Double Chocolate Chip (The Bill Hicks Story)

The Bill Hicks Story is double chocolate chip quality. It's actually made differently from most documentaries that patch a lot of footage together through the use of still shots and montages that bring the personal story to life in a comic book fashion or moving gif stylistics that I haven't seen done before and which I am sure I will see emulated in the future because it's that good.

The movie made me laugh out loud and shed a tear for this deeply talented and clever  man who departed too early, and in my mind, suspiciously early at barely past thirty years of age. Bill Hicks' comedy was too raw for the United States and was most appreciated in the UK. I knew he understood the psilocybin entheogen experience from his act but what I learned from his friend in this documentary is that he crossed over on one occasion into that transdimensional experience and asked of the logos. 

Who are you? 

I was blown away and its hard to explain quite why here, though I will say that the psychedelic experience effect in this movie is produced faithfully in a way that has only been achieved two times before in my experience. That is Ang Lee's Woodstock and Mitch Schultz' The Spirit Molecule. It's quite extraordinary to see film makers getting so close to conveying the 'feel' of what happens on these sacred medicines.

Just Say Know

Abracadabra - אברה כדברא

John Allegro was an Aramaic scholar who was invited to inspect the Dead Sea scrolls by the Vatican. Prior to this, his intention was to become a Methodist Priest but he changed career to Oriental studies and then during his radical translation and interpretation of the scrolls he made the mistake of releasing his findings earning the vindictive wrath of his peers who excommunicated his views and trashed his career with accusations of anti Catholicism. To this day the Vatican prevents us from knowing what other information contradicts the epistemological teachings of the present day Pope from their findings and as will one day be shown the Vatican library is chock full of ancient texts that don't support their erroneous and paternalistic business model.

There's a much more visually explanatory video of the discussion through the Pharmacratic Inquisition videos on Youtube though I think it's important to champion the Aramaic scholar first and also point out the two chaps who are interviewing him were famous 70's Dutch comedians who merely pursued their own interest in the topic of metaphorical mycology and so you need to contextualise the Citizen Smith headgear they are wearing at the end, even though a bit of silliness is very integral to this topic as you may have picked up from my Twisted post.

Update: As the years have passed I've often reflected that even if John Allegro was right, he was remarkably pompous and this might have contributed to our understanding.

The Mushrooming Science

Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs. He is also currently a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization. The most interesting find (and not unusual for anyone studying entheogens) is that the Psilocybin mushroom is measurably more real than the reality you are experiencing while reading this. 


Additionally according to the scientific results, it is also in the top five experiences ever; such as child birth, marriage and other spiritually moving and deeply human experiences in life.


What's the point? Well as Joe Rogan pointed out in a video I saw earlier. It's not very good for capitalism and the military industrial complex. 


Weird how top down hierarchical religion and government deemed it illegal and immoral.


I just can't figure it out. Can you?