The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71561   Message #4148340
Posted By: Donuel
25-Jul-22 - 01:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Comfort food
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food
I use the word organic in the sense of being pure plant based.
"This is your brain (a seed)...this is your brain on plants" - (a flower blooms). Anyone who drinks tea or coffee probably does it for effect more than taste, although orange peco tastes good. Without caffeine you may not feel like yourself.

A proper pharmakon can even enhance and create democracies. Such as a Eleusinian ceremony bringing the population together and Tribes of many cultures celebrating mescaline or ayaquesca or the average Western drunk singing away. Changing consciousness is a natural drive like sex.
Pharmakon is the Greek word which has two opposite meanings - "cure" and "poison". The concept of pharmakon, according to Derrida, produces a play of binary oppositions crucial to Western logocentric tradition: remedy/poison, speech/writing, good/bad, interior/ exterior, etc.

The poison part is usually an alkaloid made by a plant. Some alkaloids are dangerous in large quantities. THC, a cannabinoid, is not an alkaloid. It does not form salts in an aqueous solution (i.e., it's not soluble in water).

I am a proponent of psylocybin because of its ability to jolly good answer actual direct questions. For example I asked the mushroom I was about to eat "what will our new energy source be?" Later before my eyes in 3D space a small circle with a triangle around it appeared. It was indelibly memorable and unique. I did not understand until later that lithium ion batteries are made of lithium Atomic wt.3 and hydrogen Atomic wt. 1. AHA! a small circle in a three sided triangle. Personal questions were also somewhat symbolicly answered. Images with eyes closed also revealed fascinating windows and mirrors of the mind in the form of Aztec art visualization possibly because the strain was Amazonian and I associated it with them although I think the Aztecs were mostly east of the mountains. There is a small learning curve with its use and never caused me any distress. Where I live they use it for cancer patients who are anxious and it changes their entire perspective. Psylocybin is for so much more than that, beyond whatever I can imagine.

Some people live in the past some strictly in the present which is great but I live with a foot in the future and the future has some advantages coming from our neighbors the plants and fungus. Perhaps they always have.

PS My first experience coincided with accidentally seeing the movie Its a Wonderful Life that begins with two galaxies talking to each other, then hyjinks delightfully ensued.