I drink an energy drink in the middle of the day when I usually get drowsy, probably isn't the best habit to be forming, but christ that stuff gets you on your toes. For energy; sleep well, eat small frequent portions, exercise, and don't fucking smoke.

Those are very common side effects for all the bullshit weight loss drugs too. I don't see the huge concern, except for the inevitable complaint that people might be getting thin or whatever without work. Maybe one day they'll make a pill that cures the brain dead consumer mentality which...

Lately, I've been thinking about the nature of drug use, at least as it exists in the United States, and also the nature our perception plays in distorting it. To look at it pragmatically, drug use corresponds to a desire for the effect of a drug, but over time (and even before use) this...

Ego death is where your identity breaks down at the conceptual level. You realize how words like "I" "you" and "me" are really only accurate to their specificity about your physical being (which is transient), and make no true statement about any fixed or intransient "human essence" which you...

well I've got 3 high school years of german, which basically means (since I've forgotten all but "ja") that I can probably pick that up a little faster than anything else. Also woulda figured dutch is similar, heard it was derived from northern German way way back or something.

(- -) It's really just to see the world a little bit :p I would have to speak a second language fluently in order to take classes in it anyway, and if you haven't already noticed, Americans are retarded at learning other people's languages. Can't help what I decided to major in like two years ago.

Good ole English

English, planning on drilling a language into my head this Summer and coming Fall before I go though.

cool, thanks.

Next year around this time I will probably be studying abroad somewhere in Europe, so I have a question since this message board has so many wonderful people from the area: What Universities and towns and places like that would be good places to study abroad in, from a psychonaut perspective...

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I'm on holy week right now, but everything is dry, except for super-dank, which I am tired of. I'm giving amphetamines their first whirl, still not gonna ever try DXM, even though it's like, the only other thing available.

Is it more effective to crush up and snort a "Sustained Release" tablet of Methylphenidate, or to just take them and let them work like they will? Will one method have less noticable or profound effect while the other will last longer? Or would it just be stupid to rip it simply because of all...

Besides the late great Bill Hicks, whom I am already a fan of, does anyone know about comedians with similar positive views on psychedelic use?

I've only tried it once, with three friends, and we all got our stuff at the same time from the same person. They both tripped and had an awesome time. I sat there for three hours wondering if anything was going to happen, and nothing did. It wasn't like I felt "high" and that was it, it was...

Acting in self interest. It is a sick series of behaviors designed only to harm yourself and others to satiate an imaginary distinction which your ego builds between You and All.

What I experience seems like a compromise between the two world systems you describe (atheistic/theistic). I never "feel" god as anything other than the totality of all things in all their potential states, which is how I feel about god normally, but psychedelics make this fact feel tangible...

I see this sort of thing all the time. The visual snow I usually see on bright sunny days, and it looks like a flurry of insects or snow in the clear blue sky. Other times I see intense variations with colors, but that's almost only when I stretch of open my eyes after meditation.

This is like the wordless thing I am becoming more aware of every day. I used to have to stretch to imagine it, but now it comes much easier and all I have to do is marvel at it. Once I was obsessed with giving it words, now I know how transcendent it is. I think what you are speaking of is a...

Science is eating itself with its own tenants. We are phasing out forms of the word "to be", and we are realizing the mutable and transient nature of the Universe which is becoming increasingly more and more impossible to quantify. But there was never any age of reason for the common person...