Scientists Start Researching LSD Based Therapies Again »
Posted By Mikunited 2 months, 1 week ago in Science & TechnologyGrowing number of people taking psychedelic drugs to help them cope with conditions such as chronic anxiety attacks
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I'm 49 and work as a painter and decorator.I live in London,with my long time partner,she is a teacher.We have ...
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gamahuche2 months, 1 week ago
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Interesting to hear.
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The story would have been more interesting if it had cut a wider context.
There was a lot of work done with LSD in the Czech Republic, for example, in particular by Stanislav Grof, who later moved to the US and was involved with the Esalen Institute. This was intimately connected with the therapeutic use of the drug, rather than the "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out" mode that was particularly a West Coast phenomenon.
See here for example: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LSD/grofhist.h...
Another great read - coming from a different place - is "Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream" by Jay Stevens which has a fantastic description of the incongruous meeting between West and East Coast psychedelia at Millbrook, NY.
West Coast represented by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters who arrived in their psychedelic bus called "Furthur" - driven by Neal Cassady of "On the Road" fame; East Coast by Timothy Leary, Robert Thurman - the one-eyed Buddhist, later to become father of Uma - Richard Alpert [later Ram Dass], Allen Ginsberg..
The book virtually makes you a fly on the wall with a contact-high in what was not precisely a meeting of "Peace and Love".. I'm happy to have known 4 of the above-mentioned quite well - in a wide variety of different contexts. One of the best was a Conference of the International Transpersonal Association Conference in Prague in 1992, a never-to-be-forgotten event shortly after the Velvet Revolution.. One day, when I was dealing with equipment at the end of a Ram Dass workshop my 8yr old daughter Tara whose hand he had kissed on the street a few days before, running up to her elbow - walked up to him and said something which made Mr Buddhist Imperturbability jerk back with a look of astonishment. I asked her later what she had said and she replied "Oh, I said 'Ram Dass you're a pretty good kisser - but not as good as the Dalai Lama"..-
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gamahuche2 months, 1 week ago
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My daughter's 2 meetings with Allen Ginsberg were much more mixed.
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The first was a surprise one in the B Dairy on 2nd Ave in NYC when she was a tiny bundled-up baby, a few days old when he graciously touched her gently and did a Buddhist OMMM.
The second time a business meeting when she about 2 1/2 and it was convenient for her to be with me. The key out of the window routine in the E. Village - walk up the stairs to be greeted by "Get that little GIRL out of here!"
She survived!
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Mikunited2 months, 1 week ago
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I was fortunate enough to meet Alan Ginsberg on several occasions.In the 70's on one of his many UK"tours",I met him at a poetry reading at the Roundhouse,where I was the very shy teenage warm up act.After wards we went to a party,where I ****** him off ,by keep asking questions about Bill Burroughs!He was cool though.I would have loved to meet William Burroughs,who I think was the best of the beat/post beat writers.Though Jack Kerouac was pretty dam good.
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It is time that psychologists and neurologists where given more freedom ,to look into the therapeutic properties of "psychedelic" drugs.It seems like it could help in some/many cases.-
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gamahuche2 months, 1 week ago
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My biggest favourite was probably Gary Snyder. I liked his Japanese focus and his down-to-earthness.
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I heard through the grapevine that he was in the neigbourhood and tried to get him to read at a coffee-house that I started up in Livingston MT but he cried off.
Quiet low-key visit, etc..
Finally I met up with him at Green Gulch Zen Center nr. SF where I was taking a 3 month workshop with Charlotte Selver who was far into her 80's already.
Very easy guy, also "self-enclosed"/self-sufficient..
The funniest Ginsberg encounter I had was some years earlier than the above when he appeared in drag, playing his squeeze-box, with a transvestite group called the Angels of Light who had some cross-over with the better-known Cockettes. This was in SF.
Anyway - great that you "played" the Roundhouse!
Great location. For a while some friends of mine ran concerts there. As promoters they were called the Greasy Truckers.
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Ratskii2 months, 1 week ago
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This is good to hear. There were some promising results coming out of various research programs on LSD and other hallucinogins before they were shut down.
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My personal experience is that LSD is too unpredictable. I suspect that Psycilocibin mushrooms would give better results.
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