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butane
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What if tripping is a tool to see how our brains work?
#5744359 - 06/12/06 11:16 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just had some sort of crazy thinking revolution... I saw tripping from a standpoint of what it must have been like to be the first scientists to discover it, wouldn't it be a fantastic thing to study? exactly what is it in our brains that does this stuff to us that makes us most human? It's like a tool to probe our minds and see how they work! Are there other people that see this too? Is there work being done in that field and of so who is publishing books about it?
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Atheist
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Re: What if tripping is a tool to see how our brains work? [Re: butane]
#5744363 - 06/12/06 11:19 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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did you watch the drug documentary that premiered tonight on VH1?
dude it was all about LSD and how it was discovered and tested, its on tomorrow or really early like 5am check ur guide its AWESOME
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Catboy
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Re: What if tripping is a tool to see how our brains work? [Re: Atheist]
#5744685 - 06/13/06 01:06 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Tripping can be a form of psychology I guess.... but I personally wouldn't trust a drugged self analysis of ones psyche.
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Re: What if tripping is a tool to see how our brains work? [Re: Catboy]
#5744787 - 06/13/06 02:07 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah that drug show tonight on vh1 was pretty sweet, 25% weed, 75% lsd it was pretty cool.
it was part 1 of 4... the others are going to include, speed, herion, im sure coke... not sure what else though.
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AlteredAgain
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Re: What if tripping is a tool to see how our brains work? [Re: butane]
#5744808 - 06/13/06 02:41 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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yes however drug prohibition has greatly restricted the depths in which we may 'officially' probe. i believe strongly in the potential that psychedelics may have in global-interconnected-human culture. its practical applications in the fields of psychology, sociology, biology, anthropology, ethics, metaphysics, etc. etc. seem endless.
our species of post-primate intelligence is in my eyes fully capable of exploring these vast realms of study. we would all probably start hearing lots more about LSD and magic mushrooms on the discovery channel and yeah maybe even VH1, if its research potential wasn't so aggressively suppressed by the men who print our money.
i consider every one of my own personal trips to be discovery of its own, hoping that perhaps someday i or someone else will stumble across a finding that can propell and concentrate human psychedelic study beyond its jurisdictional chains and well, let it grow from there..
i cannot think of any books published on this, let's start writing one.
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Re: What if tripping is a tool to see how our brains work? [Re: butane]
#5744866 - 06/13/06 04:02 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you asking about what the study of the mechanisms of action of (psychedelics) in the brain can reveal about how brain processes are the basis for human cognition and behavior?
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badchad
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Re: What if tripping is a tool to see how our brains work? [Re: Land_Crab]
#5744946 - 06/13/06 05:36 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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What you just stated is the rationale used to obtain federal funding to study hallucinogens. The question of "how much" research is being performed is subjective. Most of the research involves animal models and in vitro studies (rather than humans). As far as human research is concerned, many would consider the "leading researcher" to be Franz Vollenweider, whom few people have heard of.
As with other areas of science, findings are published in "research journals" not books.
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Re: What if tripping is a tool to see how our brains work? [Re: Atheist]
#5745257 - 06/13/06 10:04 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
SpicyTunaRoll said: did you watch the drug documentary that premiered tonight on VH1?
dude it was all about LSD and how it was discovered and tested, its on tomorrow or really early like 5am check ur guide its AWESOME
Just got done watching that. All I can say is damnnn I wish I lived in the 60's. I really think I was born in the wrong generation.
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