Odd Mycology

The Mind - flowing with awareness like a river - 
you can-t have a river without water - 
you can-t have mind without awareness - they are the same thing - feeling - sensing - emoting - cognitive function and conceptuality - these are all aspects of the mind - all based on its fundamental ability to be aware - its awareness - simple awareness itself -
The mind can go through innumerable realms - ordinary - extraordinary - pure and impure - clear and deluded - sacred and profane - it-s all in the mind - what we perceive and what we conceive are all within the mind - where else - - - it-s the same mind - deluded or clarified - calm or agitated - the same mind -
Thoughts and beliefs and of course experiences can colour the personality or superficial layers of consciousness - Like a collection of ornate lanterns - personalities are the characteristic and unique containers for the universal and undifferentiated brilliance and radiance of awareness itself -
Almost 40 years ago I fueled my mind with the sacred Druidic fungi that blossom in the Autumn and have been used by humans for countless millennia - In the November issue of The Caterpillar I described my experience - in this Dub Issue of The Caterpillar I-ve re-mixed my impressions of this long-past experience into a piece of psychedelic art - seemed like the thing to do with it all these years later - 

Essentially the Mind is Good - - - - - - -

Mycological Odyssey

Timothy Leary-s Dead!  No no no no he-s outside looking in - this is the true story of a teenager-s journey to the centre of the Universe with the help of a hundred and fifty psychedelic mushrooms - the author presents the facts in the blazing light of day just as they happened - visions from the ghetto - from the past - from the seventies - from the days when the world had turned less times than it has now and less people had been born - the days of the past - volatile days of hunger - laughter - free love - good friends - albums singles and tapes - and voyages such as that set forth in this month-s issue of The Caterpillar - A Visionary Ghetto Tabloid - Free from the Alaya Vijnana - Get yours today and read all about it -

Untitled Ink Drawing - Jeremy Schanche - 1978 - Felt-Tip Pen  

Note - Once there was a monkey who fancied a ride in a space-ship so he broke into the cockpit and managed to make it blast off - soon however the poor primate realized he had got in way too deep and could not control the ship that was hurling him into infinity - and away from his beloved banana-trees!  The foolish monkey did not realize that you need training before such an undertaking - it took him some time to get back home -
Do not be like that monkey -

Rippling Moth's Wing Revelations

Too long the lines of the Sun - too arced the zenith and peak - too long the beams of the stars - gravity bends time-waves and matter - regardless, the skein unwinds, the dew collects, the song upwells, the music swells, the spirits rise, the spirits rise - and songs unwind -

Send this postcard of Syd Barrett to your friends...

Lucifer Sam - Pink Floyd

The Gnome - Pink Floyd

Scarecrow - Pink Floyd (supply your own music - whistle the tune or sing it if you know it… I sing it in D)

Bike - Pink Floyd

 

Julia Dream - Pink Floyd

The Narrow Way - Pink Floyd

Cirrus Minor - Pink Flord

If It’s In You - Intro-Blurb Outtake - Syd Barrett

Long Gone - Syd Barrett

Golden Hair - Syd Barrett

Effervescing Elephant - Syd Barrett

If - Pink Floyd

Jugband Blues - Pink Floyd

Tyranosaurus Rex - Stacey Grove

Or groove to these hip LP's - it's up to you...

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd

        
More - Pink Floyd


The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett


Jet Propelled - Soft Machine


Prophets, Seers and Sages, The Angels of the Ages  - Tyrannosaurus Rex


Playlist of stuff about Syd


Walk With Me Sydney... Pink Floyd, 1965
- early Syd songs, recently released....

and in the dreaming shall be wakefullness!