The good guys versus the bad guys
I would like to know how, in life, one separates the wheat from the chaff, the good from the bad? I don’t mean Caligula, the Ku Klux Klan or Hitler. It’s about us psychonauts. Are the differences really so great between the good, because serious and scientifically oriented “researchers” and the hedonistic consumers, the freaks or “stoners” among us? I would like to state here once and for all that we are, or were, all consumers otherwise we wouldn’t know what we are talking about. Moreover, one does not exclude the other: some people just like to think only they have a reputation to lose. Of course, in the sixties and seventies of the last century a lot of porcelain went to pieces when drugs were easily available for the first time but without the freaky, flashy and loud alternative culture, the stiff patriarchal mentality of those days would not have been challenged, which was just as necessary as it is necessary today to be free of old fears and prejudices. I don’t believe that history will repeat itself. On the contrary, drug use rather tends to arouse too little public interest nowadays. We psychonauts can therefore confidently get more involved with each other, communicate more often and cultivate our similarities.
In friendship,
Susanne G. Seiler
Night, and I Traveling
Night, and I travelling.
An open door by the wayside,
Throwing out a shaft of warm yellow light.
A whiff of peat-smoke;
A gleam of delf on the dresser within;
A woman’s voice crooning, as if to a child.
I pass on into the darkness.
Joseph Campbel