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Critical listening and altered states

Ok, this is not a question about relaxing, but about listening to evaluate how the system (or a piece of gear is sounding).

What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.

What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?

Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.

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richopp
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When cannabis, which has been a medicine ever since it has been on the planet, is finally "discovered" to be beneficial in may ways, as well as psychoactive components in mushrooms and other "plants" on the planet, I suppose all the drunks among the population will begin arguing for THEIR "drug of choice."

This nation is steeped in ignorance and denial about so many items today.  I am sure those who decry cures that are not yet "approved" will rail against whatever "discoveries" are made in the future. 

After all, in today's world of the perpetually apoplectic, another "healthy" cigarette (4 out of 5 DOCTORS recommend KENT with the micronite filter!!) and a couple shots of straight 100-year-old scotch or whatever, peace will be found in THEIR drugs of choice and people using "newfangled" medical discoveries will be considered the fools.

Kinda reminds me of vaccines, but we digress...
 
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