feeding the psychedelic database

[Jamie McKittrick]

"Master, does a dog have Buddah nature?"

On Wednesday, January 28, 2015, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I know a little about this work and am getting  Myron Stolaroff's book
> about Leo Zeff's research but would like to read Graf.Is there a book you
> would most recommend?
> On Jan 27, 2015, at 11:33 PM, David Morris wrote:
>
> > Pardon my grammar.
> >
> > On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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.  -
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