The other weekend I went back to my hometown to kick it with all of my old stoner buddies from high school and they were all about smoking salvia, a pretty gnarly pyschoative herb that is somwhat surprisingly legal to purchase here in California. I was familiar with salvia from reading Daniel Pinchbeck’s Breaking Open the Head, but I figured the shit they had bought at the local head shop was probably a stepped on, watered down version of the real shit that would do nothing more than give them a headache and a cough. But man, was I wrong. One after the other, I watched my buddies take a quick spin outside of the universe, and seemingly outside of themselves. They laid back like zombies and pawed at the air, all the while reacting to unseen foes and landscapes. At first I thought they were just fucking around, but when I saw the fear in their eyes and the utter amazement of their countenances when they inevitably returned to earth I knew that shit was no joke. I stuck to Bud Light, thank you very much. Apparently though, Willows isn’t the only place that seems to be fucking with salvia. In fact, there is a whole series of YouTube videos featuring people trying to do every day tasks such as driving and gardening, immediately after taking a big rip of salvia. Check it out, but seriously, I don’t recommend fucking with salvia unless you want to question your entire existence. When it comes to psychedelic drugs, I can tell you from firsthand experience that some doors once opened can never be closed. But hey, if you’re feeling adventurous, give it a rip and maybe you’ll see the end of the world. Fuck it.

Despite being one of the foremost recent repopularizers of the idea that the year 2012, which marks the end of the 13th cycle of the Mayan Longcount Calendar, will bring about some sort of apocalyptic event, author Daniel Pinchbeck doesn’t seem so sure in a recent article posted to his Reality Sandwich website in which he calls 2012 a “useful meme:”

My view is that “2012″ is useful as a meme if it helps us to catalyze a shift in global culture and consciousness. Rather than fretting about what may or may not happen on that date, we should concentrate on the work that needs to be done now, on an inner as well as outer level.

Oh well. I wasn’t really looking forward to that kind of crazy shit anyway. Bird gods and all that.

Apparently, the Denver International Airport is not just a big ass airport. Depending on who you ask, it’s also a centerpiece of Masonic plans for a new world order; the facade of a vast underground lair housing human slaves, a race of reptile overlords or an Ark-like safe haven for the chosen few to be used during the forthcoming apocalypse; or just another purposely cryptic propaganda tool used to divert people’s attention from more mundane, but no less terrifying, corporate/government schemes. All things being equal, I’m gonna pull for the Reptile Overlords one. Anyway, you should watch this video, to learn more about the seemingly bizarre things cracking at DIA:

Not everyone’s convinced though. And, I’ll admit, some of that shit sounds zany. But even the biggest skeptic has to admit that some of the shit at Denver International is a little bizarre. Such as:

The Masonic Capstone in the airport’s “Great Hall” (a term also used by Masons to reference their lodges) that was dedicated by the New World Airports Commission, and features some supremely alienesque artwork

As shown in depth in the video above, some of the artwork at the airport is a little on the “dark” side, showing among other things, a gas masked, “Nazi” type soldier standing in the foreground of a destroyed, burning city surrounded by women holding dead babies

Dead children in coffins, including a Jewish girl with a star of David on her chest, holding a bible and shamrocks

And even Quetzalcoatl makes a surprise appearance. 2012 anyone? Someone call Daniel Pinchbeck ASAP

If you’ve taken a moment to download Issue #8 of the amazing Synthesis Digital (which of course you have) and read Ryan Prado’s amazing cover story on post-emo hellions Circa Survive, you might find yourself wondering what the F all this shit about Daniel Pinchbeck and 2012 and apocalypse is all about. The above video is something of a primer to Pinchbeck’s bizarre, but somewhat enthralling view of the future and the past. For more check out his new website, Reality Sandwich.