Psychedelic Phenomena LSD Psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs explained

' Despite the draconian view that most contemporary societies have on mind-altering drugs, whether natural or synthetic, there has always been a religious undercurrent around the world that takes them seriously as a conduit to deep spiritual insight and encounters with the holy. This is the religious - and highly ambiguous - legacy left by two LSD pioneers who died within the past two weeks. Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann - who discovered LSD in 1938 - died on April 29, at the age of 102; US psycho-pharmacologist Murray Jarvik - one of the first to study the drug's chemical properties and their mind-altering effects - passed away last Thursday. Both experimented with the drug and vouched for its religious significance. Having lost or severed any connections with natural psychoactive plants, it is not surprising that it took a synthetic drug for the modern industrialised world to retrieve a psychoactive connection with the holy. In her popular book A History of God, the historia

Despite the draconian view that most contemporary societies have on mind-altering drugs, whether natural or synthetic, there has always been a religious undercurrent around the world that takes them seriously as a conduit to deep spiritual insight and encounters with the holy. This is the religious - and highly ambiguous - legacy left by two LSD pioneers who died within the past two weeks. Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann - who discovered LSD in 1938 - died on April 29, at the age of 102; US psycho-pharmacologist Murray Jarvik - one of the first to study the drug's chemical properties and their mind-altering effects - passed away last Thursday. Both experimented with the drug and vouched for its religious significance. Having lost or severed any connections with natural psychoactive plants, it is not surprising that it took a synthetic drug for the modern industrialised world to retrieve a psychoactive connection with the holy. In her popular book A History of God, the histori

(96) Psychedelic Review : By the revelations of psychotropic medicine, leading to a more fundamental view of human experience than Freudian psychology has hitherto supplied. The anxiety and rootlessness of modern life will be seen to be the result of inner barrenness, created by the frustration of our subconscious needs in a predominantly rational society. Empty utilitarianism, deprived of poetic faith, forces the sensitive being to reject reality, since reality is devoid of the emotional appeal that it formerly enjoyed. Man is a creature whose necessity is to dream; when the individual, or the race as a whole, is frustrated of its inner vision, it must suffer as when deprived of material health. Human beings are nostalgic for the fulfillment of their primordial Life. Their anxiety is not the result of fear, since modern life is more secure than ever before, but of the loss of inner destiny, of the devitalization of the illusions revealed in the yearnings of myth and poetry.

(99) The Curious world of Psychedelics and their friends. : "I think it's interesting the two drugs that are legal - alcohol and cigarettes, two drugs that do absolutely nothing for you at all - are legal, and the drugs that might open your mind up to realise how you're being fucked every day of your life? Those drugs are against the law. Coincidence? See, I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, cos I took 'em one time, you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours, going, 'My God, I love everything.' Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our countries...How are we gonna justify arms dealing if we know we're all one? Bill Hicks" 'via Blog this'

American “materialism” is in actual fact a form of idealism, which seeks to make commerce and gadgetry a spiritual achievement. It avers that life has somehow become more meaningful because of the perfection of our machines. Such an ideal, however, is an ultimate denial of life, for machines can only implement the prior values that life itself possesses. Therefore, to equate life with mechanical progress is to abstract experience into a kind of intellectual propaganda. Material advantages, elevated to mental symbols, become spiritual objectives, insidiously usurping the genuine values of the blood and soil. Ironically, material objects are no longer regarded by the “materialist” as pristine material objects, but are transformed into philosophical, moral, social, or mental values. Experience becomes entangled in concepts, and man is enslaved by a misguided, machine-oriented idealism.  All we have gained the machine threatens, so long As it makes bold to exist in the spirit inste