NP - For the Deadheads on the list

[Matthew Taylor]

I like the database idea.

In my own psychedelic adventures, I have found it fascinating to note when,
where, and with whom I have an experience that feels truly "shared" and
engaging on an interpersonal level, as opposed to the times where it seems
instead that my tripping partner and I are having completely divergent
effects and struggling to find a common ground.

The latter reminds me of an experience I had in my teenage years, when I
met a French traveller in the Eastern Sierra mountains where I grew up. He
came upon me smoking a joint, which we shared. I spoke absolutely no French
and he had no English (he was traveling with a group that had a translator
and hadn't mastered any more than the most basic of phrases himself.) We
discovered that our common ground was our equally poor Spanish...native to
neither of us, both fumbling through unfamiliar linguistic territory,
communication growing increasingly muddled as the joint burned away.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I feel it would be a worthwhile to collect a large database of honest
> recollection and rumination on the psychedelic experience and would love to
> participate in such. Properly edited, it could tell us both about the range
> of effects  these substances can have and  really the nature and range of a
> large spectrum of consciousness usually consigned to oversimplification.
> Artificial seems like a loaded word, fairly clear regarding a difficult to
> synthesize chemical compound , but what about the natural psychedelics?
>
>
> On Jan 24, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:
>
> > It fascinates me, knowing what I know now about the brain on drugs, when
> I think about the psychedelic roller-coaster. The brain is a pretty trippy
> organ without the artificial stimulus.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I was always relieved when it was over.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:59 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It wasn't all fun. Sometimes it wa terrifying,
> >
> >
> > On Friday, January 23, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > BTW,
> > My trips on real acid back in 1970 were at the age of 14.
> > I did it because my parent suspected I was doing drugs, and I figured I
> might as well be guilty (or experienced) of what I was suspected of. It
> must have be fun,I thought,  right?
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Friday, January 23, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ive been to a few Fish gigs.  Better musicians than Dead (except Hart).
> The commonality is tripping. Tripping back in the 60s was with real acid.
> It took control. You went on its ride. Once on the trip, the outside music
> fades away. The trip music is everything. Trip music is the symphony of all
> common sounds. The Beatles recorded trip music best. Walrus is my favorite.
> >
> > On Friday, January 23, 2015, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I saw the remnants of a GD (!) show in the Alpine Valley parking lot
> > during the 2nd final Who tour way back when (which was nothing like
> > the 1st final one, i.e., good, great, even).
> >
> > Meanwhile ...
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayfolded
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Ian Livingston
> > <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I laughed, I cried. Wept for all the forsaken Deadheads who won't get
> to go.
> > > Chicago? Coulda been Alpine Valley, at least!
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:34 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Just saw this, hope somebody laughs.
> > >>
> > >> Hitler reacts to news of 2015 Dead shows in Chicago.
> > >>
> > >> Hitler Reacts To The Last Grateful Dead Shows in Chicago
> > >>
> > >> ciao even fun,
> > >> mc otis
> > >
> > >
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