‘Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas’ by Hunter S Thompson- it’s a classic!

That book is so, so funny.

No one else has described "the fear" quite like it.

Thanks, I always assumed it was autobiographical, I'll give it a go

There is a stark realism that shows he has definitely “been there” but the craziness and quantities involved have to be fiction- I don’t believe anyone could walk away from those levels! (Even Jonny Depp in the film version!)
Let us know your view!

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe

A classic.

If you're even remotely into late 60s psychedelia you must read this book.

Non fiction but key.

Just come round my house on a weekend you won't need to read a novel. Lol. 🍄😁

Spot on mystery man!

Have you ever read ‘The Acid House’ by Irvine Welsh. A book of short stories the majority of which centre around people on an LSD trip. Very very funny book

Fkn love all his books... filth, acid house, trainspotting, there all so close to real life for Irvine not to have dabbled in drugs...

Weird I was talking to my mate about that one yesterday, neither of us could remember if there were any LSD related stories it's been so long

The original trip novel but about mescaline - doors of perception by Aldous Huxley, the brave new world guy…

Classic text - well worth reading in full, not just his description of the mescaline experience.

I had a copy with my extensive handwritten notes comparing some of his description with my first psylocybin experience. But to this day I had never had mescaline.

Talking about mescaline Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan trilogy is worth a look although it is hard to separate fact from fiction.

Trilogy? The first 3 books?

Naked Lunch by William S Borroughs

there is a great movie directed by Ken Russell called Altered States, the original novel was by Paddy Chayefsky.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. A bit of insight into the history and counterculture. And as already mentioned, Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.

Philip k dick- many are inspired and involve these themes try Ubik or “the three stigmata of Palmer eldritch” but the best writer of the suggestions you have received so far is Tom Wolfe- the story of Ken Kesey writer and 60s iconoclast- “the electric kool aid acid test”- a classic

Island by Aldous Huxley.

The BIBLE

the best of all time is the teachings of don Juan by carlos casteneda. It is amazing. and dont care about people saying its not real, its real, its just written in a fictional way to make it seem like legitimate research. its one of the best novels ever written.

“LSD my problem child” is a really good book by Albert Hoffmann the person who was the first to take LSD and discover it. And “How to change your mind” is another good book

and a great series now on Netflix :-)

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon contains an awesome acid sequence about 100 pages in. The Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson also has many mind bending episodes.

“Trippers” by William.J.Booker
“The Mad Artist” by Roger Keen
Especially the latter as he describes his trip on microdots. Funny and terrifying.

Have a look at Irvine Welsh bro/sis he's defo took some of the love liquid ✌️✌️

Has to be the TELETUBBIES you don't need any pycadelics watching that so it saves money.

Hey friend, sounds like you have a great project on yoru hands. I would highly recommend "LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven" by Chris B bases his research on the grandfather Stan Grof's high dose LSD therapy. There are so many amazing insights which would help you in your script.

Good luck and when you finish would be very interested in reading :-)

Peace, love and Connection 🙏

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Hello, as previously mentioned, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception and William S Burroughs The Naked Lunch is pretty out there!

Hey Family,

Try "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe.

This non-fiction book delves into the experiences of author Ken Kesey and his group of friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, as they embark on a cross-country journey experimenting with various mind-altering substances. The story captures the spirit of the 1960s counterculture movement and offers a firsthand account of their wild adventures, psychedelic trips, and exploration of consciousness. It provides a unique insight into the impact of these substances on individuals and their interactions with society.

Peace and Respect

My diary lol but you're not having that

At the end of trailer park boys, the main characters consume a lot mushrooms. So much that they turn into cartoons, which leads into the shows animated series.

Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg has a telepath character undergoing a bad acid trip by proxy

Ecstasy Club, you can get it from America on eBay. And automated alice

'Stone Junction' by Jim Dodge.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter Thompson
A reality tip - LSD effects drop off the more frequently it is taken - if your characters are dropping tabs more than once a week, then they are no longer tripping

Hi desydesy

That is a very good point which I made lately about trying to have tow mushroom trips back to back. It doesn't work for the same reasons.

Your post reminded me of - not fiction - but those horrible stories abut project MkUltra.

According to wikipedia Ken Kesey himself first encountered LSD in an MkUltra funded trial.

I remember the book passage where he described a squirrel dropping an acorn sounding blue.

What I meant by horrible stories is those stories of them keeping people on acid for days on end.

Not sure if it's true.

That being said there is a well known and hilarious youtube clip of the Bristish Army undergoing the same kind of military research regimen in 1964 I think.

we need another currency here but not but cause of the price fluctuations. More the massive fees some customers have to pay.

I mean no offence when I say, nobody was complaining when it was rising 400% this year. No doubt it will again.

He’s definitely highlighted a huge issue though.

Based on what will it rise again?

Crypto is a cyclical product, history repeats and it shall again, everyone saying remember when it was $3000! This will be the case again when it’s $300,000, everyone will say remember when it was $32,000.... If you look at what actually happened during the crash recently, many institutional investors made a fortune and jumped out, sadly retail customers panicked as they always do through sheer lack of knowledge followed suit and crash... all that happened was many retail coins were rebought for a 50% price reduction by you guessed it institutional investors... What people ie us are doing is letting the same people that control all the Fiat wealth of the world do the exact same thing with OUR currency the people’s currency of crypto, people want change but we’re either too stupid or simply no able to communicate the plan the actually create a new unbeatable currency, Bitcoin simply isn’t it as too much is now held by too few and the wrong few, what needs to happen is normal people need to buy some crypto, even £20, £50, £10,000 any amount, but we need more in the hands of individuals NOT the super rich and investment banks. If you think that the powers that be will not make sure they at least triple their investment then you’re stupid and that’s why Bitcoin can and will go up wildly in the next 5 years. Long term Bitcoin will be the new gold, once who they want to own it owns it then the price will stabilise and it’s status as digital gold is complete, personally I see this at the $1m mark. As a currency to use Eth 2.0 will blow BTC out of the water and ADA/Cardano has a massive possibility also. Please don’t fall into the trap they’ve set, they want your money out of BTC so they can have it as the greedy fucks want the 1% to be able to control the 99%. Buy BTC buy ETH, ADA, VET etc and Hodl leave the big boys to fight and trade amongst themselves because you simply will LOSE! You can’t win the deck is stacked against you, what they can’t take away is your keys, buy the dips like they are and win long term.

I don't understand the question

Question is are you delivered my order (to Bulgaria) or not ?
I know my English is bad ...

Yes I sent one to Bulgaria 2 days ago

Send vendor a message mate , hopefully he will sort u out, good luck

I did but no answer

Cool mate, hope it still lands for u , should once u had address in

Dude I did the same last week dont worry about it should arrive no problem only thing it wont show is the order on your order history

Thanks

Lol I was gonna ask the same thing! Love the cheese would happily buy!

may be he is swiss or dutch? :)

An unfortunate, unrelated nickname

How did you get this nickname?

Make sure cookies are on

what country?

One says to, the other says from United kingdom.

Click the one that says to and it should give you a list.

Yes i did, and selected united kingdom and completed the address 5 times , each time it says error please complete destination country ie as if i havent alteady done it?????

Any ideas appreciated

I’m assuming is your first order.... maybe before trying to make an order, try to add your address into your account.
Then try to make an order. You will just have to press your “saved address” see if that works

I tried that, il try again later from another browser i think.

A different browser is a good idea! Don’t worry it will be something simple! But I know the feeling, so close! But yet so far!!!!! Lol it’s worth it though believe!

Thanks ill try again later . Fingers xd

what device/browser?

Chrome

all propaganda from billioniares who want to stop us travelling...co2 makes up just 0.4% of the atmosphere...of that 0.0001% is man made..you all smoke weed, weed eats more co2 than any other plant, they add it in every big grow...plants eat co2...it gets higher plants get bigger...its bullshit antiscience...methane is the same, the hydrogen and oxygen eat it...its a perfect system...the co2 levels when the antartic was warm was half of todays levels..so that ruins the warming scam in a second...all bullshit with no experiments behind it...more fake corporate covid science ,all bought and paid for...dont belive a word of it. it is our duty to use actual science and resist this stupid scam....sorry if this offends anyone but bullshit walks... wheres Doggerland? wheres Dunwich...read some history the climate was never stable. who gains fromn this ...just the b illioniares who want to tax and stop our democracy.....wake up..its not science its a coup.

Spot on, that man! It’s 0.04% 400ppm. Whoever managed to convince people that CO2 The Gas of Life or The Miracle Molecule essential to all carbon based life forms on Earth is also a threat to the climate, has done a first class job of a psyop. Hats off to the Communists, The Masters of Manipulation, they’re very good at what they do.

Why would I trust who? Which ‘scientists’ are you saying I should trust or not trust? Should I trust this lying, serial litigating POS?

The truth is out there if you want to look for it. Every prediction/model has been based on the assumption that CO2 is a warming gas. It isn’t a warming gas, not even close.

Where did I say “don’t trust scientists”

YEs SIr

My job is analytics on wind farms. This first problem is the government doesn't have a clue about the problems with it.

The government gave incentives to build them so companies built them in the windiest places. Offshore north Scotland.

Most of the energy is needed in London but there isn't the infrastructure to move it. So a lot of the time we pay for that wind we can't move but then also have to pay a gas generator in the south to provide the required energy.
This effectively makes energy twice the price.

But the politicians keep saying build more North Sea windmills. They are thicker than pig shit! We need investment in the infrastructure to move what we already have being generated.

The other problem is privatisation. Electricity is AC when it's generated and can't be stored in batteries. Converting to DC loses a third of the power and won't work on a big national circuit.
Pump stations are the best improvised batteries for AC but they're privately owned and charge a fortune.
If it was nationalised, we could send the excess wind to pump station to store.

.084 of world population so still quite a lot

here we are, the population that exists now is the vanguard of what is to come. I fear, for our future generations, that it becomes worse before better. Though we as homosapien sapien (we're double sapien) will adapt to our environment regardless.
The Cop23 summit told us the ocean temperature has increased by 3% (correct me if this figure is wrong). Tearful to type And that means the death of our oceans as we know it. Maybe the nature of the oceans, like humans, is to die - and reincarnated also. But, that is now the temperature of the oceans. It cannot be decreased 'back to normal' through environmental friendly actions. The oceans are dying basically, bit grim to type, but we're all reasonably grown up here to handle the truth.
only thing that can cool them back down - to recognisable temperatures
(and stop the ocean from dying) - is an ice age. There may be intelligent lifeforms there that we are yet to kill.

Agree with the sentiment but I'm not convinced about oceans dying. For a start the great barrier reef is at its greatest extent for something like 40 years. Over fishing, pollution etc are far greater problems in my opinion and we could do something about that.

CO2 doesn’t affect the climate or the Earth’s temperature. It’s all bollocks. Anyone who thinks AGW/ACC is a thing, shouldn’t smoke weed. You have been played 😂

Solar and Wind turbine require precious earth metals which is equally devastating to produce.

Plastics are the biggest problem in my opinion and that just seems to be getting worse there will be no rest bite to production of petro chemicals as profits and dividend payments to shareholders are the most important to these corps. And that will never change.

We are being screwed and we will continue to be screwed unless we all get together and dethrone this evil beast!

great post but i think when we're talking about the planet "we" is something bigger.

I highly doubt that the CCP hold the same opinion as you when it comes to "we" but I'll keep my fingers crossed.

When confronted with this principle of "1%" a climate activist I happened to listen to on LBC said;

"Well we're a leading power in the world and therfore I think we need to lead by example. When we change... countries like China and India will follow"

The utter arrogance of this is not just vulgar, but bewildering.

China (CCP) couldn't give a shit what the UK does and if you want an example of how much they respect our opinion, let's look at Hong Kong.

They walk in, Dominic Raab whinges a bit and fuck all happens. Because we're not a world power anymore. And Hong Kong wil soon be absorbed by the CCP.

Put your plastic in the recycling bins, fold up your cardboard all you want, it won't make a blind bit of difference. The only thing this movement has done is replaced religion in a secular UK society. That's it.

I wish it wasn't so, but it is.

Cheers BB

It's a difficult one, I'm still on the fence but leaning towards it all being bollox.

Renewables make sense to me on a basic level - wind blows, sun shines, free energy yay. But there's nothing green about a wind turbine when you think about 1000s tonnes concrete, 100s tonnes steel, rare minerals, shipping, construction, permanent environmental damage, bird/bat deaths etc. plus it blows my mind that they need 100s litres of oil as a lubricant and diesel generators to start in winter. Never mind having gas turbines on standby when the wind stops and having to pay farms to stop producing when we reach storage capacity. It doesn't make sense to me .... And even worse we can't even manufacture ourselves. Surely if we wanted to replace our energy infrastructure it would make sense to use resources we have to build rather than importing everything.

As I mentioned I'm still trying to make up my mind. I stopped driving more than 10 years ago to do my bit (and live a bit healthier) but now I'm starting to think I've been a mug.

Check out the documentary Climate the Movie. I'm not saying it's all correct but these are very credible people with a different view.
https://youtu.be/ovsgeBcX8Ao?si=mqOhC9z5n69xijOq

Also wattsupwiththat.com. It blows my mind how much science is being ignored in mainstream discussions.
For starters find the articles on the reliability and positioning of the met offices weather stations. In short, most of them have 2-5 degree error and something like 80 don't actually exist. This is how we are measuring the record breaking temperatures to hundredths of a degree.

On the other hand, I've observed decreasing snowfall in Europe over the last decade. Floods seem to be worse (or is that because they are reported more). CO2 does seem to be increasing hence greening of deserts (but are we doing that or is it going to increase anyway given we are a historical low)

One thing I'm sure of is that the narrative is getting rammed down our throats at every opportunity. This makes me suspicious and I'm taking time to investigate claims which generally turn out to be bollox.

Nuff said, I think in writing this I've made up my mind 😂

Well concrete on its own is about 8 to 10%

Between 2009 and 2011 China used more concrete to make its 'megacities' than the United States used in the entire 20th Century.

Get your head around that one. I sure can't. 🤔

Cheers BB

Picture round 10 times the people and concrete used 5 times as much per person now.

put the blunt down

just for a second . pick up the bong n start a new method

Basically it derives from the same origins. There are certain laws of ethnic relations in history of humankind, such as:

1. law of percentage: lets say a black person somewhere in gothenburg or copenhagen would trigger an amused curiosity and the outpouring of sincere sympathy, however, if you "inject" immigrant workers up to the fateful threshold of 4-8 percent and you will already have a racial situation - the nature of social relationships changes, engendering ethnic tensions, global reflexes painful to describe. The more the percentage increases, the more class struggle transforms itself into racial confrontation. Basically, this percentage is sufficient to make racial discrimination appear spontaneously in people who previously believed itself wholesome and devoid of any racist sentiment.

2. The law of assimilability: If majority and the minority belong to the same large ethnic group (all are white, or all a asian), then assimilation occurs progressively. For example, Spanish or Portuguese workers despised in France not so long ago, integrated themselves into population within the space of one generation; same for descendants of corsicans and the poles during napoleonic era, same for bambara minority living in senegal. But if the ethnic and cultural gap is too big, tensions are exacerbated with time. Like African Blacks and Arabs find themselves in this situation in Europe. Coexistance basically becomes possible only in a truly Socialist state or a state that has adopted a high morality philosophy.

3. the law of distance: like two ethnic groups that are not fighting over the same living space or same market and occupy different territories separated by space can enter into normal relationships. Like that an alliance can be explained during world war 2 between hitlers germany and japan. or relationship of pretoria with israel state.

4. the law of phenotype: basically physical appearance. It would matter little tgat botha and zulu in africa have the same genotype (same genes in the chromosomes) and it would have no influence on their daily lives because their external features are so different.
Laws of class struggle according to history applies only to societies previously made homogeneous by violence. Funny, that the most modern nations actually went through this bestial struggles before (Americas, australia, new zealand, good part of asia, greenland, huge part of pacific, scandinavia, etc, etc).For example Blacks of Americas were brough over to work the land, while the indigenous races were being destroyed. So, the "more advanced" barbarious conquerors exterminated/drove out whole populations, devastated or abandoned productive forces they they simply did not know how to use. This specific law is one of my favourite... how spartan domination ended by crumbling particularly because of the great numeric weakness of their REAL citizens. Because their society consisting of spartan conquerors and lowly helots both belonged to the same large white-skinned 'race', ethnic differences became blurred and it allowed class differences appeared only in an economic sense.
Same goes for Rome and Carthage, Rwanda-Burundi, Francs and Gallo-Romans.
Have a look at the american immigration laws and how it progressed throghout 19-20 centuries. This law also gave birth to so called intra-european racism, etc.

We forget that the passage from a clan to a monolingual tribe and to ethnic group and to nationality historically was a result, a consequences of clans exogamy. It is still widely discussed by specialists. But it marked starting point of the current civilization.
Endogamy was prohibited and we, humans, just started fucking people from the outside kkk several neibourhing clans contracted marriage ties that led them eventually to speak same languages despite that their original idioms were different.
The number of clans to gather together to work a more or less powerful tribe didnt follow any rules and depended mostly on the fertility and extent of the lands occupied by the group. Thus was born nationality.

In the course of history, when two groups of people argued over a vital economic space, the slightest ethnic difference can be magnified, temporarily serving as a pretext for social and political cleavage: differences in physical appearances, colour of your passport, language, religions, morals and customs.

We forget that basically future generations must forget about the dead so that the conquering people can undergo a rebirth with an angelic consience.
Why do we almost idolise, for example, conquistadors, holy crusaders and vikings? Pillagers, rapists, murderers and worse.

Most of the things we learn and follow, most of the times, blindly, things we consider as truths and solid facts, the very foundation of our personal universes - it was predominantly build based on someones ideologies.

Books, that our kids and us read, are also written under certain circumstances, conditions, requirements, with certain motivations. Dictated by an ideology.

Sooo.... sorry for the massive message. It just questions like this trigger something inside me, something that i consciously try to understand and overcome. For before we are races or nationalities, boys or girls, gays or straight, we are humans.

Peace yo.

Interesting points. I just came across this forum and will make a contribution. Meanwhile, on the topic of Scottish Nationalism, I have myself proposed Independence For England! We English (whatever that means through consensus) vote in a referendum to dissolve the union of England and Scotland. Never mind what they want, how about what we want, which may be to separate from them, along with the subject nation of Wales. We'll have our own oven ready breakfast and our own national covid death toll, while we surrender the last shreds of our integrity to the fucking Yanks and the fucking Chinese whose government leaders wouldn't make the groove as a couple of Pox Doctor's clerks.

Please dont have the idea that all Scots want independence
. Plenty are and always will be happy to be part of the union. There is more at play than just Scottish Independence, certain elements see Scottish independence as a means to help another cause. Understand that Independence of Scotland is not the endgame for a lot of SNP supporters.

The whole SNP "independence" thing is a facade.

The SNP want to leave our union and join the EU club because they'll give them more money than Westminster does.

They still want to be financially "dependent", just a more generous sugar daddy.

I'm talking about the SNP, not all Scots :)

High Raskolnikov. Your post showed as a comment on mine so You're addressing me, then. I have no intention of stating anything about what Scots want. My point is that I consider an English Independence Referendum is incumbent on ourselves to determine our Englishness without the input of the other three nations. Devolution, revolution, phooey! We want ablution. Wash our hands of the lot of you. Do we? Who does? Has anyone got this underway? Sturgeon and Salmond? Something fishy about those two!

Interesting points Vikosh. I feel that England is a pretty tribal place.

Being born and growing up in the North, spending the last 2 decades in the South, and finally relocating back to the North of England, i’d say there are even considerable cultural and economic differences between different areas of this country.

There was a political movement that started a few years ago, that seems to now be on the back burner, for northern independence. While this is a lofty pursuit, and i’m unsure how successful it might be if implemented, I think it suggests that certain areas of our country define themselves not on a national footing but a regional one.

Personally I consider myself English and Irish, rather than British, but more crucially, being Northern trumps ‘Englishness’ for me…. race doesn’t come into it for me. Social class plays a large factor too.

I’d take a working class community in the North populated with English South Asians, Roma, and West African people over a predominantly white, middle class community in rural Hampshire- this is down to personal experience and unscientific, just my preference having lived in both places.

Great topic!

I certainly don’t need a referendum to establish my Scottishness.

I wouldn’t blame the English people if they started to see things this way but we are still all better as a union and I think you know this. Sturgeon and Salmond are just typical politicians mate who lying is a big part of the job description. There has been a huge change in Scotland in my lifetime where the working class vote has moved away from labour to the snp. Labour has shot themselves in the foot so many times but also the snp politics has changed. I have been on this earth a long time and the snp have changed so much. Sturgeon is still using her bloody daily briefing up here to try to indoctrinate the nation. I’m going to stop here as I am ranting.

British here too. I feel like the silent majority of my country are the same

Not English, then. To be born an Englishman is to win first prize in the lottery of life. That life being the infliction of Imperialism on 25% of the world's population. Nothing wrong with that, was there?

Cool. What were you born?

Obviously, not britain. Tiocfaidh ár lá.

Get your Brits out!!