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Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat... , which has a pretty extensive DIY scene.
That's not brain interfacing tech. He's talking about wearable headsets like the Emotiv that let you control computers with your mind by training against EEG signals.
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What if I did? Would that have validated my comments and prevented the downvoting?
It might be because there are people who have experienced otherwise and you seem to be speaking in generalizations instead of experience. This is anecdotal, but taking MDMA once, recreationally and not in a theraputic sessions, helped me with social anxiety. The best analogy I can give is like you're playing a NES game, and it's glitching all over parts of the screen. You're still able to play, but there's interferen…
I realize that's a pretty extreme statement to make. But from what I understand, we hardly realize how the mind works. I am not saying don't dismiss the research. I just wonder if we are trying to sell psychedelics as a magic pill, when maybe just awareness is all you need.
What about people who have bad trips on these drugs? Do we dismiss them as people who aren't just suppose to take psychedelics?
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Is it possible to do this, today, anywhere in the world (without getting into a study, which seems hard, especially in another country)? I am looking for help for somebody close to me.
Only if you know a willing therapist.
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Is it possible to do this, today, anywhere in the world (without getting into a study, which seems hard, especially in another country)? I am looking for help for somebody close to me.
It would be interesting to determine the efficacy of actual MDMA (commonly available in the 90s) vs what is referred to as 'Molly' today... The issue is that they may or may not be actual MDMA - and the unscrupulous label general amphetamines as either molly or MDMA and people unfamiliar dont know it.... The clinical studies should, presumably, be also, setting a standard for the purity, dosage, quality etc around th…
That being said, I am pretty sure I can find the drug, I know some people that I can trust. Preferably it would be administered by the therapist, though.
Thanks, too, for the caution. I have already found someone in my native country who is a psychologist who also does AI stuff with Tensorflow, so I trust them already. ;)
For decades, there has been a near complete effective block on medical research for certain classes of drugs. Timothy Leary and that kind of 60’s stuff chilled legitimate science. Only recently have small changes started to happen, to the point the government, the flipping FDA, has started to think Ectasy (MDMA) might be a viable treatment for some of our most horrible mental illnesses. So many people wonder when sci…
> For decades, there has been a near complete effective block on medical research for certain classes of drugs. In the US. One wonders why such a study wasn't carried out in a less puritan country.
What happened was that a lot of the promise of them didn't pan out. Then the laws changed and it made it much harder to do research.
So in essence, it's not just one reason why psychedelic research pretty much disappeared. Unmet expectations, lack of funding and stringent laws all contributed to it.
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It would be interesting to determine the efficacy of actual MDMA (commonly available in the 90s) vs what is referred to as 'Molly' today... The issue is that they may or may not be actual MDMA - and the unscrupulous label general amphetamines as either molly or MDMA and people unfamiliar dont know it.... The clinical studies should, presumably, be also, setting a standard for the purity, dosage, quality etc around th…
Thanks samstave, yes, I am definitely looking for pointers towards something "on grid" in particular. That being said, I am pretty sure I can find the drug, I know some people that I can trust. Preferably it would be administered by the therapist, though. Thanks, too, for the caution. I have already found someone in my native country who is a psychologist who also does AI stuff with Tensorflow, so I trust them alread…
"87% of “Molly” analyzed by the DEA between 2009 and 2013 contained 0% MDMA, instead mostly containing “bath salts” like methylone.3"
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>and even work against collection of, objective data The problem is that many times the data collected is not objective at all. Statistics can be twisted by even just the definitions of words used. For example, a CDC study on rape considered forced penetration, but not being forced to penetrate, as rape. This data was then used in a report that, among other conclusions, concluded that women almost never rape men. All…
>The problem is that many times the data collected is not objective at all I don’t think that has anything to do with it. If it were the case the demands would be for better data, not no data. And yes, some in Congress advocate against collecting data full stop on certain issues. I would agree it’s always been true thst data will sometimes be flawed and biased, and always will be. The question is what do you do about…
For an extreme example, consider a country where homosexuality is punished by long prison sentences (or worse). Would you trust any data that such a government produced? If they produced data showing something negative about homosexuality, would you even spend the time to look at their methodologies? Or would it be dismissed as inherently biased as the source would be seen as being incapable of being trusted? For me it would be the latter.
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Thanks samstave, yes, I am definitely looking for pointers towards something "on grid" in particular. That being said, I am pretty sure I can find the drug, I know some people that I can trust. Preferably it would be administered by the therapist, though. Thanks, too, for the caution. I have already found someone in my native country who is a psychologist who also does AI stuff with Tensorflow, so I trust them alread…
Be aware: "87% of “Molly” analyzed by the DEA between 2009 and 2013 contained 0% MDMA, instead mostly containing “bath salts” like methylone.3" https://rollsafe.org/whats-in-molly/
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Only if you know a willing therapist.
Thanks bdamm. Yes, in particular, I am looking for pointers to that, I suppose. Perhaps, somewhere there is one and we could travel there.