rygoody
08-06-2008, 09:38 PM
I was talking to a guy, 18 years old I think, in college. He told me that one of his friends went on a psychedelic excursion and that "the drug caused his brain to keep producing serotonin at dangerously high levels even days afterwards, which made him think he knew everything, so they had to take him to the hospital and give him an injection to correct it"
That statement right there is probably single scariest thing I have heard ever come out of a young persons mouth in years. Albeit, only 4 years younger than me, but the fact that thinking right there represents some sort of "rationality" of the university world is quite scary.
That kids statement translated into saner words is, the guy realized something incredibly profound and was rolling in an incredible after-glow for days, but no one thought it was ok for someone to feel that good, that enlightened on the subject, people became afraid, so they forced him into the hospital.
It scares me that the rational straight world disregards personal realization, personal empowerment, personal spiritual idiosyncrasies so much that they are actually teaching kids that it's just some 'chemical problem to be corrected' and would actually say there is absolutely no pertinence attached to the subjective feelings associated with the chemical. They have quite literally outlawed spiritual growth for some kids, made them terrified of it.
That statement right there is probably single scariest thing I have heard ever come out of a young persons mouth in years. Albeit, only 4 years younger than me, but the fact that thinking right there represents some sort of "rationality" of the university world is quite scary.
That kids statement translated into saner words is, the guy realized something incredibly profound and was rolling in an incredible after-glow for days, but no one thought it was ok for someone to feel that good, that enlightened on the subject, people became afraid, so they forced him into the hospital.
It scares me that the rational straight world disregards personal realization, personal empowerment, personal spiritual idiosyncrasies so much that they are actually teaching kids that it's just some 'chemical problem to be corrected' and would actually say there is absolutely no pertinence attached to the subjective feelings associated with the chemical. They have quite literally outlawed spiritual growth for some kids, made them terrified of it.