tag > Psychedelic
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Who’s in charge of psilocybin?
We’re in the middle of a psychedelic turf war. With psychedelic medicine on the cusp of going mainstream, an increasing number of players are vying for narrative control. From clinicians and investors to Indigenous groups and activists, debate is raging over whether psychedelics are spiritual tools, new psychiatric drugs, medicines for social change, or all of the above. This battle for control is not only unnecessary, but blinds us to a unique opportunity.
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Psychedelic Learning - by Julian Vayne
"Magic is a set of techniques and approaches which can be used to extend the limits of Achievable Reality. Our sense of Achievable Reality is the limitations which we believe bind us into a narrow range of actions and successes—what we believe to be possible for us at any one given time. In this context, the purpose of magic is to simultaneously explore the boundaries and attempt to push them back—to widen the “sphere” of possible action." - Phil Hine in Condensed Chaos
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Flow States. The experience of time changes - Short about the research of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg, Germany.
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A New Robot Dealer Service Makes Buying Drugs Easier Than Ever
"Televend is an automated digital retail system used to sell illegal drugs on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. The online stores it facilitates are staffed and operated, 24 hours a day, by a clever string of ones and zeros. Or, if you like, robots."
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Mexico Set to Legalize Marijuana, Becoming World’s Largest Market
Lawmakers in Mexico have approved a bill to legalize recreational cannabis, but in a country still marred by a deadly drug war, the proposal has proved divisive.
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Neural network models for DMT-induced visual hallucinations (Imperial)
#Comment: Behold, this is some next level bullshit science! My head hurts..
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Psilocybin Treatment for Mental Health Gets Legal Framework (scientificamerican)
Oregon became the first state to legalize therapeutic use of the drug as new research affirms its benefits for treating depression.
DC ballot initiative could decriminalize psychedelic plants, like magic mushrooms (ABC)
This Election Day, voters in Washington, D.C., will consider a measure that, if approved, would effectively decriminalize the use of psychedelic plants, like ayahuasca and psilocybin mushrooms, more commonly known as magic mushrooms.
The Berlin Registry - An Overview of the Psychedelic Industry (Mind)
Over the last few years, a number of companies and organizations have been founded to develop or build on different aspects of the psychedelic field. The so-called psychedelic industry is still in its infancy. Yet there has been an increasing number of spectacular capitalization events, with companies raising $80 million and more in their first or second financing rounds. This page provides people looking for information or investment and donation opportunities with a basic overview about the emerging psychedelic economy – both for-profit and non-profit.
Disclosed herein is a method of explaining the psychedelic patent landscape.
United Nations approves WHO recommendation to reschedule cannabis in historic vote (mjbizdaily)
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on Wednesday accepted a World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. The historic vote in Vienna could have far-reaching implications for the global medical cannabis industry, ranging from regulatory oversight to scientific research into the plant and its use as a medicine. The eagerly awaited approval of Recommendation 5.1 had a slim majority in favor with 27 votes for, one abstention and 25 votes against.
Microdosing - Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis - Paper by Maj Emre Albayrak
Psychedelic Information Theory - Shamanism in the Age of Reason - Book by by James L. Kent
Psychedelic Information Theory (PIT) is the study of information creation in the human imagination, particularly in states of dreaming, psychosis, and hallucination. PIT seeks to model the functional output of human perception in order to extrapolate the limits and complexity of information arising in human altered states of consciousness.
Jesus was a mushroom
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"The Mandela effect is an unusual phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. Conspiracy theorists believe this is proof of an alternate universe, while many doctors use it as an illustration of how imperfect memory can be
Is the ‘Mandela Effect’ Science, Science Fiction, or Mass Delusion?
What some dismiss as misremembering could be a hint of alternate realities
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Colombia Is Considering Legalizing Its Massive Cocaine Industry
Colombia Is Considering Legalizing Its Massive Cocaine Industry; There are 200k coca growing farmers. The state would buy coca at market prices. The programs for coca eradication each year cost $1 billion. Buying the entire coca harvest each year would cost$680M. It costs less to buy it all.
#Comment: Makes alot of sense, given the enormous dimensions of the global Illegal drug trade.
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"The world’s first Psiloscoby" "We can genetically engineer a kombucha SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) to produce psilocybin while it ferments. We can do this by printing genes from magic mushrooms and embedding them into the SCOBY’s DNA. Once we make a single psiloscoby, it can grow and divide and be shared among friends, to brew their own psilobucha."
#Comment: Why engineer stuff, if it grows super low tech in your room? It does not make any sense what so ever - except for techno-fetishist control-freaks who should just learn to relax.
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Minimal Phenomenal Experience - presentation by Thomas Metzinger
#Comment: Metzinger is trying very diligently to approach the meditative/psychedelic/qi/zen/dao/dada/call-it-what-you-want space from a rational scientific perspective - even proposing ideas for a computational model. It's interesting and fascinating work for sure - but it tethers on semiotic masturbation and it conveniently ignores the elephants in the room !
During the Q&A Metzinger says the following:
"I am just trying to make progress on this phenomenology because, it has be reported for centuries in different cultural traditions - but now we have a very new interesting situation: We have all these tools of neuroscience, we have modern analytical philosophy of mind, and we have millions of meditators in the west that are pretty secular - and don't have a strong belief system in which they report their experiences."
The notion that "secular western (meditators) don't have a strong belief system" is ridicules on so many levels - yet indicative of the world view that permeates the emerging "WEIRD, male scientists trying to compute consciousness" field (Karl Friston, Christof Koch, Hartmut Neven, etc.). WEIRD ("Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich & Democratic") make up only 12% of global population. Much greater diversity (gender, cognitive, etc.) would certainty make this type of discussion much more interesting and fun.
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Book of the Month: The Art of Peace - by Morihei Ueshiba
