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Well, I can't say my route was a particularly "easy" one, but I imagine there are simpler versions.
I wrote a relatively popular book about LSD, and once I know people quite well and feel like they might be someone who would be interested, I bring it up in conversation. Because they already know me as a serious minded person, there's a book they can read for detail, and I'm obviously not just some "spaced out hippy" trying to get them to "expand their mind, man", they tend to take it more seriously (it might also help that I'm in my early 40s, a family man, and have a good job that requires technical excellence).
Most people that I trip with these days are people I've personally introduced to psychedelics. On one occasion though, the girl was also already in to psychedelics and just didn't think I was someone she could talk to about it, so was happy to find out that I was.
As stated below, this research has been out for a long time. If you're up on these subjects there's nothing new to learn here. Here's a presentation that contains this research article and many others from fairly recent studies, as well as the same for other drugs: https://prezi.com/lp-qcf6k4h7c/a-whole-new-world-a-contemporary-understanding-of-drugs/
Two books:
The Relaxation Response. Focuses pretty much on the physiological nature of meditation.
Waking Up by Sam Harris. Deals with meditation among many other things and how it relates to consciousness and spiritual experiences.
For those of you interested in the history and revival of Hallucinogen Research another great read is Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain by Nicolas Langlitz
I read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", shortly after that I had my first trip on mushrooms in a festival, high in the mountains of a national park. The book was my first introduction to "eastern philosophy" or rather a western take on it. I had (rationally) accepted that materialism, or the subject-object division of the world is not everything the world consists of. On that trip, it kind of clicked, and I was able to experience a brief moment of what I think is called "Satori" in the Zen religion.
Anyways, I definitely recommend reading that book. If you are looking for something that rationally approaches topics that seem to stand beyond reasoning it should be very interesting to you. Hit me up if you have questions :)
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Consider connecting with a local society. Integration is really hard to do solo. Difficult trips take time to figure out. Consider maybe that fighting like hell against it....something was trying to get out, something that needs to be dealt with. Perhaps the lingering anxiety is an indication that the “something” is no longer buried deep down but lingering just below the surface.
Not trying to diminish your experience just offering up the idea that maybe you’re closer to resolution than you might think.
Neither. Unlike, for example, religion, there's no null hypothesis. I recall reading a recent research paper on DMT that had a lot to say about the 'supernatural' (or whatever) nature of the experience but I'm having a hard time finding it. I'll keep looking.
You can learn this stuff easily with the right training. This course is amazing. It is very comprehensive and the professor is top-notch. His other courses are also great, but this is the starting point.
Expensive course, but, you know, find it on your pirating source of choice. I'd link to it, but I don't know the rules about that, so I wont.
It's certainly available on The Pirate Bay. The user "dohduhdah" has a lot of courses on there.
This course is amazing. It is very comprehensive and the professor is top-notch. His other courses are also great, but this is the starting point.
Expensive course, but, you know, find it on your pirating source of choice. I'd link to it, but I don't know the rules about that, so I wont.
It's certainly available on The Pirate Bay. The user "dohduhdah" has a lot of courses on there.
This book: https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Nature-Inanimate-Structures-Throughout/dp/B0007J0GTY
Feininger was onto this stuff way early, so it's an interesting reference. IMO he's kind of the granddaddy of documenting the fractal nature of reality.
Got any ideas on the direction in all of this that's calling you? It's way huge of an area to try to get your arms around. Focusing on a specific type of form (the spiral, the branch, the arch etc) may help you not get lost in the quagmire. I would heartily recommend finding a tight focus that inspires you before you start any actual work.
Some things that have fascinated me in this area are the catenary arch and the labyrinth.
Gaudi based his design for the Sagrada Familia on catenaries. It's the most efficient way for a load to be transmitted into the ground. Google around and see what you think.
Labyrinths are cool too, and there are different levels of complexity, all fractal. Check out Chartres cathedral labyrinth. Greek keys are labyrinths unwound from themselves. All very ancient, all very cool.
Other shapes might call to you specifically. I'm a very visual thinker so that's how I do things. Good luck with your thesis, sounds like fun!
It's available on Amazon DE. https://www.amazon.de/dp/1790693780
However, make sure it's something your friend would enjoy. I'm not a writer, and the book is just a collection of logs of my LSD experiences. Read the first chapter to see if it is what you're looking for.
>I still wouldn't say psyches are "just" messing with our chemistry.
What would you say they're doing, then? Understanding that 'just messing with brain chemistry' is not a very noble way to describe and attribute power and mystery (and agency) to something we feel great reverence for and ensconce with meaning and ritual. It undermines the potential of a phenomenon that humans historically have naturally sought to keep open ended, capping it with an unsatisfying simplistic biological lid.
But it sure does seem like an accurate - though, admittedly, incredibly rudimentary - way to describe how it produces results. Undeniable in fact that at some level your brain is the scene of the action. We can observe this externally, in other people. It also seems quite possible that one does not need to indulge in psychedelics to have a unifying experience. You can have a stroke . What do the two have in common? (though a word of caution on the physiological veracity of Taylor's left/right brain attributions)
Does any of this seek to suggest that there is not to be found with the aid of these substances perspective and insight, clarity in emotion – sometimes fear? Not at all. But as self inoculated 'rationalists' I think if we have trouble putting words or communicating about something the very first thing we should be doing is trying to describe that better. And to do that we have to admit what is the underlying phenomenon most likely to be? An enlightened being traveling across interdimensional planes to teach us or the physiological masterpiece we utilize to organize electrical impulse in to conscious thought being played like an organo-electric piano?
I know there are tons of noise generators out there, but none I've found are as complete and high-quality as mynoise.net. If you end up liking the site, you can donate, which comes with a few perks like unlocking some generators and such. I know I sound like a paid advertisement, but I just really appreciate the site.
This android would help keep your experience flow, you can set it to "skip silence", so what you do is plug it into the wall and have it recording the whole time, then you just speak whenever you think of something, instead of having to fiddle with technology.
Makes it much easier when you want to listen to it later, no big gaps of silence.
> What is that?? BeautifulVoiceChills..
That feeling is frisson.
noun
A sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill: a frisson of excitement
Example sentences:
* As I put my hand on the sunroom door I felt a sudden frisson of fear.
* When Kamal made his entry to the accompaniment of drum-beats, a frisson of excitement shot through the crowds.
* At exactly midday, the cannon is fired and a frisson of excitement runs through the small crowd of tourists gathered on the ramparts.
Origin late 18th century: French, 'a shiver or thrill'.
I take these guys. By cut out the middle man, I mean that fish get their EPA and DHA from algae, and given all the plastic and heavy metals that bioaccumulate in fish nowadays, I think that these are far safer.
also QAnon, no-vax and flat-earthers idiocies are a common enough trope to be talked about in several different contexts. This doesn't make them any less idiocies.
What science is all about it's exploring the unknown, if scientists would be convinced to have all discovered, science would just stop existing.
here is a best seller about science written by scientists literally called We have no idea , it may be a good read for you
There’s a really fascinating, if fantastic book by Andrew Gallimore called Alien Information Theory, which sets the bar at one side of the spectrum of psychedelic beliefs. It’s conclusions are very hyperspace, alien overlord -esque, but the book’s fascinating because it makes compelling points along every step of the way. Anyways, Gallimore’s final conclusion of the book is that we need to be researching continuous-drip IV methods in order to allow people to enter the DMT realm for 3 days(?) continuously, upon which our conscious minds will detach from our 3-dimensional bodies and attach themselves to their hyperspace analogs. It’s cool to see people are actually approaching this
Spinoza is incredible. When your up to it, https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Enlightenment-Philosophy-Modernity-1650-1750/dp/0199254567 is an amazing book that basically credits Spinoza with the Enlightenment. It may be a bit overblown, but I was a big enough spinoza fan-boy to love the heck out of it.
I used to use shrooms as a form of 'defragging' the mind. Having whatever clutter I'd amassed cleared away. But I never truly got down to the core. Eventually, I came across meditation. Through meditation under the influence of psilocybin I vaporized some three decades of depression.
We lead our lives oblivious to the potential we carry. There's too much noise, distorting what's real.
Check out Mindfulness in Plain English. It'll give you a great starting point when it comes to meditation. I didn't have a clue what I was doing, but I'd picked it up through my life, and that understanding found its way to the surface.
Meditation is the greatest tool you will have at your disposal when tripping.
Island by Aldous Huxley
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Check out Waking Up by Sam Harris. His description of spirituality is similar to OPs - something more like contemplation or introspection is how he defines spirituality, because we don't really have any other word to describe the betterment of the self.
A few books which your wife may find useful.
Mindfulness in Plain English - A great tool for any psychonaut. Especially handy for newbies as it may help center them.
The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation - In order to better understand what may occur when combining Mindfulness Meditation with psychedelics (psilocin is preferred.)
Be mindful of your set and setting. Don't dose with her - you're her sitter, you need to be there for her should she need you - not exploring your own head space.
It seems there is an inclination for the intelligent mind to seek out altered states of consciousness. I began exploring these altered perceptions first with magic mushrooms, then with salvia, and then later with LSD.
Mushrooms seem to be a common, and respectable, entry into psychonaut endeavors if you're interested in inducing an altered state of consciousness using an entheogen.
You may choose instead to explore the meditative route. /r/meditation could help you there, but so could many psychonauts. Mindfulness in Plain English is a great book to read for an introduction to mindfulness meditation, which often leads to insights and altered states of consciousness. Meditation takes discipline though and a significantly greater amount of time to see results as opposed to an entheogen.
There’s an anthology called Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience (https://www.amazon.com/Sisters-Extreme-Women-Writing-Experience/dp/0892817577 ) that might be worth a look. It deals with more than just psychedelics.
I saw the word entity and started to scroll past the post, but I think this is actually a really interesting theory that makes sense. If you haven't, you should read Descartes' Error. He explores the studies done on blind-sight and split brains, and it does appear that separate, distinct consciousnesses can emerge in one brain under the right conditions (this is entirely different from Dissociative Identity Disorder, which isn't really multiple distinct consciousnesses the way it's popularly portrayed in media).
Sure. Personally, my opinion is that a proper session with adequate preparation, research and support would be beneficial to every adult human. However, you are the person that needs to do that research and preparation; it is inherently faulty to lean on a group or therapist or anyone else to provide all of this for you. While I approve of your disposition, I find much to be desired in the rhetoric present in your inquiry and the framing of yourself as "a candidate."
I would also suggest you simultaneously follow simpler routes, such as self-education through reading. Something like Harold Bloom's "How To Read and Why" would be tremendous as a starting point for you to expand your ideas about what it means to be human and what you are capable of in this limited lifetime. Read through it and pick out some works that speak to you and investigate them to your full capacity.
You don't need to take drugs to discover these perspectives outside of your past self. You can find a lot of it in literature, as expressed by (largely) deceased individuals. There's a large lesson and perspective shift presented to the reader simply by engaging with this process.
Ah the good ol 'yeah, and I think its turtles all the way down.' It's a simple minded comment, honestly. And that's OK.
>Jakob Boehme, a simple shoemaker born in the 15th century, suddenly realized one day that “God was a binary, fractal, self-replicating algorithm and that the universe was a genetic matrix resulting from the existential tension created by His desire for self-knowledge.”
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>"...suggest an amazing possibility: just as dreams are seemingly autonomous manifestations of our psyche, reality may be an externalized combination of the subconscious dreams of us all, mixed as they are projected onto the fabric of space-time" - Dreamed Up Reality | Bernardo Kastrup PhD
These are both theories that I was linked to after posting my perceptions to reddit.
Was there a book written about jesus getting shot by satan? I'd love to give that a read.
Working with cannabis sure seems like a fine career to find oneself in ;) I'm in Germany where I don't think the sick care system has reached American levels yet, but you are definitely right about many people living unhealthy lives and clogging up medical resources. The China Study really opened my eyes on that one.
I'm thinking of psychiatry where patients (I would assume) have a true interest in getting better, but again I might find some other interest in medical school
If you're into rabbit holes check out Tim Oniell's recent book (link below) laying out slews of evidence that Charles Manson was an agent of the CIA except the narrative there is the opposite. That the CIA and FED were led by radically-hyper conservatives that aimed to quash the counter culture movement (because anti war, anti american exceptionalism, etc) by creating an image of the hippies as filthy drug induced psychotic murderers, by grooming Manson and his followers. If you love conspiracies this book is excellent as well as compelling.
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Book: Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Not technically a philosopher but he showed me how scientific inquiry and curiosity can promote awe, appreciation and all the good stuff that religions claim are not the domain of science; Carl Sagan. Specifically this book - The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
What is your distinction between 'personality disorders' - some kind DSM talk (guys who make their money tagging customers with this or that one, then putting 'em on some prescription and going "NEXT!") - and CHARACTER DISTURBANCE?
Character disturbance is neither diagnostically obvious - one reason why the first major book on psychopathy was title THE MASK OF SANITY (and ancient wisdom texts harbor lines about 'wolves in sheeps clothing')
And 'personality disorder' schmisorder - the might hold DSM pages in place for career practitioners prescribing meds. But "the phenomenon of our age" (as recognized by Geo Simon, PhD specialist) happens to be character disturbance:
Character Disturbance: The Phenomenon Of Our Age (2011) www.amazon.com/Character-Disturbance-phenomenon-our-age/dp/1935166336
And In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People (2010) www.amazon.com/Sheeps-Clothing-Understanding-Dealing-Manipulative/dp/1935166301/ref=pd_bxgy_img_sccl_1/140-5726994-2068153?pd_rd_w=STc0O&pf_rd_p=6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da&pf_rd_r=YRQMBTAYFBWJQSHG75PY&pd_rd_r=55f1a921-e855-441b-ad02-5940288623fd&pd_rd_wg=23hkv&pd_rd_i=1935166301&psc=1
And exacerbation even induction of psychopathy and other little-understood disfigurements of temperament just so happen to be among the deepest, darkest and dirtiest little secrets about what psychedelics do and have been doing over decades - ever to be systematically kept by a pack of ... well, let's not characterize the pack - ever since the mid-20th C Advent, now going Round 2 - since the Onset of 2006; like something that was in remission for years showing up again in new X-rays.
Chaos Magick maybe. It can be entirely secular if you want it to be. Liber Null & Psychonaut is a good book about it Liber Null & Psychonaut - Revised and Expanded Edition: The Practice of Chaos Magic Weiser Classics https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/157863766X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_J7YPH9NN54F1BY7JVSMC
This book is a little outdated now, but when I was an undergrad philosophy major, this was THE book for the materialist viewpoint: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/neurophilosophy
I'd also recommend reading https://www.amazon.com/Descartes-Error-Emotion-Reason-Human/dp/014303622X . Again, it's a little dated but should help you understand where most materialists are coming from.
Bernadette Roberts had a similar awakening to no-self without any context, and it’s certainly extremely scary until you familiarize yourself with the territory via folks who have already navigated it (I highly suggest you seek such people out. There are many folks on YouTube, DM if you’d like suggestions). Here’s her journal recounting her experience and evolution. It may be helpful. Her background at the time was Christian but the book is totally secular.
Ultimately enlightenment, when embodied, grounded, and stabilized, will be seen as the greatest gift life could ever bestow on you. Where you are at now is a very early and difficult stage that will pass. Hang in there!
The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey, Revised Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0791416941/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_ZHAGT46TNZJ3P6AXVWCW
My two cents:
The problem I have with mushrooms is you really don't know how much psilocybin you are taking. This isn't a huge deal, but I personally will either take extracted psilocybin or DMT.
Before working with psychedelics for healing you should gain experience in mindfulness and meditation. The goal here is to quiet your mind and then allow thoughts to come to the surface. Ideally you observe these thoughts passively and without judgement but this can be difficult without gentle reminders. A guided meditation app like Serenity can help a lot.
When you get to the point that you can passively observe your own thoughts for 20-30 minutes unguided it is time to try the psychedelic.
In both my personal experience and when I guide I feel the comedown and beyond is the critical point for healing. You are going to want to do this with an eye mask and earplugs/headphones. The closed eye visuals at peak are too distracting (and fun) to really focus on your internal state.
For this reason I suggest DMT. DMT has a weird reputation as some crazy strong psychedelic that only the very experienced should take. This is only true because people regularly take massive doses, around 20-30g, or more if it isn't pure. 30mg of DMT is like taking 1000ug of acid or 6g+ of dried golden teacher.
Most people will never go that high if things start to go bad you are going to be stuck there for a while. DMT is usually over in 10 minutes tops.
The really interesting effect of DMT is after that 10 minutes. I have found it puts me an incredible mindful trance. I am partially detached from myself and can observe my thoughts feelings, anxieties, depression etc, without judgement. Even more amazing is I can explore my memories in vivid detail.
Not only that I can hold that state for several hours. Everyone I have guided made it at least one hour.
I just got it from tpb.
Here's a link. You can convert to epub with Calibre.
If you can't get this to work, pm me and I'll send it to you.
It requires the rest of the body. That is my point in case I haven't been clear enough.
Here, read this article for a better breakdown of the issue than I'm able to articulate:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-body-is-the-missing-link-for-truly-intelligent-machines
If you get a strobe app on your phone, you can use this "gooseneck" phone holder: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DM7GZPJ/
(If the link doesn't work, try googling "Aduro Phone Neck Holder" or "Gooseneck Lazy Neck Phone Mount.")
I have the Lumenate app and like it a lot, but agree that it can be hard to justify the cost. If you ever use it again, I recommend this "goose neck" phone mount: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DM7GZPJ/.
(In case the link doesn't work, it's called "Aduro Phone Neck Holder" or "Gooseneck Lazy Neck Phone Mount")
Do you have an android phone? Try "Smart Voice Recorder" for android.
You can hit record and have it 'skip silence', that way you can just have it run and talk whenever you want.
The finished recording doesn't have any big gaps of silence, it only recorded you speaking.
sentience vs nonsentience is now moving the goal posts since we haven't talked about those at all in this thread.
and scientific consensus is that consciousness is located in the brain. it is not some separate supernatural thing.
This is the very claim I dispute, as correlation does not prove causation.
Neurological data is asymptotic with respect to consciousness; you could have an infinite amount of evidence and still only prove correlation, rather than causation. The two lie in different domains, and no amount of probing into physical brains can change that.
This is actually the essence of the hard problem of consciousness. This page is a decent even-handed overview of the subject.
You've got to remember that being faced with these facts can be too tough on someone. Some people simply cannot mentally cope with what psychedelics brings to the table, and those people aren't going to be helped by someone trying to enlighten them via psychedelics.
In my opinion, if something is knowable, it already exists as a possible constellation of excited and unexcited neurons in our brains. This has been studied a bit, and I read quite an interesting study about this and DMT the other day, which I think you'll find rather interesting.
A documwnt markup language used by pretty much everyone in the natural sciences. You can count the scientists that don't use it with one hand. So as a good rule of thumb, if your paper on quantum fluctuation is written with word, I'm not going to read it if I didn't find it in an academic context.
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I totally get it. Been there many times. Another less known one that also works well is "Stomach Curing Pills" that you'd get from a Chinese medicine doctor. They've saved me on many an occasion
https://www.amazon.com/DR-SHENS-Stomach-Curing-Pills/dp/B076KNBQDL
This is a materialist view of the world, as is the OP’s view (“we’re just a blob of chemistry”). This view, that matter, not consciousness, is primary, when deeply investigated, appears to not be as easily defended as we might initial think before embarking on the investigation.
Bernardo Kastrup tackles the nature of reality quite well, and in a way in which the scientifically minded person may open to the possibility that reality is structured differently than has been presented to us since Descartes.
Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to life, the Universe, and EverythingWhy Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to life, the Universe, and Everything
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982556276/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_8RWS8TKG2392MFFWY0C6
I'll start with the hard science and then i'll interpret it in a way that might shed light on your question.
The Big Bang Theory is our best understanding of the early universe. Although it is well-understood and surprisingly measurable, it gets weird when you look at The First Three Minutes. Things seem to come from nothing? But what is "nothing" in the physical universe? Turns out, there's really something there even when there's nothing there. And that something likes to be balanced. But if it were truly perfectly balanced, there would be no change. So (we have calculated and measured) there must be a tiny bit of unbalance, and that tiny bit of unbalance was an initial condition for our entire universe unfolding into itself.
So to interpret that, one might say "haha, it's like someone got bored and tipped a scale just slightly one way lol and a bunch of explosions happened and hydrogen combined into carbon, and DNA, and had sex, and boom here we are"
here is a book called "We Have No Idea" , a science book written by scientists that lists and explain many of the most ineffable mysteries about the universe. Literally no one says that we know everything about nature and the universe. But while there are things we don't still know, there are a lot of other things we are sure about. Science isn't a set of truths set in stone, science is a method to ask awkward questions submitting them to fact checking to avoid the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good. Scientific Consensus is pretty much what made you able to post anything in this platform and there is the 50% of possibility that is the thing that kept you alive till today
Yeah, I think you're right u/EchoingSimplicity. That's interesting about the replication crisis in psychology as well -- I'd not heard of that before.
Perhaps scientific evidence is an ideal that doesn't exist. But what about anecdotes or experiences you've had or come across that point to a high state of consciousness? I think about "Dying to Be Me"the book by Anita Moorjani -- how she was nearing the end of her life with a seemingly incurable cancer before her NDE. After which she came back and was cancer free within two weeks.
It's not scientific evidence of a higher power, per se, but the way that her health shifted so drastically after her NDE is compelling, in my opinion. I guess I'm looking for other accessible examples like that -- or Emoto's water studies (maybe this is pseudo-science, I'm not sure). But these kinds of inexplicable things that you hear about that seem to point to the idea that there must be something more at play here. I'm searching for examples like these that might appeal to the everyday skeptic.
his book changed my thinking for the better: https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897
Guess they don't go chasing beautiful women with pancakes on needles very much.
http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/bdasher/Chem361/Review_Articles_files/Mushrooms%20and%20Buddhist.pdf
If you want to read a cool book on this, give this a go:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Entangled-Life-Worlds-Change-Futures/dp/1847925197
It's a really good read!
This looks quite simple (because it is) although it took quite a while to put together. These are 36 of the 157 psychoactives I self-administered for the writing of The Drug Users Bible.
Listed row by row:
>Methamphetamine, Xanax, Morning Glory Seeds, Heroin, Opium, Yopo Seeds
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>2C-B-Fly, 3-FPM, 1P-LSD, Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds, Cannabis, Amphetamine
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>GHB, Diazepam, Celastrus Paniculatus Seeds, Kratom, Psilocybe Cubensis Mushrooms, 2C-I
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>MDMA, Pyrazolam, Noopept, Rapé, 2AI, Ubulawu
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>Adderall, Etizolam, Kola Nut, Valerian Root, Cocaine, DXM
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>Clonazolam, MXP, AL-LAD, San Pedro Cactus, Salvia Divinorum, Street Hash
Picking the psychedelics out: Morning Glory Seeds (1,3); Yopo Seeds (1,6); 2C-B-Fly (2,1); 1P-LSD (2,3); HBWS (2,4); Psilocybe Cubensis Mushrooms (3,5); 2C-I (3,6); AL-LAD (6,3); San Pedro Cactus (6,4); Salvia Divinorum (6,5).
The cannabis comprising the letter 'P' is gelato. The hash in the bottom right-hand corner is Moroccan.
Finally, note that I've posted full sized photographs and descriptions of some of these during the last few months. If anyone wishes to track back and see them, check out older posts in this sub. A lot more are to follow, so this also serves as a menu of a few of the drugs I will be posting about downstream.
Stay safe.
This looks quite simple (because it is) although it took quite a while to put together. These are 36 of the 157 psychoactives I self-administered for the writing of The Drug Users Bible.
Listed row by row:
>Methamphetamine, Xanax, Morning Glory Seeds, Heroin, Opium, Yopo Seeds
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>2C-B-Fly, 3-FPM, 1P-LSD, Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds, Cannabis, Amphetamine
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>GHB, Diazepam, Celastrus Paniculatus Seeds, Kratom, Psilocybe Cubensis Mushrooms, 2C-I
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>MDMA, Pyrazolam, Noopept, Rapé, 2AI, Ubulawu
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>Adderall, Etizolam, Kola Nut, Valerian Root, Cocaine, DXM
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>Clonazolam, MXP, AL-LAD, San Pedro Cactus, Salvia Divinorum, Street Hash
Picking the psychedelics out: Morning Glory Seeds (1,3); Yopo Seeds (1,6); 2C-B-Fly (2,1); 1P-LSD (2,3); HBWS (2,4); Psilocybe Cubensis Mushrooms (3,5); 2C-I (3,6); AL-LAD (6,3); San Pedro Cactus (6,4); Salvia Divinorum (6,5).
The cannabis comprising the letter 'P' is gelato. The hash in the bottom right-hand corner is Moroccan.
Finally, note that I've posted full sized photographs and descriptions of some of these during the last few months. If anyone wishes to track back and see them, check out older posts in this sub. A lot more are to follow, so this also serves as a menu of a few of the drugs I will be posting about downstream.
Stay safe.
This looks quite simple (because it is) although it took quite a while to put together. These are 36 of the 157 psychoactives I self-administered for the writing of The Drug Users Bible.
Listed row by row:
>Methamphetamine, Xanax, Morning Glory Seeds, Heroin, Opium, Yopo Seeds
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>2C-B-Fly, 3-FPM, 1P-LSD, Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds, Cannabis, Amphetamine
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>GHB, Diazepam, Celastrus Paniculatus Seeds, Kratom, Psilocybe Cubensis Mushrooms, 2C-I
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>MDMA, Pyrazolam, Noopept, Rapé, 2AI, Ubulawu
>
>Adderall, Etizolam, Kola Nut, Valerian Root, Cocaine, DXM
>
>Clonazolam, MXP, AL-LAD, San Pedro Cactus, Salvia Divinorum, Street Hash
Picking the psychedelics out: Morning Glory Seeds (1,3); Yopo Seeds (1,6); 2C-B-Fly (2,1); 1P-LSD (2,3); HBWS (2,4); Psilocybe Cubensis Mushrooms (3,5); 2C-I (3,6); AL-LAD (6,3); San Pedro Cactus (6,4); Salvia Divinorum (6,5).
The cannabis comprising the letter 'P' is gelato. The hash in the bottom right-hand corner is Moroccan.
Finally, note that I've posted full sized photographs and descriptions of some of these during the last few months. If anyone wishes to track back and see them, check out older posts in this sub. A lot more are to follow, so this also serves as a menu of a few of the drugs I will be posting about downstream.
Stay safe.
This looks quite simple (because it is) although it took quite a while to put together. These are 36 of the 157 psychoactives I self-administered for the writing of The Drug Users Bible.
Listed row by row:
>Methamphetamine, Xanax, Morning Glory Seeds, Heroin, Opium, Yopo Seeds
>
>2C-B-Fly, 3-FPM, 1P-LSD, Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds, Cannabis, Amphetamine
>
>GHB, Diazepam, Celastrus Paniculatus Seeds, Kratom, Psilocybe Cubensis Mushrooms, 2C-I
>
>MDMA, Pyrazolam, Noopept, Rapé, 2AI, Ubulawu
>
>Adderall, Etizolam, Kola Nut, Valerian Root, Cocaine, DXM
>
>Clonazolam, MXP, AL-LAD, San Pedro Cactus, Salvia Divinorum, Street Hash
Picking the psychedelics out: Morning Glory Seeds (1,3); Yopo Seeds (1,6); 2C-B-Fly (2,1); 1P-LSD (2,3); HBWS (2,4); Psilocybe Cubensis Mushrooms (3,5); 2C-I (3,6); AL-LAD (6,3); San Pedro Cactus (6,4); Salvia Divinorum (6,5).
The cannabis comprising the letter 'P' is gelato. The hash in the bottom right-hand corner is Moroccan.
Finally, note that I've posted full sized photographs and descriptions of some of these during the last few months. If anyone wishes to track back and see them, check out older posts in this sub. A lot more are to follow, so this also serves as a menu of a few of the drugs I will be posting about downstream.
Stay safe.
I should be able to buy things like khat and kratom right off of Amazon. But nooooooooooooooo. But you know what I can buy? This shit. Its fucking horrible in every way, one smell and you nearly puke, and trying to consume it isn't any better and it just speeds you up for about 30 mins and then thats it. It was a mistake to buy it and I can't believe shit like that is readily sold but plants that grow in the fucking ground are so taboo.
Yes, integration of your introspection helps. I find my insights are forgotten rather quickly, so I like to talk to someone I trust about them or write them down.
A few times I've used Google Recorder to record my ramblings when I'm high. It transcribes them, but 3 hours of goofy stuff is a bit to wade through to get to the diamonds in the rough. You can try it though!
David Luke is a researcher you might want to look into : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Luke, His book is here : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Otherworlds-Psychedelics-Exceptional-Experience-Muswell/dp/1908995149
This was very interesting thanks for posting it.
What is ‘real’ then according to you?
Edit: I recently finished a book called:
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe https://www.amazon.com/dp/1935251740/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_wE8nFbCRMTSEV
You should check it out. The basic premise is whether reality creates consciousness or visa versa and why it’s more than probably the latter (he uses many examples to prove this)
Totally blew my mind
Well... it took 10 years to write, and I self-administered 157 different drugs (chemicals and botanicals). Full of drama but I got there in the end. :-)
You can read more about it on your local Amazon. This is its page on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/dp/099559368X
Recently released: the life's work of Stanislav Grof. "The Way of the Psychonaut" in two volumes.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/0998276596
Amazon Link for reference, support your local bookstore!
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"If I am the father of LSD, then Stan Grof is the godfather who brought my wonder child through a difficult time." - Albert Hoffman
Heads: A Biography oh Psychedelic America https://www.amazon.com/Heads-Biography-Psychedelic-Jesse-Jarnow/dp/0306921987/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=Heads&qid=1571264595&sr=8-4 does much more than repeat the old stories we all know about Hoffman, Kesey, Bear and the rest. Now I know where my blotter was coming from in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
This is awesome, thanks. You are right in that I do have a lot of emotional baggage from regrets regarding my treatment of other human beings, people I said I loved. I absolutely hate that I have hurt others and not a day goes by that I think lesser of myself because of my mistakes. I can't tell if I was conscious of my actions at the time and didn't care, or if I am simply that emotionally ignorant. It's difficult for me to feel empathy, and sometimes I think to myself, "Do I only feel bad because I know I'm supposed to feel bad, or do I actually regret what I've done?" Forgiving myself and loving myself seems eons away; it's a lot easier said than done for sure.
I'll pick up meditating again. I tried it for a few months but saw no results. I'm currently reading Mindfulness in Plain English at the moment, so I'll take some insights and gain my meditative skills before I move on to the Altruistic meditation which you brought up.
Absolutely. I would read 'Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind' by Suzuki Roshi. In it he talks about the foolishness of trying to "achieve" nirvana. He also disagrees with the idea that Buddhism can be defined with any aptitude.
You SHOULD see for yourself, and not have any ideas about what your present experience is or is not. But that's just a suggestion. You can grasp and suffer too. Often there is nothing inherently wrong or irrational about that. Holding on is just a tool to find your way.
Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Steve jobs by Isaacson Walter (I plan to read his others one day)
A book of Five Rings by Miyamato Musashi
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
Alex Greys collection
The rest of the books and authors I found arent worth reading. Also the authors I brought up above were very fruitful.
Have reread parts or all of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance a few times, really interesting story, and the commentary about where eastern mindsets fit within the context of modern society was really quite timely.
I think we've upgraded ourselves :)
I'm really glad to see someone else sharing this viewpoint. I've been using entheogens for almost 10 years now, but it's only in the past year that I feel I've really uncovered the power of them. Microdosing psilocybin has been life changing, enabling me to tackle challenges that I didn't think I'd ever overcome. I tell everyone that I can about it, and it's a shame that everything is still so horribly illegal. You've done a great job of summing up the benefits I feel as well. One difference is that for me, even though I agree I can now control my emotions better, there have definitely been periods of increased emotional instability. I attribute that mostly to working through some issues I needed to deal with, so maybe it was necessary to get out and work through.
Anyway, thanks for writing this and best of luck on our continued journeys. I encourage you to check out /r/acult and the Wiki there to see some of the thoughts I've tried to organize over the last couple of years. Keep hoping to make more progress there, and I guess the time has to be right. Would appreciate any input, though. And I'm currently reading Zen Battles, which I'm loving so far, would highly recommend for the like minded :)
Totally. That's what shamans/icaros do in the Ayahuasca ceremony, or a therapist does in therapeutic trips. Lots of different types of guiding.
Check out the Psychedelic Explorer's guide by James Fadiman. It's a pretty good primer on guiding.
Also, there's also this, but it's pretty weak so far: http://entheoguide.net/wiki/Main_Page
I know this is isn't a rational psychonaut response, but anecdotal. But I still can't dismiss the experience. I snore. Pretty loudly I've been told. And I was on a month+ business trip (across the States and Asia) and had a new Senior Manager I just hired for my startup, and we had to share hotel rooms.... So I bought some of this Ysnore stuff apparently there was once some sweet yams and ginger in the water (before getting dilluted etc) and now it's just a "homeopathic relief" from snoring.
So I took this stuff every night for about 6 weeks, and the whole time I (apparently) never snored.
Do you think the psychosomatic force in me is so strong I can even stop snoring all night?
Is there a rational explanation?
Check out Mindmelding by William Hirstein
Similar lines, more ideas.
This is a follow up to a review of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "First Contact" (not to be confused with the movie of the same franchise and name).
The video concludes with the following excerpt from "The Killing Star", by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski
> Imagine yourself taking a stroll through manhattan, somewhere north of 68th street, deep inside central park, late at night. It would be nice to meet someone friendly, but you know that the park is dangerous at night. That's when the monsters come out. There's always a strong undercurrent of drug dealings, muggings, and occasional homicides.
>It is not easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. They dress alike, and the weapon are concealed. The only difference is intent, and you can't read minds.
>Stay in the dark long enough and you may hear an occasional distance shriek or blunder across a body.
>How do you survive the night? The last thing you want to do is shout, "I'm here!" The next last thing you want to do is to reply to someone who shouts "I'm a friend!"
>What you would like to do is find a policeman, or get out of the park. But you don't want to make noise or move towards a light where you might be spotted, and it is difficult to find either a policeman or your way out without making yourself known. Your safest option is to hunker down and wait for daylight, then safely walk out.
>There are, of course, a few obvious differences between central park and the universe.
>There's no policeman.
>There's no way out.
>And the night never ends.
other people have already done it. (btw, I haven't read this book, but I likely will)