Chapter 1--How to buy a used Psyche. (Or to test-drive the one you've got.) What does anyone want out of their Psyche--or out of their psychoactives? "Some dance to remember, and others, they dance to forget.": (What--that's from Hotel California, isn't it?) Kind of like above. Are the pulses good and even and balanced? How 'bout the boredom level? Stress level? What are those things that you aren't willing to deal with on a day to day basis? Symptoms, or causes? Scrunched out of shape isn't always bad. Baselevel inventory.Etc.

Chapter 2--Internal vs external voices. Internal vs external expectations/interpretations. Who's programming whom? Which voice answers. Who's on first. Which me did you say you were talking to? What language are you speaking? (Do you remember the great mind control story about French vs Anglo words in the Conquest and Occupation of Britain?)

Chapter 3--A beginners guide to the Brain. How works a synapse. How works a sense or a sensuality. Suppressors and Activators--neat stories of Parkinsons. And Nazis and electroshocks. And pleasure sensor wired rats if it's applicable. Whatever might be useful to a layperson like me. Lobotomies and epilepsies--again, if pertinent. (Hypnotism and Biofeedback?)

(You realize--I'm just pulling this off the back of my head--just tossing it in to Careen off your creativity. Not intended as a binding device, as in this area, you realize, I know really very little of what I ramble...)

Chapter 4--Physiological / Psychological goals of Psychoactivity. Energy levels. Physical/social empowerment. Flow of talent/conversation. Heightened awareness. Bearing: confidence vs inhibition. The loss of pain. Outlets. Drinkers and Writers. The morning cigarette and the first cup of coffee. And when do we stop hating ourselves, anyway?

Chapter 5--Emotions; Too Many, or Not Enough? Emotional psychoactive management. Role of the Emotions? Possible body systems health/trauma defensive subroutines? Depression defined as a lack of emotions rather than as emotion itself.. As separate from loss or anger in particular. Emotions run rampant. Losses of control. Expressing, holding, or treating emotions? The possible special case of loneliness or alienation as an emotion.

Chapter 6--Social Acceptance. What makes a socially acceptable drug? And what part of "society" is accepting or rejecting--and why. (Heck, all drugs must be socially acceptable on some level or other.) What maybe needs to be considered is what makes or unmakes an individually acceptable or unacceptable drug. Stories of sugar, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, grass, LSD, cocaine, crack? Advertising.

Chapter 7--Distortions of Time and Space. Unreality. The "Trip". Laminar vs quantized flow of Time. Synthesis. Illusions, delusions, and hallucinations. The story of Timothy Leary et al. Recreational drug use.

Chapter 8--Addiction. What constitutes addiction. Physical vs psychological dependence. The problem of tolerance. Intensity vs interval. When is 'addiction' considered permissible (i.e. cigarettes?) and when not... The effects on life outweighing benefits of psychoactive? Philosophies of addiction treatment.

Chapter 9--The public Health and Safety. Health problems associated with presently used drugs. AIDS, hepatitis, and TB. Crack Babies. Drug related violence and crime. The Unmanagement of American Drug use. The social strata/politics. Association with morality. Association with "loss of excellence" The very strange- and Strangelove-ian--"War on Drugs."

Chapter 10--The very Interesting Story of Blackout Drinkers and Multiple Personalities.

Chapter 11--Electronic Media as Drug. Video games--Computers- Virtual Reality (who needs anything more?) Direct brain inputs from disk. CD-ROM drug trip to dream-on-order. Biofeedback. Safety, limitations, and copyright. The future of civilized psychoaddiction?

Chapter 12--Tools of the Trade. Words of Wisdom and Guidance on Paraphernalia. Roses by any other name. A Treatise on the Language(s) of Psychoactive Management. Which I will leave to your own imagination.

There--now what have I missed? About everything, probably. But that's just basically notes from various conversations you and I have had over the last couple years that I've found particularly interesting--kind of strung together into what I'd be interested in reading about. Well, my tea is cold and gone--and the cat is beginning to glare at me, so I guess I'd better wrap this up.

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