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Canadian_watcher wrote:welp,
Nordic fears that the moon-landing-hoax thread will diminish the credibility of this board.
I maintain that odes to psychedelics carry the same risk.
- bah, druggies. can't you get there from here without them?
jeez, it's disappointing.
Canadian_watcher wrote:welp,
Nordic fears that the moon-landing-hoax thread will diminish the credibility of this board.
I maintain that odes to psychedelics carry the same risk.
- bah, druggies. can't you get there from here without them?
jeez, it's disappointing.
This will become the first LSD-assisted psychotherapy study in over 35 years.
I hope you will help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonder child.
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At the present time, restrictive laws are in force in the United States and it is very difficult for researchers to abide by the regulations which govern efforts to obtain legal approval to do work with these compounds in human beings.... No one who is lacking legal authorization should attempt the synthesis of any of the compounds described in these files, with the intent to give them to man. To do so is to risk legal action which might lead to the tragic ruination of a life. It should also be noted that any person anywhere who experiments on himself, or on another human being, with any of the drugs described herin, without being familiar with that drug's action and aware of the physical and/or mental disturbance or harm it might cause, is acting irresponsibly and immorally, whether or not he is doing so within the bounds of the law. -- Alexander T. Shulgin
trypt-amine \ 'trip-ta-,men \ n. [tryptophan fr. tryptic, fr. trypsin, fr. Gk. tryein, to wear down (from its occurence in pancreatic juice as a proteolytic enzyme) + amine fr. NL ammonia] 1: A naturally occurring compound found in both the animal and plant kingdoms. It is an endogenous component of the human brain. 2: Any of a series of compounds containing the tryptamine skeleton, and modified by chemical constituents at appropriate positions in the molecule.
I have had some trippy experiences without any drugs and in fact use legal drugs to try to minimize them. Maybe that's why I hold this prejudice.
And according to reporter Alun Reese, Francis Crick, who discovered DNA along with James Watson, told friends that he first saw the double-helix structure while tripping on LSD.
www.ranprieur.com wrote:July 9. I don't know if there's nothing happening or if I'm getting burned out. Last night I actually ran out of stuff to do online and was looking through my forgotten bookmarks, and noticed Eskil Steenberg's blog. Steenberg is an independent video game designer, working alone on a radical game called LOVE. Even though English is not his native language, and the technical stuff is way over my head, I feel nourished just seeing his mind working. Some nuggets, with spelling corrected:
A trend is when someone has an idea, and everyone who doesn't have an idea thinks they have the same idea.
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One trend I particularly don't like is that games don't let you do cool stuff, rather the game does the cool stuff for you... "In this game you can rip the heads off your enemies" really means: "In this game you can hammer the X button and we will play you an animation".
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My "reinvent everything" policy has taken me so far away from what others do that I can no longer relate... What strikes me the most is how complicated they have made it... Destructible environments now are hard, yet in Super Mario bros they were easy. We are raising the bar but we less gracefully clear it. We try to tell stories, yet we still can't do better then a text adventure.
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The story isn't yours, it's the player's. Can a game communicate emotions? Yes, but it's not the designer who should communicate through the game, it's the player who should communicate with the game.
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My first advice to anyone who is trying to cut costs is to fire your designer... People think the industry needs designers to generate ideas, but programmers and artists have all the ideas we need.
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What is the virtue of Reviews? ... Thinking that you can describe a game with a number from one to ten, doesn't qualify you as a writer, it disqualifies you.
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Either someone can own a message and stop others from saying it, or we have freedom of speech. These are the stakes. Don't think it is about someone getting paid. The financial well being of me and all the artists I love is insignificant, compared to the basic rights of a human being.
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Seeing is believing, so why do we believe so strongly in the things we cannot see? We want to believe that the things we don't see are better than our wildest imagination.
July 8. Yesterday I finished Charles Tart's book Mind Science, and I highly recommend it. The text is a partial transcript of a workshop he did a few years ago, covering three different styles of meditation. The first is where you quiet your thoughts and focus on one thing, typically your breath. The second is where you sit and pay attention to whatever arises in your mind and body and senses. And the third is where you practice staying "awake" in your regular life.
The phrase "wake up" has become a cliche that often means nothing more than accepting a particular intellectual idea: "Now that I know what the Federal Reserve really does, I'm awake and everyone else is asleep!" But what Tart is talking about is a learned skill of staying focused on the direct experience of the present moment, instead of drifting off into thoughts or mindless habitual behaviors.
But the book itself is full of great thoughts. One thing I picked up from it is the importance of the difference between judging metaconsciousness and accepting metaconsciousness. Words are inadequate here, but what I call "acceptance" can still discern and calculate. It can say, "this is useful for this but not for that." What it doesn't do is stick on value-loaded labels: good or bad, genius or idiot, healthy or deviant, crop or weed. Acceptance carries a lantern and judgment carries a hammer.
A "metaconsciousness" sits above your regular consciousness observing and regulating it. And a judging metaconsciousness becomes more troublesome the more you use it, because inevitably it starts fighting against itself. Freud called this the "superego" and thought it was normal. An accepting metaconsciousness is almost completely the opposite. The only controlling it does is to keep catching you when you wander off into mental models and unconscious habits, and bring you back to full engagement with reality. And the more you use acceptance, the better it works, until judging seems so painful and wasteful that you wonder why anyone ever does it. I think the answer is, first, that judging gives us a bit of a charge, and second, that no dominating society could keep itself going without putting an internal dominator inside everyone's head.
teamdaemon wrote:...researchers used LSD to treat autism and schizophrenia with some success before it was demonized. And regardless of their efficacy in helping you get by on a day to day basis, psychiatric drugs are poison for you body. They were invented by eugenists to remove you from the gene pool.And according to reporter Alun Reese, Francis Crick, who discovered DNA along with James Watson, told friends that he first saw the double-helix structure while tripping on LSD.
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