Visiting the valley of death with Propofol

[Ismene]

The valley of death - closed sundays (half-price entry Tue and Wed):

Michael Jackson attempted to reach the afterlife when he used the anesthetic that killed him, his friend Deepak Chopra said yesterday to The Sun.

Jackson used Propofol to visit and return from “the valley of death,” his spiritual adviser Chopra said.

Dr. Chopra said the musician mentioned his abuse of the drug “very casually

 

[specialspack]

Amazing. Where's this from?

 

[Tangerine Dream]

I had a strange compulsion to visit (not the afterlife) a place where I was one with everything/I was the universe and everything there ever was etc. You know what I mean! The place where I felt I knew the purpose of it all.

I've got to that place on Salvia, Ketamine and MXE. I can see the appeal of visiting an internal reality where everything make sense/you are feeling peaceful and content and enlightened etc.

I am assuming a lot here but I THINK I can see the appeal/understand the guy a bit...hmm.

 

[Albion]

Does Propofol have dissociative effects?

 

[Shambles]

It does seem an odd choice for trying to achieve such effects. Think I'll probably be sticking with ketamine on balance.

 

[Ismene]

Amazing. Where's this from?

Think that bit I posted was from some crappy news website but there's a better article here:

And so to new age guru/quantum quack Deepak Chopra, who has broken another impossibly brief silence on Michael Jackson.

As one of many who self-identify as Jackson's spiritual advisers – what a bang-up job they all did – Chopra is well placed to divulge details of his friend's mental health. Particularly now he's dead. According to what America's leading "wellbeing" expert told an interviewer recently, Jackson confided in him that he was using the general anaesthetic Propofol to visit and return from the afterlife, or "the valley of death".

Aha. Congratulations to Dr Chopra, who has now deployed this particular anecdote at least five times in the course of publicising his various ventures. It was first aired on Larry King's show, before doing the rounds of other news or chatshows, a TIME magazine interview, a promotional appearance ahead of a literary festival, and no doubt many other staging posts.

Each time you think the darkness must have claimed the anecdote, in fact, it returns from the valley of death.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/lostinshowbiz/2013/may/09/deepak-chopra-michael-jackson-rest

I've always been curious about drugs that take you to the valley of death but never really found one - Ketamine didn't particularly make me feel "dead".

 

[Ismene]

I had a strange compulsion to visit (not the afterlife) a place where I was one with everything.

I've got a joke about that TD!

A buddhist says to the hotdog vendor "make me one with everything" handing over a 20 pound note. After waiting a while the buddhist says "Where is my change?" to which the vendor replies "Change comes only from within". Boom-boom!

 

[Tangerine Dream]

Haha, I like it One of the more sophisticated jokes I've heard recently!

 

[5StarSquatHotel]

if only he knew of dmt...