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Originally posted by LessThan3YearsLeft
reply to post by skunknuts
Not much scientific analysis but do you know anyone on SSRI's (Prozac, Effexor, Paxil). Ask them or head over to Erowid and you will find that its much harder to "trip" on recreational tryptamines while under the influence of SSRI antidepressants. Some hospitals use Paxil as way to terminate an '___' trip in patients.
What does this mean to dreaming? Well '___' being a tryptamine will also be affected, therefore your ability to sort out or orchestrate the days events will be diminished.
Some psychiatrists even call Paxil a "Dream Suppresant". Now in our materialistic world this is a boon to a depressed patient.. Without the aid of a higher self or composer he will now rely on the therapist to break apart his days events and align them with a trajectory better suited to materialistic gains then the spiritual ones his pineal gland were confusing said patient with..
A sad life..
Originally posted by LessThan3YearsLeft
reply to post by skunknuts
Freud was a materialistic genius. I piss on his genius though.. Its selfish and promotes a disconnect from your fellow man and nature..
Jung or William James blow him out of the water with there ability to connect modern views with archaic symbolism and metaphor. IE - True genius (spiritual/material)
Originally posted by jondavidhasheart
honestly this post just changed my life haha
for the past two years i've been out of college because i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life. i love researching things such as consciousness and current + ancient cultures, the truths of our existance etc
but i couldnt think of a conventional job that i could enjoy for the rest of my life and have been avoiding the school since then
well.. i yawned. haha
i yawned alot reading this post actually
and i dont know why i didnt realize it before
i want to be a college professor!
and i want to teach Spirituality and the Nature of Consciousness
professing upon how countless cultures have tried to identify/define themselves including meditation, group mantras, psychedelics, art, quantum mechanics, materialism, deistic idols, etc
while also discussing how the internal realm demands just as much attention as the external realm.
ive realized i am willing to do whatever it takes to make this happen.
thank you for this realization. S & F!
Originally posted by LessThan3YearsLeft
reply to post by skunknuts
It was Freud's theories that he built his understanding of the material world on... Just as myself or anyone this world can study his work and regurgitate his facts..
Jung took it a step further by finding abstract relationships between seemingly unconnected things/events. In his materialistic one foot in front of the other world that is a great achievement for someone that doesn't take psychedelics..
William James on the other hand.. His research had a lot more to do with his own mystical experiences while in altered states.
Originally posted by LessThan3YearsLeft
reply to post by skunknuts
"Big Pharma and the rest of our corporatist overlords have a distinct agenda for preventing and discouraging real growth."
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I completely disagree with you there.. Big pharma is run by people.. Corporate overlords are people. They are pushing SSRI's and harping on Psychedelic therapy out of an ingrain fear of "Drugs" leftover from the forbidden fruit aspect of our psyche.. They care about people and want to make the world a better place and hey if they get stinky rich in the process... all the better!!
This is where the phrase "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" came from.
Now I wouldn't feel the same way about a big pharma exec if I knew he has had a spiritual "trip". You cant fault the ignorant, but you can fault him..
[edit on 11-1-2010 by LessThan3YearsLeft]
Originally posted by highlyoriginal
reply to post by skunknuts
Interesting information. I think we all have pondered what is behind yawning at one point or another, and most of us were told it had to do with being tired. Quite the opposite. Yawning is just a reaction from the body when breathing is not introducing enough oxygen to the brain. A yawn therefore causes one to take in more air and hopefully more oxygen.
The information posted in the OP is new to me, and I'm glad I got a chance to read it. I wonder though if too much yawning could be damaging, especially if done in some sort of session...? For example, I'm meditating, and get into some sort of yawning session and now maybe I cannot stop, or something like that. I know I've had times when I've had trouble stopping yawning, imagine if you induced something like this and couldn't stop! That would suck!