“If a pickpocket meets a saint, all he sees are his pockets
” - Traditional
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” Albert Einstein
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” Aldous Huxley
“ What is to give light must endure burning. ” - Victor Frankl
"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done." Aldous Huxley
Sam Harris is ... Roland Griffiths is ...
Conversation link tweeted on 21st November ... 122.39 ...
35 min in ... MDMA/ecstasy ... yes does have a dopaminergic effect and can produce dependence?
Around 70 minutes indiscuss low dose psilocybin and meditation practice.
“Modo liceat vivere, est spes. While there's life, there's hope.
” - Terence
"And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been." Rainer Maria Rilke
“ Life is too short to be small. ” - Benjamin Disraeli
"Today we can walk around together, talk, eat, and be silent together. Later I believe we'll have the opportunity to act and suffer together. All that is necessary to 'make someone's acquaintance' as they say." Pierre Sogol, professor of mountaineering, speaking in Rene Daumal's book "Mount Analogue".
'Breaking Convention' - the fifth biennial international conference on psychedelics - took place at Greenwich University in London from 16th-18th August. There were apparently 1,200 or so attendees for the 6 concurrent programmes - academic, workshop, performance, cinema, entertainment & installations - as well as an art exhibition. I went primarily because it allowed me to hear pretty much all the relevant research groups in the UK present on their current findings. As you can see from the other quite extensive writing about psychedelics on this website, I'm very interested in the encouraging emerging research highlighting potential therapeutic value of psychedelics. Although I focussed on the academic programme, there was much too much even here to manage an ove
“ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ” - George Santayana
" ... the current system for bringing promising biomedical research to the bedside is operating at an obsolete level of efficiency, causing great delay, and consequently resulting in the loss of many lives." Roger Rosenberg (JAMA 2003;289:1305-6)
"Any unexplained phenomenon passes through three stages before the reality of it is accepted. During the first stage it is considered laughable. During the second stage, it is adamantly opposed. Finally, during the third stage, it is accepted as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer
“Do not think less of yourself, but think of yourself less.
” - C. S. Lewis
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Phillpotts
"You'll never enjoy the word aright, until the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars." Thomas Traherne
“ It is possible that the entire healing relationship is actually founded on friendship. ” - Saki Santorelli
"To reach the other shore with each step of the crossing is the way of true living." Shunryu Suzuki
"My house having burnt down, nothing now impedes my bright vision of the moon." Zen saying
“Empathy is innumerate.
” - Paul Bloom
"No man was ever wise by chance." Lucius Seneca
"Who will prefer the jingle of jade pendants if he once has heard stone growing in a cliff?" Lao Tzu
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
” - John Donne
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. J. K. Galbraith
It's important to keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. Traditional
