"They have called thee Soma-lover: here is the pressed juice. Drink thereof for rapture." --The Rig Veda, 1500 BCE 1
"I acknowledged a rapture in the very act of breathing." --Pihkal, 1991 2
"I felt that the experience continued for many days, and I feel that it is one of the most profound and deep learning experiences I have had."
"Excellent feelings, tremendous opening of insight and understanding, a real awakening."
"I learned a great deal about myself and my inner workings."
"I acknowledged a rapture in the very act of breathing." 9
Here is a quote from the Rig Veda10: "They have called thee Soma-lover: here is the pressed juice. Drink thereof for rapture."
Here is a quote from Pihkal by Alexander Shulgin11: "I acknowledged a rapture in the very act of breathing."
Do you not see that the Drug War is the outlawing of religion? It insists that there is nothing religious about ecstasy and inspiration. Surely this should be a topic of concern on a site called 'vedanet.'
Paul Johnson never mentions the Drug War -- which represents the unprecedented wholesale outlawing of psychoactive medicines. It means placing the government in charge of your pain relief. Paul Johnson never mentions "drugs, " except in the context of misuse and abuse. But then the media saw to it that he never saw positive depictions of drug use. Drug prohibition destroyed the rule of law in Latin America and turned inner-cities into shooting galleries, meanwhile destroying the 1st and 4th Amendments, all during the time period of which Johnson wrote. Yet, Paul was a conservative. He either thought that these outcomes were good things -- or else he was in complete denial about the downsides of prohibition: aggressive denial, even, insofar as the Drug Warrior seeks to impose his jaundiced view of Mother Nature's medicines on the entire world.
Drugs that sharpen the mind should be thoroughly investigated for their potential to help dementia victims. Instead, we prefer to demonize these drugs as useless. That's anti-scientific and anti-patient.
I'd like to become a guinea pig for researchers to test the ability of psychoactive drugs to make aging as psychologically healthy as possible. If such drugs cannot completely ward off decrepitude, they can surely make it more palatable. The catch? Researchers have to be free.
Drug Warriors will publicize all sorts of drug use -- but they will never publicize sane and positive drug use. Drug Warrior dogma holds that such use is impossible -- and, indeed, the drug war does all it can to turn that prejudice into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
71% of the depressed have relapses after getting off their meds. Doctors blame this on depression, but increasing evidence suggests that these people are having withdrawal problems.
Wade Davis wrote in Rolling Stone that cocaine was outlawed because 400 people consumed toxic doses worldwide. SO WHAT?! 178,000 people die from alcohol every year in America alone.
"My faith votes and strives to outlaw religions that use substances of which politicians disapprove."
Americans HATE big government -- and yet they have no problem with government using drug prohibition to control their pain relief and how and how much they can think and feel in this life.
Drug warriors are full of hate for "users." Many of them make it clear that they want users to die (like Gates and Bennett...). The drug war has weaponized inhumanity.
The Drug War is a crime against humanity.
The search for SSRIs has always been based on a flawed materialist premise that human consciousness is nothing but a mix of brain chemicals and so depression can be treated medically like any other physical condition.
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