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{2023 page 49}:
[Ray on music]
[tianeptine]
Many people don't need a supplement, especially during the summer, so it would just be a wasteful nuisance to use it when it's not needed.
[Doses of methylene blue and cyproheptadine]
[Methylene blue once a week]
[Activated charcoal]
[aspirin]
[tobacco]
Question:
How does this non-verbal experience of the surrounding environment relate to the state you´re in when on LSD? I had a few experiences with LSD and theyve all been extremely different. Yesterday i took 150 mcg and had the most intense disconnection from the common received reality. I think the trip was that intense because i totally dropped into the feeling of the drug.The perception for time and space totally dissolved and i found myself in a non-functional state in which i totally lost touch to any layers of meaning; especially language. It would take too long to describe everything that happened, but i´m trying to put my experience into context and understand what happened. I read that you think that the hallucinations are due to depletion of brain glycogen and that it could be harmful. I don´t feel like i was hallucinating (depending on how you define it), but it felt like i was able to access more layers of reality. For example i could see, smell and feel much better. At the same time at a certain point of the trip i stopped being able to put all the sensory input into a broader context. It felt like it was a state before any judgment of meaning based on cultural influences is made. I perceived things as they were but they didn´t relate to each other. I´m wondering what your “behind closed doors” opinion and experience with LSD is. What exactly is happening in the brain when taking larger dosages of LSD? How does LSD work on a molecular level? How does the state of the organism influence its effect? Do you think these effects are other layers of reality or just the effect of brain glycogen depletion?
Ray:
Question:
Once i had 3 times the amount i had a few days ago. This loss of context for the senses didn´t happen then. It might have something to do with the amount of food i´ve eaten, but i think the biggest difference was my ability to let go emotionally of any fear/expectation. It was like i flipped any internal switch so to speak.
You´ve mentioned in "A Biophysical Approach to Altered Consciousness” that a hallucinogenic compound can be predicted by its electron-donor-potential. If i understand correctly you think that senses work by some sort of resonance. If an excessive dose of LSD is supplying too much energy which leads to hallucinations what exactly are the sense resonating with? How does the emotional “switch” change the things we resonate with
[consciousness]
Ray:
[pufa]
[allergy & rum]
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{2023 page 49}:
[Ray on music]
Soprano recorders are inexpensive (and fit the hands better than the more expensive, mellower altos), and are convenient for sporadic playing.
Playing tunes stimulates the brain in some of the same ways that speaking does, but without the pressure; for example, people who stutter when they speak usually don't when they sing.
The good thing about recorders is that they are convenient, so you can play a little whenever you feel like it, while doing other things. When I was a kid I played violin for a while, but gradually realized that my neck was much too long, and my little finger too weak and slow, for that instrument. In high school I played trumpet, mostly because it was the cheapest instrument, but eventually I bought an old french horn for $25, and an oboe, and in Paracho, Michoacan, ten years ago I finally got a cello--that had always been my favorite instrument.
Every time you make sounds on a musical instrument, you are stimulating organized processes in your body--it's a kind of nourishment.
[tianeptine]
I've been getting it from Farmacia del Nino, but Cynoplus is good too.The functions of tianeptine overlap with Periactin (notice the shapes of the molecules), cascara (emodin), vitamin K, and tetracycline, but the sulfur atom in tianeptine can make it allergenic for some people. I think combinations of safe things, including coffee, thyroid, pregnenolone, and aspirin, can work better than tianeptine.
Many people don't need a supplement, especially during the summer, so it would just be a wasteful nuisance to use it when it's not needed.
[Doses of methylene blue and cyproheptadine]
I think you're right to be cautious with experiments during the hot
season. I think the appropriate doses of methylene blue and
cyproheptadine are similar to those of T3, a few micrograms, rather than milligrams.
[Methylene blue once a week]
**It works as a catalyst for energy production, and I think it can be very effective even in small doses analogous to the effects of thyroid hormone. I suspect that one milligram continues to have good effects for about a week.
[Activated charcoal]
Activated charcoal can absorb many toxins, including bacterial endotoxin, so it is likely to reduce serotonin absorption from the intestine. Since it can also bind or destroy vitamins, it should be used only intermittently. Frolkis, et al. (1989, 1984) found that it extended median and average lifespan of rats, beginning in old age (28 months) by 43% and 34%, respectively, when given in large quantities (equivalent to about a cup per day for humans) for ten days of each month.
Aging, stress, and heavy consumption of alcohol increase the permeability of the intestine, causing increased absorption of microbial toxins. Laxatives, carrot fiber (not carrotjuice), activated charcoal, and a small amount of sodium thiosulfate decrease the formation and absorption of toxins, increasing the organism’s adaptive capacity
[aspirin]
If a newly discovered substance had aspirin’s antiinfective, anticancer, antistress, antioxidant and antiinflammatory actions it would be the most researched substance in history.
[tobacco]
The carbon monoxide isn’t likely to be absorbed in dangerous amounts if the smoke isn’t inhaled. I think the safest way to use tobacco is either transdermally or orally; it has a laxative and anti-inflammatory effect.
Jan 2023[Nasal snuff]When I was a kid it was very popular; I think the effect is the same as oral-swallowed, only quicker, with efficient nicotine absorption.
Question:
How does this non-verbal experience of the surrounding environment relate to the state you´re in when on LSD? I had a few experiences with LSD and theyve all been extremely different. Yesterday i took 150 mcg and had the most intense disconnection from the common received reality. I think the trip was that intense because i totally dropped into the feeling of the drug.The perception for time and space totally dissolved and i found myself in a non-functional state in which i totally lost touch to any layers of meaning; especially language. It would take too long to describe everything that happened, but i´m trying to put my experience into context and understand what happened. I read that you think that the hallucinations are due to depletion of brain glycogen and that it could be harmful. I don´t feel like i was hallucinating (depending on how you define it), but it felt like i was able to access more layers of reality. For example i could see, smell and feel much better. At the same time at a certain point of the trip i stopped being able to put all the sensory input into a broader context. It felt like it was a state before any judgment of meaning based on cultural influences is made. I perceived things as they were but they didn´t relate to each other. I´m wondering what your “behind closed doors” opinion and experience with LSD is. What exactly is happening in the brain when taking larger dosages of LSD? How does LSD work on a molecular level? How does the state of the organism influence its effect? Do you think these effects are other layers of reality or just the effect of brain glycogen depletion?
Ray:
I think the loss of context for the senses is evidence of an excessive amount, consuming energy faster than it’s created; I think the desirable thing is to increase the contextual meanings so that the perceived time span is maximized, a prophetic-interpretive process.
Question:
Once i had 3 times the amount i had a few days ago. This loss of context for the senses didn´t happen then. It might have something to do with the amount of food i´ve eaten, but i think the biggest difference was my ability to let go emotionally of any fear/expectation. It was like i flipped any internal switch so to speak.
You´ve mentioned in "A Biophysical Approach to Altered Consciousness” that a hallucinogenic compound can be predicted by its electron-donor-potential. If i understand correctly you think that senses work by some sort of resonance. If an excessive dose of LSD is supplying too much energy which leads to hallucinations what exactly are the sense resonating with? How does the emotional “switch” change the things we resonate with
[consciousness]
Ray:
Szent-Gyorgyi and Freeman Cope suggested that biological molecules are semiconductors, possibly superconductors. Between a donor and acceptor molecule, an electron sometimes resonates, forming a weak bond that strongly absorbs electromagnetic energy, and they suggested that bands of such electrons exist in cells. Within and between these delocalized electrons, I suspect that there is a more subtle resonance, an electron spin resonance. Arrays of such bands of electrons would be extremely sensitive antennas. Michael Persinger, in the video No More Secretes, describes the potential interactions of such electronic systems with other fields in the environment. An implication of this would be that our consciousness doesn’t exist just in our head.
[pufa]
I've only had a few occasions to try speaking German, in Romania and Croatia, for example.If the metabolic rate stays high relative to calorie intake, the pufa will be burned quickly, without having an opportunity to shape the physiology very much. Other things become relatively more important as the pufa intake approaches zero---methyl donors, phosphate excess, iron/copper ratio, etc.
[allergy & rum]
Once in Mexico I accidentally ate something that I’m intensely allergic to, but I had a glass of white rum at the same meal, and there was no reaction at all. It’s an effective antioxidant, anti-inflammatory.
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