What a tremendous article. I hope it does as much good in healing the mainstream of its biases against psychedelics as these therapists are doing with MDMA. Bravo!

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i'm pretty sure the washington post was the first newspaper to report the John Hopkins psilocybin study two summers ago. blessings to MAPS for what they're doing. good old Rick Dobbs is working a lot of angles. i wonder if there's been any initiative to challenge DMT laws on the grounds that it is an endogenous chemical. anyone know?

I see. So it has been an uphill battle has it to allow a drug for therapy that can inspire good open feelings beneficial for health.

 

How come over here then the very same authorities pump vast amounts of money into the propaganda and authority to make sure millions of children are to be classed as 'mentally ill' with such bogus labels as 'ADHD' etc., and put on dangerous toxic substances so as to 'fit in at school, and home'?

 

Oh I know. The whole culture is being run by corrupt war criminals! ahhhhhh that's it!

I agree that this was a well written article.

I'm not sure if I should approach the topic in regard to resorting to chemistry or a 'fringe' movement in medico-chemical-paranormal-consciousness etc. or approach it as some kind of cheap-trick kind of 'medicine'.

If we want a real cheap and effective way to get at what MDMA is supposed to give us 'real quick', maybe we should investigate quality of sleep.

As the electric light bulb became more and more prevalent in our human experience, people began to stay up later and later.

I'm sure everyone here knows where I'm going with this.

City lights have lead to the place that 'night' is no longer 'black', and light is always impinging on our bodies.

During sleep, if even the slightest impulse of light hits the body, other than moonlight or starlight, we are induced to be NOT in the deepest sleep. NON-REM sleep.

We exhaust our 'preparedness' chemical: adrenalin.

And all the endocrine secretions become involved and relatively exhausted thereby. The 'top down' concept of endocrinology is actually, IMO, probative, since in NON-REM sleep, the pineal secretes seratonin and that affects the pituitary, that the thyroid and para-thyroid and the thymus and the pancreatic beta cells and adrenal or suprarenals, payer-patches and the gonads or ovaries.

When any of these others become 'over active' the feed-back upsets the predominancy of the pineal or 'silent' region of the system.

'Speed' and MDMA simply helps us to experience the 'energy' we could much more safely realize by sleeping in utter darkness and quiet.

We go to sleep to sleep, by and large, with anticipatory anxiety about the neccessity of awakening before we have found the 'utter silence' of non-REM sleep. ('REM': rapid eye movement = dream state).

We can measure adrenalin out-put in the body with varying levels or durations of deep-sleep.

When deep sleep is minor, and REM sleep is major, it means we have not really slept. And the hormones involved here, when expressed, takes energy resources from our bodies. They are 'spent', exhausted, and we don't have the RESOURCES to really solve our problems psychologically, since we haven't had any time reducing these things to NO-THING. We live always awake. We are even driven to thinking waking life is little different from dream or nightmare.

You want a cheap cure? Try turning off the tv. Even using blinders or ear-muffs. Just sleep.

Eat well, sleep, and get up when it suits you, not by 'alarm'.

This seems to be a 'luxury' of the rich. Yet anyone can actually empower sleep by taking certain definite measures.

Exersize to achiness, regulate eating in different ways and note how it affects the amount of dreams you have. The less dreaming you do, the better.

Dreaming is working overtime in trying to solve a problem. And if the problem is not sleeping? REALLY SLEEPING: NO DREAM, NO NOTHING. PURE, BLACK, SILENT NO-THING?

We have a deficiency in non-REM sleep. Being perfectly silent and still and even cessation of breath occurs in this state, which has become wrongly defined as 'apnea'. It can be what we lack. Deep sleep is best rest. Even the heart can rest in this state, quivering rather than 'BEAT-BEAT-BEATING'.

This is called 'near death' by 'doctors'. In the culture of yoga, it is called sabiculpa samadhi and state of nirguna and leads to 'turiya', which we can call 'true state'. This in turn can lead to this 'fourth state' in waking consciousness: complete stillness while awake. All outer activities of thought, mind and body held in abeyance. 'Being a statue'.

It can be applied at will, and rest one at will. These yogis call it 'nirbiculpa samadhi.'

I don't think these are 'extraordinary' states. Some people get their RDA of deep sleep every night and they are able to be and do with great efficiency in daily life and no-one would call them 'yogis'.

Yet they also don't need MDMA or other drugs or even coffee. These folk are not studied by medicine. Medicine is focused mostly on what's wrong and not one what's right with people. And the happiest and healthiest get neglected as launch-pads for deeper research and understanding. <

in caves the sleep wake cycle adjusts to 25 hours and humans are naturally inclined to behaviors that are sometimes nocturnal. Good sleep is great and has become too much of a luxury and lack of it produces various tryptamine deficiencies which can be adjusted for with herbal remedies. PTSD creates a form of internally based anxiety which inhibits proper sleep and NECESSITATES intervention and although MDMA shows promise I personally believe some of the active tryptamines are closer to a real answer.