Who are the Wisest Psychonauts?

[Nak Khid]

Who are the Wisest Psychonauts?

- NOT who is the most expert on psychedelics or who is most expert or describes the most about psychedelic experiences

but who,  that has taken psychedelics many times has spoken or written the wisest things about life in general in your opinion?

Edited November 12, 2019 by Nak Khid

[Forestluv]

I would offer a classic psychonaut. . . Timothy Leary. He was an American psychologist in the 1950s-1960s and a pioneer in revealing therapeutic potential of psychedelics. He was also a leader in the counter-culture movement. He lost his tenured faculty position at a University due to his psychedelic use and related teachings. 50 years later we are waking up and psychedelic therapy is gradually becoming mainstream. Rather than losing their job for studying psychedelics, academic scientists are now being given multi-million dollar grants to study psychedelics. 

My honorable mention would be Kary Mullis. He was a biochemist psychonaut. During a LSD trip in 1983, it was revealed to Kary how to replicate DNA in a test tube. At the time, he was viewed as an eccentric oddball (During another LSD trip Kary was abducted by aliens). Yet his DNA discover revolutionized science and he was awarded the nobel prize in 1993.  

 

[SoonHei]

I am! and I don't mean the sense of I AM

I am saying I, me, SOONHEI! I am the Wisest!

 

 

[Nak Khid]

@Serotoninluv  I have changed the title to plural

[Forestluv]

2 minutes ago, Nak Khid said:

@Serotoninluv  I have changed the title to plural

Cool. That cranks up the fun meter to 11. 

[SoonHei]

@Serotoninluv 11ty-two hundred according to the latest reading***

[Grateful Dead]

1. Timothy Leary

2. Martin Ball

3. Nicholas Sand

4. Terance McKenna

Politics of Ecstasy and The Psychedelic Experience are my favorite Leary books and they are mostly about the LSD Experience

[Girzo]

This philosopher who trips on a high-dose LSD: Chris Bache.