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  1. Inner power for outer gain

    Yeah if you are doing external then you want the yin-yang dynamics going on. So doing standing horse with the thunder palms or sword fingers. Or do moving of yin and yang with the knees really bent -- or not -- depending on how steep the practice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_1sPDntOTs I do the pick axe and hand saw on ten acres of buckthorn for my work and external exercise. Exercise does help build up the qi energy but it's not the same as doing the yin/yang exercises. So otherwise everyone would be energy masters. haha. Still the martial arts movies has people training doing "normal" exercises that then translate into martial arts moves. But not quite as subtle as building up qi energy. Chunyi Lin had to do two hours non-stop of the pole or horse stance at the Shaolin Monastery -- two hours non-stop every day for three months - no moving. Thighs flat. You can see that in the Shaolin documentary on youtube - but he says moving of yin and yang is the standard foundation for the active external exercises -- so he has people do it for an hour non-stop sometimes.
  2. Chunyi Lin is teaching workshops on the East and West Coast

    Like what? haha. Please tell us the truth!
  3. Behind the words

    Seth stop making up stuff about me. Can you provide any quotes to back up your claims and accusations? You're saying I wrote things like I claimed I was an omniscient god -- which is a ridiculous thing to say. Then you say I wrote some post about being depressed -- wow that's news to me! haha. I've always been super happy my whole life. So now you say I was not only depressed but depressed for a long time? haha. Nope. Sorry you must have me confused with someone else. If anything I've been too happy. Always laughing and smiling. Now you claim I was struggling with depression and wrote some post about it? haha. Can you maybe provide some quote about these things I wrote about being a depressed God? haha. Oh I'm sorry -- I read now you say you went through panic attacks this year. Seth -- sorry you went through panic attacks. I've never gone through a panic attack so I don't even know what that is like. All I can recommend for you is full lotus practice -- it's simple, powerful and very grounding and it's not based on any psychological projections. But if you need to just get a phone healing from Chunyi Lin -- he'll treat your right! haha.
  4. Behind the words

    Thanks for sharing Seth! haha. You're implying that I am accusing someone of being a perv because I disagree with them. You have stated that someone should not accuse someone else of being a perv because the person disagrees with them. So that seems to imply that I have done this. This is logically incorrect. I disagree with you Seth but I don't call you a perv. haha. I disagree with people all the time but rarely do I call someone a perv. Even more Seth I agree with you that someone should not call someone a perv just because they disgree with them. As I have stated most people can not read the energy of others online. Then you state that my energy drops because I don't like what he is saying not because he is energetically trying to "suck me off." O.K. Seth -- again this is logically incorrect. I can both not like what he is saying and he can energetically be trying to suck me off. So your statement really has no logical force to it. But you are also implying that I think someone is energetically "trying" to suck me off. Again this is also a misunderstanding. The perv does not have any choice in the matter -- they are "hard-wired" as a perv. It's the original addiction but like any other addiction (which are all based on the original addiction btw) the person believes they are "trying" or they believe they have a "choice." In fact the perv does not have a choice because it's from an electromagnetic blockage. So again you misunderstand the situation. Then you say I am deluded because people can not make someone's energy do something else unless the victim is unstable or the manipulator is moderately skilled. Again this is a logically incorrect statement -- I am talking about reading someone's energy behind their words online -- most people can not do this. Apparently you can't do this either. haha. Unfortunately pervs are "moderately skilled" but that does not mean their victims are "unstable." You have stated I am deluded which implies that I am unstable. Since I have read the perv energy that does not mean I am a victim -- but it does mean that I am not silent about it. I have voiced my opinion and I have taken the necessary action of my own energy practice. Are people victims of pervs regularly? Unfortunately yes and those victims are not unstable. So don't blame the victim Seth -- that is morally wrong. The victim should be helped out instead. To state that a sex vampire is "highly trained" is incorrect. Let's say someone is forced to be a sex slave in their youth -- then that will make the person hard-wired as a perv. Gurdjieff discusses this as the Number One person. He calls them a lost cause because they are hard-wired as a perv. Again they can not help it - -their electromagnetic essence is stuck in their lower chakra with their fixation on the male external ejaculation. Of course the perv will try to hide this but if a person can read their energy with the pineal gland then it can not be hidden. Sitting in full lotus for two hours non-stop every day is the epitome of stability. haha. Whether people see me as an authority or not is up to them. I just post my opinions online in the service of free information exchange. I say what my pineal gland energy reads. Yes it's radical. Yes it's controversial. haha. For example consider this thread on realitysandwich.com where I out the "spiritual" writer as a perv. Again I was just reading his energy. http://www.realitysandwich.com/sorcerers_corner_castanedas_romance Sure it was controversial but I felt obligated to voice my opinion in the service of what I perceive to be the truth. Seth though I want you to understand that you can call me deluded and unstable all you want -- because I embrace people freely expressing their opinions. I don't expect you to understand me. As Slavoj Zizek states -- this is the great mystery of psychology -- the Lacanian Unreal of the Void -- without getting into all the linguistic terms he uses about the signified, etc. But it's exactly this ability to know that no one can understand anyone else -- that true meaning is actually this void. There is a symptom that covers up true meaning -- a traumatic symptom. When this traumatic symptom is revealed it causes a shock to the system and people freak out and then they quickly cover up this traumatic symptom. This revealing process is radical and is called the "vanishing mediator" by Zizek. It's a rare moment of truth that then is symbolically covered up again. The truth is not expressed in words usually - not in the normal sense of words -- but rather as a psychological symptom -- a word that is a projection or a symbol of something else. This is often true in music -- when a song gets in our head if we can remember the words then the words will reveal the symptom. In other words the SOUND as music is the secret to our subconscious and the sound as music is the secret language of emotions. This sound as music will then reveal the secret meaning of words -- if we remember the lyrics. There is a book about this called the Hidden Melody by Theodore Reik -- when he was in Vienna with Freud and Brahms. haha. So Seth the truth of reality is LOVE of the heart only this love gets covered up by surface blockages of energy. If we sit in full lotus then the blockages get transformed. The blockages and transformations are constantly going on -- the energy is constantly being changed -- but this original love-bliss of the deep heart or the soul as the thymus remains hidden yet unchanged. It gets expressed through the pineal gland and then this pineal gland transduces the energy around us. People can make various claims online and people can choose to believe them or not. Personally I rely on reading people's energy behind the words. Words are easy to fake. Words go back to the original human conspiracy as anthropologist Christopher Knight calls it - his book Blood Relations is all about this. The origin of language is based on the female sex strike through menstrual synchronization with the moon. Language evolved for long distant hunting but if the males didn't bring back meat then they didn't get sex from the females. But the females had to synchronize their menstrual cycle as a sham signal called Darwinian Deception. In other words normally when primate females are in estrus they are red but for humans this is a sham signal -- and the male then knows that the female is not fertile when menstruating. So when synchronized then this means no females are fertile for sex if the males don't bring home meat. This way the females ensure that the males are faithful in their long distant hunting to bring home meat. I go more into the details in my book that can be downloaded at http://naturalresonancerevolution.blogspot.com My point is the original word -- this symptom of fertility -- was a lie. A sham. But it was also a means of solidarity by the females to ensure that the males were not pervs. haha. This language is linked to the lunar pineal gland energy that then also became covered-up -- and the connection was lost. So human words really don't express the original energy behind them.
  5. Behind the words

    I like the Greek word Thymus for soul. Thymus Therapy http://www.thymustherapy.com/ The word "thymus" is derived from the ancient Greek "thymos" and refers to ... According to them, the thymos was the seat of the soul,
  6. My first full lotus experiences

    Well today's two hour full lotus session was interesting because I had some stomach pain and I thought maybe I got it from my niece since she needed my help this morning. O.K. so then I thought how I might have sucked in her sickness. I hoped she was o.k. now. I remembered how I had sucked in people's sickness before -- like when this one dude said he had scabies and my qi energy was really strong and then he said he was fine now and then I had something - not scabies but mites. So maybe he actually had mites. Anyway so then I just kept sitting in full lotus and the stomach pain went away and I forgot about it and my energy kept building up. Then I heard my sister come home and so my niece had her mom again. But then they said they were going into the city -- so I thought that's great that my niece most feel good and maybe I had sucked in her sickness so now she is fine now. She never said she was sick to me but I didn't know why else I would have felt the stomach pain. So then right before I finished the two hours my niece and my sister return and I hear my niece crying. Now normally I would have then just "flexed my pineal gland" and shot energy into my niece through the ceiling and that would have healed my niece to stop her crying. By this time I had forgotten about my stomach pain and the possibility that I had sucked sickness out of my niece. So I thought that maybe she had gotten in a fight with her mom and she was just cranky. Normally she would not be cranky but again since I stopped doing my pineal gland transmissions then the females got cranky easily. But they've been o.k. overall as they learn to sublimate their energy more. O.K. so then I finished my meditation of two hours in full lotus and I went to take a shower and then when I got out my sister said that my niece has the stomach flu and that she threw up. But when my sister told me I just said: Uh, Huh, because I already knew that she had the stomach flu! I knew it because I had the stomach flu symptoms but then they had gone away during my meditation!! But the strange this is when I was with my niece she never said she had the stomach flu nor did she say she wasn't feeling well etc. So the only way I knew it was when right after being with her I started feeling stomach pain and then it went away during the full lotus meditation. So then my sister warned me about eating any left over food from my niece because they all know that I don't like to waste food. haha. On the other hand it's a strange concept to think that I can just suck in someone else's sickness and transform it and heal it. I mean I wouldn't dare say that to my sister nor my mom because they wouldn't believe me. haha. The other issue is that obviously you wouldn't want to suck in someone's sickness if it is more serious like cancer, etc. But then the chi energy is to create a field of protection around you. It's just since my niece was home without my sister then I had to babysit her before I could do my morning two hour full lotus session so my chi energy field wasn't as strong yet. This dynamic will continue then -- taking in her sickness and transforming it and creating chi to protect myself - all in contrast to me just intentionally transmitting chi into my niece to heal her. As Chunyi Lin said I should instead focus on building up my chi energy and storing it in the lower tan tien. Still the energy flows out of me -- dissipates -- when people need it and also the sickness of others gets sucked into me. So then just keep sitting in full lotus. haha.
  7. Practice full time

    Actually when I did my intensive training I did it for my masters degree credit! So I was working only one or two days a week with minimal interaction with people and then I could focus on studying meditation texts. I was able to afford a special diet from a nearby cooperative and vegetarian organic restaurant. I didn't need to exercise much so I was able to store up my energy. I was able to take regular classes from a real qigong master who does the shakti shen laser transmission -- Chunyi Lin. He did the seven week cave meditation of no food, no water and no sleep -- which is mentioned in the article on http://qigongmaster.com Chunyi Lin gives the name Master Zhang and also the same mountain. So I'm assuming he did his seven week cave meditation there. chunyi Lin said that the master would check up on them in their cave -- the master would use his third eye to check on them to make sure they weren't sleeping!! Anyway it was later hinted to me strongly to get a different job and to not post online, etc. in order to continue my intensive qigong training. I also looked everywhere I could online for a monastery or other master in another country where I could do full time meditation. To be honest most monasteries are not geared toward serious meditation but rather geared towards rituals. A lot of buddhist monasteries now are "controlled" by the citizens who are not meditation experts so the focus is on their donation money going to the monks to do service work, job training, charity, and reciting religious texts, etc. It's very difficult to find a real energy master these days. Then they usually only train one or two people to also be energy masters. So then, of course, you have to qualify to be a real student. haha. The other thing is that if your energy does get very strong then it has to be controlled because the spiritual and the mundane do not mix well -- so people will freak out about your energy since they don't understand, etc. So actually it's the real master who can go back into society and be able to skillfully not freak people out, etc. haha. Master Wang, Liping is another great example. I think Shaolin Monastery does sometimes take Westerners although I'm not sure. I now there's been some people posting here who live in China and have trained with Taoist monks, etc. But again to find a real energy master is rare, even in China. Chunyi Lin says he trained with Master Yao at Shaolin and Master Yao also lite paper on fire -- with his eyes -- and healed Chunyi Lin's wife of cancer and then demonstrated changing colors on the inside of bananas, etc. haha. But I have never seen any mention of Master Yao other than from Chunyi lin. So I think some of the real energy masters stay out of the public's eye. Still if you get your energy strong enough then you can sit in full lotus for four hours non-stop at night and then you'll need less sleep. That's how Wang, Liping and also Chunyi Lin do their training while in society. I did the week long bigu fast - just taking a half glass of water - that's how I ended my intensive training and then I took the Level 3 retreat from Chunyi Lin at the end of my bigu fast. I had really strong electromagnetic fields and say shen ghosts and then had an Emptiness or nirvikalpa spacetime vortex experience. I also healed my mom of a serious leg condition and then I accidentally pulled this old lady's spirit out of the top of her head without touching her. She bawled non-stop for at least 15 minutes. Still she understand that I had good intentions -- I just made a mistake since I pulled the energy blockage out of the top center of her head. haha. I looked into Nepal and it seems there's restrictions there -- it's mainly just "retreats" that are for beginner meditation sessions. The monasteries are not open to Westerners it seems unless you know the language, etc. Similarly you can't live in India -- unless you travel there and then return later and apply for a longer visa, etc. Then you have to renew visas every year. I looked into moving to Burma as a monk -- but they use slave labor for real and all the monks who protest are in jail. So then the monasteries have to cooperate with the military regime. Then the monastery I was going through did not practice real strong meditation and the monk I was living with was a perv! So that's another issue - I've read about Westerners going to Thailand and being chased by perv monks! Also in Thailand the employed join the monasteries and so there are gangs in the monasteries of fake monks -- harrassing the real monks.
  8. Behind the words

    Censored.
  9. New Body

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  10. New Body

    That's page 90, the end of chapter eight of Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality. Oh yeah you're an expert on the book Taoist Yoga. haha. Hilarious. http://www.mediafire.com/?1owotofjjzr Better read the book again!
  11. New Body

    That's page 90, the end of chapter eight of Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality.
  12. New Body

    Chunyi Lin trained since 1980 but he came to the U.S. in 1993 or so. He returned back to China for maybe a year or two. Not sure if he trained during then - probably. Basically according to "Taoist Yoga" you progress to the week long bigu fast to "lay the foundation" -- I did that training but didn't quite finish it. Because even at that stage you want personal supervision. The energy builds up really fast if you are training right and accelerates in intensity. So then the next level is the seven week long fast -- no water, no food, no sleep. Chunyi Lin did that. He mentions this master and mountain where also there is the seven week fast cave meditation -- http://qigongmaster.com That Master Zhang even comes to the U.S. to teach also. It only took me six months to build up to the week long fast to open the third eye. Chunyi Lin said I had an enlightenment experience. I didn't keep training though intensively - the energy was too powerful and people around me were freaking out, etc. So the main thing is to find a teacher who has the skill to guide you in the energy and it's really rare to find a very high level teacher. If you can find one then you have to be accepted as a student and most teachers just personally supervise one or two other people to become qigong masters.
  13. New Body

    Chunyi Lin has reached it. I don't know anyone else who has -- not personally. Others would include Wang, Liping and Master Nan, Huai-chin probably. Master Zhang also of http://qigongmaster.com and a few others on the planet. It's not time as much as who teaches you and how well you train.
  14. Practice full time

    http://qigongmaster.com -- it will cost you a few grand just to do the beginning training there. If you're good maybe you can do the seven week cave full lotus meditation taking no food, no water and no sleep.
  15. Behind the words

    Cool quote -- yeah I was thinking that about Chunyi Lin as well. I even told him that I felt great love for him. My first transmission from Chunyi Lin was in his Level 1 class the first night. My girlfriend picked me up and I was thinking -- gee the bliss-love I felt from chunyi Lin was better than any sex I've had. haha. But I also saw light energy -- I mean chunyi Lin is doing a top down transmission -- shen light to chi energy.
  16. Behind the words

    Reading energy online is awkward because it's pretty difficult to tell people the energy right when you read it. haha. Someone commented about females changing the energy. Yes I can read female jing energy as I've commented. Chunyi Lin though says not to have crushes or whatever. I mean I sit in full lotus at the computer as much as possible and then I sublimate the female jing energy but it is experienced as orgasmic. haha. On the other I also pick up male perv energy and this is the opposite -- it's like the worst kind of attempt to suck me off. So if I pick up a perv then I avoid the person because it's such a visceral negative energy that it's the last thing I want to experience again. It may take hours of full lotus to reverse a perv attack online. Sometimes though if a perv is claiming to be some spiritual teacher or is publishing writing, etc. then I will out the perv. In that case the perv, obviously, gets irate. haha. It is dangerous to do this. Oh well -- I just stay in full lotus and then the energy will correct itself and the blockages will get transformed and the energy will recharge, etc. The other thing though is that most people don't seem to be able to read this energy -- so there was a perv lurking on taobums and that's why I left before. I never said who it was directly but I gave such strong hints that it was obvious who I was talking about. But then just talking about such things then amplifies and attracts them. So that's the other issue about energy -- sometimes silence is better. For example if someone says something to me and it's obviously not true -- it's an excuse for something else, an attempt at a cover-up -- I just make a low "uh huh" response. haha. Like it's filled with sarcasm but also humor -- like I am laughing back at the absurdity. I mean people will say words but the intention will be the opposite. I have mentioned how this happened to me online -- a female with strong jing energy emailed me with nice words but the anger energy was so strong that I fasted for three days in full lotus to transform the email energy. haha. Then I had this amazingly strong internal climax that was her strong email anger energy that was really repressed sex energy now turned into love energy. All that covered-up in a nice brief email. So then it's also strange to go past the lower emotions -- I mean when the heart chakra really opens up then there is strong love after the repeated internal climaxes -- strong mutual love -- but there is also strong heart break from physical separation. The heart electromagnetic chi energy is a physical attraction like a magnet. So this lower emotional "over excitement" of heart love and heart break also has to be transcended to build up the chi energy even stronger to open up the third eye. This is best described by the femme fatale phenomenon. I'm sure a lot of guys have met some female they really fell for and then their heart was broken. Actually I had a girlfriend like this -- my last girlfriend and then after pondering this I call it the "alpha female" response. So it's not exactly limited to energy online but it does exist. I mean the "alpha female" is the "love and leave 'em types" and the thing is that after so many internal climaxes by the female she will then open up her pineal gland to go past all the lower emotions -- so the alpha female comes off as cold as ice. But really the "alpha female" is going around initiating males to be real men -- initiating them past heart break. Camille Paglia discusses this in her tome "Sexual Personae." Chunyi Lin says that love is the real focus of the energy healing and the energy power. Gurdjieff calls this the Large Accumulator of the emotional center. Chunyi Lin says that when he encounters someone with a deep blockage then in response he needs to go deeper into his heart to clear out the other person's blockage. So the Ch'an Master book by George Crane, Bones of My Master -- he focuses on compassion. How the sadness of the lungs slows down to increase the heart over-excitement and this increases the chi energy. Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality describes this lung sadness slowing down breathing to increase the heart chi process. So I think the lower emotional energy actually just keeps deepening. Michael Winn says he was concerned Mantak Chia was teaching astral travel before fusion of the five elements was mastered. Taoist Yoga says if astral travel is done too early the shen spirit light energy is not strong enough so there is dizziness created by a space time vortex -- this indicates the kidney energy is still too weak since ringing in the ears is also kidney energy. I had this happen to me when I was doing my intensive qi training. The rainbow vortex of the DMT energy converts the jing kundalini energy into chi as the heart chakra emits the OHM sound -- I had this happen to me after being inspired by http://realitysandwich.com folks describing their DMT experiences -- so I tried it in full lotus third eye qigong style. So that was my deepest online energy experience -- because of my online energy transfers I did psychotropic plants like Salvia, etc. to test against the qigong third eye training.
  17. http://www.springforestqigong.com/open_your_heart_-_change_your_world.htm
  18. What Is Non-Duality ?

    Well he keeps commenting so obviously all is not lost. haha. More specifically the philosophy of nondualism is from the Brahmin caste which relies on mind yoga due to its protection by the Warrior Caste. So the Brahmin priests are supposed to do a three day ritual purification if they even see a female. Similarly the Brahmins rely on separation from the masses to practice their nondualist mind yoga. Mind yoga is the most difficult path but it also relies the greatest hierarchical structure for it to be successful. That's precisely why nondualism is so attractive to the white males of the U.S. haha. Nondualism also relies on patriarchy and the logic of nondualism is symmetric - -without a true understanding of complementary opposites. This is why Master Nan, Huai-chin and Bill Bodri state in their book Measuring Meditation that Ramana Maharshi did not achieve complete enlightenment -- because the body channels must also be emptied out into consciousness as well. Traditionally nondualism can not be practiced until nirvikalpa samadhi is achieved and this means, energetically, that a person should be able to sit in full lotus for two hours in ease, with the body filled with electromagnetic fields. The person should also be able to go without food and water, converting jing into chi. In which case all this need to pontificate would be silly. haha.
  19. Grounding Techniques Tai Chi

    Full lotus grounds. Just ask Wang Liping. haha. Do as much as you want. Have fun.
  20. Pillows!

    The recommended sleeping position is on the right side with the bent right arm supporting the head -- the thumb of the right hand goes under the pillow -- under the check bone or under the ear. Then the right leg also bends to support the top left leg. add more pillows if needed or thicker pillows, etc.
  21. O.K. I have a little story to share. This summer I discovered amanita muscaria mushroom aka fly agaric mushroom in our forest which was an amazing find for Minnesota. Of course I researched it before ingesting it but I did a nine hour full lotus trip on the mushroom and I blogged on it. OH there was a thread on this mushroom and shamanism here: http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/16827-the-shamanic-origins-of-christmas/page__p__233151__hl__agaric__fromsearch__1entry233151 O.K. first of all there is a great documentary about amanita muscaria was the secret story behind not only Santa Claus - yes! -- but also esoteric religion in the West: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnvEHObMMH4 The documentary is maybe boring or too speculative for those who have not taken the amanita muscaria mushroom. But since I knew the experience I am not at all surprised that it would be given a crucial role behind religion. so I searched it for Taoism. http://sites.google.com/site/delawareteasociety/a-toad-on-the-moon-or-a-brief-speculation-on-chinese-psychoactive-toad-venoms This is fascinating. The Reishi mushroom may have been a code for Amanita Muscaria as it was called the toad-mushroom and then toads have DMT. Amanita does not have DMT but it does increase your DMT levels by working as an MAOI. http://ethnopharmacology.com/fungi/ Just so people know the urine contains a less toxic version of the psychoactive chemical from the amanita muscaria. Yes I did drink my urine when doing amanita muscaria although I watered it down. but that is standard for this mushroom. More here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15981921/-Thunder-Among-the-Pines-Defining-a-PanAsian-Soma Here's what SMILE reports on taking this shroom: http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/6309-k/page__st__32__p__72785__hl__agaric__fromsearch__1entry72785 Then: http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/4090-the-elixir-in-a-bottle/page__p__42563__hl__agaric__fromsearch__1entry42563 Another taobum initiate: http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/2316-shrooms/page__st__16__p__21407__hl__agaric__fromsearch__1entry21407 Wow so in that thread Sean Denty says Mantak Chia does not "see the light" in his on dark cave meditation room. That's too bad. I mean I was wondering what abilities Mantak Chia had. I know Chunyi Lin said when he did his seven week full lotus cave meditation that at first he was scared but then this third eye opened up and the cave filled with light and then he traveled into heaven and it was the best time of his life. Yeah so much for shrooms as the real secret to religion but still it's fun to read about all their speculative theories and sure some did pursue psychedelic shrooms in China as elixirs of immortality. It was probably like in the Bushmen culture and elsewhere -- a tool for those who needed extra help. haha.
  22. Wow did James Arthur commit suicide in a scandal about the typing of his santa shroom book? http://www.rense.com/general64/james.htm Boy his whole thing about being "good" and Reich I guess hid his secret...http://www.erowid.org/general/newsletter/erowid_newsletter8_news.shtml
  23. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/atlantean_conspiracy/atlantean_conspiracy45.htm Jesus, Santa, Mithra and the Magic Mushroom
  24. Magic Mushrooms & the History of Santa Claus & Christmas 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=qSL9jRTzXx4C&lpg=PP1&dq=james%20arthur&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=santa&f=false Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/23/reindeer-magic-mushrooms_n_801006.html