HI, MY NAME IS BOB.
THIS SITE IS HERE FOR THOSE OF US INTERESTED IN THE ANCIENT AYAHUASCA VINE USED IN SPIRIT QUESTS, PRIMARILY IN THE AMAZON, ALONG WITH OTHER MIND-EXPANDING PLANTS AND MUSHROOMS THAT HAVE, FROM ANCIENT TIMES, BEEN UBIQUITOUS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
SINCE LEARNING OF AYAHUASCA, I'VE BEEN VERY CURIOUS ABOUT THE AYAHUASCA EXPERIENCE, I.E., THE MYSTICAL EFFECTS OF AYAHUASCA AND WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS/SHARE EXPERIENCES WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE...
FROM THE TIME I WAS VERY YOUNG I HAVE HAD WHAT I WOULD CALL, AWAKENING EXPERIENCES ~LIKE MANY OF YOU~ AND DURING MY LATER TEEN YEARS, PSYCHEDELICS ~MAINLY LSD~ LED TO HINDUISM, BUDDHISM, ASSEMBLIES OF
GOD (bad), TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (good) ... ANANDA MARGA, KUNDALINI YOGA, LEARNING OF ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY,ETC.

I EVENTUALLY MET RAM DASS -
PYCHEDELIC EXPLORER, FORMER HARVARD PROFESSOR AND AUTHOR OF "BE HERE NOW"

WHEN I HAD FIRST READ BE HERE NOW IN '71, I BECAME AWARE THAT THERE WERE MORE PEOPLE THAN I HAD REALIZED WHO CAME AWAY FROM PSYCHEDELICS WITH THE SAME SORT OF MYSTICAL AWARENESS THAT I HAD FOUND MYSELF ~OUTSIDE OF MY CLOSE FRIENDS~ I HAD NO "BAD TRIPS" AND FOUND THERE WERE MANY OTHERS WHO DIDN'T....

I ALSO REALIZED I WASN'T ALONE IN MY THINKING ABOUT WHAT I HAD SEEN, SENSED & LEARNED FROM EXPERIMENTING WITH PSYCHEDELICS.
TODAY, MORE PROFOUNDLY THAN EVER, I'M AWARE THAT I LEARNED VERY LITTLE FROM TEACHERS --- I WAS ACTUALLY HURT MORE THAN HELPED... THAT AS HARD AS I ATTEMPTED TO LISTEN TO OTHERS, IT WAS MY OWN INNER SPIRIT THAT HAD THE MOST TO TEACH ME, FROM DIRECT EXPERIENCE; MANY TEACHERS HAD THEIR OWN AGENDAS, EVEN IF THEIR PURE INTENTION WAS TO SET YOU FREE... BUT THAT'S 'RELIGIOUS' ISSUES. THE TRUE TEACHERS ARE THE MYSTICS/SHAMANS AND THEY ARE THERE TO HELP WHEN WE'RE READY.
I AM GRATEFUL TO THOSE WHO WALKED THE PATH AHEAD OF US AND ATTEMPTED TO RELATE THEIR EXPERIENCES, REACHING FAR BACK INTO THE ANCIENTS. I BELIEVE TODAY, MORE ANSWERS LIE IN OUR ANCESTRAL PAST THAN WE REALIZE. BUT SINCE ALL OF OUR EXPERIENCES ARE BASED ON OUR INDIVIDUAL MINDSETS, OR KARMA, I CANNOT GIVE CREDIT FOR MY PERSONAL GROWTH, OR LACK OF GROWTH, TO ANYONE EXCEPT MYSELF, GUIDED BY INNER SELF, WHICH IS WHERE A GOOD TEACHER LEADS YOU... SO IN THAT RESPECT, I DEEPLY HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE PREPARED ME...
I WAS THE WEBMASTER OF RAM DASS'S WEBSITE FOR A WHILE AND THAT WAS A COOL ONLINE EXPERIENCE FOR THE MOST PART WHERE I MADE CONTACT WITH SOME VERY KIND, LOVING PEOPLE.

I GET FRUSTRATED AT TIMES WITH KARMA YOGA AS A TRUE PATH; IT IS A DIFFICULT ONE. MANY PEOPLE END UP GETTING USED... A LOT, IF THEY LET IT HAPPEN -- AND HINDUISM ALSO HAS THAT MECHANISM BUILT INTO ITS OUTER LIFE, AS -KARMA YOGA- COMES WITH ITS CONTROL FREAKS AND GUILT TRIPPERS. HAPPY TO THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING BECAUSE YOU ARE FREE FROM THAT NOW ALSO.
THOUGH TO BE CLEAR, DEEP HINDU PHILOSOPY IS FANTASTICALLY EVOLVED -ON THE MARK- CREATIVE THOUGHT AND ESOTERIC UNDERSTANDING
I FEEL TODAY, THAT IF WE GIVE FROM OUR HEARTS, WE FIND OUR TEACHERS THERE - IN OUR HEARTS, RATHER THAN ON A "PATH" (THIS IS A MYSTICAL JOURNEY), AND MANY 'SPIRITUAL TEACHERS' WOULD ROB YOU BLIND IF YOU'RE NOT LOOKING. ANYONE SEE THE BENNY HINN EXPOSE' ?

SO THANKS TO THOSE WHO HAVE BOLDLY CHALLENGED MATERIALIST SOCIETIES TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO SEARCH FOR THE MEANING OF EXISTENCE. IN PARTICULAR, THOSE WHO SHARED THEIR KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT PRETENSE AND HAVE NOT DELUDED THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN THINKING THAT THEY ARE MORE ADVANCED THAN ANY OF US OR HAVE TURNED THE USE OF PSYCHEDELICS INTO AN ONLINE EGO CIRCUS WITH THE ADVENT OF THE INTERNET - TO THE GOOD, HUMBLE AND HONEST, I HAVE ETERNAL RESPECT!

IN PARTICULAR I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK MY FIRST ANANDA MARGA MEDITATION TEACHER, RAVINDRA DUTTA (NOW W/O BODY) WHO WAS AN AMAZINGLY GREAT FRIEND AS WELL !
~~~NAMASCAR RAVINDRA~~~
IN THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS I DISCOVERED MANY ENLIGHTENING BOOKS AND FOLLOWED UP ON SEEKING OUT FURTHER INFORMATION FOUND IN THESE BOOKS.....
THE MOST FREE-ING AND ENLIGHTENING DISCOVERY WAS FINDING PROOF OF THE NON--HISTORICAL EXISTENCE OF NOT ONLY JESUS BUT OF ALL THE ARCHETYPES THAT WE HAVE ASSOCIATED WITH OUR CONNECTION TO GOD.
THIS DOES NOT MINIMIZE THE MYSTICISM OR SPIRITUALITY BEHIND THE MYTHS AND IN FACT, MANY TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL PRACTICES DO LEAD TO AN INNER JOURNEY - AS THE LATE, GREAT MYTHOLOGIST, JOSEPH CAMPBELL POINTED OUT - WHEN CATHOLICS TAKE COMMUNION OR HINDUS TAKE 'PRASAD'... AS IT ENTERS THEIR MOUTHS AND THEN DOWN THEIR THROATS, THEY ARE 'TURNING THEIR ATTENTION INWARDS', SEEING IN THEIR MINDS THE BODY OF CHRIST (CONSCIOUSNESS) GOING DOWN THEIR THROAT LEADING THEM TO THAT PLACE INSIDE - OF THE "CHRIST WITHN" -- THAT'S ONE SMALL EXAMPLE OF WHAT I HAD SEEN AS THE ESOTERIC SIDE OF CHRISTIANITY.

A PARADIGM SHIFT HAS OCCURED WITHIN ME NOW THAT I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT JESUS IS A MYTH BASED ON ANCIENT PAGAN MYSTERY RELIGIONS - WHOSE CENTRAL FIGURE WAS THE 'DYING AND RESURRECTING GODMAN'

THESE 'MYSTERY RELIGIONS' ABOUNDED IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AT THE TIME JESUS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN ALIVE - -- SEE THE BOOK BELOW/ CLICK ON LINK AND WATCH VIDEO CLIPS OF FINDINGS BY ONE OF THE AUTHORS, TIMOTHY FREKE - CLICK ON BOOK BELOW,

"THE JESUS MYSTERIES"
SUBTITLED:
"WAS THE ORIGINAL JESUS A PAGAN GOD? "
Timothy Freke / Peter Gandy

UPDATE: OCTOBER 2nd, 2007
IF YOU COME TO MY SITE AND DON'T LIKE THE FACT THAT I HAVE FOUND THAT IN HISTORY THERE NEVER EVER WAS A 'JESUS' AND ARE SO WRAPPED UP IN YOUR BELIEFS THAT IT PREVENTS YOU FROM SEEKING OUT THE TRUTH OF HISTORY, THEN PLEASE DON'T FRIEND REQUEST OR CONTACT ME. I HAVE NO TIME FOR IT.
RELIGIONS ARE PRISONS FOR YOUR MINDS... RELIGIONS ARE MAINLY HOW THIS WORLD IS 'CONTROLLED'.

...IF YOU DISAGREE WITH MY UNDERSTANDING PLEASE DO THE RESEARCH ON YOUR OWN AND IF YOU CONTACT ME, I'LL GIVE YOU A LIST OF BOOKS AND WEBSITES THAT WILL KEEP YOU EXTREMELY BUSY!

HERE'S A WEBSITE EXAMPLE:
( CLICK ON IT ) :
JESUSNEVEREXISTED DOT COM

UPON THAT DISCOVERY I FOUND MYSELF LOOKING OUT AT THE WORLD WITH NEW EYES AND WONDERING HOW FAR THE POSSIBILITIES CAN TAKE A HUMAN MIND. SO THIS IS ABOUT A SEARCH FOR MORE TRUTH - NOT ABOUT BELIEVING I KNOW THE TRUTH.... THAT'S ABOUT... EGO .......THAT SENSE OF WHO YOU BELIEVE YOURSELF TO BE, ETC. I AM MORE INTERESTED IN HEARING THE EXPERIENCES FROM THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN TO A NON-RELIGIOUS AYAHUASCA CEREMONY.

IN MY DISCOVERIES I CAME ACROSS THE BOOK ON WHICH THE CURRENT THEME (COSMIC SERPENT) HERE IS BASED...

'THE COSMIC SERPENT' ....
... A BOOK ABOUT THE AYAHAUSCA VINE USED MAINLY BY AMAZONIAN SHAMANS. IN ANCIENT TIMES DIFFERENT PLANTS HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO IN SACRED TEXTS. E.G., SOMA FROM THE RIG VEDA (VEDAS FROM ANCIENT INDIA). THERE HAVE BEEN OTHERS INCLUDING ONE CALLED 'HAOMA' AND IT IS MY BELIEF THAT THE INNER MYSTERY CEREMONIES PERFORMED BY THE PRIESTS OF THE ANCIENT MYSTERY RELIGIONS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN INCLUDED SOME TYPE OF PSYCHEDELIC/HALLUCINARI EXPERIENCE (HALLUCINARI _LATIN_ROOT= 'ALUCINARE - MEANING -> 'TO WANDER IN ONE'S MIND') INVOLVING ONE OF MANY TYPES OF PYSCHOTROPIC PLANTS AND/OR MUSHROOMS.

THE THESIS OF 'THE COSMIC SERPENT'ASSERTS THAT SHAMANS HAVE FOUND A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE AYAHUASCA VINE AND COMMINICATION WITH NATURE THRU INGESTING AYAHUASCA. THE FINDINGS ARE REMARKABLE AND SUGGEST THAT ALL LIFE HAS 'MIND' OR CONSCIOUSNESS AND THAT OUR DNA IS THE LINK OF COMMUNICATION. THIS MAY SOUND FAR FETCHED BUT FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE SERIOUS SEEKERS, THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS MATTER. THE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT WE CAN, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF PARTICULAR PLANT DERIVITIVES, EXPERIENCE DIRECT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE DNA OF OTHER MATTER AND THAT MATTER THAT EXISTS WITHIN US. THE ANCIENTS LEFT US WITH REFERENCES TO THIS POSSIBILITY -- PRIMARILY THE COMMONLY TWISTED SNAKES... [CLICK ON IMAGE]

(AS YOU SEE AS A MEDICAL SYMBOL) ....WHICH REFLECT THE DOUBLE HELIX OF DNA.

DURING THE AYAHAUSCA CEREMONY, MANY MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY SEE SNAKES (HALLUCINATE), CRAWL OVER THEM AROUND THEM UNDER THEM INSIDE THEM AND VICE VERSA - SOUNDS PRETTY INTENSE! SO THE PURPOSE OF THIS PLACE IS TO MAKE CONTACTS, ESPECIALLY WITH THOSE WHO HAVE TAKEN AYAHUASCA . OF COURSE, THOSE WHO HAVE USED OTHER PSYCHEDELICS OR ARE HERE TO READ AND LEARN; YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME HERE~!
FEEL FREE TO MESSAGE ME...
I CHECK MY MESSAGES ON A REGULAR BASIS, SO ALL'S COOL.
PRETTY FUN TOPIC, HUH ?
WHAT IS AYAHUASCA AND WHY GO TO THE AMAZON FOR THE CEREMONY?
CLICK HERE
SO YOU KNOW, AYAHUASCA IS NOT ILLEGAL, NOT IN THE AMAZON AND ON FEBRUARY 21st OF 2006 [SEE ARTICLE ON THIS PAGE DOWN ON RIGHT SIDE] THE U.S. SUPREME COURT UPHELD THE LEGALITY OF AYAHUASCA USED IN THIS COUNTRY FOR CEREMONIAL REASONS (AS IS THE LAW HERE FOR PEYOTE FOR THOSE INDIAN TRIBES WHO USE PEYOTE AS A SACRAMENT AS PART OF THEIR SPIRITUAL PRACTICES). THIS SITE ISN'T ABOUT ABUSING DRUGS... I'VE BEEN IN RECOVERY FOR 21 YEARS - MEDICAL MARIJUANA IS NOT ADDICTIVE NOR IS A GATEWAY DRUG; ACTUALLY, ALCOHOL IS THE GATEWAY DRUG...

WHAT IF..... THE SHAMANS AND THE ANTHOPOLOGIST (JEREMY NARBY) WHO WROTE "THE COSMIC SERPENT" , ARE RIGHT ??WHAT IF.... WE COULD COMMUNICATE ON A DNA LEVEL??

THAT LEAVES ROOM FOR VERY VIVID IMAGINATIONS.... THIS IS A SITE FOR CONNECTING WITH OTHERS INTERESTED IN AYAHUASCA AND HOPEFULLY DISCOVERING A DEEPER MEANING OF ALL LIFE - NOT JUST HUMAN -- TO DISCUSS W/EACH OTHER AND POSSIBLY DISCOVER THE ~INNER MYSTERIES~ THAT THE ANCIENTS REFERRED TO --- NAMASTE'

NOTE: THERE IS AN ASSOCIATION WITH A FEW AYAHUASCA ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR OWN BLEND OF CHRISTIAN MYTHOLOGY, INTERPRETED THRU THEIR AYAHUASCA EXPERIENCE.
(THERE'S MUCH INFO ON THIS AND YOU CAN DO A SEARCH ON THE WEB AND ALSO CHECK WITH THE AYAHUASCA FORUM ON THE RIGHT COLUMN) -- Click Here (offsite-new window will open) and scroll to "Modern Interest in Ayahuasca" SO IF THAT BOTHERS YOU AND/OR YOU ARE AGNOSTIC OR ATHEIST, JUST SEE IT AS THE SET/SETTING IN THEIR CULTURE ... THEIR 'OUTER MYSTERIES' - THEIR MYTHS.

PLEASE ATTEMPT TO SEE THIS SITE AS INTENDED: A MIXTURE OF VIEWS WHICH, IF FUSED AND WELL INTENDED, CAN EQUATE TO PEACE - AND LOOK FOR THE WAYS YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE WAY OF PEACE
FIND YOUR OWN WAYS TO PEACE; BE IT THRU WHATEVER METHOD WORKS FOR YOU ...
SEE THE RESEMBLANCE OF MUSIC, ART, POETRY AND MYTHOLOGY
( AND IGNORANCE OF MYTHOLOGY ), AND HOW THESE ARTS CAN BE USED IN THE NOBELEST WAYS; TO OPEN OUR 'DOORS OF PERCEPTION' TO THE EARTH AND THOSE WHO INHABIT IT - TO GAIN INSIGHT FROM THESE ARTS, AND IN TURN THEY CAN BE A CONDUIT OF CHANGE FOR THE MASSES TO EASILY RELATE AND TRANSITION, CHANGING THEIR/OUR COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS...
AS WE CREATE NEW MYTHS
~~~ NEW MYTHS OF PEACE ~~~
* MUSICIANS / ARTISTS / POETS *
WE REALLY, REALLY NEED YOUR HELP NOW TO CREATE A MORE PEACEFUL WORLD. NOT SOMETIME TOMORROW. WE MAY NOT BE HERE... REALLY. THANKS