Don't know what Ritalin does...
There seem to be many other chemicals that enhance various personality
traits. Steroids make one more aggressive; psychedelics give appreciation
of sensory perception and artistic skills; Ecstasy dwarfs GHB's empathic
effects, heightens one's feeling of touch, and the next day inhibits your
respect to both internal and social restrictions - good acting-out aid to
a beginning libertarian ;-) And so on.
Many of these things are risky for health though, or have other side-effects
(such as decreasing cognitive functions).
Risks have always accompanied exploration. In this case though, most
of the population tries to attain effects I personally don't value - like building
gigantic muscles or getting stoned at any cost to health and brain function;
the information about use of any combinations of substances for personal
growth is scarce and unreliable. I assume that mild doses of steroids
may increase one's strength of character and be worth the side effects for
at least some people; you can find suggestions to supplement mescalin
with DMAE to get the perceptual effects without the loss of cognitive function,
etc. Some of these things may have only positive effects; others are worth
the mild side-effects, at least for some people; most substances and their
combinations should be avoided by everybody.
I do not really want to conduct experiments on myself - but I thought
somebody on the list could know something...
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Alexander Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html>
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