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Nothing fun about hallucinations and delusions combined with paranoia.

Considering there are people who enjoy huge amounts of benadryl (though there aren't many), I suppose to some people it's fun.

I took large amounts of benadryl and all I got was a full body rash. Too busy itching my skin raw to be paranoid.

'Twas a flippant joke. My friend is schizophrenic, I can't see any "fun" in being able to be temporarily schizophrenic.

I could be stubborn and say that it would be fun for me. But I won't. Schizophrenia isn't fun. Probably shouldn't have said that. Must think more before posting.

I'd also recommend Prometheus Rising. Wilson sort of takes Leary's models and fleshes them out. Though the best point he makes in the book is that there are infinite possible circuits, but the first four are seemingly the most common. I don't think Leary ever said that.

Not to be anal, but LSD doesn't really replicate schizophrenia. When it was first being used in psychotherapy, therapists thought it could be used to empathize with schizophrenics and share their experience. That proved to be ineffective as LSD doesn't cause prominent symptoms of endogenous psychoses (generally, schizophrenias and related psychoses) such as catatonia. Acid is fun, though.

Ah okay. Like applying Newtonian physics to zero gravity situations. Newton's laws are great to use, but they don't apply in certain situations. Not the greatest metaphor. I need to get over my pet idea of having a unified theory of everything. Better to be multilingual when using systems.

And though being a schizophrenic might not be fun all the time, what about something more like that autism inducing pill. Temporary schizophrenia can be fun as long as you can come back.

I think at a certain point, the BIP ceases to be a prison. When imprints are removed and we are stripped down to nothing but sensory reception, we are free to interpret what our senses perceive, but so long as they are one of or combinations of what the nervous system signals to the brain. When I see you guys talking about stripping away everything, I can only agree up to a certain point. In order to perceive anything at all, our senses need to make separations. Not exactly opposites, but different and limited angles of receiving information rather than perceiving everything free from the metaphorical bars. Acid in particular gives you a sense of what near total desensitization is like. In certain conditions, the world as you perceive it ceases to have distinctions and your senses meld together (usually recognized as synesthesia). At the very peak of this experience, distinction breaks into the two most basic functions of perception. There is a sense of vast (possibly endless) nothingness and a sense that all information is movement, something all human beings are capable of perceiving. So what do we have if we remove the distinction between stillness of energy (atomically or spiritually, whichever symbolism you prefer)?

There is no answer to that as of yet. To try and describe what being free from the BIP is like is quite literally impossible because describing it would make a distinction, another bar. Some of you have probably already explained this before, though. I think I'm just talking to myself here.

The point I'm trying to make, though, is that very basic distinctions shouldn't be seen as bars. They're what allows us to perceive things. Or maybe that's just another bar put in place by my five senses. There's obviously more than 5 separate ways to perceive reality.

I really envy schizophrenics.

As a general rule, try to copy the majority's dress style. If popped collars and khakis aren't popular, no matter how straight laced you think they might make you look, you're still attracting attention. Make a habit out of your dress style, as abrupt changes draw more suspicion than most other things. If someone questions you about it, explain how you are growing out of your old phase. Even better, talk about how you've decided to live more responsibly etc. You might even be surprised by who's hiding out amongst the [insert popular stereotype]. You can't possibly be the only one doing this, after all.

Also, http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ 

And another trap, criminals. Who makes criminals? Poverty? Hard drugs? Mental disabilities? Laws make criminals.

I'm not sure where I stand on this. Although the ideology behind schools seems to be having a big, efficient, sterile, autonomous meat grinder for producing "willing to work" students, this doesn't always work as planned. As I'm still in high school, this thread only highlighted how real the hoop jumping is. Every school day I am bound to hear at least four (no, not one) comments from teachers about meeting the status quo. Scratch that, I actually hear more of that sort of talk from my peers. There's always a small pocket of kids intentionally slacking off, though. They are told daily about the consequences of not meeting expectations, but they don't seem to give a damn. Could be many personal reasons for them to decide doing nothing will do something, but hasn't the machine accounted for this group and given them some sort of menial task?

Burger flipping, nevermind 

Seems more like any ideology originally attached to education has been abandoned just to keep the whole thing afloat, though. I don't think anyone really has a handle on what schools are doing anymore. It's grown beyond a board of regulators to the point where it really is completely autonomous. Lately, all the U.S. Government has been capable of are ways to worsen education through adding more ways to measure people's worth. They don't really know how to make better worker bees, they're only capable of finding more ways to place a price tag on a student's head.

I came across PD thanks to one of those 23FNORDPinealGland people. I wasn't recruited, but if I were, I wouldn't lose my lucidity the instant someone shoved an advert in front of my eyes. People concerned with recruiting being "wrong" should take into account that a person can still think for themselves and decide to check out what all the fuss about PD is. Except in the most impressionable of people, recruiting does nothing to remove someones ability to think for themselves. They can decide "Nah, this is a waste of my time, I'll try something else". Besides, if PD doesn't get them, someone else will.

Shameless n00b advice.

Caucuses rarely determine the next president. Iowa is quite different demographically than most of the other states. Same with New Hampshire.

Sad thing is, the results have created this hilarious outbreak of Ron Paul paranoids saying the polls were rigged. Give it a week and there will be elaborate stories detailing Obama's secret lizard identity and his plans for enslaving the world. Ah, I hate politics.