Hello this thread was inspired from watching and reading from various sources. As a little project I wanted to bring together certain materials that I feel relate some way in showing important aspects of society that most have overlooked. Such as the research done on psychedelics but focusing on the subtle nuances that where never made public knowledge when the "war on drugs" was indoctrinated into our countries (and worlds) consciousness. There are, I feel, ideas and facts that, if known at the time, would have saved humanity from the pit of ignorance and arrogance that it cannot escape today.

In a day and age where people blindly run on a hamster wheel: spitting on the segregated while never knowing that they are slaves and prisoners themselves. Learning false history and science in public schools and never realizing that it serves a purpose to fit them into the machine that is their countries economy.

So I bring you "Stuff That Directly Or Indirectly Makes A Good Point".

1.) http://www.youtube.com/w...bedded&v=Hd4rgyZzseY


Where was this when they demonized psychedelics and shut down research on all of them?

""ABOUT THIS VIDEO:

Dr. Humphry Osmond was the British psychiatrist who coined the term “psychedelic”. This short video documents an experiment in 1955 in which he administered mescaline to Lord Christopher Mayhew, a member of parliament. Mayhew ingested 400mg of mescaline hydrochloride and recorded his experience on camera.

The footage was originally supposed to be broadcast on the BBC.

Mayhew himself maintains that it was a genuine mystical experience which “took place outside time” and wanted it to be shown. However, an “expert” committee of psychiatrists, philosophers, and theologians reviewed the footage and reached a unanimous verdict that Mayhew’s experience was not a valid mystical experience. So it was never broadcast.

Dr. Humphry Osmond first offered the term “psychedelic” at a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1957. He said the word meant “mind manifesting” and called it “clear, euphonious and uncontaminated by other associations.” Huxley had sent Osmond a rhyme containing his own suggested coinage: “To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.” (thymos means spritedness in Greek.) Rejecting that, Osmond countered: “To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.”

Osmond is also known for one study in the late 1950s in which he attempted to cure alcoholics with acute LSD treatment, resulting in a claimed 50% success rate. He also treated Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W. with LSD with positive results. There exists however an alternate version of the events that is told by psychiatrist Abram Hoffer, MD. Osmond and Hoffer not only worked with LSD but also with niacin, which is now called vitamin B3. It is Bill W. himself who made this term popular, after he realized, thanks to the two researchers, the antipsychotic potential of this vitamin when given in supraphysiologic doses. B3 became known as a treatment for alcoholism, as well as for LSD-induced and schizophrenic psychosis Vitamin B-3: Niacin and Its Amide by A. Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.. The underlying adrenochrome and kryptopyrrole (mauve factor) hypotheses were met with stiff, unsubstantiated opposition. The B3 protocol for alcoholism, despite encouraging results, fell into oblivion amongst the Alcoholics Anonymous organization, which gradually became a faith-based organization reflecting the orientations of the other AA co-founder.

Osmond was open-minded, curious, and adventurous enough to participate in a Native American Church ceremony in which he and the others present (Plains Indians) ingested peyote in a tipi regarded as sacred space. Osmond’s hosts were members of the Red Pheasant Band, and the all-night ceremony took place near North Battleford (in the region of the South Saskatchewan River). Osmond published his report on the experience in Tomorrow magazine, Spring 1961. He reported details of the ceremony, the environment in which it took place, the effects of the peyote, the courtesy of his Native hosts, and his conjecture as to the meaning for them of the experience and of the Native American Church. None of these things could really be separated from one another, and Osmond wrote appreciatively of the genuine depth of the ceremony for modern Native people, specifically for these Plains Indians.

Beyond his interest in drug- and vitamin-assisted therapeutics, Osmond conducted research into the long-term effects of institutionalization, and began a line of research into what he called “socio-architecture” to improve patient settings, coining the terms “sociofugal” and “sociopedal,” starting Robert Sommer’s career, and making fundamental contributions to environmental psychology almost by accident.

Later, Osmond became director of the Bureau of Research in Neurology and Psychiatry at the New Jersey Psychiatric Institute in Princeton, and then a professor of psychology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Dr. Osmond co-wrote eleven books and was widely published throughout his career.

Osmond died of cardiac arrhythmia in 2004. ""

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Interesting. A few notes.

In my opinion the doctor is very biased and it shows the mentality that led to the ruin of these substances. Had the doctor used the LSD more himself he may not have been so close minded and subjectivity based. What the patient describes is utterly mind blowing seeing as it proves that for the most part, the psychedelic experience today has not been influenced all that much by culture. What the patient describes is the same types of thing I have experienced many times.