As for the Corroboree, I post there about cultivation and avoid chemistry talk. Most threads I read (not ones I've posted in) seem to end in squabbling about some petty shit. Probably some scene bullshit I don't understand - but they seem helpful enough. My floribundas have just recently surpassed me in height.

All I can personally add for now - DID YOU GUYS KNOW DMT AS WELL AS 5-TRI-METHOXY-TRYPTAMINE HAVE RECENTLY BEEN FOUND IN Citrus bergamia. Source Dennis McKenna recently. Earl Gray!

So Mama Maidenii begat Nen who begat.
And Acacian and Seldom! Cool dudes. Or is that dudessess. And all the other Characters.

All I can personally add for now - DID YOU GUYS KNOW DMT AS WELL AS 5-TRI-METHOXY-TRYPTAMINE HAVE RECENTLY BEEN FOUND IN Citrus bergamia. Source Dennis McKenna recently. Earl Gray!

Oops. Wrong Family of Plants. Well I also did an A/B of Faidherbia albida from 'Palestine'. Jesus! I'd say about 0.3 percent of Total Light from stem bark. Citric. Lye. Xylene. Fan Evap. Re X.

Was the dmt in the fruit? I guess it not that easy If so, what % was in there? Just get this feeling its not that easy, im guessing it would be pretty common in stores in that case. Is it safe if melatonin is in there? if one were to do an extraction could it be easy to seperate it from the dmt?

As a result of declining fertility and degraded soil, crops often fail or yields are low and farmers struggle to feed their families. With the impact of global warming, farmers have "never been less prepared," asserts Peter Aagaard, director of the Conservation Farming Unit (CFU), which is based in Zambia but has an increasing following in Malawi.
The solution, according to the CFU, lies in minimising soil disturbance, while boosting fertility through planting of the nitrogen-fixing acacia tree, Faidherbia albida.

one thing that's missing from this thread that i'd love to see is people's experience with brewing.

I promise I won't clutter the Thread zombi .
Seldom wrote:
Seldom, will you play us some didge if I tell you a short story?

A long time ago Mr nen and myself went for a bushwalk.
We found broken glass and plastic on the way and collected it in garbage bags. Eventually we came to a very old Dear Mother Tree. Her bark was so thick and fibrous. I stood in awe and Love. And nen said "I could never touch the trunk of such an ancient mother seed tree. She could be up to 250 years old! This one's not as fast growing in the wild as people say."
We nurtured her babies. We never took more than a little seed from her.
A few months later I went on a lone walk on a high mountain. I saw beautiful and rare Father trees. I did not want to take from them either. Then a voice said: "Look to the ground!" I saw many fallen leaves, some still green, others naturally dried. I collected about 9 handfulls. It was dry weather, so I didn't make a fire. I used a portable gas cooker to simmer the brown leaves for about half a night. Then I simmered it down the next day. That night I drank some with three spoons of Peganum neat. I followed the nen-method of intuition not exact measurement. It gave me a forceful but good Purge after half an hour. And wrapped me in a carpet of diamonds for as long as i needed. It was so much more gentle and forgiving than any other form of this medicine I've encountered. Except maybe cold infusion MamaAya and Chacruna Blanco.
Just be sure to leave some leaf for the tree.

And some Australian trees are more intense and less forgiving whatever you do. Know thy tree. Know what you are doing. And dieta.
And give back to the mother.

phyllode

which species of acacia did you use phyllode? gotta love the fallen leaves

In Egyptian myth the god Set tricked his brother, Osiris, into lying down in a sarcophagus. Set closed the lid and sent Osiris down the Nile River where he finally came to rest in an acacia. The tree grew around the coffin and eventually concealed it. The tree was noticed by a nearby queen for its lovely fragrance and was cut and shaped into a pillar (known as the “djed”) and placed in the palace. In her search for Osiris, Isis found and recovered the pillar and so conceived Horus.

In ancient inscriptions Osiris is referred to as “the solitary one in the acacia,” and as “the one in the tree.” Osiris came to rule over the dead; however, his soul was said to live on in the Benu, or Phoenix, which has been depicted sitting in the branches of a tree above the grave or coffin of Osiris.

Among the Swazi of southeast Africa, fetching the acacia is a yearly ritual celebrated by the whole tribe. According to strict taboo, only boys who have not engaged in sexual relations cut branches of the tree. The branches are then ceremoniously carried into the cattle byre, or kraal, the next day. The Tswana of southern Africa also engage in a similar ritual involving the hack-thorn, which is used to build and repair the fences of their kraal...

...The symbolic use of varieties of thorn trees is also found throughout Europe and the British Isles, which is well documented into modern times. Historically they have been used as boundary markers, hedgerows, fences, and enclosures.

Throughout Ireland and the British Isles, single thorn trees were planted on top of ancestral burial mounds, some the sites of public assemblies. In Europe thorn trees are associated with funerals and placed atop graves. Thorn trees are the centerpiece of much myth and folklore; for example, they are the home of fairies. These contexts reveal a few historic and more recent applications of meanings associated with the archetypal symbol of the thorn tree and suggest further reasons that among all trees the thorn tree carries special significance. We can find its rituals and archetypal associations in the folk traditions of Old May Day, a pagan holiday that, unlike most, was not synchretized by the patriarchal bias of the Church. The patriarchal appropriation of archetypal symbols is thus disputed as we carry the spirit home...

Posted on September 26, 2012 by inannamago | 3 Comments
Early Judaic and Islamic-based religions commonly denounced goddess worship. They simultaneously synchretized some of the same elements and locations associated with the pre-existing female deities they sought to defeat. The elder deities and sacred symbols were overlaid by patriarchal, male-dominated religions and have been held up as archetypes. I argue that these patriarchal patterns are better called “patriarchetypes” because they merely mask the true archetypes.

“He Who Dwelt in the Bush”: Thorn Trees in the Mosaic Tradition

Most people are familiar with the biblical accounts of Moses, the burning bush, and the Ark of the Covenant. Some may be aware that the Ark was made specifically out of shittim or acacia wood. What many people may not know is that acacias are thorn trees and that the burning-bush is also said to have been a thorn-bush. This is significant because not only were both considered to be the dwelling places of the Hebrew God, but even more so because in the ancient Middle and Near East thorn trees were first associated with and represented female deities.

The theophany of the burning-bush is found in Exodus 3:1-5 and again in Deuteronomy 33:16, where God is called “the Lord” and is referred to as “he who dwelt in the bush.” These references raise, yet do not answer, the question as to what kind of bush it was. To find the answer, we must look outside scripture. In “On the Life of Moses,” Philo wrote that the burning-bush “was a bush or briar, a very thorny plant,” and in the writings of the Roman historian Josephus, we find that “a fire fed upon a thorn bush.”

Later in Exodus, at Mt. Sinai, Yahweh instructed Moses to use acacia wood, a type of thorn tree, for the construction of the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred table, the tabernacle, and the altar. Where did this wood come from? According to Exodus 35:24, the Hebrews had it with them; “….every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.” No other scriptural explanation is given regarding the source of the acacia wood. Rabbinical literature, however, does explain that, on the way to Egypt, Jacob went to Beersheba to cut down and harvest the groves that were planted there by Abraham. This act was not without great purpose, as we find much later that it was taboo to cut trees still growing there because they were consecrated only for the Ark.

She Who Resides within the Tree: the Thorn Tree in Arabic Tradition

The history of the ritualistic use of thorn trees is indicative of their significance and raises questions regarding their symbolic meaning. Clues to the answers to these questions survived into much later times, as we find in pre-Islamic Arabia.

There are many biblical references to the abolition of goddess worship, and according to the Koran, the foundation of Mohammed’s teachings in the seventh century CE also depended on this abolition. During this time he ordered acacia trees to be destroyed along with the shrines of the goddesses Al-Uzza, Al-Lat, and Manat. Al-Uzza was the goddess of the Quraysh tribe and also a deity of the Ghatfan tribe, who worshipped her in the form of an acacia tree. The Ghatfan constructed a temple called “Boss” over this tree, built so that it made a sound whenever someone entered. Under the instruction of Mohammed, in 629 CE Khalid Ibn Walid, a loyal follower, destroyed the tree and the temple and killed the priestess.

The gum of acacia trees was highly valued for several reasons, including the belief that it was a clot of the tree’s menstrual blood. This indicates that the tree was considered to be a woman. Within Islamic tradition this parallel has multiple meanings, as, according to the Koran, God created man from a clot of blood (96: 1-2). At birth, the gum of the acacia, or haid, was used as an amulet, rubbed on the heads of newborn babies to keep them safe from the jinn. In similar ceremonies, the shaved heads of newborns were typically daubed with the blood of a sacrificial animal, such as a sheep.

Mohammed had ordered the destruction of temples and acacia trees of the goddesses, yet he himself stood beneath such thorny branches as followers swore to him the “oaths of the tree.”