Good drugs/Bad drugs

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Lindsay Gillies writes:
>What connects these two, I guess, and what relates LSD to mescaline is 
>Structure.  Even among the bananas and mushrooms, it is the intricate 
>Structure of the olefactory agent that (as never so clearly before) tells 
>Death to fuck off.  Natch, a huge subject for denizens here, this Structure.

 >But perhaps it's the connection between the "natural" and the synthetic 
>that moves TRP's discourse beyond a simple dichotomy...


Terence and Dennis McKenna in the Invisible Landscape describe the molecular
changes that accompany mushroom hallucinations which includes description of 
the structure of the indole and its chemical linkage properties. Mckenna does
an interesting job of explaining how the chemical works within the brain to
create resonance or space and develops a "holographic"theory of mind.

 The next link is to synthetic carbon based compounds-coal-tar derivatives
,LSD,  plastics (imoplex G.) and shit.

This Structure stuff is the root of the dialog about drugs.  How does
conciousness work - how do we know what we know and what is the structure or
pattern of movement  from natural to synthetic (both without and with in the
brain.) 


(Ellen Horan)