A Wisdom Archive on Psychedelic Drug

Driven by the appeal of the Sixties "psychedelics guru", Harvard professor Timothy Leary, who advocated use of these drugs as a form of mind expansion, many hippies participated in recreational drug use, particularly marijuana (see cannabis, cannabis (drug), and hashish) and hallucinogens such as LSD (see both psychedelic and psychedelic drug) and psilocybin (see Psychedelic mushroom). Some hippies prize marijuana for its iconoclastic, illicit nature, as well as for its psychopharmaceutical effects. Although some hippies did not use drugs, drug use is a trait often ascribed to hippies. Some hippies used drugs to express their di ...

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In her teens, Jiga played bass in punk bands. She wanted more control “So I bought a cheap synthesizer and programmed all the melodies, basses and drums I had in my head". She heard about a synthesizers freak called Jinno, who was experimenting with noises & sounds from age 16. He built a studio in his parents’ storage room and produced music 18 hours a day. After a long phone conversation the two met and hooked their equipment together to see what cool noises they could make. Finally in 1997 they formed Analog Pussy - making up a name they fel ...

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Analog Pussy has played 'live' in most parts of the world: Germany, UK, Japan, Mexico, USA, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, Belgium, Austria, Argentina and Chile. An Analog Pussy live show is energetic, has the feel of a powerful rock concert, and is often an experience that people talk about for years. With Jiga on bass, cello, midi-drums and vocals, and Jinno manipulating synthesizers, a laptop and mixer ala Brian Eno, the duo creates a wall of sound that can not be denied. Analog Pussy also makes ...

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A variety of different, imprecise terms have also been used to refer to drugs of this type. One of the first terms used in English to describe these substances was "Phantastica", coined in 1928 by Louis Lewin in his ground-breaking monograph of the same name. The term was applied to plants that "bring about evident cerebral excitation in the form of hallucinations, illusions and visions ... followed by unconsciousness or other symptoms of altered cerebral functioning." Lewin complained that the word "does not cover all that I s ...

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1999, Coming back from their first European tour - in which they'd played to over 30,000 people, they signed with a German label and released their first album. ‘Psycho Bitch From Hell’ sounds like noises from a space ship that's had LSD poured into its engines! With Melodic, High tempo tracks such as ‘Go Wacko’ and ‘Psycho Bitch’ ,a paraphrase on the Sex Pistols in ‘Anarchist’ and ‘Fight To Trance’ - which became a popular track to play when pa ...

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The psychedelic (mind manifesting) drugs are classified as those whose primary action is that of enhancing or amplifying the thought processes of the brain typically through the disabling of filters which block or suppress unimportant or undesired signals to the conscious mind from other parts of the brain, including but not limited to the senses, emotions, memories and the unconscious (or subconscious) mind. This effect is sometimes referred to as mind expanding, or consciousness expanding as the conscious mind becomes ...

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A dissociative is a drug which reduces (or blocks) signals to the conscious mind from other parts of the brain, typically (but not necessarily, or limited to) the physical senses. Such a state of sensory deprivation can facilitate self exploration, hallucinations, and dreamlike states of mind which may resemble some psychedelic mindstates. Essentially similar states of mind can be reached via contrasting paths -- psychedelic or dissociative. That said, the entire experience, risks and benefits are markedly different. The primar ...

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Hallucinogenic drugs are among the oldest drugs used by humankind, as hallucinogens naturally occur in mushrooms, cacti, and various other plants. Whether the use of hallucinogens is encouraged, unregulated, regulated, or prohibited, and whether hallucinogens are used for recreational, medicinal, or spiritual purposes, varies from culture to culture and nation to nation. In most nations of the world, the possession of many hallucinogens, even those that are common in nature, is a crime punished by fines, imprisonment or in many countries, de ...

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MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, THE
John Keel''s seminal work on UFOs, involving, among other things, a "7-foot, red-eyed monster with wings" seen in West Virginia. Keel, however, does not believe ufos come from outer space and he was thus a fore-runner of Valée''s theories. Says Keel, they are ". . . ultraterrestrials - beings and forces that coexist with us, but are of another time frame, that is, they operate outside the limits of our space-time continuum, yet have the ability to cross over into our reality. This other world, however, is not a place (as Mars or Andromeda are places), but is a state of energy." He says the important thing is the lights. They change people''s heads - either these lights enlighten them or they drive them mad (in the way that psychedelic drugs can do). The rest is all a cover-up for that - the UFO, etc. assumes the shape of current cultural beliefs and expectations under the control of extradimensional intelligence. However, someone or something doesn''t want us to know the real nature of these phenomena. Hence the "men in black", Air Force secrecy, etc. But the lights continue. Apparently the absurdities are intended to keep the contactees from being believed by others. The reason is still generally unexplored.
 

 
(See also: MOTHMAN PROPHECIES , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul,)
 

IMPRINT VULNERABILITY (or IV)
This is the state of the mind induced by shock, fear, psychedelic drugs, sensory deprivation, etc. R. A. Wilson's term: "To change ourselves we need to learn how to recreate imprint vulnerability." This enables us to create new reality tunnels for ourselves (the right sort of ritual can also do this). IVs should be introduced by a qualified shaman into the body, mind and emotional "bloodstream."
 
 

 
(See also: IMPRINT VULNERABILITY, IV, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul,  )