Prolonged use of opium results in physical and mental deterioration, including impotence. However, before is takes its toll, the drug can powerfully and pleasurably enhance sexual experience. No one has described the specific sexual effects of opium as well as the 19th century French Army surgeon and anthropologist Jacobus Sutor, who authored ( Read more... )

http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/publications/2004/long-term%20meditators%20self-induce%20high-amplitude%20gamma%20synchrony%20during%20mental%20practice.pdf ( Read more... )

The soft gray infinite of the walls receeded from me whenever I looked at them. Something was aglow obove me, with lines spun betweenthem darkly against the whitish void behind them. Next to them, floating in a straight line in the flat nothingness that represented a mere physical boundry where pictures of a dark place. If I looked for more than ( Read more... )

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1. If you get something out, put it back ( Read more... )

Where is the ritual
And tell me where where is the taste
Where is the sacrifice
And tell me where where is the faith

Someday there'll be a cure for pain
That's the day I throw my drugs away
When they find a cure for painWhere is the cave ( Read more... )

Has metaphorically put flowers on Algernon's grave ( Read more... )

due to the current circumstances, I am going to delete most "friends" listed on this lj. If you don't want to be deleted, say so in either the lj or online. I feel the extreme need to withdraw from the public for awhile, since I now feel I constitute a threat. I could be attacked at any time at any place by a group of people that have already ( Read more... )

A large amount of needless crap happened this morning and today. I have sat and thought about it all day and all night, not sleeping at all. I decided the best thing to do would be to write out something about the situation, but not from an accusary point of view. I thought through several possible reasons for what is going on. I thought of the ( Read more... )