feeding the psychedelic database

[Ian Livingston]

I read Graf years ago, and I was very impressed at the time. I suspect I
still would be. It was good at that time to get a more clinical
appreciation for acid. My prior appreciation was not particularly clinical,
though it was indeed experimental. Then just extramental, and.... Well....

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What grammar? ...(Just kidding)...
>
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
> Sent from Beyond the Zero
>
> On Jan 27, 2015, at 11:33 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Pardon my grammar.
>
> On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 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.  -
>>> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
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>>>
>>
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