Sublime

The next step into mystical states carries us into a realm that public opinion and ethical philosophy have long since branded as pathological, though private practice and certain lyrical strains of poetry seem still to bear witness to its ideality

Well, that wouldn’t be the case if the brain is a filter—a limiter—of some broader consciousness outside the body. If this is true, then we might expect psychedelics to reduce brain activity. For this reason, in 1954 novelist Aldous

(Sasha Shulgin, who died in 2014, was a brilliant chemist who held a DEA license allowing him to synthesize novel psychedelic compounds, which he did in prodigious numbers. He also was the first to synthesize MDMA since it had been patented by Merck in 1912 and forgotten. Recognizing its psychoactive properties, he introduced the so-called empathog

Specifically, the psychologist felt that LSD gave her insight into how young children perceive the world.

Grof, who has guided thousands of LSD sessions, once predicted that psychedelics “would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology or the telescope is for astronomy.

In this way he maintained a lively interest in the wider world, while staying above and apart from what is generally described as current affairs.

be seen

‘to thinker’

Jung often lamented that he “knew things and must hint at things which other people do not know, and usually do not even want to know.”