User:99centarizona

Readme

This is my user page

Here I will list my various interests.

Culture

Medieval

• Blood Eagle - Ritual execution used in skaldic poetry

Art

Other

• Paranoiac-critical method

Places

Modern

• Vietnam

Ancient

SE Asia

• Hoabinhian

Conspiracy Theories

• Phantom time conspiracy theory

Court Cases

• People v. Jovanovic - 2001

Religion

Christianity

People

• Jepthah

Sects/Cults

• 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

Concepts

• Ethnobotany - study of plants through the uses by indigenous peoples, created by Richard Evans Schultes

Plants

Food

• Jujube

Psychoactive Drugs

Depressants

Opiates

• Codeine

In Culture

• Drinking culture

Stimulants

Examples

• Cocaine - Potent stimulant derived from the coca plant.
• Khat - African plant used similarly to coca.

Hallucinogens

Psychedelics

• DMT
• Ibogaine
• Salvia divinorum

Deliriants

• Flying ointment

Concepts

• 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

• Timothy Leary - Psychologist who advocated for psychedelic drugs
• Richard Evans Schultes - Father of Ethnobotany
• Aldous Huxley - Author of The Doors of Perception

Natural Sources

DMT

• Mimosa tenuiflora - Brazil 1-1.7% (root bark)

General Effects

• Hallucinogenic fish

In Culture

• Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals
• Cohoba - Snuff used by indigenous people of South America & The Carribean, main active ingredient is DMT.

Notable People

Authors

• 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

• Søren Kierkegaard - Existentialism
• Albert Camus - Existentialism

Truly Terrible Stuff

Places

• Unit 731 - Human experimentations, WWII. This is the reason we know what percentage of the human body is water.

Disasters

• Lake Nyos disaster - limnic eruption.

Afflictions

• Havana syndrome - medical condition primarily reported by U.S. intelligence and military officials.

Languages

Methods

• Input hypothesis
• TPR Storytelling
• Graded reader

People

• 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

Albums

• Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him - The Firesign Theatre

Cinema

Films

• Human Traffic - (1999)
• Queer - Unreleased, late 2024

Literature

To Read

American

• 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

• Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Irish

• Táin Bó Cúailnge

British

• Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
• Lady Chatterly's Lover - D. H. Lawrence

French

• The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide
• The Red and the Black - Stendhal
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

Russian

• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

German & Austrian

• The Trial - Franz Kafka
• Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

Japanese

• Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

Been Read

American

• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy

French

• The Plague - Albert Camus

English

• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Medieval

• Divine Comedy - Dante

Wishlist

Books

• 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

• Naked Lunch - David Cronenberg (1991)

Wikipedia Users

• User:BlueLotusLK/Misc - Template