#Mike Jay

[memoriae-lectoris]

In 1620 the Mexican Inquisition declared peyote a “heretical perversity… opposed to the purity and integrity of our Holy Catholic faith,” making it the first drug ever to be outlawed in the Americas—thereby launching the first battle in the war against certain plants that continues to this day.

The gravity with which the authorities treated peyote is plain from its inclusion on the list of questions priests put to penitent Indians to judge the state of their souls:

Art thou a sooth-sayer? . . .

Dost thou suck the blood of others?

Dost thou wander about at night, calling upon demons to help thee?

Hast thou drunk peyote, or given it to others to drink, in order to discover secrets . . . ?

Between 1620 and 1779, the Inquisition brought ninety cases against users of peyote in forty-five locations in the New World. The records of those cases suggest that raíz diabólica, the “diabolic root,” was used in one of two ways.

In the first, a curandero, or shaman, would use peyote for the purpose of healing or divination. According to Mike Jay, the author of Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic, “the clairvoyant power of the peyote trance was used to reveal the location of a missing object, the cause of an illness, the source of a bewitching, prognostication of weather or the outcome of battles.” Peyote brought knowledge that could help solve problems.

The second use was collective and ceremonial: missionaries reported scenes in which whole villages would sing and dance all night long under the influence of peyote. “To the hostile eyes of priests and missionaries these ‘feasts’ were no more than drunken orgies,” Jay writes. “More sympathetic witnesses would reveal them as ritual practices of astonishing complexity, woven deep into the fabric of the participants’ lives.”

[porgenspengler]

Made this as a joke to explain my thesis topic to my buddy

[thesparhawke]

'To comprehend the ravings of a madman,' he [Jacque-Joseph Moreau] wrote, 'it is necessary to have raved oneself, but without having lost the awareness of one's madness, without having lost the power to evaluate the psychic changes occurring in the mind.'

Mike Jay, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic

[iftadwascool]

no one fucking asked you you fucking cock sucker

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

These people never seem to tire of showing us what complete pieces of shit they are!

[horseplunko]

2017 vs. 2024. I can't believe they made a sequel guys

[fuckthatroomupgood]

they should invent a Pulitzer category for YouTube descriptions and give it to Mike Stoklasa every year

[jxitrash]

Ennard! My beloved!

[mikenzikes]

this audio but it's evan & mike from my AU and its about their dad </3 but anyways guys this is juuust a test so ignore the half-assedness of it all

[its-kinda-snowy]

Aren't you guys supposed to be VCR repairmen or something?

[redlettermediathings]

[lunabug2004]

If Mileven ends up being endgame, there are just so many things that need to be explained.

- The difference between Mike and Will's relationship compared with anyone else from s1.

- The fact that Finn and Noah were the some of the only two to have to do a chemistry test before being cast.

- Mike's reaction to El kissing him at the end of s3 (definitely not a "surprised but enjoying it" reaction).

- All the lying in Mike's monologue.

- El not talking to Mike for 2 whole days despite the fact that their whole conflict was supposed to be solved with the monologue.

- Keeping Mike's POV away from the viewers for so long.

- Redoing the whole "saying I love you is hard" plot for Mileven in s4 when Mike had already said it in s3.

- The last shot of s4 grouping Byler as a couple.

and a lot more (maybe I'll come back to this post and add more but I'm lazy rn)

[twixnmix]

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC photographed by Glen E. Friedman in New York City, 1987.

[doublydaring]

branching off from film criticism into ghost hunting

[mystycor]

Why don't you get it? Can't you get it? Understand.

[stupid-interrupted]

Just found this in the thrift store for cheap, anyone else want it, can't really tell what it's about. 【・_・?】

Quick lil drawing inspired by @/payaso/babas69 calico critter art ! This was fun to do lmao thinking up random hitb related stuff that would make sense. : P