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So either he always had some mental health issues, or the lack of nutrition he did to keep the body he had lead himself to make very bad decisions because his brain couldnt process correctly anymore.
he had some before the ayushcha binged, the drug put him over the edge.
I’ve never read anything about the looksmaxxing subculture that made me think it was anything other than people with severe body dysmorphia egging each other on. The least ethical 60s psychological experiment conceived by the most coked up 60s psychologist couldn’t have come up with a more fucked up method of seeing how far people will go.
well, looks maxxing is so last year, now we have ball maxxing
https://instinctmagazine.com/what-is-ballmaxxing
Surely this is satire.
Eh... I wouldn't be surprised if they did exactly this in the 60s, just with more LSD involved in the experiment.
i heard of people drilling holes in their skulls for spiritual reasons in roughly that period so this tracks
That’s afaik mostly an urban legend, originated from the “third eye” book by Lobsang Rampa.
nah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Huges
Wow.
From what I heard he had a psychosis after an Ayahuasca ritual, then used gold from jewelry which might contain lead and other nasty stuff for consumption and injection and also used SSRIs before he died, so possibility serotonin syndrome.
Sounds like they were mentally ill beforehand, ayahuasca didn't do that
And then he was found at the bottom of a lake, which would be unusual for serotonin syndrome
Ayahuasca can absolutely trigger latent psychosis, all psychedelics can do that.
Say that latent part again slowly
I'm aware of the meaning. I'm not sure what your point is though.
From an outside perspective it's this:
I'm pretty sure that none of the Ayahuasca retreats test for latent psychosis or if there is even a reliable way to do that.
Maybe the lead weighed him down
gold too.
Haha gold
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Ahh ok, so drugs it is. I thought the cause of death was due to the gold injection, im actually shocked he survived that now.
gold is relatively inert, its the ions and the other elements, like nickel, lead,,etc that are in gold.
They drowned in a lake
I think the copious amounts of drugs he was doing probably had a lot to do with it. Oh and the injecting gold part.