Psychedelic Phenomena LSD Psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs explained

1. The Purpose of Life is Religious Discovery That intermediate manifestation of the Divine Process which we call the DNA Code has spent the last  two-billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. An intricate web has been woven, a delicate  fabric of chemical-electrical-seed-tissue-organism-species. A dancing joyous harmony of energy transactions is rooted in the 12 inches of topsoil which covers the rock metal fire core of this planet.  Into this Garden of Eden each human being is born perfect. We were all born Divine mutants, the  DNA Code's best answer to joyful survival on this planet. An exquisite package for adaptation based  on 2 billion years of consumer research (RNA) and product design (DNA).  But each baby, although born perfect, immediately finds himself in an imperfect, artificial,  disharmonious social system which systematically robs him of his divinity.  And the social systems - where did they come from? Individual societies begin in harmonious ada

 When someone has a particularly intractable programming problem, or finds himself pondering a big career decision, he deploys a powerful mind expanding tool -- LSD-25. "It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used, " said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead -- who were among the many artists inspired by LSD. "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems. Herbert, who lives in Santa Cruz, California, joined 2,000 researchers, scientists, artists and historians gathered here over the

Until recently, prescribing Ecstasy, mescaline or magic mushrooms has been a guaranteed way for a psychiatrist to lose his research funding, his job or even his liberty. But now, scientists are beginning to suspect that such illegal drugs may be the key to treating a range of intractable illnesses, from post-traumatic stress disorder to depression. These chemicals – which include the psychedelic drugs psilocybin, derived from magic mushrooms, and LSD, as well as ecstasy – affect the way we think and behave, as well as causing hallucinations and mystical experiences. Yet a series of studies performed in Britain and the US is beginning to tease out their potential benefits. One, into the effects of Ecstasy, is featured in the controversial Channel 4 documentary, Drugs Live, tomorrow night. “People become very emotionally tender on Ecstasy, which makes you more responsive to psychotherapy,” explains Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, one of the experts involved. In the televised study, either a dos

The California ballot initiative for partial marijuana legalization (Proposition 19) may have been defeated for the moment, but nevertheless more than four million voters said "yes" to it. Between the recent reduction in California's penalties for use -- now reduced to a fine for possession of under an ounce of marijuana -- and the burgeoning medical marijuana industry, clearly the times are a-changin'. There are many hundreds of thousands of certified medical marijuana users in California, and twelve other states now have some reduction in marijuana criminalization as well. With scientific research into the clinical effects of psychedelics also burgeoning and a growing number of papers indicating benefit for various psychiatric conditions (post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, terminal illnesses, and drug addiction), thereby bolstering historic claims for clinical utility, and with the horrific costs of failed prohibition more and more obvious to the public, de

The Miracle of Consciousnesses and the Phenomena of Light Since the dawn of history, this visionary process has been attended with supernatural light; almost without exception, religious experiences of the supra-mundane sort are accompanied by brilliant luminescence, such as the English mystic, Henry Vaughan describes in his poem, “The World:” I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure and endless light All calm, as it was bright . . . Sun worship, the endless day of the Apocalypse, the veneration of jewels and bright metals, the flaming rose of the Unio Mystica, or the overpowering light experienced by Mohammed and St. Paul, all have their basis in some mysterious process, which is now set in action by the hallucinogenic drug. The colors that have already been seen in their Eden-like purity begin to glow like subtle neon, pulsing with intrinsic inner brightness; a Kodachrome-spectacle of intense brilliance transforms the humblest shapes of experience in

Mushrooms of Language Henry Munn from: Hallucinogens and Shamanism, Michael J. Harner, ed., ©1973, Oxford University Press The Mazatec Indians, who have a long tradition of using the mushrooms, inhabit a range of mountains called the Sierra Mazateca in the northeastern corner of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The shamans in this essay are all natives of the town of Huautla de Jimenez. Properly speaking they are Huautecans; but since the language they speak has been called Mazatec and they have been referred to in the previous anthropological literature as Mazatecs, I have retained that name, though strictly speaking, Mazatecs are the inhabitants of the village of Mazatlan in the same mountains. (1) HENRY MUNN has investigated the use of hallucinogenic plants among the Conibo Indians of eastern Peru and the Mazatec Indians of the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Although not a professional anthropologist, he has resided for extended periods of time among the Mazatecs a