> Joseph Humming wrote:

>> Of course, there was/is a lot of pulpit-spouting but most of it, I
>> feel, was genuine enough, however erroneous.  Secondly, to base a
>> corrective future on the use of potions is bizarre, to say the least.
>> When and if human beings finally create a viable, an intelligent and
>> an equable human society it must be based on a recognition of our
>> situation and a realisation of our abilities.

>

>>> Those jackasses are even willing to start a nuclear war to attack those
>>> who they think have the wrong sacred text or name of god.

>
> "Change your mind, Change Your Life" is one of the books reporting on
> new neurological data and FMRI brain mapping. The Stoics were right; the
> mind is like a muscle, and the right kind of diet and exercise can make
> it more effective.
>
> But lets start with the realization that the modern diet is deficient in
> real nutrition and contaminate with petrochemicals as well. Lotsa kid's
> minds did not develop properly. And it'll take pretty strong medicine to
> have any impact on that at all.
>
> If you look it up, you find out that LSD affects the resistance in the
> dendrites to the transmission of signals. Often these neural pathways
> get over loaded, and that produces the hallucinations. But early tests
> done with LSD showed how it could also snap a psychotic or neurotic out
> of a delusional state. Which it did by providing new neural pathways in
> the mind that had been blocked by the delusional patterns.
>
> Christianity is one of the more common delusional patterns. LSD reveals
> that to the initiate. Even if all it does is create a state of doubt,
> that is way ahead, and disempowers the demagogues in the pulpits.
>
> I graduated in 1971 with a minor in comp sci and major in psych. I soon
> found myself in the dungeon of a major med center involved in
> transfering the records from paper folders into digital format. I looked
> up the number of Emergency Room "LSD overdose" in the last fiscal year.
> 436 cases. Early on put in restraint, but halfway thru the year, they
> switched to Thorazine, and just parked their ass in a corner.
>
> The next morning the shrink came by, and of the 436, he decided to keep
> 17 for "further evaluation". But dig it. Had they just gone and grabbed
> 400 people off the street and sat them down with the shrink the usual
> expectation was that he'd want to keep about 80, ie 20%% for the same
> "further evaluation". The acid heads were saner than the "normal"
> population. LSD does not make you crazy, it only makes it obvious.
>
> I had a revelation a couple years ago when I went to a Rave hoping to
> trade some Amanita Muscaria (it grows wild in my woods) for some LSD to
> experiment with. The Acid dealer did not show up, so I sold the shrooms
> I had, and then all nite long was amazed at the number of young women
> who came back saying how grateful they were for the experience. Now, if
> I was a young drug dealer, you mite expect this. But I was 67.
>
> The zeitgeist for young women has changed in ways that hardly anyone
> else is picking up on. Since the rave, I've expanded my research into
> shamantic potions and shared them with young women. Who are so grateful
> I even get laid. Not unusual for a drug dealer, but I dont deal in
> addictive drugs. There is a growing market online from which to order
> compounds witches and shamen all over the world still use. Anthropology
> reports show up from time to time with more potions. Anthropologists
> themselves now are going with the shamen into the sacred space at the
> sacred time and experimenting with their own minds.