I think this is where the misunderstanding lies. The people who experiment with nootropics (nowadays, anyway) aren't really looking for a "peak experience". I think the trend is toward the older shamanic use ... like my mom used to say about going to church on Sunday ... it's like a "shot in the arm". You imagine these druggies are looking to get high. They're not. They're looking for alternative perspective, sometimes (as in microdosing) a more "optimal" perspective, sometimes simply a jolt out of a local optimum, etc. Most of the experimenters I know are practically stoics in their discipline ... especially the fasters who fast because they believe they think more clearly and work more productively when fasting.
These chemicals are *medicine*. I assume you take medicine of some kind, yet are prejudiced against other sorts of medicine. Most of us *are* prejudicial in our choice of medicine. The trick is to know and recognize one's prejudice. On 1/2/19 9:02 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > The difference, for me, is the risk one is willing to take for a peak > experience of some sort. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
