#102 Blurring lines: natural, artificial, legal, illegal
What do we lose and what do we gain from natural vs. artificial production and therefore consumption, and legal vs. illegal status, of drugs?
What do we lose and what do we gain from natural vs. artificial production and therefore consumption, and legal vs. illegal status, of drugs?
If psychedelic users are like sailors of the mind, then, what is their ship?
Going meta: I use the stream of consciousness writing technique to discuss how to write stream of consciousness.
On the purported English civility regarding the Pale in Ireland, and scientific and technological progress during the English Renaissance.
Change is going to happen whether you like it or not; the question is whether you want to initiate that change rather than change happen to you.
It seems odd that philosophers, particularly those studying consciousness, rarely speak about chemically altered states.
How do we know whether a drug is a medicine or a poison? There’s a fine line between the two categories, likely dependent on dosage.
My impression of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021), including thoughts on technology, consciousness, and vision-producing drugs.
How might history repeat itself in the roaring 20s of the 21st century, the roaring 2020s, and what roles are psychedelics going to play?
After buying your ticket, there’s a mental part of you already there, as if your future self is there and is expecting your present self to arrive.