Wrong And Inappropriate Use Has Caused Lsd

We Can Study Various Psychic Functions And Also The More Primitive Sensory Functions, Such As Seeing, Hearing, And So On, Which Constitute Our Image Of Our Everyday World. They Have A Material Side And The Psychic Side. And That Is A Gap Which You Cannot Explain.

The Characteristic Property Of Hallucinogens, To Suspend The Boundaries Between The Experiencing Self And The Outer World In An Ecstatic, Emotional Experience, Makes It Posible With Their Help, And After Suitable Internal And External Perparation, To Evoke A Mystical Experience According To Plan, So To Speak. I See The True Importance Of Lsd In The Possibility Of Providing Material Aid To Meditation Aimed At The Mystical Experience Of A Deeper, Comprehensive Reality. Such A Use Accords Entirely With The Essence And Working Character Of Lsd As A Sacred Drug.

I Suddenly Became Strangely Inebriated. The External World Became Changed As In A Dream. Objects Appeared To Gain In Relief; They Assumed Unusual Dimensions; And Colors Became More Glowing. Even Self-perception And The Sense Of Time Were Changed. When The Eyes Were Closed, Colored Pictures Flashed Past In A Quickly Changing Kaleidoscope. After A Few Hours, The Not Unpleasant Inebriation, Which Had Been Experienced Whilst I Was Fully Conscious, Disappeared. What Had Caused This Condition?

I Share The Belief Of Many Of My Contemporaries That The Spiritual Crisis Pervading All Spheres Of Western Industrial Society Can Be Remedied Only By A Change In Our World View. We Shall Have To Shift From The Materialistic, Dualistic Belief That People And Their Environment Are Separate, Toward A New Consciousness Of An All-encompassing Reality, Which Embraces The Experiencing Ego, A Reality In Which People Feel Their Oneness With Animate Nature And All Of Creation.

In Many Instances, Lsd Actually Produced Terrifying And Deleterious Effects Instead Of Beneficial Effects, Because Of Misuse, Because It Was A Profanation.