Dreamoar
Posts: 4711 Joined: 10-Sep-2009 Last visit: 21-Nov-2024 Location: Rocky mountain high
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Great article! Quote:Psychedelic substances are resurging into the popular culture in ways unrivaled since the starry-eyed, long-haired baby boomers of the 1960′s dropped acid and discovered peace and promiscuity. However, today’s generation of visionary psychonauts are making a much more measured movement to the mainstream than the hundred thousand hippies who descended on San Francisco in 1967′s summer of love. While they were encouraged to “tune in, turn on, and drop out” by revolutionary ex-Harvard scientist turned LSD evangelist Timothy Leary, modern proponents such as philosopho-comedian Joe Rogan and alternative archeology researcher Graham Hancock feel quite a bit more level headed, and dare I say credible, in their advocation of these consciousness bending chemicals... http://www.aaronmoritz.n...tential-of-psychedelics/
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 788 Joined: 18-Nov-2011 Last visit: 24-Sep-2024
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Loved it This is the time to really find out who you are and enjoy every moment you have. Take advantage of it.
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analytical chemist
Posts: 7463 Joined: 21-May-2008 Last visit: 03-Mar-2024 Location: the lab
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Timothy Leary a scientist?? I thought he was a psychologist "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah "Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 216 Joined: 04-Feb-2013 Last visit: 16-Aug-2016
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I liked it, too. I think balancing that epistemological line between scientism (e.g., hard-nosed reductive materialism) and fact-free New Age speculation (e.g., TimeWave Zero) is an important point to keep spreading throughout the psychedelic community. "The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end." -- Alex Grey
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 628 Joined: 12-Jan-2010 Last visit: 28-Feb-2019
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Just read the article and thought it was pretty well balanced. As it states people like Hancock and Rogan are doing a good job in getting psychedelics into a more believable useful light. I think the community needs this kind of positive and intelligent attention. "It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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Homo discens
Posts: 1827 Joined: 02-Aug-2012 Last visit: 07-Aug-2020
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I just finished reading this like 10 minutes ago. Great article!
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