![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frameacloud2023-09-15 12:30 amEntry tags:
The effects of psilocybin on phantom limbs: an upcoming large study, and what otherkin have noticed
Content warnings: This article talks about the use of psychoactive substances only as used in either medical treatment under the guidance of physicians, or in spiritual visionary experiences as entheogens. This article also talks about injuries and chronic pain, but it doesn't describe these in graphic detail. Be forewarned that some of the academic sources cited do go into graphic detail, if you choose to go read those next.
Summary: In California, a large study is looking for participants. Researchers want to see if psilocybin helps treat the participants' phantom limb pain. The study isn't about therians or otherkin. Many therians and otherkin experience phantom limbs, and some of them have made observations about how psilocybin and other psychoactive substances influence their phantom limbs. This article is an eight minute read, plus a bibliography.
( To continue reading this article, click here. )
Summary: In California, a large study is looking for participants. Researchers want to see if psilocybin helps treat the participants' phantom limb pain. The study isn't about therians or otherkin. Many therians and otherkin experience phantom limbs, and some of them have made observations about how psilocybin and other psychoactive substances influence their phantom limbs. This article is an eight minute read, plus a bibliography.
( To continue reading this article, click here. )
frameacloud2013-08-25 06:00 amEntry tags:
For October: panel on therians at furry con
Content warnings: Publicity.
This October, a therianthrope named Lunar Flare will host a panel about therianthropy. The panel will be at Furfright 2013 in Connecticut. Furfright is a Halloween-themed convention for the furry fandom. (That is, fans of depictions of human-like animals in art, story, and costume. Furry fans like pretend human-like animals, whereas therianthropes identify as animals. It’s different.) The panel will be an open discussion, so Lunar Flare will alternate between giving a speech, and letting the audience talk. He will base his notes on an essay he wrote last year, “Therianthropy Awareness.” Currently, Lunar Flare is open to suggestions for how to adjust his notes for the panel. For this reason, if you have ideas about the upcoming panel, please don't contact me, contact him (by private message on either site linked below).
- O. Scribner
Sources
Lunar Flare, “FurFright 2013 – Therianthropy social and panel.” 2013-06-11. Forest Horizon: Were-Beast Support & Community. http://werebeastcommunity.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=therian&action=display&thread=145
The above link is not a publicly viewable forum thread. You can see it only if you log in to that forum. I linked to it with Lunar Flare’s permission by e-mail.
Lunar Flare, “Therianthropy awareness.” http://vatolobo.tumblr.com/post/26031655211/therianthropy-awareness
This October, a therianthrope named Lunar Flare will host a panel about therianthropy. The panel will be at Furfright 2013 in Connecticut. Furfright is a Halloween-themed convention for the furry fandom. (That is, fans of depictions of human-like animals in art, story, and costume. Furry fans like pretend human-like animals, whereas therianthropes identify as animals. It’s different.) The panel will be an open discussion, so Lunar Flare will alternate between giving a speech, and letting the audience talk. He will base his notes on an essay he wrote last year, “Therianthropy Awareness.” Currently, Lunar Flare is open to suggestions for how to adjust his notes for the panel. For this reason, if you have ideas about the upcoming panel, please don't contact me, contact him (by private message on either site linked below).
- O. Scribner
Lunar Flare, “FurFright 2013 – Therianthropy social and panel.” 2013-06-11. Forest Horizon: Were-Beast Support & Community. http://werebeastcommunity.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=therian&action=display&thread=145
The above link is not a publicly viewable forum thread. You can see it only if you log in to that forum. I linked to it with Lunar Flare’s permission by e-mail.
Lunar Flare, “Therianthropy awareness.” http://vatolobo.tumblr.com/post/26031655211/therianthropy-awareness