XPost: alt.drugs.psychedelics, alt.drugs, alt.drugs.rfg   
   XPost: rec.drugs.psychedelic   
   From: rfgdxm@KILLSPAMMERSmochamail.com   
      
   Frederick Burroughs wrote:   
   > "rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski" wrote:   
      
   >>    What about a mind-blowing enjoyable trip that blasts the user into   
   >> another reality? Think here as an example McKenna's DMT elves. The   
   >> medical definition of "psychosis" isn't the same as used by the   
   >> common layperson.   
   >   
   > I would say McKenna is purposely using a mind-expanding chemical, not   
   > to induce a psychosis but to have a psychedelic experience.  He has   
   > experience with the altered state-of-consciousness; in effect, his   
   > repertoire of reality includes the psychedelic experience.  As a   
   > practiced expert in the use of psychedelics, he writes of a rich,   
   > adjuvant reality; not a defective or lost one.  He elects when and   
   > where to exercise the psychedelic state.  Hell, he's almost a tour   
   > guide to the exotic regions of psychedelia.  To the experienced, the   
   > psychedelic state is an *effective*, misunderstood and ignored   
   > reality.  To label psychedelics "psychotomimetic" is a truncated,   
   > inadequate mislabeling, probably born of inexperience or lack of   
   > experience, entirely.   
      
      And seeing elves while on drugs isn't a defective or lost contact   
   with reality? Sure, that is what he was after. However, an objective   
   observer could characterize this as inducing a psychotic state. If a   
   sober man told of seeing elves, he'd be called psychotic.   
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