From: markp@elvis.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) Subject: Re: After 2000 years, can we say that Christian Morality is Nntp-Posting-Host: elvis.wri.com Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc. Lines: 26 In sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes: >In article , markp@avignon (Mark Pundurs) wrote: >> You take LSD, and it skews your perception of reality. You come down, >> and your perceptions unskew. >I've never taken LSD, but read about the strange lifes and times >of the Ashbury Heights culture. Something that was usually profound >was the way these LSD trippers mentioned that after their first trip >they changed their view of the world. In other words taking LSD would >change their reference frames. Which would indicate that deep changes >due to let us say rewiring of the brain temporarily will indeed >change frames. And this leads to the statement that there is no >solid reference frame; the LSD trippers modified their relative >view. Much of the Haight-Ashbury crowd probably had pre-existing dissatisfactions with their lives -- dissatisfactions ameliorated by mumbo-jumbo about 'new realities'. The only change I experienced after LSD was to gain the knowledge that I didn't enjoy how LSD twisted my perception. -- Mark Pundurs any resemblance between my opinions and those of Wolfram Research, Inc. is purely coincidental