Komu psychiatrzy przepisywali LSD

Before LSD became illegal, Beverly Hills psychiatrists gave LSD to Cary Grant, James Coburn, Jack
Nicholson, Novelist Anais Nin and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
A Brave New World Revisited
By Aldux Huxley (1958)
In The Brave New World (1931) of my fable there was no whisky, no tobacco, no illicit heroin, no bootlegged
cocaine. People neither smoked, nor drank, not sniffed, nor gave themselves injections. Whenever anyone felt
depressed or below par, he would swallow a tablet or two of a chemical compound called soma. The original
soma, from which I took the name of this hypothetical drug, was an unknown plant (possibly Asclepias acida)
used by the ancient Aryan invaders of India in one of the most solemn of their religious rites. The intoxicating
juice expressed from the stems of this plant was drunk by the priests and nobles in the course of an elaborate
ceremony. In the Vedic hymns we are told that the drinkers of soma were blessed in many ways. Their bodies
were strengthened, their hearts were filled with courage, joy and enthusiasm, their minds were enlightened
and in an immediate experience of eternal life they received the assurance of their immortality. …

In LSD-25 the pharmacologists have recently created another aspect of some – a perception-improver and
vision-producer that is, physiologically speaking, almost costless. This extraordinary drug, which is effective in
doses as small as fifty or even twenty-five millionths of a gram, has the power (like peyote) to transport people
into the other world. In the majority of cases, the other world to which LSD-25 gives access is heavenly;
alternatively it may by purgatorial or even infernal. But, positive or negative, the lysergic acid experience is felt
by almost everyone who undergoes it to be profoundly significant and enlightening. In any event, the fact that
minds can be changed so radically at so little cost to the body is altogether astonishing.

As well as tranquilizing, hallucinating and stimulating, the soma of my fable had the power of heightening
suggestibility, and so should be used to reinforce the effects of governmental propaganda.

In his 1954 book, The Doors of Perception, Aldus Huxley wrote of his mescaline experience: "But the man
who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be the same as the man who went out. He will be
wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance, yet better
equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable
Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend."

Jim Morrison got the idea for the name of his band from The Doors of Perception.