(guardian.co.uk) – A growing number of people are taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy to help them cope with a variety of conditions including anorexia nervosa, cluster headaches and chronic anxiety attacks.

The emergence of a community that passes the drugs between users on the basis of friendship, support and need – with money rarely involved – comes amid a resurgence of research into the possible therapeutic benefits of psychedelics. This is leading to a growing optimism among those using the drugs that soon they may be able to obtain medicines based on psychedelics from their doctor, rather than risk jail for taking illicit drugs.

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By SHARON K. GILBERT
June 24, 2009

IF THE SOUND of the word ‘golem’ is familiar, you may be thinking of the intriguing but sinister character ‘Gollum’ from JRR Tolkien’s trilogy “The Lord of the Rings”.

The term golem, however, actually refers to a creature European Jewish mythology. A ‘golem’ is an avenging agent formed from inanimate matter. Based on the Hebrew go′al ‘enu (גואלנו), which means “our redeemer or our avenger”, a ‘golem’ in the Bible refers to an ‘unshaped form’ (see Psalms139:16).

Two curious versions of the ‘golem’ are featured in the Fox television series, The X-Files. In the fourth season show, “Kaddish”, Mulder tracks down a killer who turns out to be an avenging robot made of mud. The X-Files golem in the season six episode “Arcadia”, is a monstrous killer composed of garbage–literally garbage. Playing on the “Forbidden Planet” theme of an avenging ‘id’, the creature hunts down and kills all who defy a man who runs an entire subdivision of upscale, cookie-cutter houses. (more…)

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