Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Treatments Lysergic Acid Diethylamide also known as LSD or Acid is a hallucinogenic/psychedelic drug that has mind-altering effects on the human body. This paper focuses on the attempted therapeutic, medicinal, recreational, etc. applications of LSD with the goal of “curing” or helping to mitigate some other undesired effect. Use of LSD is not without its own risks so a portion of this paper will also focus on potential problems with short/long-term LSD treatment applications
Kool Aid Acid Test reports the story of the Merry Pranksters, a group of hippies that started to gather around the American novelist Ken Kesey during the sixties. The cult-like group engaged in various forms of countercultural activity, such as psychedelic experiments which consists of the use of LSD and other dangerous drugs, public performances, and anti-war rallies. Wolfe examines matters of authority, hierarchy, and control through the Pranksters' attitudes towards the conventional structures
Recover One of the things I truly love about Hip Hop is that the music except is a snapshot of the current culture. Even looking back at popular songs in the 1990’s or early 2000’s, a historian would need to know multiple references of political climate and popular culture to decipher the hidden meanings and multi-layered messages hidden in every lyric. Listening to one of my favorite rappers, Lupe Fiasco spit an iconic verse on his song “Dumb It Down,” I realized that if I wanted to explain
What is the supernatural? Perhaps it could be the ghost or maybe a witch? Maybe it is that chill going down a spine during a full moon? It could be that sound that comes seemingly out of nowhere? The idea of the supernatural has always consumed the masses with theories and sightings. In the play Macbeth, the supernatural is a powerful force within the play; However, there is no supernatural forces within the play. Macbeth “uses” the supernatural forces as an excuse to achieve is ultimate goal of
Ayahuasca which stands for vine with a soul, also referred to as yage or caapi, is a tropical vine called Banisteriopsis Caapi which is the main plant in the making of ayahuasca in the Amazon region and is prepared as an hallucinogenic drink which is primarily used as a medicine but others take it as a drug because of its hallucinogenic properties. The mixture of plants is used as a traditional spiritual medicine in ceremonies among the people of Amazonian Peru. Many of whom say that they received
The Thirties and the Sixties: So Different Yet so Similar It seems impossible that I have lived through so many decades! I have lived through decades from the thirties to the sixties, and there are many similarities between the two decades. In both decades democrats gained control in the political arena. Both decades were a time of rapid change, socially, economically, politically, and culturally. The population in the United States greatly increased by about fifty-four million people between
Fascinating Thing We Learned About The Mind In 2015” is an article by Carolyn Gregoir that talks about eight thing that we learned about the brain last year. The first one was smartphones are distracting you in your everyday life. the second one is Psychedelics could possibly treat mental issues. The third one was Pollution is worse for us than we think. The Fourth one is the brain and the immune system are linked. the fifth one was about how erasing memories could treat drug addiction. The sixth one
1960’s Decade Study- Fashion and Music The 1960’s in Australia was a decade marked by the new found domination of youth culture and immense social change, with fashion and music of the previous eras long forgotten as the adolescent baby boomers demanded their own style. The morals of their parent’s era were questioned and they continuously opposed against government decisions. There was a newfound resistance for issues such as environmental matters, racial equality, equal gender rights and matters
melodic territory. That is followed by a few short riffs in free time, before returning to the main riff for a third verse around 5.50. The main riff is repeated until about 6.40, when the song slowly starts accelerating, finishing in 20 seconds of psychedelic cacophony – which is simply too much for many listeners. The second track, “I Talk to the Wind”, provides a mellow rest after the dense amalgamation of noises towards the conclusion of the first track. The song starts with a flute, before a double-tracked
he main character of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, Alex, is a malevolent and brilliant young man. Alex and his gang of inner-city hoodlums partake in heinous acts of violence while under the influence of psychedelic drugs. Performing acts of “ultraviolence” on a nightly basis for profit, Alex finds an outlet for his primal urges in an overly-repressed post-war England. The young man is eventually detained at the scene of a brutal murder, and is immediately incarcerated in a government-run