Morninggloryseed
Bluelight Crew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGf2loLAwVE
One of my favorite videos…and a great example of illustrating what ‘set’ and ‘setting’ really mean. See, LSD and the other psychedelics were not ‘dangerous and illegal drugs’ until 1970 at the Federal level, here in the USA. So understand that this video of a suburban woman from the 1950s taking LSD in the LA office of Sydney Cohen shows us what it is like for a ‘normal, regular’ person to take a psychedelic in a safe and constructive setting, with a trusted (and trained) therapist to assist the initiate; without any preconceived notions about it.
Nobody outside of the scientific or psychological community had heard of LSD at this point or any psychedelics 1956 outside peyote, iboga in France, and the article on mushrooms in Life magazine from Gordon Wasson. Therefore, if a person signed up for an LSD experiment in 1956 they did not think of themselves as volunteering for something that was ‘dangerous’ or ‘illegal’ because they weren’t. People never for a moment worried about the idea that they might think they ‘can fly’ and then might jump out a window and then have a ‘bad trip’ or whatever nonsense people now think.
[editorial rant]
None of those lies (or people believing them) existed in1956 because there were no bad trips on dangerous, illegal LSD because the 'concept' did not exist. Remember, today the majority of people become aware of psychedelics when their ‘friends’ buy some ‘acid’ from their ‘dealer’ and they are handed it with such detailed instructions as, “Here take this, we are gonna ‘trip balls” and if a difficult issue arises on this trip, their friend may say, ‘dude you are just wigging out, it will wear off later.’ This video illustrates that there is another way!
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Morning glory seeds, peyote, mushrooms, tryptamine snuffs, iboga have always been tools used by men outside the west…still are…since men existed. After the 1950s…..LSD, mescaline, MDA, psilocin, DMT, DET, etc (the synthetic cousins to magic plants) were tools for the psychotherapist (and the patient) to explore the mental process, the relation between the self and the outer-world, and the (self) perceptions related to these concepts…. together without any (incorrect) mental associations between the experience and breaking the law, or partaking in a ‘dangerous’ activity.
The psychedelic experience IS for every one who is seeking it......and it already is NOW in cultures that have always had them....ayahuasca land, pedro mountains, mushroom hills, iboga land, etc Many people don’t know they are seeking the type of experience magic spiritual plants offer because we have no concept for knowing what they really can offer. Most people in the West cannot take part in such an experience...in a safe and supportive setting...with a truly knowledgeable guide, facilitator, and/or Shaman because they don’t know where to find it. Most never know it is there to begin with.
Magic plants and their synthetic variants offer knowledge of the self and the greater oneness around them.becoming aware of things from outside of one’s own reference points. Perhaps even becoming aware that the self, the world around and everything in it, the Universe, time and space, and even the loaded word “God” can all mean the same thing.and in fact are all the same thing even to most major religions.
Don’t believe me? Take a look a recent study that use the scientific method to study and verify that these tools DO have 'mystical' and 'spiritual' benefits to 'regular' everyday people. You need not have longhair, a grateful dead shirt, or be named “Leaf” to apply. The study referenced is from Psychopharmacology, as covered in this Hopkins press release. This work is the real deal....published data in a well respected peer reviewed journal.
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press_releases/2006/07_11_06.html
Or how about a different angle from News Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9522-magic-mushrooms-really-cause-spiritual-experiences.html
This is just one.....in just the past 5 years there is SO much going on in the way of new data on LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, etc....
[more editorial comments]
Beyond the new data, there are already thousands of publications from before psychedelics were ‘dangerous and illegal drugs’ to ‘prove’ to the uninitiated that these tools are worth the time of every able bodied mind…and that the experience is not a ‘poisonous intoxication’ from a ‘drug’ but rather it is another level of consciousness, like dreaming or the trance. Further, the experience is related to a chain of events in the brain that is…here we go…completely ‘normal’ since the granddaddy spirit molecules (DMT, bufotenine, and 5-MeO-DMT), aka three POWERFUL psychedelics, are already found in your brain! If you didn’t know this, be aware that your brain already makes dangerous and illegal psychedelic drugs. Nobody really knows what they do there, but there are are a lot of compelling theories!
[/editorial comments]
One thing is for sure. The ingredients for a ‘mystical psychedelic experience’ are already made by our brains and whatever reason they are there…there are there! The psychedelic experience is not a factor of some external ‘drug’ that poisons the mind...it is a normal part of the human experience ...and our brain already makes the ingredients to provide this experience! Psychedelics show us ourselves by activating a chain of events in the brain...it changes the perception of space, time, and the self. In other words, psychedelics don’t do anything but change the way we look at ourselves and the world around (and inside) us....for a few hours. That experience will be eye-opening to anyone who is able to undertake it under the right set (mental state) and setting (where you take it and who you take it with). Now the hard science is there to back up these ideas!
Now take this knowledge...think about, make a pithy comment here, then spread it to the next person you meet!
One of my favorite videos…and a great example of illustrating what ‘set’ and ‘setting’ really mean. See, LSD and the other psychedelics were not ‘dangerous and illegal drugs’ until 1970 at the Federal level, here in the USA. So understand that this video of a suburban woman from the 1950s taking LSD in the LA office of Sydney Cohen shows us what it is like for a ‘normal, regular’ person to take a psychedelic in a safe and constructive setting, with a trusted (and trained) therapist to assist the initiate; without any preconceived notions about it.
Nobody outside of the scientific or psychological community had heard of LSD at this point or any psychedelics 1956 outside peyote, iboga in France, and the article on mushrooms in Life magazine from Gordon Wasson. Therefore, if a person signed up for an LSD experiment in 1956 they did not think of themselves as volunteering for something that was ‘dangerous’ or ‘illegal’ because they weren’t. People never for a moment worried about the idea that they might think they ‘can fly’ and then might jump out a window and then have a ‘bad trip’ or whatever nonsense people now think.
[editorial rant]
None of those lies (or people believing them) existed in1956 because there were no bad trips on dangerous, illegal LSD because the 'concept' did not exist. Remember, today the majority of people become aware of psychedelics when their ‘friends’ buy some ‘acid’ from their ‘dealer’ and they are handed it with such detailed instructions as, “Here take this, we are gonna ‘trip balls” and if a difficult issue arises on this trip, their friend may say, ‘dude you are just wigging out, it will wear off later.’ This video illustrates that there is another way!
[/editorial rant]
Morning glory seeds, peyote, mushrooms, tryptamine snuffs, iboga have always been tools used by men outside the west…still are…since men existed. After the 1950s…..LSD, mescaline, MDA, psilocin, DMT, DET, etc (the synthetic cousins to magic plants) were tools for the psychotherapist (and the patient) to explore the mental process, the relation between the self and the outer-world, and the (self) perceptions related to these concepts…. together without any (incorrect) mental associations between the experience and breaking the law, or partaking in a ‘dangerous’ activity.
The psychedelic experience IS for every one who is seeking it......and it already is NOW in cultures that have always had them....ayahuasca land, pedro mountains, mushroom hills, iboga land, etc Many people don’t know they are seeking the type of experience magic spiritual plants offer because we have no concept for knowing what they really can offer. Most people in the West cannot take part in such an experience...in a safe and supportive setting...with a truly knowledgeable guide, facilitator, and/or Shaman because they don’t know where to find it. Most never know it is there to begin with.
Magic plants and their synthetic variants offer knowledge of the self and the greater oneness around them.becoming aware of things from outside of one’s own reference points. Perhaps even becoming aware that the self, the world around and everything in it, the Universe, time and space, and even the loaded word “God” can all mean the same thing.and in fact are all the same thing even to most major religions.
Don’t believe me? Take a look a recent study that use the scientific method to study and verify that these tools DO have 'mystical' and 'spiritual' benefits to 'regular' everyday people. You need not have longhair, a grateful dead shirt, or be named “Leaf” to apply. The study referenced is from Psychopharmacology, as covered in this Hopkins press release. This work is the real deal....published data in a well respected peer reviewed journal.
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press_releases/2006/07_11_06.html
Or how about a different angle from News Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9522-magic-mushrooms-really-cause-spiritual-experiences.html
This is just one.....in just the past 5 years there is SO much going on in the way of new data on LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, etc....
[more editorial comments]
Beyond the new data, there are already thousands of publications from before psychedelics were ‘dangerous and illegal drugs’ to ‘prove’ to the uninitiated that these tools are worth the time of every able bodied mind…and that the experience is not a ‘poisonous intoxication’ from a ‘drug’ but rather it is another level of consciousness, like dreaming or the trance. Further, the experience is related to a chain of events in the brain that is…here we go…completely ‘normal’ since the granddaddy spirit molecules (DMT, bufotenine, and 5-MeO-DMT), aka three POWERFUL psychedelics, are already found in your brain! If you didn’t know this, be aware that your brain already makes dangerous and illegal psychedelic drugs. Nobody really knows what they do there, but there are are a lot of compelling theories!
[/editorial comments]
One thing is for sure. The ingredients for a ‘mystical psychedelic experience’ are already made by our brains and whatever reason they are there…there are there! The psychedelic experience is not a factor of some external ‘drug’ that poisons the mind...it is a normal part of the human experience ...and our brain already makes the ingredients to provide this experience! Psychedelics show us ourselves by activating a chain of events in the brain...it changes the perception of space, time, and the self. In other words, psychedelics don’t do anything but change the way we look at ourselves and the world around (and inside) us....for a few hours. That experience will be eye-opening to anyone who is able to undertake it under the right set (mental state) and setting (where you take it and who you take it with). Now the hard science is there to back up these ideas!
Now take this knowledge...think about, make a pithy comment here, then spread it to the next person you meet!
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) but is deeply grounded in the academics (psychology, medicine, culture science...). the evidence is simply too strong by now - the potentials cannot be ignored anymore.
Interesting though what this might hold for the future of psychedelic research, now with Cannabis getting legal and such a lot of people will change their views on drugs and hopefully support research on psychedelics. Actual use is still so far away, but I'm not doubting that I'll see it in my lifetime
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