LSD & concentration camp experiences

[Can't Wait]

Well if yer gonna bring lsd into the equation then I'm all for the
holocaust.

And obviously I think there should be psychedelic-therapy for those
people (me first and foremost) who suffer vicariously through the
immortal pangs of those who were there.


cw




--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com> wrote:
> http://www.primalspirit.com/Grof_PlanetarySurvival_art.htm
> Planetary Survival and Consciousness Evolution:
> Psychological Roots of Human Violence and Greed
> by Stanislav Grof, M.D.
> 
> excerpt:
> 
> " The observations from modern consciousness research also throw
> some 
> important light on the psychology of concentration camps. Over a 
> number of years, Professor Bastians in Leyden, Holland, has been 
> conducting LSD therapy for people suffering from the 
> concentration-camp syndrome, which is a condition that develops in 
> former inmates of these camps many years after the incarceration. 
> Bastians has also worked with former kapos on their issues of
> guilt. 
> An artistic description of this work can be found in the book 
> Shivitti written by a former inmate, Ka-Tzetnik 135633 (1989), who 
> underwent a series of therapeutic sessions with Bastians.
> 
> "Bastians (1955) himself wrote a paper describing his work, titled 
> "Man in the Concentration Camp and the Concentration Camp in Man." 
> There he pointed out, without specifying it, that the concentration
> 
> camps are a projection of a certain domain which exists in the
> human 
> unconscious: "Before there was a man in the concentration camp,
> there 
> was a concentration camp in man" (Bastians, 1955). Study of the 
> nonordinary states of consciousness made it possible to identify
> the 
> realm of the psyche Bastians was talking about. Closer examination
> of 
> the general and specific conditions in the Nazi concentration camps
> 
> reveals that they are a diabolical and realistic enactment of the 
> nightmarish atmosphere that characterizes the reliving of
> biological 
> birth.
> 
> "The barbed-wire barriers, high-voltage fences, watch towers with 
> submachine guns, mine fields, and packs of trained dogs certainly 
> created a hellish and almost archetypal image of an utterly
> hopeless 
> and oppressive no-exit situation which is so characteristic of the 
> first clinical stage of birth (BPM II). At the same time, the 
> elements of violence, bestiality, scatology, and sexual abuse of 
> women and men-including rape and sadistic practices-all belong to
> the 
> phenomenology of the second stage (BPM III), familiar to people who
> 
> have relived their birth.
> 
> "The sexual abuse existed on a random individual level, as well as
> in 
> the "houses of dolls," which were institutions providing 
> "entertainment" for the officers. The only escape out of this hell 
> was death-by hunger, disease, or suffocation in the gas chambers
> and 
> the fire of the crematoria. The books by Ka-Tzetnik 135633, House
> of 
> Dolls (1955) and Sunrise Over Hell (1977), offer a shattering 
> description of the life in concentration camps. The SS officers 
> directed special bestiality against pregnant women. The irrational 
> nature of the camps is best shown in the scatological 
> dimension-throwing eating bowls into the latrines and asking for 
> retrieval, and forcing the inmates to urinate into each other's 
> mouths were practices that besides their bestiality bring the
> danger 
> of epidemics (in Buchenwald in one month, twenty-seven inmates 
> drowned in feces).
> 
> "The intensity, depth, driving quality, and convincing nature of
> all 
> the emotions and sensations involved in these experiences suggest 
> that they are not individually fabricated from such sources as 
> adventure books, movies, and TV shows; but that they originate in
> the 
> collective unconscious. It certainly seems that when, in our inner 
> exploration, we reach the memory of the trauma of birth, this seems
> 
> to open the gates into the collective unconscious and mediates
> access 
> to experiences of people who once were in a similar predicament. It
> 
> is not hard to imagine that the perinatal level of our unconscious,
> 
> which "knows" so intimately the history of human violence, is 
> actually partially responsible for wars, revolutions, and similar 
> atrocities. If this is true, it should be possible to reduce the 
> amount of malignant aggression by a change in birth practices. "
> 
> 
> ........Something to think about while reading about Brigadier 
> Pudding and Katje, perhaps, and the rest of GR's S&M.
> -- 
> d  o  u  g    m  i  l  l  i  s  o  n 
<http://www.online-journalist.com>


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