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Kambo & Other Sacraments / Re: kambo with dmso
« on: August 04, 2013, 09:11:14 AM »
My intuition about this would be that it's not a good idea. On this forum we have talked about a virus that can accompany kambo excretion. Applying through burn to the lymph system is proven safe, while DMSO can let all kinds of other things pass through the skin such as bacteria and viruses from what I've heard.

this

after psilo gave such a great explanation of the variables involved i think if the question is still being asked then:

here is a better idea, memorize all of science, then memorize all of shamanism, then ask kambo what he/she thinks of the matter, he/she will give you the low down clear cut right to the dome piece without a chance for miscommunication/misunderstanding.


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Hello,

please provide evidence for this claim.

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taurine is extremely dangerous and should be handled with extreme care if not avoided like the plague of death itself.

thanks

ask kambo what he/she thinks of "taurine"

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http://www.natural-health-zone.com/meridian-clock.html

its important you understand this chart before we go forward.


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I have heard good things about the synergy between iboga and NMDA antagonists too. Taurine is a mild NMDA antagonist. For prescription ones, I'd go with memantine or acopronsate.

Can you explain about the NMDA, kappa, dopamine, oxytocin and prolactin systems? Sounds really interesting, I'd love to know about this. Also, when you say NMDA upregulation causes a "permanent" increase in intelligence, do you mean due to formation of new neural pathways, or do you mean the upregulation of the receptors is permanent?

"Taurine is a mild NMDA antagonist"

taurine is extremely dangerous and should be handled with extreme care if not avoided like the plague of death itself.

"when you say NMDA upregulation causes a "permanent" increase in intelligence, do you mean due to formation of new neural pathways, or do you mean the upregulation of the receptors is permanent?"

new pathways, and the upregulation that you get for a few days teaches the inner post-atomic memory system how to control the system without the need for external stimuli, that literally means its like getting function back to a paralyzed limb.


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yes sorry for the so frequent lapses of sharing, there are many things that pull me, i will be explaining things i have said in the past in more detail soon.

"allosteric modulators"

not to take away from any work being done, or to be done, but i like to think of substances as training tools to help teach how to use the respective systems with ones intent, will, etc etc

PAM and NAM are temporary as is ALMOST every substance related alteration i have found, even the ones that seem to be non temporary seem to have ways of showing the non permanence beneath all, transience takes all forms even permanence.

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if you have had the all loving kambo open your heart and mind enough, the rivers are everywhere, human blood is nearly as pure as it gets, and these rivers flow always, as the wind is river, and the thought stream, and the light stream, and the vibratory ocean, Kampum said it really well one time "the frog does not discriminate who learns lessons worth cherishing, even the lumbering animals that step on kambo and have altered states are loved and accepted by the frog and helped in their own right"

so much powerful love KAMBO!

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i still will be posting everywhere, we have to be careful about what, how much and how fast and to who we share.

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Complementary Modalities / Re: Weeds that are really Herbs
« on: June 05, 2013, 03:04:35 PM »
i only read the first bit of this post but man this is a great post thanks for sharing!

off i go foraging, much love

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"I think every time PW has it sublinguilly he has the EO's as well."

this is not the case, i get effects without EO's, with EO's is stronger and slightly different, but without EO's it still works just fine, there may be something wrong with your guys mouth tissues, possibly with all the EO meridian and chakra balancing and clearing for so long and pressure points perhaps i have cleared my lymph channels and nodes really strongly and maybe i am able to feel the effects kambo is supposed to impart sublingually wile possibly many who are not getting effects sublingually have lots of lymph congestion especially in the mouth area.

if you guys used EO to balance and clear your chakras and meridians frequently enough you could stop and kambo would still impart stronger effects sublingually because the oils actually make the system of entry and exit of the body for all forms of matter and non-matter, its hard to describe, it was worse before i did it, and i feel healthier now, and i am developing really obvious extra-sensory functions the more consistently i clear and balance my chakras and meridians, before you clear them something in your body is broken and nothing will work right until the overall system is healed

its not "PW is doing other things that are activating it that we don't know about"

its "you are all doing toxic things that prevent you from being able to notice what is supposed to be the default potential

"I know for myself when people doubt such risky and avante garde experience-meants it makes me not want to share." 

this is true, for me it is fine though, because for me it tells me that the person is not certain about what they are claiming, otherwise they would be able to trust it enough to have full confidence the truth they encountered will prove itself to other people regardless if you communicate the idea effectively or not.

"Sorry for my delay in PM'ing back in promptness my brother life has gotten too busy to make clear responses ATM."

dont worry brother we all know your crazy busy with so many things, no rush, much love


all the things we know about the physical universe, were learned studying the non-physical universe. because there is no physical universe, what we identify as the physical universe is actually a non-physical universe disguised as a physical one.

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another good trick is to add say mandarin, balsam fir needle, lemongrass, peppermint, cinnamon essential oils 1 drop each under the tongue with the kambo this will dramatically enhance the absorption and potency of the kambo and your bodies sensitivity to it

I suggest if you just take kambo sublingually (with or without essential oils), you will get no effect whatsoever. Kambo does not seem effective when taken sublingually.

i am just going to let you know, you are wrong, not my opinion somebody told me to let you know that.

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Has anyone tried kambo under the tongue or on the gums, I am interested in trying it that way but don't want to overdose.

I see you mentioned being careful when doing it intranasaly but does the same caution apply for under the tongue or on the gums should I just give it a go or weigh it out before hand?

Thanks

Adamantasaurus

I tried taking kambo under the tongue: I placed 2 mg of finely powdered kambo under my tongue, and gently massaged this into the sublingual mucous membranes with my index finger.

I was surprised to find that there was no effect whatsoever from this sublingual administration of kambo.

I am not really sure why. Why should the nasal mucosa be very effective in rapidly absorbing snorted kambo powder, and giving you a kambo trip, yet the sublingual mucosa don't seem to work at all, at least for the dose of kambo I used?



i usually combine sublingual with nasal and oral in capsules with inhibitors, with sublingual you want to hold distilled water in your mouth with the kambo and every now and then swallow the water and replace it with fresh water, if you hydrate your body with continuous consistently slow intake of water for days beforehand its very powerful how you will be able to notice the degree to witch particular doses of water enhance the mobility of kambo through the body. when you swallow the water it will contain a little kambo but most of the kambo will still be on the top skin layers this is why you do multiple washes. try not to let this liquid sit in the back of your throat before swallowing it will numb the part that intersects nasal-mouth-throat passages and will make it feel weird to breath.

WARNING

READ : when you sublingual kambo especially in combination with snuff and other modalities, the likelihood of your lips or gums or under your tongue swelling up raises dramatically, the less water you drink beforehand at a steady rate consistently the more likely swelling will occur as well, i have put kambo under my tongue before and had the swelling so bad that the tiny super thin membrane of flesh under my tongue swelled to the point ware it was literally as if i had another tongue underneath my regular one, the second being entirely just kambo swollen mucous membrane from under the tongue, it can take a few hours or a day and lots of water to take the swelling down.

WARNING


another good trick is to add say mandarin, balsam fir needle, lemongrass, peppermint, cinnamon essential oils 1 drop each under the tongue with the kambo this will dramatically enhance the absorption and potency of the kambo and your bodies sensitivity to it.

don't be to concerned with putting to much under your tongue the worst that will happen is if the pits of hell materialize under your tongue, when you get to that stage you need to stop putting it under your tongue till it settles down a day or two later, a black hole will form under your tongue if you do to much and this black hole is not literally a black colored hole, but rather the muscles under your tongue go into prolonged sustained tension and anything you put under your tongue in this period will literally get pulled into your lymph channels like a object in quicksand, really really fucking fast quicksand.

the trick to getting the mouth to swell is to put in large amounts with little water wile dehydrated in 1 shot.

smaller amounts spread out with more water before and during is more likely to avoid swelling

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thanks for sharing KP i will definitely give this a try


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Complementary Modalities / Health/Nutrition Documentaries
« on: February 10, 2013, 02:30:21 PM »
By: Psilocybechild

The Beautiful Truth
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_beautiful_truth
Raised on a wildlife reserve in Alaska, 15-year-old Garrett was interested in the dietary habits of the farm animals. After the tragic death of his mother, Garrett's father decided to home-school his son and assigned a book written by Dr. Max Gerson that proposed a direct link between diet and a cure for cancer. Fascinated, Garrett embarks in this documentary on a cross-country road trip to investigate The Gerson Therapy. He meets with scientists, doctors and cancer survivors who reveal how it is in the best interest of the multi-billion dollar medical industry to dismiss the notion of alternative and natural cures.


Food Matters
http://documentarylovers.net/food-matters/
Food Matters is a hard hitting documentary film that is a fast paced look at our current state of health.

Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies.

The documentary sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide “Sickness Industry” and exposes a growing body of scientific evidence proving that nutritional therapy can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than most conventional medical treatments.

This film features interviews with leading medical experts from around the world who discuss natural approaches to preventing and reversing Cancer, Obesity, Heart Disease, Depression, Mental Illness and many other chronic conditions. Find out what works, what doesn’t and what’s killing you.


Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead
http://www.hulu.com/watch/289122
Focusing on two men whose bodies have been trashed by steroids, obesity and illness, this documentary chronicles the rigorous healing path -- including a two-month diet of fruits and vegetables -- that both attempt in a bid to rescue their health.


Hungry For Change
http://documentarylovers.net/hungry-for-change/
Hungry For Change comes from the creators of the best-selling documentary Food Matters and is another hard-hitting film certain to change everything you thought you knew about food and nutrition.

The film exposes the shocking secrets of the diet, weight loss and food industries don’t want you to know about deceptive strategies designed to keep you coming back for more. Find out what’s keeping you from having the body and health you deserve and how to escape the diet trap forever.

In this documentary you will learn what you should really be eating and the facts about the disturbing reality that is our way of eating and living. Food like products that contain zero or next to zero nutritional value.

We are a society of overfed and undernourished people who are seemingly oblivious to the hoax being perpetrated upon us.


The Gerson Miracle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbIixJI_oa4
The Gerson Miracle examines many of the elements of the Gerson Therapy, explaining why we are so ill and how we have in our grasp the power to recover our health without expensive, toxic or mutilating treatments, using the restorative forces of our own immune systems. Even the most advanced cases of cancer can be successfully reversed using this method. While the results seem miraculous, the real "miracle" lies within our own body and its healing processes.


Food, Inc.
http://www.movie2k.to/Food-Inc-watch-movie-993914.html
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.


Run From the Cure
http://youtu.be/0psJhQHk_GI
After a serious head injury in 1997, Rick Simpson sought relief from his medical condition through the use of medicinal hemp oil. When Rick discovered that the hemp oil (with its high concentration of T.H.C.) cured cancers and other illnesses, he tried to share it with as many people as he could free of charge, curing and controlling literally hundreds of people’s illnesses… but when the story went public, the long arm of the law snatched the medicine – leaving potentially thousands of people without their cancer treatments – and leaving Rick with unconsitutional charges of possessing and trafficking marijuana!
Canada is in the middle of a CANCER EPIDEMIC! Meet the people who were not allowed to testify on Rick’s behalf at the Supreme Court of Canada’s Infamous Rick Simpson Trial on September 10, 2007… INCLUDING A MAN WHO WAS CURED OF TERMINAL CANCER USING HEMP OIL!


War on Health - Gary Null's documentary exposing the FDA
http://youtu.be/h0CQrL5nzwo
In the near future, American medical practice may change dramatically for the worse. No longer will maximal dose natural supplements—vitamins, natural compounds, and scientifically proven medicinal herbs—be available over the counter in local health and grocery stores. Holistic practice, which relies upon non-prescription natural treatments instead of Big Pharma drugs prescribed life-long, will diminish. American healthcare will be imprisoned, patients will be forced to abide by a single medical paradigm defined by corporate drug and food executives and dictated by a government enforcement agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This is the bleak scenario if the FDA succeeds in limiting Americans’ options to prevent and treat diseases.

‘War on Health’ is the first documentary detailing and challenging the FDA agenda and its allegiance with the international Codex Alimentarius, which hopes to establish a monolithic food and health regime. Betraying its founding mandate to assure drug, food and chemical safety in the interests of public health, the FDA today is a repressive bureaucracy serving pharmaceutical and agricultural greed and profits. Vaccines, medical devices, prescription drugs are fast tracked at alarming rates through the FDA at the expense of scientific oversight to assure their efficacy and safety. The
result is hundreds of thousands premature deaths annually from pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines and medical devices and an epidemic of medical incompetence and fraud sanctioned by federal health officials.

Featuring many pioneering American and European attorneys, physicians, medical researchers and advocates of health freedom, War on Health lifts the veil on FDA’s militaristic operations against organic food providers and alternative physicians. The film’s conclusion is perfectly clear: the FDA is a tyrannical cult founded upon the denial of sound medical science with little intention to improve the nation’s health and prevent disease.


The Greatest Medical Fraud in History - The Pain, Profit and Politics of AIDS
http://youtu.be/vT3b_0doyRk
Does HIV really cause AIDS?
Can we really believe the pharmaceutical industrial complex?

Could it be that after so many years of research, and so much money being spent, that the entire orthodox medical establishment has been wrong about AIDS, or even worse, has sought to profit from a system that it KNEW was flawed from the beginning?

Join legendary documentarian and best-selling author Gary "Mr. Natural" Null, Ph.D., for a journey into the darkest recesses of the medical industry - a journey that not only asks the most painful questions, but even proposes the most intriguing truths about a disease we continue to know so little about.


Global Alert! GMO Ticking Time Bomb
http://youtu.be/prCm3bK_D34
This Gary Null production delves into the reality of GMO health risks.

Vaccine Nation Director's Cut
http://youtu.be/494NacYFmko
Gary Null production
In the United States, the number of mandatory vaccine injections has risen to 36 per child. Each of these injections contains neurotoxins such as aluminum, formaldehyde, aborted fetal tissue, animal by-products, heavy metals, and many others. What happens to a child’s fragile immune system when it’s overloaded with these toxins? From the award-winning director of The Drugging of our Children, Gulf War Syndrome: Killing Our Own and AIDS Inc. – comes the latest film of critical social importance: Vaccine Nation.
For most people, vaccinating themselves and their children seems like a good idea. Vaccines are safe, effective and are supposed to protect us against dangerous infectious diseases – Right? Wrong! What you don’t know can harm you or kill you! In this groundbreaking film, you will: See the truth about the dangers of vaccines and their direct relationship to autoimmune diseases, infections, allergies and a massive increase of developmental learning and behavioral disorders in children, such as Autism. Discover the truth about the history of vaccines and how they have NEVER been proven to be safe and effective for anyone. Witness the legacy of governmental deception and cover-ups associated with vaccines.
Learn about the corruption within the scientific community and how vaccine studies are seriously flawed. You’ll also follow heart-wrenching, real life stories of the parents and children devastated by the effects of vaccines. Join director Gary Null PhD and over 40 of the worlds foremost vaccine experts in this shocking expose’ that will shatter the truth as you know it.


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General Discussion / Disparaging the myths of addiction
« on: February 10, 2013, 02:24:25 PM »
By: λlτεrηιτγ

With this being a forum for exchange of information regarding healing; e.g. Kambo and it's modalities,
I'd like to share some excerpts from a book I am reading regarding addiction.
Some people have a facile viewpoint, declaring that addicts are simply immoral or weak.
This is an ignorant perspective that ignores the complexities of the subject.

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    Addictions, even as they resemble normal human yearnings, are more about desire than attainment. In the addicted mode, the emotional charge is in the pursuit and the acquisition of the desired object, not in the possession and enjoyment of it. The greatest pleasure is in the momentary satisfaction of yearning.
    The fundamental addiction is to the fleeting experience of not being addicted. The addict craves the absence of the craving state. For a brief moment he’s liberated from emptiness, from boredom, from lack of meaning, from yearning, from being driven or from pain. He is free. His enslavement to the external-the substance, the object or the activity-consists of the impossibility, in his mind, of finding within himself the freedom from longing or irritability. "I want nothing and fear nothing," said Zorba the Greek. "I'm free." There are not many Zorbas amongst us.



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    In the cloudy swirl of misleading ideas surrounding public discussion of addiction, there's one that stands out: the misconception that drug taking by itself will lead to addiction – in other words, that the cause of addiction resides in the power of the drug over the human brain. It is one of the bedrock fables sustaining the so-called "War on Drugs." It also obscures the existence of a basic addiction process of which drugs are only one possible object, among many. Compulsive gambling, for example, is widely considered to be a form of addiction without anyone arguing that it’s caused by a deck of cards.



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    Heroin is considered to be a highly addictive drug--and it is, but only for a small minority of people, as the following example illustrates. It's well known that many American soldiers serving in the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s were regular users. Along with heroin, most of these soldier addicts also used barbiturates or amphetamines or both. According to a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 1975, 20 percent of the returning enlisted men met the criteria for the diagnosis of addiction while they were in Southeast Asia, whereas before they were shipped overseas fewer than 1 percent had been opiate addicts. The researchers were astonished to find that "after Vietnam, use of particular drugs and combinations of drugs decreased to near or below preservice levels." the remission (i.e., abatement or reduction of symptoms in illness or addiction) rate was 95 percent, "unheard of among narcotics addicts treated in the U.S."
    "The high rates of narcotic use and addiction there were truly unlike anything prior in the American experience," the researchers concluded. "Equally dramatic was the surprisingly high remission rate after the return to the United States." These results suggested that the addiction did not arise from the heroin itself but from the needs of the men who used the drug. Otherwise most of them would have remained addicts.
    The ones who persisted in heroin addiction back home were, for the most part, those with histories of unstable childhoods and previous drug use problems. What such statistics do show is that what-ever a drug's physical effects and powers, they cannot be the sole cause of addiction. Drugs, in short, do not make anyone into an addict, any more than food makes a person into a compulsive eater.



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    Opiates, in other words, are the chemical linchpins of the emotional apparatus in the brain that is responsible for protecting and nurturing infant life. Thus addiction to opiates like morphine and heroin arises in a brain system, that governs the most powerful emotional dynamic in human existence: the attachment instinct. Love.
    Attachment is the drive for physical and emotional closeness with other people. It ensures infant survival by bonding infant to mother and mother to infant. Throughout life the attachment drive impels us to seek relationships and companionship, maintains family connections and helps build community. When endorphins lock onto opiate receptors, they trigger the chemistry of love and connection, helping us to be the social creatures we are.
    It may seem puzzling that Nature would have given one class of chemicals the apparently very different tasks of alleviating physical pain, easing emotional pain, creating parent-infant bonds, maintaining social relationships and triggering feelings of intense pleasure.
    In fact, the five roles are closely allied.



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    The ACE researchers concluded that nearly two-thirds of injection drug use can be attributed to abusive and traumatic childhood events-and keep in mind that the population they surveyed was a relatively healthy and stable one. A third or more were college graduates, and most had at least some university education. With my patients, the childhood trauma percentages would run close to one hundred. Of course, not all addicts were subjected to childhood trauma-although most hardcore injection users were-just as not all severely abused children grow up to be addicts.



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    Some people may think that addicts invent or exaggerate their sad stories to earn sympathy or to excuse their habits. In my experience, the opposite is the case. As a rule, they tell their life histories reluctantly, only when asked and only after trust has been established-a process that may take months, even years. Often they see no link between childhood experiences and their self-harming habits. If they speak of the connection, they do so in a distanced manner that still insulates them against the full emotional impact of what happened.
    Research shows that the vast majority of physical and sexual assault victims do not spontaneously reveal their histories to their doctors or therapists. If anything, there is a tendency to forget or to deny pain. One study followed up on young girls who had
    been treated in an emergency ward for proven sexual abuse. When contacted seventeen years later as adult women, 40 percent of these abuse victims either did not recall or denied the
    event outright. Yet their memory was found to be intact for other incidents in their lives.
    Addicts who do remember often blame themselves. "I was hit a lot," says forty-year-old Wayne, "but I asked for it. Then I made some stupid decisions." (Wayne is the one who sometimes greets me with the bluesy chant "Doctor, doctor, gimme the news …" when I’m doing my rounds between the Hastings Street hotels.) And would he hit a child, I inquire, if that child "asked for it"? Would he blame that child for "stupid decisions"? Wayne looks away. 'I don’t want to talk about that crap,' says this tough man who has worked on oil rigs and construction sites and served fifteen years in jail for armed robbery. He looks away and wipes his eyes.



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    "The most important finding of research into a genetic role for alcoholism is that there is no such thing as a gene for alcoholism,' writes the addiction specialist Lance Dodes, "Nor can you directly inherit alcoholism."



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    Compulsive shoppers experience the same mental and emotional processes when engaged in their addiction. The thinking parts of the brain go on furlough. In a brain imaging study conducted at the University of Munster, Germany, scientists found "reduced activation in brain areas associated with working memory and reasoning and, on the other hand, increased activation in areas involved in processing of emotions," when even ordinary consumers were engaged in choosing between different brand names of a given product. Under logo capitalism, it turns out, the vaunted "market forces" are largely unconscious – a feature of addiction that advertising agencies well understand. In previous work the electrical discharges of the brain circuits governing pleasure were also found to be in overdrive during shopping, in contrast to the rationality circuits. Neurologist Michael Deppe, the lead researcher, said that "the more expensive the product, the crazier the shoppers get. And when buying really expensive products, the part of the brain dealing with rational thought has reduced its activity to almost zero … The stimulation of emotional centers shows that shopping is a stress relief."



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    These, then, are the traits that most often underlie the addiction process: poor self-regulation; lack of basic differentiation; lack of a healthy sense of self; a sense of deficient emptiness; and impaired impulse control. The development of these traits is not mysterious or, more correctly, there is no mystery about the circumstances under which the positive qualities of self-regulation, self-worth, differentiation and impulse control fail to develop. Any gardener knows that if a plant hasn't grown, most likely the conditions were lacking. The same goes for children. The addictive personality is a personality that hasn't matured. When we come to address healing, a key question will be how to promote maturity in ourselves or in others whose early environment sabotaged healthy emotional growth.



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    On the surface, the differences are obvious: they support wars I oppose and justify policies I dislike. I can tell myself that we're different. Moral judgments, however, are never about the obvious: they always speak to the underlying similarities between the judge and the condemned. My judgments of others are an accurate gauge of how, beneath the surface, I feel about myself. It's only the willful blindness in me that condemns others for deluding themselves; my own selfishness that excoriates others for being self-serving; my lack of authenticity that judges falsehood in others. It is the same, I believe, for all moral judgments people cast on each other and for all vehemently held communal judgments a society visits upon its members. So it is with the harsh social attitudes toward addicts, especially hard-core drug addicts.



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    The War on Drugs fails, and is doomed to perpetual failure, because it is directed not against the root causes of drug addiction and of the international black market in drugs, but only against
    some drug producers, traffickers and users. More fundamentally, the War is doomed because neither the methods of war nor the war metaphor itself is appropriate to a complex social problem that calls for compassion, self-searching insight and factually researched scientific understanding.
    The pertinent question is not why the War on Drugs is being lost, but why it continues to be waged in the face of all the evidence against it.



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    How much actual freedom to choose does anyone human being possess? There’s only one answer: We cannot know. We may have our particular beliefs, spiritual or otherwise, about this aspect of human nature-about how it is or how it should be. These beliefs may strengthen our commitment to helping others find freedom or they may become harmful dogma. Either way, in the end we all have to humble ourselves and admit to a degree of uncertainty. There is no way we can peer into a brain to measure a person’s capacity for awareness and rational choice or to estimate how the relative balance of these brain-mind systems will operate when that person is stressed. There is no gauging the burden of emotional suffering weighing down one person’s psyche against anothers, and there is no way to know what hidden life-enhancing experiences one person may have enjoyed that another has been denied. That is why it’s facile to demand that anyone should be able to 'just say no' and to judge them as morally lacking if they can't.



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    "The War on Drugs is cultural schizophrenia," says Jaak Panksepp. I agree. The War on Drugs expresses a split mindset in two ways: we want to eradicate or limit addiction, yet our social policies are best suited to promote it, and we condemn the addict for qualities we dare not acknowledge in ourselves. Rather than exhort the addict to be other than the way she is, we need to find the strength to admit that we have greatly exacerbated her distress and perhaps our own. If we want to help people seek the possibility of transformation within themselves, we first have to transform our own view of our relationship to them.



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    To expect an addict to give up her drug is like asking the average person to imagine living without all her social skills, support networks, emotional stability and sense of physical and p psychological comfort. Those are the qualities that, in their illusory and evanescent way, drugs give the addict. People like Serena and Celia and the others whose portraits have appeared in this book perceive their drugs as their "rock and salvation." Thus, for all the valid reasons we have for wanting the addict to "just say no," we first need to offer her something to which she can say "yes." We must provide an island of relief. We have to demonstrate that esteem, acceptance, love and humane interaction are realities in this world, contrary to what she, the addict, has learned all her life. It is impossible to create that island for people unless they can feel secure that their substance dependency will be satisfied as long as they need it.



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    ...These are the drugs for which animals and humans will develop craving and which they will seek compulsively.
    But this is far from saying that the addiction is caused directly by access to the drug. We will later explore why these substances have addictive potential; the reasons are deeply rooted in the neurobiology and psychology of emotions.

    Because almost all laboratory animals can be induced into compulsive self-administration of alcohol, stimulants, narcotics and other substances, research has appeared to reinforce the view that mere exposure to drugs will lead indiscriminately to drug addiction. The problem with this apparently reasonable assumption is that animal laboratory studies can prove no such thing. The experience of caged animals does not accurately represent the lives of free creatures, including human beings. There is much to be learned from animal studies, but only if we take into account the real circumstances. And, I should add, only if we accept the tremendous suffering imposed on these involuntary“subjects.”

    Although there are anecdotes of animals in the wild becoming intoxicated, most of them are spurious, as is the case, for example, with stories of elephants getting “drunk”on fermenting marula fruit. There are no known examples of persistently addictive behaviors in the natural world. Of course, we cannot predict exactly what might happen if wild animals had free and easy access to addictive substances in the purified and potent forms administered in laboratories. What has been shown, however, is that conditions in the laboratory powerfully influence which animals will succumb to addiction. Among monkeys, for example, subordinate males who are stressed and relatively isolated are the ones more likely to self-administer cocaine. As I will later explain, being dominant leads to brain changes that give stronger monkeys some protection from an addictive response to cocaine.

    Bruce Alexander, a psychologist at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, points out the obvious: laboratory animals in particular can be induced into addiction because they live under unnatural circumstances of captivity and stress. Along with other astute researchers, Dr. Alexander has argued that drug self-administration by these creatures may be how the animals “cope with the stress of social and sensory isolation.” The animals may also be more prone to give themselves drugs because they are cooped up with the self-administration apparatus and cannot move freely.

    As we will see, emotional isolation, powerlessness and stress are exactly the conditions that promote the neurobiology of addiction in human beings, as well. Dr. Alexander has conducted elegant experiments to show that even lab rats, given reasonably normal living situations, will resist the addictive appeal of drugs:
     
    My colleagues and I built the most natural environment for rats that we could contrive in the laboratory. “RatPark,” as it came to be called, was airy, spacious, with about 200 times the square footage of a standard laboratory cage. It was also scenic (with a peaceful British Columbia forest painted on the plywood walls),comfortable (with empty tins, wood scraps, and other desiderata strewn about on the floor), and sociable

     
    (with 16–20 rats of both sexes in residence at once).…We built a short tunnel opening into Rat Park that was just large enough to accommodate one rat at a time. At the far end of the tunnel, the rats could release a fluid from either of two drop dispensers. One dispenser contained a morphine solution and the other an inert solution.
     
    It turned out that for the Rat Park animals, morphine held little attraction, even when it was dissolved in a sickeningly sweet liquid usually irresistible to rodents and even after these rats were forced to consume morphine for weeks, to the point that they would develop distressing physical withdrawal symptoms if they didn't use it. In other words, in this “natural” environment a rat will stay away from the drug if given a choice in the matter—even if it’s already physically dependent on the narcotic. “Nothing that we tried,” reported Bruce Alexander, “instilled a strong appetite for morphine or produced anything that looked like addiction in rats that were housed in a reasonably normal environment.” By contrast, caged rats consumed up to twenty times more morphine than their relatively free living relatives. Dr. Alexander first published these findings in 1981.

    In 1980 it had already been reported that social isolation increased animals' intake of morphine. Other scientists have since confirmed that some environmental conditions are likely to induce animals to use drugs; given different conditions, even captive creatures can resist the lure of addiction.


-In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Author is Dr. Gabor Maté. who is also @ focus in the film The Jungle Prescription.
Which documents treating addicts with Ayahuasca and Dr. Matés higher success rates.

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i have recently found out that vitamins B12 and possibly B2 and another B vitamin are NMDA antagonists, this is great find as these are absolutely essential anyway.


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