Posted on 08/09/2017 2:23:53 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Every three days Nathan (not his real name), a 27-year-old venture capitalist in San Francisco, ingests 15 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide (commonly known as LSD or acid). The microdose of the psychedelic drug which generally requires at least 100 micrograms to cause a high gives him the gentlest of buzzes. It makes him feel far more productive, he says, but nobody else in the office knows that he is doing it. I view it as my little treat. My secret vitamin, he says. Its like taking spinach and youre Popeye.
--snip -- Young developers and engineers, most of them male, seem to be particularly keen on his form of bio-hacking. Alex (also not his real name), a 27-year-old data scientist who takes acid four or five times a year, feels psychedelics give him a wider perspective on his life. Drugs are a way to take a break, he says, particularly in a culture where people are super hyper focused on their work.
A typical pursuit among many millennial workers, along with going to drug-fuelled music festivals or the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, is for a group of friends to rent a place in the countryside, take LSD or magic mushrooms and go for a hike (some call it a hike-a-delic). I would be much more wary of telling co-workers I had done coke the night before than saying I had done acid on the weekend, says Mike (yet another pseudonym), a 25-year-old researcher at the University of California in San Francisco, who also takes LSD regularly. It is seen as something worthwhile, wholesome, like yoga or wholegrain.
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Sorcery is ancient Greek is pharmacea.
Back before LSD was illegal it was used as a drug to cure addictions. Larry Hagman attests that LTD helped him overcome a long and difficult battle with alcoholism.
Sometimes I think my auto correct is on lyric acid dythialamide (sp)
LTD.... sheesh...
Flashbacks and flipper kids.
1970 era drug hysteria.
Flashbacks and flipper kids.
1970 era drug hysteria.
LOL! I wonder how many of the “experts” on this thread have actually experimented enough with LSD to know what they are talking about.
One of my life goals is to take mushrooms one last time before I die.
It has been decades.
psy·cho·sissīˈkōsəs/noun
a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles.Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution. "--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
[The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism]
big-pharma doesn’t stand a chance
Totally understand - been about 30-35 years for most of my “mind bending days” and I can feel the clock running out as I get older.
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