From Psychedelic Medicine News: Scientists have been searching for years for naturally occurring compounds that trigger activity in the protein, the sigma-1 receptor. In addition, a unique receptor for the hallucinogen, called dimethyltryptamine (DMT), has never been identified. The UW-Madison researchers made the unusual pairing by doing their initial work the “old-fashioned,” yet still effective, [...]

It wasn’t the purpose or the function, but the style and that didn’t make sense to me. I counted style as a secondary objective. It was a matter of importance, but less importantly a matter of interest. Some days, he did nothing but write, and man, his work fucking howled. Other days he got carried [...]

Notes from the book. Associated research, citations, etc. are not important. The incomprehensible gibberish that strings my philosophy together is. The idea of ‘god’ has been on my mind quite a bit for the last few weeks as well, mostly prompted by the sudden realization that most of my family has (during the past six [...]

Earth and Fire Erowid have a very generic-sounding pro-drug essay up at Cato Unbound: Psychoactive drugs are everywhere. Any discussion of drug use needs to take this into account. The broad category of “psychoactive drugs” consists of natural and synthetic substances that alter a person’s thoughts or feelings. There exist hundreds of plants, which, if [...]

For some reason, and I think I can imagine why, google seems to be pulling this blog up for the search query “mirrors and lsd“. That’s understandable. ‘Mirrors’ is in the title, and I talk about LSD once in a while. But what bothers me is why people are searching for things to do with [...]

Intellectual expectations are appropriate when subjects have had much psychedelic experience. Indeed, LSD offers vast possibilities for accelerated learning and scientific-scholarly research. But for initial sessions, intellectual reactions can become traps. The Tibetan Manual never tires of warning about the dangers of rationalization. “Turn you mind off” is the best advice for novitiates. Control of [...]

You can buy it here. Just look for “Reed Canary Grass.” Step 1, Buy some. Step 2, buy a wheat-grass juice extractor, or do some google searches. Step 3, get n-th dimensional.