feeding the psychedelic database

[Ian Livingston]

His first, Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations From LSD Research,
was the one I read back in '83. His work since has been largely tied in
with Transpersonal psych. Interesting stuff, I'm sure, but I haven't kept
up with it.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Master, does a dog have Buddah nature?"
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> 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> 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.  -
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