27/08/2020

there, me, before it is loused up by literacy, advertising, TV and drive-ins. Make a study strictly from meta­bolism: diet, use of drugs and alcohol, sex, etc. Who cares what they think? Same nonsense everybody thinks, I daresay.“And why don’t junkies got schizophrenia? Don’t know yet. A schizophrenic can ignore hunger and starve to death if he isn’t fed. No one can ignore heroin with­drawal. The fact of addiction imposes contact.“But that’s only one angle. Mescaline, LSD6, deteri­orated adrenalin, harmaline can produce an approxi­mate schizophrenia. The best stuff is extracted from the blood of schizos; so schizophrenia is likely a drug psy­chosis. They got a metabolic connection, a Man Within you might say. ( Interested readers are referred to Ap­pendix. )“In the terminal stage of schizophrenia the backbrain is permanently depressed, and the front brain is almost without content since the front brain is only active in response to backbrain stimulation.“Morphine calls forth the antidote of backbrain stimu­lation similar to schizo substance. (Note similarity between withdrawal syndrome and intoxication with Yage or LSD6.) Eventual result of junk use—especially true of heroin addiction where large doses are available to the addict—is permanent backbrain depression and a state much like terminal schizophrenia: complete lack of affect, autism, virtual absence of cerebral event. The addict can spend eight hours looking at a wall. He is conscious of his surroundings, but they have no emo­tional connotation and in consequence no interest. Re­membering a period of heavy addiction is like playing