Response to Comment from "Rex 345"

In response to the comment posted by "rex 345",author of Politaurus Rex, I would have to say that I pretty much covered my fact and didn't neglect anything at all. Maybe I didn't go into enough depth; you see once broken down to their sheer composition, the drugs that we create in order to mimic the endogeneous receptors in our brain are, in essence, the exact same thing. We are creating something that we already have, or else there would be no use for it. There are many ways that i could attempt to put it in some analagous form, but Shulgin to the rescue once again, has put it perfectly,

Look at yourself in the mirror, it's a good catharsis. It's me and the drug. It's a relationship which is available to everyone. Everybody has the possibility of going into some sort of ecstatic experience, at any time, without drugs, perhaps even at the grocery store.
I was asked almost the same question a few years ago, so I made up a chart about telephones. The finger dial system phone can be seen as an analog of the brain. All you're doing, if you dial the number one and release it, is making one very fast break in the integrity of the system. If you dial the six and release it, it makes six breaks in the system. Then the relay gets broken three times when you dial three, two times when you dial two and then five times, and you have the number - 6325. You see, you make the circuit by the number of times you break the relay. In fact, if you are very fast with your two fingers you can dial 911 by hitting the cradle which gives you the dial tone 9 times very fast and then once and then once again.

Then you have the push button system. Every time you hit a button you're actually activating two frequencies simultaneously. They devised frequencies so that there's no harmonic interference which could give you a false signal. You're not imposing breaks in the system, you're super-imposing two non-conflicting frequencies in the system.

I look upon this as the true analog of the human brain. The numbers represent serotonin, dopamine etc. If you want a signal to come through, you get this neurotransmitter combination which combines with this and that and the next thing you know you have a thought process and memory.

But when they designed the system, they didn't make it three by four, they made it four by four. These extra four stops have the rather unimaginative names of A,B,C and D and to operate them there is a very secret frequency of 1633 cycles per second. So if you play around with these, you get into areas you wouldn't believe! The military and deep computer language use these four additional stops. But they're not visible on your telephone.

And of course, these stops represent your psychedelic drug neurotransmitter which also gets you into weird places. All the wiring is there but you don't have access to it because 2 million years ago it got bred out of us because it didn't have survival value, in spite of what Terence McKenna says. So the wiring of the brain can use a psychedelic but the transmitter that makes it a functional network is not available.

Secondly, with regards to the ability to overdose from illegal substances, that cannot seriously be the problem at hand. I mean there are tons of deaths from LEGAL substances, car accidents, random shootings, falling down the stairs, running with scissors - but does that mean we should stop use of all these objects that could POSSIBLY kill us. If we are going to live in an imminent state of fear then what is the point of living at all? Half of this life is based on experience (nature vs nurture) so why are we going to limit ourselves from being able to become completlely entrenched in the abilities of the human mind? You could feasibly take too many Advil and die if that's how you chose "go out." The point I was trying to make is that responsibility should come from within the individual and not from some arbitrary system. The government really does not have too many regulations on what you can do to your body. It is YOUR temple, for instance, you can get it tattood, pierced, hung on hooks from walls, take your clothes off of it and dance on top of paying customers...does the government tell you how much food you can eat? No, so why should the ingestion of drugs be any diferent. There should be guidelines, of course, and children should not be sold drugs. But the reason that this has not happened is because the American mindset towards drug laws provides a sort of shell that diverts responsibility away from the individual. Yet, if we go by the way that I am suggesting, if you ALLOW drugs to spin you out of control the problem was you, not the creator of the drug, not the dealer that lied to you and told you it was the "really good stuff,"not the system for letting it hit the streets, but people would actually have to take blame for some of the shit they do. But since we are so quick to "save face" everyone wants to be POWERLESS to these substances as a means to circumvent attention away from how they have regressed or failed in the one and only life they have to live.