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readthenotes106/16/20253 repliesview on HN

"William James, considered the father of American psychology ...., is said to have to come to many of his own most central ideas at least in part through hallucinatory experiences with nitrous oxide"

That's a pretty good explainer for psychology. We have a Coke addled Freud who is the father of it all and another drug abuser shepherding the USA.

I wonder how many people have tried to replicate their experiments and succeeded?


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kevinsync06/16/2025

Yeah, keep in mind that significant abuse of the drugs mentioned are, uh, let's say, prone to inflating the ego rather than killing it and showing a different path.

Kinda fills in some unspoken gaps about the 'discipline' of psychology...

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clipsy06/16/2025

> That's a pretty good explainer for psychology. We have a Coke addled Freud who is the father of it all and another drug abuser shepherding the USA.

Now do tech CEOs

quantified06/16/2025

The Hebrew writings include some instances of God appearing from fire or smoke. Exactly what was burning? I've read what I consider rumors that there are DMT-containing shrubs in that part of the world.