Psychedelic drugs concepts

Many of the reports of MEM effects have been with experiments in which an effective dose of MDMA had been taken shortly earlier. There has developed a concept, embraced by a number of researchers, that the ease and quietness usually seen with the development of the MDMA experience can mitigate some of the physically disturbing symptoms sometimes seen with other psychedelics. This may be partly due to a familiar entry into a altered place, and partly due to a lessening of dosage usually required for full effects. MEM seems to have had more trials using this combination than many of the other psychedelic drugs. 

I have a somewhat jaundiced view of this rabbit rectal hyperthermia business. One is presumably able to tell whether a compound is a stimulant or a psychedelic drug by the profile of the temperature rise, and how potent it will be by the extent of the temperature rise. But the concept of pushing thermocouples into the rear ends of restrained rabbits somehow does not appeal to me. I would rather determine both of these parameters from human studies. 

For some time yet, society is bound to experiment with the concept of prohibition—rather than control—of psychedelic drug use. In attempting to prohibit anything easily accessible that is at the same time greatly desired, what usually... 

At the start of my quest therefore, before I had worked out some of the cognitive and neurological mechanisms for the Habit Routine Model, I necessarily found myself toying with the concept of instinct. Believing that the influence of psychedelic drugs on proto-humans might have been a necessary catalyst for the rapid (4) transformation to culturally modern Homo sapiens, there seemed two possibilities to explore. Either the psychedelics might have... 

Since it obviously takes more competency to climb the dimensional ladder than to descend it, it s easy to see why neophytes using psychedelic drugs can easily get in over their heads. A poorly integrated personality is no better equipped to manipulate the forces of mind-space than it is those of this world. Serious inner work, however one defines the concept, is therefore an essential prerequisite for anyone seeking access to the higher dimensions. 

Conceptualization is a function of the imagination, an activity which takes place in the imaginal realm. It is what assumes shape when we set the stage for the "inner guide" meditation described previously. For Westerners entering hyperspace with psychedelic drugs from a non-shamanic culture deeply influenced by scientific materialism, some kind of a sufficiently elastic structure (hypothesis) is essential. The above concepts from Peru (however one may choose to modify them for personal use) are highly recommended. Perhaps these ideas may be placed in a more familiar context via a line from Robert Frost ... 

In fact, the whole 2,4,6 substitution concept is just now beginning to explode. Fully half of the drugs described in this Book II are of the classical 2,4,5-trisubstitution pattern, and it is becoming evident that every one of them will have a 2,4,6-trisubstituted counterpart that bids fair to be an active psychedelic. Diligence could thus easily double the number of known psychedelics. The nickname... 

MDA was also one of the major drugs that was being popularly used in the late 1960 s when the psychedelic concept exploded on the public scene. MDA was called the hug-drug and was said to stand for Mellow Drug of America. There was no difficulty in obtaining unending quantities of it, as it was available as a research chemical from several scientific supply houses (as were mescaline and LSD) and... 

Customarily, consciousness acts as a reducing valve on the amount of information permitted into awareness, but the drug disturbs this function, and the subject s thought processes are swamped with an "information overload." Ideation becomes so rapid and extended as to be more aptly described as intuition. What would normally be regarded as overinclusiveness of concepts becomes in the psychedelic experience the basis for remarkably speeded, enriched, and extended modes of ideation. In psychotomimetic reactions, however, the overgeneralization disrupts thought processes and produces intense confusion and bewilderment. 

Kast, E.C. 1970. A concept of death In Aaronson, B. and H. Osmond (Eds.) Psychedelics The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs. Doubleday/Anch-or. Garden City, nj. pp, 366-381. 

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