10 WAYS TO BECOME MORE CHARISMATIC. By John Leonard In the foreword to his book Top Performance , Zig Ziglar cites research done by the Stanford Research Institute, Harvard University, and the Carnegie Foundation which finds that 85 percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and move ahead in that job has to do with people skills and people knowledge, not technical skills and technical knowledge. On a less scholarly level, Lou Holtz, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame, has said that when someone meets you, that person wants to know three things: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And Do you care about me as a person? Some believe that only after that third question is answered, do the first two take on any significance. It is an intangible quality that makes people admire you, follow you, and just want to be around you. What is it that causes people to respond warmly to some, while recoiling from others?
When people think of charisma, they think of John F. Don't interrupt. Listen! Erowid. Prescription Ecstasy? The Government Is Testing It, And Psychiatrists Are... Poor E got such a bad wrap from that one incorrect study!
Look at all you people still believing all that untrue stuff about how evil it is. Pure MDMA does not burn your seratonin receptors out or significantly change your brain scans/structure with one use. That was Meth- which truly is evil. From what I understand MDMA so far doesn't seem to have any long term effects on the brain, similar to marijuana, LSD, and mushrooms. Of course they can always do more studies (and should). The biggest dangers of E are- getting stuff that's not pure, usually cut with speed (hence the teeth grinding- ugh), dancing too much and overheating, or drinking too much water and getting water poisoning. As for the comedown, it's not that big a deal and there are supplements you can take to help get over it.
E is what made me and my boyfriend finally admit to each other that we loved each other. On the dark side though, another time that I took it I definitely got water poisoning. Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the secret of life. Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.
The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life. Crick, who died ten days ago [2004-07-28], aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD, then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy, to boost his powers of thought.
He said it was LSD, not the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize. Crick's involvement with the gang was fleeting but crucial. They gave away thousands to pet causes such as the Glastonbury pop festival and Release. Details here. What the Things You See When You Rub Your Eyes Are Called. Today I Found Out what the things you see when you close your eyes and rub them hard are called, namely “phosphenes”.
A phosphene is characterized by perceiving some form of light when there is little or no light actually entering the eye, making it an entopic phenomenon (meaning the source of the phenomenon is within the eye itself). Phosphenes are most commonly introduced by simply closing your eyes and rubbing them or squeezing them shut, tightly; generally the harder you rub or squeeze, the more phosphenes you’ll see.
DMT, Moses, and the Quest for Transcendence. By Cliff Pickover, Reality Carnival "DMT in the pineal glands of Biblical prophets gave God to humanity and let ordinary humans perceive parallel universes.
" The molecule DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a psychoactive chemical that causes intense visions and can induce its users to quickly enter a completely different "environment" that some have likened to an alien or parallel universe. The transition from our world to theirs occurs with no cessation of consciousness or quality of awareness. In this environment, beings often appear who interact with the person who is using DMT. The beings appear to inhabit this parallel realm.