Readme
editThis is my user page
Here I will list my various interests.
Culture
editMedieval
edit- Blood Eagle - Ritual execution used in skaldic poetry
Art
editWorks
editOther
editPlaces
editModern
editAncient
editSE Asia
editConspiracy Theories
editCourt Cases
edit- People v. Jovanovic - 2001
Religion
editChristianity
editPeople
editSects/Cults
edit- Gnosticism - Christian & Jewish
- Bacchanalia - Greco-Roman mysteries
- Findhorn Foundation - Aliens & hippies
- Yazidism - god is Tawûsî Melek, culturally significant to the Kurds. Iranic pre-Zoroastrian.
Botany
editConcepts
edit- Ethnobotany - study of plants through the uses by indigenous peoples, created by Richard Evans Schultes
Plants
editFood
editIn Culture
editExamples
edit- Cocaine - Potent stimulant derived from the coca plant.
- Khat - African plant used similarly to coca.
Concepts
edit- Hero's journey
- Psychonautics - Methodology to describe and explain the subjective effects of Altered state of consciousness, and a research cabal who dose themselves "for science"
- Entheogen - Psychedelics used in sacred contexts
- Psychedelic microdosing
- Set and setting
- Out-of-body experience
- Shulgin Rating Scale - A scale that allows one to report the subjective effects.
Notable Figures
edit- Timothy Leary - Psychologist who advocated for psychedelic drugs
- Richard Evans Schultes - Father of Ethnobotany
- Aldous Huxley - Author of The Doors of Perception
Natural Sources
edit- Mimosa tenuiflora - Brazil 1-1.7% (root bark)
General Effects
editIn Culture
edit- Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals
- Cohoba - Snuff used by indigenous people of South America & The Carribean, main active ingredient is DMT.
Notable People
editAuthors
edit- William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
- Jack Kerouac - On the Road
- Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Cormac McCarthy - The Road
- Adam Parfrey - Apocalypse Culture
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, The Doors of Perception
Philosophers
editTruly Terrible Stuff
editPlaces
edit- Unit 731 - Human experimentations, WWII. This is the reason we know what percentage of the human body is water.
Disasters
editAfflictions
edit- Havana syndrome - medical condition primarily reported by U.S. intelligence and military officials.
Languages
editTo-Learn List
editMethods
editBooks
editPeople
edit- Stephen Krashen - Creator of Input hypothesis
- Tracy D. Terrell - Helped Stephen Krashen write The Natural Approach
- Bill VanPatten - Author & Michigan State University professor
- Adriana E. Ramírez - Author (graded readers?)
- John Grisham - Author, writes graded readers
Music
editAlbums
editSongs
editCinema
editFilms
edit- Human Traffic - (1999)
- Queer - Unreleased, late 2024
Literature
editTo Read
editAmerican
edit- Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
- Junkie - William S. Burroughs
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks - Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Why Are We in Vietnam? - Norman Mailer
- An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
- The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
- The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
- V. - Thomas Pynchon
- Apocalypse Culture - Adam Parfrey
- Naked at Lunch - Mark Haskell Smith
Scottish
editIrish
editBritish
editFrench
editRussian
edit- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
German & Austrian
editJapanese
editBeen Read
editAmerican
editFrench
editEnglish
editMedieval
editWishlist
editBooks
edit- Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks - Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
- Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Films
edit- Naked Lunch - David Cronenberg (1991)
Wikipedia Users
edit- User:BlueLotusLK/Misc - Template