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Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

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433 points cainxinth | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 11:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.252s | source
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demiters ◴[11 Jul 25 12:11 UTC] No.44531227[source]▶
Not a big fan of the ongoing productisation of transcendental, possibly brain-scrambling experiences. Keeping them somewhat less accessible tends to filter out people who don't do their homework to understand the substance and who consider it just another novel experience to try on a whim, which increases the risk of negative outcomes.
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1. flufluflufluffy ◴[11 Jul 25 15:42 UTC] No.44533451[source]▶
I feel similar about this productisation but for slightly different reasons. Psychedelics can provide a sacred experience, at least they have for me, and I treat each psychedelic experience I have as a sacred ritual. It’s a sacrament. So forcing them into the materialist, capitalist system we currently have just feels so wrong. It’d be like a company coming out with pre-blessed Eucharist cookies. But worse because what you are shown so often reveals how insidious capitalism is, and how there is so much more than the material realm. I know this is just my personal view and experience. Anyway, I don’t feel so bad about LightWand as the whole point was the open source, sharing nature.