Religious Experience

There is no organized religion of LSD. The LSD experience is
one of self awareness and discovery. In this context, LSD is used specifically
for medical reasons/personal psychotherapy. Many individuals who
occasionally take LSD may not smoke marijuana, cigarettes or use any
other drugs for that matter.
"Western science is now delineating a new concept of man, not as
a solitary ego within a wall of flesh, but as an organism which is what it
is by virtue of its inseparability from the rest of the world... medicines
which science has discovered... may prove to be the sacraments of this
new religion." The Joyous Cosmology, by Watts, A. 1970
"The classic psychological assumption is that in the best of
circumstances, moving from one level of maturation to the next involves
a difficult reorganization and internal crisis, and that failure at any step
results in either cessation of growth or distorted development thereafter,"
Dr. W.V. Caldwell (1968).
"...the mystical experience of union or fusion with its concomitant
characteristics has been interpreted in many ways, fading or melting
into the universal pool, boundless being, the void, satori, nirvana,
samadhi, the Atman-Brahman identity; the awareness of a "Beyond,"
"More" or pure "Self;" or union with God. Yet in spite of the particular
interpretation, the psychological experience itself is the basis," Walter
N. Pahnke (1967).
"The mystics subjective experience of his identity with "the All"
is the scientist's objective description of ecological relationship of the
organism/environment as a unified field," Alan Watts (1964).
"Dr. W.T. Stace, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, was
asked whether the drug experience [psychedelic] is similar to the mystical
experience, he answered, "It's not a matter of its being similar to
mystical experience; it is mystical experience," Dr. Huston Smith (1964).
"Are the visions of a prophet revelation or disease? Does schizophrenia
encompass both the delusional paranoiacs and the holy men
whose trances have provided us with messages which many consider
gospel? The psychedelic drugs have a contribution to make in the
understanding of such matters," Sidney Cohen, MD (1964).
"There are considerable differences between LSD-induced and
schizophrenic symptoms. The characteristic autism and dissociation of
schizophrenia are absent with LSD. Perceptual disturbances due to LSD
differ from those due to schizophrenia and, as a rule, are not true hallucinations.
Finally, disturbances of consciousness following LSD do not
resemble those occurring in schizophrenia," Sanford M. Unger (1964).

"Tibetan Buddhists describe this condition as samadhi; some
mystics (Schjelderup 1961; Stace 1960) as pure consciousness; many
patients and volunteers as a condition beyond time and space, with the
abolition of all boundaries, and a feeling of being one with the universe
(Dunlap 1961; Leary 1964; Newland 1962; Osmond 1957; Stace 1980;
Swain 1963). It is a condition without content, consisting of "nothing,"
in which the patient feels extreme peace or bliss; he experiences a void,
yet is not unconscious," Randolf Alnaes, M.D. (1967).
"The differences between the "easy" and the "hard" ways must be
similar to the situation in which one man climbs the [mountain] and
another takes the ski-lift. The view from the top is the same for both.
The mountain climber has sweated and striven against the dangers.
His view must be different from the ski-lift rider's because it incorporates
the struggle and the triumph. Ski-lift transcendence can approach
that of the mountain climber's only if the prior life preparation has also
been one of training and self-discipline," Sidney Cohen 1964.
"Patients are apt to describe death and rebirth experiences
during the period of drug activity. It is the rigid, punishing superego
that dies and then is reborn free of the old guilt. It is a new start with
the slate wiped clean. No doubt the process represents the use of strong
denial, but this defense might be preferable to the previous manner of
handling feelings of shame and self-condemnation." Sidney Cohen,
M.D.(1967).
Dr. Leary brings up five common fears that are sometimes generated
during a psychedelic session. Fear of loosing rational thinking,
fear of doing something shameful, fear of finding out something about
one's self that they are unwilling to face, fear of finding out the truth
about their phony sham culture that they identify with and the fear that
the psychedelic experience will be so pleasant that they will not want to
return from this new state (Leary 1964).
"A caged community of chimpanzees reacts very sensitively if a
member of the tribe has received LSD. Even though no changes appear
in this single animal, the whole cage gets in an uproar because the LSD
chimpanzee no longer observes the laws of its finely coordinated hierarchic
tribal order," Albert Hofmann.
"Self-identity is completely lost, and the self and that which is
outside the self fuse. The ordinary subject-object relationships disappear,
along with the conventional separateness of the external object.
The extension of this egolessness can culminate in union or communication
with the divine," Sidney Cohen, MD (1964).
Opening of the Mandala (100 ug.; 9PM drop)
"Thought must be given to lights flashing at certain frequencies
(Hubbard personal communication to Dr. Humphry Osmond, 1955 and
1956).