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POPSThe acid test "It may be that we can use LSD to answer questions like: what is a religious experience? What is consciousness? What is sense of self? What stops us spending a whole afternoon looking at one leaf on a tree?" McGregor adds
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POPSA Really Long Strange Trip Despite the long-held promise that such substances might reveal the secrets of the conscious mind, the study of hallucinogenic compounds has always been controversial. Once a thriving area of research, projects like these ground to a halt in the late 1960s when a media frenzy over rampant recreational use led the federal government to criminalize both psilocybin and LSD.
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POPSWorld's weirdest experiments Funny to read :-) You can try a variation on the 'white bear' experiment: Just put down the paper and don't think about CLIPMARKS for a while. But don't say you weren't warned. CLIPMARKS, once not invited in, can be devilishly hard to get rid of.
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POPSPlaying with drugs for "Mind Control" LSD, radiation, and electroshock all ended up as dead ends in the MKULTRA program's quest for mind control. Still, the search for ways to penetrate minds continues. Recent studies suggest that noninvasive brain scans, taken with a functional MRI (fMRI), make the mind more transparent. Private companies tout fMRI as an improved lie detector, and the government has taken notice. Programs funded by the Department of Defense have looked into the feasibility of fMRI research.
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POPSsome legal drugs are less safe than illegal drugs This is one such posting about recent studies that highlight the hypocrisy of our various world governments & the attitude of people regarding drugs. If we tolerate smoking & drinking then individuals should have the right to get high or drop a tab or experience euphoria from EX in the same manner. According to this study, it is not only less harmful to the individual, but also has fewer ill social effects. The real issue is that too many people in this world are hypocrites that subscribe to the belief in circular logic. Drugs are illegal, so they are bad. Because drugs are bad, they ought to be illegal. People need to mind their own god damn business and not worry about what others do tjust to ease their own conscience and make themselves feel morally superior. Specifically, lets let doctors prescribe cannabis to cancer & aids patients to help ease the pain, side effects of treatment & to give them an appetite. *sigh* =(
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POPSJanitor fed Lsd Pizza by co-workers When Rao returned to work after the alleged incident, a co-worker asked him, "How are you still alive," the suit says. "Upon hearing this, he realized how extensive the plot to poison him truly was," the suit says. Schools Superintendent Bruce Watson declined to comment on the suit, which was filed in Superior Court in Hackensack, saying he had not received a copy. Rao filed a police report more than a year after the alleged incident but no criminal charges have been brought against the defendants. What evil twisted people.
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POPSIf Spiders Took Drugs... Just in case you've ever wondered... This is what webs spiders make when they're high. (They were fed with drug-dosed flies)
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POPSBBC program Links Temporal lobe to Spituality
Now. I find this stuff fascinatin'! Well worth looking at the BBC videos! I'm not so sure about the text from LJ--kind of a dilletante, that one... Bein' an old Hippie who did a lot of psychedelic drugs (a long time ago--and I'm alive and well 'cuz I avoided Coke and other dumbass drugs) ...so the value of my "spiritual" experiences may be directly correlated with the types of "divine" chemicals i took like psylocibin, peyote, LSD and the good herb Pakalolo---or as the guy says in the last video--it may be God's way of giving us an antenna towards the Divine and doesn't make the experience any less real or important. Developing a Spiritual consciousness rather than the mundane, everyday patterns of thought is quite important, neh? I find that I can get some of the same results by meditating (if I do it with regularity and depth, losing the "I")...of course it's not as much fun without the colors and stuff but just as meaningful, if not more. But then I didn't use drugs as recreation b
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POPSGoogle on the Cutting Edge of Hypocrisy The internet,is after all, not free. Who are we kidding! Idealistically, we would love it to be ... but realistically, it isn't! Google and Yahoo (and all the others) are in it for the money, and not for humanitarianism.
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