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What drug is most suitable for philosophical insight?

mix all of the RCs laying around with all of the schedualed drugs you have. then crush up some SSRIs and MAOIs and put them in the mix.

one fat line of that'll get ya thinking...
 
^^---Acts of extreme stupidity are usually followed up with thought.
 
I've seen alot of stuff posted surrouding psychedelics opening doors to make way for broader thought...but what about safe combinations of psychedelics? What would people think would be the best combination for this.. (taking safety in mind of course)
 
I hear Ketamine and LSD have a synergy between the two. I have never tried this combo though so I can't say from first hand experience.

I enjoy mushrooms with LSD. Adds a whole new feel to it although some claim to not notice it because they are so mindfucked.
 
Meth psychosis let me experience life on a whole new level. I got to see what its like when your friends are dea agents out to steel everything you have.
 
sarcasm?^^^

whippits are about as spiritual as getting hit on the head with a hammer.
 
Whippits definately gave me insight into how my mind works. Observing parts of your brain shut down in succession than back up certainly says something about the experience.
 
Left to Right said:
Thanks N_R! Very interesting. Did you draw a Mandala afterwards?

I suppose you could have called it that. Just abstract finger painting with water colours. Something I hadn't done since school.
 
Whenever I associate the word 'Drug' with 'Philosopher', I dont really think of psychedelics. Psychedelics to me are more for universal and personal exploration. When I compare those two words, I think of something like Opium - afterall, it's called the 'philosophers drug' for a reason, and just seems, albeit stereotypical, that Ive heard of a lot of great writers and such who were addicted to Opium. However, I'm not going to make any unsubstantiated claims to Opiums efficacy in philosophical matters. To each his own.
 
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poiint taken, but personal exploration through matters concerning a mix of spirituality/meditation and psychedelics can very well be philosophical. What you think of the world, very much includes your place in it, i think...
 
I found this on a forum I used to visit, I don't think this is where I got the info from but it's related.


In his book THE CHEMISTRY OF MIND ALTERING DRUGS, Daniel M. Perrine writes about paspali (p.277):

"Meanwhile, the biologists had found a better way: in 1964, they observed that a strain of Claviceps paspali under saprophytic cultivation in fermenters would produce an abundant quantity of paspalic acid [see: Kobel, H.; Schreier, E.; Rutschmann. J., Helv. Chim. Acta, 1964, 47 1052]. (C. purpurea will only grow on grain in a field.) And soon it was discovered that paspalic acid easily isomerized under basic conditions to lysergic acid; conjugation with the indole ring being under these circumstances more thermodynamically favored than with the carbonyl [see: Troxler, F., Helv. Chim. Acta, 1968, 51, 1372] To the present day, this probably remains the most efficient and economical way of obtaining lysergic acid.
(...)
It is likely that the LSD so widely available in the United States (at least on college campuses and at rock concerts) comes from a few clandestine laboratories in San Francisco and, perhaps, on the East Coast, each with a few tanks of fermenting C. parpali—cultivation of which is only one or two orders of magnitude more sophisticated than fermenting yoghurt. After all, it can be done by biologists. Instructions on how to cultivate Claviceps are given in Smith, M. V., Psychedelic Chemistry, Loompanics Unlimited: Mason, MI 48854, 1981. A more reliable source of information, chemist Alexander Shulgin, tells me that specimens of C. paspali are readily available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And, of course, as with yoghurt, once you have a sample of the fungus it reproduces indefinitely. You can endow other clandestine daughter labs. This and the fact that LSD is so astonishingly potent (1 g = 10,000-20,000 doses) probably accounts for the fact that there has been no discovery of any clandestine LSD production in the United States by any police agency in almost two decades”

An even more intriguing possibility is quoted in Jonathan Ott's book PHARMACOPHILIA OR THE NATURAL PARADISES (ISBN: 1-888755-01-06), p. 125/126:

"…there are considerable strain variations in alkaloid production by ergots, which may contain the visionary ergonovine [Merck Index 12:3694] and at least two known ergolines of almost certain visionary activity, which have yet to be tested in human beings: elymoclavine and lysergic acid-N-(1-hydroxyethyl)amide. (...)

The latter, likewise found in ololiuhqui and related seeds (...) is known from Claviceps paspali Stevens and Hall parasitizing Paspalum distichum L., in which it can be readily converted into ergine [vide: E Arcamone et alii, “Production of lysergic acid derivatives by a strain of Claviceps paspali Stevens and Hall in submerged cultures” Nature 187: 238—239, 1960]. Moreover, it has been shown that some strains of C. paspali in saprophytic culture are capable of transforming this natural hydroxyethylamide of lysergic acid into its close relative, the diethylamide, or LSD [vide: F. Arcamone et alii, “Production of a new lysergic acid derivative in submerged culture by a strain of Claviceps paspali Stevens and Hall” Proceedings of the Royal Society 155B: 26—54, 1961]. It thus appears likely that there exist strains of ergot which produce L5D itself, and that this will eventually be shown to be a natural product."
 
all things being equal in this world and uni(multi)verse can all be 'used' for insight, it just depends on how observant you are...

i have found mushrooms to be an excellent mirror, yet sometimes, as with all mirrors, it can produce distortion. Things might appear bigger, or smaller than they really are.

the ultimate test, and grader of insight is life, and what you learn and live by along the way.
 
I'd say that psychedelics seem more like theology than philosophy.

My choice would be amphetamine.
 
Achaemenian said:
I'd say that psychedelics seem more like theology than philosophy.

My choice would be amphetamine.

What about psychadelic amphetamines? Amphetamines seem to have psychadelic properties and many are considered psychadelics in that they have effects similar to those of psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, etc....
 
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