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This is the key. One of the primary effects of hallucinogens is one of poignancy, an unshakable feeling that what you're experiencing is very important and meaningful and enlightened and aimed at the truth. The combination of this with the complete destruction of rationality causes the intoxicated to come up with all sorts of groundless integrative explanations for the experience being one of epiphany.

I've felt the vibration of the universe off cannabis. Depends on your own spiritual level.

Yeah it would be different if someone took a DMT hit came down and had some incredible knowledge usable for everyday people. like making quantum physics and relativity work together or some shit. I think its just a extreme feeling of euphoria where people think they are "connecting to the universe"

What's the difference between ted and tedx?

TEDx is local and smaller, and from my experience tends to be far less strict in the quality of talks it allows.

Then again TED is often shit too.

TED grew too big of a phenomenon too fast. They used to allow only a few people, both for lecturers and listeners, but now it's so huge, they need too many speakers to satisfy the crowd

tedx = multi

my primary argument against the consumption of psychedelics, and especially DMT is that they have a tendency to make people that consume them insufferable cunts and idiotic eliticists.


in a way this actually mimics schizophrenia. one of the proposed mechanisms for the development of paranoid schizophrenia is the schizophrenic's inability to discern meaningful perceptions from those that are to be disregarded. meaning is given where there's none to be found.


and the "dissolution of the self" or "connecting to the universe" is more akin to projecting one's own feelings and perceptions into one's environment. not being able to localise your affects doesn't mean that the localisation isn't real.
this kind of shit also leads to all sorts of rubbish idiotic mysticist rubbish.

I wanted discuss this graham hancocks claim. he stated at the end of the video that DMT is produced in the body is this true? I forget which university stated it was not that they no evidence to support this. anybody heard differently?

It is. It is in fact indigenous to countless organisms and eco systems all over the planet, you can find it pretty much anywhere. Speculations have been that in humans it is the pineal gland producing the chemical because it has all the properties to do so, and so far it's a really good guess. It has been proven to be produced in the pineal glands of rodents.

Very interesting molecule indeed, I'm very thankful for some of the experiences I've had with it.

This post was edited by TidsL on Dec 1 2014 03:52pm