Dear Nexians,
For the past few months I have been working on a project that we have come to name "The Open Hyperspace Traveler Course". It is supposed to be a course, an introduction and a guide for anyone interested in psychedelics, with a focus on education concerning safety, responsability, facts and experience.
The idea came from the world of SCUBA diving, where a similar system of education is used and was in great deal responsible for changing diving from a very risky sport into a rather safe sport.
With this manual I/we hope to provide a basis to avoid all the preventable harm that (potential) psychedelics users otherwise might do to themselves (or others) - since I believe that a lot of the bad things that happen are due to ignorance and misinformation of the users, due to lacking education on this otherwise "taboo" topic.
With this course the reader is introduced into the various substances, their effects and possible risks, and is subsequently is lead through a plethora of considerations concerning heath, safety, possible benefit and responsability.
My vision of this text is:
- that it is as neutral and factual as possible.
- That it has NO propaganda pro or contra entheogens.
- That it does not discuss ontology or right or wrong interpretations of trips.
- That it encourages safety and preconsideration rather than recklessness
- ...
The basic text for the course manual is done but now it needs a bit of work, which is where hopefully you come in.
There are 5 chapters, each containing two or three sections. Then there is an introduction and an appendix, the latter is not entirely ready yet (Part of the appendix is still contained in Chapter 1 Section 1)
Please take a look at the text (attatched to this post) and at the following threads of this section concerning the help needed with this project.
For the past few months I have been working on a project that we have come to name "The Open Hyperspace Traveler Course". It is supposed to be a course, an introduction and a guide for anyone interested in psychedelics, with a focus on education concerning safety, responsability, facts and experience.
The idea came from the world of SCUBA diving, where a similar system of education is used and was in great deal responsible for changing diving from a very risky sport into a rather safe sport.
With this manual I/we hope to provide a basis to avoid all the preventable harm that (potential) psychedelics users otherwise might do to themselves (or others) - since I believe that a lot of the bad things that happen are due to ignorance and misinformation of the users, due to lacking education on this otherwise "taboo" topic.
With this course the reader is introduced into the various substances, their effects and possible risks, and is subsequently is lead through a plethora of considerations concerning heath, safety, possible benefit and responsability.
My vision of this text is:
- that it is as neutral and factual as possible.
- That it has NO propaganda pro or contra entheogens.
- That it does not discuss ontology or right or wrong interpretations of trips.
- That it encourages safety and preconsideration rather than recklessness
- ...
The basic text for the course manual is done but now it needs a bit of work, which is where hopefully you come in.
There are 5 chapters, each containing two or three sections. Then there is an introduction and an appendix, the latter is not entirely ready yet (Part of the appendix is still contained in Chapter 1 Section 1)
Please take a look at the text (attatched to this post) and at the following threads of this section concerning the help needed with this project.
