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We Ought to Teach "Critical Thinking" in Elementary School. Since so many Republicans are Uneducated, Maybe if we Taught Them Young... They Wouldn't Be So Gullible... (That's a Word Meaning Easily Fooled)

Critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment... Since we have millions of people that ignore facts... and do not Question Authority... Maybe we would do the world a favor if we taught this subject... before they dropped out of skool...

Great Book: How to Change Your Mind: by Michael Pollan... What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence... and MY Personal Opinion about His Speech at a Bioneers Conference... He had a TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE THAN MOST OF US HAD...

"A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences" - Official Review by the Publisher

https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence/dp/1594204225

https://bioneers.org/michael-pollan-psychedelics-and-how-to-change-your-mind/

While listening to Psychedelic Researcher Michael Pollan talk at a Bioneers Conference, I Came to the Realization that I had NO IDEA AT ALL about what he was talking about... He recently studied using LSD and Psilocibin to relieve anxiety in People that were Facing Death. [Terminal Cancer Patients] He interviewed people and Took a couple of Trips Himself before writing his book... He took a large dose of Magic Mushrooms and listened to gentle music on headphones while wearing covers over his eyes... He had a "Guide" that took care of him... She helped him find the bathroom and changed the records on the record player but DID NOT do any of that Timothy Leary Style Talking, Guiding the Tripper thru the Tibetan Book of the Dead... or ANY Yadda-Yadda instructions... She was there to keep the Tripper Calm in case of Panic Attacks...

And Then My Mind Sprouted Postcard for sale.

classic "Space Art" documenting a Vision Quest

and Then My Mind Sprouted Postcard
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He spoke of EGO DEATH... Where there was an experience of "Himself" dissolving and turning into a fountain of "Post It" Notes... and then HE dissolved into a Liquid and Flowed Over an Imaginary Landscape... His technique reminded me of the work of Dr. John Lilly and his Isolation Tank. The basis for the Movie "Altered States" with William Hurt and Blair Brown. In Lilly's Tank the Tripper Got inside a box that was half filled with warm salty water. No Sights - Completely Dark... No Sounds - Completely Silent... and No Gravity - Your Body was Floating in water that was heated to a temperature that was almost impossible to feel... OK, That's Completely Different...

Then Michael spoke of Two Paths to Distributing The Psychedelic Experience to the World. One Way was Timothy Leary's Plan... to have as many people as possible take LSD using a Guide and Leary's Guidebook... The other Path was Aldous Huxley's Plan... to Turn On The Elite... To share LSD with Scientists, Artists, Business Leaders, Politicians, Religious Leaders, Writers, Poets, Musicians, TV Talking Heads and Let THOSE PEOPLE rebuild Society using the knowledge they had gained from their Psychedelic Experiences...

What Michael FAILED TO MENTION was what Actually Happened in the Late Sixties and Beyond... Millions of Doses were Sold at Rock Concerts and People Danced to Loud Live Music. For Example: Woodstock... Ken Kesey's Acid Tests... Magically, The Grateful Dead had LSD Salesmen that Followed the Band Around and Sold Drugs in the Parking Lot... Without the Band Knowing Anything At All About it! Supposedly... Some People who did not even LIKE the band would visit the Parking Lot Scene in order to "Score" some LSD that they could take home and sell to their friends... and... The Makers of "Orange Sunshine" gave away thousands of Doses at an outdoor concert where they hired an AIRPLANE to fly over the crowd and throw "Happy Birthday" Cards Out the Window... Each Card had an LSD Pill attached to it... The Brotherhood of Eternal Love was the Organization that made the Orange Sunshine. They were Laguna Beach Surfers that Started Smuggling Hashish inside of Surfboards from Mexico into the USA... Most LSD Trips were UNGUIDED and Most Happened at LOUD ROCK CONCERTS... Of Course, a person could buy LSD and then Take it home to Trip in a wide variety of Locations... Like Camping in Big Sur or the Sierra Nevada... or Skiing at Tahoe... or at Home with Your Girlfriend/Boyfriend... or Inter-Tubing down a Creek... or Visiting an Art Gallery... or Riding a Roller Coaster at Disney World... or attending an Anti-War Protest March at The White House in Washington DC...

So, I never took a Guided Trip and Never Had an Ego Death BUT... On the Nights I Dropped Acid at 8 PM... About Dawn I experienced "Enlightenment" or Something... I feel that Psychedelics are... What? A Tool? Like a Telephone that I can Call God on... Or Just An Amazing Amusement Park Ride? Now that I'm 65 Years Old, I find that Remembering Events in my life is not as Accurate or Complete as it was a Decade ago... I just wrote my Autobiography and Published it on this Blog and... I Find that the Events I Did While High on Psychedelics are MORE EASILY REMEMBERED IN DETAIL while the rest of my life has faded and is kinda blurry...

One Common Effect is that Everything Seems Significant... Meaning Drips from Every Leaf of Every Tree... Lyrics Seem to Be Speaking DIRECTLY To Me... as if... The Poet Saw Into My Soul... Have You Ever Read Haiku on Acid? POW, the Meaning just Hits Me in a Wave of AH HA! That Eureka!, I Have Found It! Moment...

Whatever...

I Have Noticed a Few Trends... People that have had the Psychedelic Experience are Nice People... In General they are Kind and Relaxed. Rarely do they CHOOSE Careers in Middle Management. In Business there are always "Corporate-Corporate-Assholes" that LOVE Supervising People... Totally Drunk on Power... and Obsessed with Making Other People OBEY... Acid Heads tend to avoid "Power Trips"... Often selecting Craft type employment where they can do excellent work on their own projects... Carpenters, Computer Programmers, Seamstresses, Bakers, Farmers etc, etc, etc...

We also tent to be interested in Playing Music, Doing ART and Writing Poetry/Lyrics...

My Last Trip was in the Late 1990s at an anti-war protest march at the White House in Washington DC. George H W Bush the Father was President and The USA was Defending Kuwait from an Attack by Iraq... We Marched over near the Lincoln Memorial... The Parade Permit was set to Expire at 2 O'Clock... At that time, everyone that was standing in the street was arrested and everyone standing on the sidewalk was free to do whatever we wanted... SO, hundreds of people intentionally selected to be arrested... All of us were faced with a DECISION... Go to Jail to Make a Statement or NOT... There were Police Everywhere, dressed in Nazi Boots and Riot Helmets... I voluntarily Chose to NOT Get Arrested... and Wandered Away... I did get interviewed by TV News and the Next Day my Neighbor said she saw me "Making a Jackass of Myself" on the Evening News... I told her that if She Felt I was Making a Jackass of myself, I Must Have been doing Something Right...

Ezekiel's Wheel - A Bible Story of a
Close Encounter with an Alien Spaceship

cosmic art show by greg vanderlaan- It's psychedelic, fun and free!

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I feel that Doctors and Patients ought to be making medical decisions... Doctors spend years studying medicine and have a better knowledge than elected politicians... With our "Nanny State", people in Congress make policy decisions about medicine and often those people accept campaign contributions from pharmaceutical corporations.... the opportunity for corruption is obvious... recommending medicines that "just happen" to be made by the people that help get the elected representatives elected...

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