OneMoreRobot3021 said:

The whole thing left me wanting to become much, much more involved. It was an absolute inspiration seeing and listening to and talking to people who are truly involved in the current psychedelic resurgence, and are helping make people's lives better and the world a better place through their participation.

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OneMoreRobot3021 said:

Well, conscious of the ramblings of others, I began by saying:

"I've spent the last few minutes trying to formulate this as a question, but I'm afraid it might be more of a statement that I was hoping some of you might want to riff on. Yesterday Valerie gave a presentation on bad trips and the idea was to talk people through them, not talk them down. Well it seems to me that society, at large, and the values it espouses, have all the hallmarks of a bad trip, and that we as the psychedelic community have a responsibility not to talk down to the world around us but talk it through its hard times. I think this was the problem with the Merry Pranksters, and the League of Spiritual Discovery, and part of why their messages were so poorly received.  I've been very impressed with the speakers at this conference and have much respect for them because they work within existing frameworks and work WITH the system for change and betterment, instead of against it. TO me, the psychedelic community isn't something outside society at large but part of a system of concentric circles each containing the other."

I meant a Venn diagram, not concentric circles, and to my personal glee, Earth Erowid chimed in by saying that he and Fire Erowid had cut a slide from their presentation that showed the psychedelic community as part of a Venn Diagram intersecting with other elements of society as opposed to being a part of it..

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ezwider said:

The boat party was sick yes.  It was 20 bucks to get in, and a bunch of vans picked us up 10 at a time and drove us to some remote location, there were 3 floors and dj's on each floor, and a sick band played on the top, there were also a bunch of topless girls in a huge hottub at the top. 

I got that all on tape too, I'll just post my whole crazy weekend in brooklyn.

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I would definitely like to see that vid...sadly, after someone offers me unlimited beer for enough hours, I am incapable of making any good decisions

Poor artists in that gallery...I don't want to know what that place looked like the next day...

-jon