MAPS is a membership-based, IRS-approved non-profit research and educational organization. We assist scientists to design, fund, obtain approval for and report on studies into the risks and benefits of MDMA, psychedelic drugs and marijuana.
"Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen..."
"In the late 1960s, human experiments with psychedelic drugs were brought to a halt. Government reacted to the anarchy of the hippy counter-culture. The drug-crazed Charles Manson slayings came to symbolise public fear of the street use of LSD. Funding ceased, and the few researchers who battled on were ostracised. But lost in the blanket ban were remarkable research projects in the field of psychiatry that held out new hope for the treatment of schizophrenia and alcoholism. Bill Eagles' extraordinary film tells the story of a handful of dedicated scientists who have struggled to make psychedelic research respectable again."
The Beckley Foundation is a charitable trust that promotes the investigation of consciousness and its modulation from a multidisciplinary perspective.
"A 50-page policy report released by the non-profit Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics warns that the war on drugs may be about to enter a new era that expands the drug war battlefield from the Columbian coca farms and the Middle Eastern poppy fields, to a new terrain directly inside the bodies and brains of drug users.
"I must, I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet, a thing that is not love or hare or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the fearful passionless force of nonhuman things... I want to stand at the rim of the world, and peer into the darkness beyond, and see a little more than others have seen of the strange shapes of mystery that inhabit that unknown night..."
..And now something completely different:
"I loaded the universe into a cannon, aimed at my brain, and fired!:
"numinous" \NOO-min-us; NYOO-\, adjective:
Michael of Hoffman of Egodeath.com has written very informative articles about entheogen diminishing fallacies. That includes anti-entheogen attitudes for example in:
Robert Anton Wilson explains what is "Irrational Rationalism":Is it just me, but have you also witnessed this kind of attitude againts psychedelics in mainstream media?RAW: I coined the term irrational rationalism because those people claim to be rationalists, but they're governed by such a heavy body of taboos. They're so fearful, and so hostile, and so narrow, and frightened, and uptight and dogmatic. I thought it was a fascinating paradox: irrational rationalists. Later on I found out I didn't invent that. Somebody else who wrote an article on CSICOP, that's the group they all belong to: Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Somebody else who wrote about them also used the term irrational rationalism. It's a hard term to resist when you think about those people.
The quote is taken from this interview.
"Hallucinogenic drugs, which blew minds in the 1960s, soon may be used to treat mental ailments".
Read the Pravda (a Russian newspaper) article here.
This rigorous study hailed as landmark. Read more from here.
Terence McKenna
A psychonaut (means "sailor of the mind/soul") is a person who uses altered states of consciousness, intentionally induced, to investigate his or her mind, and possibly address spiritual questions, through direct experience.
Sensory deprivation tank is a lightless, soundproof tank in which subjects float in salty water at skin temperature. It was developed 1954 by American physician John C. Lilly to test the effects of sensory deprivation. Such tanks are now also used for meditation and relaxation and in alternative medicine. There are potential health benefits such as:
Here´s some info on this plant:
Like someone said in an Entheogen-related forum, this article by Slate has some balls. That is, unlike the previously posted TIME-article which feels rather conformistic..
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