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It never ceases to amaze me the lengths humanity will go to, in order to confuse itself; rather than taking the solution that is right in front of him and the most logical. These "drugs" (and I use that term very loosely) already exist.
If you want to have more empathy for humanity and the world, and to become a more balanced person in life, a pill isn't going to do it. What will do it is psilocybin mushrooms (colloquially termed magic mushrooms).
Now, I'm certainly not a spaced out acid freak. I'm a rational human, and I can think of no other substance that has taught me as much as I have learnt when under the influence of psilocybin.
Terrence McKenna has some very strong theories about human evolution, and the involvement of mushrooms and their ritualistic application to human life, and researchers would do good to investigate these theories.
We don't need to develop medication to make man more moral - he is already full capable of being moral. What we need is for society to change its collective mindset, and stop the global thanatos complex that we are suffering from.
What Spence proposes is a waste of time and resources - look to the mushroom.
For those who would disagree with me; I would ask this - Why is it okay to engineer a drug to control our emotions and therefore our morality (because that's what we're really talking about here; controlling ones emotions) but not okay to explore the already existing avenues of moral enlightenment?
Psilocybin, DMT, datura, ibogaine, mdma... many many others. They have something to teach us, if we're willing to listen.
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