Mushroom Fragments by Shaman doing some computer clean-up today...here are some notes and messages from recent mushroom trips that i thought others might enjoy...there are even a couple of laughs... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is my challenge. I pray for strength and courage. I promise to hold nothing back, to be willing to look at all of myself. I congratulate myself for taking this difficult step. I offer my heart mind body and soul without reservation to the ancient mystery of the mushroom, believing that this is my duty, my responsibility to myself, to those I love, to my art and to the world. I ask for patience and understanding from the mushroom. I ask for mercy and gentleness and love. I ask for healing, vision and strength. I ask for the teaching to live right. I give thanks to all those who have sent the prayers that has enabled this work…and all those who have gone before me into this mystery. This is what I know. This is what I can do. This is my gift to the world and to the mystery. I hereby surrender and offer myself to you without qualification. Please be gentle with me. Courage. Thank you for being there, thank you for revealing yourself to me. Thank you for your love and mercy Then…there is a period of purely shamanic contact…not much to be said about it…wonderful…terrifying…unspeakable…after a time, Messages begin to come through: Your life is a sacred thing, not to be profaned or devoted to the shallow. Be not weak. Honor the ancestors who labored and died to put you here. Honor them by honoring the moments you have left here by living them, to the highest possible good you can perceive. To this be true, and happiness will follow One must use what one learns on these trips, one must take the good advice offered, to the best of one's ability in order to be able to keep coming back here. This isn’t about “fun” or “escape”. Just Be Here Now...it was never truer. OCCUPY the moment and space you exist in! Own the moment, and you will radiate complete satisfaction and confidence. Open your heart to this world...to all in this world. Be good natured, things may be about to fall apart in the environment. .. As much as you forgive yourself so the universe will forgive you. You are doing well with your life, going in the right direction. Only the few are able to to this. You are one of these. You need not brag about it, but know it, always remember it. Part if it is like being french-kissed by the universe. Be Fearless...but don't be stupid. No one can know the future because the future is malleable. You can save yourselves, if you can stop enjoying and destroying yourselves so much. Tattoo this inside your eyelids: Love Life. Be Here Now. Do Right. Work Hard. Prayers: Give us wisdom, even if we must remember it ourselves. Give us love, even if we must feed the fires ourselves.. Give us God...even if we must creat her ourselves. Are you watching all this mama-mushroom? Are you watching all your children trying to make sense of their hearts? Day by day...step by step. Trust the destinies, trust love. BOTH / AND! - Does everythng have to be either / or? Can’t it be both / and once in a while?! The whole world is warping slowly into the flow...we can’t be brittle, and we can’t abandon the ones who got us here. Neither can we reject the new ones approaching. Let nature take it’s course. One can assist the process, but never try to manipulate. Freeze no one out. Give love everywhere, just let it flow. Be tactful, be careful...and don’t underestimate anyone...wait for the right openings…then speak… Be good to yourself. Mushroom implied we now need to earn its support and allegiance and respect by stopping the landslide we’ve got going that is rolling toward the brink...we’re still fat and happy and in denial here in America...and it’s a time when we should be lean, flexible, cautious yet friendly, vigilant, both against danger and for opportunities for understanding Then, for a long time, it seemed, she just rocked me like a little baby I saw the humor in the buddha… Don’t be anyone’s tool…and never allow anyone to make you lay down your tools. I was the victim of a cult…a cult of one…I was the only one in it…the cult of th ego.. With no change of scenery heaven can become hell… vice versa, of course… Always remember…a movie is just a long series of still photographs, viewed very quickly. Be pleasant to everyone…you never know who’s packing a gun… To eat a sweet, ripe peach on a glorious summer day by the ocean, next to someone you love…this is as good as one can hope it to get…. Every problem and challenge can be an opportunity for greater closeness, love and understanding Believe in the sweetness of your soul and the sweetness of your life and that sweetness will show in your art…all sweetness in art is a reflection of the sweetness in the soul if the artist…without being in touch with your own inner sweetness, it will never manifest is your art… be love-drunk…be the lover-boy…love yourself… coming down… drifting in space… treading water… marking time… last words from the mushroom: “You need to do this more often!” wow