A Look At Lsd And The Counter Culture Movement

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drugs like LSD and psilocylin have been embedded in the roots of human evolution. Many of the early Eastern and South American cultures devoted these drugs as tools able to help clear the disorder of the mind and help in achieving a higher level of conscience thinking. Little was known of the effects to these primitive spiritual tools too much of the modern Western world, until Leary and his colleagues entered the scene in the 1960’s.
Timothy Leary was a young, prestigious Harvard professor of psychology during the 1960’s. He was very interested in how the mind worked and in the ways that it might be possible to change human behaviour. Little knowledge was known in this field, so Leary and his colleagues decided to do the research that would seem to benefit the whole of humanity. But there was a door blocking their way from learning the secrets within the mind. It would not be until the summer of 1960 that Leary and his colleagues would find the key ...

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Mexican sky. Everything was quivering with life, even inanimate objects. I gave way to the delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that this world -- so manifestly real -- was actually a tiny stage set constructed by the mind. There was a sea of possibilities out there (in there?), other realties, an infinite array of programs for other futures ....”


After the 4 hour trip ended Leary and his fellow colleagues came back changed. They came back realising about higher levels of perception where one sees realities a hundred times more beautiful and meaningful than the reassuring familiar scripts of normal life. Leary ...

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