feeding the psychedelic database

[David Morris]

If you are familiar with the very rigorously and serious work of Stanislov
Graf in his Transpersonal Psychology, you will know how valuable the
scientific study of powerful psychedelic drugs are, and should be
accessible.

His research is very real, but disparaged by the "hard" science crowd. And
it is too much for the religious mainstream.

David Morris

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I really hope this does not seem like advocacy, but we live in a
> generation that was seriously changed by these substances in many
> intriguing and positive ways and yet there is this large scale denial of
> any value. The writing here is silly but I came across it today.
> . Kary Mullis
>
> You may not have heard of Kary Mullis unless you've worked in a biomedical
> lab at any point since the 1980s. Mullis revolutionized the field by
> refining the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique that can make
> millions of identical copies of a single strand of DNA. This won him a
> Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993, and he credits LSD. He told California
> Monthly in September 1994 that, he "took plenty of acid" in his youth and
> called his experimentation "mind-opening." In a later BBC interview, he
> made the startling claim that his acid binges in the 1960s and '70s
> contributed more to his accomplishments than anything he'd learned in
> school: "What if I had not taken LSD ever; would I have still invented PCR?
> I don’t know. I doubt it. I seriously doubt it."
>
> Francis Crick
>
> The co-discoverer of the DNA structure (along with Watson and Franklin),
> for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1962, told numerous
> friends and colleagues he was experimenting with LSD while working to
> unravel the molecular structure of our genetic information. Crick told his
> close friend Dick Kemp that he had actually "perceived the double-helix
> shape while on LSD" and that LSD use was common among Cambridge academics
> of the time. Many of them used it in small amounts as a "thinking tool,"
> according to Kemp.
>
> Others reporting positive experience: Steve Jobs, Cary Grant, Jack
> Nickolson, Susan Sarandon,
>
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> >>> I believe making such substances illegal even for research was
> damaging to  science, medicine, psychology, law enforcement, and possibly
> even human evolution.  As far as I can see this has nothing to do with
> limiting  self destructive addiction but an attempt to limit the range of
> experience, exploration, and healing practices available to the human
> family. These are very different from addictive drugs. For many people once
> is enough whether it is a time of positive transformation of just freaky
> oddness or terror. But there is a kid of natural limit to using them
> lightly.  It also really creeps me out that all countries have criminalized
> what is clearly a  practice dating from the earliest human records.  -
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