Appreciate this so much. The quiet messaging you pinpoint here--"you can't trust yourself"--is so insidious, and so crucial to the financialization of these medicines. I've met, worked, and socialized with many figures in that side of the movement, and very few of them have actually earned my trust.
"Doblin’s vision of serving maintenance therapies to the imperial war machine would likely worsen the root causes of global trauma and inequality."
Bob Forte and I launched a series of posts to the MAPS FORUM of the time (ca. 20 years ago) on this very topic. Naturally we were attacked and insulted. This at the time of a great many PTSDs coming home from Iraq. I rather pithily suggested that psychedelics might be of much better use for "treatment" before a potential recruit signed up to commit murder and other assorted crimes. We left the forum shortly thereafter.
nice work. appreciate the skepticism balanced with legit care and concern for what's unfolding. this is a runaway train, we are going to get Prozac Nation 2.0, the only question is what can the rest of us do via different channels?
You are a righteous flame. Never stop
Appreciate this so much. The quiet messaging you pinpoint here--"you can't trust yourself"--is so insidious, and so crucial to the financialization of these medicines. I've met, worked, and socialized with many figures in that side of the movement, and very few of them have actually earned my trust.
Much of the confusion is a result of ignorance about how psychedelics actually work. See
https://www.academia.edu/95408960/Psychedelic_Elephant_A_Critique_of_Psychedelic_Research
also here
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349176600_Psychedelic_Elephant_A_Critique_of_Psychedelic_Research_-_Final_Draft
"Doblin’s vision of serving maintenance therapies to the imperial war machine would likely worsen the root causes of global trauma and inequality."
Bob Forte and I launched a series of posts to the MAPS FORUM of the time (ca. 20 years ago) on this very topic. Naturally we were attacked and insulted. This at the time of a great many PTSDs coming home from Iraq. I rather pithily suggested that psychedelics might be of much better use for "treatment" before a potential recruit signed up to commit murder and other assorted crimes. We left the forum shortly thereafter.
nice work. appreciate the skepticism balanced with legit care and concern for what's unfolding. this is a runaway train, we are going to get Prozac Nation 2.0, the only question is what can the rest of us do via different channels?