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CommentsRe: Talking Points: Scientist reflects on his psychedelic research
The chief metaphor back in the 90s for Strassman's "beings made of light who were sentient, intelligent and interacted with volunteers" was Terence McKenna's idea of machine elves. (The Archaic Revival had just been published--by Harper Collins no less!--and was something of a sensation among heads and seekers.) In fact, I am amazed McKenna only gets one brief mention in the whole documentary. I smoked some of the "street" DMT that was going around back then, and I definitely concur that unlike waking psychedelics such as LSD and Psilocybin, with DMT there is a keen sense of entering another world, of an "other" that you are encountering. Whether it's elves or beings made of light or dancing Cthulhoid aliens, it seems to depend on the subject, but I strongly recall the presence of another consciousness during those trips. (Also, the entities really respond well to music, preferably 90s ambient techno.) Re: Restless
So much for the ageism tactic. I liked Elephant. I thought it was tense and creepy. Gerry and Last Days were rather trying. This much is true: twee-nitude of all kinds is to be abhorred.
Which is best viewed in Foxfire.
Public infrastructure isn't supposed to make a profit. It's OK to spend money on making the world a better, safer, nicer place to live.
Pillars of society engage in elaborate online social network prostitution community. It's so fucking elaborate it *had* to fail.
... after payment was due. That's what I get out of reading this.
Does what those ViewMaster reels were touted to do back in the day: take you virtually to places you'll never be able to visit in real life. They could have ditched the 3D for the footage they took with normal cameras (the faked 3D is pretty bad), but the 3D cave painting porn shot with the good gear is really cool. Even my preschool/1st grade kids were engaged for most of the run time. (It's rated G!) Re: Weck’s
Result: they treat me like a king. Kinda worth it.
Presidential candidates ALREADY ARE required to be natural-born citizens. They just don't have to prove it to the state of Arizona by submitting circumcision records. They also don't have to prove they're not from a mirror earth on the far side of the sun or that they're not vampires. Other birthers might like to see the HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES of the goddamn birth certificate right here. Of course, who's to say they're not fakes? For that matter, who's to say you're not all robots and I'm the only real human in the world? Aha! I fucking knew it! | 
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