The Festival of Shambhala

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:01 pm

Hooooooollyyyyyyyy crap!

That was indefinabley the greatest party experience of my life! No, wait.. it CHANGED my life! As a first timer down there I wasn't expecting much, just a big party with DJs in the woods and on the beach, but it was so much more than that. The whole culture down there just grabs you by the balls with a strong yet pleasurable grip, and takes you on the ride they call Shambhala.

The energy in the middle of this valley was amazing. Everyone you saw gave off heat, and in the middle of the night in the Kootenays it gets fucking cold, unless you're down in the Village stage, especially if its the last night and DJ Lorin is playing and the empty dirt lot with stairways decks and huts turns into the most packed and pumpin club in all the majorest of cities tossed into one. A sea of people that just exuded energy in its purest form.

And when that club starts getting to ya a little bit too much since your high on mushrooms you can head on over to the Inna-Sancdom and just chill to some trance and learn about Buddha and Tibet or head over to the Livingroom and listen to some chillout music on the beach with the river washing over the smooth stones.

But there's just too much to describe. It's kinda wierd, I actually have a different view on life now. I met a lot of cool new people and will deffinitely be going back next year.

Good Times

Peace~

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:19 pm

Yoooo, i was living in Nelson last year man! It's too bad i didn't make it this year but it's an amazing experience for sure, was Holy Smoke there this year?

Post by **Weedguru Higher** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:13 pm

Sounds awesome! I need a party like that right about now

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:56 pm

The Holy Smoke Culture Shop Sammy? Yeah they were there, and only had about a 1000 pipes I wanted but couldn't afford haha. Next year i'll be more prepared for it.

peace

Sammy · Post by **Sammy** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:49 am

Yeeeeah baby , im glad they were there, an essential part of kootenay culture. Were they sellin weed like usual? Or hiding it, if it wasn't open all you would've had to say was "Got any produce, Allen?" , hehe, those guys can all grow some mighty fine buds, i spent countless hours in the back of their store in nelson smoking blunts with the owners , learned more about growing there than anywhere else in my life by far.

Shwoot · Post by **Shwoot** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:57 pm

I have a festival coming up soon. Cymbria, big 3-day music festival. Should be a good time. I went last year and got so fucking high, we brewed hoots for like 3 hours on the morning of the second day. This year I gotta take some shrooms and alot of beer

Wow I didn't realize that it was so close till i read this thread.

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:31 pm

hahaha niiiiiice, damn Sammy you gotta come next year, we can finally smoke a doobie together! Next year I'll haave to introduce myself to them haha. It was my first year there so there were to many things for me to check out.

Where exactly is this Cymbria, SHwoot? Sounds like somtehing I should check out haha.

peace

Shwoot · Post by **Shwoot** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:36 pm

Tickets are like $40, then you just chill out and get wasted for 3 days straight while bands play, non-stop music I think. The campground is called Cymbria, and the music festival is called Cymbria Music Festival so everybody just calls it Cymbria.

It was such a good time. There was a mushroom dealer in the tent right next to ours, but we didn't realize it until we were leaving

Heh that day when we smoked weed all morning, we were gonna pass out cuz we were so high, so we went back to our tent, and did anybody see FUBAR? There was another guy with a tent next to us who looked like the guy from FUBAR with the long black hair, he offered us beer to keep us awake. I didn't get to meet him, but fitting the personality of that character automatically made him the coolest guy ever.

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:41 pm

lol that's cool man. Our neighbors at Shambhala were the most beautiful wingless angels I'v eever seen, and one of their ex-boyfriends was selling drugs there and would come around at least 3 or 4 times a day to hang out and make sure everyone had their drug supplies fully stocked. He gave me a free hit of DMT that didn't really do too much when I looked back on it and saw the way everyone else reacted so I asked him for another 10 dollar hit and gave him a bill. Well he was like okie dokie, since you didn't really trip off of $10 worth, IU'll give you $30 worth ahahahaha.

It was amazing!

The sky began to vortex and fratal in on itself and the clouds turned into giant ferns, they weren't green or had a stalk or anything but the way they were curling into themselves reminded me exactly of the way ferns grow and curl up.

BUt yeah, WHERE is this Cymbria Festival Shwoot? East Coast? West Coast? North/South? Details bro Details!!!!!!!! hehe

Peace~

Shwoot · Post by **Shwoot** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:17 pm

That's quite a trippy description,

The campground is on the north side of Prince Edwards Island, so east coast. I still don't know when it is and such though. There aren't many details on it yet, the website hasn't been updated for this year, which is weird cuz it's usually during the first weekend in september.

Here's a link to the 2004 page
http://www.cymbria.ca/musicfest.htm

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:34 pm

thanks bro,

haha yeah, I highly recommend DMT to any and every body, but just be prepared for a very strong hallucinatory trip, and don't worry if you freak out cause it will all stop in 10 or 15 minutes. You can extract it from plants that contain it, by boiling them down. Down in Brazil, natives make a nasty potion called Ayahuasca, or 'huasca for short, but anyqys, they get DMT from "The Vine of the Spirits" (loose translation) and then they extract beta-carbolines from another type of plant. THe betas allow for the DMT to remain in the body for longer than 10 minutes by introducing a MAO Inhibitor which stops the breakdown of the drug Dimethyltryptamine hehe big words are fun.

Off to check Cymbria

peace

Shwoot · Post by **Shwoot** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:50 pm

Nevermind, Cymbria has been cancelled

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:34 am

WHAAAA No way! How could they cancel Cymrbia? What happened?

Shwoot · Post by **Shwoot** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:06 pm

I'm not sure, probably cuz of the prom parties though. 2 schools had the after parties there (on different nights), and they both trashed the place.

Zen · Post by **Zen** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:26 pm

damn disrespecful punk youth these days *grrrrrr*

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