u/ProfAmateur1982

Image 1 — Some cool cactus glasses from my job
Image 2 — Some cool cactus glasses from my job
Image 3 — Some cool cactus glasses from my job

Some cool cactus glasses from my job

Just started working at my new job a bit over a month ago. We do everything beer paraphernalia related. They put free stuff in the breakroom throughout the week. Here are two cactus glasses I've found so far and a shot of the rest of my desk.

u/ProfAmateur1982 — 2 days ago

I decided to make a closed living vivarium in this pickle jar. I got some ideas for a little staging. I even found a little mushroom cap and crushed it in there in hopes the spores will spread.

Can't wait to watch it do it's thing! Thanks for the inspiration!

u/ProfAmateur1982 — 9 days ago

Some marco shots of an L. Williamsii graft flowering. Currently blowing up with a new flower every other day.

u/ProfAmateur1982 — 12 days ago

I decided I hated growing salvia because it's so temperamental. So it got the chop (saved some) and its tent became another cactus tent. Ahahahahah!!!!

Short guys in the smallest tent, medium guys in the big tent, and tall boys in the bathroom setup. I put the salvia off to the side in the bathroom. Maybe it will do ok in there.

But man, I'm loving this setup now 🤩🤙🏻🌵

u/ProfAmateur1982 — 12 days ago

Psycho0 was getting too tall for my indoor grow and Sal's Pachonai x (Helon x SS02) has scale climbing up. So I chopped the tip to hopefully stop it.

Happy cactusing 🤙🏻✌🏻🌵

u/ProfAmateur1982 — 12 days ago

I've been practicing Shamanism for a little over a year now. I used its practices of healing and it helped me get sober from alcohol after years of struggling. I've continued to practice it and learn from it over the past year.

In one session I was trying to make it to the Upper World and the visions were getting intense and muddled with Mid world imagery. I asked for a helping spirit to come and guide me. A spirit named Yahweh came to me. She cloaked herself over me and I experienced immense peace. She helped guide me and has stayed with me ever since. (I know her name has religious context, but I'm not religious and that's not how I took her name. I asked her name and she said Yahweh.)

Today, I got home from work around 4:25pm. I was experiencing a good amount of anxiety and a super tight chest. Then I remembered to continue my practice and meditate. That was around 7pm. I took my Tibetan meditation bowl into the my cactus room (I grow cacti. Just love them) and turned off all the lights. I purified myself with nicotine vapor and asked for healing of this anxiety. I prayed to the helping spirits.

I began to use the bowl and soon I was rocking back and forth uncontrollably as I pushed the rod around the bowl. It was getting intense and all of a sudden I heard “Breathe it out”. I began breathing out deeply as I rocked. Over and over, for what seemed like quite a long time. I thought “this is getting intense. There's still a tightness in my chest.” I heard “that's just energy”. So I continued breathing deeply and rocking as I used the bowl. I thought “how long is this going to last”. Shortly after that I heard “let go” and I stopped using the bowl. I put the ringing bowl close to my temple and continued to breathe deeply. I was tired. Then I heard “sit with it”. So I sat in the cactus room, in the dark, for a bit. All of a sudden my chest filled with warmth and I felt the tightness leave my chest. I realized I was holding a ton of nervous energy. The rocking and breathing let it all out. I sat there for a while longer and came back out.

I told this account to my wife, and as I did, I began to cry happy tears. Meditation and Shamanism are so wonderful. The more I practice them, the more they reveal their wonders to me.

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u/ProfAmateur1982 — 15 days ago