Here is a recent Bruce Eisner essay musing on the human quest for intoxication.

Bruce Jay Ehrlich (better known by his writing name Bruce Eisner) (born Brooklyn, New York, February 26, 1948) is an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman best known for his book Ecstasy: The MDMA Story. He received his B.A.in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1979, his M.A. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, California. He is owner of the Mind Media Life Enhancement Network and President of the Island Foundation.

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from Larry King Live

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Alexander Shulgin is an American pharmacologist, chemist and drug developer of Russian descent.

Shulgin is credited with the popularizing of MDMA in the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially for psychopharmaceutical use and the treatment of depression and Post-traumatic stress disorder. In subsequent years, Shulgin discovered, synthesized, and bioassayed over 230 psychoactive compounds. In 1991 and 1997, he and his wife Ann Shulgin authored the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL on the topic of psychoactive drugs. Shulgin discovered many noteworthy phenethylamines including the 2C* family of which 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7, 2C-I, and 2C-B are most well known. Additionally, Shulgin performed seminal work into the descriptive synthesis of compounds based on the organic compound tryptamine.

He is currently continuing his work at home in Lafayette, CA, and is writing a new comprehensive psychedelic drug index.

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I personally believe there are many different kinds of intelligence, and that the idea of using one IQ number to summarize them all up is completely ridiculous.

For example, there is musical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, mathematical intelligence, social intelligence, athletic intelligence, artistic intelligence, spiritual intelligence, mechanical intelligence, etc…

In any case, one of the U.S.’s premier medical institutions just published an article on a way to boost your spiritual IQ.

Now, this sort of information has been known for greater than 5000 years, but I think it’s interesting that the folks at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine would go out of their way to scientifically vouch for it.

Here are some of the more interesting findings:

* More than 60% of volunteers said they had a “full mystical experience”

* “Many of the volunteers in our study reported, in one way or another, a direct, personal experience of the ‘beyond’”, said Roland Griffiths who led the study at Johns Hopkins University.

* A third of the subjects said the experience was the single most spiritually significant thing of their lifetimes.

* 2 months after taking the mushrooms, subjects reported increases in well-being and satisfaction with life, according to the study.

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