Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind.

[bethnoir]

Whilst I've been reading a book about the ritual use of hallucinogens , I've been suffering with a cold. On the plus side it has made thinking about altered states of consciousness easy, but I have felt mostly horrible.

This is the first time since Thursday that I've had a feeling that I'm seeing the world without a filter between me and it. My temperature has returned mostly to normal and I can breathe again, there are inklings that smells exist and my eyes feel clear.
I'll be left with a persistent cough and a red nose for a while, but yippee for feeling slightly better after proper, have to go to bed for the day, illness.

I found out that Seasons of the Witch by Donovan is good for meditative breathing and that the Grateful Dead make a lot of sense in a twilight world where reality is a half remembered idea.
So I suppose nothing ventured, nothing gained.

It was too cloudy to see the super waxing gibbous moon last night, but I did have a photography worth experience in a wood yesterday. We visited Prior's Wood which is quite close to us, in search of bluebells. We were probably a week late, but the rain a week ago was extreme and made going anywhere outside a very unpopular prospect.




we found some, but if we'd wanted to see wild garlic flowers we would have been ecstatic, there was loads of it and quite a lot of mud too



The only problem with the wood really, was that you can hear the hiss of the motorway, but as we live quite near the M4/M5 interchange anyway we kind of zone it out.

I'm looking forward to reading Secret Roads by my friend Simon Williams at some point and we are thinking of going to see Marvel's Avengers Assemble as it is directed by Joss Wheedon. There is a plan to go to Winerbourne Down Carnival today, but it's raining in a quite determined way at the moment, so I'm not sure about that. Hope you're all enjoying the bank holiday weekend.

Comments

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Wow, loads of wild garlic!

Hope you feel completely better soon!

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

thanks, my recovery this morning lasted 2 hours and then I had to go back to bed! Still, I can see light at the end of the tunnel.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that you have being feeling so rough. The only book I have read on ritual hallucigens is the Carlos Castenada books (mostly peyote).

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

I can across this by accident when searching for something else at the library, "The Flesh of the Gods" refers to mushrooms, but it exhaustively listed every plant and fungi they've found that has hallucinogenic properties in the first chapter, I'm amazed how many there are!

No wonder the Mayans had some strange ideas, I'm getting the impression that they spent most of their lives tripped out, even after the Spanish tried to Christianize it out of them.

[chimera-s.livejournal.com]

Good to hear you're on the mend , I Hope things clear up soon. Went to see the Avengers movie on Sat - it's fun.

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

I'm not usually one for superheroes, managed 15 minutes of Thor before giving up, but there's got to be something for everyone if Josh is at the helm. We thought we'd leave it until next weekend as it'll probably be less busy.

It seems I was a bit premature thinking I was better, but hopefully it's going in the right direction. Maybe I shouldn't have gone to a carnival in the rain this morning? *note to self, stop doing things when you're not well enough*

[chimera-s.livejournal.com]

Saw Iron Man on telly - never managed to get round to seeing the other movies (Thor & Captain America). But then I'm not a prolific moviegoer - sat was the 1st time I'd been to the cinema in 3 yrs. They've taken a number of liberties with the origin story - but I remember the original (and the way Marvel (&DC) are these days I've no doubt they've "Re-Imagined" (to use modern parlance) the story a couple of times themselves - before it was reworked to make it cinema friendly). All in all it's an enjoyable couple of hours.

The Carnival in the rain might not have been the best idea - but I can't criticise, I wouldn't like to guess at how many gigs I've gone to feeling under the weather. The thing is events (be they carnivals, festivals, gigs etc) are usually one offs - you can't go "I'll go tomorrow", as you'll miss it. The question is simply was it worth an extra day of feeling crap - and if the answer is yes, Then you were right to go.

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

it's true, the carnival is a one off, but it was very damp and I had to retire to bed when we got home. Still, I would have been at work if it hadn't been a bank holiday, so it worked out better to be ill this weekend than any other :-)

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

Well I do hopes your mighty immune system is mounting a stern defence against invaders and your wellness is increasing. *growls at marauding viruses* Still, I suppose it's a cheaper and easier way of exploring new and interesting planes of existence than going to the trouble of taking all those drugs so, umm, that's something right? Still, I do hopes that health is returning.

In the meantime though, pretty flowers are pretty! I imagine the smell of all that wild garlic would have been most impressive had you been able to smell. I do hope soon that you will return to suitable quantities of lively for doing things though and in the meantime I shall be sending all the spare thoughts of wellness I can muster. Take care. *fluffy hugs and nourishing soups*

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

Aw thank you for the growling at viruses, I hope it helped. I seem to keep feeling a tiny bit better and then almost immediately having to go back to bed with painkillers! I refuse to let it stop me though.

Hope you are feeling well and had a good long weekend, or is the shop open on bank holidays as well as Sundays?

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

Happy to help as much as I can. Hopefully those viruses will be suitably intimidated by my snarlings and leave you alone soon!

I has been mildly brainachy I fear but have had an awful lot of books to herd at the shop lately. It seems the sacking of our larcenous (is that a word? well, it ought to be) has considerably increased the numbers of our flock! If only we had a bigger pen to house them all. Still, I tries my best. And yes, the shop stays open over Bank Holidays to make the most of extra holiday customers. I got some rests on Monday though as the Coliseum at least has the decency to remain closed. :P

Anywho, hopes you be showing those germs who's boss and I shall endeavour to update in greater details as soon as the brains will allow.