Conservatives aren’t falling for anything. Child abuse is their mo. They won’t be happy until our children are out of school and back in the coal mines.
If Masterson’s mother ran a non-profit that helped rape victims it would be a conflict of interest for her to write a character reference for her rapist son.
As it was here for Kutcher and it damaged his reputation badly.
Otherwise appreciate your post. There are a lot of interesting questions in it about human nature.
Personally, I think the church of scientology black mailed him into writing this. That Masterson spilled some dirt to his cult.
Ashton plays an idiot on tv but I don’t think he’s that dumb in real life. So my bet is blackmail.
Few drugs will do it without also having an underlying sense of safety and security present.
If you want to know what it feels like, find some 5-meo-dmt. Or smoke some nn-dmt while coming down off molly and in a safe environment.
Personally, I found ego disolution through meditation before I found it with drugs, and I had taken some very high doses. Now I can take a much smaller dose of a tryptamine and let myself sink into that sense of safety.
Once you trust in the process and assuming you’re in a safe space, you see how much it’s more about swt and setting, and less about the drug or dose.
DXM is way more abusuable than psychedelics. And, as I said, Wellbutrin is a serious liver enzyme inhibitor that won’t allow you to take any drug processed through that pathway without serious side effects.
The drug combination works by shutting down one of DXMs metabolic pathways. But because it has two, instead of causing you to overdose, it just doesn’t metabolize into DXO (a much stronger disassociative).
And both chemicals cause physical withdrawal. And, DXM itself can be addictive in a psychological sense.
I understand the hype, DXM is a fascinating compound and this is an interesting way to use it. But the drug does have serious side effects and tons of drug interactions because of the liver enzyme inhibition.
I don’t think it’s the magic bullet the pharmaicutical industry pretends it is. And having tried it myself, it wasn’t a game changer but rather made me feel like shit and made me paranoid to put any other compound in my body.
A drug war that criminalized medicine that Dr’s where researching and that people were enjoying for both personal exploration and recreation is the opposite end of the spectrum.
Ecstasy is a slang word often used for MDMA. But many other drugs are sold as both and every drug you buy off the street you should test unless it’s mushrooms or weed.
And MDMA and other forms of psychedelic treatment are more about the cultural factors than the chemistry. I.e. the ritual space we create around it. In this case, the therapeutic safe space where someone can unpack without tripping the fuck out as you put it.
Not discounting the medicine you’re taking, but please don’t discount psychedelics just because you started taking cough syrup and Wellbutrin (DXM is the main ingredient in cough syrup).
Additionally, Auvelity, as I just eluded too, isn’t a new game changing drug. It’s a mix of two older drugs. An SNRI/Dissasociative (mostly SNRI because the Wellbutrin keeps it from metabolising into it’s fun form) and a DNRI. In other words, you’re on every form of reuptake inhibitor we use to treat depression. One that slows your liver down (meaning you wiill have side effects if you take any other drug processed through this pathway) and gets you a little disassociated, like a very small bit of ketamine.
That’s what you’re taking. I don’t know anything about neural pruning. I guess you’re talking about the need for neurogenesis to change patterns of feeling. Ketamamine (and DXM) do do this, but so do classic psychedelics.
And what new patterns you form, are going to depend on set and setting (mindset and environmental context). DXM/Wellbutrin can change part of the equation. Psychedelic therapy looks at both.
Unicorn Overlord looks good. Not many tactics RPGs have scratched the FF tactics itch for me (Symphony of War hits the spot but playing that on steam).