Magi Ancestral Supplements, Cupertino, CA (2026)

12/30/2025

Hidden in the Persepolis Treasury were hundreds of identical green stone mortars and pestles. What was their specific purpose in the royal court?

According to new research by Gad Barnea (2025) from the University of Haifa, these chert stone objects are powerful evidence that sacred rituals were central to running the Persian Empire. Barnea demonstrates that the shape of these vessels perfectly matches the specific implements used in the Zoroastrian Yasna ceremony to prepare the sacred drink.

The study argues that high-ranking officials didn't just give monetary gifts to the Great King; they performed a solemn ritual to prove their fidelity. By drinking the truth-revealing haoma, they took an unbreakable cosmic oath of loyalty. The valuable stone vessel was then handed over to the Treasury as permanent physical proof of that spiritual promise.

We know this happened because ancient clay seals found at Persepolis serve as snapshots of the event, showing military officers alongside priests using these exact tools near a sacred fire altar. These green stones verify that for the Achaemenids, political administration and deep religious practice were intertwined.

Haoma was a potent, psychoactive ritual drink central to ancient Iranian religion, consumed by priests and officials to induce altered states of consciousness and spiritual visions.

12/15/2025

2024 research shows that sleep lucidity and waking lucidity are not different things. They are the same cognitive muscle applied to different states of physiological arousal.

This explains why meditation and lucid dreaming overlap so heavily.

If you spend 16 hours a day practicing non-lucidity (being totally lost in thought, reacting blindly to emotions, never questioning your reality), you cannot expect your brain to suddenly flip a switch and become highly lucid for the 8 hours you are asleep.

We often assume we are "lucid" whenever we are awake. Cognitive science suggests otherwise.

Much of daily life is spent in "waking sleep"—autopilot, mind-wandering, and being completely identified with the constant stream of inner chatter. We are often as lost in our waking daydreams as we are in our sleeping night-dreams.

Waking lucidity is synonymous with high-level mindfulness.

Lucid dreaming is a mindfulness practice like meditation. Ancestral Magi's Stard and Mang supplements can help you gain lucidity in both waking and sleep states and boost your practice.
These supplements help you as catalysts to locate the state and experience easier and faster.

12/08/2025

Nightmares aren’t just disturbances
they’re signals from the deeper layers of the mind.

Dr. Michelle Carr’s new book Nightmare Obscura (2025) reveals something surprising:
People who struggle with nightmares tend to be more perceptive, more creative, and more empathetic.
Their dream life is louder because their inner world is richer.

Today, dream research is entering the collective consciousness again.
We’re finally remembering that the sleeping mind is still alive, still learning, still communicating.
Dreams are consequential—and they shape how we think, feel, and behave.

This is why we created Mang Dream Supplement.
Not to suppress dreams…
but to strengthen the bridge between waking awareness and the imaginal world,
so dreams become tools—not threats.

Nightmare sufferers often carry gifts: intensity, imagination, sensitivity.
With the right practices—waking visualization, lucid dreaming, and emotional processing—
the same mind that generates fear can generate insight.

Alongside Mang, our Haoma supplement supports imagination, symbolic clarity, and connection with the imaginal realm while awake.

If Mang helps you navigate the night,
Haoma helps you explore the inner world of symbols, intuition, and meaning during the day.

Your dreams aren’t trying to harm you.
They’re trying to speak to you.
And collectively, we’re finally learning how to listen again.

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If you’re exploring your dream world—or working through nightmares—
Mang and Haoma can support a clearer, calmer, more connected inner experience.

11/12/2025

A 2025 study at the University of Sydney shows that confusion about the purpose and process of meditation represents the major barrier for many individuals to develop and establish a sustainable and routine practice.

Stard is a compliant and safe natural supplement that eases the barrier to meditative states.

Formulated with extracts of the sacred Eastern plant Espand (Syrian rue), plus pomegranate and grapefruit, one capsule of Stard quiets your mind in 15 minutes.

The relaxed state lasts roughly an hour, giving you calm, unfocused awareness while racing thoughts slow down.

Our EEG brainwave tracking studies show Stard shifts brainwaves from busy beta into relaxing alpha and meditative theta - the ideal pattern for meditation practice.

Stard isn’t a magic pill and does not replace the practice of meditation. It simply helps seasoned meditators drop in on days it’s more challenging to slow down, and lets beginners navigate and reach the zone faster.

If meditation apps, retreats, and gurus haven’t worked for you, Stard’s ancestral compounds have a three-millennia legacy of mindful use.

Stard is a very mindful Thanksgiving gift for the people you love and care for their holistic wellness.

10/30/2025

Intuition & Imagination: The Engines of Creativity

In the age of AI, when information is abundant and originality feels scarce, the true frontier of creativity lies within two inner faculties we must learn more about: intuition and imagination.

Intuition is direct knowing — a silent perception of truth before thought. It’s how ideas arrive — the flash that feels like recognition rather than reasoning. To strengthen it, we need stillness, attention, and trust in our inner signals.

Imagination is the creative translator — it gives form to what intuition perceives. It turns insight into image, sound, metaphor, and invention. Through imagination, the invisible becomes visible.

AI can analyze patterns, but it can’t access the living intelligence that intuition perceives, nor the symbolic language that imagination speaks.
To remain truly creative, we must reclaim these two faculties — the inward antenna and the inner eye — and let them work together.

When intuition whispers and imagination responds, new worlds are born.

Magi products and practices support you in developing these two faculties of consciousness. If you haven't tried them yet, check out and .

10/17/2025

🧠✨ What if longevity wasn’t just about the body — but the mind?

Our latest article explores — the science of keeping your brain young, lucid, and creative as you age.

Discover how natural compounds like harmine and harmaline, found in Syrian Rue and B. caapi, are emerging as powerful neuroprotective molecules that support memory, cognition, and clarity.

Read the full story and learn how to expand your .

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10/15/2025

Longevity is no longer just about the body — it’s about the mind that lives within it.

🧠 Neurolongevity is the science and art of keeping the brain young — preserving memory, creativity, and lucidity as we age.

It’s where modern neuroscience meets ancient mysticism: supporting neuroplasticity, protecting neurons, and sustaining the inner light of awareness.

Neuroscience and clinical studies from 2022 and 2024 reveal that certain natural alkaloids found in Peganum harmala and Ayahuasca vine like harmine and harmaline are naturally present in mammals and humans (Coe et al 2022) and decline in the brain with age and may be vital for neuroprotection.

Active compounds in these plants (β-carbolines) enhance hippocampal memory accuracy without distorting recall (Doss et al 2024) - a glimpse into how nature designed our minds to remember precisely.

Neurolongevity isn’t about resisting age. It’s about staying lucid through it.

Magi's Neuroprotection formula, Ameretat, is a natural nootropic designed for neuro-cognitive longevity and wellness. If you haven't yet, check it out!

09/26/2025

New Book Announcement: McKenna Academy Anthology

We’re thrilled to share that the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy—founded by renowned thinker and ethnopharmacologist Dr. Dennis McKenna—is releasing a landmark compendium on plants and fungi as ancient and modern medicines this November.

The anthology, originated at the 55th anniversary of ESPD conference in St. Giles house in May 2022, features contributions from leaders in the field, including Dr. Wade Davis, Dr. Paul Stamets, Dr. Mark Plotkin, Dr. Glenn Shephard, and many more.

We’re proud that Ancestral Magi co-founders contributed two chapters:

1. Chemically-Induced Otherworldly Journeys of Zoroastrian Magi in Iran
2. Ethnopharmacology of Psychoactive Substances in Chinese Culture

These chapters draw on the research that helped inform Magi’s formulations.

If you’re interested in anthropology and the relationship between plants and human consciousness, we highly recommend this book!

Pre-order now from Synergistic Press.

09/10/2025

In the 12th century, the Persian philosopher Shihab al-Din Suhrawardī described a world between matter and spirit—an intermediate realm of visions and symbols he called the ʿālam al-mithāl (world of images).

Centuries later, the French philosopher and mystic Henry Corbin brought this idea to the modern world, calling it the Mundus Imaginalis. He argued that this is not fantasy, but A REAL DIMENSION OF BEING, accessible through vision, dreams, spiritual experience, and imagination-as-perception.

This imaginal world is the bridge between our conscious mind and the vast unconscious. It is the source of visions, dreams, and creativity—the place where archetypes live and where every poem, painting, or idea first takes breath before crossing into reality.

To imagine is not to escape—it is to see into this intermediary world, where the human spirit meets the hidden images of existence and transforms them into life.

At Magi, we're developing practices and products to help you systematically access the imaginal, through meditation, dreaming (lucid dreaming) and imagination (wakeful dreaming and active imagination).

Follow our work, learn about our supplements and share your thoughts/questions!

09/03/2025

What if your dreams could help you heal? ✨

A 2025 randomized controlled trial has shown that lucid dreaming can significantly reduce PTSD symptoms and nightmares — with results lasting a month after the training ended.

Here’s what happened: 99 adults with chronic PTSD symptoms joined a 6-day online workshop. Over 22 hours, they learned how to recall dreams, induce lucidity, and set intentions for healing within the dream state. Alongside mindfulness, group sharing, and therapist support, participants practiced transforming their dream narratives.

The results were powerful:
🔹 PTSD symptoms dropped significantly within one week.
🔹 Nightmare distress decreased.
🔹 Well-being improved — and negative emotions diminished.
🔹 Nearly two-thirds of participants who became lucid achieved a healing lucid dream, turning trauma-fueled nightmares into empowering experiences.

The takeaway: lucid dreaming isn’t just an esoteric curiosity. It’s a practical, research-backed way to access the subconscious mind, reframe emotional wounds, and open space for recovery and growth.

Dreams are not just stories at night — The dream space is our unique opportunity and domain for integration, individuation and wholeness.

08/27/2025

What’s this “DMN” everyone’s talking about?

You may have seen the term floating around—as if you should already know what it means. But here’s what the DMN really is (and isn’t):

Scientifically, the Default Mode Network (DMN) is a set of brain regions that tend to light up when we’re not focused on anything external—when our mind is wandering, daydreaming, or reflecting on ourselves.

It’s most active during rest but also during activities like remembering the past, envisioning the future, and constructing our internal narrative.

That said, we should be careful: this is an association, not proof of causality. Just because these regions co‑activate doesn’t mean the DMN drives self‑awareness—we’re observing correlation, not necessarily cause.

The neuroscience community acknowledges this—some critics even question whether these hubs truly form a “network” or merely share vascular dynamics!

🧩 The core hubs and their roles

1) mPFC (Medial Prefrontal Cortex): Evaluates self, future planning, emotions.

2) PCC (Posterior Cingulate Cortex) & Precuneus: Central integrators; tie together awareness, memory, and consciousness.

3) Angular Gyrus (AG): Weaves sensory input with memory, helps in perspective-taking and language.

Inferior Parietal Lobule (IPL): Extends AG’s function — crucial for attention shifts, distinguishing self vs. other, and body-schema (where “I” end and the world begins).

4) Hippocampus (HC): Anchors autobiographical memory, imagination, and contextual detail.

🌌 In short: the DMN is our inner workspace. In the next post, we’ll explore how it bends and breaks in psychedelics, meditation, and lucid dreams— gateways into altered consciousness.

08/25/2025

Good morning, playa 🔥)'(

The gates open, the desert breathes, and the dust welcomes us home.
On this first day of Burning Man, we rise with the ancient bird of rebirth — the Phoenix of Greece and the Qoqnūs (ققنوس) of Iran (Persia).

In the Persian myth and poetry of Attar, Qoqnūs symbolizes the mystical journey of the soul. As Attar says:

The more it burns, the greater it becomes;
from its ashes, a secret elixir rises,
a music that heals what no hand can touch.

And when that song touches the soul,
all spirits are set ablaze,
and every heart becomes a lamp.

For every soul that burns in longing
upon the path of the Friend
is reborn like the Phoenix (Qoqnūs)
new life kindled
from its own fire.

This is our ritual at Burning Man. We bring our selves and our offerings.

We are here for a mystical soul journey.
We sing the song.
We step into the fire: the Man, the Temple, the dust of our own surrender
and like Qoqnūs, we are reborn from our own ashes.

Welcome back, burners! Welcome, friends,
Welcome home!

Image 1: Playa Art Installation, PhoenixSyndrome by

Image 2: Illustration by Farima Keshavarz .made

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