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Bhakta | May 2, 2008, 3:52am | #

Here's to our beloved grandfather of LSD. But put asked the question of whether and when we can finally know that a synthetically derived hallucinogen is safe or not for human use. His passing touched a few thoughts in me about our right to alter/explore psychedelic space with even the natural plan hallucinogens. To wit....

1. Anyone who is NOT insulted (move to righteous rebellion?) by the presumption on the part of any other person or group to deem as unfit/unsafe/out-of-bounds, not to mention legislatively codify and penalize, the cultivation and use (ingestion, inhalation, tincture...) of the plants, fungi, etc. of the nature-matrix which gives rise to us and upon whos health,power, balance, and wisdom we, as organic creatures, obviously depend, is either deeply asleep at the wheel of life or utterly unaware of the liberating value of humanity's most ancient, potent, authentic, and sacred rights of passage.

2. Outside the promising, 'dangerous', experiential, no-turning-back doorways of the entheogenic tremendum (here embossed with the sign of the mushroom, there the vine, and over there the mint) all conversation/debate on the topic, while fascinating and to measured degrees helpful where sincere and REASONable, is ultimately falling short of its highest potential (*grin*) if it does not lead one, at least the authentic experiential adventurers in our posse, to avail oneself of the wonders of vegetable gnosis, the revelations that await on the other side of such boundary dissolution/disillusion.

3. (topic change to the tune of the Monty Python intro theme)
And now for something completely different...

"Reason Online
...free minds, free markets."

oooookaaaaay:

Is is presumed here to be REASONable that FREE MINDS would choose FREE MARKETS?
Hmmm.
What would, for example, the thinkers that thunk-up this, yes catchy, magazine's tagline think of "Balanced Minds, Balanced Markets" or "Fair Minds, Fair Markets" or "Free Minds, Open Hearts, Balanced Markets"???

The conversation I'd love to inspire here would revolve around the thesis:

"Since only healthy bodies, whole compassionate hearts, and restful, open, well educated brains are the fertile ground for the arising of a FREE MIND, so too then if follows that only whole-systems thinking and sustainability-centered, symbiosis-consequent, earth-nature honoring MARKETS are actually, in the best or most inclusive sense of the word, FREE.".

Right?

Any takers?
:-))

Daniel | January 4, 2010, 4:01am | #

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