Hallucinogens 2.0

By | January 31, 2015
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psychadelicgirlIn spite of their reputation as being dangerous and their classification as illicit drugs, hallucinogens may have a lot to offer. Historically, they have played an important role in certain mystical and spiritual traditions, and they have been seriously studied as a potential means of coming to a better understanding of how our minds work.

And it has been suggested that they are one of the secret ingredients behind the success of Silicon Valley:

R. U. Sirius talked about this a bit on the most recent edition of The World Transformed. On the other hand, there is this quip: “Many people tried acid. Only one became Steve Jobs.”

Maybe what we need is Hallucinogens 2.0, a technology for safely and reliably tapping into the parts of our brains that hallucinogens are known uniquely to impact. We need a computer interface into our own brains to provide the insights of a hallucinogenic trip without the risks.

Anybody working on anything like that?

  • jhertzli

    As far as new insights are concerned, the worst reason to use a drug is “everybody does it.” When everybody is using the same drug, everybody will be making the same mistakes.

  • http://theongoingwow.com/ The Ongoing Wow

    Although surely if ‘Hallucinogens 2.0′ are stimulating the very same brain areas, they would carry the same intrinsic risks? I agree that a brain-computer interface would be awesome – but at this stage what we really need is more research into what psychedelics are actually doing within the brain, to more fully understand their effects.

    Also – there are already a fair few psychedelics that have shown to be quite low risk. Interesting paper here discussing the risks – http://www.sg.unimaas.nl/_OLD/oudelezingen/dddsd.pdf

  • Amrita Sharma

    and they have been seriously studied as a potential means of coming to a better understanding of how our minds work.
    http://www.sifliamal.com/sifli-ilm-helps-to-increase-business/