The 'Other' - what LSD and Marijuana has shown

[The Laughing Man]

...where is LoreMaster anyway? He started this interesting thread and abandoned it to the vagaries of drug-addled madmen...

--A

HEY! I resent that, AV......I haven't posted here once!

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You should be ashamed...you've put your reputation as a drug-addled madman in question.

--A

[The Laughing Man]

meh...I have a staunch aversion to drug induced knowledge these days.....nothing "wrong" with it, heh, but I feel it's counterproductive, especially under unprofessional guidance....now, for pure recreation, now thats a whole nutter story!

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Fair enough. Interesting point about "knowledge" though. I'm not sure that it's always counterproductive, but I can certainly see how it can be.

--A

[The Laughing Man]

well, more a matter of trusting that knowledge, it's integrity/accuracy....it's definitley a legitimate experience, but whatever information I may feel I have gleaned from the episode, I certainly wouldn't bet my life on it in a critical situation, eh?

Any experience one has must be done from an intensely sober and supremely focused state of attention in order to be a valid event, and an act of power, a source of True Wisdom, found only in the pure Silence of the complete mind......which by doing massive doses becomes less and less reliable or trustworthy due to effects/after-effects, etc....the addled madman syndrome sets in somewhat if not completely......

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Agreed in the sense that the "incoherence" I mention is the other thread is a side-effect, and that it can interfere with what you discover or think you discover.

--A

[Menolly]

:::I thought this belonged more here, than in the GI thread:::

thinbuddha: Since I haven't seen this in the GI, I have to assume that it has been asked, and that you chose not to answer.... But I'll ask anyway, because I'm nosey:

Have you had any experiences with "psychedelic" drugs in your lifetime?

No. I prefer to live life straight. No distortions. No excuses. (To the extent that such ideals are humanly possible. <sigh>)

(07/22/2006)

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And here I thought the the "health-sense" was the LSD talking. (Not really, in case anybody wondered. )

I think his parenthetical statement is the most honest there...living distorts life, regardless of anything else.

--A