Re: Psychedelics, dreams, and a party game

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Tue, 05 Aug 1997 23:42:42 -0700

Guru George wrote:
> Yes, very true. There was (still is, I believe) a psychiatrist called
> Stanislav Grof, who was one of the first people to get a hold of LSD for
> clinical trials, and has continued to believe in the efficacy of
> psychedelics for shaking up the old grey matter. And of course there's
> all the marvellous work being done by Shulgin and many others less known,
> especially into the use of MDMA as an 'empathogen'.

I may be showing some of Grof's slides in early September, those
interested please email me. I was also one of the early, legal!
volunteers who tried MDMA....

> This is really the area of drugs that connects with Extropianism most, I
> think - the clinical use of drugs to alter character long term, to mold
> one's own personality. I think right use of drugs (apart from for fun)
> would be primarily to balance out your character, like someone who is
> emotionally frozen should take MDMA, or there should be a drug that gets
> soft heads into some hardcore number crunching or something. And the
> main use for psychedelics, as you say, would be to introduce some noiz,
> to shake things up a bit, get some random stuff happening, also
> revealing one's hidden obsessions of the moment.
>
True, and wAAAAAy deeper than the cognitive approches favored by some
Extropians.... (any of you wanting to discuss this privately, well,
email me or see ya at Extro-3.)

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