Sublime
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This stress-induced euphoria is nothing other than our prehistoric “fight-or-flight” response to extreme danger.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
despair
Jiachen Jiang • 3 cards
boise haiku
i wanted to be blissfucked
on shrooms listening to spirit
-ualized sing “i got a hurricane in
-side my veins” but i ate the fun
-gi, tripped hella hard, missed
the show
hope
leevi • 8 cards
How many nights had Sam spent in high school waiting for drugs to kick in, waiting for some promised effect to take him out of his reality into another one?
Sam Lansky • Broken People: A Novel
Ecstasy is bodiless. It is experienced as overwhelming delight and/or inspiration.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Tranquility may be my new favorite emotion. Why? Check out the research definition: “Tranquility is associated with the absence of demand” and “no pressure to do anything.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
This phenomenon, widely observed and verified by animal studies, has come to be called opioid-induced hyperalgesia. Algesia, from the Greek word algesis, means sensitivity to pain. What’s more, when these patients tapered off opioids, many of them experienced improvements in pain.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Joy
Pritesh • 1 card