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YAY

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Each visit lasted eight hours. The volunteers lay on a couch in a living-room-like setting, wearing an eye mask and listening to classical music. They were encouraged to focus their attention inward.

i wonder if my new insurance plan covers this

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

i love psychedelic drugs. once or twice per year. cures all ills of the mind.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Hopkins ;^}

― [URL]Internet casino gambling online[/URL] (eman), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

everyone should have to do this once or twice a year, yeah. or at least once or twice in their life.
i've never done something as extreme as the eye mask + classical music thing though. am i avoiding MAJOR INNER JOURNEY by running around in nature instead?

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

i like spooning in complete darkness while shr0ming

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

i love psychedelic drugs. once or twice per year. cures all ills of the mind.

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

i used to think the same thing, then a few years back i decided i was done with the (no bad trips), and now just tonight i get a call out of nowhere i must decide if i want some mushroooms. what to do, what to do
wait, is syd barrett dead?

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

I really need to get some ... I need to recenter self

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

i would like to try isolation tank / sensory deprivation at some point, with or without drugs

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

i did a dry floatation tank thing once. it was great for a few minutes, then i got horribly claustrophobic.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

The whole drug culture creeps me out. Don't believe psychedelics are necessary. Exert one personal/spiritual discipline.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

OK GRAMPS

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DON'T MOUTH OFF JUNIOR

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

HES ON YOUR SIDE, TIM: Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality AND HE WRITES A GERAT BOOK TOO.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)

whatever fongoloids

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Don't believe psychedelics are necessary. Exert one personal/spiritual discipline.

Quite possibly this is true. I've never done psychedelics yet I've already had a couple of spiritual moments in my (short) life which seem to be pretty similar to those my friends have had whilst taking psychedelics.

Still, I'd like to try some hallucinogens sometime.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:02 (twenty years ago)

HES ON YOUR SIDE, TIM: Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality AND HE WRITES A GERAT BOOK TOO.

-- Damn, Atreyu! (rem...), July 12th, 2006.

Man, that Horgan book...when I was reading it all i could think was "this dude is hella neurotic!"

i liked his book about Neurology/Psychology/brain science though, The Undiscovered Mind

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:03 (twenty years ago)

he also wrote this really awful article about Buddhism on Slate that made him look kinda whiny and ignorant.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:11 (twenty years ago)

but whatevs.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:28 (twenty years ago)

i wish i could dig up this excellent interview with a zen scholar (i want to say suzuki?) where he's asked about enlightenment and lsd culture in the '60s. he kind of shrugs off the question and says he has no problem with it, but that in a way its "cheating".

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:35 (twenty years ago)

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