Get out the Vote: Terence McKenna 2016

[slomo]

I did some LSD and psilocybin in my late teens / early 20s. Mostly positive experiences, except that I was told later by the head of a meditation group I belonged to (after telling him of one such experiece) that a hole in my aura had allowed a negitive entity to enter and latch on. That entity (which could easily have been just a disowned part of my psyche) caused a lot of trouble in the intervening years, in the area of intimacy. I did manage to dislodge that entity (or whatever it was), at which point I began to address some of the masculine/feminine issues that have come up in other threads. Suffice to say that whatever that thing was, its major effect was a subtle hatred and fear of masculinity.

[guruilla]

That's quite an overlap of current RI themes!

[tapitsbo]

FWIW, the most genuinely helpful and healing advice I ever got re: clearing negative entities came from a man who is now a homeless crack addict

[slomo]

:shock:

That's quite an overlap of current RI themes!

What can I say, I'm Mr. RI this week...

[slomo]

FWIW, the most genuinely helpful and healing advice I ever got re: clearing negative entities came from a man who is now a homeless crack addict

Interesting.

The meditation guy was not very helpful, except in pointiing out a problem I should deal with.

[Elvis]

Similar findings marijuana:

Abstract
Thirty-five subjects of known hypnotizability were tested for primary suggestibility in the waking state with and without marijuana intoxication. The drug caused an increase in suggestibility similar to that produced by the induction of hypnosis. The effect did not persist when subjects were retested one week later in their normal waking state.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00431853

Did you see this? viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11400&p=534532#p534532

It's a long post so I won't post all of it.

there is one legacy that must be explored. At one stage [William] Donovan had included in his party an OSS doctor who was known in the medical profession to have conducted experiments into the development of so called truth drugs

. . . The team then turned to chemical experimentation and developed eventually a new drug, tetrahydrocannabinol acetate, which could be injected into food or cigarettes but remained "quite undetectable.'

But curiously,

The next test involved cannabis indica, administered under the direction of Dr. Kubie. Again the tests were a failure, for as Abrams's report stated, ''the men suffered considerable physical discomfort without disclosing confidential information which had been furnished to them." Further tests involving eight men were then carried out at the Neurological Institute, where cannabis was administered by both mouth and cigarette. Again these tests were a failure

But later,

In subsequent tests, fumes from the new drug, tetahydrocannabinol [sic] acetate, were allowed to percolate into a room, but volunteers were not induced to discuss secret matters, and the tests were abandoned. The panel returned to the program, and members of the committee and OSS headquarters staff were used as volunteers with "good results in that it appeared possible to administer an amount of the [acetate] which would bring about a state of irresponsibility, causing the subject to become loquacious and free in his impartation of information (some of which it was felt he would certainly not divulge except under the influence of the drug), yet without causing symptoms during, or after, the tests."
. . .

At that point the committee authorized a field test of the acetate on a New York gangster, August Del Gaizo, alias Augie Dallas, alias Dell, alias Little Augie. The test was conducted by Captain George H. White, of the OSS, who had been a law enforcement officer before military service and knew the subject and enjoyed his confidence. White stated in his report: "On May 27, 1943 I conducted a field test with cigarettes containing [acetate] upon a subject who did not know he was the subject of an experimentation and who, because of his position, had numerous secrets he was most anxious to conceal, the revelation of which might well result in his imprisonment.''32
. . .

On the day of the experiment, I requested subject to visit me at my apartment in New York on the pretext that I wanted to talk further about plans to utilize his services in Italy. I had previously prepared cigarettes of the same brand I knew him to smoke loaded with both .04 grams of [acetate] and .01 grams of [acetate]. Subject entered the apartment at 2 P.M. and at that time stated that he could not remain long as he had a friend waiting for him in an automobile outside.

After a short conversation regarding the pretext on which he had come to the apartment, I gave him a .04 cigarette at 2:10 P.M. AT 2:30 P.M., having noticed no perceptible effects, I gave him a .01 cigarette. Shortly thereafter subject became obviously "high" and extremely garrulous. He monopolized the conversation and was exceedingly friendly. I turned the conversation into ''Enforcement'' channels, whereupon with no further encouragement subject divulged the following information:

...and he goes on to list several damning admissions Augie made about his crimes and official corruption. Further tests met with more success, with Augie revealing more secrets. "There is no question but that the administration of the drug was responsible for loosening the subject's tongue."

The final end(?) of the THC acetate experiments is odd: according to Harry V. Martin and David Caul, in their Mind Control essays (http://www.whale.to/b/caul.html),

The [THC acetate] experiments were halted when a memo was written: "The drug defies all but the most expert and search analysis, and for all practical purposes can be considered beyond analysis."

heh.

See the post for the full exceprts drawn from the book, The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan (1982) by Anthony Cave Brown.