User:99centarizona

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Here I will list my various interests.

Medieval

 * Blood Eagle - Ritual execution used in skaldic poetry

Other

 * Paranoiac-critical method

Modern

 * Vietnam

SE Asia

 * Hoabinhian

Conspiracy Theories

 * Phantom time conspiracy theory

Court Cases

 * People v. Jovanovic - 2001

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.

Concepts

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

Food

 * Jujube

Opiates

 * Codeine

In Culture

 * Drinking culture

Examples

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Albums

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

Films

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

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

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

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