Dolphins PUFF for psychedelic high (video)

John Downer, 1/7/4; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Flipper, are we high right now? - Well, Flipper, we're up in the air licking crunchy clouds.

So Long, Thanks for the Fish

It's all about brain size, human scientists declared, until an animal with a larger brain-to-body-size ratio than humans was found. Still some humans argue that we are better because we invented cities, industrial pollution, war, and such things.

Interestingly, according to the great Douglas Adams, dolphins argue that they are smarter for exactly the same reason, that is, they didn't. But the blue bottlenoses aren't all angels.

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They sometimes rape and murder (purposely kill) humans, drowning them during sexual assaults out of jealous rage or infuriated at their meddling when female divers are present. Ask divers and, if swimming with the dolphins in Hawaii, avoid the plucky teens with erections.

Dolphins make plans, hang out in gangs (pods), hunt, have feelings, communicate, do neat tricks, get depressed when enslaved, work for the military-industrial complex that exploits them for war.

Now, on today's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! (10/7/23), we come to find they get high on purpose on a psychedelic substance available to them in the sea. How many psychedelics could there be in the sea, Flipper?

Endogenous auto-intoxication on puff?

This harkens back to the thesis that we, modern humans (Homo sapien sapiens, because we're sapient, the future Homo spiritus) evolved from some pre-human primate who discovered and ingested entheogens. There's a name for this theory. Joe Rogan may have mentioned it, something like the High Monkey Conjecture (aka Stoned Ape Theory).

• Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins, chewing and passing them around | The Independent
• Dolphins: Spy in the Pod (BBC documentary)

Eat me and die on my toxic poison, you SOBs.

Well, be that as it may, pass the puffer on the left fin side. Dolphins have been observed doing "puff," street name TTX (tetrodotoxin) and "Sashimi" (Japanese Fugu, because it will "fug u up" and may even result in death, Thai pakapao or "Pow" because it packs a punch).

Dolphins carefully prepare papakao (provoking the balloon fish to release more protective poison the way Voodoo practitioners and some Satanists torment a chicken or other living being, even humans, before butchering and ritually consuming its blood to get high on the adrenaline, adrenochrome, and/or other stress-induced compounds).

Dolphins: Spy in the Pod (BBC)

They deliberately ingest it, and pass it around among themselves in a social activity much like a psychedelic circle among the shamans of the Americas in the Hollywood movie Altered States with William Hurt.

This is shocking because it may have been the genesis of their larger brains, a global view of the oceans, and protective behavior for humans in danger at sea, and empathy (as when they warn us of danger or head it off on our behalf).

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Moreover, a recent episode of This American Life or a similar NPR program spoke frankly of a few cases of human bestiality with dolphins, one female trainer who got carried away with her hands on a regular basis in the interest of hastening her research and care, she claimed, and another man in the wild who just liked to play and make bi-curious dolphins feel good.

We are as gods (celestial devas) to them, and like the gods did to us, sometimes things get carried away. It's a strange world...and it only seems to be getting stranger. Well, time to call our Bonobo buddies and see what they're up to this weekend.

• Sorry to harsh your mellow, but dolphins aren’t regularly getting high on pufferfish | Grist

VIDEO: Dolphins on Drugs: Pass the Puffer!

I may look cuddly, but I'm no toy. So don't play with me and my flesh and blood.

Is it the Doctrine of Signatures: Who would ever guess one could trip on this trippy creature?

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(John Downer Productions) Bottlenose dolphins are filmed apparently getting high on toxic secretions from pufferfish. The puffers secrete a neurotoxin that in high doses can kill but in small doses seemingly has a psychedelic narcotic effect.

Clip from Programme 2 of Dolphins: Spy in the Pod on BBC 1. Narrated by David Tennant. Music by Will Gregory. Series directed by John Downer.  For more information about the program, visit website: http://jdp.co.uk/programmes/dolphins-...

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