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In the United States, psilocybin (and psilocin) were first subjected to federal regulation by a law that is commonly referred to as “the Drug Abuse Control Amendments of 1965”. This law, a product of a bill sponsored by Senator Thomas J. Dodd, was passed in July 1965 and took effect on February 1, 1966. The law was an amendment to the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and was intended to regulate the unlicensed “possession, manufacture, or sale of depressant, stimulant and hallucinogenic drugs”. The statutes themselves, however, did not list the “hallucinogenic drugs” that were being regulated. Instead the term “hallucinogenic drugs” was meant to refer to those substances that supposedly have a “hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous system”.
-WIKIPEDIAPaper chromatography testing confirmed the presence of 0.25 psilocybin in dried samples of the mushroom. Liberty caps are about two to four times more potent than Psilocybe cubensis. (In one sample from Finland a psilocybin content as high as 2.37 of the dried mass was detected.)
-http://www.shroomery.org/Single dose of hallucinogen may create lasting personality change
September 29th, 2011 in Psychology & PsychiatryA single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called “magic mushrooms,” was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants in a new study, according to the Johns Hopkins researchers who conducted it.
Lasting change was found in the part of the personality known as openness, which includes traits related to imagination, aesthetics, feelings, abstract ideas and general broad-mindedness. Changes in these traits, measured on a widely used and scientifically validated personality inventory, were larger in magnitude than changes typically observed in healthy adults over decades of life experiences, the scientists say. Researchers in the field say that after the age of 30, personality doesn’t usually change significantly.
“Normally, if anything, openness tends to decrease as people get older,” says study leader Roland R. Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The research, approved by Johns Hopkins’ Institutional Review Board, was funded in part by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
The study participants completed two to five eight-hour drug sessions, with consecutive sessions separated by at least three weeks. Participants were informed they would receive a “moderate or high dose” of psilocybin during one of their drug sessions, but neither they nor the session monitors knew when.
During each session, participants were encouraged to lie down on a couch, use an eye mask to block external visual distraction, wear headphones through which music was played and focus their attention on their inner experiences.
Personality was assessed at screening, one to two months after each drug session and approximately 14 months after the last drug session. Griffiths says he believes the personality changes found in this study are likely permanent since they were sustained for over a year by many.
Nearly all of the participants in the new study considered themselves spiritually active (participating regularly in religious services, prayer or meditation). More than half had postgraduate degrees. The sessions with the otherwise illegal hallucinogen were closely monitored and volunteers were considered to be psychologically healthy
“We don’t know whether the findings can be generalized to the larger population,” Griffiths says.
As a word of caution, Griffiths also notes that some of the study participants reported strong fear or anxiety for a portion of their daylong psilocybin sessions, although none reported any lingering harmful effects. He cautions, however, that if hallucinogens are used in less well supervised settings, the possible fear or anxiety responses could lead to harmful behaviors.
Griffiths says lasting personality change is rarely looked at as a function of a single discrete experience in the laboratory. In the study, the change occurred specifically in those volunteers who had undergone a “mystical experience,” as validated on a questionnaire developed by early hallucinogen researchers and refined by Griffiths for use at Hopkins. He defines “mystical experience” as among other things, “a sense of interconnectedness with all people and things accompanied by a sense of sacredness and reverence.”
Personality was measured on a widely used and scientifically validated personality inventory, which covers openness and the other four broad domains that psychologists consider the makeup of personality: neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Only openness changed during the course of the study.
Griffiths says he believes psilocybin may have therapeutic uses. He is currently studying whether the hallucinogen has a use in helping cancer patients handle the depression and anxiety that comes along with a diagnosis, and whether it can help longtime cigarette smokers overcome their addiction.
“There may be applications for this we can’t even imagine at this point,” he says. “It certainly deserves to be systematically studied.”
Provided by Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
“Single dose of hallucinogen may create lasting personality change.” September 29th, 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-dose-hallucinogen-personality.html
The Tao Te Ching is an amazing book. It was written by Lao Tsu about 600 years before birth of Jesus and is next most translated book in the world next to the Bible. It has given rise to a religion, Taoism, and is a book rich in wisdom, insight and clarity. Why then, is restatement needed?
-RICHARD S. OMURA, The Tao God: A Restatement of Lao Tsu’s Tao the Ching Based on the Teachings of the Urantia BookWithin common mainstream religion, such as Christianity and The Old Religion of Paganism to an extent, there are certain taboos surrounding forms of magic. Although culture may place certain forms of magic in one side or another of this spectrum, there are in fact some cultural universals about free will…Immortality -from a Taoist perspective, life is finite, and wishing to live beyond one’s natural span is not with the flow of nature. Beyond this, there is a major issue with immortality. Because of the need to test the results, the subjects must be killed. Even a spell to extend life may not be entirely good, especially if it draws life energy from another to sustain the spell…
-WIKIPEDIA article including claim that quest for immortality is form of black magicInstincts that can still betray us,
A journey that leads to the sun,
Soulless and bent on destruction,
A struggle between right and wrong.
You take my place in the showdown,
I’ll observe with a pitiful eye,
I’d humbly ask for forgiveness,
A request well beyond you and I.
-JOY DIVISION, Heart and SoulWhite! Then you look away
You reach for assistance when you start to sway
Knees feel weak as your vision fades away
When you’re faced with death, that’s when you start to pray
Blind! Now you can’t see the myths you create about reality
Darkness on the streets. You let the world deceive you.
In my company reality will greet you
Psyche Check Check
GENITORTURERS, Reality CheckKill we will kill death,
Masturbating on the deeds we have done,
Hell commands death kill,
Argue not of feel the death of sun,
Burning lives burning,
Asking me for the mercy of god,
Ancient cries crying,
Acting fast upon the way of the dog
-VENOM, Wellcome to HellHello!
I simply wanted to ask, because this quite outrageous topic of immortality has again appeared recently on this forum, if it should be seen as a malevolent intent as a conscious pursuit?
Maybe somebody whose primary language is English could do something to that what is written in Wikipedia. I don’t do anything with my broken English.
I am aware of Michael Winn’s definition of immortality, but there are still things like this bestial binary-soul thing….
HOWDY
Ps. Historical material clearly shows that Buddhist doctrine of Non-self refers Shakyamuni’s preaching that it’s not worth speaking about self until one is at the level of Overbody and that means that the Four Noble Truths and many other Buddhist teachings should be seen allways remembering this notice that there is not any intrinsic self to speak about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-bIF1a7s0
The Tao Te Ching is an amazing book. It was written by Lao Tsu about 600 years before birth of Jesus and is next most translated book in the world next to the Bible. It has given rise to a religion, Taoism, and is a book rich in wisdom, insight and clarity. Why then, is restatement needed?
-RICHARD S. OMURA, The Tao God: A Restatement of Lao Tsu’s Tao the Ching Based on the Teachings of the Urantia BookWithin common mainstream religion, such as Christianity and The Old Religion of Paganism to an extent, there are certain taboos surrounding forms of magic. Although culture may place certain forms of magic in one side or another of this spectrum, there are in fact some cultural universals about free will…Immortality -from a Taoist perspective, life is finite, and wishing to live beyond one’s natural span is not with the flow of nature. Beyond this, there is a major issue with immortality. Because of the need to test the results, the subjects must be killed. Even a spell to extend life may not be entirely good, especially if it draws life energy from another to sustain the spell…
-WIKIPEDIA article including claim that quest for immortality is form of black magicInstincts that can still betray us,
A journey that leads to the sun,
Soulless and bent on destruction,
A struggle between right and wrong.
You take my place in the showdown,
I’ll observe with a pitiful eye,
I’d humbly ask for forgiveness,
A request well beyond you and I.
-JOY DIVISION, Heart and SoulWhite! Then you look away
You reach for assistance when you start to sway
Knees feel weak as your vision fades away
When you’re faced with death, that’s when you start to pray
Blind! Now you can’t see the myths you create about reality
Darkness on the streets. You let the world deceive you.
In my company reality will greet you
Psyche Check Check
GENITORTURERS, Reality CheckKill we will kill death,
Masturbating on the deeds we have done,
Hell commands death kill,
Argue not of feel the death of sun,
Burning lives burning,
Asking me for the mercy of god,
Ancient cries crying,
Acting fast upon the way of the dog
-VENOM, Wellcome to HellHello!
I simply wanted to ask, because this quite outrageous topic of immortality has again appeared recently on this forum, if it should be seen as a malevolent intent as a conscious pursuit?
Maybe somebody whose primary language is English could do something to that what is written in Wikipedia. I don’t do anything with my broken English.
I am aware of Michael Winn’s definition of immortality, but there are still things like this bestial binary-soul thing….
HOWDY
Ps. Historical material clearly shows that Buddhist doctrine of Non-self refers Shakyamuni’s preaching that it’s not worth speaking about self until one is at the level of Overbody and that means that the Four Noble Truths and many other Buddhist teachings should be seen allways remembering this notice that there is not any intrinsic self to speak about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-bIF1a7s0
The Tao Te Ching is an amazing book. It was written by Lao Tsu about 600 years before birth of Jesus and is next most translated book in the world next to the Bible. It has given rise to a religion, Taoism, and is a book rich in wisdom, insight and clarity. Why then, is restatement needed?
-RICHARD S. OMURA, The Tao God: A Restatement of Lao Tsu’s Tao the Ching Based on the Teachings of the Urantia BookWithin common mainstream religion, such as Christianity and The Old Religion of Paganism to an extent, there are certain taboos surrounding forms of magic. Although culture may place certain forms of magic in one side or another of this spectrum, there are in fact some cultural universals about free will…Immortality -from a Taoist perspective, life is finite, and wishing to live beyond one’s natural span is not with the flow of nature. Beyond this, there is a major issue with immortality. Because of the need to test the results, the subjects must be killed. Even a spell to extend life may not be entirely good, especially if it draws life energy from another to sustain the spell…
-WIKIPEDIA article including claim that quest for immortality is form of black magicInstincts that can still betray us,
A journey that leads to the sun,
Soulless and bent on destruction,
A struggle between right and wrong.
You take my place in the showdown,
I’ll observe with a pitiful eye,
I’d humbly ask for forgiveness,
A request well beyond you and I.
-JOY DIVISION, Heart and SoulWhite! Then you look away
You reach for assistance when you start to sway
Knees feel weak as your vision fades away
When you’re faced with death, that’s when you start to pray
Blind! Now you can’t see the myths you create about reality
Darkness on the streets. You let the world deceive you.
In my company reality will greet you
Psyche Check Check
GENITORTURERS, Reality CheckKill we will kill death,
Masturbating on the deeds we have done,
Hell commands death kill,
Argue not of feel the death of sun,
Burning lives burning,
Asking me for the mercy of god,
Ancient cries crying,
Acting fast upon the way of the dog
-VENOM, Wellcome to HellHello!
I simply wanted to ask, because this quite outrageous topic of immortality has again appeared recently on this forum, if it should be seen as a malevolent intent as a conscious pursuit?
Maybe somebody whose primary language is English could do something to that what is written in Wikipedia. I don’t do anything with my broken English.
I am aware of Michael Winn’s definition of immortality, but there are still things like this bestial binary-soul thing….
HOWDY
Ps. Historical material clearly shows that Buddhist doctrine of Non-self refers Shakyamuni’s preaching that it’s not worth speaking about self until one is at the level of Overbody and that means that the Four Noble Truths and many other Buddhist teachings should be seen allways remembering this notice that there is not any intrinsic self to speak about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-bIF1a7s0
The Tao Te Ching is an amazing book. It was written by Lao Tsu about 600 years before birth of Jesus and is next most translated book in the world next to the Bible. It has given rise to a religion, Taoism, and is a book rich in wisdom, insight and clarity. Why then, is restatement needed?
-RICHARD S. OMURA, The Tao God: A Restatement of Lao Tsu’s Tao the Ching Based on the Teachings of the Urantia BookWithin common mainstream religion, such as Christianity and The Old Religion of Paganism to an extent, there are certain taboos surrounding forms of magic. Although culture may place certain forms of magic in one side or another of this spectrum, there are in fact some cultural universals about free will…Immortality -from a Taoist perspective, life is finite, and wishing to live beyond one’s natural span is not with the flow of nature. Beyond this, there is a major issue with immortality. Because of the need to test the results, the subjects must be killed. Even a spell to extend life may not be entirely good, especially if it draws life energy from another to sustain the spell…
-WIKIPEDIA article including claim that quest for immortality is form of black magicInstincts that can still betray us,
A journey that leads to the sun,
Soulless and bent on destruction,
A struggle between right and wrong.
You take my place in the showdown,
I’ll observe with a pitiful eye,
I’d humbly ask for forgiveness,
A request well beyond you and I.
-JOY DIVISION, Heart and SoulWhite! Then you look away
You reach for assistance when you start to sway
Knees feel weak as your vision fades away
When you’re faced with death, that’s when you start to pray
Blind! Now you can’t see the myths you create about reality
Darkness on the streets. You let the world deceive you.
In my company reality will greet you
Psyche Check Check
GENITORTURERS, Reality CheckKill we will kill death,
Masturbating on the deeds we have done,
Hell commands death kill,
Argue not of feel the death of sun,
Burning lives burning,
Asking me for the mercy of god,
Ancient cries crying,
Acting fast upon the way of the dog
-VENOM, Wellcome to HellHello!
I simply wanted to ask, because this quite outrageous topic of immortality has again appeared recently on this forum, if it should be seen as a malevolent intent as a conscious pursuit?
Maybe somebody whose primary language is English could do something to that what is written in Wikipedia. I don’t do anything with my broken English.
I am aware of Michael Winn’s definition of immortality, but there are still things like this bestial binary-soul thing….
HOWDY
Ps. Historical material clearly shows that Buddhist doctrine of Non-self refers Shakyamuni’s preaching that it’s not worth speaking about self until one is at the level of Overbody and that means that the Four Noble Truths and many other Buddhist teachings should be seen allways remembering this notice that there is not any intrinsic self to speak about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-bIF1a7s0
I don’t care whether it is considered black magic or not. I only know that my practice makes me healthy, happy & other people seem to find me of increasing benefit to them. I would suspect the reasons for calling the quest for immortality black magic as being a cover for not wanting to attempt such a difficult & odd task. Just because Buddhist teachings say there is no self doesn’t mean that it is ultimate truth. I admire Buddha’s teachings, they brought me to the Healing Tao. In my worthless opinion it would be more correct to say there is only one SELF masquerading as many selves for its’ own reasons.
I don’t care whether it is considered black magic or not. I only know that my practice makes me healthy, happy & other people seem to find me of increasing benefit to them. I would suspect the reasons for calling the quest for immortality black magic as being a cover for not wanting to attempt such a difficult & odd task. Just because Buddhist teachings say there is no self doesn’t mean that it is ultimate truth. I admire Buddha’s teachings, they brought me to the Healing Tao. In my worthless opinion it would be more correct to say there is only one SELF masquerading as many selves for its’ own reasons.
I don’t care whether it is considered black magic or not. I only know that my practice makes me healthy, happy & other people seem to find me of increasing benefit to them. I would suspect the reasons for calling the quest for immortality black magic as being a cover for not wanting to attempt such a difficult & odd task. Just because Buddhist teachings say there is no self doesn’t mean that it is ultimate truth. I admire Buddha’s teachings, they brought me to the Healing Tao. In my worthless opinion it would be more correct to say there is only one SELF masquerading as many selves for its’ own reasons.
I don’t care whether it is considered black magic or not. I only know that my practice makes me healthy, happy & other people seem to find me of increasing benefit to them. I would suspect the reasons for calling the quest for immortality black magic as being a cover for not wanting to attempt such a difficult & odd task. Just because Buddhist teachings say there is no self doesn’t mean that it is ultimate truth. I admire Buddha’s teachings, they brought me to the Healing Tao. In my worthless opinion it would be more correct to say there is only one SELF masquerading as many selves for its’ own reasons.
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