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ϟ Free Tee Friday!

threadless:

It Grows on Trees by John Tibbott

This week’s Free Tee Friday is for all of you music lovers out there! This beautiful tee won the Able Made “Amp It Up” Design challenge, and 25% of sale from this tee will go to Vh1 Save The Music Foundation!

Reblog this post for your chance to win this tee in your size!

samsaranmusing:

 A startling new theory suggests that endogenous (naturally occurring in the brain) dimethyltryptamine (DMT) which up until now had no known purpose is directly related to our perception of reality according to a 2008 medical study. This chemical widely used in native shamanic cultures in the western hemisphere as a “doorway” to the spirit realm and referred to in the west as the “spirit molecule” is thought to weave the input we perceive from our senses into what we experience as “waking consciousness”.

If this theory is correct then in essence what we perceive as reality is an elaborate hallucination. When this system malfunctions it produces altered states of “reality” which clash with our common experience. In one sense schizophrenics and others suffering from delusions are simply experiencing an altered reality which makes sense to them but seems delusional to us.

☯ Samsaran ☯ 

(The link goes to erowid.org because they have the full pdf of the medical study. The actual medical journal is behind a pay wall.)