Guest guest Posted January 4, 2001 Report Share Posted January 4, 2001 There is an interesting article on the use of marijuana in ancient Indian Tantrism from "Cannabis Culture Magazine" at <a href=http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/article.cgi?num=1372 target=new>http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/article.cgi?num=1372</a> ..<br><br>According to the article, Tantra practitioners didn't smoke pot; they ingested a cannabis preparation called bhang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2001 Report Share Posted January 4, 2001 Yikes, that is an interesting article. Even though I have a link to it, I had never really looked at that website. I guess I'm trying to steer myself more the other way or something. It could be a "bad influence".<br><br>screwgee - One Night's Shelter sounds like a very interesting book. Also out of print and hard to find. But being the bookfiend that I am, I have already found a copy. For the past 10 years or so I have had trouble doing much reading besides non-fiction reference (so much to do!)so who knows if I will get around to actually reading it.<br><br>I'm off to the bookstore now to get a copy of Relaxercise, a book of Feldenkrais exercises. I have just started to read about Feldenkrais and am finding it extremely interesting. Kind of a western scientific therapeutic mental/physical yoga. Anyone practicing yoga as a physical therapy or having trouble with the physical aspects of yoga would probably find a lot of useful info in the ideas of Moshe Feldenkrais. The main book to check out would probably be Awareness Through Movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2001 Report Share Posted January 4, 2001 Speaking of books, found a NEW astanga book, just published, that i don't believe has ever been mentioned here (though i could be wrong, as I'm still plowing through the old posts of the last 3 weeks). <br><br>Damn if I can remember the title, but it was written by a woman who credited John Scott as her teacher, and I believe it was printed in England.<br><br>Compared to the other astanga manuals, it's pretty awful IMO. Very bad form on some of the asanas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2001 Report Share Posted January 5, 2001 bhang was available last time i was in India specifically in Pushkar and Varanasi (Benaras), but also other parts of the country. presumably made available to westerners under the guise of sacrament in these two spiritual towns, a mixture of grass and or/hash made available in a lassi (yogurt drink), its potency is not dissimilair to a hash cake (ie you've got no idea): a reet good trip, if that's your bag. alas it wasn't mine and the only time i tried it i had to be taken back to my hotel by a fellow englishman and made to play draughts (checkers) until i thought i had become a wizard at the game. next time i was offered it i declined but do remember leading a bevy of mash up westerners through the back streets of varanasi, that old friend fear in their eyes. . . <br><br>hmmm. . . im not going to mention drugs in this group EVER again. . . and i think ive shown a remarkable level of non - attachment on the lsd postings that have been surfacing!<br><br>bom shiva (ooops!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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