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FEW YEARS AGO, BACK WHEN "designer drugs" were still too new to be illegal, an artist who calls himself LordNose! went to a party. The people there were (or considered themselves to be) the current cognoscenti of techno-consciousness: computer hackers, psychologists, writers. LordNose! found himself caught up in a con- versation with a couple of journalists talking about the latest hot topic, new psychedelics, which he knew by their more intimate names, "Adam," "Eve," "Escaline." The first journalist, holding a drink, told LordNose! that "Ecstasy" (that's MDMA or "Adam") causes a loss of spinal fluid. The second, with a cigarette, reported that MDMA causes Parkinson's disease. Ab- solutely: He'd heard it on the news. Plants of the Gods The context for ecstasy - the body of knowledge, belief, story, art, and ritual that supports the occasional praaice of getting out of one's mind and out into the rest of the universe - is strangely central to many of the problems we are faCing in the global tech- no/ogo/opolis. Something's happening on the planet, and those of us who have the most to do with making it happen know the least about it. Those of us in cities have very few sensors left to perceive the natural world, and few clues to ways of feeling any personal relationship to even small pieces of the living planet. The developed world since the industrial revolution has been the first civilization (that it knows of) out of the countless civilizations that have come and gone, that has had to deal with technology as well as human behavior and the natural world. In the process of creating a marvelously godlike machinery, a civilization has arisen where ecstasy has no sanaioned context A few other civilizations, almost all of them extinct, did"have such contexts. These other civilizations left messages for us, carved in stone. LordNose! came to us with a story of ethnobotanical adventure, ancient spiritual traditions, and digital art - an irresistible combina- tion - but he's an image artist, not a writer, so we teamed him up with Laura Fraser to tell the story of his quest. Fraser is a freelance San Francisco writer; LordNose! is a wandering minstrel and digital historian of ecstatic states. -Howard Rheingold 38 WHOLE EARTH REVIEW SUMMER 1992 ,/ ·A CONTEXT FOR ECSTASY BY LAURA FRASER LordNose! understood that MDMA, an empathogen-entactogen, was a substance that promotes the communication of feelings both with others and within oneself. It did have a few unpleasant side effects, and wasn't to be taken lightly. You had to do a little research to know you should avoid taking MDMA with un- known combinations of drugs, particularly certain antidepressants called monoamine oxidase inhi- in magazines was erroneous, emphasizing either bitors (MAOIs). This combination may cause dan- the simple hedonistic aspects of particular sub- stances or warning of the ominous consequences gerous elevation of body temperature and blood ·pressure. If you are taking an antidepressant and of their use. (This year's undocumented newspaper accounts of numerous deaths due to MDMA in are unsure as to whether it is an MAOI, stop and find out before exploring. But otherwise, to his England are the latest rash of unexamined rumors ·knowledge, MDMA's side effects were mainly about MDMA.) Much of the scientific literature limited to some mild jaw-clenching and an embar- on the traditional psychedelics and the newer com- pounds, such as MDMA, that are more appropri- rassing tendency to call up ex-lovers and casual ately classified as empathogens-entactogens, was acquaintances to tell them how much you love hidden in relatively obscure journals, and often them. The jaw-clenching part, at least, could be al- tainted with the usual government-approved biases leviated by taking a little calcium and magnesium before the MDMA and plenty of fluids during that tend to distort reality. Recent pronouncements ·the session to prevent dehydration. by scientists such as Dr. Stephen Peroutka at Stan- ford University School of Medicine that MDMA But where did the journalists - folks who were may have damaging effects on the human brain also supposed to be in the know, with reliable "expert" go unchallenged. "The more (MDMA) you take, the sources - come up with these apocryphal tales? more negative it becomes," he claims, without dis- As it turned out, the spinal-fluid story came from a tinguishing reduced benefits from negative effects. study of MDMA by Dr. George Ricaurte at Stanford As for damaging nerve cells, as Peroutka suggests, to determine if there were any residual effects of the pharmacologist and chemist Dr. Alexander T. MDMA. In fact, no effects were found, and the only Shulgin says MDMA probably doesn't have that spinal fluid lost was.what the researchers took out effect. "The most damning statement is that there of the subjects' bodies themselves. The Parkinson's is some damage to axons, bitty projections that are Disease rumor came in the aftermath of a bad batch associated with neurons, but which seem to even- of a synthetic opiate that contained the neurotoxin tually repair." The scientific disinformation that ·MPTP, which people were shooting on the street as was widely reported supported the government's a heroin substitute, and which did, sadly, cause a ban on psychedelic drugs based on their abuse few individuals to get the disease. The media were potential, not their neurotoxicity. · indiscriminately calling both MPTP and MDMA All this misinformation, thought LordNose!, needed "designer drugs," despite the fact that they come to be countered with a healthy dose of something from entirely different chemical (and spiritual) universes. better. So he and a few scientists set out to create a benchmark of reliable information that they hoped There was a bad batch of information out there. As would spread like wildfire. They synthesized the far as the media and even a few intelligent party- available information on psychedelics, bringing goers were concerned, one" designer drug" was the together experiential observations and sugges- same as another. Most of the information circulating tions with hardheaded scientific research. "We've 27 GATE 5 ROAD SAUSALITO. CA 94965 39 avoided telling people, 'take this, and that will has made self-exploration against the law." happen,'" says LordNose!. "We're not advocating illegal drug use. We just want to give some factual To communicate about psychedelics, then, it grounding to the population that uses drugs and became necessary to communicate something of to counter some of the poisonous propaganda a culture that put these substances in a different out there." light, that viewed their use as sacred and healing. LordNose! found such a symbol of that culture, a It proved challenging, however, to present that in- communication of its spirit, when he was paging formation in a concise, user-friendly form. Much of through The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in it is difficult to explain, simply because we have so Mesoamerica (McGraw-Hill, 1980), by the late few words to describe experiences outside our con- ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson, a Morgan sensus reality. In order to describe the effects of Bank vice-president. Inside was a photo of the psychedelics, it's necessary to put them into some awesome statue of the Aztec deity Xochipilli, kind of cultural context we can read: Are these com- "Prince of Flowers." pounds used for healing? Exploration? Divination? Recreation? But in the midst of a just-say-no social Wasson himself was intrigued with the statue, outlook, there is no widespread context other than which sits in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia abuse, no concept of appropriate "set and setting." in Mexico City, because no other culture he knew of As Shulgin put it in his new book, PIHKAL: A dedicated a divinity to flowers. But he was also sus- Chemical Love Story (WER #72, p. 22), "This society picious of those flowers: "Do the 'flowers' of which Psychoactive Taxonomy from the Xochipilli Speaks poster MDMA Occasional nystagmus (lateral eye KETAMINE wiggle). Initial restlessness, nervous- Name: 3,4-Methylene- ness, nausea, shivering or tremor. Name: 2-(2-Chlorophenyl)-2- dioxymethamphetamine. CAUTION: May induce inappropri- (methylamino)-cyclohexanone. Class: Phenethylamine / ate and unintended emotional-bond Class: Miscellaneous / Entheogen (1). Empathogen- Entactogen. imprinting. Note: Reversible nerve Dosage: 80-120 mg / insufflated Dosage: 100-150 mg / oral. cell toxicity has been reported in ("snorted"). Orally inactive. laboratory animals at a dose equi- Duration: 30-60 minutes to valent to human consumption of Duration: 2-5 minutes to onset; onset; 2-3 hour plateau; 6 hours 175 mg or more. 30-45 minute plateau; 2-3 hours to baseline. to baseline. Contraindications: Concurrent use Effects: Ego softening; neurotically of stimulants or MAO inhibitors (see Effects: Refocusing of conscious- based fear dissolution; feelings of Warning). Heart ailments, glaucoma, ness to normally unconscious realms. emotionally based love and empathy. hypertension, aneurism or "stroke" Serene detachment from emotion- No visual effects. Lucidity retained, history, hepatic or renal disorders, ally charged personal content. Sense in-depth communication facilitated. diabetes or hypoglycemia. of benignly objective omniscience. Present moment awareness Out-of-body experience. heightened. Context: Light and warm environ- ment; with a loved one or a few Side effects: Physical inertia, Side effects: Appetite loss; stim- close friends, but sometimes with semiconsciousness, post-session ulation; mild jaw-clenching; mild many others in celebration. grogginess, occasional nausea to moderate post-session fatigue. and vomiting. 40 WHOLE EARTH REVIEW SUMMER 1992 Xochipilli is Prince mean flowers?" he wondered. mushrooms - not ordinarily moth food. How- The deity, he noted, isn't looking earthward, to- ever, these moths seem to represent departed spirits ward any flowers, but ecstatically upward, toward feasting on "the food of the gods," as Wasson put his heaven or visions or sky.
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