I just wanted to throw into the conversation
1. Bill W (founder of AA) loved his LSD, and did not count using against his clean date.
2. I would theorize that the most of psychedelic overdoses (and really mostly just RC's need to be mentioned) were taken by very irresponsible people who otherwise would have died in an unrelated yet probably equally irresponsible way. That being said *most* psychedelics can be safely survived at many times the average dose.
This may seem cold, but I agree with Bill Hicks when I hear of people dying on psychedelics and giving psychedelics a bad name when it was their own irresponsible choices that wrote their fate. "Always that same LSD story, you’ve all seen it, “Young man on acid thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. What a tragedy.” What a dick! Fuck him, he’s an idiot. If he thought he could fly, why didn’t he take off on the ground first? Check it out. You don’t see ducks lined up to catch elevators to fly south – they fly from the ground, ya moron, quit ruining it for everybody. He’s a moron, he’s dead – good, we lost a moron, fuckin’ celebrate. Wow, I just felt the world get lighter. We lost a moron! I don’t mean to sound cold, or cruel, or vicious…but I am, so that’s the way it comes out."
3. What mushrooms do is serve as a catalyst for a life changing experience. They are not something to be taken lightly before a concert or party. They are serious, powerful, and brutal tools. At appropriate doses the first hour or two will be spent begging for mercy. Complete ego death. They rip you in half, and occasionally, they will literally laugh at you while they do so. However once you break through, you will understand why I go back every week. For me mushrooms are not "fun" or "recreational". They are beautiful, and they are terrifying. They blow everything I thought I knew about myself and life out of the water. Such an experience can break any man, but to blame mushrooms for a suicide to me makes no sense at all. If you cant handle the truth, do not take them. They tare down the barriers in your brain (I call it the ego) and your left with a pretty god damn brutally honest view of yourself, and if you cant handle that then you shouldnt have been taking mushrooms, and drugs in general in the first place.
I believe to try to define the psychedelic experience as chemical reactions in your brain, or just as 5ht2a activity is a great injustice.
1. Bill W (founder of AA) loved his LSD, and did not count using against his clean date.
2. I would theorize that the most of psychedelic overdoses (and really mostly just RC's need to be mentioned) were taken by very irresponsible people who otherwise would have died in an unrelated yet probably equally irresponsible way. That being said *most* psychedelics can be safely survived at many times the average dose.
This may seem cold, but I agree with Bill Hicks when I hear of people dying on psychedelics and giving psychedelics a bad name when it was their own irresponsible choices that wrote their fate. "Always that same LSD story, you’ve all seen it, “Young man on acid thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. What a tragedy.” What a dick! Fuck him, he’s an idiot. If he thought he could fly, why didn’t he take off on the ground first? Check it out. You don’t see ducks lined up to catch elevators to fly south – they fly from the ground, ya moron, quit ruining it for everybody. He’s a moron, he’s dead – good, we lost a moron, fuckin’ celebrate. Wow, I just felt the world get lighter. We lost a moron! I don’t mean to sound cold, or cruel, or vicious…but I am, so that’s the way it comes out."
3. What mushrooms do is serve as a catalyst for a life changing experience. They are not something to be taken lightly before a concert or party. They are serious, powerful, and brutal tools. At appropriate doses the first hour or two will be spent begging for mercy. Complete ego death. They rip you in half, and occasionally, they will literally laugh at you while they do so. However once you break through, you will understand why I go back every week. For me mushrooms are not "fun" or "recreational". They are beautiful, and they are terrifying. They blow everything I thought I knew about myself and life out of the water. Such an experience can break any man, but to blame mushrooms for a suicide to me makes no sense at all. If you cant handle the truth, do not take them. They tare down the barriers in your brain (I call it the ego) and your left with a pretty god damn brutally honest view of yourself, and if you cant handle that then you shouldnt have been taking mushrooms, and drugs in general in the first place.
I believe to try to define the psychedelic experience as chemical reactions in your brain, or just as 5ht2a activity is a great injustice.
