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Post by intopieces »

kshahkshah wrote: post #11

There is a lot going on in this article and I won't comment on all of it. I'll just address people who are perhaps curious about psychedelics. May I highly suggest that those wishing to experiment with psychedelics do it only in a place where you feel absolutely safe. That is, no risk of police, parents (if that is an issue), or neighbours to bother you. Additionally and I do think this is very important: in nature .…

I agree with nature, but if that's not an option a nice art museum on an off day. Usually cheap, quiet, cold and people don't mind if you stare at one thing for a long time.

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cnp wrote: post #39
tim333 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd add I know several people with long term mental impairment from overuse, mostly from long term use of LSD. So while it's interesting to try, be cautious.

Here's an interesting study that seems to counter this claim: http://psychedelicfrontier.com/psychedelics-reductions-suici... http://jop.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/01/08/026988111456... Classic psychedelic use is associated with reduced psychological distress and suicidality in the United States adult population "Psychedelic users showed a significantly lower likelihood of recent psychological distress, as well a…

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Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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kshahkshah wrote: post #11

There is a lot going on in this article and I won't comment on all of it. I'll just address people who are perhaps curious about psychedelics. May I highly suggest that those wishing to experiment with psychedelics do it only in a place where you feel absolutely safe. That is, no risk of police, parents (if that is an issue), or neighbours to bother you. Additionally and I do think this is very important: in nature .…

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Post by mml »

SN76477 wrote: post #25
kshahkshah wrote: post #11

There is a lot going on in this article and I won't comment on all of it. I'll just address people who are perhaps curious about psychedelics. May I highly suggest that those wishing to experiment with psychedelics do it only in a place where you feel absolutely safe. That is, no risk of police, parents (if that is an issue), or neighbours to bother you. Additionally and I do think this is very important: in nature .…

A bad trip can be really BAD. No one wants a bad trip.

This is true.

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Post by andy_ppp »

SirensOfTitan wrote: post #96
andy_ppp wrote: post #45

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Best advice I was ever given is that if the trip is going badly you should move your body to a different setting. It provides a nice reset should you have placed your mind somewhere that "you" do not feel comfortable with. I can't say I think that people should be recommending psychedelics because the experience is so extreme and so personal, it can be life altering. As with anything this "far out", the outcome could…

A methylated B-complex vitamin would be prudent in most individuals as well to complement magnesium. Up to 50% of the population has a partially broken methylation cycle (in a form of C677T mutation). I had back pain sleeping for a long time, fatigue, and tons of muscle twitching (even in supplementing magnesium and vitamin d), and a methylated b-complex effectively eliminated my symptoms. The test to check for an MT…

Your name is one of my favourite books. Every day I feel like my brain has been wiped though.

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Post by danharaj »

danharaj wrote: post #44
SN76477 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bad trip can be really BAD. No one wants a bad trip.

There is probably a typology of negative trips, but obviously very little science has been done on it. My (inter)personal experiences identify a few distinct culprits, perhaps amongst many, or perhaps all a naive fiction i've constructed for myself: 1. Overstimulation, an inability to cope with all the new perceptions. This is especially pertinent during come-up. If you experience overstimulation in sober life, you'l…

Another one came to mind: low blood sugar. You might forget to eat on acid. You won't feel like eating. It's a good idea to keep citrus around or another source of sugar. It helps a lot!

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Post by brudgers »

cnp wrote: post #39
tim333 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd add I know several people with long term mental impairment from overuse, mostly from long term use of LSD. So while it's interesting to try, be cautious.

Here's an interesting study that seems to counter this claim: http://psychedelicfrontier.com/psychedelics-reductions-suici... http://jop.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/01/08/026988111456... Classic psychedelic use is associated with reduced psychological distress and suicidality in the United States adult population "Psychedelic users showed a significantly lower likelihood of recent psychological distress, as well a…

The claim is that the individual has direct knowledge. The study doesn't counter their personal experience.

Re: LSD: My Life-Saving Drug

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Post by brudgers »

selestify wrote: post #21
kshahkshah wrote: post #11

There is a lot going on in this article and I won't comment on all of it. I'll just address people who are perhaps curious about psychedelics. May I highly suggest that those wishing to experiment with psychedelics do it only in a place where you feel absolutely safe. That is, no risk of police, parents (if that is an issue), or neighbours to bother you. Additionally and I do think this is very important: in nature .…

How do you go about obtaining such things if none of your friends do it either?

You seek out people engaged in illegal behavior and hope that there is a limit upon which laws they will violate and that that limit includes not harming you. If you're lucky, you're at the Napster end of the spectrum. The biker gang end if you're less lucky. Worse if you're unlucky.

Succumbing to positive peer pressure is a good thing. If you're friends aren't into it, then go have fun doing what they're into. Compared to walking in the woods with your child, psychedelics are not very high on the scale of profundity.

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Post by leroy_masochist »

Does anyone here have experience with ibogaine? A close friend recently went to Mexico to do ibogaine therapy and she says it's changed her life, mostly for the better.

They have actual clinics in Mexico where they hook you up to an IV of the drug (oral ingestion problematic for whatever reason) and assign you a trip-sitter who has two jobs: for the first hour or two, when the drug makes you ill in an ayahuasca-like way, they help you get through it, go to and from the bathroom, etc. For the second part, which lasts around eight hours, the trip-sitter just hangs out and chats with you.

According to my friend, it was an emotionally much deeper journey than ayahuasca, with much more pronounced long-term results.

Evidently it gets rid of a lot of your deep-seated emotional and psychological issues (specifically, she says she's parted with "a shitload of petty little grudges against random people"), but it also, as she puts it, "takes all of your armor off". For example she reports that aggressive drivers used to be a source of mild amusement, but now she gets very saddened and anxious when another driver gives her the finger and refuses to let her change lanes.

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