Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by kleer001 on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:23PM
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5 dried grams of magic mushrooms. Or listen to 40+ hours of lectures from Alan Watts.
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Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by ux-app on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:15AM
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hehe thanks for the tip, but I don't trust my own psyche enough for those kinds of experiments, even though I'm deeply curious of what I'd experience.
Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by kleer001 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:10PM
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Listening to lectures is pretty benign and you can stop any time. And they're legal everywhere. Here's one to get your started.
Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by myrandomcomment on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:00AM
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Molly with friends.
Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by kleer001 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:23PM
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No, MDMA will give you exactly the opposite effect. It will encourage and cement connections to culture/s and social bonds. It just effects your serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine levels. What magic mushrooms (and other psychedelics like LSD) do is increase the communication between distant parts of the brain that don't normally communicate. That will lead you away from consensus reality, not deeper into it.
Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by vldx on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:13AM
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Not necessarily. MDMA could potentially enable you loose any feeling of self-concern -- no fear, insecurity and self-consciousness; that feeling of being 5 year old on the Christmas morning.
This might be especially beneficial for someone who is communicating predominantly w/ machines since a kid, and who might have trouble empathizing or relating w/ people.
In this short video Sam Harris describes it very eloquently.
http://bigthink.com/think-tank/sam-harris-discusses-mdma-and...
Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by lxmorj on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:44PM
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5??????
Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by ryanlol on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:05PM
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You're right, 7 will work much better.
On a more serious note, look into 4-AcO-DMT. Essentially mushrooms without the unpleasantness of actually having to eat mushrooms.
Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by nojvek on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @01:57AM
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How does one even get access to this?
Re:It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people ac...
by ryanlol on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @07:45AM
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Perhaps easier than the mushrooms, various "chemical supply companies" will sell it to you for "research" and not ask many question. There's a list of such companies on the "RCSources" subreddit wiki.
It's definitely a good idea to get any chemicals tested before consuming them. I doubt they'd intentionally send you the wrong chemical, but I guess shipping mixups could happen. Energy control runs an excellent testing service https://energycontrol-international.org/drug-testing-service...