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Recieved: 1999/09/15 15:04
Subject: Re: [K-list] Drugs vs. Breath??
From: Kungajigme

On 1999/09/15 15:04, Kungajigme posted thus to the K-list:

In a message dated 9/14/99 8:11:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
dudeATnospamdeepwell.com writes:

<< You can sit there all day trying various breathing exercises, and
meditating until your belly-button drops off, and you will not enter into a
psychedelic state. >>

Of course not...the very word was coined to describe the effects of these
drugs and so to distinguish those effects from hallucinations. In a true
hallucination the subject loses rational criticism and believes the
hallucination to be reality. The early psychonauts of mid-century, Leary,
Alpert, et al., wanted a term to describe what they were experiencing with
certain drugs. I believe you will find the word, in its uses both as noun
and adjective, first appearing around 1956-1957.

As coined, psychedelic combines the Greek terms: psyche-"soul" and deloun-"to
show". Hence, "psychedelic" becomes the revealer of the soul.

As to whether drugs are the only way to achieve this revelation, well...that
sounds more like in what mushrooms grow ...

Sarva Mangalam!
James

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