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Hero’s journey: Terence McKenna Game

A documentarian and novice game-maker dedicated his 2018 to designing a game documenting an impactful Terence McKenna traveling experience to the Amazon. True Hallucinations: The Game puts the user in control of McKenna during his true-life adventures journeying to La Chorrere in the Amazon rainforest. The game attempts historical accuracy and features mushroom and butterfly gathering, I Ching philosophy, Amazon river boating and tripping out.

To play the game you’ll need to support the game-maker’s Patreon (the game-maker also has produced two doc films about McKenna). Or for the gist of the game you could watch the narrated walkthrough for free.

Yabber: Drunk people make food

“Every Sunday is different, and this Sunday I don’t give a fork.” Hannah Hart’s My Drunk Kitchen involves drinking copiously while preparing a recipe, and being funny.

“Have you done drugs??” “Noooo, I just need to poop.” Vancouver-based vegan couple drinks and answers user-submitted questions with inebriated playfulness and relational integrity.

Jive: SomaFM streaming radio

SomaFM is a cost-free, ad-free San Francisco-based streaming radio website. They have 30ish stations and even mobile phone apps. It’s a healthy chance to expose yourself to musical styles that you didn’t realize would make spectacular journey companions. A few of my favorites stations —

Groove Salad: A nicely chilled plate of ambient/downtempo beats and grooves.

Secret Agent: The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and PIs too!

Fluid: Drown in the electronic sound of instrumental hiphop, future soul and liquid trap.

Boot Liquor: Americana Roots music for Cowhands, Cowpokes and Cowtippers

Word: MDMA street slang

Street slang for drugs is valuable for confusing authority figures. It also offers cultures an amusing space for creativity about the appearance, effects, associated letters, pill imprints and sometimes even ironic associated figures, celebrities and ideas.

In my world, I’ve heard MDMA/Ecstasy called Rolls, E, X, the Love Drug and Molly.

According to the Internet, here are more: Blue Lego, Beans, Lover’s Speed, Booty Juice, Clarity, Moon Rocks, Dancing Shoes, Disco Biscuit, Go, Happy Feet, Bath Salts, Skittles, Buddhas, 007’s, Vitamin X, Malcolm X, Vowels, Yin Yangs, Armanis, Fergie (she talked a openly about her use of MDMA), Eminem (reportedly takes MDMA before going on stage to “loosen up”, Sting (practitioner of “extreme, yoga, tantric sex and ecstacy”).

Inquire: A story of glitter

For deep knowledge’s sake, a sparkling New York Times article on glitter:

What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere, all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again.

Ah, but if you, like an impertinent child seeking a logistical timetable of Santa Claus’ nocturnal intercontinental journey, demand a more detailed definition — a word of warning: The path to enlightenment is littered with trade secrets, vapors, aluminum ingots, C.I.A. levels of obfuscation, the invisible regions of the visible spectrum, a unit of measurement expressed as “10-6 m” and also New Jersey.

Humans, even humans who don’t like glitter, like glitter. We are drawn to shiny things in the same wild way our ancestors were overcome by a compulsion to forage for honey. A theory that has found favor among research psychologists (supported, in part, by a study that monitored babies’ enthusiasm for licking plates with glossy finishes) is that our attraction to sparkle is derived from an innate need to seek out fresh water.

Caity Weaver of the New york times

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