Ayahuasca ramble

On the fence about this. "plant Medicine" because 'the plant medicine" ayahuasca can achieve 100% remission rates in long standing recidivist alcohol and opiate addicts. We can save a lot of lives

Gabor Mate MD

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ran an observational study on a group of indigenous addicts in Canada with the above cited spectacular results when they leaked the Trudeau government shut him down.

The most significant difference between ayahuasca and other entheogens is that no one would ever take ayahuasca for pleasure.

The physical effects inevitably include prolonged vomiting and massive peristalsis producing plosive gas and fecal extrusion.

(Plastic vomit buckets and convenient toilet facilities are essential at ayahuasca ceremonies.)

Ayahuasca is legal in the US today because Jeffrey Bronfman brought a case to SCOTUS after the feds seized a barrel of juice being shipped from Brazil.

https://www.npr.org/2013/04/25/177315132/controversy-brews-over-churchs-hallucinogenic-tea-ritual

So SCOTUS found the ayahuasca legitimate for sacramental use following the precedent established in the peyote ruling on behalf of the Native American church.

Jeffery Bronfman is Edgar "the music man" Bronfman's cousin, and his church was located on his property in a high end Santa Fe suburb.

Bronfman was, at the time of the SCOTUS ruling, the head of the US Branch of the Unio Vegetale - a Brazilian based Ayahuasca church

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni%C3%A3o_do_Vegetal

The UV (older memory warning) elevates (if not worships) intelligence found in plants -personified spirits called the doctores - the 'little doctors" the plant teachers. The personification of vegetable and animal and angelic spirits correspond roughly to the angelic hierarchies elaborated in the mystic doctrines of the three Abrahamic religions.

Ayahuasca / DMT appears to facilitate conscious contact with the mundis imaginalis, which has different names on different mystical systems. Christian systems suggest the mundus is a dangerous place to go without initial spiritual preparation, which preparation itself permits conscious contact and communications with varied and numerous inhabitants. Mechanical elves and whatnot.

DMT the principal active ingredient of ayahuasca is still schedule 1 illegal in the US. Very few researchers have been licensed to work with it, but those few had interesting initial reports. Patients to whom DMT was administered reported dramatic post treatment improvement in subjective experience of life and meaning and purpose.

TLdr Ayahuasca is legal in the US for sacramental use. To take requires serious spiritual purpose, "Plant Medicine" is exactly that; not a party drug. Thank Jeff Bronfman

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So, consider this preliminary question: "I have two children. One of them is a boy. What is the probability I have two boys?"

This is a much easier question, though a controversial one as I later discovered. After the gathering ended, Foshee's Tuesday boy problem became a hotly discussed topic on blogs around the world. The main bone of contention was how to properly interpret the question. The way Foshee meant it is, of all the families with one boy and exactly one other child, what proportion of those families have two boys?

To answer the question you need to first look at all the equally likely combinations of two children it is possible to have: BG, GB, BB or GG. The question states that one child is a boy. So we can eliminate the GG, leaving us with just three options: BG, GB and BB. One out of these three scenarios is BB, so the probability of the two boys is 1/3.

Judged on the originality of attendees' business cards, this is a pretty special event

Now we can repeat this technique for the original question. Let's list the equally likely possibilities of children, together with the days of the week they are born in. Let's call a boy born on a Tuesday a BTu. Our possible situations are:

When the first child is a BTu and the second is a girl born on any day of the week: there are seven different possibilities.

When the first child is a girl born on any day of the week and the second is a BTu: again, there are seven different possibilities.

When the first child is a BTu and the second is a boy born on any day of the week: again there are seven different possibilities.

Finally, there is the situation in which the first child is a boy born on any day of the week and the second child is a BTu – and this is where it gets interesting. There are seven different possibilities here too, but one of them – when both boys are born on a Tuesday – has already been counted when we considered the first to be a BTu and the second on any day of the week. So, since we are counting equally likely possibilities, we can only find an extra six possibilities here.

Summing up the totals, there are 7 + 7 + 7 + 6 = 27 different equally likely combinations of children with specified gender and birth day, and 13 of these combinations are two boys. So the answer is 13/27, which is very different from 1/3.

It seems remarkable that the probability of having two boys changes from 1/3 to 13/27 when the birth day of one boy is stated – yet it does, and it's quite a generous difference at that. In fact, if you repeat the question but specify a trait rarer than 1/7 (the chance of being born on a Tuesday), the closer the probability will approach 1/2.