įÅ Łôúdę d’Üūń

  My slightly modified & explainified

  Shulgin Scale:

Technically it follows three so four is not wrong, in that you are unlikely to encounter a +++* (+4) below the full +3 effects of a (psychedelic) drug,

+++* (+4) is a rare case where the effect of the compound only serves as one (pre-requisite) piece of what allows access to such states. 

The heterogeneous fourth symbol being a glyptoglossic reminder that it is 

not a four category system

of +1 through +4. 

With a bonus sixth category +++*, (+4), to record a special state sometimes encountered where the effects of the drug seem to….yeah. 

And it is wise that once one has acquired at least two of something (be it white powders, or +++* experiences, anything really) it’s prudent to create a label.

d’Mōörńïį Prįmēö

Hear my song to you.

Hear my song to you. Each word. A Prayer Made of Love.

Composed from Admiration. Sung with Gratitude.

Drink the warm drink. Let it enter you. Open up and drink my words.

It is

always
The First Morning

I feel a soft brush as it strokes my face.
The hair of each bristle glides across my wet cheek
Oil and water begin to color me.
Another stroke and my second heart breaks
My soft warm blood-filled compass feels freedom as the clay crumbles and the needle spins round to north again.
The nitrogenous, oxygen-laced gas surrounds the small red engine in my chest.
Familiar? foreign? it’s very difficult to determine.
It permeates everything.
I can’t escape its touch.
The soft perfume is drawn into my lungs by another stroke of her brush.
One more strong pull of her hand.
A whisper
I struggle to hear.
Pointless until,…
She paints my ears with her words

The hissing gas.
The first sound.
The hissing gas.
The first song.
The hissing gas.
I no longer remember.

The first music. Proceeds the beginning. The first stone. Proceeds the wall.

Bubbling up from the hot pressurized deepness, slowly cooled over millions of years, the stones fell in love with oxygen.
Before flowers.
Before the large lizards that bathed in the light above the trees.

Before the trees.
A sweet cologne coughed up by the planets first inhabitants. In love with each other, the gas and stone merge.
A child is borne of this Union.
It crumbles to the cavern’s floor.
Before the first Wooly Rhino
Offers its flesh to feed her children.
Before the first hairs from its hide
Are collected and bound.
She made her first brush
She visits the cavern
Scoops up the dust.
In silence.

A million years pass as she’s sings the next verse to me.

Then a bridge. Long. But easy to traverse.

Another
Verse and my eyes open.
Or is it my heart that now sees? It’s not important.
Color has no relevance in dreams. Conveys no information.
Holds no weight.
Offers no insight.

She draws her brush across my chest with another verse. Crack.
A small rusty tear runs down the stretched canvas of my face,

It drys and crumbles into a fine red powder. She collects that too.
Into her pouch of Magick it’s placed. Gently.

She knows just what it’s for.
She sees just what must be done.
She smiles up at me over silica, boron, and something made of ancient lifeforms,
something forgotten
by even the ancestors of the short-nosed elephants.

Another verse fills the air.
Gently I draw another first breath. A terrible fate awaits.

There.
Do you see it?
Just behind that large tree. Do you see it?

Large oversized teeth gleaming in the African dusk. Covered with what will become the first words. Lyrics to a song she sings many years from now.
A mind more aware than we.

Educated over terrible amounts of time. Quicker, Stronger, more Clever
Sharp black claws that threaten separation. Flesh from bone.

Her from me.
Me from the world.
The first and final ending to all stories. The silence of her absence is hard to bare.

Then another verse drop drop drops from her rain soaked lips and…

A warm golden spell pours over me. She gives birth at that exact moment. Mother to the first spells.
The first Magick any man will know.

It has a different name.
But the meaning is the same.
There is only one true word in the world anyway. Regardless of how many languages learn to speak it.

And another verse
Her power grows.
More familiar. Also less.
Its creative power lies in its ability to destroy.
No teeth or claws stand a chance.
First encountered as we cautiously descended from the trees. When we first stood on just two legs to see
above the strange new grasslands
Turned to look into each other eyes
and for the first time held hands.

It’s the first morning again.
It’s always the first morning. There is no evolution.
There is no such thing as time. It’s always only ever been… The first morning.

It’s the first time. Now
It happens only once you know. That is what makes it true.
It’s the first time. Again.

I squint my eyes.

It’s the first time. I see The glow
It’s the first time. I see The light

It’s the first time. I see The flowers
It’s the first time. I see The difference.

It’s the first time. I see The…

Drop Drop

Drop

There is. Every Thing.

Again

The first morning. The first flower. The first rain.

There is. No Thing.

Drop Drop

Drop

For the first time. It falls
For the first time. It’s named.

For the first time.
It grows.
I open my mouth and drink it in.
The first rain hits the dry clay of the earth
And the flowers near her feet explode with scent

It’s the

first morning

Again

It is.
the
first rain.
You
are the
first woman It is.
the
first morning.

Again

The first kykeon. Consumed The first secret. Whispered. The first elixir. Prepared. The first temple. Erected. The first psychopomp. Born

As
You
Drink
I see through Your eyes,

I feel through, Your heart.

The last kykeon. Consumed. The last secret. Whispered. The last elixir. Prepared.

The last temple. Demolished The last psychopomp. Dead

Together

We are together
We are
the temple We are
The light
We are
The morning

Then as

it falls

We are The rain We are
the flowers

There are
no walls
There never were

It
is

now

The First Morning Again.




įÅ Ęśtōrįkñæ d’Ęłÿśïį

Although Sasha rarely got sick during his long life, he was then in his mid-80’s and had been experiencing the effects of dementia for some time. Macular degeneration had also taken most of his sight and kept him from work in the lab for years. Then, just before the BBQ, Sasha suffered a stroke. Needless to say he was not in optimum condition when we arrived that day.

Seeing Sasha in such a condition, and hearing of the massive amount of money needed to pay for both 24hr nursing & medical expenses, we found ourselves reliving the pain and grief of Robert Anton Wilson’s passing years earlier.

It is almost impossible to imagine that amazing, insightful men, such as these, who had influenced so many, folks that were so often mentioned as influential souls and teachers that had changed countless lives, could be left scrambling for money at the end of their days. These are not people that live in any amount of luxury. They dedicated their lives to advancing human understanding of who we are, what we are, and what we might become. With general hopes of moving away from our robotic-animal nature and becoming perhaps more human.

Something needs to be done for people like this. Marginalized for the taboo nature of their research & ideas, funding for their work often arrives via a combination of paid appearances & very commonly ‘frugal living.’ The money simply stops coming in as they reach their later years and the travel & appearances become less possible. After discussing this issue with others at the BBQ that day, everyone agreed that something should be done. A few thought something COULD be done,…and well, a handful of the hypomanic assumed that this something could be done by us.

The Elysium Foundation Project was born that day to fill the gap between this “idea” and a functional, zero-overhead, no-profit organization. With the goal of providing financial relief to elderly members of the Visionary/Psychedelic community who, through their research, writings, or general contribution to this field, served as model ambassadors and representatives of our community.

We attempted to reach these goals by maintaining a Facebook page, holding the local FOTS/Elysium dinner salons in Jack London Square, and through private networking.

The Facebook page allowed us to have a permanent internet presence as contact point, serve as a resource for information concerning Sasha’s condition and needs, promote the community and their events in order to build a large base of support, and solicit direct donations to the Shulgin’s tax-deductible relief fund.

The local FOTS/Elysium dinner salons allowed us to meet regularly, stay connected, and exchange ideas and thoughts on fundraising for the Shulgins. This also gave us a space to stay updated on the fate of, and work in the lab, (stewarded by Dr. Paul Daley).

Separately, in our own lives we worked to identify, find, and contact potential individuals that could commit to larger donations to provide more guaranteed period of support. This often took the form of identifying well known persons that had expressed interest and respect for either Sasha’s work directly, or the positive effects of visionary/psychedelic substances in general. We then sought avenues of direct contact where possible, to insure delivery of our message.

The Elysium Foundation is a loosely organized group of variously involved individuals dedicated to helping both inform others of current projects in need of funding and securing the funding and donations for these projects.

Much of the work was (and still is) done independently because most of us had already decided that we were going to do what we could to help both Sasha and Ann. To do our part to ensure their lives were as comfortable and stress-free as possible in their final years. To give back something no matter how small. To say thank you with our actions.

With the Hellenic idea of the Elysian Fields to represent our ultimate goal of rewarding their bravery & dedication by attempting to ensure that their final years are as heavenly as possible…

We invite you to join us in this vision.