[extropy-chat] [wta-talk] LA Times article on hallucinogens

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:53:28AM -0800, Jef Allbright wrote:

> If you google <"changed my life" lsd> you will find many examples of
> people who believe that it can and did.

I just did, and even as anecdotes, these are pretty thin.
 
> My experience left me with a lasting appreciation of the malleability of
> consciousness and identity and how a person's subjective reality is, for
> all practical purposes their whole reality.

I was not particularly impressed with acid (nor with other
hallucinogens, for that matter). You see pretty pictures, you
die, you see God. So what? Nothing but Disney on steroids.
 
> As a side note, I've observed that people who have done a lot of LSD
> seem to be overly susceptible to making erroneous mental connections.  I
> don't know if that's because people with that trait are attracted to LSD
> or that LSD enhances that trait, but its enough for me to advise
> restraint.
> 
> I gained other insights as well, but the really life-changing effect was
> that I went from someone demonstrating a hardcore insistence on striving
> toward objective truth, to someone realizing that it's much more

Never was on that particular trip.

> effective to try to understand another person's model of reality and
> then work on encompassing it with a larger, closer *approximation* to
> objective reality. Rinse, lather, repeat.

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