wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo"
> <richardhughes103@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Totally fascinating article (long) in the New York Times
> > magazine. A
> > > few excerpts:
> > >
> >
> > That is interesting, It reminds me of a time I was out of my head
> > on LSD and I became aware that I could change the way I
responded
> > to events, I could see my superego selecting responses to things
> > out of a choice provided by my unconscious, it was pure Freud. I
> > could conscioussly decide on a different course of action. The
> > possibilities for treating mental illness or just achieving
> > personal desires is amazing. Unfortunately I got distracted by
the
> > wallpaper and forgot to take notes.
>
> <grin>
>
> Apparently the LSD researchers who had to abort their
> research when LSD became illegal thought they were on
> the verge of major breakthroughs in treating mental
> illness.
The thing I like most about the hippy/LSD revolution is that it was
all started by the CIA looking for a truth drug, they performed
experiments on volunteers, one of whom was Ken Kesey author of "one
flew over the cuckoos nest". He loved it and after reading "stranger
in a strange land" by Heinlien he started a really wild commune and
toured america on a old bus giving out LSD to all and sundry, the
rest is history. Just wish I'd been there.
>
> Besides reminding me of witnessing experiences, what she
> describes also reminded me very much of what it's like
> to be under laughing gas at the dentist.
I know you're going to laugh, considering my last post, but I've
only been to the dentist twice in the last twenty years and have
never had gas. Sounds like I'm missing out though.
Choice per se
> doesn't seem to be involved (unless knowing that you're
> getting laughing gas invokes some kind of placebo effect),
> but the experience, or at least my experience, was of
> feeling pain but not *minding* it, just as the reporter
> says. Very blissful too, which I suppose is why it's
> called "laughing gas."
>
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > My Pain, My Brain
> > >
> > > By MELANIE THERNSTROM
> > > Published: May 14, 2006
> > >
> > > Who hasn't wished she could watch her brain at work and make
> > changes
> > > to it, the way a painter steps back from a painting, studies
it
> > and
> > > decides to make the sky a different hue? If only we could
spell-
> > check
> > > our brain like a text, or reprogram it like a computer to
> > eliminate
> > > glitches like pain, depression and learning disabilities.
Would
> we
> > > one day become completely transparent to ourselves, and
fully
> > > conscious of consciousness consciously create ourselves as
we
> > > like?...
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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