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- Not at all.
Anne Other was a pen name used by the author. It was not Anne Shulgin, although that would have been great to have her mentorship in that way. She is a sweet soul.
I loved when she said “falling in love is the psychedelic everyone has access to in this lifetime… and they’d outlaw that too if they could.”
Book is here: https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Surrender-Receive-Release-Traum...
- Thanks for your anecdote. Just came here to say that I'm enjoying similar benefits in the relationship with myself, so to speak. I go strictly by the book (the book being "Trust, Surrender, Receive" in this case) with exact dosages, a trusted and sober friend/attendant, and the intention to learn and grow from the experience. It's helped a ton with behavioral patterns that I needed to leave behind, a victim mindset that turned out to be the sole cause of my depression, and has really helped turn my existential curiosity into a source of fulfillment rather than panic.
YMMV as well, but +1 to the comments here wondering how this medicine can be illegal for therapeutic use.
Two caveats: always test your stuff (DanceSafe sells test kits), and remember that the drug is just some extra help/horsepower behind whatever therapy you do and the intention to treat yourself right.
- You may be able to get into a trial. In a therapeutic setting, folks are often able to release the underlying trauma and move beyond it. A great book about this is Trust, Surrender, Receive by Anne Other (AnneOther.com).
- Check out the book TRUST, SURRENDER, RECEIVE by Anne Other.
It features the history, politics, science and first hand accounts of 40 people who used MDMA for healing PTSD and trauma in an underground practice.
Very powerful book.
Http://bit.ly/mdmabook
- False. When used in the right set & setting MDMA can have profound impacts on people's lives.
The book Trust Surrender Receive has 40+ accounts of people use did underground therapy with amazing results.
- My general thesis on this is that "addiction" is really an addiction to dopamine which is triggered by various other things (drugs, sex, booze, power, money, shopping, porn, etc). That dopamine release is the nervous systems attempt to sooth itself when in a state of disregulation.
A healthy nervous system in a healthy environment (with attuned caregivers and limited traumatic experience) will equipt a person with the neural pathways (and associated beliefs and behaviors) to regulate their nervous system.
In compromised development, either through lack of attunement or childhood / early trauma folks don't have the ability to automatically regulate and they are in a constant state of fight / flight. The dopamine helps to deal with this temporarily.
Psychedelics, some therapy, and sometimes near death / mystical experiences (moments of clarity) can offer a window of opportunity in which the ego loosens its grip enough for the nervous system to relax and for the subconscious material (traumas) to come to the surface and be released with the accompanying rewiring of the fight / flight response.
When one experiences reality from an undefended state it is generally such a pleasurable, rich experience that the desire to use other mechanisms of self-soothing organically fade away and the cognition and behavior reorient to healthier more nourishing alternatives.
These experiences and therapy combined with a healthy environment and relationships that support the honest expression of emotion (ie, not co-dependent) can rapidly support healing.
The basic idea is that traumas are trapped in the somatic system and that altered states of consciousness combined with the right context can allow for an unfolding and healing of the underlying issues.
Depending on the underlying issue and severity of the defense structures folks may find help with various psychedelic substance from MDMA, Iboga, LSD, Mushroom or Ayahuasca.
We also have seen great result using Holotropic Breathwork which was developed as a legal alternative to LSD Psychotherapy.
This is essentially the same process I used to heal from bipolar, as I began to see bipolar as an "addiction" to states of depression and mania as a protective, adaptive response.
It's also the process I now use with my clients and the underlying philosophy that I bring to the communities that support.
If anyone is interested, there is a new book out (published anonymously) that documents accounts of a number of people who have been helped by an underground MDMA therapy practice. (Not specific to substance addiction, but includes some accounts.)
https://smile.amazon.com/Trust-Surrender-Receive-Release-Tra...
