dromedary
Camelus dromedarius
It seems like you all have a great little community here. The web would be a better place if more forums were like this one. I'd like to be part of it.
I don't know if I can bring much that these forums do not already have in abundance, but I hope that a little chemistry knowledge and a friendly demeanour will not go astray.
For Australians I can help navigate our complex legal system and locate important precedents that may be of use, if anyone is in need or even just interested. A lot of case law and associated legal commentary isn't publicly available on the web, which makes it very hard to find without access to legal journals. When you pay a law firm for legal advice you are basically just paying for a paralegal or intern to search these journals and for a lawyer to rephrase the results in a way you can understand. I won't be offering legal advice, but perhaps I can still save some forum members some money. Law firms are expensive!
I have been interested in mind-altering drugs for a long time and used a wide variety of them, but it wasn't until I read PIHKAL that I have really embraced what I now see is the most important aspect of psychedelics: the ability to see deep inside oneself and access parts of the mind usually reserved for the subconscious. I used to hate the introspective aspect of psychedelics since it was uncomfortable, now I actively seek it out precisely because it is uncomfortable. Rather than living in a state of uneasy cognitive dissonance because some truth is too difficult to bear, I choose to bear the pain of realisation now so that I can move past it and think with greater clarity than before.
I don't think this process makes a person smarter, but it makes me a better person to be around. I participate in a lot of informal political debate, and where I used to redress people for illogical or irrational argument I now realise that the emotion I expressed as polite annoyance at them was really just fear of those same qualities being seen by others in myself. More generally, I now realise that many of the things that I don't like in other people are really just things that I don't like about myself.
My hope is that here I can find some kindred spirits to share and explore the amazing introspective potential of the psychedelic experience.
I don't know if I can bring much that these forums do not already have in abundance, but I hope that a little chemistry knowledge and a friendly demeanour will not go astray.
For Australians I can help navigate our complex legal system and locate important precedents that may be of use, if anyone is in need or even just interested. A lot of case law and associated legal commentary isn't publicly available on the web, which makes it very hard to find without access to legal journals. When you pay a law firm for legal advice you are basically just paying for a paralegal or intern to search these journals and for a lawyer to rephrase the results in a way you can understand. I won't be offering legal advice, but perhaps I can still save some forum members some money. Law firms are expensive!
I have been interested in mind-altering drugs for a long time and used a wide variety of them, but it wasn't until I read PIHKAL that I have really embraced what I now see is the most important aspect of psychedelics: the ability to see deep inside oneself and access parts of the mind usually reserved for the subconscious. I used to hate the introspective aspect of psychedelics since it was uncomfortable, now I actively seek it out precisely because it is uncomfortable. Rather than living in a state of uneasy cognitive dissonance because some truth is too difficult to bear, I choose to bear the pain of realisation now so that I can move past it and think with greater clarity than before.
I don't think this process makes a person smarter, but it makes me a better person to be around. I participate in a lot of informal political debate, and where I used to redress people for illogical or irrational argument I now realise that the emotion I expressed as polite annoyance at them was really just fear of those same qualities being seen by others in myself. More generally, I now realise that many of the things that I don't like in other people are really just things that I don't like about myself.
My hope is that here I can find some kindred spirits to share and explore the amazing introspective potential of the psychedelic experience.
