Wise Weed

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

• 1. Using Cannabis Wisely
• 2. Philosophical Ways of Life
• 3. Using Cannabis in the Platonic Way of Life
• 4. The Platonic Goal of Ascent
• 5. Using Cannabis for Platonic Therapy
• 6. Using Cannabis for Platonic Enhancement
• 7. Many Molecules in One Plant
• 8. Tuning your Body-Lyre

2. Anxiety and Pain

• 1. Anxiety and Ecstasy
• 2. Starting from Nothing
• 3. From Anxiety to Pain
• 4. The Hacker Methodology
• 5. Hacking Pain
• 6. Hacking Pain with Cannabis
• 7. The Ideal of Health

3. Depression

• 1. Life in Plato?s Cave
• 2. Hacking Depression
• 3. Cannabis and Depression
• 4. Theories of Depression
• 5. Cannabis Dosing for Depression
• 6. Measuring Depression
• 7. Evaluating Cannabis for Depression
• 8. Nothing to Excess

4. Against Compulsion

• 1. Your Natural Bodily Urges
• 2. Compulsive Disorders
• 3. Moving on Modal Landscapes
• 4. Cycling through Circular Valleys
• 5. The Circular Valley of Epilepsy
• 6. Cannabis is Anti-Compulsive
• 7. Reshaping Your Bodily Urges
• 8. Cannabis Overdosing Creates Compulsions

5. The Ascent to Health

• 1. Painful Landscapes
• 2. Moods and the Modal Landscape
• 3. The Flatness of your Modal Landscape
• 4. Awareness of your Modal Landscape
• 5. Modal Awareness
• 6. Cannabis is Modally Liberating
• 7. Freedom from Impairment

6. Asceticism and Renunciation

• 1. Two Kinds of Asceticism
• 2. The Plotinian Sanctuary
• 3. Renunciation in Hinduism
• 4. Renunciation in Rastafarianism
• 5. Renunciation in Hippie Culture
• 6. Ideal Possible Worlds
• 7. Beyond Disruptive Asceticism

7. Wellness

• 1. From Health to Wellness
• 2. Existential Wellness
• 3. A Self-Shaping Work of Art
• 4. Giving Style to Your Self
• 5. Using Cannabis for Wellness
• 6. Cannabis and Weight
• 7. Spirituality and Ganja Yoga
• 8. Prosocial Uses of Cannabis
• 9. Cannabis and Aging

8. Enhancement

• 1. We Can Be Heroes
• 2. Enhancing Natural Powers
• 3. Using Cannabis for Enhancement
• 4. Using Cannabis to Enhance Artistic Creativity
• 5. Gaining Knowledge through Drugs
• 6. Natural Magic and Critical Alchemy
• 7. Enhanced Bodies in Enhanced Worlds

9. Transfiguration

• 1. The Olympians
• 2. The Transfiguration of the Body
• 3. Transhumanism and Transfiguration
• 4. Truth in Fiction
• 5. How an Atheist can Believe in Deities
• 6. Simulating the Deities
• 7. Hallucinatory Pain
• 8. Hallucinatory Invulnerability
• 9. Channeling the Deities

10. Running

• 1. Proper Functions and Highest Perfections
• 2. Evolution Designs Organisms
• 3. Long-Distance Running
• 4. The Highest Perfections of Humans
• 5. Persistence Hunting
• 6. Psychological Adaptations for Persistence Hunting
• 7. The Form of the Good
• 8. Changing into an Ecstatic Body
• 9. The Ecstatic Body Perceives the Good

11. Ecstasy

• 1. Endocannabinoid System and the Runners High
• 2. The Cannabis High Simulates the Runners High
• 3. On Being Pure Running
• 4. Cannabis and Entheogenesis
• 5. The Holy Power in All Things
• 6. Cannabis and Holiness

References

Index