Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 17:54:25
From: Brian Sandle <bsandle@southern.co.nz>
To: twc-l@halmarax.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Comments on TWC-L
In-Reply-To: <19960624.060627.56@halmarax.demon.co.uk>
On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, chilo-amine wrote:
[...]
>
> Yeah, that's a good idea. I did not get a letter outlining the
> "mission" of the list. Is it purely informational, is it activist, etc?
> Let me know what your main goal is and I'll discuss it with you. All I
> know is that I'm interested in the subject. I guess you just have to
> start somewhere and let the thing grow like a living organism. Maybe a
> good way to start is by informing people about Huxley's, Leary's, etc.
> beliefs about the psychedelic experience, their experiences with dying,
> and their motivation for taking hallucinogens at that crucial juncture of
> spiritual growth.
But what about failures that you know of, perhaps want to keep quiet
about - ones becoming less able to communicate face to face, having
trouble learning tasks like Internet, housecleaning, etc.
Or do you count all this part of `spiritual growth'? And does death end
the suffering of having lived with the disabilities engendered?
Brian Sandle