Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

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‘Shout out to this truly fresh and fearless Kaur! After finding her picture posted in Reddit’s “Funny” section under the title, “I’m not sure what to conclude from this”, Balpreet Kaur responded:

“…I’m a baptized Sikh woman with facial hair. Yes, I realize that my gender is often confused and I look different than most women. However, baptized Sikhs believe in the sacredness of this body - it is a gift that has been given to us by the Divine Being [which is genderless, actually] and, must keep it intact as a submission to the divine will. Just as a child doesn’t reject the gift of his/her parents, Sikhs do not reject the body that has been given to us. By crying ‘mine, mine’ and changing this body-tool, we are essentially living in ego and creating a seperateness between ourselves and the divinity within us. By transcending societal views of beauty, I believe that I can focus more on my actions. My attitude and thoughts and actions have more value in them than my body because I recognize that this body is just going to become ash in the end, so why fuss about it? When I die, no one is going to remember what I looked like, heck, my kids will forget my voice, and slowly, all physical memory will fade away. However, my impact and legacy will remain: and, by not focusing on the physical beauty, I have time to cultivate those inner virtues and hopefully, focus my life on creating change and progress for this world in any way I can. So, to me, my face isn’t important but the smile and the happiness that lie behind the face are…”

Read her full response and the discussion here: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ ... ew#c6bmnym

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mr. american dream, although I am usually suspicious of your choice of subjects and the way you make your point (which IMO is a bit too authoritative), I want to thank you for this thread. very instructive.

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From: *PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA*
by Rob Brezsny

WHAT IS PRONOIA?

OBJECTIVE: To explore the secrets of becoming a wildly disciplined,
fiercely tender, ironically sincere, scrupulously curious, aggressively
sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lyrically logical, lustfully compassionate
Master of Rowdy Bliss.

DEFINITION: Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding
that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your
senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always
gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair
is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is your
birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

PROCEDURE: Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your
amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working
behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece
you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with
blessings.

GUIDING QUESTION: "The secret of life," said sculptor Henry Moore to
poet Donald Hall, "is to have a task, something you devote your entire life
to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your
whole life. And the most important thing is -- it must be something you
cannot possibly do." What is that task for you?


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The figure of Max Rinkel is rather curious. Some credit him as the first individual to bring LSD to America and he would remain a major supplier of the drug along the East Coast throughout the 1950s. While I've seen no indication that Rinkel officially worked for the CIA, he would remain in close contact with the Agency throughout his career. Rinkel had close ties to the after mentioned George Hunter White, who had been involved in various 'truth drug' projects since WWII, and Dr. Harold Abramson, a major CIA LSD researcher and a key player in the Frank Olson saga.

"White in turn would sometimes receive his supply of the drug from a Boston-based research psychiatrist, Dr. Max Rinkel, who is credited with first bringing LSD to the United States in 1949. Rinkel, who fled Germany when Hitler came to power, would often hand-carry LSD to New York for White, as well as for Drs. Paul Hoch and Harold Abramson."
(A Terrible Mistake, H.P. Albarelli, pg. 284)

Rinkel was clearly a major influence of the CIA's embrace of LSD even though he is sparingly mentioned by most researchers. This is also true of another figure that would become a major proponent of LSD. He was in fact one of the first American doctors to be made aware of the substance.

"In November 1948, L. Wilson Greene, Scientific Director of the Army's Chemical and Radiological Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland received a communication marked TOP SECRET from Dr. John P. Clay, a high-level Army consultant to the Chemical Division at the European Command Center in Heidelberg, Germany. Clay's purpose was to alert Greene to the existence of a 'powerful hallucinatory agent' that had been 'recently discovered' by scientists at the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Basle, Switzerland. Experiments 'are actively underway on abnormal subjects at Swiss institutions,' Clay reported, 'and results appear very promising.' "
(ibid, pg. 362)


Dr. L. Wilson Greene,
a major part of our story

By 1952 L. Wilson Greene had become convinced that LSD, along with psychedelics, were the key to a totally new concept of warfare. His notions would have an major influence on a young Sidney Gottlieb, among others. Gottlieb would go on to head the CIA's notorious MK-ULTRA project, which would commit some of the worst abuses of US Intelligence Community's LSD research, most notably the Cameron 'medical experiments.'

"...Dr. L. Wilson Greene, Chemical Corps Scientific Director, the man largely responsible, along with Stanley Lovell, for the creation of Camp Detrick's Special Operations Division. Dr. Greene, a civilian, was a strong advocate of the use of mind-altering drugs, including mescaline and LSD, covertly and in battlefield situations. Sidney Gottlieb found Greene's thoughts most impressive and worthy of pursuit. Much later, Gottlieb would admit:

I was fascinated by the ideas Greene was advancing. He was convinced that it was possible to actually win a battle or larger engagement without killing anyone or destroying any property. While I found this to be a novel approach to war, I was somewhat skeptical about it, but I was intrigued by the potential applications of psychochemicals to much smaller conflicts and situations. There I saw tremendous promise."
(ibid, pg. 61)

Greene would cause quite a stir in 1952 when he held a Chemical Corps conference at Camp Detrick (which was the center of the United States biological warfare program for many years), attended by Gottlieb and Frank Olson, among others. The subject was "the use of psychochemicals as a new concept of warfare." There Greene would site LSD specially as the future of warfare. Continuing with Albarelli:

"Dr. Greene's presentation about the potential uses of psychochemicals in warfare caused a real stir among conference attendees, generating animated discussion concerning the benefits of tactical and strategic uses of such drugs.

"Attendees became even more excited when Dr. Greene shared top-secret information with them about a very recent and 'incredible discovery' of a previously unknown drug that 'causes hallucinations and suicidal tendencies in man.' The drug was quite effective and powerful in 'extremely small amounts,' Greene explained, with symptoms amounting to a cornucopia of disorders. They included 'uneasiness, vertigo, restlessness, hysteria, unsteady and uncertain movements of the arms and legs, and hallucinations,' Hallucinations ranged from the simple to the more complex, Dr. Greene said. His preliminary report quoted a researcher's description: 'Flicking, glimmering, glittering, scintillating, rapid and slow blotting of colors, sparks, whirling, traveling small dots, light flashes and sheet lightning...'

"Dr. Greene's own excitement about the incredible drug was more than evident and he implied to attendees that LSD-25 could well be that much sought after magical psychochemical that would transform modern warfare. Greene... was already smitten with the potentials of LSD through top-secret information being generated from the very heart of activities around the drug's development."
(ibid, pg. 63)





Olson (top) and Gottlieb (bottom)

As noted above, Greene was already made aware of the drug as early as 1948 via top secret reports being given to him by the US Military. But his concept of a 'psychochemical' war stemmed from a much different source, one that he was made aware of shortly after discovering LSD. Once again, continuing with Albarelli:

"...Edgewood Arsenal scientific director, Dr. L. Wilson Greene, was developing his own thesis that LSD could well be a major advance toward 'non-violent war.' A significant step in reaching this conclusion was Dr. Greene's review of a massive amount of Nazi files and documents, many of which have never seen the light of day in America. Greene would later recount that... he first discovered the characteristics of psychochemicals during a routine scientific staff meeting in 1946 at Edgewood. A team of Chemical Corps physicians, including several from Camp Detrick, had just returned from Germany to report their findings and observations on the interrogation of captured Nazi scientists at Nuremburg's Landsberg Prison. One of the physicians 'remarked that he had been surprised to learn that the Germans [had] conducted what appeared to be elaborate human experiments [on concentration camp prisoners] using hallucinogenic drugs... including mescaline and various compounds drawn from ergot.'

"Greene was intrigued with the report and became fascinated with the possibility of employing mind-altering drugs as a more 'humane' weapon of war. He spoke with members of the Chemical Corps team and learned that OSS and Office of Naval Intelligence officials, under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission, had produced a number of studies, including one top-secret report detailing Nazi experiments, entitled German Aviation Medical Experiments at the Dachau Concentration Camp. After reviewing nearly three hundred pages of reports, Greene was disappointed to find fewer than two pages devoted to Nazi drug experiments. However, he noticed several unexplained references to an intriguing research institute called Das Ahnenerbe... It appeared that Das Ahnenerbe was the organization responsible for ordering and conducting the horrific drug experiments at Dachau and other locations.

"L. Wilson Greene doggedly pursued the subject and, after subsequent meetings with Army G-2 intelligence officers and further review of a large cache of captured documents, he was able to learn a great deal more about the activities of the Ahnenerbe."
(ibid, pg. 371)

We examined the Ahnenerbe in much greater detail in part two of this series. In brief, it was a Nazi think tank co-founded by Heinrich Himmler himself. Superficially dedicated to the study of the ancient Aryan race, it delved into numerous occult topics. It has been described as "the new Knights Templar, defending the Nazi 'faithful.'" To this days, it remains one of the most mysterious organizations of Nazi Germany.


the Ahnenerbe seal

It's most interesting to note that the above quotation notes that ergot was also studied by Nazi scientists as part their hallucinogenic drug experiments. While Nazi studies of mescaline and cannabis are relatively well known, this is only the mention I've found to a Nazi interest in ergot, the psychedelic component of LSD. With this in mind, Greene made a fascinating connection between Nazi Germany and LSD.

"Soon after reading about the Dachau mescaline experiments, Greene's attention turned to the powerful drug about which he had been alerted months earlier through top-secret Army reports from Europe. Right away, Greene later said, he 'was struck by the physical proximity of the laboratory doing the most to refine ergot and the camp where most of the mescaline experiments was performed.' The Sandoz Laboratories in Basle, Switzerland were only about four hundred kilometers, or 248 miles, away from Dachau. Greene went back to his recently received reports from Army intelligence and refreshed himself with the amount of 'what we thought was the mostly-by-chance discovery of LSD-25 in 1942 or 1943 by Hofmann at Sandoz...'

"Greene learned that Hofmann had actually worked under the direction of the highly respected physician Arthur Stoll, founder and director of Sandoz's aggressive drug research program. During World War I, Stoll had been an associate in Berlin to world famous chemist and Nobel Laureate, Dr. Richard Willstatter. Around the same time Hofmann was hired by Sandoz, according to Greene's findings, Stoll's laboratory was diligently working on ways to isolate and prepare in pure form 'the intact active principles of medicinal plants whose active principles are unstable or whose potency is subject to variation.' This objective was particularly attractive to Hofmann because of his deep interest in the development of natural chemical products. Said Greene, 'Stoll's laboratory was concentrating its efforts on such plants as foxglove, Mediterranean squill, and ergot.'

"Beginning in 1946 through to mid-1949, Greene recounted, 'after three Sandoz researchers volunteered to self-administer LSD-25 in order to confirm, and possibly replicate, Hofmann's 'wondrous experience' with the drug to a very skeptical Arthur Stoll,' Stoll's son [Dr. Werner A. Stoll, a psychiatrist at the Bleuler Clinic in Zurich], undertook a number of human experiments on about twenty [it was twenty-two] people at the University of Zurich.' Greene found that documentation concerning these experiments was scant, and recalled what he later termed 'troubling rumors or gossip' that the experiments, or related tests, resulted in 'at least one death, possibly more,' involving one 'unwitting mental patient,' 'the suicide of one nurse,' and 'the death in Geneva of a woman physician who had been depressed' and had taken LSD-25 and became more depressed, 'killing herself three weeks later.'"
(ibid, pgs. 372-373)


Did Dr. Albert Hofmann discover LSD
while inadvertently working
for the Nazi regime?

http://visupview.blogspot.com/2012/05/l ... t-iii.html

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This Is Madness

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The Cosmic Form Of Goddess Kali Mahakali

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The LSD Chronicles: Origins Part III



http://visupview.blogspot.com/2012/05/l ... t-iii.html

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Continues at:

http://www.albarelli.net/Artichoke.pdf

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Carl Hancock Rux - No Black Male Show

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“Sometimes while riding the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It’s a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at [them] would feel like to someone who is devouring every part of their image,who has invisible strings that connect to every part of their body. I think this is fun pastime is a way of cultivating compassion. It feels good to think about people that way and to use a art of mind that is traditionally reserved for a tiny portion of people I’ll meet in my life to appreciate the general public. I wish I could think about people like this more often. I think it’s the opposite of what our culture teaches you to do. We prefer to pick people apart to find their flaws. Cultivating these feelings of love or appreciation for random people, and even for people I don’t like, makes me a more forgiving and appreciative person toward myself and people I love. Also, it’s just a really excellent pastime.”

--Dean Spade, “For Lovers and Fighters” in We Don’t Need Another Wave

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[tazmic]

This IS a great thread. But, I've never understood it. I mean, what's it for?

Not that I care, really. Much like the world, in its own way, it's an awesome ideas factory. Even looking through a glass darkly, we can enjoy the workings of the kaleidoscope.

The spiritual psychology of a loser

❀

[Hammer of Los]

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It's just for me Taz.

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