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Take a trip to ease your final journey
« on: 2006-04-14 07:35:04 » |
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[Blunderov] If one accepts the premise that pleasure is the source of sin, then I suppose it is reasonable to conclude that a person in pain cannot sin. Who will rid us of this Puritan baggage?
(A person once came to his particular appreciation of the nature of mind by virtue of a single LSD experience. It became clear to him that his mind was an electro-chemical plasma. This plasma was revealed as such by the ripple in reality, an interference wave, which cycled through it with the regularity of mains-hum on a TV screen.)
see:
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/
and
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/THESLSD06.htm
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Most important to many researchers is the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, but they have to fight to be allowed to investigate this. Psychiatrist, Charles Grob says that he has wanted to do such research since 1972 and at last is beginning, although it took him more than ten years to get approval for his study. He is using psilocybin rather than LSD, partly because its action is rather shorter and its effects more controllable, but partly because it is politically less sensitive. He has redecorated a drab hospital room for the purpose and is beginning to treat anxiety and pain in twelve patients with end stage cancer, giving them either drug or placebo, and so far the results are very promising. This is the kind of research that might eventually confirm what Huxley, and so many other users, have seen for themselves, that just one or a very few meetings with a psychedelic can – under the right circumstances – enhance life and abolish the fear of death.
Why, if psychedelics really do have such magical therapeutic potential, have they been ignored for so long? Why are they not legal, or at least available on prescription? One depressing reason is that the pharmaceutical companies cannot make money out of them; not only are there are no patents to be had but these drugs don’t need to be taken regularly. Indeed that is part of their magic. Even one LSD trip can change a person’s outlook forever. In therapy, one or a few sessions may be enough.</snip>
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