What Leary did was very dangerous because he was advocating LSD use to random people, without considering how the drug might affect them. Nonmilitary, serious research with carefully selected individuals could have yielded knowledge about psychedelics. I never took anything stronger than hashish or poppers because I felt there was a lot in my mind that I was not ready to just let loose. Too much traumata that might give me an ugly trip. Yet, I've had my own "psychedelic" types of experiences, including the dissolution of ego at concerts, the blazing expanding geometrics of silent migraines, and experiences from strong marijuana and loading doses of gabapentin. I like having my consciousness raised slowly as I can deal with each layer safely as the revelations occur. To me, the physical world can be extremely colorful and beautiful and I always visualize things from what I read or from songs I hear. What I visualize is very vivid. I am contented with this.
Fantastic review of what might have been had the psychedelic river changed course.
What Leary did was very dangerous because he was advocating LSD use to random people, without considering how the drug might affect them. Nonmilitary, serious research with carefully selected individuals could have yielded knowledge about psychedelics. I never took anything stronger than hashish or poppers because I felt there was a lot in my mind that I was not ready to just let loose. Too much traumata that might give me an ugly trip. Yet, I've had my own "psychedelic" types of experiences, including the dissolution of ego at concerts, the blazing expanding geometrics of silent migraines, and experiences from strong marijuana and loading doses of gabapentin. I like having my consciousness raised slowly as I can deal with each layer safely as the revelations occur. To me, the physical world can be extremely colorful and beautiful and I always visualize things from what I read or from songs I hear. What I visualize is very vivid. I am contented with this.