Topic: DRUGS - on February 2, 2012 at 9:21:00 AM CET
Guided Psychedelic Sessions - The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
What is the optimal use of psychedelics, not only to cure human maladies but also to enhance human capabilities? This is the question considered by Jim Fadiman, a Stanford Ph.D. in psychology, in his new book, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys.
Fadiman believes that psychedelic molecules such as lysergic acid diethylamide are potential blessings cast into the shadows by hysteria in the 1960s and thus almost wholly lost to legal use, and thus to science, for close to half a century. The question, he implies, is not whether the molecules will nonetheless be ingested, but the extent to which they will be used optimally (or at least, as scientists would say, "non-trivially").
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