Praxis. wrote:entheogenic-gnosis wrote:However over the years this has turned into a community service organization, we do "project warm winter" which is where we give blankets, sleeping bags, and coats to.the homeless, then we have "food not bombs" style vegan feedings, we set up in a park with a large amount of hot vegan food, and give it to.anybody who wants it...one of our members wants to start "dot coms not bombs" where we would work to provide internet access for low income families...
I guess it's still an Entheogenic organization, in the sense that entheogens are central to many of our "members" lives, but it's turned into an outlet for our members to try to improve their communities or help others...
That's awesome! I'd love to be a part of something like this in the future.
I think legal risks could be largely avoided given that the group is smart about not encouraging illegal activity. IMO if we want to work towards integrating psychedelics into our culture in a meaningful way we have to start by creating community. With legal weed taking off in so many places and attitudes about drug use shifting dramatically, I think the climate is ideal for this kind of engagement.
we really just did not know what else to do with ourselves, some of us felt selfish just taking entheogens in the woods, far from the whole of humanity, and decided we needed to engage in selfless acts...
"Project warm winter" was easy, we just had all our friends and family give us their old blankets and coats...at first we just went to skid row to give it away, but most the homeless wouldn't take it...they don't like to be weighed down by bulky stuff, so we adjusted our strategy, any time I would give panhandlers money I would ask "do you needs coats, blankets, sleeping bags?" If they said yes I would say "meet us here in 10 minutes and bring your friends", this way we ended up helping more young people, traveling youth, etc...
For "food not bombs" style feedings, you just have to know a person who works at a bagel or bread store, ask them to save the "throw out" food for you (which is only a day old, and would go in the trash if we did not take it) we collect this stuff, then usually pool together resources to make a hot vegetable soup, mashed potatoes, fresh bread, cookies, etc...then just set up in a park, and feed who ever shows up, we set up in parks known for homeless, drug users, transients, etc...people who need a good meal, the down and out.
I don't think we have publicly promoted psychedelics...nobody ever really asks about who we are or why we are giving away free stuff, they are just happy to be helped.
One of our concept goals is to start a "free-store", similar to the "free-store" that the diggers established in the Haight-Ashbury in the mid 1960s...food, blankets, books, furniture, clothing, and so on, like a thrift store only nobody has to pay.
( The diggers would also give out these wooden squares on some yarn to wear around your neck, it was the "free frame of reference", anything that you focus in that frame you should ask "what if it were free?" )
...you don't need an organization to help people.
-eg
Some anarcho concepts that have stuck with us:
The crown and down:
Three arrows crossed over and facing down seperated from the top, a crown, by a string of barbed wire, is a symbol of the division of our classes by the uneven distribution of inherent wealth. it is a means of identifying with others who believe in the preference of people over money and the possibility of happiness during stretches of poverty.
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