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Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift, This is something we should all read at least once a week is something we should all read at least once a week

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Written by a 90 year old This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you read to the end!!!!!! Written by ...

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Written by a 90 year old 
 
This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you read to the end!!!!!! 
 
Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio . 
 
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.  It is the most requested column I've ever written. 
 
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once 
more: 
 
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 
 
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 
 
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 
 
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch. 
 
5. Pay off your credit cards every month. 
 
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 
 
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone. 
 
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it. 
 
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck. 
 
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. 
 
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present. 
 
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry. 
 
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 
 
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it. 
 
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks. 
 
16.. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind. 
 
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful. 
 
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger. 
 
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else. 
 
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer. 
 
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.  Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special. 
 
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow. 
 
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. 
 
24. The most important sex organ is the brain. 
 
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you. 
 
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?' 
 
27. Always choose life. 
 
28. Forgive everyone everything. 
 
29. What other people think of you is none of your business. 
 
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time. 
 
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 
 
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 
 
33. Believe in miracles. 
 
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do. 
 
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now. 
 
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young. 
 
37. Your children get only one childhood. 
 
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved. 
 
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere. 
 
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back. 
 
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. 
 
42. The best is yet to come... 
 
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. 
 
44. Yield. 
 
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift." 
 
Its estimated 93% won't forward this. If you are one of the 7% who will, forward this with the title '7%'. 
 
I'm in the 7%. Friends are the family that we choose. 
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Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift, This is something we should all read at least once a week is something we should all read at least once a week

Written by a 90 year old This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you read to the end!!!!!! Written by ...

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift, This is something we should all read at least once a week

Fraser Trevor

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Title: Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift, This is something we should all read at least once a week
Author: Fraser Trevor
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Written by a 90 year old This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you read to the end!!!!!! Written by ...

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This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you read to the end!!!!!! 
Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio ."To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.  It is the most requested column I've ever written.My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column oncemore:1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.5. Pay off your credit cards every month.6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.16.. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.  Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.24. The most important sex organ is the brain.25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'27. Always choose life.28. Forgive everyone everything.29. What other people think of you is none of your business.30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.33. Believe in miracles.34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.37. Your children get only one childhood.38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.42. The best is yet to come...43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.44. Yield.45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."Its estimated 93% won't forward this. If you are one of the 7% who will, forward this with the title '7%'.I'm in the 7%. Friends are the family that we choose. 
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Learn from your elders

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Title: Learn from your elders
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A lawyer and a senior citizen are sitting next to each other on a long flight. The lawyer is thinking that seniors are so dumb that he...

A lawyer and a senior citizen are sitting next to each other on a long flight. 
 
The lawyer is thinking that seniors are so dumb that he could get one over on them easy. 
 
So the lawyer asks if the senior would like to play a fun game. 
 
The senior is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks. 
 
The lawyer persists saying that the game is a lot of fun.  I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me only $5.  Then you ask me one, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $500, he says.This catches the senior's attention and to keep the lawyer quiet, he agrees to play the game. 
 
The lawyer asks the first question.  'What's the distance from the Earth to the Moon?' 
 
The senior doesn't say a word, but reaches into his pocket, pulls out a five-dollar bill, and hands it to the lawyer. 
 
Now it's the senior's turn.  He asks the lawyer, 'What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down with four?' 
 
The lawyer uses his laptop and searches all references he could find on the Net. 
 
He sends e-mails to all the smart friends he knows; all to no avail.  After an hour of searching, he finally gives up. 
 
He wakes the senior and hands him $500.  The senior pockets the $500 and goes right back to sleep. 
The lawyer is going nuts not knowing the answer.  He wakes the senior up and asks, 'Well, so what goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?' 
 
The senior reaches into his pocket, hands the lawyer $5 and goes back to sleep.

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I've got peace like a river; I've got joy like a fountain ; I've got love like an ocean ; I've got faith like an anchor ...

I've got peace like a river; I've got joy like a fountain ; I've got love like an ocean ; I've got faith like an anchor

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When we admit our failures, weaknesses, hurts, and needs, we find out we are not alone. A portal to connecting with others is opened.

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Spiritual Reflection Admitting Our Suffering. Opening to Community Perhaps many of us have dragged ourselves through the door of our first...

<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Spiritual Reflection 
Admitting Our Suffering. Opening to Community 
Perhaps many of us have dragged ourselves through the door of our first Twelve Step meeting, frustrated, impotent to change the addicts or alcoholics we love, admitting by our very presence that going it alone had failed us. Humiliated, perhaps, to let our hurt show, or to disclose we are out of control--powerless to handle our own drug or alcohol use, powerless to cure our alcoholic loved ones, powerless to manage others in any way. Striving for perfection, hiding our real self from others, or putting on a false face keeps us separate and alone.</div>But in the act of admitting our pain and suffering, we open up to a community. When we admit our failures, weaknesses, hurts, and needs, we find out we are not alone. A portal to connecting with others is opened.

When we admit our failures, weaknesses, hurts, and needs, we find out we are not alone. A portal to connecting with others is opened.

Spiritual Reflection Admitting Our Suffering. Opening to Community Perhaps many of us have dragged ourselves through the door of our first...

Banned from Sainsbury's

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B anned from Sainsbury's - Didn't like shopping there anyway Yesterday I was at my local Sainsbury's buying a...

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Yesterday I was at my local Sainsbury's buying a large bag of Purina dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. 
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What did she think I had an elephant? So, since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again.   I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I 
ended up in hospital last time, but that I'd lost 2 stones before I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. 
  
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again.  
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Horrified, she asked me if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me.   I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's arse and a car hit us both. 
  
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. 
  
I'm now banned from Sainsbury's.  
 
Better watch what you ask retired people.  
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They have all the time in the world to think of daft things to say. 
  
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Humility is perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, or irritable, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing that is done against me

Humility is perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, or irritable, to wonder at nothing...

one broken relationship is not the end of life

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Depression, mood swings and irritability - these symptoms are more visible in men when they break up with their girlfriends. Depression, moo...

Depression, mood swings and irritability - these symptoms are more visible in men when they break up with their girlfriends.Depression, mood swings and irritability - these symptoms are more visible in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=men" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">men</a> when they break up with their girlfriends. The findings of a recent British survey have cleared the myth that young men are stronger when it comes to coping with failed relationships.  
 
"It is a fact that men don't share their feelings with others because their cultural upbringing is like that. They keep it to themselves," Narendra Kinger, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, told IANS from <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=Mumbai" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Mumbai</a> over phone.  
 
"Young men tend to experiment with their<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=relationships" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">relationships</a> a lot and when they fail they struggle to cope and sink into depression," he added.  
 
The report says men in their 20s often lack a shoulder to cry on. If their partner is the only person they confide in, they are more emotionally <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=vulnerable" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">vulnerable</a> when that is taken away.  
 
TV actor <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=Gaurav%20Chopra" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Gaurav Chopra</a>, who broke off with Narayani Shastri, says everyone has their own threshold of pain and tolerance, but admits women have a social circle to help them cope.  
 
"The sense of individuality and freedom among women with the entire female liberation process that has been going on has made them a little more socially equipped, while a man has to always pretend to be the stronger one - and that pressure makes it more depressing to keep it within yourself or discuss it with a friend. You will hear comments about yourself if you do that," says Chopra.  
 
"But women have a social circle to help them out. However, individually speaking, a heartbreak is a heartbreak - what difference does it make whether it's for a man or a woman. It's not gender-based, it is very individual. Everyone has their own threshold of pain and tolerance."  
 
Mohit Aggarwal, 23-year-old CA who broke up with his girlfriend recently, told IANS: "My relationship never lasts for more than six months and whenever I break up, I go into deep depression. As I can't share my feelings about my failed relationships with anyone, it leads to mood swings and even has a bad impact on my professional life. My output goes down."  
 
Prof <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=Melanie%20Bartley" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Melanie Bartley</a>, a sociology professor from <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=University%20College%20London" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">University College London</a> who conducted the survey, says that when a relationship goes wrong, it impacts on men's identity and self worth.  
 
"Young women do tend to have wider relationships with friends and family to rely on. Young men don't tend to confide in each other and that can make them feel isolated. Their friendship groups are more competitive than nurturing. They are just as sensitive as women but it's a matter of whether they feel valued," Bartley said in a report.  
 
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=Agreed%20TV" style="color: #336797; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Agreed TV</a> actor Arjun Bijlani of "Miley Jab Hum Tum" fame: "Men have bigger egos, and because of that they refuse to share the incident with their friends. They feel if they say that they have broken up, their friends would tease them, saying 'Look being a man he is crying for a girl'."  
 
"He would only dare to share it with those who are extremely close to him and he knows that they will understand him."  
 
For women, it's easier to nurse their broken hearts as they end up sharing their depression with friends, but men are more likely to store up their feelings and even suffer low self-esteem, and as a result they often succumb to drinking and drugs.  
 
The tension leads to insomnia, and men often get hooked to sleeping pills.  
 
"If men bottle up their feelings, it has to come out in some form. This is the time when they tend to consume a lot of alcohol and even drugs and vent their anger of a broken relationship," said renowned psychiatrist Sanjay Chugh.  
 
Kinger added: "They tend to look down upon themselves, find faults. They start questioning their behaviour like, 'Where did I go wrong?' and 'How could I have handled it to make it work?"  
 
To help them, psychiatrists often put them through counselling sessions.  
 
"We help them focus on the reason behind failure of their relationship. Was he too possessive? What triggered the frequent fights between the couple and try to instil a positive attitude," said psychologist Kinger.  
 
Chugh said: "We try to explain to them that one broken relationship is not the end of life and they should take it as a learning experience and move on for a better one ahead."

one broken relationship is not the end of life

Depression, mood swings and irritability - these symptoms are more visible in men when they break up with their girlfriends. Depression, moo...

Dedicated to Marlina a true angel of the light

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Title: Dedicated to Marlina a true angel of the light
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow, don't walk behind me,I may not lead, walk beside me, and just be my friend..

Dedicated to Marlina a true angel of the light

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow, don't walk behind me,I may not lead, walk beside me, and just be my friend..

2008 alcohol consumption in Europe (litres per head

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Title: 2008 alcohol consumption in Europe (litres per head
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2008 alcohol consumption in Europe (litres per head) Czech Republic - 12.3 Austria - 10.4 Lithuania - 10.1 Germany - 10.0 Spain/Hungary...

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<li style="background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/1_0_6_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Germany - 10.0</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/1_0_6_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Spain/Hungary - 9.8</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/1_0_6_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Portugal/Slovakia/Denmark - 9.3</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/1_0_6_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Poland - 9.8</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/1_0_6_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Belgium/Luxembourg - 8.5</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/1_0_6_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">UK - 8.4</li>
<li style="background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/1_0_6_9/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.gif); background-position: -1200px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #505050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;">Finland/Greece - 7.6</li>
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2008 alcohol consumption in Europe (litres per head

2008 alcohol consumption in Europe (litres per head) Czech Republic - 12.3 Austria - 10.4 Lithuania - 10.1 Germany - 10.0 Spain/Hungary...

RESEARCH CARRIED OUT IN ASSOCIATION WITH WASIWASKA

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Title: RESEARCH CARRIED OUT IN ASSOCIATION WITH WASIWASKA
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AYAHUASCA RESEARCH Welcome to the Wasiwaska Research section. In these pages we provide you with information related to psychointegrator...

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AYAHUASCA RESEARCH 
Welcome to the Wasiwaska Research section. In these pages we provide you with information related to psychointegrator plants (especially ayahuasca), visionary art and consciousness studies. The first part deals with research carried out in association with Wasiwaska. The second part presents systematically published and unpublished materials and links related to those themes. 
This is an open source which welcomes new input. New ideas and information on good websites, articles, films or recordings on ayahuasca or relevant materials not mentioned here, are welcomed. Please let us know to consider including them here. 
RESEARCH CARRIED OUT IN ASSOCIATION WITH WASIWASKA 
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Study 1. <a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.wasiwaska.org/research_study1.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">Effects of the Amazonian Psychoactive Beverage Ayahuasca on Binocular Rivalry: Interhemispheric Switching or Interhemispheric Fusion?</a></div>
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Study 2. <a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.wasiwaska.org/research_study2.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">Effects Of Ayahuasca On Binocular Rivalry With Dichoptic Stimulus Alternation.</a></div>
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Study 3. <a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.wasiwaska.org/research_study3.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">EEG gamma coherence and other correlates of subjective reports during ayahuasca experiences.</a></div>
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Study 4. <a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.wasiwaska.org/research_study4.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">Phenomenal Qualities of Ayahuasca Ingestion and its Relation to Fringe Consciousness and Personality.</a></div>
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Study 5. <a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.wasiwaska.org/research_study5.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">In What Ways Is The Ayahuasca Experience Expressed Throughout Literature?</a></div>
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Study 6. <a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.wasiwaska.org/research_study6.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">Reality Polyphasia: A Thematic Analysis of the Representations of Psychotropic Substance Use and a Deconstructive and Integrative Investigation of the Formation of Knowledge and Reality.</a></div>
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Study 7. <a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.wasiwaska.org/research_study7.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">Exploring Personality, Phenomenological, and EEG Correlates of the Ayahuasca Journey Experience to Facilitate an Individual’s Spiritual Development.</a></div>
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Study 8. <a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.wasiwaska.org/research_study8.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">‘Cadiera Azulao Saeedi’, a sculpture in cement, iron and wireframe by Camille Archer at the Wasiwaska Ethnobotanical Garden, as part of her master in holistic science at the Schumacher College, Devonshire, England.</a></div>
CONCEPTS 
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<li type="a">Michael Winkelman: Psychointegration: The Physiological Effects of Entheogens 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://sacaaa.org/occasional_papers/psychointegrator_plants.pdf" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://sacaaa.org/occasional_papers/psychointegrator_plants.pdf</a></li>
<li type="a">Michael Winkelman: Psychointegration: Psychointegrator Plants: Their Roles in Human Culture, Consciousness and Health 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=31" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=3</a></li>
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AYAHUASCA STUDIES</div>
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A) ETHNOGRAPHY</div>
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<li style="font-weight: bold;" type="1">Indigenous sources</li>
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<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">the Yurayaku document 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=33" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=33</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">Shuar Indians. Michael Harner, The Sound of Rushing Water 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=46" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=46</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">Common Themes in South American Indian Yage Experiences by Michael J. Harner 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://deoxy.org/yagecommon.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://deoxy.org/yagecommon.htm</a> 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://diseyes.lycaeum.org/fresh/yagecomm.htm" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://diseyes.lycaeum.org/fresh/yagecomm.htm</a></li>
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<li style="font-weight: bold;" type="1">Vegetalismo (mestizo ayahuasca traditions)</li>
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<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">Luis Eduardo Luna: The Concept of Plants as Teachers among four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos, Northeastern Perú 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.biopark.org/peru/luna-dissertation.html" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.biopark.org/peru/luna-dissertation.html</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">Walter Andrivsky: Sociopsychotherapeutic Functions of Ayahuasca Healing in Amazonia 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=8" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=8</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">Walter Andrivsky; "Dschungeluniversitäten" der traditionellen Heilkunst in Peru Ein Seminarbericht. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.transpersonal.de/artikel/dschungeluni.html" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.transpersonal.de/artikel/dschungeluni.html</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">Shoemaker, Grace and Madness. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=11" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=11</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">Lee, Shamanism Versus Capitalism 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=28" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=28</a></li>
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<li style="font-weight: bold;" type="1">Brazilian synchretic religions</li>
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<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">Edward Macrae: The Ritual and Religious Use of Ayahuasca in Contemporary Brazil. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.biopark.org/peru/aya_daime_brazil.html" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.biopark.org/peru/aya_daime_brazil.html</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">CEFLURIS 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.santodaime.org/" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.santodaime.org</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">Christine Mavrick: Hallucinogens and Religious Identity in the Brazilian Amazon Senior Thesis Anthropology Program. Illinois State University</li>
<li style="font-weight: normal;" type="a">UDV website in the US: <a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.udvusa.com/" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.udvusa.com/</a>, in Brazil<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.udv.org.br/" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.udv.org.br</a></li>
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<li type="a">Richard Evans Schultes; An Ethnobotanical Perspective on Ayahuasca 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.biopark.org/peru/schultes_ayahuasca.html" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.biopark.org/peru/schultes_ayahuasca.html</a></li>
<li type="a">Jonathan Ott: Ayahuasca Analogues. On Jonathan and his work: 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/ott_jonathan/ott_jonathan.shtml" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/ott_jonathan/ott_jonathan.shtml</a></li>
<li type="a">Dennis J McKenna, J C Callaway, Charles S Grob MD. The Scientific Investigation of Ayahuasca: A Review of Past and Current Research. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=16809" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=16809</a></li>
<li type="a">Human Pharmacology of Ayahuasca. Doctoral dissertation by Jordi Riba. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.maps.org/research/ayahuasca/echenhoferproposal.pdf" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.maps.org/research/ayahuasca/echenhoferproposal.pdf</a></li>
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C) COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY</div>
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<li type="a">Ideas and Reflections Associated with Ayahuasca Visions. By Benny Shanon. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=16497" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=16497</a></li>
<li type="a">Ayahuasca Variations. By William L. Benzon. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.coffeshop.pl/dokumenty/Ayahuasca_Variations.pdf" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.coffeshop.pl/dokumenty/Ayahuasca_Variations.pdf</a></li>
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D) OTHER STUDIES</div>
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<li type="a">Ayahuasca and drug treatment: Jamie J.C. Moir, Shamanism, Traditional Medicine and Drug Dependency in the Peruvian Upper Amazon 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=15" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=15</a></li>
<li type="a">"Ayahuasca and creativity", by Benny Shanon. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v10n3/10318sha.html" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v10n3/10318sha.html</a></li>
<li type="a">c) Kenneth W. Tupper: “Entheogens and Existential Intelligence: The Use of Plant Teachers as Cognitive Tools” Canadian Journal of Education 27, 4(2002):499-516. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.csse.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE27-4/CJE27-4-tupper.pdf#search=%22kenneth%20tupper%20cognitive%22" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.csse.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE27-4/CJE27-4-tupper.pdf#search=%22kenneth%20tupper%20cognitive%22</a></li>
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E) ACCOUNTS</div>
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<li type="a">Wade Davis experience among the Barasana. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/critical/davis.html" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/critical/davis.html</a></li>
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RESOURCES</div>
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Ayahuasca Homepage: 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.ayahuasca.com/" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ayahuasca.com</a></div>
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The Vaults of Erowid 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ayahuasca/ayahuasca.shtml" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ayahuasca/ayahuasca.shtml</a> 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.enpsychlopedia.com/" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.enpsychlopedia.com</a></div>
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Lila: Journal Of Cosmic Play Explorations into Shamanism and the Transpersonal Vision. 
<a class="smalltextlinks" href="http://www.lila.info/" style="color: #009966; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lila.info</a>.</div>
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