Psychedelic Phenomena LSD Psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs explained

LSD has helped us win four Nobel Prizes, create the Internet, Unix and BSD operating systems, the digital infrastructure of the electrical and communications grid and scientific and engineering platforms, and Apple and Microsoft personal computers. It has helped us discover both the composition of our very DNA and multiply it, unlock psychotherapy in the treatment of anxiety and schizophrenia, cu re migraines and cluster headaches for up to a year with a single application, cure methamphetamine addiction, cure alcoholism, cure childhood autism, and at less-than-psychedelic doses, and with a thousand times less material, it has lasted longer and is more effective than synthetic opiates in the treatment of pain. It has opened new avenues of spiritual insight and understanding for millions, evolving human consciousness and enhancing creativity to accelerate the arts of music, cinema, medicine, photography, painting, architecture, literature, dance, nutrition, and invention. It helped d...

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. -Stanislav Grof The BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute, which is located at Promega Corporation in Madison, Wisconsin, recently hosted the 10th Annual International Bioethics Forum titled “Manifesting the Mind”. Several notable speakers gave presentations on a rather unexpected subject matter: the use of hallucinogens such as psilocybin (i.e., magic mushrooms) to better understand the nature of consciousness and to even treat neuropsychological disorders such as depression, anxiety and drug addiction. I was one of the lucky participants that attended this forum. Psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine), which is the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, has been in use for thousands of years by the indigenous peoples of the Americas; in fact, the Aztec called these mushrooms teonanacatl, or ”flesh of the gods”. Mescaline...

History records few human quests as unremitting or as widespread as the search for a harmless, effective sex stimulant. Recent claims - such as those made by Timothy Leary - that LSD is the greatest aphrodisiac known to man, have excited much interest in the sexual potential of psychedelic drugs. Sober discussion of psychedelic substances was difficult enough before sex entered the picture; now it is close to impossible. But bearing in mind that there is a great deal more to psychedelics than sex, it might clear the air to examine the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide - and several other psychedelic drugs - on human sexual behavior. Along with the comparatively new synthetic psychedelics, including LSD and psilocybin, there are similar mind-altering substances present in many forms of plant life. Some of these have been used for hundreds and even thousands of years. Examples are the peyote cactus, the Cannibis hemp plant, the opium poppy and several varieties of mushrooms and mo...

History records few human quests as unremitting or as widespread as the search for a harmless, effective sex stimulant. Recent claims - such as those made by Timothy Leary - that LSD is the greatest aphrodisiac known to man, have excited much interest in the sexual potential of psychedelic drugs. Sober discussion of psychedelic substances was difficult enough before sex entered the picture; now it is close to impossible. But bearing in mind that there is a great deal more to psychedelics than sex, it might clear the air to examine the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide - and several other psychedelic drugs - on human sexual behavior.

1. The Purpose of Life is Religious Discovery That intermediate manifestation of the Divine Process which we call the DNA Code has spent the last  two-billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. An intricate web has been woven, a delicate  fabric of chemical-electrical-seed-tissue-organism-species. A dancing joyous harmony of energy transactions is rooted in the 12 inches of topsoil which covers the rock metal fire core of this planet.  Into this Garden of Eden each human being is born perfect. We were all born Divine mutants, the  DNA Code's best answer to joyful survival on this planet. An exquisite package for adaptation based  on 2 billion years of consumer research (RNA) and product design (DNA).  But each baby, although born perfect, immediately finds himself in an imperfect, artificial,  disharmonious social system which systematically robs him of his divinity.  And the social systems - where did they come from? Individua...

During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Huffington Post did a special series entitled "Shadow Conventions" in which writers posted on topics being neglected by Romney and Obama. Among the subjects, was one that has been gaining in media coverage: The War on Drugs. I have some ideas I'd like to share. Years ago, I read a science fiction novel in which the main character indulges in a piece of toast with hash-infused marmalade. He goes on to reminisce on how drugs were legalized and that persons wishing to use drugs are required to take a drug awareness class and pass a test in order to be issued a card for purchasing drugs. This would be a sensible approach, and teens should have drug education classes in which drug use is not demonized (nor encouraged) but presented in a manner that shows the dangers of drug abuse, and offers the suggestion that if you choose to use drugs as an adult, do so responsibly and in moderation. In order to keep persons on the mo...

Perhaps the most remarkable property of mescaline and LSD is their ability to compress into an afternoon the result of many years’ experience. Our entire development may be retraced in the retrospect of a few hours; indeed, one may witness the dramatization in a period of minutes of certain processes of racial consciousness, which have extended over millennia. Medieval mystics often spoke of the Dark Night of the Soul, which preceded the entry into the Unio Mystica. This climax to a long struggle with the self was a period of utter despair that finally destroyed the tyrannical ego through its own torment. When the pain of protracted suffering completely disrupted the mechanism of anxiety, there followed the blessed miracle of simple resignation; for the first time in years, the cleansed soul gazed upon primal reality, shining again with its own pristine radiance, free once more from the painful reflection of the exaggerated self. It was only after passing several times through the hal...