I Share The Belief Of Many Of

I Was Completely Astonished By The Beauty Of Nature. Our Eyes See Just A Small Fraction Of The Light In The World. It Is A Trick To Make A Colored World, Which Does Not Exist Outside Of Human Beings.

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.

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.

It Is True That My Discovery Of Lsd Was A Chance Discovery, But It Was The Outcome Of Planned Experiments And These Experiments Took Place In The Framework Of Systematic Pharmaceutical, Chemical Research. It Could Better Be Described As Serendipity. That Means That You Look For Something, You Have A Certain Plan, And Then You Find Something Else, Different, That May Nevertheless Be Useful.

It Is True That My Discovery Of Lsd Was A Chance Discovery, But It Was The Outcome Of Planned Experiments And These Experiments Took Place In The Framework Of Systematic Pharmaceutical, Chemical Research. It Could Better Be Described As Serendipity.