'Headstuff' - How to be Good at Being Stoned

Volume 1: Meditation & Exploration'

Hi. I hope you all don't mind a plug for my book, whch is being released in a couple of weeks. If it's inappropriate to post here then do let me know and I'll pull the message.

'Headstuff' is a fascinating, easy-to-read guide to getting the best out of a Cannabis high. Although Cannabis has been used for over 3,500 years to help promote altered states and experiences, there is little literature that tells users how to explore it in this context. Life-long meditator, Simon Jackson, changes this by describing a range of techniques and practises from the Eastern Traditions that, stoned or straight, will help guide you towards deeper mental states - and also help you get the best high you can, every time. This book is a must for every serious cannabis user.

• What to do and not to do on the way up to a high.
  Getting rid of dope anxiety
  Coping with a bad high.
  Creating the best setting.
  Meditation & relaxation.
  Meditation techniques using sound, visualisations, etc.
  Pressure points for natural highs.
  A range of esoteric techniques to help aid mental exploration.

Executive size. 182 pages, 3 illustrations.
Print book: £24.99
Downloadable PDF: £19.99

'Headstuffd' is an imprint of:
Simian books
25 Player Street,
Ryde,
Isle of Wight
PO33 2JD

For sales and general enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Man hook me up.

Can you hook me up with some tips like, i'm lookin to spend 100$ on A relax night so what all can I get for 100 dollars to help me relax like around my room, I was gunna but maybe A q of weed and anything else?

For $100 you can get a 1/2 here.

Hi Justin, sounds like an interesting night.:) None of the below is going to cost more than a couple of dollars, spend 99% of your money on good dope! There are a lot of psychological tricks and things you could do to make the high better, but in terms of where you get stoned and what's in the room with you when you do, there are a few simple things to sort out - some of which I'm sure you'll already know.

1)No TV, telephones, loud music (unless it's fairly light, like Enya or Pink Floyd, which it's fine to listen to loud over headphones as a practise), or bright lights.
2)The temperature of wherever you're going to be has to be just high enough so that when the dope starts making you cold you stay comfortable. Have a spare jumper to hand just in case.
3)Eat well, about an hour before you start. Avoid sugary things like cookies and chocolate (avoid soda in particular before and during).
4) Incense will both set your mood and help the high along a lot, but if you're doing this with other people, make sure it's a flavour you all agree on.
5) Preferably get high alone.

Overall, avoid things that will make you think about anything else but being high.

MelT

Thanks Reaper for pointing that out.:) It's actually correct.

M

Thanks man there's some goos stuff in there and i'm going to do just that.:)

the thing u said about soda is true, it took me awhile to realise that i shouldn't be drinkin caffeine when i'm high if i wanted my high to last longer. But i do need tv and loud music when i'm high. Tv is much more enjoyable and i love bumpin my music when i'm high, it also feels like i'm way more into it.

Hi Weed. I know what you mean about things being a lot more invloving when you're ripped, especially music. It's a question really of what kind of music and what kind of TV, how invloved you become in them and in what way.

Each to his own:)

M

Books sounds awesome.

Hey man. What are your credentials if any? (just curious)

peace :)

hmmm sounds like a good book for some new weed smokers that are really afriad of having a "bad trip" or anxiety attack, but i have blazed in situations where it was incredibly heat like the back of a school bus, and still had a good time. I think it varies person to person.

you also have to remember half the people on this site are still kids and cant smoke at home where they have the option of incense, TV, choice of lighting or choice of temperature.

the most valuable info for them would be how to deal with paranoia...just a suggestion

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Hey man. What are your credentials if any? (just curious)

peace :)

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No problem, it's a fair question.

I've been a meditator (at first in a variety of traditions, I'm a Buddhist now) for 24 years, over the last 10 doing a Tibetan form called 'Dzogchen'. I've taught meditation here and there for about 15 years.

I've got a very strong interest in psychology and various aspects of meditation, in particular 'transcendent experiences', or glimpses of enlightenment, especially spontaneous ones. These are more common than you might think, and are more likely to happen to people when they're stoned, hence this book. It's about learning to do the right things to both help you have a good high and to help you begin to explore and promote altered states.

In the real world I write books on (and sometimes perform) mentalism and hypnosis for a living.

I've taken dope for 22 years (for the first few years eating resins). I've explored it and explored with it for all of that time and found it very useful as an aid to meditation of all levels. I've discovered quite a few meditation techniques along the way that're enhanced when you're stoned and that give interesting effects that are worth exploring. I want to share some of these. I found too that certain aspects of meditation helped to keep the high fresh. I'm a quite heavy, daily user (not sure if that's right to be honest, I have no comparison. I do, say 8 to 12 bongs per night over a 7 hour period), and have done for over 12 years. Avoiding developing tolerance to the high is important to me, I want to keep the high as good as I can get it. I really hope that what I've written will help everyone else do the same.

MelT

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hmmm sounds like a good book for some new weed smokers that are really afriad of having a "bad trip" or anxiety attack, but i have blazed in situations where it was incredibly heat like the back of a school bus, and still had a good time. I think it varies person to person.

you also have to remember half the people on this site are still kids and cant smoke at home where they have the option of incense, TV, choice of lighting or choice of temperature.

the most valuable info for them would be how to deal with paranoia...just a suggestion

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That's covered too. I look at all of the reasons for paranoia and general anxiety and show how to avoid them as much as possible.

I think that because I'm trying not to turn this into one long advert I'm not really describing the book in full. It covers a lot of ground to be honest. I hope I might have described it a bit better in my posting above. The things I was talking about with regard to setting and the high is just one tiny part of it. I have to cover basic things to make it a broad book and help those who are new to dope - but on the whole it's about getting a good high and learning how to seriously explore consciousness, not just having the right incense. :)

MelT

I think mental exploration is a little more complicated than "24.99".

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I think mental exploration is a little more complicated than "24.99".

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Mental exploration is actually free:) but I know what you mean. This book is volume 1 and covers many of the basics that any meditator would need to learn in the first three years of practise in say, a Mahayana setting. It also explains some practises from Tantra, and later Atiyoga, and looks at 'View' and its role in the enlightenment experience. I don't think that's a bad start for 24.99:)

I've practised very seriously as a meditator for a long time, spending 6 years almost entirely alone at one point to concentrate on my studies, But although I learned more and more along the way, it quickly became apparent - and what higher teachings point out - that what's needed to be done to reach realisation, and to explore, is to do less; and that the process is simpler than it seems if you go about it in the right way.

In Chinese traditions they call this understanding that you don't have to spend years traveling the world as a monk to discover that the means to realisation is already within your own mind, the "Monk leaving home with a precious jewel (enlightenment) sown in the hem of his clothes"

The simplest means and auspicious circumstances, not lifetimes, and bookfulls, of searching.

What I've written and will write in volume two I would hope would be a good grounding-to-intermediate level book for anyone wanting to do mental exploration/ meditation. No the be all and end all, of course not when there are books by Leary et al, but I really believe that I've covered a quite extensive area of exploration of the dope high.

MelT

This sounds brilliant to me, although unfortunately I'm not sure I'd spend that kind of money on it. It really is a bummer that information like this doesn't come for free. As a general query though, do you ship to Australia, and if so, what would it cost me? Thanks.

Peace.

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This sounds brilliant to me, although unfortunately I'm not sure I'd spend that kind of money on it. It really is a bummer that information like this doesn't come for free. As a general query though, do you ship to Australia, and if so, what would it cost me? Thanks.

Peace.

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I think that most people are going for the PDF at £19.99 rather than the print book, much easier to hide on a disc if necessary. Once the sales site is up and running that'll be a much cheaper option and no postage costs either.
Whereabouts in Oz are you? My family is in Bris'.

MelT

MelT do you have a AIM i could chat to you on??

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MelT do you have a AIM i could chat to you on??

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We could do it over messages here? Or do you want an email address? What's up?

MelT

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No problem, it's a fair question.

I've been a meditator (at first in a variety of traditions, I'm a Buddhist now) for 24 years, over the last 10 doing a Tibetan form called 'Dzogchen'. I've taught meditation here and there for about 15 years.

I've got a very strong interest in psychology and various aspects of meditation, in particular 'transcendent experiences', or glimpses of enlightenment, especially spontaneous ones. These are more common than you might think, and are more likely to happen to people when they're stoned, hence this book. It's about learning to do the right things to both help you have a good high and to help you begin to explore and promote altered states.

In the real world I write books on (and sometimes perform) mentalism and hypnosis for a living.

I've taken dope for 22 years (for the first few years eating resins). I've explored it and explored with it for all of that time and found it very useful as an aid to meditation of all levels. I've discovered quite a few meditation techniques along the way that're enhanced when you're stoned and that give interesting effects that are worth exploring. I want to share some of these. I found too that certain aspects of meditation helped to keep the high fresh. I'm a quite heavy, daily user (not sure if that's right to be honest, I have no comparison. I do, say 8 to 12 bongs per night over a 7 hour period), and have done for over 12 years. Avoiding developing tolerance to the high is important to me, I want to keep the high as good as I can get it. I really hope that what I've written will help everyone else do the same.

MelT

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see thats pretty cool man. I think I'll buy it. :) :rasta:

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I think that most people are going for the PDF at £19.99 rather than the print book

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Ah, sorry, I missed that.

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Whereabouts in Oz are you? My family is in Bris'.

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I'm down in Adelaide, South Aus. There's surprisingly good weed down here considering we're the dryest state of the dryest continent! :)

I'm now seriously considering buying the PDF.

Peace

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For $100 you can get a 1/2 here.

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damn here in kc u could get 2 ouncez of some good reggie 4 100$

sounds like good book

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damn here in kc u could get 2 ouncez of some good reggie 4 100$

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I just paid £100 UK for a half.:( I have to use this guy though - Regular supply, perfect weights, no other choices, etc.

MelT

Hi All.

Excuse my ignorance of these things, I'm pretty out of touch (was I ever IN touch?) The book is just about to come out and I have to start doing real world stuff, like getting reviews and endorsements.:( I'd be interested to hear everyone's thoughts about who you would consider to be a good endorsement of a book like this, who's opinion you'd trust?

Thanks,
Mel

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the thing u said about soda is true, it took me awhile to realise that i shouldn't be drinkin caffeine when i'm high if i wanted my high to last longer

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I wish I knew that today. I smoked my last joint for september before my break (me and my friends are all taking a 1 month break, i'm not going to last but I can try). I had 2 cups of coffee and everything was good until 2nd period in school when I crashed hard and bad. I couldn't stop frowning and I couldn't hold still. My eyes were puffy and I felt like shit. I'll remember for next time it was the coffee that caused it.

Thanks for the tips, keep smoking :rasta:

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I just paid £100 UK for a half. I have to use this guy though - Regular supply, perfect weights, no other choices, etc.

MelT

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Oh man, thats alot, i can get 1/2 for £70 of fairly decent bud. Normally blueberry.
where you livin ?
Can i pick this book up from like a waterstones in birmingham ?

interesting

That book sounds awesome! We should make a thread and try to make out own list of good things to do while stoned (or how to make you're high more enjoyable), and see others opinions. It's probly been done though

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For $100 you can get a 1/2 here.

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Around here you can get either an O of Decent Schwag for $100, or you can get a 1/2 of pretty good dank for $100..

Convert knowledge to book. Convert books to cash. Convert cash to marijuana. In a roundabout way, you're converting knowledge to pot! Good job! ;)

melt.. whats with these pressure points for natural highs? how does that work?

Hi Zoosh. Yeah, it's a shame about the price I have to pay. It's not easy getting hooked up to anyone reliable here. I spend about £300 a month on it, though it is always good stuff, if I were paying proper prices I could save nearly half of that.
I'm told that there's a bit of a drought on in the south UK due to poor crops and a couple of big busts. Anyone else having trouble finding any?

MelT

not anymore :stoned:

Hi Budbreath. The pressure points thing is interesting. I discoverd them about 15 years ago and I've tried to find mention of them in places like acupuncture, shiatsu, Aryuedic medicine, neurology, physiology, martial arts, etc, but nothing. Once you know where they are and how to manipulate them it's easy to get a reasonable little hit out of them. Stoned the effects are a lot more pronounced. It's hard describing how they feel, I suppose just as hard as desribing a dope high, but it is very similar to being stoned, though the effects are short lived unless you keep using them every ten minutes or so. Dreamy, quite 'fixed', relaxing and very pleasant.

The book has an international ISBN so you should be able to order it at any bookshop. The PDF version is being released online first though, which I think most people will go for as it's instant download and about £5 cheaper. Urrr..hang on now...I'm shooting myself in the foot here:) No, what I mean is that you MUST buy the more expensive version...LOL:)

MelT

Hi again. Seems a long time since I last posted here. I finally got my hands on some promotional copies of the book and wanted to give a couple away. I think the best way to do it maybe is if anyone who wants one sends me a mail - or even just posts and says 'yes' here. I'll get my wife to pick a couple of names at random next week and send out copies. Hope you enjoy it:)

Very surreal finally seeing it in print...

MelT