Hez"The strongest inducement to a frequent or daily use of the substances in question is to be found in the properties they possess; in their capacity to excite the functions of the brain-centres which transmit agreeable sensations and to maintain for sometime the consciousness of experienced emotions." That's #LouisLewin in 1924, seemingly paving the way for #microdosing & #PsychedelicWellness in his groundbreaking book #Phantastica, which turns 100 next yr. #WorkJournal #PsychedelicReadingList
"By the exercise of their powers on the brain, they release marvelous stores of latent energy. They relieve the mentally tortured, assuage the racking pains of the sick, inspire with hope those doomed to death, endow the overworked with new vitality and vigour such as no strength of will could attain, and replace for an hour the exhaustion and languor of the overworked by mental comfort and content." #LouisLewin, #Phantastica, 1924. This guy truly got it. #PsychedelicWellness #WorkJournal
Today I've practiced my French attempting to wade through another scholarly tome about #MagicMushrooms in Mexico by #RGWasson & #RogerHeim (link in previous toot) & in another tab I'm reading about the study of #psychedelics in the 1880s by #LouisLewin, which I was *going* to read later, but then #AldousHuxley started talking about it in the #TheDoorsOfPerception, so I decided to take it on first. I also took a break to research which of these 🍄s grow locally, just for fun. #ADHD #WorkJournal
After a 4 hour #PomodoroSession I'm alllllmost done with the #RobertMasters #JeanHouston book #TheVarietiesOfPsychedelicExperience, and then it's on to some comparatively light #AldousHuxley and #LouisLewin. My digital bookshelf is crazy right now. I'll be a bit sad when this one ends, because it's been so amazing, especially the final chapters. #WorkJournal
Today's reading about #PsychedelicWellness includes more of the seminal R.E.L. Masters tome #TheVarietiesOfPsychedelicExperience (I posted a link to a PDF of the 1966 edition yesterday), as well as some #LouisLewin classics, like #Phantastica, long out of print, but available online here. https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzacea3c6mhnwcttkmlzuosdo6qn5phn3zh2lam4dyvcx3zelwfzjso6k?filename=Lewin%2C%20Louis%20-%20Phantastica%20-%20a%20classic%20survey%20of%20the%20use%20and%20abuse%20of%20mind-altering%20plants-Park%20Street%20Press%20%281998%29.pdf. Lewin's 1882 book #TheIncidentalEffectsOfDrugs is on Google Books here. https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafqYLmo1hg_64XTXBkB3xFs2L9iB1OIqU9VtB8hWwFTrbJX-60brNyGGmQyiEyTWLAH4QqWQyoYSE0yRqTm3URg1TX7OTe8m7MKS87g2Kk9rE7Hz4F49N-75dHNZeYHviuUBU-o6MJVd-2fO_JQXxNohs-2nZ18CYbjaANEiZu28g5IVsv-H-DcB0knLJnW_6sviZ0bjKZCofzZlvEpc-xmXxVu448mkOJNscbxx2wsvEXaraabPh9xOe1AuEDz1xuVTkXNC5eLaU8Imr7_QJEOECdBng How amazing to have these resources at my fingertips. I love you, Internet. #WorkJournal