http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt...
http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
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I totally agree with you that they have the potential to be highly dangerous, not as dangerous as the legal drugs but anything you ingest has the potential to make or brake you depending on your genetic and emotional health. The CIA abused LSD by spiking peoples drinks with it, negative things resulted and human rights were violated. I wouldn't take ANY synthetic psychoactive endorsed by the FDA, that is my definition of 'highly dangerous'. Two nobel prize winners were inspired by LSD.
For a start, 'psychosis' is not even understood, it is a vague term & we know about as much about the mind as they knew about nuclear energy in the 19th century. You have a bias towards over-inflating the negative effects of such compounds because you have to deal with the the results of people who are aready pre-disposed to mental illness taking a powerful substance under the wrong the circumstances. Only a tiny fraction of users, the disfunctional ones, end up with a 'psychosis' HPPD etc.
LSD doesn't have any negative biological effects? Tell that to a patient I met when I did a one month rotation at a psychiatric hospital, who became comatosed after taking LSD. Your experience may have been positive with LSD but these drugs have the potential to be highly dangerous and if you want proof just visit a specialist pyschiatric centre which manages patients with drug induced psychosis and you can see for yourself how dangerous psychedelic drugs can be.
"All truth passes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer~~~~~[All the brain is is a filtering mechanism that filters out holistic consciousness to give the illusion of duality]: "Mind, rather than emerging as an out-growth in the evolution of life, has existed always...the source and condition of physical reality." - George Wald
Look i love shrooms just as much as the next guy, but all psychedelics do is create the illusion of oneness with the universe. It is a costume that your brain puts on in order to ignore the conscious thought that our world revolves around. What Jill is talking about is the total and complete removal of the filters that our culture instills in us over time as we grow.
NO, you are WRONG, it is THIS WORLD that is the ILLUSION! This is a SELF-EVIDENT truth. I wrote a philosophy thesis on this & made it impossible to refute what I have said. The materialistic and physicalist philosophy u r working with when u say that is a complete and utter failure, and quantum physics totally backs up what I said 100%. It is our faith in completely obsolete ideas, such as this world being real and not a holographic projection that make us ignorant and fixated on illusion.
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What Jill is talking about is the total and complete removal of the filters that our culture instills in us over time as we grow.