NP - For the Deadheads on the list

[Mark Sacha]

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On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Matthew Taylor <matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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