opiates, infantile trauma and timothy leary's first-circuit model of consciousness
Was just reading an old post from u/tylerisdead that said Some people even can play with it a bit and put it down without thinking about it. But for that portion of people that feel like opiates almost... Complete something that was missing in them. It will catch up to them eventually. Because if it seems too good to be true, it is. And it's true. You either get addicted to opiates, or you don't get the hype. To some they're just painkillers that make you feel queasy. To others, they're the missing link, the lost piece of the puzzle, the bit of glue that finally sticks together some broken piece of childhood or sense of self. But what is it? People - myself included - say it's different for everyone, but I'm not so sure. I'm wondering if there's not a specific type of trauma - sure, perhaps a fairly broad classification of traumas, but something specific nonetheless - that binds opiate users. Robert Anton Wilson's summation of Timothy Leary's ...