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An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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To be honest, I'm more interested in an easy to acquire "On-Switch" than anything else.

Meditation. There are certain kinds of meditation that light up the brain in a near identical way to magic mushrooms, though imho the experience is better. An advanced practitioner only takes about 20 minutes of meditation to get into that kind of state. They can stay in that state as long as they want, and they can strengthen it or weaken it even turning it off whenever they want.

Can you share with us some of the mentioned meditations?

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

#113

To be honest, I'm more interested in an easy to acquire "On-Switch" than anything else.

Meditation. There are certain kinds of meditation that light up the brain in a near identical way to magic mushrooms, though imho the experience is better. An advanced practitioner only takes about 20 minutes of meditation to get into that kind of state. They can stay in that state as long as they want, and they can strengthen it or weaken it even turning it off whenever they want.

Are you referring to jhana?

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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So no info on what it actually is. Just some company filing a patent. And the fact that they call it "a neutralizer technology" suggests that it's probably just a bunch of BS combined with previously known drugs to make it patentable. I'm pretty sure there's at least some published research on using at least one antipsychotic for that and mountains of "folk research" on using benzodiazepines.

This article suggests it's likely Ketanserin. https://newatlas.com/science/lsd-off-switch-mindmed-liechti-...

So just an already known 5HT2A antagonist.

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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There have been way too many scandals around supplement purity for me to buy into his narrative. Like if someone told me a given brand of fish oil supplements contained 10% of the stated dose, was rancid and full of heavy metals I wouldn't be the least surprised. But if a fish oil medicine had those issues, I would be shocked, because the consequences for the guilty party would be much bigger, a huge circus of lawsui…

IMO we need the FDA to start caring about supplements. They should at least be allowed to nail companies straight-up lying about dosages. Hell, classify them as food and they probably could.

You can thank Orrin Hatch for the current dumpster fire of a situation we find ourselves in. Lots of "supplement" MLMs and such in Utah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

#118

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How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.

The one time when I did continue drinking heavily while tripping (when younger and more foolish), it seemed like the alcohol had no effect. I finished an entire bottle of gin and several beers. Once I did come down it hit me like a bus and the next day I had exactly the hangover that this stupidity deserved.

Interesting. Use LSD by itself and as a festival drug and I definitely drink with it to only pleasant effects.

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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You can also do, smart phone currency app to buy tokens -> morphtoken exchange to Monero -> Tails OS -> dark.fail

Smart phone currency app? What's an example?

Coinbase:usd2btc -> Binance:btc2xmr

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Or a bit of MDMA

Highly recommend not candy flipping from anecdotal experience if anyone's thinking about doing it.

I would recommend it. Really takes the edge off and makes the whole experience much more pleasant. It somewhat dulls the acute introspection, though.
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