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Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-, was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and greater Persian cultures. It is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda, which contains many hymns praising its energizing or intoxicating qualities. In the Avesta, Haoma has an entire Yasht dedicated to it.

It is described as prepared by pressing juice from the stalks of a certain mountain plant, which has been variously hypothesized to be a psychedelic mushroom, cannabis, peganum harmala, or ephedra. In both Vedic and Zoroastrian tradition, the drink is identified with the plant, and also personified as a divinity, the three forming a religious or mythological unity.

In the Vedas, Soma is portrayed as sacred and as a god (deva). The god, the drink and the plant probably referred to the same entity, or at least the differentiation was ambiguous. In this aspect, Soma is similar to the Greek ambrosia (cognate to amrita); it is what the gods drink, and what made them deities. Indra and Agni are portrayed as consuming Soma in copious quantities. In vedic mythology, the eagle Aquila brought soma to Indra during her battle with the serpent Hydra. The consumption of Soma by human beings was probably under the belief that it bestowed divine qualities on them.

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"Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul." -- Carl Jung


I am a seeker. A seeker of truth and justice. A seeker of adventures and new experiences. A seeker of new friends and loved ones. A seeker of beauty and compassion. I am a seeker of divine love.

When I was a child I felt a yearning to learn about what was happening out in the world. In the years that followed I have traveled the world on a pilgrimage to witness the the epic drama unfolding here on planet earth. What I have found has been so astoundingly beautiful and hearbreakingly sad. The complexity of existence so astounding that I find myself on my knees in awe. Through all the dreams and nightmares of existence I have begun to recognize a grand order in all the chaos. Perfection at the core of all being. The grand unfolding of consciousness.

We human beings, I believe will recognize the true nature of our existence on this planet. We must do so in order for us to truly recognize the work we are here to do. Together we will change the world. Together we can move hand in hand in to the first golden age of humankind. It will be the age of awareness and sensitvity. An age where our children will be taught the truth of things and the people will recognize the consequences of their actions. An age where spirit is one with the earth and the development of consciousness is an an honored endeavour. Indeed that is what we are here to do. To develop consciousness. We are the neural net, the nervous system, each of us doing our part to connect the synapses in the great global brain. I am humbled in awe to witness the grand unfolding, the grand maturation of our planet.

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