Hello all,
I'm writing a paper for about alchemy and would like to focus it on the connections between it and psychedelics. However there's already a lot of work done in this area so I'm trying to find an original angle on it.
I'm using a lot of Jung, drawing on Mckenna and some other sources but haven't found anything the jumps out at me so I thought I would open it up for ideas and see what I can hash out here.
Any thoughts?
I'm writing a paper for about alchemy and would like to focus it on the connections between it and psychedelics. However there's already a lot of work done in this area so I'm trying to find an original angle on it.
I'm using a lot of Jung, drawing on Mckenna and some other sources but haven't found anything the jumps out at me so I thought I would open it up for ideas and see what I can hash out here.
Any thoughts?
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Re: The Alchemy of Psychedelics; new angles for a paper
Fri, November 30, 2007 - 3:37 PMyeah i have a suggestion
do drugs and it will be the most original work you can do. -
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Re: The Alchemy of Psychedelics; new angles for a paper
Sat, December 1, 2007 - 4:22 PMThe one has actually already lead me to the other you see. Part of the difficulty is that the personal nature of that type of experience mostly precludes it from what I need to write. I suppose integrating the personal experiences into the transpersonal dimension via Jung is a good start.
Albert Hoffman is in a way the ultimate alchemist and it has been written about many times as we know. Does anyone know if there has been any significant work done on the synchronicities between the development of LSD and the atomic bomb?
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Re: The Alchemy of Psychedelics; new angles for a paper
Sat, December 1, 2007 - 5:59 PMJust do what McKenna did and pull a theory out of your ass. -
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Re: The Alchemy of Psychedelics; new angles for a paper
Thu, March 6, 2008 - 3:51 PMI thought his work on language devlopment was pretty nice.
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however all any of the psychedilics do, is overclock what your working with, and in many cases put you in a more interesting environments and situations with your mind over clocked.
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Re: The Alchemy of Psychedelics; new angles for a paper
Sun, December 2, 2007 - 3:40 AMYou might consider These books by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
www.erowid.org/library/bo...ihkal.shtml
and:
www.erowid.org/library/bo...shtml#index
Interesting because this collection of papers details the synthesis of the drugs and a record of the subjective experience that they induce.
The Print versions have extended essays, but online, you can read Shulgin's method.
Wikipedia onShulgin:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin
This may not be what you seek, but the angle of an independent researcher, brewing and then testing his own concoctions is fascinating.
Good Luck
