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Mona's avatar

Thanks for talking about this very timely topic including potential benefits and limitations. I hear a lot about the importance of integration in order to consolidate the insights gained. Perhaps that is what is often missing?

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Ian D. Campbell's avatar

As someone who in college took both LSD and mescalin--not frequently, but often enough to understand their effects, I agree strongly that it's silly to think they would effect any permanent improvement in one's mental health. Of course, Aldous Huxley's early experiments ("Doors of Perception") intrigued us all, and the experience did seem to heighten sensory perceptions, almost as if one were living in an impressionist painting. For some, however, it was a miserably frightening experience. At the end of the day, these are no panacea and I fear for some people the equivalent of playing with dangerous weapons.

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