and hullaballoo and misinformation surrounding Salvia divinorum. It really gets my blood boiling when ill-informed, elected governmental officials start to declare species of our planet "illegitimate". It's high farce and equally mind-numbing and dangerous. Why does our culture have such trouble with substance abuse. Does anyone really believe that incarceration is the answer? Our officials seem to be most comfortable when we're playing the war card. Tell the folks there's a war going on and maybe they won't notice their civil liberties disappearing. Tell them it's a nasty war, and start your watchlist for the planet's most dangerous species. It will be a long list indeed. Makes me wonder if maybe we shouldn't be among the most wanted.

Happiness, andy @ the basement shaman

Comments

[johnnypod]

Great Blogs of Fire. You guys are awesome. I don't care if you give out free gifts or not.

[Alex Pollara]

You speak words that many think but are afraid to say, you sow the seeds that others fear to sow, and you strive to bring light to the darkest corners, you rock give 'em hell shaman

[Alex Pollara]

The San Pedros are great, I live on an organic farm in Jersey, and have spent most of my life working with plants, through this time I have grown to respect the great gift that they are, for anyone to try and take away this gift is a direct violation of all that is sacred. The problem is that those who stand up and say no are spread to thin.

P.S. The San Pedros are great

[Louis Galipeau]

This is great news, I look forward to hearing more from you guys.

Here's a little something that everyone would enjoy:
http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/

These are podcasts to some notable speakers within the psychedelic community.

[Eric]

I've heard that certain shall we say government organizations keep track of san pedros and peruvian torch cacti that are being shiped through the mail. It makes me afraid.

[Mike]

Hello! this may be an unrelated post. I am very interested in all the products here as only a few things like KAVA or Salvia are common and found locally. But I want to try at least 15 items and thats a $400 shopping spree. It'd be nice to have a sampler pack for <50$ where I could try as many samples as I want and then I am more likely to come back and spend more!

[Alex Pollara]

First lunar eclipse in three years and I miss it, just my luck, those of you out further west might not, to many clouds on the east coast

[justin]

Has anyone seen the movie Renegade? I know Im a little behind timewise so please bear with me if this is old news.