Have a Nice Trip: The counterculture popularity of the hallucinogen LSD sidetracked research on its possible medical uses for decades.
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Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, lambasted the countercultural movement for marginalizing a chemical that he asserted had potential benefits as an invaluable supplement to psychotherapy and spiritual practices such as meditation. “This joy at having fathered LSD was tarnished after more than ten years of uninterrupted scientific research and medicinal use when LSD was swept up in the huge wave of an inebriant mania that began to spread over the Western world, above all the United States, at the end of the 1950s,” Hofmann groused in his 1979 memoir LSD: My Problem Child.
For just that reason, Hofmann was jubilant in the months before his death last year, at the age of 102, when he learned that the first scientific research on LSD in decades was just beginning in his native Switzerland. “He was very happy that, as he said, ‘a long wish finally became true,’ ” remarks Peter Gasser, the physician leading the clinical trial. “He said that the substance must be in the hands of medical doctors again.”
The preliminary study picks up where investigators left off. It explores the possible therapeutic effects of the drug on the intense anxiety experienced by patients with life-threatening disease, such as cancer. A number of the hundreds of studies conducted on lysergic acid diethylamide-25 from the 1940s into the 1970s (many of poor quality by contemporary standards) delved into the personal insights the drug supplied that enabled patients to reconcile themselves with their own mortality. In recent years some researchers have studied psilocybin (the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms”) and MDMA (Ecstasy), among others, as possible treatments for this “existential anxiety,” but not LSD.
Gasser, head of the Swiss Medical Society for Psycholytic Therapy, which he joined after his own therapist-administered LSD experience, has only recently begun to discuss his research, revealing the challenges of studying psychedelics. The $190,000 study approved by Swiss medical authorities, was almost entirely funded by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a U.S. nonprofit that sponsors research toward the goal of making psychedelics and marijuana into prescription drugs. Begun in 2008, the study intends to treat 12 patients (eight who will receive LSD and four a placebo). Finding eligible candidates has been difficult—after 18 months only five patients had been recruited, and just four had gone through the trial’s regimen of a pair of all-day sessions. “Because LSD is not a usual treatment, an oncologist will not recommend it to a patient,” Gasser laments.
The patients who received the drug found the experience aided them emotionally, and none experienced panic reactions or other untoward events. One patient, Udo Schulz, told the German weekly Der Spiegel that the therapy with LSD helped him overcome anxious feelings after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, and the experience with the drug aided his reentry into the workplace.
The trials follow a strict protocol—“all LSD treatment sessions will begin at 11 a.m.”—and the researchers are scrupulous about avoiding mistakes that, at times, occurred during older psychedelic trials, when investigators would leave subjects alone during a drug session. Both Gasser and a female co-therapist are present throughout the eight-hour sessions that take place in quiet, darkened rooms, with emergency medical equipment close at hand. Before receiving LSD, subjects have to undergo psychological testing and preliminary psychotherapy sessions.
Another group is also pursuing LSD research. The British-based Beckley Foundation is funding and collaborating on a 12-person pilot study at the University of California, Berkeley, that is assessing how the drug may foster creativity and what changes in neural activity go along with altered conscious experience induced by the chemical. Whether LSD will one day become the drug of choice for psychedelic psychotherapy remains in question because there may be better solutions. “We chose psilocybin over LSD because it is gentler and generally less intense,” says Charles S. Grob, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, who conducted a trial to test psilocybin’s effects on anxiety in terminal cancer patients. Moreover, “it is associated with fewer panic reactions and less chance of paranoia and, most important, over the past half a century psilocybin has attracted far less negative publicity and carries far less cultural baggage than LSD.”
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Add CommentThis is an outrage!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisResearch into illegal drugs shouldn't be pursued because they are illegal! These drugs have no benefit to anyone under any circumstances and should not be looked into any further.
nonsense...they are only illegal because of an hysterical overreaction by the people the counter-culture were opposed to. to deny use of a potentially beneficial drug because of a politically motivated law is silly
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI can't speak to psychotherapy, but I can say from experience that psychedelic drugs do have merit as tools for artists. In an abstract sense, they re-order the mind for a short time, allowing new models and new perspectives to develop. I don't see why somebody would care whether I did them or not.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisjoeldooris, you are saying that LSD for research is wrong? That is an ignorant comment. You should inform yourself better. I might have agreed with you if you said that for recreational use it should BE MAINTAINED illegal (and I don't agree for all of them), but if they are used in experiments to better understand the effect and how it can help people WITH TERMINAL PAINFUL DISEASES, it's because they are not illegal and is a good thing that they are being studied. Drugs may be illegal for selling and consuming, but you should know that for research, they are not. Opium, Cocaine and Cannabinoids are just a few of the substances that you may consume has MEDICATION without even knowing they are there. Does that make you a bad person, by consuming legal drugs?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAnd, if you informed yourself better, you would know that nicotine and alcohol are far worse than many drugs you clearly don't approve.
Here is the official rank list for some of them.
1. Heroin
2. Cocaine
3. Barbiturates
4. Street methadone
5. Alcohol
6. Ketamine
7. Benzodiazepines
8. Amphetamine
9. Tobacco
10. Buprenorphine
11. Cannabis
12. Solvents
13. 4-MTA
14. LSD
15. Methylphenidate
16. Anabolic steroids
17. GHB
18. Ecstasy
19. Alkyl nitrates
20. Khat
This article made me happy. Drugs should be research and experimented always, because they can save lives. Who knows, maybe a cure can be found for some of the worst diseases known to man, or at least help to cope with the suffering.
A good lesson that Albert Hofmann gave us all: Think before you speak. It's a drug, but it can be used for good.
joeldooris, you are saying that LSD for research is wrong? That is an ignorant comment. You should inform yourself better. I might have agreed with you if you said that for recreational use it should BE MAINTAINED illegal (and I don't agree for all of them), but if they are used in experiments to better understand the effect and how it can help people WITH TERMINAL PAINFUL DISEASES, it's because they are not illegal and is a good thing that they are being studied. Drugs may be illegal for selling and consuming, but you should know that for research, they are not. Opium, Cocaine and Cannabinoids are just a few of the substances that you may consume has MEDICATION without even knowing they are there. Does that make you a bad person, by consuming legal drugs?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAnd, if you informed yourself better, you would know that nicotine and alcohol are far worse than many drugs you clearly don't approve.
Here is the official rank list for some of them.
1. Heroin
2. Cocaine
3. Barbiturates
4. Street methadone
5. Alcohol
6. Ketamine
7. Benzodiazepines
8. Amphetamine
9. Tobacco
10. Buprenorphine
11. Cannabis
12. Solvents
13. 4-MTA
14. LSD
15. Methylphenidate
16. Anabolic steroids
17. GHB
18. Ecstasy
19. Alkyl nitrates
20. Khat
This article made me happy. Drugs should be research and experimented always, because they can save lives. Who knows, maybe a cure can be found for some of the worst diseases known to man, or at least help to cope with the suffering.
A good lesson that Albert Hofmann gave us all: Think before you speak. It's a drug, but it can be used for good.
me thinks Joel is purposely posting ignorant comments in order to elicit an arguement...but i'm sure he speaks for many.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOn an episode of House, he takes LSD to cure a migraine brought on by nitroglycerin...then takes something to counter the LSD. Any truth to this?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt's snark. LSD is a good guy. When used properly, it helps people think about life and their place in it. LSD also has permanent good effects over decades.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI personally guided many many trips while it was legal, and never guided a bad one. Of course, people can have a glass of wine at home, or get drunk and drive and kill people. I'll recommend LSD and cannabis, used properly, over alcohol and cocaine, any time. Used properly. Got it? Used properly.
There are plenty of man made drugs that are developed in laboratories under controlled conditions and are targeted specifically for a particular therapy. This stuff with Marijuana, LSD and all of that other stuff is just crazy. There is no scientific prof that any of these things do anything to help terminally ill, conic pain, or any other condition. That's the way is should stay.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisjoeldooris, not all illegal drugs are inherently evil. We won't know if LSD can be used as an antidepressant until the research is finished. That's what research is for: to find out if these drugs can help the conditions you mention. Until then, you're making wild generalizations.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIn response to joeldooris comment regarding a lack of scientific evidence for the therapeutic use of "illicit" substances (citing specifically cannabis and LSD), please direct your attention to the following studies (only a few of hundreds) that contest therapeutic use of cannabinoids in diseases such as Alzheimer's, depression, neural degeneration, and breast cancer. (See Below)
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIn addition, cannabinoids have been cited as restoring appetites for patients suffering from HIV/AIDS and cancers.
Also, thank you Dr. Theamat for mentioning the countless drugs that ARE approved by the FDA that are incredibly harmful. The medico-pharmaceutical industry is highly politicized, and there are many more interests at play than solely the treatment and management of illness. Sadly, a patient's well-being is not always at the forefront of these decisions.
"A Molecular Link Between the Active Component of Marijuana and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562334/?tool=pmcentrez
"Cannabinoids promote embryonic and adult hippocampus neurogenesis and produce anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253627/?tool=pmcentrez
"Cannabidiol as a novel inhibitor of Id-1 gene expression in aggressive breast cancer cells"
http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/6/11/2921.long
"Cannabinoid action induces autophagy-mediated cell death through stimulation of ER stress in human glioma cells"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673842/?tool=pmcentrez
In response to joeldooris' comment regarding a lack of scientific evidence for the therapeutic use of "illicit" substances (citing specifically cannabis and LSD), please direct your attention to the following studies (only a few of hundreds) that contest therapeutic use of cannabinoids in diseases such as Alzheimer's, depression, neural degeneration, and breast cancer. (See Below)
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIn addition, cannabinoids have been cited as restoring appetites for patients suffering from HIV/AIDS and cancers.
Also, thank you Dr. Theamat for mentioning a few of the classes of countless drugs that ARE approved by the FDA, yet are incredibly harmful. The medico-pharmaceutical industry is highly politicized, and there are many more interests at play than solely the treatment and management of illness. Sadly, a patient's well-being is not always at the forefront of these decisions.
"A Molecular Link Between the Active Component of Marijuana and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562334/?tool=pmcentrez
"Cannabinoids promote embryonic and adult hippocampus neurogenesis and produce anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253627/?tool=pmcentrez
"Cannabidiol as a novel inhibitor of Id-1 gene expression in aggressive breast cancer cells"
http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/6/11/2921.long
"Cannabinoid action induces autophagy-mediated cell death through stimulation of ER stress in human glioma cells"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673842/?tool=pmcentrez
All drugs have pro's and con's for therapeutic use. All drugs have pro's and con's for recreational use.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisManagement of the dosage(s) to create beneficial effects, while minimizing negative effects, is key to any drugs success.
I think LSD, similarly to Psilocybin studies, will prove to be difficult to control and measure in clinical applications,
because unlike other drug classes, hallucinogenic drugs are more subjective.
Incorporating the patients baseline mental health and treatment goals, with chemically induced distortions of reality, altered states of consciousness, emotional liability and change of ego personality structure might prove to be a bit of a challenge.
All drugs have pro's and con's for therapeutic use. All drugs have pro's and con's for recreational use.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisManagement of the dosage(s) to create beneficial effects, while minimizing negative effects, is key to any drugs success.
I think LSD, similarly to Psilocybin studies, will prove to be difficult to control and measure in clinical applications,
because unlike other drug classes, hallucinogenic drugs are more subjective.
Incorporating the patients baseline mental health and treatment goals, with chemically induced distortions of reality, altered states of consciousness, emotional liability and change of ego personality structure might prove to be a bit of a challenge.
I think JDean and Robin Judge are on the dope because they can't seem to remember that they already posted the exact same thing already. See people, drugs are bad, umm kay?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe pharmaceutical company whose employee discovered LSD invested many years trying to find a medical use for the drug, they failed, as the drug for sure has no licit use. His discoverer ended his time meeting with shamans and other highly evolved and educated persons like them. Early in the 20th century, marihuana was sold without prescription in pharmacies for asthma, heroin was equally sold for cough relievement, and in the Vatican, the Pope was offered a liquor containing "coca de Peru". The banning of such drugs came when the enormous harm they do was realized. It is not wise at all coming to this issues again
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this"On an episode of House, he takes LSD to cure a migraine brought on by nitroglycerin...then takes something to counter the LSD. Any truth to this?"
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYes, Cluster Headaches (aka Suicide Headaches) which involve extreme vascular dilation (which Nitroglycerin will) results in VERY severe pressure all over the head and is considered to be the most painful condition known to humankind. LSD and Ergotomine act as effective vasoconstrictors, which are chemicals that constrict blood vessels and counter act the dilation. Consequently, it eliminates the pain (to some degree depending if the sufferer can catch a Cluster attack soon enough before it is too late.).
I knew a man who died in abject pain as his oncologist would not prescribe a narcotic to help in through his end. He claimed he would be addicted!!! I cannot believe it to this day. SO WHAT? He was dying. He is dead. The legal system is so draconian and based not upon science and medicine in this regard but upon fanatic Calvinistic beliefs that one needs to suffer in this life. Spare me. If LSD can be shown medically to benefit, I do hope that there can be changes in the law in the US and elsewhere. I do not hold much hope for this. Similarly, I do not expect any movement in the drugs laws in most countries even though the amount of illegal drugs is sky rocketing and thus gangs are making billions when those same compounds or medically more useful ones cannot be made available in the third world due to the high costs of opiates because instead they are destroyed on the ground for political reasons. Rather, might I respectfully suggest that the UN look into the reality of all of the drugs presently banned and find out which ones are usable as meds and which ones ought to remain banned medically. I did not say, by the way, that those who illicitly use banned drugs ought to be criminalised for what does that accomplish? Nothing. The War on Drugs has resulted in a lot of people rotting in jails and the drugs problem rages on. LSD might or might not be a useful adjunct to medicine or it might not but it ought not be a political decision that determines the outcome. Politicians are ignorant about science and medicine and ought to reasonably leave it in the hands of scientists and doctors to figure out safety standards for such things and that includes opiates, psychedelics and so forth.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI knew a man who died in abject pain as his oncologist would not prescribe a narcotic to help in through his end. He claimed he would be addicted!!! I cannot believe it to this day. SO WHAT? He was dying. He is dead. The legal system is so draconian and based not upon science and medicine in this regard but upon fanatic Calvinistic beliefs that one needs to suffer in this life. Spare me. If LSD can be shown medically to benefit, I do hope that there can be changes in the law in the US and elsewhere. I do not hold much hope for this. Similarly, I do not expect any movement in the drugs laws in most countries even though the amount of illegal drugs is sky rocketing and thus gangs are making billions when those same compounds or medically more useful ones cannot be made available in the third world due to the high costs of opiates because instead they are destroyed on the ground for political reasons. Rather, might I respectfully suggest that the UN look into the reality of all of the drugs presently banned and find out which ones are usable as meds and which ones ought to remain banned medically. I did not say, by the way, that those who illicitly use banned drugs ought to be criminalised for what does that accomplish? Nothing. The War on Drugs has resulted in a lot of people rotting in jails and the drugs problem rages on. LSD might or might not be a useful adjunct to medicine or it might not but it ought not be a political decision that determines the outcome. Politicians are ignorant about science and medicine and ought to reasonably leave it in the hands of scientists and doctors to figure out safety standards for such things and that includes opiates, psychedelics and so forth.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisUse of opiates to relieve cancer pain is a completely different thing to taking hallucinogens.When medical papers reviewed assisted suicide where this awful practice is legal, many cases of insufficient pain relievement and loneliness were found among those who requested it. In Spain every time the socialist parties speak about eutanasia, and they want to legalize it, but haven't found the right time yet, elderly enter hospitals in anxiety and fear, thinking they can be eliminated. Some say LSD gives you psychic powers, but such abilities, if they exist, are not something you possess, like a radio or an screwdriver, they are somebody transmitting its powers, for sure some kind of malignant being. This is the origin of sorcerer capabilities
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI don't know about you guys but if I was terminally ill with cancer, I think I would panic knowing that while tripping.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLSD gave me the perspective of opening doors that most people don't see. Perhaps people should study fourth deminsional geometry before they dismiss the effects of this drug. Time is a dimension that cannot be recognized by most
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisobservers because the speed of light makes direct obsevation difficult. Aldous Huxley observed correctly that the means never justify the ends . Go Figure.
LSD-25 is a naturally occurring alkaloid. Like most natural products, it has compassionate uses. It may sound strange but in my opinion it allows a perspective of the fourth dimensional universe that is normally blocked because the brain filters this imformation as irrelevant to survival (ref Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception). In this day and age this imformation may be very important to our survival as a species.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHorse wrote "...because the brain filters this imformation as irrelevant to survival (ref Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception). In this day and age this imformation may be very important to our survival as a species."
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBelieve me, LSD offers no iNformation that is important to our survival as a species. Do you realize how broad a scale 'species' is? How could NOT doing LSD jeopardize that? Calling it therapy, or medicine is just a disguise. The ultimate goal to all of this 'it is good for therapy' stuff is recreational freedom. I have tripped enough acid, and smoked enough weed to realize that even when I preach the medicinal argument, I really just want to be able to do it without worrying about getting arrested. The problem with the medicinal use is that what % of people are going to want to do acid again, AFTER their therapy is 'completed'?. It would be easy to associate the drug with healing if it is used clinically. It would be sought out on the street more, and distributed in high school like ritalin if it ever gets prescribed. Like Lay's potato chips, most people can't eat just one. Case in point, humans have been dealing with life's pains for a long time, we don't suddenly need acid to handle it.
How would the subjects not know that they were in the control group receiving placebos and not LSD-25?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSadly and unfortunately, idiots and people in high places tend to be insensitive to even as strong a use of shaming irony as yours.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou're lack of scientific knowledge and narrow-mindedness towards this particular subject is totally revealed in your short sentenced attempts to ridiculize others' arguments. It's a tipical atitude. I dare you to take some good tokes of the arcaic herb and open your mind to natures wisdom. It should do you well to complement it with some reliable info on the political and economical issues related to these natural agents (psilocibin and cannabis).
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAbout time some people with some real sense tried to bring this one back!!! Though if LSD does come back, how will administering it with such very uptight limits as described in the article help anything? Sure a few with highly specific disorders, but what about the rest? The creative ones?... If the research fails, it is because the method of introduction and sustenance is flawed... Why not give creativity a chance to breathe again? Why not give it to the Painter straight! To the Musician whole again! They are alive only through their paint's and instruments.. Only through their Art, Of a cosmic duvet in fugue canvas... Mad mad mad! Until they learn how to 'see' again... Without limits... 21st Century Art will likely spike in all directions if LSD is freed up again...
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNothing can cure what we have!!! LSD can certainly help ease and systematize the Phantom Blues in ways nothing else can, not only on canvas but also in reality... Take note science... Give back to Mind if nothing else... Give back to Art!! Taking LSD from the streets is risking permanent brain damage I say, so I've been waiting to hear this news for a good while now... The Gods smile on this move... :)
The word illegal does not mean immoral. Sometimes we need to question WHY something is illegal, not simply resist it because it's been stamped illegal. A little critical thinking goes a long way.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI believe as with breast feeding brings about nurturing skills......So does LSD expand the mind....Years ago Hippies were saying the same things that scientists are informing us of today.........Think about it, "Like Hey Man, maby we're only a little drop of water on some bigger scale life scope?"
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI believe as with breast feeding brings about nurturing skills......So does LSD expand the mind....Years ago Hippies were saying the same things that scientists are informing us of today.........Think about it, "Like Hey Man, maby we're only a little drop of water on some bigger scale life scope?"
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI tried it once and have little doubt it would be a very useful tool for psychotherapists because the drug is to the mind what a mirror is to the face, only less superficial. Seeing my strengths boosted my self-esteem. Seeing my weaknesses showed me what to work on to improve myself. I think I am a better person now and I think I would have had even better results if a psychologist had been allowed to guide me through some of the tricky bits.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOddly, I think the type of people who feel outrage over this research are of one of the personality types that would benefit most from using LSD. Perhaps on some level they sense that which is why they fear it which is why they feel the outrage.
"This is an outrage!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisResearch into illegal drugs shouldn't be pursued because they are illegal! These drugs have no benefit to anyone under any circumstances and should not be looked into any further."
That's a terrible argument. You're denying the use of LSD because it's illegal. Using the same logic that you've just put forth, I could say (absurdly, I might add): "LSD should be illegal because it is illegal." Worded differently, you've attempted to prove your argument, not by providing support, but by merely stating a fact about its legal stance.
Drugs are illegal because of laws that have been enforced that have deemed to them to be illegal, not because they're necessarily inherently evil or bad.
In terms of the latter part of your argument, perhaps you should invest some time so that you can research the many beneficial results that have observed when people have taken LSD. For instance, it has been demonstrated, time and time again, that LSD has been extremely effective in reducing/eliminating alcoholism.
I know: Rather than waste your time by posting entirely unsupported arguments on here, maybe it'd be in your best interests to look into, say, Prozac, or other antidepressants/drugs that are "legal" but that have been shown to be highly detrimental to human beings. That, or I'd highly recommend adding some substance to your lacking argument.
"This is an outrage!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisResearch into illegal drugs shouldn't be pursued because they are illegal! These drugs have no benefit to anyone under any circumstances and should not be looked into any further. "
The only outrage results from your insubstantial argument. More specifically, all you've done, Joeldooris, is stated the current legal stance of LSD. You've assumed that this stance is correct, because it is currently being enforced. Essentially, what you've said is: "LSD should be illegal because it is illegal." This method of arguing is entirely fruitless. You've made an error that's deemed: "The is-ought fallacy." Unfortunately, for you, this argument is entirely useless. The bad news continues: Not only have you used this fallacy, but you've failed to support any of your claims.
In terms of the latter part of your argument (pertaining to claims that LSD has not benefited anyone), you've continued to provide a fruitless argument--Again, you've failed to support this claim.
Perhaps you should entertain the idea "Innocent until proven guilty," otherwise, we can all post our unsupported opinions on here, and we won't get anywhere (useful) at all.
One last note: In case you do indeed decide to put aside some time so that you can attempt to support your side, keep in mind that you shouldn't have a confirmation bias; that is, you should also look for (and post) information that opposes your argument.
man are you ignorant
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf you get the lsd i somehow manage to find...you'll definitely see why lsd needs to be researched right now. This "drug" with proper meditation showed me my own anatomy, the anatomy of space and the infinite fractal nature of things. Through LSD i had similar visions to those of Tibetan and Buddhist monks, realization of oneness to the universe. It's more than just a drug, this was the most incredible spiritual experience of my life. I don't abuse either, i do lsd very rarely, it's just super good and i like to meditate instead of play with glowsticks...but thats fun too :D
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this12 patients (eight who will receive LSD and four a placebo).
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI dont know about you...but I think I'd be able to tell if I got the placebo or not...
Yes, vitamin b12 can reduce the effects of a bad trip. Some other medicines have similar effects.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI wouldn't go looking to House though for medical practices.
People that are against LSD have no arguments based on results of scientific research or from self experience. They have not yet learned to think independently and still believe nearly everything the mass media tells them. they are still indoctrinated with biased information. Prohibition failed 100%. Everyone should be free to do what he or she wants as long as he or she doesn't hurt anyone else. Psychedelics bring much more benefits than legal dope and are a lot safer. Only they haven't got a propaganda machine that legal dope has.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLSD is a powerful tool for research as well as therapy and should be legalized (and taxed), also taking into consideration its relative low dangerousness, inferior to many legal drugs like alcohol or diazepam.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLSD is a powerful tool for research as well as therapy and should be legalized (and taxed), also taking into consideration its relative low dangerousness, inferior to many legal drugs like alcohol or diazepam.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLet's also remind that illegality of LSD was not decided on the base of scientific data, but for ideological reasons, as it was the drug of choice of hippies and members of the so-called "counterculture".
Joeldooris is either a troll, is profiting from drug prohibition, or is simply mentally deficient.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf you support prohibition then youve helped trigger the worst crime wave in this nations history.
If you support prohibition youve a helped create a black market with massive incentives to hook both adults and children alike.
If you support prohibition youve helped to make these dangerous substances available in schools and prisons.
If you support prohibition youve helped raise gang warfare to a level not seen in this country since the days of alcohol bootlegging.
If you support prohibition youve helped remove many important civil liberties from those citizens you falsely claim to represent.
If you support prohibition youve helped put previously unknown and contaminated drugs on the streets.
If you support prohibition youve helped to escalate Theft, Muggings and Burglaries.
If you support prohibition youve helped to divert scarce law-enforcement resources away from protecting your fellow citizens from the ever escalating violence against their person or property.
If you support prohibition then you have abandoned American children to the morals and ethics of gangsters and terrorists.
If you support prohibition youve helped overcrowd the courts and prisons, thus making it increasingly impossible to curtail the people who are hurting and terrorizing others.
By criminalizing easily grown or produced plants and substances, the barriers to enter the market are enhanced, and costs are inflated. Consequently, even with the most draconian enforcement ensuring only the most hardened criminals are willing to enter the market , the temptation of massive profits made possible by inflated prices will ensure an endless stream of criminals willing to supply an endless demand. Further, this market is overseen by an impractical, inefficient, and absurdly expensive regulator, - law enforcement. The resources of which have been diverted from fighting real crimes such as theft, rape, and murder, which are far more socially malevolent than drug possession.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNobody says it better than Hofmann himself, in this last interview just before he died:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishttp://www.tygersofwrath.com/alberthofmanninterviewlsd.htm
It's good that people on the brink of dead may find alleviation of their sufferig with LSD. But much more people can use it as an healing aid. I have not used LSD, but have used the so called Magical Mushrooms and with their aid i received a cure for my former very serious and destructive alcolhol problem.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisjoeldooris: "There is no scientific prof that any of these things do anything to help terminally ill, conic pain, or any other condition."
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHence the research???
There isn't any scientific proof that the don't make a difference. Wait for the results before you open your mouth. Unless of course you have conducted your own studies proving that they don't help.
At first, I thought that joeldooris was clearly and cleverly joking - he/she strung together three sentences without grammatical errors, which is better than most who post here. And no intelligent being could seriously suggest that illegal drugs shouldn't be studied because they're illegal. That's just dumb on the face of it. But his/her last post, referring to such matters as 'scientific prof' and 'conic pain', makes me wonder.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisagenthucky raises a valid point. On one hand, most studies don't check sufficiently as to whether the 'blinding' has slipped. It's a simple matter to ask participants something like "do you think you received the placebo or the active treatment? How confident are you in your assertion?", just to check. On the other hand, we shouldn't be too sure that we could tell the difference. A number of studies have found that people who drink water can get drunk if they believe it's vodka, and people can ingest THC without inebriant effects if they're not expecting such effects.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI always find it funny when people make a statement about something they really have no experience with, or any real understanding of and act as if they do. When its so obvious they don't. My opinion is this seems to be a great point in which this substance can again get some attention for its potential benefits. Seems like it has been dead in the "war on drugs" waters for some time. All while crack is rampant in our cities of course. In my own use I found the substance to be extremely helpful psychologically under responsible conditions, which were found by trial and error...I feel that LSD can also be extremely helpful for those without psychological healing needs. Specifically the reintegration of our psychic awareness. The ability to see/ feel / hear energy. To pry open the third eye, or squeegee it clean if you will.
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"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day." ~Thomas Jefferson
Prying open my third eye
The idea that LSD research is of no consequence to our existence as human beings on this Planet is beyond absurd. We each have our happiness and our pain. Mine cannot be compared to yours. Everything depends upon ones own reality. Our individual uniqueness, our collective likeness -- these are things LSD use makes clear. Realizing our Oneness, (like this ancient phrase or not) with the Universe can only benefit us as the Human Race. We are not the end all, be all.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWe are not necessarily superior to the vein of a green leaf. In the wilderness we are still one. Where it is still wild, we can find our place as it exists within the whole. These are things LSD can teach by opening the pathways, never used, by our conscious minds.
My suffering today is different than it was in my youth. My perceptions are keener. Having experimented with LSD as a young person, I can openly say it changed me in my deepest place: the center point of my Spirit where my Heart creates its song.
I would give anything to experience it all once again, now that I have lived so many more years, lived through so very much: extraordinary tragedy, multiple brushes with death, untold moments of sheer ecstacy. It is my unwaivering belief that it would enhance the Joy of Life I know so well, this very moment, as I enter the last portion of my existence here on the Planet Earth. Bring it to us please. Bring it to those of us whose Journey has been filled with extreme delight and awe
because we were the fortunate ones who travelled into the beautiful deep.
In the middle of horror and tragedy, I have still maintained my Sight. I am consistently able to separate the ugly reality from the miracles and magic that surround us in our every day awakening. Perhaps it is my choice to see the world this way. However had I not had the opportunity to sharpen this ability early on through the use of LSD, I believe that I, like so many, would have succombed to an inner sickness of the Spirit from which there is no perceived escape.
LSD opens ones Heart to all the beauty that surrounds. Gives rise to pondering ones place amid all things. Accesses a tiny glimpse into the unimagineable that is to come.
LSD helped me discover more of myself, in a shorter period of time than school, conversations with other people, therapy, and reading books. It enabled me to understand who I am and how much my parents (whom I've had a horrible relationship with since childhood) actually cared. I finally understood the family dynamic, and that understanding stayed with me after doing LSD. It didn't go away. People should really look into LSD for guidance. South American and Native American Shamans have been doing psychedelics for as long as they've been around, and they're more attune spiritually than the majority of Westerners. Open your minds, people.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLSD helped me discover more of myself, in a shorter period of time than school, conversations with other people, therapy, and reading books. It enabled me to understand who I am and how much my parents (whom I've had a horrible relationship with since childhood) actually cared. I finally understood the family dynamic, and that understanding stayed with me after doing LSD. It didn't go away. People should really look into LSD for guidance. South American and Native American Shamans have been doing psychedelics for as long as they've been around, and they're more attune spiritually than the majority of Westerners. Open your minds, people.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi have experimented with psilocybin, ecstasy, LSD, and mescaline and I have cured my own cluster headaches and many of my personality disorders have vanished.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe same Government which made LSD illegal (i.e. USA) - the substance which did NOT kill a single person - is the biggest mass-murderer of innocent civilians - Hiroshima, (conventional) bombings in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq etc. etc, in addition to that USA government sponsors via its CIA and other secret services illegal trade in really dangerous, addictive drugs - heroin (during Vietnam War in Indochina), now in Afghanistan, and cocaine in Colombia. It is really disgusting even to argue with such creepy hypocrites and criminals!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe same Government which made LSD illegal (i.e. USA) - the substance which did NOT kill a single person - is the biggest mass-murderer of innocent civilians - Hiroshima, (conventional) bombings in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq etc. etc, in addition to that USA government sponsors via its CIA and other secret services illegal trade in really dangerous, addictive drugs - heroin (during Vietnam War in Indochina), now in Afghanistan, and cocaine in Colombia. It is really disgusting even to argue with such creepy hypocrites and criminals!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thislsd remains most probably the sharpest cutting edge drug with enormous potential ever disc0vered. U.S. Drug Policy employes a policy of ruthless suppression of this wonderous substance. I am reminded of the old proverb that "truth goes through three phases, first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, third it is accepted as self evident." unfortunately, it is the extremely fine properties of this chemical that make the second phase tortously and unduly prolonged. the authorities know it is powerful, and that is itself enough for any and all forms of book burning, including prohibition of scientific research. government inforced ignorance in this specific area will remain in force for a long time in lsd research. the possibilities are too diverse for their little minds. the better the tool the more persecution it will attract. It reminds me of book burning.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAll drugs have pro's and con's for therapeutic use. All drugs have pro's and con's for recreational use. Management of the dosage(s) to create beneficial effects, while minimizing negative effects, is key to any drugs success.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think LSD, similarly to Psilocybin studies, will prove to be difficult to control and measure in clinical applications, because unlike other drug classes, hallucinogenic drugs are more subjective.
Incorporating the patients baseline mental health and treatment goals, with chemically induced distortions of reality, altered states of consciousness, emotional liability and change of ego personality structure might prove to be a bit of a challenge.
(This was posted in September 09, 2009 but SCIAM deleted it)
All drugs have pro's and con's for therapeutic use. All drugs have pro's and con's for recreational use. Management of the dosage(s) to create beneficial effects, while minimizing negative effects, is key to any drugs success.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think LSD, similarly to Psilocybin studies, will prove to be difficult to control and measure in clinical applications, because unlike other drug classes, hallucinogenic drugs are more subjective.
Incorporating the patients baseline mental health and treatment goals, with chemically induced distortions of reality, altered states of consciousness, emotional liability and change of ego personality structure might prove to be a bit of a challenge.
(This was posted in September 09, 2009 but SCIAM deleted it)
tune in, turn on, & drop out. Want some blotter?
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisA lot of entries (and a lot of duplicates), and there seems to be some misunderstanding. First, as to how the "counterculture" ruined the chances of serious study of hallucinogens. Remember that it was the MK-Ultra experiments which really liberated the drugs from the lab. Look it up.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSecond, as to the use of opiates, heroin is certainly a bad thing to use, say, with your morning paper and your coffee. But, as an analgesic, it is unparalleled. Why can not we use it on terminal patients? Why, it is illegal and they could get hooked.
The War on Drugs is like the War on Poverty - they are words to get people reelected without the need or desire to actually do something. If we were to legalize everything, we would bring in new cash crops, and we could divert all those billions of dollars and lives wasted in death, despair and jails to educating and providing reasons not to have to escape reality. Hell, if we just took the money and BOUGHT all the cocaine from the growers, they would be happy, and we would save a billion or two.
But, no, we will go on. Things will remain illegal because "they are". Legal drugs, like tobacco and alcohol, will continue to kill millions.
To millions, psilocybin, peyote and mescaline, and LSD will remain sacramental avenues to higher consciousness. To millions, marijuana will remain an aid in illness, and in health, a moderate intoxicant with fewer side effects than alcohol. And those millions will wait until the day when cooler heads prevail over the current draconian philosophies.
No good will come out of simply making all potentially harmful drugs illegal. People naturally want to alter their consciousness, and it's only reasonable we should allow people to do so, if so they choose. But that's beside the point really.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisStudies have proven time and time again, that making a drug illegal has little effect on the amount of people who choose to consume it. If someone wants cannabis, they will get it, no matter how hard to government tries to stop them, so it's logical to say that the governments 'war on drugs' is a complete waste of time and tax payer money. Portugal's drug laws are nearly non-existent, yet more people smoke weed in America under the current draconian criminal system. It is blatantly obvious that change is needed.
Currently, legal drugs like alcohol, tobacco and anti-depressants are killing HUGE numbers of people every year. Illegal drugs like LSD, cannabis and MDMA kill far less people, in fact, it's safe to say that LSD and cannabis have killed pretty much no one -- it's pretty much impossible to OD on these drugs.
I study neuroscience and would love to do research on these drugs later in my career, but archaic laws are stopping many prospective researchers like me from doing so.
Intelligent research and sensible drug reform policies are the way to go.
Ive done LSD at least 10 times and found that if one is mentally strong they can control the affects and come to understand rather then just simply ask, It pushes the human mind and body to its maximum potential, and to be honest I think there is something(chemical) being incorperated into everyday life that blocks the minds potential to think past "the second instinctive thought " And while other people got excited about the simple affects of LSD(tracers) I tapped deep into my mined and figured out how illusions can be explianed.....the pupil of the eye and the sharpness of the mined slows down the speed of light and slows down time so it can be seen in the smallest of measurments,ex- A green glow surrounding the boby is the reflection of light.....to stare at something that in reality is standing still but on LSD seems to be moving at will is hard for the everyday person to understand, Imagine watching someone age in front of your very eyes or being able to run at full speed for as long as one wishes while controling the heart beat...This mind altering drug should be studied until completely understood. I strongly believe the very secrets of the human mind could be unlocked.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisKeep Big Brother and Big Pharma out of psychedelics!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisInbreeding should be illegal, not research on LSD or anything else. What an idiot.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTHE FAR OFF LAND, Eugene Seaich discusses the perennially fascinating topic of such mind-altering drugs as mescaline, psilocybin, and LSD, both how they appear in Nature and in the laboratory. This road has been traveled before, but Eugene takes a fascinating detour. He goes back millennia, glimpses the future, and goes deeply within his own psyche leading to a better understanding of the mind and our consciousness. These chemicals can be used as tools to help better lives, cure mental illness, transcend our conciousness and ultimitly to improve humanity . The reader might start reading about this "far off land," thinking that is an exotic destination. But after a few chapters, the engrossing prose will be reminiscent of one's home turf.Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.Co-author DEMYSTIFYING SHAMANS AND THEIR WORLD
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I do not agree with the rank that cannabis is at I watched this, I think what they call cannabis is more dangrous than herion, coke & alcohol as they used thc and call this the cannabis plant thc alone isnt toxic and has a incrabibly high ld-50 BUT as most anti drug idoits will say it will make you crazy which is VERY true for only THC, THC can cause permanent or temporary psychosis, dysphoria, paranoia and panic attacks, but THC IS NOT cannabis, nor is it the active drug in cannabis, THC is a cannabinoid & cannabinoids are the active drug in cannabis, but by know means is cannabis bad and this is why I disagree cannabis NOT thc is the safest most therapeutic substance known to humans, THC is one of 66 known cannabinoids in cannabis most not psychoactive in the mainstream science definition in that it makes you high(which is NOT the only kind of psychoactive btw, but the only definition most people know) CBD for example counteracts THC and is a anti-depressant, sedative, antipsychotic, anxiolytic & anticonvulsant & CBD or Cannabidiol is also a cannabinoid in cannabis and CBD and THC are the most prevalent cannabinoids and different stands have different combos of these cannabis sativa is high THC low CBD and produces a head energetic high, cannabis indca is high CBD & low THC which produces a couch lock, sedative lazy high
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisBro let me ask you something whats really here, how do we know for 100 percent certainty we are indeed real, we dont, and this isnt just meta physics or philosophy bro, if you have studied quantum physics you would know we dunno SHIT and what we see, feel, taste, touch & hear are not whats really there & that reality isnt what we think it is, now lets look at fractals, recognized in science, math & nature, do you know that the ONLY thing you see thats not really there when you take psychedelics is fractals, explain this if there is no use in illicit drugs, and before you say illegal drugs are illegal for a reason learn about history and basic science, yes you are 100 percent right most illicit drugs however are NOT illegal for the reason you think aka health, most are VERY VERY useful and are illegal for political reasons a VERY good reason is cannabis, and before you start that ignorant shit plz enlighten me why hemp is illegal as it is VERY VERY useful the most nutritional complete food & the strongest fibers known to man, btw stronger than steel, explain this one for me
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI also see very valid scientific and philosophical implications for psychedelics, most people are drilled that getting "high" is bad, which is the most ignorant crap Ive ever seen we have endo opioids, endocannabinoids, oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine ALL make you high ALL make you feel a sense of euphoria ALL very vital to normal human function all VERY vital to life, we also have endoDMT(which btw is illegal so this makes ALL humans, some mammals & some plants & trees illegal in most of the world) we have norepinephrine, acetylcholine & epinephrine which are endo stimulates. so this crap of a drug free world is bullshit & so asinine its makes me laugh every time I speak to a anti drug ignoramus and is hurting humanity, when most people think of psychedelics they are really thinking about deliriants(which are poisons that make you trip basically like jimpson weed(Datura) or Amanita muscaria(which unlike Datura are mostly safe & do have religious and philosophical value but non the less are still a poison) which are fucking nuts and are the ONLY class of drugs that on there own can make you truly hallucinate, we have altered state of consciousness ALL THE TIME some subtle like hunger or even listing to music, but some profound like getting really into a movie or driving, and the different state of consciousness, but there is very few like awake, at rest, sleep & meditative, so as you see the foundation of illicit drugs is complete BULLSHIT, and the reason psychedelics have this value is the profound altered state of consciousness they produce but is in the middle as most psychedelic still have a connect to reality but are VERY profound states so its not really a different state ether, with the exception of DMT & high doses of the others, LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, ibogaine, 2cx, ect, but this allows users to think of problems in differentiate ways(there was even a test done on this with LSD in the 50s I believe), the factual, the profound sensory changes(NOT hallucinations but changes there is a HUGE difference) and our endoDMT why this is here as DMT is the most profound & strongest psychedelic known to man & is often nick named the spirit molecule, and Magic Mushrooms(Psilocybin(4-PO-DMT), Psilocin (4-OH-DMT)) are chemically similar to DMT, the psychoactive toad Bufo alvarius(5-MeO-DMT, Bufotenin(5-OH-DMT)) NO you do not eat the toad(however you can I guess, but that's not how it is used traditionally and unlike its name as a poison it
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIS NOT harmful nor a poison in the sense its harmful to humans & is NOT a deliriant) and possibly others, so the question here is why is DMT so profound & why is it chemical similar to the majority of natural psychedelics
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLSD25 should be legalized for the very basic reason that it is a mind-expanding drug, that, through it's usage, would open our eyes to the rapidly approaching iceberg that is lying in the path of humanities Titanic.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAs nothing else seems to be working, I'm all for it being prescribed to our leaders of State, i.e, members of Congress, members of the Senate, V.P.'s & POTUS. Of course, to be used while on retreat. Naturally. /:-)
Ummmm.....it's never a good idea to try and apply the theory of quantum mechanics to our (human) reality.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis whole infinite universes, schroedinger's cat, dual particle experiment, the collapse of the wave function & observer created reality as it applies to our existence business has gotten way out of hand. And now we have 11 dimensions instead of 10, M Theory, quantum gravity, and the god particle--yes, all valid, but here's the deal: Only as they apply to quantum mechanics!
We live, for all intents, in a Newtonian controlled realm. Enough, already. Okay? Geesh!
What gives you the right to say this? who are you to decide what's right and wrong when you haven't had this experience? How do you know that this substance doesn't give dieing people the closure that they need? What is an illegal substance anyways ? It's a bunch of people who have never experienced a chemical getting together and saying," hey I've never done this but I've heard about it and it scares me so let's make it illegal withought further investigation and maybe it will go away." next time think before posting something so unintelligent. Your like a child who refuses to eat his vegetables out of ignorance because other peers tell him they taste bad.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisForward by the distinguished Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.-Author
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisProvocative and Enlightening Book Dissects the Human Consciousness
“The Far-Off Land” philosophically evaluates the hallucinogenic drug-experience and
intends to collect the perspectives of philosophy for better understanding of the human
consciousness, improve the cure to mental illness
RIVERTON, Utah – (Release Date TBD) – A credible resource classifies hallucinogens as psychoactive drugs
that could cause subjective changes in human perception, thought, emotion, and consciousness—inducing
experiences qualitatively different from those of ordinary consciousness. To gain a deeper understanding about
this perennially interesting subject, author Eugene Seaich attempts to dissect the human consciousness to
provoke and enlighten the readers’ mind in The Far-Off Land, a revealing book that presents a philosophical
evaluation of the hallucinogenic drug-experience.
This book is a cerebral piece of literature that attempts to discover the broader realities that lie behind
psychogenic phenomena and seek a pattern that will explain the longing of human being for the Beyond, for the
otherworldly substance of their intuition. Seaich will take readers on a trip through millennia, offer them
glimpses of the forthcoming and explore deeper his own psyche—and experiences with LSD and mescaline—in
order for them to discover a more profound and broader understanding of the mind and human consciousness.
Guided by a cardinal principle, Seaich captures the philosophical prospects and covers a great background of
other relevant fields of study that promote psychotropic knowledge to better understand human consciousness—
and to ultimately improve humanity’s cure to mental illness and even solve life’s mysteries.
Filled with tremendous meaning and insight, revelations and wisdom, historical facts and quotes from the
world’s greatest minds and literature, The Far-Off Land is an intelligent and poetic prose that will inform
readers about human consciousness and inspire them about life, including its complexities, a journey full of
realizations and value. Stanley Krippner, PH.D. Co-author DEMESTIFING SHAMANS AND THEIR WORLD
Now available
An attempt at a philosophical evaluation of the hallucinogenic drug experience.
By PH.D. Eugene Seaich
http://rosedogbooks-store.stores.yahoo.net/falaatatphev.html#.T7wD9uqBceQ.facebook
Forward by the distinguished Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.-Author
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisProvocative and Enlightening Book Dissects the Human Consciousness
“The Far-Off Land” philosophically evaluates the hallucinogenic drug-experience and
intends to collect the perspectives of philosophy for better understanding of the human
consciousness, improve the cure to mental illness
RIVERTON, Utah – (Release Date TBD) – A credible resource classifies hallucinogens as psychoactive drugs
that could cause subjective changes in human perception, thought, emotion, and consciousness—inducing
experiences qualitatively different from those of ordinary consciousness. To gain a deeper understanding about
this perennially interesting subject, author Eugene Seaich attempts to dissect the human consciousness to
provoke and enlighten the readers’ mind in The Far-Off Land, a revealing book that presents a philosophical
evaluation of the hallucinogenic drug-experience.
This book is a cerebral piece of literature that attempts to discover the broader realities that lie behind
psychogenic phenomena and seek a pattern that will explain the longing of human being for the Beyond, for the
otherworldly substance of their intuition. Seaich will take readers on a trip through millennia, offer them
glimpses of the forthcoming and explore deeper his own psyche—and experiences with LSD and mescaline—in
order for them to discover a more profound and broader understanding of the mind and human consciousness.
Guided by a cardinal principle, Seaich captures the philosophical prospects and covers a great background of
other relevant fields of study that promote psychotropic knowledge to better understand human consciousness—
and to ultimately improve humanity’s cure to mental illness and even solve life’s mysteries.
Filled with tremendous meaning and insight, revelations and wisdom, historical facts and quotes from the
world’s greatest minds and literature, The Far-Off Land is an intelligent and poetic prose that will inform
readers about human consciousness and inspire them about life, including its complexities, a journey full of
realizations and value. Stanley Krippner, PH.D. Co-author DEMESTIFING SHAMANS AND THEIR WORLD
Now available
An attempt at a philosophical evaluation of the hallucinogenic drug experience.
By PH.D. Eugene Seaich
http://rosedogbooks-store.stores.yahoo.net/falaatatphev.html#.T7wD9uqBceQ.facebook