my first video ever on L.V.
To: Rick you are my heart

Please watch Episode 1 first, then this one and then procede to Episode 3 for the conclusion of tonights story.
We decided to try it one more time, but the scene disintegrated quickly after a glass of   more...wine, a big meal, and my friends still THINKING about food! Many thanks to the real star of Episode 1 and 2- Miss Chande' Lier!
(No lighting fixtures were harmed while shooting this video..:)  less

Fun clips of Lil Dolly

I will never forget you buddy...

Rick Strassman, M.D. ( http://www.rickstrassman.com/ )

Rick Strassman was permitted to embark on the first human research with psychedelic, hallucinogenic, or entheogenic substances in the 1990s in the   more...United States after 20 years' intermission in the field. In the intermission period it has only been legally possible to research on animals.

Strassman's studies investigated the effects of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a powerful entheogen, or psychedelic, that he theorizes is a substance produced by the human brain in the pineal gland (without any conclusive proof), and an active ingredient in ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is any of the various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from the Banisteriopsis spp. vine, native to the Amazon Rainforest (which is also called ayahuasca). The resulting drinks are pharmacologically complex and used for shamanic, folk-medicinal, and religious purposes. Occidental ethno-biologists have noted a variety of 200-300 plants used in the different brews made by the Ayahuasceras. It is an open question whether Ayahuasca should be noted as one particular shamanic medicinal brew, or that it should be noted as an entire medicinal tradition alongside, for instance, Ayurveda or Tibetan Medicine.

During the project's five years, he administered approximately 400 doses of DMT to 60 human volunteers. This research took place at the University of New Mexico's School of Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he was tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Strassman has conjectured that when a person is approaching death, the pineal gland releases DMT, accounting for much of the imagery reported by survivors of near-death experiences.

Strassan wrote about the research program in his book DMT: The Sprit Molecule. A documentary movie based on this book is currently in production.

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Cottonwood Research Foundation ( http://cottonwoodresearch.org/ )

The Cottonwood Research Foundation, Inc.
PO Box 1100, Taos, New Mexico, 87571

cottonwood@cottonwoodresearch.org

Rick Strassman MD, President
Steve Barker PhD, Vice-President
Andrew Stone, Treasurer


Dear Friends:

Consciousness is a subject of increasing scientific inquiry in the West. One particular aspect of this research involves how psychoactive medicines affect consciousness. We at the Cottonwood Research Foundation will begin to address some of the most perplexing mysteries of the human mind with the aid of plant-based psychoactive compounds. For example, What are the varieties of human consciousness, and their genetic, biochemical and physiological bases? What are the medical, social, and spiritual implications of these different states, and how can we best apply these states towards healing, creativity, and greater wisdom?

For thousands of years, historical and indigenous cultures have used plant medicines to reliably induce extraordinarily compelling non-ordinary and mystical states of consciousness. Western science has only begun to tap the vast resources of traditional knowledge regarding these plants and their effects. By bringing to bear multiple scientific, anthropological, and spiritual perspectives, we will pursue several important goals: 1) develop a more thorough understanding of these plants’ psychological and physical healing properties; 2) explore the states they elicit, in order to gain a deeper and broader understanding of the range of human consciousness; 3) determine how plant-based psychoactive medicines affect consciousness; and 4) clarify the role these compounds, found in our own bodies, play in dreams, mystical and near-death states, creativity, and mental illness.

The work I performed during the early-1990’s at the University of New Mexico with DMT, a naturally occurring psychoactive, was the first new clinical research with these compounds in the US in two decades. Our founding of Cottonwood is intend  less

Please view episodes 1 and 2 first, then come back to episode three for the conclusion of tonights story.

In episode 3, we realize that we really are good friends. Once we start laughing, it's all over!   more...Watch as Elliott hams it up... blame it on the wine we had with dinner, El?
After an hour or more of trying, we decide that the UFO would have to wait until another time and place. Perhaps in a parallel universe..:)
The big problem of shooting with really close friends, is that we laugh off little annoyances, instead of grumbling. It's supposed to be fun, isn't it?
So we started to wrap for the night, when someone nearby yelled,"There's a light in the sky and it's moving really fast!" Here we go again! (No lighting fixtures were harmed while shooting this video..:)  less

zOMG! you are just about to be RICK ROLLED! LOL..nah,its just me again and ASTLEY it is again..with the 'schlock' fashion and with the special reappearance of my sexy bunny..LMAO! ENJOY!!..wait, did I   more...say that first one was the last Rick Astley I will do? NAHHH!!!! LMAO!  less

Whaha!..Isnt it COOL to be Rick Astley even if for once?..C'mon peeps, you KNOW this song..Sing and Dance along with me then! Wooo!!..inspired by and dedicated to these 2 lovely LV ladies: Nancy (surfcottage)   more...and Lynn (MyLady)!!  less

When I was 18, I worked at a camp run by the United Cerebral Palsy of New York. There, I met many brave folk like Rick Hoyt. They deserve our respect, but more than anything, they deserve our friendship   more...and understanding. Please visit the following sites to meet one of the friends I made when working at that camp.
<a href="http://www.capacityworks.com/bobsmith.html">Profile of Courage: Bob Smith</a>
<a href="http://handmadepoetry.com/speaker.html">HandMade Poetry, by Bobby Smith</a>

I am posting this video here to help spread its message of inclusion

Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together compete just about continuously in marathon races. And if they're not in a marathon they are in a triathlon- that daunting, almost superhuman, combination of 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of bicycling, and 2.4 miles of swimming. Together they have climbed mountains, and once trekked 3,735 miles across America.

It's a remarkable record of exertion- all the more so when you consider that Rick can't walk or talk.

At Rick’s birth in 1962 the umbilical cord coiled around his neck and cut off oxygen to his brain. Dick and his wife, Judy, were told that there would be no hope for their child’s development.

"It’s been a story of exclusion ever since he was born," Dick told me. "When he was eight months old the doctors told us we should just put him away — he’d be a vegetable all his life, that sort of thing. Well those doctors are not alive any more, but I would like them to be able to see Rick now."

The couple brought their son home determined to raise him as "normally" as possible. Dick remembers the struggle to get the local school authorities to agree: "Because he couldn’t talk they thought he wouldn’t be able to understand, but that wasn’t true

A group of Tufts University engineers came to the rescue, once they had seen some clear, empirical evidence of Rick’s comprehension skills. "They told him a joke," said Dick. "Rick just cracked up. They knew then that he could communicate!" The engineers went on to build an interactive computer that would allow Rick to write out his thoughts using the slight head-movements that he could manage. Rick came to call it "my communicator."

In 1975, Rick was finally admitted into a public school. Two years later, he told his father he wanted to participate in a five-mile benefit run for a local lacrosse player who had been paralyzed in an accident. Dick, far from being a long-distance runner, agreed to push Rick in his wheelchair. They finished next to last, but they felt they had achieved a triumph. That night, Dick remembers, "Rick told us he just didn’t feel handicapped when we were competing."

Rick’s own accomplishments, quite apart from the duo’s continuing athletic success, have included his moving on from high school to Boston University, where he graduated in 1993 with a degree in special education.

Rick now works at Boston College’s computer laboratory helping to develop a system codenamed "Eagle Eyes," through which mechanical aids (like for instance a powered wheelchair) could be controlled by a paralyzed person’s eye-movements, when linked-up to a computer.

Together the Hoyts don’t only compete athletically; they also go on motivational speaking tours, spreading the Hoyt brand of inspiration to all kinds of audiences, sporting and non-sporting, across the country.

Rick himself is confident that his visibility — and his father’s dedication — perform a forceful, valuable purpose in a world that is too often divisive and exclusionary. He typed a simple parting thought:
"The message of Team Hoyt is that everybody should be included in everyday life."

David Tereshchuk is a documentary television producer who has worked with the Hoyts in spreading their message through the media.

To purchase Team Hoyt Videos and books, please visit the <a href="http://www.teamhoyt.com"> Team Hoyt Web Site.</a>  less

Please watch all three Episodes for the complete story.
We learned a few lessons while trying to shoot this series of videos about the UFO. In episode 1, we realized that no matter how many times you shoot   more...a scene, anything that can go wrong-will. The best of the worst is take 1. (No lighting fixtures were harmed while making this video..:)  less

comedy about massage..funny

Iceman's memorial page is <a href="http://www.rottendeadmc.com/?p=38" target="_blank">http://www.rottendeadmc.com/?p=38</a>. Please feel free to vist and leave your comments.

A clip from "American Drug War: The Last White Hope" by Kevin Booth, Sacred Cow Productions.
americandrugwar.com

This is Stevie!! His first performance :-)
Yes he is related to Michael... they are brothers!!!!

See what happens when someone goes crazy with the "Miracle Grow"!!!

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A look at some of the scences which where left out of Star Trek Nemesis

TAMIK has acquired some new blingery which he exhibits to his father.

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Rick Burnley, poet laureate of Camp Casey, performs before Atlanta crowd of supporters during Cindy Sheehan's Journey for Humanity tour across the US.

RICK ROLL!

IF YOU ARE WATCHING THIS OR ANY OTHER RICK ROLL VIDEO, CONSIDER YOURSELF RICK ROLLED

HENRY WHO LIKED THE LADYS....WELL YOU KNOW WHATS HAPPENS AFTER ALL THAT (HOWS-YOUR-FATHER)...COMES TO US ALL LOL

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