To the good Dr. Campos - love the article, love the series so far. This point of yours, that these hash eaters were getting "WAY TOO STONED." begs a question (not needing an answer from you of course, you're a busy thinker I'm sure) -- how are you perhaps defining that boundary (and what it means to go beyond?) What exactly is way to stoned? Don't get me wrong, they obviously were having a lot of mixed highs/trips, whatever, as they did their orientalist thing. But I wonder whether it truly is the case that these explorers of the mind would agree that they were "way too stoned?" It seems like they were purposefully engineering their set and setting to have this big grand experiences of intoxication... it's just that sometimes they had a bad go of things and see corpses etc, and sometimes, things were all unicorns and rainbows... and they were pretty objective in bookending the highs and lows of the experience spectrum (be it surely sensationalized.) So I don't know... "Way too stoned" is really a subjective call... or further begs "Way to stoned" to do what exactly? Not meaning to cast dispersions on your work, it's great, but seems like a lot of those people were trying to alter their view of the world in this experimentation and that's always a roll of the dice... or so I've heard... Well done, keep up the good work.
Well I suppose it would just be getting more stoned than one had desired. So, yes, you are right that some people take drugs, especially certain psychedelics, with the recognition that they might be in for a challenging experience. They are in fact seeking out that challenge. But even in those situations, there are times when the challenge winds up being a little more than they bargained for. In the context of marijuana, that's what would be WAY TOO STONED!
Pointed noted good sir. It's just an odd pickle of a topic. An especially vivid "positive" experience is equal to an especially vivid "negative" experience when it comes to 'stonedness' in my opinion. That's the dice roll part - you can be way to high to function and be in a positive euphoric mode, and and way to high to function in a negative terror mode too. You're still way too high, the good or bad aspect of it is sort of immaterial. I just don't like to think that way too stoned = negative trip/high... as there's plenty of people that are riding a good trip/high that are equally way too stoned... If the point is "way to high" equals when they're in terror mode, I'm just not sure I can hold with that. But that's okay, I'm happy to respectfully disagree on our interpretation of what it all means - no unicorns will die (as far as we know) if we don't see eye to eye on this! Thanks again
To the good Dr. Campos - love the article, love the series so far. This point of yours, that these hash eaters were getting "WAY TOO STONED." begs a question (not needing an answer from you of course, you're a busy thinker I'm sure) -- how are you perhaps defining that boundary (and what it means to go beyond?) What exactly is way to stoned? Don't get me wrong, they obviously were having a lot of mixed highs/trips, whatever, as they did their orientalist thing. But I wonder whether it truly is the case that these explorers of the mind would agree that they were "way too stoned?" It seems like they were purposefully engineering their set and setting to have this big grand experiences of intoxication... it's just that sometimes they had a bad go of things and see corpses etc, and sometimes, things were all unicorns and rainbows... and they were pretty objective in bookending the highs and lows of the experience spectrum (be it surely sensationalized.) So I don't know... "Way too stoned" is really a subjective call... or further begs "Way to stoned" to do what exactly? Not meaning to cast dispersions on your work, it's great, but seems like a lot of those people were trying to alter their view of the world in this experimentation and that's always a roll of the dice... or so I've heard... Well done, keep up the good work.
Well I suppose it would just be getting more stoned than one had desired. So, yes, you are right that some people take drugs, especially certain psychedelics, with the recognition that they might be in for a challenging experience. They are in fact seeking out that challenge. But even in those situations, there are times when the challenge winds up being a little more than they bargained for. In the context of marijuana, that's what would be WAY TOO STONED!
Pointed noted good sir. It's just an odd pickle of a topic. An especially vivid "positive" experience is equal to an especially vivid "negative" experience when it comes to 'stonedness' in my opinion. That's the dice roll part - you can be way to high to function and be in a positive euphoric mode, and and way to high to function in a negative terror mode too. You're still way too high, the good or bad aspect of it is sort of immaterial. I just don't like to think that way too stoned = negative trip/high... as there's plenty of people that are riding a good trip/high that are equally way too stoned... If the point is "way to high" equals when they're in terror mode, I'm just not sure I can hold with that. But that's okay, I'm happy to respectfully disagree on our interpretation of what it all means - no unicorns will die (as far as we know) if we don't see eye to eye on this! Thanks again