Marissa

heavy is the head, and the blood of the covenant; like the water of the womb

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

In Milgram’s obedience experiment, 65% of participants followed orders all the way to the maximum 450-volt shock, which they believed they were administering to another person.

But in a variation where two fellow participants refused to continue, 90% resisted. So they had to observe someone else non complying. Resisting to engage in that atrocity.

Then the noncompliance skyrocketed to 90%. All you had to do was observe someone else say, no, I am not going to do that. And now it provided permission for others to resist it.

[Vacha @TVachaW]

People say that dogs are a man’s best friend, but I think tobacco provides close competition on this front.

Of all the plant spirits I’ve communed with, tobaccos is the most human like.

When I hang out with the spirit of tobacco, I feel like I’m hanging out with a very wise older brother.

When I invoke tobacco in icaros, I use the Shipibo phrase “wetsa metsa” - beautiful brother.

A Shipibo maestro I worked with used to call tobacco the King of the Jungle.

It was tobacco, some Shipibo say, that originally taught them how to communicate with other plants.

He also told them which plants they could use for healing which illnesses.

Some of them say that it was tobacco that taught them about how to make ayahuasca.

Tobacco is also used in Shipibo culture as a gift to other plants - when wanting to request something from a plant eg its leaves, they will blow tobacco on it first as an offering.

It actually makes sense scientifically as tobacco is a natural insecticide and one very easily absorbed by most plants.

Tobacco smoke is also used to clean and protect spaces, which also makes sense given its ability to kill pathogens.

Unfortunately, in modern times we’ve come into an imbalanced relationship with tobacco.

When I asked the spirit of tobacco about this myself, he told me that coming into right relationship with him is similar to coming into right relationship with our other non-human best friend - dogs.

Treat me with with disrespect, tobacco told me, and I will be like a wild and dangerous wolf to you - one with sharp teeth.

Treat me with reverence and care, and I’ll become like a little puppy - a warm and protective companion.

I only ever use tobacco for shamanic purposes - to spiritually clean and protect myself and the spaces I use for ceremony.

Tobacco smoke seems to fill and guard space in a way that makes it hard for negative spirits to occupy that space.

A problem for me is that it interferes with my sleep and dreams.

If it weren’t for that and other potential health impacts then I’d probably smoke it all the time just because it’s such a fun spirit to hang out with.

But if I did that, I expect my relationship to tobacco would come out of balance.

So, in some ways, the negative health consequences of tobacco are protective - they remind is to stay in right relationship to it, and alert us when we are out of right relationship.

Many of life’s pains and sufferings are like this actually.

The wolf’s sharp teeth remind us to respect him and protect us from our own tendency to consume things beyond the degree that is natural and balanced.

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

Love when a person is described as having a “colourful past.” May we all accumulate enough lore to eventually require the full rainbow. No grayscale biographies

[Mel Reneé @MelReneeStyles]

“Every return to myself is more sacred than the last.”

[Sarah Rose 💋 @AlienHere2Love]

May every soul receive the true healing, care, & compassion they need. May they be seen in the fullness of who they are as body, soul, & spirit, not reduced to brain chemistry that can be manipulated for profit.

[💧🔥🩸 @yungmedusa]

everyone supports victims of sexual violence when they're hypothetical, a "what if", an unthreatening archetype. an idea, a concept.

but when they're flesh & blood, when we're forced to sit with the weight of their human suffering, they're threats.

that's emotional avoidance.

[Nornal Guy 🧙‍♂️ @theralkia]

Become so open that you become closed again - this time with the right answer

[rachel (is sending love and warmth your way) @rachelclif]

I contain multitudes

because I am many things all at once

[Nornal Guy 🧙‍♂️ @theralkia]

The energy from which an action or word comes from may be more important than the action or word itself

[Marissa @weigenijsje]

Venus retrograde and I chose violence with a talking stage

[rebecca @babyybeckz]

Men are more likely to get assaulted by another man than they are to get a false rape accusation and they still ride for eachother because womens subjugation is the point

[Sonhei 🎀 @kiara7829]

Men are more successful in sales because they're socially conditioned to be predators who don't listen to no.

[🔱 Empress Atlantis 🔱 @empressatlantis]

A lot of people who haven’t gone through their Saturn return believe that Saturn will only reprimand you over your actions

But that’s not true. Saturn will also cast judgement with your INACTION

Action and inaction both carry the SAME weight of responsibility. Do not be fooled

[betsy @bfearless333]

some say I talk too much and others say I help them with my words and that's how perspective works.
be yourself anyway.

[Gu 🤑 @eroticacid]

health is about getting your whole life in balance but people think it can be done with a pill

[Nornal Guy 🧙‍♂️ @theralkia]

Man isn't a rational animal, man is a rationalizing animal

[Marissa @weigenijsje]

You have to smoke in here otherwise you miss all the tea

[Marissa @weigenijsje]

Psych ward lore of the day: apparently you still get put in solitary if you try to run away (I don't know the full story tho) & I guess I look hot when I'm irritated

[Marissa @weigenijsje]

On a similar note: you also have parents here 24/7 complaining about their children and blaming it on autism or some shit like it has nothing to with said parents & I can tell you it has everything to do with those parents. Just the way they talk about their own children 🤮

[Marissa @weigenijsje]

Another psych ward specific thing is when you hear patients talk about their children & you can just tell how much they miss them, breaks my heart everytime

[rachel (is sending love and warmth your way) @rachelclif]

this is such an important post