[FRIAM] Psychedelics

[Steve Smith]

re: https://psychedelicscience.org

It looks like Denver is carving a niche for itself as an early 
adopter/investigator in recreational drug normalization.   My younger 
daughter moved to Denver just about the time they were holding Marijuana 
Festivals (meetings) leading up to the decriminalization which  
foreshadowed the legalization in CO, and then many other states falling 
like dominoes in their wake.

I'm fascinated by but somewhat aloof to the universe of "altered state" 
inducements.   Aside from mild doses of alcohol and caffeine, I'm not 
very practiced in chemical alteration.  My occasional indulgence in 
various modified ketogenic (including strict) dietary regimes have made 
me aware of the mental/psychological/metabolic differences that 
food/nutrition alone can yield.   My (mild) practice with mindfulness 
meditation is also informative.   There was a time when I worked 
hard(er) to generate altered states through synthetic sensoria (VR), but 
as VR/AR has become more mainstream, I've lost some focus/interest in 
that area.   Or maybe I'm just getting old.

I am happy for others who seem able (compelled) to dive deep into these 
(apparently) more acute shortcuts to "altered states" and particularly 
the "entheogenic" stylizations.   Having never really internalized any 
theology, this may be it's own mode of wishful thinking.   I don't have 
my own "Brigham Young" or "Brigham Old" * 
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343182>to chat with across the brushfire 
in the arroyo, for example.  So I will continue to watch from the 
sidelines.

I *do* have some minor hope that psychedelics can have a meaningful play 
in "healing" traumatic injuries/experiences.   I lost a friend/housemate 
to suicide just a few years ago after decades of traditional (and often 
very invasive) approaches to trying to recover his "self" after a 
traumatic brain injury.   He was searching for help/support in the use 
of psilocybin as a possible alternative relief/remedy when he finally 
threw in the towel.   This was not long before Michael Pollan's "how to 
change your mind" brought the subject into the mainstream.

*It was a Dark and Stormy Night - Le Guin 1980 
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343182>

On 4/29/22 8:52 AM, glen wrote:
> Heh, I don't even know what I'll be doing next week, much less a year 
> from now. But it's on the calendar!
>
> On 4/26/22 12:26, Prof David West wrote:
>> I am planning to attend and have a condo/house for the week.
>>
>> Hope others might be interested.
>>
>> https://psychedelicscience.org
>>
>> Davew
>
>
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