Psychedelic experience

Obviously, we do not know what, if any, psychedelic experiences an animal may have in response to a ketamine dart. (Perhaps they experience K-Land and K-Hole just like humans.) Animals rarely become violent or agitated after being injected with ketamine, so it is unlikely to produce the psychotic symptoms observed in some human users. 

These personal developments have taken place against a background of deepening problems in the real world and a rising interest in the psychedelic experience by young people. I am, I am told. 

Plenty of down-to-earth reasons for preserving the planet, going beneath the surface of scientific inquiry into the psychedelic experience, and some truly amazing dope tales." VILLAGE VOICE... 

Concerns about the use of ketamine as a human anesthetic began to arise in the early 1970s, however, when some patients reported having unsettling psychedelic experiences. Over the next two decades, the use of ketamine in surgical procedures in the United States decreased until, in 1999, the DEA listed ketamine as a Schedule III drug. It is now used almost exclusively in the United States for veterinary procedures, although it can be used for certain specialized procedures with humans. 

Abuse potential Some patients may use these agents for mood elevations or psychedelic experiences. Cannabinoids, barbiturates, opiates, and alcohol may have additive effects with anticholinergics. 

Dr. Rick Strassman, author of DMT The Spirit Molecule, suggests that naturally occurring DMT in the human body may mediate spontaneous psychedelic experiences such as near-death and mystical... 

I have not had drug-induced psychedelic experiences, although many people who read my Neoreality books seem to think I have had chemically enhanced hallucinations. In some sense, I have to put a damper on my creativity and visions. Some of my publishers even tell me I write too much and should slow down. Nevertheless, my mind, visions, and ideas continually fly. As Salvador Dali said, I am the drug ... 

QUALITATIVE COMMENTS (with 15 mg, orally) "I got a strong psychedelic experience that lasted about twelve hours, but an unexpected relief from my chronic depression that lasted for four days."... 

For the Mazatecs, the psychedelic experience produced by the mushrooms is inseparably associated with the cure of illness. The idea of malady should be understood to mean not only physical illness, but mental... 

Salvinorin A is the primary psychoactive component of Salvia divinorum. a member of the sage family found in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Salvinorin A is the most potent naturally occurring psychedelic known, and in many ways the most enigmatic. Those using salvinorin A find it frequently induces experiences of an intensity level which is an order of magnitude beyond those experienced with any other psychedelic, even DMT. The dimensions visited under the influence of salvinorin A are described as extremely bizarre and varied, with several aspects not common to other psychedelic experiences. "... 

Psychedelic experiences associated with a novel hypnotic... 

The stress on enhanced experiencing as the fundamental characteristic of these substances leads, in the literature, to a stress on the importance of the setting in which the drug is taken. In order for the enhanced capacity for experience created by these substances to show itself, an adequate range of stimuli must first be available to be experienced. Administration of psychedelics under conditions of sensory deprivation seems to abolish most of the usual effects attributed to them (Pollard, Uhr, and Stern, 1965). Hoffer and Osmond (1967) stress the importance of providing adequate environmental support to produce the kinds of experience required to produce change in personality. Alpert and Cohen (1966) also stress the need for adequate settings to provide psychedelic experiences. 

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