lysergic acid
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On Tao Lin’s ‘Trip,’ targeted advertising, and finding scraps of life in books.
Psychedelics could help you change your life, but our government insists that they have “no accepted medical use.”
A Really Good Day, abusive relationships, addiction, advertising, Ayelet Waldman, Best of Photojournalism, better living through chemistry, body, book review, business cards, capitalism, corporations, dimethyl tryptamine, ditch your phone, DMT, domestic violence, drug rehab, drug use, drugs, entheogens, finding shit in books, hallucinogens, healing power of nature, healing power of psychedelics, incarceration, inner space, jail, jail poetry, LSD, lysergic acid, lysergic acid diethyl amide, magic mushrooms, Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project, mind, murder, mushrooms, nature, Pages to Prisoners, Perdue Meats, pharmacology, photography, prison, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelics, psychonaut, recovery, rehab, rehabilitation, relapse, review, scientific method, self-discovery through drugs, sending books to prisoners, shrooms, slaughterhouse, smartphone addiction, spirit, state-mandated rehab, stuff inside books, Tao Lin, teaching in jail, Terrance McKenna, trip, tripping, tryptamines
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On psychedelic drugs as medicine.
Would a sudden jolt away from our minds’ ruts help treat depression? Or — complacency in general?
acid, acid trip, addict, addiction, autism, ayahuasca, CBT, CIA, clinical trials, cognitive behavioral therapy, David Foster Wallace, depressed, depression, DMT, drugs, ecstasy, entheogen, experiments on children, experiments on orphans, habit, In Search of Lost Time, Infinite Jest, Intoxication, involuntary experimentation, junkie, Lauretta Bender, learning, lost love, LSD, lysergic acid, Marcel Proust, MDMA, mescaline, MK Ultra, molly, mushrooms, neurology, organic synthesis, orphans, peyote, placebo, placebo effect, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, Remembrance of Things Past, Ronald Siegel, Schedule I, shrooms, suicide, virtuous cycle, William Burroughs, you must change your life
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On witchcraft and mass psychogenic illness.
Because she is N’s best friend’s grandmother, I recently had the pleasure of meeting the researcher who first proposed that the Salem witchcraft trials were inspired by ergot poisoning of rye crops. And that, of course, is one of the papers I read while researching mass psychogenic illness / conversion disorders / violence against women. Does…
bistable switch, Caporael, conversion disorder, dancing sickness, did drugs cause the Salem witch trials, did PTSD cause the Salem witch trials, ergot, ergot poisoning, history of women not being taken seriously by medical doctors, how to explain complicated mathematics to people without a math background, hysteria, Intoxication, Le Roy, lysergic acid, mass psychogenic illness, oppression, ordinary differential equations, pop psychology, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, Ronald Siegel, Salem witch trials, self-reinforcing behavior, stress, tarantism, the tipping point, tics, witchcraft
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