Jules Evans
Writer on philosophy and ecstatic experience, author of Philosophy for Life, who writes about psychedelic safety and integration in his newsletter Ecstatic Integration.
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Their wordsAnd AI-automated Stoicism also has risks. When you summon up the pallid ghost of Marcus Aurelius in your LLM, do you know for sure what they will say?
↗A teenager discussed Stoicism with ChatGPT. Then the conversation turned deadlyecstaticintegration.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsEven Stoicism can be dangerous, if badly taught - it was thought to have encouraged a spate of suicides in the 18th century.
↗A teenager discussed Stoicism with ChatGPT. Then the conversation turned deadlyecstaticintegration.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut there is a general cosiness to the psychedelic lobby in the US federal government, from the president down, and especially in RFK’s Health and Human Services.
↗FDA approval of psychedelics = boom-time for underground usageecstaticintegration.org 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsStill, the Oregon legal psilocybin program looks, on this evidence, to be pretty safe.
↗FDA approval of psychedelics = boom-time for underground usageecstaticintegration.org 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsBut one point to take away from Oregon is that public health initiatives can’t just focus on legal supervised usage, because that (in Oregon at least) is only around 2-4% of total use.
↗FDA approval of psychedelics = boom-time for underground usageecstaticintegration.org 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd the same will occur nationally - the biggest impact of FDA approval will be to boost demand in the underground.
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Rumination is one of the main reasons a bad psychedelic trip turns into extended difficulties.
Their wordsBut I suspect one of the main reasons is rumination. Rumination is what turns a transient dip into a sustained one.
↗How to think lessecstaticintegration.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThere’s plenty of evidence that regular exercise reduces rumination, especially if you try something that demands continuous attention, such as swimming, cycling, running, tennis/pickleball, martial arts, surfing.
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