https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/25/psychedelic-church-drugs-legal
#Church #Religion #TheGuardian #ChurchofGaia #Singularism #psychedelics #DEA #ayahuasca #
#psychedelics
In this excerpt from our podcast, author Graham St. John discusses the complexities of writing a biography about Terence McKenna, a figure who embodied numerous personas—anarchist, prophet, entertainer.
Don't miss the full conversation on the latest episode of The Tonearm Podcast: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/graham-st-john-terence-mckennas-hallucinatory-life/
On today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, cultural anthropologist Graham St. John joins us to discuss his new biography Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna. Drawing on interviews with over eighty people, original documents and letters, and rare photographs, St. John chronicles one of the most celebrated yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century.
We explore McKenna as a master bullshitter and serious philosopher, his role as an accidental psychopomp for multiple generations, the archaic revival concept, his ambivalent relationship with both Indigenous authorities and academic tribalism, his unexpected influence on rave culture and electronic music, and why there will never be another Terence McKenna.
Tune in: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/graham-st-john-terence-mckennas-hallucinatory-life/
I've now finished Chapter 2 of "ADHD 2.0" (#Hallowell and #Ratey 2021). I've had some hard things to say about this book so far: its #extranormativity, its tone of pontificating certainty, its overconfident reliance on dubious #fMRI findings, the appalling glimpse of support for #ABA in a skimmed later chapter. But in the second half of Chapter 2, I've found something really interesting and potentially helpful, something that rings true from my experience, quite apart from any #fMRI findings.
The authors point out a way that #anxiety and #depression can arise purely from the #attentional-focus problems definitive of #ADHD, and NOT from the cognitive errors to which #CBT attributes such problems. The idea is that the obsessiveness of #ADHD, when focused on anything negative, creates a self-sustaining, self-amplifying vortex of negativity. Their description makes it sound almost like a bad trip on #psychedelics. The solution is NOT to try to debunk the negative thoughts that make up the vortex, #CBT-style; indeed, that approach might make things worse by reinforcing the focus on the negative thoughts. Instead, try to refocus on — indeed, obsess about! — something positive instead.
Indeed, #anxiety and (especially) #depression were my own psychiatric diagnoses (not counting bipolar disorder, which later psychiatrists rejected decisively as a misdiagnosis). #CBT was worse than useless. Instead, I got help from antidepressant drugs — and I don't think it was an accident that the best one for me turned out to be Wellbutrin (bupropion), which doubles as a third-line #ADHD drug. And the subjective experience of depression, and of recovery from it, matched Hallowell and Ratey's attentional account, rather than the error-correcting story #CBT tells. I suspect that if there were such a thing as "attentional psychotherapy", I might have benefited from getting that instead of #CBT.
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DOSE TRUMP
#Trump #MAGA #psychedelics #25thAmendment #LetsGoTACO #NoKings
“Drugged” "High Tech" Chatbots: Why Are People Paying to Get AIs High?
#AI #ChatBots #ChatGPT #Drugs #health #healthnews #MagicMushrooms #Psychedelics #Shrooms #Tech #technews
https://theaegisalliance.com/2025/12/17/drugged-high-tech-chatbots-why-are-people-paying-to-get-ais-high/?fsp_sid=1959
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is seeming more and more prescient... #AI #scifi #psychedelics
https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-paying-to-get-their-chatbots-high-on-drugs/
Fascinerende discussie: Hoe bereik je balans tussen volwassenheid en speelsheid? Een recente truffelsessie in Den Bosch onderzoekt hoe psychedelische therapie kan helpen bij persoonlijke groei en zelfacceptatie.
https://tripforum.nl/mening-forum/truffelsessie-in-den-bosch-voor-volwassenheid/
'Beyond gender': #Psychedelics are revealing hidden sides to people's identity
There is growing evidence that mind-altering drugs can be used to help people explore aspects about themselves they may not have realised.
*Maybe you should read this because it would, uhm, extend your lifespan or reduce your inflammation or something #psychedelics #research #noreally
"And it's interesting." - MICHAEL POLLAN, How Psychedelics Can Change Our Minds, A Slight Change of Plans #ASlightChangeofPlans #psychedelics #MichaelPollan
Das gilt auch für Magic Mushrooms. 2004 war das weitgehend unbekannt und wurde noch teilweise abgestritten:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/2298921
a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do) https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations #psychedelics
Emotional overwhelm and breakthrough often come from the same inner process, the mind loosening old patterns so deeper emotions can rise. Overwhelm appears when intensity feels unsafe; breakthrough emerges when it’s met with grounding and awareness. Intensity isn’t danger, it’s depth.
Read the full article: https://themagicchurch.org/magic/emotional-overwhelm-vs-breakthrough
#themagicchurch #healing #trauma #recovery #psychedelics #integration #psilocybin
The better news of today. 🙂 Thanks to our American overlords and European bootlickers, we are many decades behind in research of the possibilities of psychedelics in modern medicine. Let's hope this and coming generations will understand its' potentials and create a society with a lot less psychological and psychiatric problems.
#psychedelics #science #medicine #psychology #health #mentalhealth
extremely "vineland" like moment in graham st. john's extraordinary new biography of terence mckenna, "strange attractor" #psychedelics
#Christians #demons #psychedelics
"Spiritual Warfare and the Politics of Apocalypse
Some contemporary Christians call it 'spiritual warfare.' Such battles sometimes take place on an individual level, like the office or the local elementary school, but they are also waged on the wider stage of cultural institutions, public discourse, and politics. Demonizing on that scale can lend an apocalyptic urgency to collective action, a feverish dreamlike ferocity. It also makes dehumanizing your enemies easy — their rights and privileges, even their 'common decency' as human beings, can be ignored because they, or rather we, are simply sock-puppets of the real Enemy, who can and must be hated without a shred of countervailing empathy. We can be pitied, but still hated. Indeed, I suspect that the dynamics of spiritual warfare provide much of the secret sauce for Trump and MAGA’s surrealpolitik program of outrageous exaggeration, conspiratorial lies, and feverish contempt. Start tussling with demons, and everything gets turned up to 11."
https://www.lucid.news/why-conservative-christians-are-rethinking-psychedelics/
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