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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Una società che non trova il senso
Eccolo il segno del fallimento e della follia: non trovare il senso, non trovare l’energia, vivere nel tedio e nella disperazione da doversi imbottire di farmaci e droghe. Da chi ha prodotto questa società e da chi la vive ogni giorno senza alcuna ribellione, non accetto…
Avicii Lyrics - Addicted To You
"Addicted To You
"Addicted To You" I don't know just how it happened, I let down my guard... Swore I'd never fall in love again But I fell hard. Guess I should have seen it coming, Caught me by surprise... I wasn't looking where I was going, I fell into your eyes. You came into my crazy world…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Ketanserin ends an LSD trip
Ketanserin is a powerful serotonin antagonist, which means it blocks the activity of your serotonin receptors—effectively ending your LSD trip. Ketanserin is used in clinical studies of LSD as an emergency countermeasure in case someone
Hallucination as an unchecked model
Visual awareness is not simply a translation of what our eyes see. Our subjective reality is an internal model that our brain must check against the input coming from our eyes. Hallucinations result when our brain does not check the model thoroughly, or rather when the brain…
Hofmann's lament over recreational LSD
Albert Hofmann lamented the use of LSD as an inebriating drug rather than a therapeutic
Leary and the polarization over LSD
The late 1960s made the drug controversial because of the hippie movement and its mass unsupervised drug experimentation. The public controversy, and Leary’s popularity in the media, contributed to a polarized view about the drug. People like Leary, who felt it was his historic…
Sandoz stops sponsoring LSD research
The controversial status of the drug led Sandoz to stop sponsoring clinical trials in 1966. Researchers found it more and more difficult to obtain grants to study LSD. Supplies of the drug for research also became scarce and prohibitively expensive.
LSD is less harmful than alcohol
The law did not ban the use of LSD in research, but now researchers would be required to receive approval from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, which would later become the DEA. Following suit, the UN classified several mind-altering drugs as Schedule I in 1971…
Bugged Out At 20: Electro-house, Minimal Techno, New Rave (john Burgess)
Minimal techno
By 2005, this was the sound that filled most clubs in London and across Europe. Minimal at its best was Latin-infused, hypnotic and seductive. But sometimes the tracks were so stripped back it sounded risible. I wondered what motivated a producer to go into a studio to produce…
Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)
La depressione chiamata umore
I parenti materni (il tuo «lato X») tendono a essere «umorali». Lo metto tra virgolette perché nessuno è autorizzato a menzionare il vero problema che affligge quell’ala della famiglia, cioè (e qui mi conviene abbassare la voce) la depressione. Ogni volta che guardi indietro…
Otherside Lyric Meaning - Red Hot Chili Peppers Meanings
To take it on the other side
I believe it's about drug addiction. WARNING - This may contain explicit information about drug use, please don't read if it offends you Once you've been a heroin addict, there is no true going back. You can change your life, you can end your addiction. But the desire to use…
Prof.dr. B. Mons
Knowledge discovery in escience
Each Knowlet has an ‘attraction’ to each other Knowlet with similar concepts in its ‘Object Cloud’, while some knowlets have very little to do with each other and may even repulse each other, some others may move closer and close in the Concept Web, pushed and pulled by many…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
The Secret Chief's clandestine network
Jacob continued to expand this clandestine network throughout his sixties and seventies. By the end he estimated he had initiated some four thousand people, a large percentage of them psychotherapists and health care professionals, into the use of psychedelics—particularly…
How ayahuasca makes DMT work
Before Schultes, no one had understood that the decisive ingredient of ayahuasca wasn’t the giant Banisteriopsis caapi vine so much as the various dimethyltryptamine-rich admixture plants that also went into the brew. The visions came, or came largely, from the DMT. What the…
Ecstasy and the world made of love
It’s a long time ago now, but the runaway success of the first warehouse parties in the 1980s had seemed to promise a fresh cultural and political breakthrough. Since those days Ecstasy has been so commercialized that it’s hard to recapture the excitement that greeted its first…
Being in the world but not of it
Toynbee’s analyses of the various forms such resistance takes are too complex to do more than touch upon here—initially workers tend to be conservative and merely want to return to an earlier, less dehumanized stage of society; only as such Utopianism proves impossible do they…
The Psychedelic Resource List
The fastest-selling publication on the bookstall was the fourth edition of Jon Hanna’s Psychedelic Resource List, a compendium of websites, organizations, and mail-order businesses dealing in organic and synthetic drugs. The variety of items for sale was mind-boggling. Live…
Ecstasy before a first acid trip
What’s more, you could (we were getting quite open-handed by now) add an Ecstasy trip to the envelope and suggest that taking it two hours or so before the acid would provide the best possible introductory set and setting for a first acid trip.
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Being Nobody: losing the self in ecstasy
We also sometimes live life under the third scenario, as Nobodies. ‘Human beings have stalked this planet for 100,000 years, [and] we have from time to time indulged in wine, women and song; or, drugs and sex and rock and roll, the modern equivalent. There are moments in most…