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A thread about psychedelics
Dimmukane:
On a related note, I had my wisdom teeth out this morning. That anesthetic was rad, I should take some to parties.
onewheelwizzard:
I jsut recently got the most recent MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) newsletter, and it's all about the links between psychedelics and technology. There's some crazy shit in here.
For instance, there's an article by a woman who took psychedelics while wring a novel about a language with 27 glyph characters to it, and in order to develop this idea, tripped into the very fictional universe she was creating through writing, and promptly had to decipher the very language she was inventing. Here's the article, it's really interesting. I'm not sure I understand it but it sounds really cool.
There's a short article by a computer programmer who took LSD to help him solve a problem for IBM back in 1975. Apparently he took it to "fit the entire program into his mind at once" and the notes he took while he was tripping didn't make sense to him after he came down, but he followed his own instructions despite not fully understanding them or knowing they would work, and they did and he made a lot of money.
There's an article in here by a computer graphic artist who has been working in the medium since the early 80's. He writes that when digital video editing first came out, he was in a phase of heavy ketamine experimentation, and as he learned to use a computer to manipulate an image, he also learned to do so with his own visual field. Apparently, once he learned how to on ketamine, he was basically able to hallucinate any visual effect (patterns, colors, tracers, multiple images, etc.) whenever he wanted in normal waking consciousness.
That's three out of something like 20 articles, and none of them are remotely limited to the points I just excerpted from them. The MAPS bulletin is a hell of a resource for anyone who wants to know about this kind of stuff. Of course, you have to join the organization and give them a bit of money in order to subscribe to it, but MAPS membership is not expensive, the money goes to a good place, and of course the booklet that shows up at your house three or four times a year is invariably really, really, really interesting.
Or you could read it on the internet! But you should give MAPS money either way.
Here is what I am talking about:
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/index.html
ViolentDove:
Hey, thanks for that link, I never knew that group existed.
Coincidentally, a friend of mine just sent me an email with this quote:
"Would I have invented PCR if I hadn't taken LSD? I seriously doubt it. I could sit on a DNA molecule and watch the polymers go by. I learnt that partly on psychedelic drugs."
-Kary Mullis, Nobel price-winning developer of the polymerase chain-reaction (PCR), which has pretty much formed the basis of most molecular biology and genetics for the last 20 years.
There's also a great New Scientist article on the possibilities of science using different states of consciousness, I'll see if I can dig it up. It's a good read.
ledhendrix:
This derails the thread a bit, but it is quite interesting http://hellarity.org/try/drugs.php Its better than a lot of those shitty tests out there and the results were surprising. My drug of choice is usually cannabis or alcohol but they both scored the lowest. It tells me that I should try LSD, Mushrooms and MDMA with other drugs being about average. I've never thought of myself as an ecstasy person before.
Back on track. I've never tried any "hardcore" psychedelics before. I've smoked salvia, but just normal strength from a joint which had no effect. I've eaten a couple of mushrooms but not enough to do anything. I would like to try lsd but the stories I've heard of people having bad trips that fuck them up have kind of put me off. I really want to try mushrooms properly, which I think I will this year. I know loads of spots to pick them in and i'm going to Amsterdam in July so i might try some then. I've heard a lot of people say they have had life changing experiences with mushrooms and there is no long lasting health effects?
Psychedelic recommendations please?
The New Scientist is an excellent magazine. I have a subscription to it, there was an excellent article on legal highs as well.
öde:
Your Scores
Alcohol: 625
Marijuana: 550
LSD: 1525
MDMA: 1350
Mushrooms: 825
Salvia: 400
Heroin: 325
Cocaine: 375
Definitely gonna skip the last two anyway. I find it a bit odd that I should enjoy being drunk more than being high, because I don't.
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