User talk:Mike Logghe

Questions I have floating out there that I would appreciate some feed back on....

Following are from "Druids"

Hi folks. The word Gael is derived from a Welsh word meaning "raiders", which was the term they used to describe pirates from Ireland. We did not seem to have any overall word for ourselves at the time, and the suggestion is that this was gradually applied to the nation as a whole. Plus, remember that the terms Celt and Celtic refers to unrealted peoples who spoke related languages. Cheers. Fergananim

--My response-- Just spent a few days in "talking circle" with people who are referred to as apaches, sioux, navajo, and moslem by others and often themselves. All of these words are essentially pejorative, usually meaning raiders or generalized bad dudes. Part of our circle discussion was various Indian and 'Celtic' acorn recipes. Cheers to you too: User:Mike Logghe

The text he proposes seems to be a direct cut-n-paste from the whitedragon.org site, which I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw it anyway. An introduction like The Rowan (sorbus aucuparia), Mountain Ash, Quickbeam, has the ability, perhaps more than any other tree, to help us increase our psychic abilities and connections. just sets off warning bells for me. silsor 23:17, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)

--My response-- There are in fact ways of researching this claim other than trying to find a non-existent reference in the literature. Recently while living on the Ucayali in Peru I encountered a young Irish woman who had been studying with a supposed shaman who was teaching her their methods of determining the medicinal and psychic properties of plants. Her intent was to return to Ireland and do this work with plants indigenous to Ireland. Possibly an enterprise in flapdoodle, but having become an afcionado of yage, I would bet more on her success than on your scepticism. I.e. don't burn all your mountain ash yet. In fact I have two in my back yard I had better spend some quality time with now that you mention it

---question in discussion section of "List of unsolved problems in Egyptology" Egyptian use of Blue Lotus question.

In the section on entheogens in Africa there is a reference to the blue lotus in Egyptian history... "A famous entheogen of ancient Egypt is the Blue Lotus (Nymphaea caerulea)." Was the Blue Lotus use commonly known amonst egyptologists and historians or is this a recent 'rediscovery' of its use as an entheogen? Of course, Ulysses himself, had the encounter in the land of the Lotus-eaters. Almost lost his entire crew to its pleasures. What type of lotus was used and where is this discussed in the literature? Mike Logghe 16:12, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Article on Matrixism: an Entheogenic Religion
There is an article on a entheogenic new religious movement called Matrixism being created at User:Xoloz/Matrixism. There are numerous sources for this article yet it has because contentious because it deals with the subject of entheogens. Thought you might like to look at it and perhaps contribute. 206.124.144.3 05:10, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Acorn Recipes
You wouldn't mind sharing some of these with me, would you? I just happen to have some white oak acorns lying around. All i have suceeded in doing is leaching about half the tannin out and then meeting various difficulties. Zer0Cool —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.31.153.124 (talk) 03:18, 16 September 2007 (UTC)