Posts Tagged ‘Consciousness’
(A Brief History and) Motivation of an Entheogenic Chemist
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Casey Hardison was arrested spring 2004 for the production of psychedelic-type drugs, i.e., LSD, 2C- B and DMT. In the three years since, not one person from ‘authority’ had bothered to ask him what motivated him to synthesise psychedelic drugs. It was as if the a priori assumption that...
July 5th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
“WATSON: THE NEEDLE!”
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND COCAINE
By Mike Jay – http://mikejay.net/
Cocaine was the great pharmaceutical success story of the last decades of the nineteenth century. In a few short years, it went from a minor item in specialist catalogues to a major seller in a huge range of preparations in high-street...
July 1st, 2010 | Arts | Read More
Vegetarian Brains
Vegetarians are more intelligent, says study
Posted by Tino Verducci from The Future is Vegan
Frequently dismissed as cranks, their fussy eating habits tend to make them unpopular with dinner party hosts and guests alike.
But now it seems they may have the last laugh, with research showing vegetarians...
June 30th, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More
DMT and the Pineal: Fact or Fiction?
A well-known factoid bandied about by psychedelic drug geeks is the idea that DMT, or some other psychoactive tryptamine, is produced by the pineal gland. When did this idea originate? And is it actually true?
By John Hanna for Erowid.org
During his talk “Psychoactive Drugs Throughout Human History”...
June 8th, 2010 | Altered States | Read More
Brain’s Master Switch Is Verified
The protein that has long been suspected by scientists of being the master switch allowing brains to function has now been verified by an Iowa State University researcher.
Yeon-Kyun Shin, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology at ISU, has shown that the protein called synaptotagmin1...
June 1st, 2010 | Science of the Mind | Read More
Botticelli’s love drug
A new discovery suggests that Botticelli’s masterpiece Venus and Mars shows the effects of a hallucinogenic plant – but is the real drug the painting itself?
From the Guardian by Jonathan Jones
The Florentine Renaissance weaver of floral fantasies Sandro Botticelli is a magical artist. Just to...
June 1st, 2010 | Arts | Read More
The First Synthetic Life Form
Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world’s first synthetic life form
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May 21st, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More
Noam Chomsky barred by Israelis from lecturing in Palestinian West Bank
US academic denies claim that misunderstanding by border officials was to blame for ban
(Noam Chomsky – refused entry to Palestinian West Bank by Israel during lecture tour Rex Features)
Noam Chomsky, whose withering critiques of political establishments have earned him the wrath of regimes...
May 21st, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
In the Beginning: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
The following is adapted from the Foreword to Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner with Gary Bravo, from Synergetic Press.
LSD is a drug that produces fear in people who don’t take it. –Timothy...
May 17th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
The Future of Brain Imaging
Silicon Shrinkwrap Melts Smoothly Onto Cat Brain to Monitor Activity in Real Time
The wetted silk can apply a thin silicon layer directly to the brain’s contours, shrink-wrap style, and monitor brain activity
By Jeremy Hsu
Silk-Silicon Let me get inside your head John Rogers
Implanting...
May 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More
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‘Molecules of Madness’
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How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs
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Zeppelin Renaissance
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Time for Change
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Do You Want to Live Forever?
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Dream2Awaken: It is amazing that you describe and explain many things that one could have only learned through extensive use of DMT. Y...
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tinuvi: Your third- and second-to-last paragraphs remind me so much of myself and what I've called "my quest." After leaving a m...
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Merrily McCarthy: Our state of awareness may be relative to what we feed into our consious systems...;the more we know and understand...th...
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Arthur Robey: I am passionate about Airships. We took a wrong turn in 1945 at the Chicago Convention where, because the USA with it'...
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DZERLOVE: What people simply ignore - is that our current man made laws applied back in acient times , which is simply what they a...
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