Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:58:17 +0100, D wrote:

This is a very interesting theory! I would _love_ to do that kind of
experiment, tring out some psylocybin on hard core atheists, or even
better, not even telling them what the test is about, and see the
reaction and what they experience.
 
Then running the same tests on atheists who know the experiments is
about finding god, to compare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

"The Army was subject to the testing of LSD which occurred in three
phases. The first phase included over 1,000 American soldiers who
willingly volunteered for testing of chemical warfare experiments. Phase
two had 96 volunteers who were induced with LSD in evaluation of the
possibility of intelligence uses of the drug. The third phase included
Projects THIRD CHANCE and DERBY HAT which conducted experiments on 16
unwitting nonvolunteer subjects that after receiving LSD were interrogated
as a part of operation field tests.[1]"


"At the invitation of Stanford psychology graduate student Vik Lovell, an
acquaintance of Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey volunteered to take part in what
turned out to be a CIA-financed study under the aegis of MKUltra,[60] at
the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital[61][62] where he worked as a night aide.
[63] The project studied the effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly
LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT and DMT on people.[64]"


Kesey said to himself "Man, this is some REALLY good shit!"