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Sam Harris (neuroscientist) podcasts
#22101899 - 08/17/15 08:48 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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"We should not be too quick to feel nostalgia for the 1960s...For every insight of last value produced by drugs, there was an army of zombies with flowers in their hair shuffling toward failure and regret, Turning on, tuning in and dropping out is wise, or even benign, only if you can then drop in a mode of life that makes ethical and material sense."

"A life lived entirely without drugs is neither forseeable, nor, I think, desirable... If they never try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in their adult lives I would wonder if they had missed one of the most important rites of passage a human being can experience. This is not to say that everyone should take psychedelics. As I will make clear in a moment, these drugs pose certain dangers. Undoubtedly, some people cannot afford to give the anger of sanity even the slightest tug."

"We are the music, not the radio."

"Are these drugs a form of cheating? Are they the only means of authentic awakening? They are neither. All psychoactive drugs modulate the existing neurochemistry of the brain either by mimcking existing neurotransmitters or by causing neurotransmitters themselves to be more or less active. Everything that one can experience on a drug is at some level an expression of the brain's potential. Hence, whatever one has seen or felt after ingesting LSD is likely to have been seen or felt by someone, somewhere, without it. However, it cannot be denied that psychedelics are a uniquely potent means of altering consciousness."

"Ingesting a powerful dose of a psychedelic drug is like strapping oneself to a rocket without a guidance system. One might wind up somewhere worth going, and depending on the compound and one's set and setting, some trajectories are more likely than others. But however methodically one prepares for the voyage, one can still be hurled into states of mind so painful as to be indistinguishable from psychosis."

"A beatific vision does not tell you anything about the birth of the cosmos, but it does reveal how utterly transfigured a mind can be by a full collision with the present moment."

"If taking psychedelics is like being strapped to a rocket, meditation is like gently raising a sail."
"I view most psychedelic experiences as potentially misleading. Psychedelics do not guarantee wisdom, or a clear recognition of the selfless nature of consciousness. They merely guarantee that the contents of consciousness will change. Such visionary experiences appear to me to be ethically neutral, therefore it seems to me that psychedelic ecstasies must be steered toward personal and collective well-being."

"As I discuss elsewhere in my work, the form of transcendence that appears to link directly to ethical behavior and human well-being is that which occurs in the mist of ordinary waking-life. It is by ceasing to claim to the contents of consciousness- to our thoughts, moods, and desires- that we make progress."

"I believe that psychedelics may be indispensable for some people, especially those who, like me, initially need convincing that profound changes in consciousness are possible. After that, it seems wise to find ways of practicing that do not present the same risks."

Edited by morrowasted (08/17/15 08:50 AM)
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Re: Sam Harris (neuroscientist) podcasts [Re: morrowasted]
#22102017 - 08/17/15 09:36 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sam Harris is pretty hot
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Re: Sam Harris (neuroscientist) podcasts [Re: koods]
#22102023 - 08/17/15 09:38 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Dude all those pictures are cool as shit
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Re: Sam Harris (neuroscientist) podcasts [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
#22102043 - 08/17/15 09:46 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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The fifth one down with the tree in it is almost exactly what I see on a tab of lsd
I love Sam Harris, he has a nice way of conveying stuff and seems to never lose his cool in debates. Never listened to his podcasts but I'll have to check them out
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This is the first time I have listened to him.
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