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LSD and future use It seems to me that the well-established properties of the hallucinogenic drugs might be well employed to enable us to explore this far-off land, which is in effect our subconscious mind. An attempt at a philosophical evaluation of the hallucinogenic drug experience. It seems to me that the well-established properties of the hallucinogenic drugs might be well employed to enable us to explore this far-off land, which is in effect our subconscious mind. Eugene aims to bring together the perspectives of<b> philosophy </font></b>Hopefully with the immence background of anthropology, literature, comparative religion, the arts and psychology can someday be brought together with pyschotropic knowledge to better understand our consciousness to ultimately improve humanity cure mental illness and even solve lifes mysteries. Were we to learn its secrets, we would better understand our own desires, and the motives which drive us through life. Still better, the secrets of human history would perhaps be discovered as the eternal patterns of imagination which have shaped our spiritual existence. But perhaps most important of all, to penetrate the well of the past might restore to us that visionary perception which we think to have once possessed. The far-off land has tremendous meaning and insight. Intelligently written and poetic. Takes you on journey that feels you full with meaning and insight that leaves you with a sense of awe and mystery attaching to our contemplation of life Eric Hendrickson It has seemed to me that the well-established properties of the hallucinogenic drugs might be well employed to enable us to explore this far-off land, which is in effect our subconscious mind. Were we to learn its secrets, we would better understand our own desires and the motives that drive us through life. Still better, the secrets of human history would perhaps be discovered as the eternal patterns of imagination that have shaped our spiritual existence. But, perhaps most important of all, to penetrate the well of the past might restore to us that visionary perception that we think we once possessed. Legend and myth are curiously persistent in their suggestion that the human race formerly enjoyed the delights of paradise; actually, I believe that this paradise has been fashioned perennially by each of us from his own recollection of life's initial innocence, and therefore awaits recreation from the depths of primal memory. If this is true, the strange drugs that the Indians left to us might prove to be the very Hermetic Secret sought after by the alchemists. In the study that follows, I have attempted solely to analyze my own experiences with two of these drugs, LSD and mescaline. I have not avoided treating them subjectively, since this aspect of the experience especially reveals what is operative beneath the surface of the mind when hallucinogenic-ally stimulated. A cardinal principle has guided my observations: The human mind stands behind all phenomena, organizing, integrating, and interpreting; the nature of its " ab-reaction" to experience reveals its inner functions, just as our tastes and prejudices reveal our personalities. This principle is not proposed in an extreme Berkelean sense as a denial of objective existence, but as recognition of the essential role played by our total past in experiencing "reality," ac- cording to the image we bear within us. Nor does the private nature of my experiments preclude a general application, since each of us is an expression of our race and culture; any study of literature or<b> philosophy </font></b>will show that the same motifs appear continuously in history, illustrating basic insights that we inherit from life: insights both universal and timeless because of the existen- tial problems faced by all. Quite obviously, the hallucinogenic experience is not stereotyped by a single type of personality; the details that follow are only suggestive of certain imaginative processes involved, rather than their neces- sary psychogenic form. Thus, one might comprehend in them a picture of human consciousness in general; for the deeper one penetrates the subconscious mind, the more impersonal it becomes and the closer one approaches the state that existed before conceptual egotism drove us into our separate worlds. There are, indeed, sufficient similarities between the experiences investigated here and those recorded in both psychological journals and the world's great literature to suggest an essential agreement between all subconscious memories. Accordingly, the present study attempts to discover the broader realities that lie behind psychogenic phenomena and to seek a pattern that would explain the longing of human beings for the Beyond, for the otherworldly substance of their intuition. Whether or not we are successful, it is hoped that fruitful directions for further investigation will be perceived, and the use of our new hallucinogenic tools will be extended to much broader fields than is presently the case.http://Affairlook.com  |
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In the 60s the British Army conducted experiments with LSD. They gave up after the platoon who had been given the drug stopped cooperating with the researchers, and gave up on their objectives. One soldier had climbed a tree "to feed the birds". There's a video of it on U tube. I doubt that studies reveal much at all because of the subjective nature of the experience and the lack of seriousness in the test subjects 
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