I am not capable of answering the questions you asked.
There's this guy called James Arthur, who has created a religion around Soma. He does shaman workshops. He tells people that aliens spawned life on earth. Basically, I think he has confused the divine allegory. Unable to interpret the visions, he has taken them at face value and concluded - as religions did - that this is this and that is that.
I don't mean to conclude anything. In fact, I try not to. Sometimes I write down my theories, as if they are facts, then curse myself later for being impatient - like Arthur - and contributing to the misinformation about Soma.
I believe that Soma is the precursor to all relgions on Earth. The experience is so religious in nature, and bears so many striking similarities to religion, that it is almost indisputable. I quoted these passages because people tend to believe more in published material and it is very difficult to adovate the use of these mushrooms without sounding like a lunatic. Honestly I have little to no interest in reading the historical analysis of muscimol. I have the real thing. It's like reading a book about Jesus rather than having a conversation with him. I know more about this drug than anyone who is yet to consume it. Doesn't matter if they spend their entire lives researching it. The experience is more valuable than anything they could possibly come up with. I understand your hesistancy to believe. I wouldn't believe had I not experienced it. You cannot believe by proxy.
Good question. It baffles me as to how this drug is not popular. It is absolutely amazing. By far the strongest thing I've ever consumed, including DMT. There is nothing anything like it, in terms of the scope of it's effects. I don't think everyone is "supposed" to consume this drug. People who belong to established religions would find it threatening. The meaning behind almost all religions is marred by the religion itself. You ask why would they stop taking Soma, well... Why would they start believing in Christ as a man? Why are the allegorical aspects of religious belief forgotten about? Why do people take religion literally? James Arthur is the problem. He says in his writing, and his lectures, that he hates modern religions. But he is creating one. I don't mean to do the same. But, it's difficult to avoid.
The following is allegorical, I don't mean it literally. As I've said before, we lack the neccesary reference points to talk directly about the divine. So I've translated it for the purposes of illustration.
The universe is a code. In the beginning the code was simple. As "time" goes on, it becomes more and more complicated. Until it gets to the point where the code becomes conscious and is no longer aware that it is a code. What happened in the beginning of time, at the origins of the code, dictate what will happen at the end. It is so complicated that it is diffuclt to comprehend. We decide things, we have "free will", so the universe can't be a code, right? Maybe. Maybe our decisions are made for us. Everything that we have encountered in life, every conversation, every song we listened to, every dream - these all collect together and dictate what decisions we make. That is why we are like our parents. Because we are our parents. The code is also why we see patterns while hallucinating. This is the divine pattern. Or part of it. It is the fabric of the universe. Another possibility is that the code splinters off into parallel universes. Conscious thought and free will allow the code to replicate. There are an infinite number of ways I can live my life, given the choice to do so. And I live my life in every way. Somewhere else there is another me who made a different decision, slightly altering the code, and sending the universe off into a different direction. In the end we become one as everything, so it doesn't matter. There is no separation between one universe and another. Between parent and son. Between possum and human. We are all one and we will be one once again. I'm trying not to make any solid conclusions. I need to meditate on these experiences and repeat the experiment a hundred or so times. That way I can cross-reference the information I bring back and begin to theorize coherently about what I have seen and experienced. At the moment, all I have are pieces. It is very confusing.
As for why I would include a reference to Psilocybin mushrooms, they are related. I suspect that people were "meant" to consume Amanitas thousands of years ago. It was the popular drug back then. Because we needed belief. We needed religion. Upon becoming conscious, and therefore separating from the code, we needed some understanding of infinity, of life and death. Psilocybin is - I suspect - what we are "supposed to be" consuming after Muscaria. It is no co-incidence that people drink alcohol and take ecstasy and do not take Muscaria. We are programmed this way. But psilocybin is related. It reveals the universal code. I suspect it functions as a reminder of the divine. If that is all we need, then that is what we get. But, if it is no co-incidence that the world prefers chemical drugs to ancient drugs, it is also no co-incidence that I have come to consume Muscaria. All of the events of my life led me to this point. It is so unlikely, that it seems random. But it's not. I don't think it is, anyway. I believe I was destined to consume this mushroom. I believe that everyone is destined to do what they do. I believe nothing is co-incidence.
Recycled-urine Soma trip report, as requested:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/...is-The-Universal-Code?p=10673704#post10673704
