Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Monday, 24 March 2014
Psylocibin
Having carried out comprehensive research in to the new psychchedelics. They have isolated to the colours, the hallucinations etc, basically the side effected of what was a spiritual experience. But it's that part they've left out. That real opening to a higher truth. That aspect of LSD . This is the part that mattered. The rest was all wall paper. It is as if in the fear of the hell the sacrifice has been heaven. Back in the sixties LSD was known as the heaven and hell drug. Alexander shulgin,for who I have vast respect, spearheaded a series of psychedelic drugs. But for all of his creative variants i have yet to find that spiritual feeling that comes from LSD and psylocibin. Fortunate to grow up in a country that has a fungi season of pure spiritual effervescence. Our culture, our secret culture has known this and the liberty cap mushroom has steered, affected and led a constant undercurrent to any serious understanding of British culture. Any serious history of these isles religion, arts and general outlook needs understand the effects of psylocibin .
The first drug I took to any great extent was magic mushrooms. They were free. And very strong. I must have taken them well over a thousand times in my early teens. To this day I could not tell you if I am damaged or enlightened by my over indulgence. But I will say that many from my area got in to solvent abuse. Glue sniffing. I've never indulged so can not speak from experience but those who indulged always speak with great reverence of their experiences. Perhaps it is the age that we undertook these direct transcendental experiences. Our outlook was never the same again.
At the time I felt we had found an evolutionary trigger. Something that would change the world, end suffering etc. now the world seems just as war torn.
A greater peace is growing as reason overtakes superstition. But this peace has its price. And it may be our human peace means extinction to man other species.
The first drug I took to any great extent was magic mushrooms. They were free. And very strong. I must have taken them well over a thousand times in my early teens. To this day I could not tell you if I am damaged or enlightened by my over indulgence. But I will say that many from my area got in to solvent abuse. Glue sniffing. I've never indulged so can not speak from experience but those who indulged always speak with great reverence of their experiences. Perhaps it is the age that we undertook these direct transcendental experiences. Our outlook was never the same again.
At the time I felt we had found an evolutionary trigger. Something that would change the world, end suffering etc. now the world seems just as war torn.
A greater peace is growing as reason overtakes superstition. But this peace has its price. And it may be our human peace means extinction to man other species.
Sunday, 23 March 2014
Morality developing from the realisation that we have no free will
My lungs can not take it anymore. I am old. I think of a freind of mine. A furniture maker who achieved so much. Yet he will always be wondering what more he could have done had he not had depression . Depression I a terrible condition to have to endure. Perhaps the worst of them all. Because if you have hope, if you can summon up joyful spirit you will always have help.
It is the age of blaming the suffering for their own predicament. We have the third Dethronement of man. We know now that none of us are to blame for our character. We know that yet still live as a society as if these decades of discovery had never happened. The conservative government blame the weak and the poor for their predicament. Many people still do. Blame the depressed for not trying hard enough to cheer up. Blame schizophrenics for being weird. Blame the socially unskilled for finding no niche through networking. Blame drug addicts even though we know they have no free will.
Of course this enables the lucky to treat their own lottery wins as if they were somehow responsible. Those born in to money and private education need only be mediocre to rise to the top. Being born in Britain in the sixties I am aware that I already won the lottery each time I turn on the news.
It is time we abandoned all notions of making ones own luck. Being born with a predisposition to hard work and the fortune of being brainy is pure luck. You could just as easily be the slave of perversions society would see fit to hang you for. The Olympic gold medalist, the most successful businessman of the year, the discoverer of the Higgs boson. None of these have any greater right to feel pride than the paedophile who spends his days enduring hideous urges few of us could imagine, or the crack addict who betrays those he loves for a pipe of cocaine smoke. There really is no moral high ground.
Accepting he truth, that there is no free will has many ramifications. Our impulses and urges are the results of chemical and electrical processes within our skulls that we have no control over. For sure we should punish criminals in the hope we can rehabilitate them. But we should never punish someone purely for their nature. This is as stupid as to punish someone for the colour of their skin.
It is the age of blaming the suffering for their own predicament. We have the third Dethronement of man. We know now that none of us are to blame for our character. We know that yet still live as a society as if these decades of discovery had never happened. The conservative government blame the weak and the poor for their predicament. Many people still do. Blame the depressed for not trying hard enough to cheer up. Blame schizophrenics for being weird. Blame the socially unskilled for finding no niche through networking. Blame drug addicts even though we know they have no free will.
Of course this enables the lucky to treat their own lottery wins as if they were somehow responsible. Those born in to money and private education need only be mediocre to rise to the top. Being born in Britain in the sixties I am aware that I already won the lottery each time I turn on the news.
It is time we abandoned all notions of making ones own luck. Being born with a predisposition to hard work and the fortune of being brainy is pure luck. You could just as easily be the slave of perversions society would see fit to hang you for. The Olympic gold medalist, the most successful businessman of the year, the discoverer of the Higgs boson. None of these have any greater right to feel pride than the paedophile who spends his days enduring hideous urges few of us could imagine, or the crack addict who betrays those he loves for a pipe of cocaine smoke. There really is no moral high ground.
Accepting he truth, that there is no free will has many ramifications. Our impulses and urges are the results of chemical and electrical processes within our skulls that we have no control over. For sure we should punish criminals in the hope we can rehabilitate them. But we should never punish someone purely for their nature. This is as stupid as to punish someone for the colour of their skin.
Friday, 21 March 2014
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