LSD still available in Switzerland

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 15 10:16:11 CDT 2001


http://www.psychedelic-library.org/grofpref.htm

    "The critical element here is the recognition that LSD and other 
psychedelics function more or less as nonspecific catalysts and amplifiers 
of the psyche. This is reflected in the name given by Humphrey Osmond to 
this group of substances; the Greek word "psychedelic" translates literally 
as mind-manifesting." In the dosages used in human experimentation, the 
classical psychedelics, such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, do not have 
any specific pharmacological effects. They increase the energetic niveau in 
the psyche and the body which leads to manifestation of otherwise latent 
psychological processes.
    The content and nature of the experiences that these substances induce 
are thus not artificial products of their pharmacological interaction with 
the brain ("toxic psychoses ), but authentic expressions of the psyche 
revealing its functioning on levels ordinarily not available for observation 
and study. A person who has taken LSD does not have an "LSD experience," but 
takes a journey into deep recesses of his or her own psyche."

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