Head of the ANAS Institute of Geology's - Mud Volcano Department - Adil Aliyev told APA today that they received information about a volcano that erupted in Baku, Shabran region of Azerbaijan. Employees of the Institute of Geology have been sent there and will carry out research in the area.
Aliyev said that they didn’t have exact information how much area the volcano eruption covered and how long it lasted: “We have received information from the region that the volcano erupted. We should clarify whether it was eruption or not because we sometimes receive false information from the people. Thus, relevant researches should be carried out. Exact information will be available after the researches.”
Azerbaijan and its Caspian coastline are home to nearly 400 mud volcanoes, more than half the total throughout the world.
In 2001, one mud volcano, located 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Baku, made world headlines when it suddenly started ejecting 15 meters high flames.
In the Spring of 2001, volcanic activity under the Caspian Sea off the Azeri coast created a whole new island.
Mud volcanoes are one of the visible signs of the presence of oil and gas reserves hidden deep beneath land and sea in the Caspian region. They are essentially channels for releasing pressurized gas and mineral water and interesting because of their comparison to Mars. NASA geologists studying Mars have concluded that mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan are similar to uplands of the planet for their structure.
Featured image: Mud volcano in Azerbaijan. July 2009 - Interfase
The Bwiti cult and other secret cults from West Africa use Iboga
to communicate to their dead ancestors. In many ways its effects and use
are similar to the better known Ayahuasca from South America but the
effects of the Iboga can be stronger and last much longer.
It is the yellowish root that contains the active alkaloids; the
root bark is shaved and eaten directly or as a powder drank in an
infusion. Cult Shamans use the Iboga Root Bark to seek information from
the spiritual world and they may consume this for a full day before
asking advice from the ancestors.
Much research has been done with using Ibogaine (The active alkaloid
in Iboga) for drug addiction therapy. The results have been spectacular
with about a 90% success rate when taken in one high dose by an opiate
or even alcohol addict it drastically reduces the withdrawal symptoms
and gives the patent an insight with clear visions into his or her own
life, revealing the personal cause of the addiction. This in turn
enables the patient to go for months without a relapse.
I don't do NSFW (not safe for work) warnings. If you don't work around other adults,get a real job or start your own company.
Here's Erwan's Facebook post from the other day, copied here and posted with his permission (along with a few edits).
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Yesterday my wife Jessika posted this graphic on Facebook....and somebody reported her for "pornography." This world is really filled with utterly pathetic people, who can't enjoy art, who can't enjoy beauty, who can't enjoy pleasure, who can't enjoy nature, who can't enjoy freedom—theirs or others; who can't...enjoy much in life.
You have a body, you were born naked, and you have sexual desires and they are healthy and beautiful. I'm sorry for you if you have learned to feel shameful for having a body and sexual desires, if you have learned to judge and repress them, because you're going to miss out on a lot in life.
Pornography means visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings. Pornography can be extremely disgusting when violence, defilement, and destruction are associated with it, and when indeed all notions of sacredness and deep connection have been removed from the act of physical love.
By posting this artistic expression, Jessika intended to stimulate erotic, aesthetic, emotional and spiritual feelings altogether. Why? Because so many people need to see love, including physical love, in a healthy way again; without shame, and actually with confidence and appreciation...and respect and depth. This is how it should be. It is easy to look at anyone and guess who's having good sex and who's not. One of the primary reasons why people are unhappy and depressed in life is because their sexual life SUCKS. And it often sucks not because they don't have a functional body that can't do it, but because they're morally and ethically dysfunctional, along with a warped perception of sexuality and their own body that prevents them from enjoying it. BOOM.
If you can't stand a simple picture of a couple making love, then probably you have a very poor sexual life, if any sexual life at all, and you're unable to see the beauty, the liberation and energetic empowerment that a healthy, deep and sacred sexual life can bring. And for this reason you are a sad person. And because you can't stand others enjoying sex, very confident with their sexual life, you're utterly pathetic. And I wouldn't be surprised if, actually, you were one of these many people who secretly consume actual pornography, when nobody's around. Sexually frustrated people consume pornography. Sexually fulfilled individuals enjoy their body, their sensations, their pleasure and their physical, emotional and spiritual relationship with their partner with grace, honor and respect...and do not need pornography.
Learn to be happy and confident with your own body and your sexuality. You will make the world a better place, starting with your own internal world, which secretly CRAVES for sexual healing and satisfaction. And above all, learn to let others alone and keep your OBSOLETE "morals" at bay.
If you are one of my Facebook "friends" and have issues with people healthily enjoying the gifts of nature, please-please-please do un"friend" me, do un"follow" me, as there's little chance I could have actually ever met you in person...and if I ever did, I would have zero interest in interacting with you because you might be one these super boring, internally repressed people I avoid like the plague.
Do you hear me? Having an issue with representations of the naked body and sexuality IS having an issue with the naked body and sexuality, and if you're having an issue with the naked body and sexuality then maybe you are the deviant person?! Yes, maybe YOU are!
I don't care who you love and how you love. But you've got to love and let love, love and let live, or at least live and let love.
“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.” ― John Lennon
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Amen, and amen. My 5-day MovNat experience with mon copain Erwan begins right here. Each evening after all the events and awesome Paleo dinner, Erwan and I would drive into town to a restaurant parking lot with WiFi, so I could draft the day's post while he got caught up on business.
I was one of the first people Erwan contacted when he decided to establish MovNat as an international natural movement phenomena that involves challenging movement over ground, in the trees, over rocks and other obstacles, carrying heavy things, swimming, underwater endurance, and even hand-to-hand self-defense combat. Here's a post about our first encounter in 2009: We Live in a Zoo. And here's Ewan in the original 3-minute video that made everyone insanely crazy and excited. You'll probably watch it more than once.
I can honestly say that Erwan Le Corre is among a very small handful of the coolest people I've ever enjoyed the pleasure of befriending. He doesn't have a fake cell in his body, he's impeccably honest, thoughtful and kind—though immensely confident, steadfast, determined.
