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Re:How Safe Is Ayahuasca? Large-Scale Study Explores – Techn... by IIAOPSW on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:21AM (#33652280)
I'm not denying that its possible to lose all concept of a "face" or even know what "is" is and to only be left with pain, suffering, spinning and eternity. On the contrary, I find it to be an immensely scientifically valuable observation that you lost all concept of a face, didn't know what "is" is and only knew pain, suffering, spinning and eternity. Just knowing that you end up with that experience and other people do not tells us something insightful about which sorts of brain function are universally hard wired and which parts can differ from person to person.

Maybe it is possible to sidestep the badness you experienced by trying to focus on scientific self experimentation like I end up doing. Maybe that's just not possible for you for neuro-physical reasons. If you ever decide to trip again, try it and let us know if it works.

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Re:How Safe Is Ayahuasca? Large-Scale Study Explores – Techn... by boppo1 on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:20AM (#33652737)
This is an example what I dislike about proponents of psychedelics. The condescending tone and appeals to "science" when a scientific method is nowhere to be found.
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Re:How Safe Is Ayahuasca? Large-Scale Study Explores – Techn... by nikisweeting on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:46AM (#33652909)
"nowhere to be found"

Seems you don't hang out on Psychonautwiki, r/researchchemicals, MAPS.org, or any of the highly scientific drug communities going about deliberate, skeptical research in the space.

Just because you don't look for them doesn't mean they aren't there. If your only experience is hanging out with fried deadhead hippies I can see how you might reach this conclusion, but the space is broad and deep and many other types of people approach and research it.

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Re:How Safe Is Ayahuasca? Large-Scale Study Explores – Techn... by pmoriarty on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:41AM (#33653271)
Not to mention Johns Hopkins and many other prestigious research universities which are studying psychedelics.

Many of these highly respected researchers are psychedelic advocates.

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