"Hugo, top up the Gulfstream!"
Posted on 12/15/2013 3:24:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
I think I'll just continue to live with my various life-wounds.
Psych-medical ‘science’ (mental voodoo) said the same thing about LSD and Mescaline at one time or another.
Let’s see: vomiting, diarrhea, stirring-around of brain chemicals. Sounds delightful. I think I’ll skip it, thanks ever so. There are other ways to enlightenment that don’t risk my one and only brain.
Just so. I remember that LSD started out as a super fixer-upper. Timothy Leary comes to mind.
So physicians and psychiatrists will now become witch doctors/medicine men/shamans?
Like any other potentially useful chemical compound, the active agents in Ayahusca may provide help with some disorders, be useless for others, and possibly harmful in a few. I won’t write it off as junk science at this point, but neither will I buy in to the “wonder drug” mindset that some in the article are touting.
BTW, on an interesting note; supposedly part of Ayahusca’s benefits for locals who imbibe it is that the purging (at both ends) helps control parasitical infections in the digestive tract. Don’t know if that’s a medically sound premise or not, but that’s supposedly one of the uses for the stuff amongs locals.
I think I’ll stick with beer.
Yep. One of my cousins was a student of his at Berkeley. She's still messed up.
"Hugo, top up the Gulfstream!"
Those who approach ayahuasca as a recreational trip are usually the ones not prepared for what they actually experience. It is not a pleasant experience. Most will shed tears yet afterwards report a positive sensation.
The success rate with treating recidivist addicts is interesting for perhaps having revealed mental processes that had not been considered. If so then there is hope for another approach for helping those who seem beyond reach.
That's where they came from. The stigma of "drugs" as naughty means limiting the tools that might be used to help others. Those who wish to impose their will upon others in this regard have done well.
So physicians and psychiatrists will now become witch doctors/medicine men/shamans?
I remember reading a Time magazine article about 25 years ago about a wonderful new drug named Ecstasy that was going to solve everyone's problems.
Well it (MDMA) certainly seems to keep Nancy Pelosi flying nicely above the reality....
Scary stuff. MAOIs interact with many foods and antidepressants. Very dangerous and sometimes fatal.
“Her first dose of the nasty, rust-colored liquid was blasting through her system.”
I see what they did there.
“In a room with 500 other people, McKenna drank first one cup, then a second...”
I hope it works for them and they were prepared for facility-overwhelming blasting on a Woodstock scale.
Freegards
MDMA is still very successfully used for psychotherapy. It is not something magical given out like candy to “everyone”. Only certain patients with characteristics that make them unable to have meaningful therapy.
The problem is it also made for a very good party drug that people frequently abuse. Even though useful in therapy for a small group of people, it was decided the abuse potential was too great.
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