During the 1970s through the 1990s, it was reported that impure brown heroin contaminated with fungi was causing fungal infections within users, according to Stuart Levitz, MD, professor of medicine and microbiology & physiological systems at the University of Massachusetts.
Dr. Levitz explained;
“During that period, the heroin supply was relatively impure, and people would use lemon juice to dissolve it,” said Levitz, whose research and clinical interest is in fungal infections. “It was believed the lemon juice got contaminated with candida, and drug users were injecting candida into their bloodstream and getting Candida infections. But, the problem went away when the heroin supply became much purer.”
According to the 2018 study by the University of Massachusetts Medical School and published by the CDC, infectious disease, Levitz and his colleagues identified a re-emergence of fungal infections associated with illicit intravenous drug use in a review of candida in patients at UMass Memorial Medical Center. After analyzing198 cases of fungal infections over a 7 year period in patients 14 or older. (1,2)
An unexpectedly large number of patients, 24, had a history of illicit intravenous drug use.
“The take-home point from the study is not necessarily that we compared 24 patients with intravenous drug use to 174 without. It’s the fact that we had 24 patients who were using IV drugs and suffered from Candida infections,” Levitz added. “In addition, nine of the 24 cases were in the last year of the study in correspondence with the surging opioid crisis.”
The researchers concluded, “These cases emphasize that in addition to overdoses, infections remain a serious cause of illness and death for intravenous drug users.”
Interestingly, many of the mental issues and drug psychosis that drug addicts complain of can be easily connected to symptoms associated with a fungal infection. For example, many addicts complain of bugs, parasites, and or mites biting them and eating their organs, such as their brains.
These symptoms are common with METH, cocaine, and heroin addicts, and they are all different drugs. That is why I contend with my supporting research that it is not the drug causing these health conditions and mental illnesses, but the fungal infection within users as a result of doing the drug.
When you look at before and after images of addicts, it does not matter if they are heroin addicts, meth addicts, or cocaine addicts, they all start to “look the same and act very similar or the same”.
Here are some before and after images of heroin addicts.
Now, this is a cocaine addict.
And Meth addicts all look very simlar or the same, which I contend is because they all have fungal infections.
It has been well documented for several decades in the U.S. that systemic candida infections cause skin lesions and even brain abscesses, so heroin addicts, just like METH and other addicts who are complaining of these symptoms, should not be automatically considered crazy and or psychotic by ignorant doctors who have not read the science.
The facts are that obtaining a severe fungal infection from using drugs has been well known for decades in the United States. For example, astudy from 1992 discovered that drugs like heroin are already infected with various genus’ of microscopic fungi even before it gets to the nose, lungs, and or blood of a user. Meaning, that when a heroin addict snorts, smokes, and or injects it, they are also injecting the live fungi that are already growing on the heroin into his or her bloodstream.
The researchers studied “the fungal spectrum of brown and white heroin and cocaine sold in the streets of Spain to analyze the extent of adulteration, as well as their toxicological potential. They found that of the 205 drug samples cultured in the appropriate medium grew 91 colonies of micellar fungi from 53 taxa, of which only 8 were found in the 3 types of drugs.”
“Statistical analyses revealed brown heroin to be significantly more contaminated by fungi on the basis of numbers of colonies per milligram of sample than the other two drugs. Forty-five of the 54 taxa isolated were found in brown heroin, with 275 colonies,” according to the study.
Samples of white heroin contained 68 colonies of 18 taxa, while cocaine samples included 48 colonies of 13 taxa. The potential pathogenicity to man of the different isolated taxa includes allergies, pulmonary mycosis, sporosis, systemic or subcutaneous mucormycosis, and asthma.
The researchers concluded, “The fact that brown heroin is more contaminated and heterogeneous in the taxa found in its samples suggests that the contaminants may be introduced during its synthesis or during adulteration with contaminated substances.” (3)
In 1987, researchers sounded the alarm when “a case of Candida albicans endocarditis is described which developed in a heroin addict with aortic valvulopathy after an episode of cutaneous and chondrocostal candidiasis related to the use of “brown” heroin.
The researchers said, “To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in the English literature. This complication should be suspected in all heroin addicts with this new syndrome, especially if valvulopathy is present.” (4)
A 1992 study of disseminated candidiasis was diagnosed in 83 heroin addicts from November 1983 to April 1990. All patients had consumed brown heroin diluted in fresh lemon juice.
Sixty-two (75%) had skin lesions, 41 (49%) had ocular lesions, and 35 (42%) had one or several costochondral tumors. Candida albicans was grown in culture or histopathologically identified in 34 cases (41%). The patients who had only cutaneous lesions were treated with ketoconazole, and they were all cured. The patients with ocular involvement received systemic amphotericin B with or without oral flucytosine; 29 of these patients developed varying degrees of vision loss.
The researchers concluded, “This is a new syndrome of candidal infection in drug addicts who use brown heroin; ocular lesions are the most harmful manifestation, and loss of vision is the major sequela.” (5)
When my six-year-old son who never took heroin or any illegal drug for that matter, was sick due to toxic mold from a home we rented in Carlsbad, California, one of his major symptoms was that he complained was vision loss and as if he was in a tunnel and his vision was seriously impaired. These vision loss episodes would happen “sporadically,” so when I read the research that heroin addicts suffer from ocular lesions and loss of vision from fungal infections, it made perfect sense.
In 1983, researchers reported about a 21-year old heroin addict from Brittain who was losing his vision has the result of a candida fungal infection. The physicians handling this your man’s case discovered that a white fungus was literally starting to cover his eyeball.
What was really weird was that “there was no evidence of yeasts or other fungi in blood or urine. Serum precipitin tests for candida and aspergillus were also negative.”
A week later, as the eye continued to deteriorate, they were able to culture the white growth to get a specimen from the heroin addict’s eyes. The researcher stated, “In this specimen, a few budding yeasts with occasional short pseudohyphae were seen in the Gram-stained tissue, and cultures produced pure growth of Candida albicans.” (6)
The doctors ended up curing and restoring the man’s vision with the antifungal drugs 5-fluorocytosine (150mg/day in 3 doses) and ketoconazole (200 mg/kg/day oral administration).
Researchers have documented how these heroin addicts developed fungal infections causing skin abscesses, pyomyositis, spondylodiscitis, septic arthritis, costal osteomyelitis, infective endocarditis, recurrent bacteraemia, and multiple brain abscesses. (7)
Last but not least, there are many reports that the heroin supply has been intentionally contaminated with fungal pathogens and some growers like in Afghanistan even suspect foul play by the U.S.
The article stated, “When the report of the fungus was first published, a reliable source directed the author of this article to the Sunshine Project, a now suspended non-profit organisation. In 2000, the international NGO had published a report about “dangerous US fungus experiments”, warning against the potentially harmful impact of the fungus on biodiversity in the target drug-producing regions.
The report said: “The strains of the fungi fusarium oxysporum and pleospora papveracae might infect and kill plants other than coca, poppy, and cannabis in ecologically sensitive areas of Asia and the Americas.”
Whether this is true, I cannot comment, but what we can be certain of is that this fungal infected heroin is still making its way onto the black market and into people’s noses, lungs, eyes, brains, and blood.
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In 2015, researchers reported that a heroin addict died from a fungus/mold growing within his brain and body as a result of smoking the contaminated drug.
According to UC Health, “When the patient’s autopsy report came back to the neurologists, they saw the damage: broad ribbon-like branches of fungus extended throughout the brain tissues.
Areas of dying tissue (necrosis) and bleeding (hemorrhage) had caused the fatal brain swelling.
The fungus was identified as zygomycosis.”
Cerebral mucormycosis is a rare entity usually seen in intravenous drug users.
According to the CDC, “Mucormycosis (previously called zygomycosis) is a serious but rare fungal infection caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes. These molds live throughout the environment. Mucormycosis mainly affects people who have health problems or take medicines that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness.
It most commonly affects the sinuses or the lungs after inhaling fungal spores from the air, or the skin after the fungus enters the skin through a cut, burn, or other type of skin injury. However, it can occur in nearly any part of the body.”
How did fungi typically found in the soil (in decaying leaves, compost, or rotten wood) get into the brain of this heroin user?
“The heroin itself or needles used for injection could have been contaminated with spores,” Dr. Ferioli says.
“Then, the spores either circulated in the blood to the brain or were transported via the smoke. It’s not an uncommon fungus. But it can be devastating if it enters the blood stream, even in healthy individuals.”
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Dr. Carl Hart was recently on the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) Podcast #1593. Rogan described him as a “longtime champion for evidence-based drug policies and has written several influential books in the field. His newest is “Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear”.
Dr. Hart spoke openly about his current drug use to Rogan, saying that he regularly uses heroin, methamphetamine, and other illegal drugs daily and encouraged Joe Rogan, who hadn’t taken those drugs in the past, to try them.
During the podcast, Rogan agreed a couple of times to do cocaine and heroin for the first time with the doctor under controlled circumstances.
Two of the most addicting and illegal drugs in the world have destroyed countless lives worldwide. They have been proven by science to change drug users’ physiology, personality, and brain, often causing criminality and psychiatry disorders.
In the interview, Hart attacks other medical professionals when talking with Rogan, like when he called addiction specialist Dr. Drew “a fucking idiot who doesn’t know anything about drugs,” when commenting about an interview he had participated with Cooper Anderson in on CNN.
Dr. Hart said Dr. Drew should have just shut up and listened when Hart spoke on drug addiction, but instead interrupted. He claims that Celebrity Rehab was an exploitative TV show and that Drew doesn’t care about those people.
Hart also said that from the brief time he spent with Drew on Anderson Cooper’s show, it was evident to him that Drew knows absolutely nothing about drugs, what they do to people, and why people take them. Not only that, but Drew apparently couldn’t shut the fuck up and let Dr. Hart talk, who is an expert in the field of neuropsychopharmacology.
When I listened to the podcast, Joe seems to have a lot of admiration for Dr. Hart, who appeared to be very arrogant and combative to differing opinions and believes he is one of the world’s best experts, and everyone else should shut the fuck up and listen.
Hart had told Rogan and has on numerous occasions that people are not dying from drugs but ignorance. Meaning that it is not the drugs that rea deadly, just stupid people who do drugs are dying because they lack proper knowledge, and if they had this information, they would not die.
Several articles and interviews of Hart saying basically stupid people are dying from drugs and it has nothing to do with drugs are published online such as the Scientific American, “People Are Dying Because of Ignorance, not Because of Opioids and on his personal website in an article titled, What Is More Dangerous: Drugs or Ignorance About Drugs?”, Hart makes a claim in his words;
“When we think about heroin physical dependency, people see it portrayed in movies as being this potentially deadly thing,” he said. “It’s not deadly or potentially deadly. You can’t die from heroin withdrawal, but you certainly can die from alcohol withdrawal.
Heroin withdrawal is like the flu. If you’ve had the flu, you’ve had heroin withdrawal.
Hart continues, “It’s not pleasant, so I don’t want to minimize that … but this notion that you can die from heroin withdrawal, that’s just simply not true.”
When researching heroin withdrawal and deaths, I discovered several unbiased studies published in various publications around the world showing that while it is uncommon, heroin withdrawal has been well documented to cause death in some unfortunate users.
“It is generally thought that opiate withdrawal is unpleasant but not life‐threatening, but death can, and does, occur.
The complications of withdrawal are often underestimated and monitored inadequately.
It is essential that clinical management programs are put in place routinely in jails, prisons, and other facilities where withdrawal is likely in order to avert these avoidable deaths.”
In May 2016, a U.S. Professor from Columbia University had to flee the Philipines on an emergency flight because he was in fear for his life.
Dr. Carl Hart was invited to the country by President Rodrigo Duterte to talk about drugs and addiction. Duerte has led one of the world’s most brutal campaigns against drug users, addicts, and sellers. He is alleged to operate death squads by executing excused drug offenders openly on the streets without a trial or jury for several years.
The Columbia University professor is one of the world’s most sought out experts on addiction and an ardent opponent of “drug myths” such as stereotypes depicting meth and crack users as violent zombies.
In a 2017 interview, Hart said that he went to Manila ready to counter the “tremendous amount of misinformation about methamphetamine” in the Philippines, according to the World.
“I thought it would be a nice thing to do,” he said. Hart had no idea that, shortly after his May 6 speech, he’d have to flee the country under a flurry of online death threats.
In the interview, there was a claim about brain shrinkage of meth addicts made by President Duerte and Professor Hart that caught my attention because I recently read some studies on the subject.
The difference in opinions is this – Duerte has distributed literature to the Philippine people that methamphetamine use shrinks the brain of users, and Hart says that information is false or a lie to scare people.
Dr. Carl Hart’s position on drug use and addiction is that it is not the drugs that are causing these health issues, criminality, and psychiatric problems, but it is our society that treats drugs and addicts, and it is the user’s inherent health and already present mental issues that are “triggered by drug use.”
But the big question here is – who is telling the truth?
My research that I will present to you below will prove that Dr. Carl Hart is the person who is spreading disinformation and President Duerte is telling the truth.
As you read my research, please keep in mind that I’m not a big fan of Duertes drug policies. The facts are that if I lived in the Philipines, I would probably have been killed by now. Also, just a short while ago, I would have agreed with Dr. Hart and his position on decriminalizing drugs, but my position on that subject has changed because of the extensive research I have done and also my own experiences with 30 years as a drug addict, a drug seller and even several years spent in court-ordered alcohol and drug addiction programs.
I do not think that we should decriminalize drugs for everyone – just some pre-screened experts who control their minds and bodies. I will explain my theory in a future article, but first, I wanted to put forth research showing some of the statements about meth use and brain shrinkage made by Hart and also the contradicting science and studies that prove that meth use does, in fact, shrink the brain.
“His fairly anodyne speech — which challenged Duterte’s claim that meth shrinks human brains — came to the attention of the president himself.
Duterte went off. He called Hart “that black guy … that son of a bitch who has gone crazy.” He accused him of peddling “bullshit.” Hart became an instant target to the president’s diehard supporters.
“I was receiving death threats,” Hart said. “In the Philippines, people will pay anywhere from $100 to $500 to kill people. I had to take it seriously … and I found a flight leaving the country immediately.”
When you have a president making such ignorant comments about drugs — like he’s a pharmacologist — and when society allows that? And the scientific community doesn’t say it’s wrong? They have much bigger problems.
As he had done with Dr. Drew Pinsky, Hart defiantly claimed the Philippine President’s ignorance when he said, “Duterte’s ignorance is only surpassed by those who support him on this issue.”
Duerte commented on Hart’s claims, saying: “That’s all bullshit to me,” and called Hart a “son of a bitch who has gone crazy”.
In an interview with Public Radio International, Hart said “a president making such ignorant comments about drugs — like he’s a pharmacologist” and added that President Duterte was “out of his league when he talks about drugs”.
So, is the Columbia Professor right or is President Duarte correct when he says that meth shrinks the brain?
Dr. Hart said this to The World about meth use and brain shrinkage:
“This is the most abhorrent claim made by the president. Millions of people around the world take this drug. For a variety of conditions. We don’t see anyone’s brain shrinking.
There’s almost no drug that shrinks your brain besides chronic alcohol use. We’re talking large, large doses. And it’s not really because of the alcohol. It’s because people stop eating and don’t get their vitamins and minerals — and then parts of their brain atrophy.
We’ve never seen, in the methamphetamine doses humans take, any shrinking brains or destroyed brain cells. It’s a ridiculous notion.
Look at the [scientific] literature — the animal literature, the rat literature — where you’re giving 20, 40 or 80 times the normal dose. You can get some damage. But you can also get some damage if you’re giving that much ibuprofen.”
In reading Duerte’s and Hart’s statements, the big question we all should ask in attempting to find who is telling the truth is that if there is any science that would support and or contradict any of their claims.
What I immediately discovered when I did my own research was a plethora of studies over the last 30 years or so that detail the research that has been done on meth use and the effects on the brain.
Research that proves without a shadow of a doubt that chronic meth use does shrink your brain and that Dr. Carl Hart is spreading disinformation and lies that may be killing unsuspecting people who believe the information that he is falsely exposing to our nation’s youth and their parents.
False knowledge that may be infecting hundreds, thousands, and now with his latest appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast #1593, possibly millions of people will try dangerous drugs because of his advice.
This is why I believe he is one of the world’s most dangerous professors.
Dr. Hart claims that everyone who says that drugs cause these mental and psychiatry problems in users are ignorant.
The word ignorant seems to be the most popular term the Professor uses to describe people who die from drug use, and people who think drugs cause mental illness and death. Another word he throws around a lot are calling people cowards who have a different opinion than him, acting as if his knowledge on the subject is superior to everyone else and that he is the real expert.
Hart said in the interview, “So I want to make this clear. This ain’t a drug issue.
It’s about the elimination of poor people. It’s an excuse for why certain politicians are failing. The killings, for the most part, only happen in poor communities. This is not happening to the middle class.”
Hart continued, “All the physicians, the pharmacologists there, if they’re allowing this to happen? It shows they’re either ignorant or cowards.”
This is a pretty bold and wide statement.
In the interview with The World, Hart had openly called the Philippine President ignorant and his policies a said an interview The Philippines obviously has much bigger problems than methamphetamine, in terms of human rights, and looking after every citizen.”
I agree that there are issues there, but my point with this article is to see if Dr. Hart’s statements about drugs like methamphetamine in terms of it not causing brain shrinkage and or meth or any other drug that he claims are not causing problems with user and creating addictions that lead to amoral and criminal behavior.
For example, a simple Google search on the subject will reveal several studies that contradict Dr. Carl Hart’s statements that meth does not cause brain damage and or shrinkage.
In a 2004 study, Structural abnormalities in the brains of human subjects who use methamphetamine, researchers found on average, that “meth abusers had 7.8% smaller hippocampal volumes than control subjects (p < 0.01; left, p = 0.01; right, p < 0.05) and significant white-matter hypertrophy (7.0%; p < 0.01).
The hippocampal deficits were mapped and correlated with memory performance on a word-recall test and MRI-based maps suggesting that chronic methamphetamine abuse causes a selective pattern of cerebral deterioration that contributes to impaired memory performance, the researchers said.
They stated that meth abuse “may selectively damage the medial temporal lobe and, consistent with metabolic studies, the cingulate-limbic cortex, inducing neuroadaptation, neuropil reduction, or cell death. Prominent white-matter hypertrophy may result from altered myelination and adaptive glial changes, including gliosis secondary to neuronal damage.”
GNOSTIC WARRIOR CONCLUSION
Whether Joe Rogan wants to use cocaine and or heroin with Dr. Carl Hart makes no difference to me, but I believe that Joe should get more information and perhaps do some more research before he ignorantly partakes in these drugs.
I just detailed some of the research that can be easily discovered online that will contradict many of Dr. Harts claims, which I believe are not only dangerous but deadly.
How many people will now try these illegal drugs, become addicted, and possibly die because of this Joe Rogan Podcast?
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
This article details the science of how Methamphetamine (METH) addiction has been proven to cause serious fungal infections in users. These fungal infections that addicts develop that I contend are the main reason they engage in socially and morally unacceptable behavior and develop mental illness, which culminates into suicidal tendencies and nihilistic world views.
Often, just in a few short years, they go from looking like normal people to what we can call a demon-like appearance and behaviors. Hence, it makes them Meth Demons who seem to be hell-bent on destroying themselves and everyone around them.
My theory is that it is not just the METH that makes addicts crazy, but it is the fungi/molds that grow within their lungs and gastrointestinal tracts, which has been proven to be our second brain. Various studies have shown how quickly this weakens their immune system from ingesting a drug containing things like battery acid, fuels, antifreeze, and cold medicines combined with horrible eating habits, a severe deficiency of vitamins, a lack of sun, and a lack of sleep.
When you combine all these toxic ingredients with terrible health habits into a daily routine, studies show that METH addicts quickly develop serious fungal infections, and I believe it is these organisms that have turned parasitic within addicts that are manipulating them and controlling their actions via this second brain.
Please think about this.
In my experience, these addicts are humans. Many are good people who may be our sons and daughters who have ignorantly partaken in a deadly drug that can cause a severe medical condition that can destroy their health and steal their personalities and ultimately ruin their lives.
Who would tolerate and still use a drug like METH that destroys how we look, our relationships, how we think, feel, and act and eventually lead to our death?
Are the people who use these drugs still “in control of their bodies and minds” or is their drug use resulting in a “pathogen” that is hell-bent on mind-controlling their victims?
Before I began sharing my research, I would like you to think about some questions that I believe will give you context to my theory as you read further;
* Did you know that chronic METH use severely increases the chances of a systemic fungal infection in the lungs and brains of users?
* Did you know that both METH and molds/fungi cause biochemical, behavioral, and physiological abnormalities and psychosis?
* Did you know that both METH and molds/fungi can lead to long-term deterioration of attention, memory, and judgment?
* Did you know that both METH addicts and molds/fungi love sugar?
HOW METHAMPHETAMINE USE CAUSES SYSTEMIC FUNGAL INFECTIONS
In the United States of America, Methamphetamine (METH) addiction is one of the worst threats to our society because it adversely changes people’s behavior, making them more prone to crime and carriers of and transporters of various infectious diseases. One of these diseases that METH addicts are highly susceptible to developing and influencing their pathogenic behavior that I would like to bring to your attention is a systemic fungal infection.
It is essential to understand that METH use destroys your immune system and make addicts much more susceptible to infection. Several studies have been done over the last decade, showing the severe impact of methamphetamine on infection and immunity. A 2015 study had shown that as a result of drug use, our bodies create chemical defenses, which increases the pro-inflammatory responses, and the induction of oxidative stress pathways.
This causes significant neurotoxicities to arise, increasing the risk for acquiring transmissible microbes and other opportunistic infections such as systemic fungal infections; this research has been documented worldwide (Plankey et al., 2007; Volkow et al., 2007; Ye et al., 2008; Sutcliffe et al., 2009; Parry et al., 2011; Borders et al., 2013; Eugenin et al., 2013; Heninger and Collins, 2013; Khan et al., 2013; Stahlman et al., 2013; Liao et al., 2014).
According to the researchers in the study;
METH abrogates normal macrophage function, resulting in accelerated disease in murine histoplasmosis (Martinez et al., 2009). METH decreases phagocytosis and killing of H. capsulatum by primary macrophages. METH exposed H. capsulatum-infected mice have increased fungal burdens, increased pulmonary inflammation, and reduced survival.
METH exposure results in cytokine dysregulation, aberrant processing of yeasts within macrophages, and immobilization of MAC-1 receptors on the macrophage surface. Additionally, METH inhibits T cell proliferation and alters antibody production, both important components of adaptive immunity. Hence, it is established that METH alters the immune system of a mammalian host, resulting in enhanced disease (Martinez et al., 2009). (1)
It has been proven by science through various studies that METH has diverse effects on a person’s immunity, and it also stimulates fungal adhesion and biofilm formation in the lungs, which causes dissemination of the fungus from the respiratory tract into the brain. Meaning it provides the perfect environment in your body for molds/fungi to grow, reproduce, and become permanent residents in our lungs and brain.
This is when I believe the fungi become pathogenic and can seriously manipulate an addict’s mind to do its bidding like they have been proven to do in other insects.
It turns humans into walking and talking fungal parasites – AKA Demons!
To document these transformations in their appearance and in hopes to scare other people from using this demon drug, the Faces of Meth campaign was launched in 2004. Their goal was to show before and after pictures of users side by side, which proves the devastation that meth use causes to addicts – sometimes over the course of a few months.
According to a study done in 2013, researchers discovered that METH use has profound implications on tissue homeostasis and the host’s capacity to respond to invading pathogens such as Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans). (2) Meaning, that people who use METH are weakened to the point that they do not have a healthy immune system which allows pathogens such as the microorganism known as fungi or molds in English that causes, or can cause, disease and damage in its host.
The researchers call this an “enhanced fungal invasion.”
According to the lead researcher, Luis Martinez of Long Island University-Post, in Brookville, New York and of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx;
Martinez says this greater ability to cause disease in the lung may be due in part to simple electrical attraction.
Their analysis shows that METH imparts a greater negative charge on the surface of the fungal cells, possibly lending them a greater attraction to the surface of the lung and an enhanced ability to form a biofilm that can protect its members from attack by the immune system. The fungus also releases more of its capsular polysaccharide in METH-treated mice, which can help the organism colonize and persist in the lung.
He commented, “When the organism senses the drug, it basically modifies the polysaccharide in the capsule. This might be an explanation for the pathogenicity of the organism in the presence of the drug, but it also tells you how the organism senses the environment and that it will modify the way that it causes disease.”
But the fungus doesn’t stop in the lungs. “The drug stimulates colonization and biofilm formation in the lungs of these animals,” says Martinez. “And this will follow to dissemination to the central nervous system by the fungus,” Martinez says.
The conclusion of the study stated;
“METH promotes C. neoformans colonization of the lungs upon infection and subsequent biofilm formation. Our findings suggest that C. neoformans biofilms may act as a fungal reservoir, shielding single cells from phagocytic cells, which can later disseminate, especially to the CNS. Moreover, the drug causes profound defects in the integrity of the Blood-Brain-Barrier BBB in vivo, increasing permeability, and facilitating the transmigration of C. neoformans to the CNS.
METH-induced alterations to the molecules responsible for maintaining the integrity of the BBB provide an explanation for the susceptibility of a METH abuser to brain infection by HIV and other pathogens. Broadly, METH has diverse and pronounced detrimental effects on host immunity that can also enhance pathogen persistence and proliferation.”
I would like to point out that METH is a drug that acts upon the central nervous system and chronic meth abuse causes detrimental effects on host immunity, which can lead to the fungi/molds proliferating the lungs and the blood brain barrier through the central nervous system.
It is akin to the fungi taking a bullet train to your brain via the central nervous system.
In some people, the parasite-host manipulation from the GI Tract can start happening immediately or within days/weeks causing them to develop psychosis or go insane i.e.: parasite-controlled humans.
METH also causes the massive release of the neurotransmitters like dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, and blocks their reuptake, leading to long-term deterioration of attention, memory, and judgment. (Downes and Whyte, 2005; Collins et al., 2014). That may be one reason why users make such poor choices repeatedly because they have forgotten how to be human, and the moral codes that govern our societies are swapped by the moral codes of the fungal parasite, of which there seem to be none.
Hence, you will know them by their fruits or, more appropriately, their moldy and decaying fruits.
Along with neuropsychiatric deficits, methamphetamine abusers suffer from mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, and psychosis being the most commonly reported.
Now, let me turn your attention to the fact that the toxins produced by some fungi/molds are neurotoxins that are poisonous or destructive to brain and nerve tissue, which causes a condition known as neurotoxicity. The term neurotoxicity refers to damage to the brain or peripheral nervous system caused by exposure to toxins and myconeurotoxicity when a person is exposed to mold toxins, which I believe is exactly happening.
When mold mycotoxins cause neurotoxicity, it is called myconeurotoxicity, which refers to any adverse effects of exposure to mycotoxins or byproducts of primary and secondary mold metabolism, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on the structural or functional integrity of the developing or adult nervous system. Neuromycotoxic effects may involve a spectrum of biochemical, morphological, behavioral, and physiological abnormalities whose onset can vary from immediate to delayed actions, following exposure to mycotoxins. The duration of effects may be transient or persistent and result in disability in some individuals, while some may have life-threatening consequences. (3)
A November 2015 study of mice titled “Mold inhalation, brain inflammation, and behavioral dysfunction” was developed by researchers to show a mouse model to determine how mold exposure can lead to neurobehavioral dysfunction. The researchers had formed a hypothesis that mold inhalation, like a bacterial infection, activates an innate immune response triggering microglial activation with resultant behavioral dysfunction.
Here is an excerpt from the study:
“Deficits in contextual memory were correlated with numbers of amoeboid microglia and microglial size in the dorsomedial dentate gyrus. Spore inhalation increased the numbers of cells in the hippocampus expressing the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta). Increased numbers of cells expressing IL-1beta in hippocampal CA1 were positively correlated with spatial memory deficits and increased fear.
Mold exposure also affected two of the three stages of neurogenesis. Inhalation of EX spores decreased numbers of immature new neurons in the dorsomedial hippocampus expressing doublecortin, while IN treatment decreased numbers of adult-born BrdU-labeled neurons that matured and expressed NeuN. Our data suggest that respiratory exposure to any mold, not just the particularly toxic ones like Stachybotrys, may be capable of causing brain inflammation, cognitive deficits, and emotional problems.” (4)
Immune system disorders and abnormal natural killer cell (NKC) activity was found in patients with chronic toxigenic mold exposure in a 2003 study. The major symptoms reported were headache, general debilitating pains, nose bleeding, fevers with body temperatures up to 40 degrees C (104 degrees F), cough, memory loss, depression, mood swings, sleep disturbances, anxiety, chronic fatigue, vertigo/dizziness, and in some cases, seizures.
The researchers found that the patient’s sleep could be disturbed by mycotoxins and exerted some rigorous effects on the circadian rhythmic processes resulting in sleep deprivation. Depression, psychological stress, tissue injuries, malignancies, carcinogenesis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis could be induced at very low physiological concentrations by mycotoxin-induced NKC activity.
The researchers concluded that chronic exposures to toxigenic mold could lead to abnormal NKC activity with a wide range of neurological consequences, some of which were headache, general debilitating pains, fever, cough, memory loss, depression, mood swings, sleep disturbances, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and seizures.
This research correlates with other studies that have focused on mold exposure, brain changes, and neuropsychological problems such as mild traumatic brain injury, dysregulation of emotions, decreased cognitive functioning, short-term memory loss, executive function/judgment, concentration, and hand/eye coordination.
It is important that you understand my theory that it is not the methamphetamine that is causing the mental illness and psychosis, but that it weakens the users’ immune system, leading to a systemic fungal infection, additional infections. For example, it is not just the fungus, Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans) that people need to worry about but other fungi can cause infection, illness, disease, and death in addicts.
METH CAUSES CANDIDA INFECTIONS AND CANDIDA INFECTION CAUSE MENTAL ILLNESS, ITCHING SYSTEMS, AND MEMORY LOSS
Candidemia, a bloodstream infection caused by Candida species and is prevalent amongst IV Drug users of METH. Candidemia is typically considered a health care-associated infection, but injection drug use (IDU) has emerged as an increasingly common condition related to candidemia. Among 203 candidemia cases in the Denver metropolitan area during May 2017–September 2018, 11% of the cases were IV drug users and of which 73% reported using METH, according to research published by the CDC. (5)
Studies have shown that METH facilitates intracellular replication and inhibits intracellular killing of Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans. (6)
Candida is a yeast-like fungus naturally found in small amounts in human digestive tracts, but drugs enhance its overgrowth like METH with its chronic use, poor diet, excess sugar intake, and lack of sleep. Users often report itching sensations and scratch their skin, creating sores sometimes all over their bodies and faces. Users have even made claims of bugs, worms, and or flies crawling underneath their skin.
What is interesting is that Candida infections cause burning, itching symptoms, thrush (rashes in the throat or mouth), and sexually transmittable genital yeast infections in men and women.
Candida infections are linked to mental illness and are more common among those with memory loss.
The same mental issues that chronic Meth users suffer from.
For example, in a 2016 study published in Science Daily, both men and women with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder who tested positive for Candida performed worse on a standard memory test than people with the same disorders who had no evidence of past infection. According to the lead researcher, Emily Severance, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics and member of the Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
“Although we cannot demonstrate a direct link between Candida infection and physiological brain processes, our data show that some factor associated with Candida infection, and possibly the organism itself, plays a role in affecting the memory of women with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and this is an avenue that needs to be further explored,” says Severance.
“Because Candida is a natural component of the human body microbiome, yeast overgrowth or infection in the digestive tract, for example, may disrupt the gut-brain axis.
This disruption, in conjunction with an abnormally functioning immune system, could collectively disturb those brain processes that are important for memory.”
“However, most Candida infections can be treated in their early stages, and clinicians should make it a point to look out for these infections in their patients with mental illness.” She adds that Candida infections can also be prevented by decreased sugar intake and other dietary modifications, avoidance of unnecessary antibiotics, and improvement of hygiene. (7)
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
“When you look at the network of fungi, it starts to look back at you!” – Dr. Merlin Sheldrake (Fungal Biologist and author)
Our bodies are made up of a vast network of various fungi (molds) and other organisms whose histories span the great genetic divide from them, us and to our first ancestors. A non-human or “extra-dimensional” intelligence in which we are all eternally interconnected with.
It is through this internet of alien DNA that I theorize we communicate with the aid of certain alkaloid drugs on the As Within and So Without which helps produce our “visions, trips, hallucinations, and even remote viewing.”
Paranormal communication tools that magically allow us to alchemically tap the memories of our ancestors and also give us the ability to travel in time along the super mycelium information highways to Innerspace and simultaneously cosmonauts whose thoughts can beam to the moon and beyond.
These memories I contend come from within the vast microorganism network that makes up our very DNA. It is this genetic information network that certain drugs allow us to hack in order to access another dimension, their dimension.
Fungi Derived Drugs Help Us Communicate As Within So Without
“Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists. They produce molecules that humans still can’t reproduce in a lab, and we’re only beginning to scrape the surface of what we can learn from them.” – Gerry Wright: Biochemistry professor McMaster University
My theory centers around certain fungal and alkaloid derived drugs like Psilocybin (magic mushrooms, shrooms, etc.), LSD (acid), and DMT that derive their power from an alkaloid called “Tryptamine.”
In the 1950s, the research of Stanislav Grof shows how LSD, a drug derived from the fungus (mold) ergot had given people what could be called Gnostic superhuman abilities
At the time, Groff was chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and assistant professor of psychiatry at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine when he conducted a series of experiments with LSD in Prague, Czechoslovakia at the Psychiatric Research Institute and made several startling discoveries.
For example, he had discovered a common experience that many patients shared while under LSD trips was reliving what it was like to be in the womb before they were born. Groff described how patients could somehow access the consciousness of their relatives and even more distant ancestors and were able to accurately describe moments from the lives of their parents before they had been born in exact detail and without any previous knowledge about these events.
Some patients with absolutely no education or knowledge of ancient Egyptian customs were able to give detailed descriptions of embalming mummification practices.
Initially, Groff believed that his patients were simply imagining these images, but their descriptions and the knowledge they shared often went far beyond the patients’ previous educational levels.
Meaning, there was no way that these people could “know about or be privy to this knowledge (Gnosis) unless it came from somewhere and something else or possibly from where I contend, within their very own DNA.
“We were doing something that we called psycholytic therapy, which was a large number of medium dosages of LSD—something that one of my patients called “onion peeling of the unconscious.” We were able to remove layer after layer and map the unconscious, moving from the Freudian individual, or personal unconscious, through what I call “the perinatal unconscious,” related to the memory of birth, to what Jung called the collective unconscious—both its historical and mythological, or archetypal, aspects.”
“In fact, there did not seem to be any limit to what Grof’s LSD subjects could tap into. They seemed capable of knowing what it was like to be every animal, and even plant, on the tree of evolution.
They could experience what it was like to be a blood cell, an atom, a thermonuclear process inside the sun, the consciousness of the entire planet, and even the consciousness of the entire cosmos.
More than that, they displayed the ability to transcend space and time, and occasionally they related uncannily accurate precognitive information.
In an even stranger vein, they sometimes encountered nonhuman intelligences during their cerebral travels, discarnate beings, spirit guides from “higher planes of consciousness,” and other suprahuman entities.”
On occasion subjects also traveled to what appeared to be other universes and other levels of reality. In one particularly unnerving session, a young man suffering from depression found himself in what seemed to be another dimension. It had an eerie luminescence, and although he could not see anyone he sensed that it was crowded with discarnate beings.
Suddenly he sensed a presence very close to him, and to his surprise, it began to communicate with him telepathically.
It asked him to please contact a couple who lived in the Moravian city of Kromeriz and let them know their son Ladislav was well taken care of and doing all right. It then gave him the couple’s name, street address, and telephone number.
The information meant nothing to either Grof or the young man and seemed totally unrelated to the young man’s problems and treatment. Still, Grof could not put it out of his mind. “After some hesitation and with mixed feelings, I finally decided to do what certainly would have made me the target of my colleagues’ jokes, had they fund out,” says Grof.
“I went to the telephone, dialed the number in Kromeriz, and asked if I could speak with Ladislav. To my astonishment, the woman on the other side of the line started to cry. When she calmed down, she told me with a broken voice: ‘Our son is not with us anymore; he passed away, we lost him three weeks ago.” (The Holographic Universe, pg. 69)
HOW DRUGS MAKE US BECOME ONE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT SO WE CAN TRAVEL ACROSS SPACE AND TIME
I believe what is happening is that these drugs have similar molecular DNA which counteracts with our own “ancient DNA” causing an alchemical reaction in our blood flooding it to the point we become one with the mushrooms and the environment.
Recent studies indicate that when we take these drugs, people often experience a breakdown in the perceived boundary between themselves and their environment, a phenomenon that is often termed ‘ego-dissolution’ (Lebedev et al. 2015; Millière 2017).
Two recent studies have replicated earlier reports of the experience of ego-dissolution after administration of psilocybin mushrooms (Lebedev et al. 2015) and LSD (Tagliazucchi et al. 2016).
A 2010 study called it ‘the experience of unity’ which had clearly identified people showing aspects of dissolving self-boundaries, with statements such as ‘The boundaries between myself and my surroundings seemed to blur’ and ‘It seemed to me that my environment and I were one’.
Here is an image illustrating the schematic summary of the key aspects of consciousness discussed in the research paper mentioned above which shows the inappropriateness of a unidimensional account of consciousness.
SPIRIT MOLECULES AND ALIENS
In researching one of the world’s most powerful of the entheogens, DMT, you will find that many people who have taken the drug experience visions of alien type entities
One of the world’s foremost experts, Dr. Rick Strassman conducted a series of experiments in the 1990s with DMT at the University of New Mexico. In DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Strassman describes the alien type entities that his patients encountered. He writes;
When reviewing my bedside notes, I continually feel surprised in seeing how many of our volunteers “made contact” with “them,” or other beings. At least half did so in some form or another. Research subjects used expressions like “entities,” “beings,” “aliens,” “guides,” and “helpers” to describe them. The “life-forms” looked like clowns, reptiles, mantises, bees, spiders, cacti, and stick figures. (DMT The Spirit Molecule, pg. 185)
Professor Ian Wilson from Astra Zeneca said in a 2004 Wired Magazine article that they believe the “human super-organism” concept “could have a huge impact on how we develop drugs, as individuals can have very different responses to drug metabolism and toxicity.”
“The microbes can influence things such as the pH levels in the gut and the immune response, all of which can have effects on the effectiveness of drugs,” Wilson said.
The article further stated that the Imperial College research demonstrates what many – from X Files stalwarts to UFO fanatics – have long claimed: We are not alone. Specifically, the human genome does not carry enough information on its own to determine key elements of our own biology.”
In Sekret Machines: Gods: An official investigation of the UFO phenomenon, authors, Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda discuss how fungi derived entheogens produce hallucinations that bring the shaman into contact with the “other world” who is a living repository (DNA and Fungi) of the clan or tribe. They had written;
“This other world is a field of symbols: not only the static symbols of icons and images, but active symbols that manifest through sound, dance, the play of environmental forces, and the hereditary narrative of the village itself.
The shaman is the living repository of the history of the clan or tribe; as such. he or she can communicate in a sacred language, a shorthand of symbols and semiotic content that is comprehensible to the other members of the tribe and can be interpreted by them while the shaman is still in a trance.”
REMOTE VIEWING
This all leads to the modern phenomenon of remote viewing. The CIA defines remote viewing as being the “acquisition and description, by mental means, of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance, shield, or time.”
Several units of the US military have conducted remote viewing intelligence programs like the US Army’s code name Star Gate. A program in the 1970s operated by psychic, Skip Atwater who was the Operations and Training Officer for 10 years.
One of the earliest thought leaders who believed that LSD can cause its taker to have remote viewings is John Lilly who in 1985 discussed his ideas in his book about LSD and consciousness, The Center of the Cyclone. A book that Lilly claims reveal the ways to reach an inner state in which communication with higher entities is possible.
In 1997, researchers at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands conducted as a study to determine if psilocybin mushrooms could influence remote viewing. 12 people were studied under the influence of psilocybin and they found that over half (58.3%) of the people in the test were able to achieve measurable remote viewing.
A 2001 case study of space-time distortion during a total lunar eclipse following street use of LSD, examined a case of cosmic perception under the influence of LSD is reported which included the apparent movement of consciousness to the lunar surface combined with the experience of remote viewing of the Milky Way galaxy.
The researchers claimed that while the possibility of veridical remote viewing is unlikely, they speculated that the neurocognitive action of LSD can sensitize the user to focused bright light, associated memories, and creative elaborations during actual eclipse events.
A man of science and truth who has been publically labeled a heretic and has been shunned by the scientific community, Rupert Sheldrake believes that memory is a function of time, not matter, shared by all living things, that he called “morphic resonance or morphogenetics”.
Sheldrake is a Cambridge-trained biochemist and best selling author whose theories have been widely accepted by the public but are banned to hell by some of his former peers.
Here is Sheldrake on the far right pictured with Terrence McKenna and Ralph Abraham.
His theory is that similar forms (morphs, or “fields of information”) reverberate and exchange information within a universal life force and that like attracts like. Rupert believes nature has a kind of memory that we can tap into in unexplained ways and the use of psychedelic drugs “can reveal a world of consciousness and interconnection” which he says he has experienced.
Like Sheldrake, I have also experienced the world of consciousness that I was able to hack and the fellings of interconnection with everything while under the use of psychedelic drugs. An experience that countless takers of these drugs have verified to be all similar to one another.
A Guardian article on Sheldrake stated he became interested in a notion of biology and heredity that shared close affinities with Carl Jung’s ideas of a collective unconscious, a shared species memory. He was profoundly influenced by a book called Matter and Memory by the philosopher Henri Bergson.
Sheldrake said, “When I discovered Bergson’s idea that memory is not stored in the brain but that it is a relation in time, not in space, I realized that there might potentially be a memory principle in nature that would solve the problem I was wrestling with.”
What he found was the morphogenetic fields of the mysterious and highly hidden properties of the phosphate called denimax which enables instantaneous communication over vast distances. In researching this substance denimax, the web has quite fittingly gone virtually dark on this knowledge which may further prove that Sheldrake was on to something big.
Sheldrake had written a book about his findings that when it was first published, it generally garnished a favorable reception. But like most unsanctioned Gnostics in this 6th Age, a “book for burning” was ritually performed in the magazine, Nature, by its editor, Sir John Maddox who wrote;
“This infuriating tract… is the best candidate for burning there has been for many years.” In 1994, Maddocks said: “Sheldrake is putting forward magic instead of science, and that can be condemned in exactly the language that the Pope used to condemn Galileo, and for the same reason. It is heresy.”
Like many truth-tellers before, Sheldrake’s has a new life in banishment as a discredited scientist, heretic, and quite fittingly as a bestselling author and underground Gnostic hero.
In his latest book “Science and Spiritual Practices,” he claims that we cannot split science from spirituality because the earth is alive and that science and spirituality are two lenses that reveal are parts of the same whole. I could not agree more.
The facts are in this Apocalypse of Gnosis, science is still moving right along with other lesser-known heretics who are carrying the forbidden knowledge within their own DNA by releasing cutting edge research that is validating Sheldrake’s and even my own.
Scientists like Rupert Sheldrake’s son, Merlin Sheldrake, 28, who is has a PhD on the ecology of fungal networks at Cambridge and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama where he conducted extensive fieldwork as a Smithsonian Research Fellow. Merlin received a triple first in Biological Sciences and starred First in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University where he was a prize-winning scholar.
Merlin believes that the existence of a “mycelial network” linking plants to one another could have profound implications for the functioning of ecosystems” that might be better imagined as a single superorganism, rather than a grouping of independent individualistic ones; and about what trading, sharing, or even friendship might mean among plants.
“All of these trees have mycorrhizal fungi growing into their roots,” Sheldrake said.
“You could imagine the fungi themselves as forming a massive underground tree, or as a cobweb of fine filaments, acting as a sort of prosthesis to the trees, a further root system, extending outwards into the soil, acquiring nutrients and floating them back to the plants, as the plants fix carbon in their leaves and send sugar to their roots, and out into the fungi. And this is all happening right under our feet.”
Merlin had recently said, “When you look at the network of fungi, it starts to look back at you!”
A statement that reminds me of the quote on monsters and the abyss by Nietzsche – “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby becomes a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” (Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. Aphorism 146)
It’s as if this abyss – ie: unseen world of fungal monsters that we are speaking of or should I say for is demanding the truth of our existence be known and scientists like Sheldrake and researchers such as myself are the chosen prophets to bring in this New Age.
For example, recent experiments by other scientists are showing that there is an interconnectedness of the human mind with other minds and with matter.
This interconnectedness I contend would appear to function via a hidden global fungal communication network or hive, such as a bee, ant or bacteria colony.
A colony made of certain immortal laws to govern the heavenly kingdom of humans who appear to be the most prized and highest conscious form of earthly descendants of these alien fungal creatures with one Queen mother, King, priests, knights, soldiers and workers who appear on most accounts to be intelligently guided.
Drugs like LSD appear to allow us to hack this fungal colonial world and attain human superpowers such as remote viewing.
A 2018 research paper reveals how brain activity was recorded using magnetoencephalography (MEG)and Scalp level Event-Related Fields (ERF) showing how humans react via backward connectivity in the brain to various stimuli while under the influence of LSD.
The researchers found that the brain seemed to be turned off and that rather than being a marker of conscious level per se, that the backward connectivity may index modulations of perceptual learning common to a variety of altered states of consciousness, perhaps united by a shared altered sensitivity to “environmental stimuli.”
GNOSTIC WARRIOR CONCLUSION
This “environmental stimuli” is what I believe to be the internet of fungi in which science has now proven humans are both an unconscious (unknowing) programmer (creator) and virus (destroyer) of its earth colonies.
What Merlin Sheldrake calls the wood wide web and his father Rupert says we can access these memories via morphogenetic fields and can do so with the help of certain drugs that I mention in this article.
Research that further validates Carl Jung’s ideas of a collective unconscious and the shadow.
I believe we can now say that we are part of their billion-year-old ecosystem of fungi in which our DNA and certain drugs via super sekret alchemical processes allow us to hack this myco-internet governed by the very fungi who rule the world and in turn, our minds and bodies.
It is my understanding that on earth, we are the highest form of life that they use to procreate, communicate, legislate and if need be, destroy its creation.
Hence, the circle (game) of life (thrones) via the ouroboros eating its own tail.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
