#society #radical #change Turn on, tune in, drop out. #LSD #Acid #microdot I can't remember a thing lol.
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/114346159544073139

https://www.europesays.com/uk/21627/ LSD-Inspired Drug Reverses Psychosis Brain Damage Without Hallucinations #BrainResearch #hallucinations #Health #JRT #LSD #MentalHealth #neurobiology #Neuroscience #psychedelics #Psychology #psychopharmacology #psychosis #schizophrenia #UCDavis #UK #UnitedKingdom

Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon

Brandy Butler: „It all started when I read an article in the New York Times about psychedelic-assisted therapy. At the time, my mother was already seriously ill but still alive. I thought: this kind of therapy would be something for her.“

„MITOSIS - an LSD Opera“ von #brandybutler/ 23.&24. April @Kasernebasel #basel #bicycleday #lsd #musical #therapy #theater

Happy Birthday Vincent Van Gogh; the closest thing you can get to Ergot poisoning without all the leg work.

Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead. You can read more about Bateson and Mead’s early experimentation with, and promotion of, psychedelics (and their collaboration with the CIA) in the recent book, “Tripping on Utopia.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson #psycheldelics #books #writer #author #poet @bookstadon

»Wenn etwas legal erhältlich ist, heißt das nicht, dass plötzlich alle Leute das konsumieren oder so. Ein ganz gutes Beispiel ist #LSD: Seit Jahren gibt es Derivate von LSD legal zu kaufen, ohne dass wir feststellen könnten, dass der Konsum von LSD zugenommen hätte in einer der entsprechenden Zielgruppen. Der bloße Umstand, dass etwas legal erhältlich ist, heißt nicht, dass plötzlich alle das konsumieren.«

https://www.swr.de/wissen/tote-durch-forschungschemikalien-neue-synthetische-drogen-100.html

"The Way of the Psychonaut explores the life and work of Stanislav Grof, Czech-born psychiatrist and psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer. Stan’s quest for knowledge and insights into the healing power of non-ordinary states of #consciousness, influenced the discipline of psychology and profoundly changed many individual lives."

"Stan discovered the lasting impact of unconscious memories from the birth process to influence a person’s life."

https://www.thewayofthepsychonaut.com

I’m no expert, and it’s been a few decades since I have ingested #LSD, but I never would have thought that Microdosing would help with #ADHD. Depression maybe, but I am not surprised to hear it wasn’t efficacious.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2831639

errol morris's new "chaos" #documentary certainly wasn't comforting, but i did find it almost relaxingly quaint to spend a few hours concerned with the intersections (& horrors) of charles manson, mkultra, COINTELPRO, #LSD, mind control, & the haight-ashbury. #film

Study finds that #MDMA and #LSD might have protected the survivors in the 7.10.2023 Hamas attack from severe #ptsd , and even helped some escape the attack.

Very readworthy, even though the paper's hyperfocusing on Israeli trauma while totally silent about the ongoing genocide against Palestinians appears obscene to me. Or is DJ Netanyahu about to send MDMA to Gaza prior to throwing the next rave of mass murder of civilians by bomb shellings?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wpy14wyd0o

Begriff gelernt: "entheogene Schwelle", die Dosis eines psychedelischen Trips für die Ich-Auflösung.

Auch ein interessanter Wikipedia-Artikel: https://www.wikiwand.com/de/articles/Entheogen

Die Schwelle für einen (mittleren) Trip heißt "visionäre Menge", bzw. Dosis.

Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain by Andy Roberts revised and updated - Psychedelic Press #AlbionDreaming #psychedelics #LSD https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/collections/books/products/albion-dreaming-lsd

Sechs Tage nach dem letzten #LSD-Trip:
• Immer noch klar verbesserte Exekutivfunktion
• Ausgeglichenheit in den Gedanken, meist klarer Kopf
• Emot. Befinden hat sich wieder weitgehend normalisiert, Euphorie seit Tag 2 definitiv weg
• Noch immer spontane Einfälle von jetzt relevanten Aufgaben; mehr intuitive Ordnung im Kopf
• Mir fallen lange zurückgelegte Aufgaben zum spontanen Tun ein
• Spezialwörter fallen mir auch besser ein als in Normalzustand, auch allgemein verbesserte Gedächtnisleistung

Ungemein faszinierend ist auf #LSD auch die Veränderung des Blicks auf Videocodecs: Deren Schwächen stechen stärker hervor, Sehgewohnheiten werden aufgebrochen – Kompressionsartefakte fallen damit wieder bewusst auf und überhaupt wie unbefriedigend unklar die meisten Videos sind. Das ist wie ein ganz frischer Blick auf eine neue Technik, ein gnadenloser.

Remember my Xiaomi Redmi Note 12S? Remember that I said how I got it to work again even though Limited. It has done something stupid very stupid and then I reacted in an aggressive manner towards a lcd Panel which was broken already. It had two vertical stripes on it two lines of that pixels

Now it has a few more
Nothing happened to the Xiaomi, it's case protected it

Tuesday 19 February 1963

Motorists in London will soon be given “space flight” heart checks to measure the strain of rush-hour driving. Recorders will monitor heart rates as motorists fume in traffic jams, jockey for lane positions, and rage at other drivers.

The therapeutic potential of microdosing psychedelics in #depression (2020) https://flip.it/uJ4csK #psychedelic #microdosing #psychedelics #psychedelicexperience shows as important aspect of treating #depression with #lsd and #psilocybin as well as #ketamine Research is needed on #microdosing for #mentalhealth