these are the instances where harris always shines in my opinion.everyone should experience psychedelics at least once in their life,and as harris pointed out,there are caveats but it is so worth it.

the dissolving of the ego can be frightening for some but it can bring you to a truth,about yourself and others,that is quite hard to accomplish without assistance.

i find it interesting that this video is going to be sifted while trances video on the healing nature of psychedelics has been downvoted.

ah sift...you are a fickle mistress.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/This-is-Life-with-Lisa-Ling-Jungle-Fix-Ayahuasca

DMT is often released endogenously (that is, within the brain) when a person dies and during REM while we sleep, facilitating dreams.

It's in ayahuasca and elicited some of the more profound visions and insights that I've ever had.

This was removed from TED? Good, it started to get a little bit preachy and messianic.. Not really objective, hallucinogenics do reveal similar patterns but how we interpret them is personal. You aren't suppose to start converting people in to your thought patterns acquired during ayahuasca sessions, it's suppose to liberate yourself from that behaviour. And guilt. Mostly guilt.

Ted talks are not all science-based and this talk doesn't have a single claim of any woo as people like to call it.

PS. There is an ayahuasca church that has been recognized as a religion in the USA and its sacrament can be used in church ceremonies legally.

Leaving aside the claims about the planet, through lots of research on the topic he speaks of I don't see anything he said as being unfounded, relative to the substances he's discussing.
Ayahuasca has certainly been proven to rid many, many people of addiction, and has been proven to have long-term positive side effects for people with mental disorders such as depression. I believe raising awareness of those elements are worth allowing people to speak about them at TED.

this is really LAME.
They actually do not trip on LSD in this movie. Rather, they drink a powerful psychedelic Amazonian tea called Ayahuasca.
It's truly unfortunate that she acts as though it's LSD because the truth is that the psychedelic experiences the two drugs evoke are actually quite different from one another.

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Guess the Ayahuasca got in the way.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^shagen454:
Yeah, whatever. I have had sex with aliens from outerspace before, pretty forgettable.

We've been over this before, Mexico isn't outer space.

I'm glad this FINALLY came out! It sucks that the LSD lab was shutdown - it's a pretty hard to find substance now. Well, thank goodness for the Silk Road, haha. Anyway, I like Hamilton - I think he's funny. He is sort of like a Nick Cave meets Lurch kinda guy but I appreciate his intentions. I really like the one where he goes to South America to get Ayahuasca & super envious of the time he went to the Blue Lagoon in Iceland and did shrooms, that would be incredible.

I certainly cannot imagine what it would be like to be "poisoned" with psychedelics... it'd surely not be too fun to know you've been poisoned and locked in by someone with evil intent. Ugh. I'm having a bad trip just thinking about it. Krystle was playing with fire & she's super lucky she didn't get burned worse than she did. I still don't understand why she didn't just leave that asshole when the abuse began instead of being a narc.

yes, the ceremony helps the integration.

>> ^marinara:

i saw a documentary on this but it clearly wasnt this documentary. looks like a good drug, but really you need a holistic approach, that is, you need more than just the drug

(all links are to Erowid, a very informative non-profit educational site on drugs)

The *drugs I use most are coffee, marijuana, alcohol, benzodiazepines (valium, xanax etc.), in frequency of use respectively.

The drugs that have given me the most profound experiences are:
Salvia (legal), LSD, MDMA (XTC), DPT, 2c-i/2c-e, psilocybin mushrooms. I have tried nitrous (N2O)(legal) in combination with all except for Salvia and DPT and let me tell you that nitrous boosts them to a whole new, though sadly very fleeting, level for a few minutes.

I really want to have a good mescaline experience. But my last attempts at consuming the most horrid, bitter, slimy, and vomit inducing cactus goop only yielded threshold experiences. I really need to do an extraction on cactus and get some crystal mescaline for a measured and less yucky dose.

Another drug I really want to try is DMT or ayahuasca. Ayahuasca, though also reportedly horribly disgusting, is easily made out of legal plants and DMT can be extracted from them.

Yes I consider myself quite a psychonaut. I do thoroughly research these drugs before use and consider myself a responsible drug user. I only use these psychedelics very infrequently, like once every 3 months or so. They are quite self limiting.

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i like he mentions the existence of DMT in our bodies. I read this is released when you die and provides powerful hallucinations? trippy. like tha ayahuasca root drink from the amazon or something... meo-5 DMT. anyhoo.

Marijuana is harmless (especially vaporized in medical grade device).

Your perceptions can be altered by the substance. Dealing with that is a valuable opportunity to learn.

The substance itself has remarkable and medically relevant, valuable, effects.

heroin and cocaine... people will always do this shit, like ecstacy and meth too. try cracking down on that instead. stop the pot sellers using cash for other more serious illegal operations. take that funding away.

spend money on educational opportunities and watch crime and despair and drug use drop.

what the fuck were we talking about again.

sacred substances need to be taken in sacred space, with proper reverence and intention -- usually including guidance from those who have "been there" before. Where's the corollary ayahuasca video?

Welcome to the archaic revival. We'll be returning to the ancestral passages before too soon.

If I "really want to see other dimensions"? I can tell you the demensions Salvia produces are quite real for me while I'm under the influence.
It is hypothesized that your brain produces DMT while you dream, it is not known for sure, it does occur in small quantities naturally in the brain.
I am however curious to DMT and I will probably try it at some time. Probably first in the form of Ayahuasca.