The subject should set aside at least three days: a day before the
experience, the session day, and a follow-up day. This scheduling
guarantees a reduction in external pressure and a more sober commitment.
Talking to others who have taken the voyage is excellent preparation,
although the hallucinatory quality of all descriptions should be
recognized. Observing a session is another valuble preliminary.
Reading books about mystical experience and of others' experiences is
another possibility (Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts,
and Gordon Wasson have written powerful accounts).
Meditation is
probably the best preparation. Those who have spent time in a solitary
attempt to manage the mind, to eliminate thought and reach higher stages
of concentration, are the best candidates for a psychedelic session.
When the ego loss occurs, they recognize the process as an eagerly
awaited end.
<#424> also do you know where i can read up on leary's neural programming?
<#424> i don't know much of anything about it
<#424> only that it attempts to graft psychoactive molecules onto DNA
<aethearel> timothy and lsd eh?
<Leadfoot> Oh god, that was the theory that got people thinking that LSD would give kids birth defects through chromosonal damage, isn't it?
<#424> i don't believe so
<#424> i don't believe so
<#424> i don't believe so
<#424> oops
<#424> actually i tihnk it was a theory that terrence discovered where there was a forced evolution
<aethearel> via mushrooms?
<Leadfoot> Technically it would be impossible to GRAFT psychoactive molecules onto DNA, it doesn't work like that. But theoretically, if one were to do the right things, one could activate dormant DNA, from an early stage in development (ie, reach back into the akashic records), and cause the body to produce any kind of chemical one could imagine. LSD might be a stretch tho, possibly increasing the amount o
<aethearel> or the mayan calender?
<Leadfoot> f DMT would work tho
<aethearel> ifionlyhadabrain.....
<#424> has there been any research on this? b/c i tihnk terrence was referring to DMT