LSD Bear

Augustus Owsley Stanley III (1935–2011), widely known by his nickname "Bear," was an iconic audio engineer and clandestine chemist who served as a pivotal figure in the 1960s San Francisco counterculture movement. [1]

The "LSD King": He was the first private individual to mass-manufacture high-purity LSD. Between 1965 and 1967, he produced millions of doses (including the famous "Monterey Purple") that effectively fueled the 1960s psychedelic movement and the Human Be-In. [1, 2]
The Grateful Dead: He was the primary sound engineer, road manager, and financial benefactor for the Grateful Dead. He co-designed the band’s iconic "Steal Your Face" skull-and-lightning logo. [1, 2]
Audio Pioneer: Owsley revolutionized live concert audio. He pioneered live stereo sound mixing and designed the massive, groundbreaking "Wall of Sound" concert system used by the Grateful Dead in 1974. His work heavily influenced modern live audio engineering and companies like Alembic Inc and Meyer Sound. [1, 2]
Bear's Sonic Journals: He obsessively recorded live performances of the Dead and other 1960s–1970s artists from the soundboard. These high-quality archives are now preserved and released by the non-profit Owsley Stanley Foundation. [1]

Damocles

 the sword of Damocles is over my head, except I'm missing the power and wealth.

Great things lie ahead.

PHARMAKON

PSYCHEDELICS AND ETHICS: THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL

 The Nagoya Protocol is a legally binding international agreement that ensures the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. It aims to prevent biopiracy and provides a global framework for research, development, and commercialization.

The idea is right — but where's the follow-through?

The principle is solid, and long overdue. But watching the pharmatization of substances like Ibogaine unfold, I'm not convinced it's actually being applied.

I spent today at the TRYP conference talking with people deep in this field — researchers, founders, practitioners — and not one of them could point to a success story when it came to crediting Indigenous communities for millennia of traditional knowledge and experimentation.

So the question stands: is any company out there genuinely operationalizing benefit-sharing with source communities? Not as a PR footnote, but as a structural part of their model?

Because if the answer is still no, the "ethical psychedelic industry" is mostly a rebranding exercise.

new word: CONSPIRITUALITY

When people reject the mainstream scientific model, they can become very gullible. Their minds may become too available to any alternative that supports their unconscious biases. Many lack the capacity to distinguish between what we might explore theoretically or as a model and what is literally “true.” Trump’s political rise is also a result of this lack of intellectual rigor, which has infected the population, just as various forms of delusional mystification hypnotized the German population before World War Two."

from Daniel Pinchbeck's Substack

SIMULATIONSHIP

 

A impossibilidade da relação me causa interesse mas também desconforto

Sei viver na dualidade mas ela me incomoda quando se apresenta no outro.

Camilo Caballero AKA the GHOST

“The way forward is not criticism of what they’re doing wrong, it’s just a power grab of people who have daddy issues and instead of going to therapy went to Congress which is what men do when they don’t wanna work on themselves.” Alokvmenon

Calendar Hostage

I’ve been a woman with her would-be-busy calendar held hostage, waiting to hear if some (hot skater) guy might grace me with his presence. Honestly, being popular and a people pleaser is a dangerous combination...

From Katie Slutever