Psychedelic experience vision

I have not had drug-induced psychedelic experiences, although many people who read my Neoreality books seem to think I have had chemically enhanced hallucinations. In some sense, I have to put a damper on my creativity and visions. Some of my publishers even tell me I write too much and should slow down. Nevertheless, my mind, visions, and ideas continually fly. As Salvador Dali said, I am the drug ... 

I looked at the page I had selected and found that my finger was directly above Ezekiel n 24. The words of this verse, as well as the one directly following it, described my liberation from the more terrifying aspects of the psychedelic experience as well as the importance of communicating my experience to others. They read, "Then the vision that I had seen went up from me. And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had showed me."... 

Many who use salvinorin A spend the peak of their journey lying down or reclining, apparently engrossed in an internal world. At the onset of the experience there is often a complete separation of consciousness from the body and personality, similar to what occurs with Ketamine. What is experienced after this is quite variable, possibly more so than with other psychedelics. The visions seen with salvinorin A seem particularly real and convincing. Quite often people accept these visions as reality and forget they are under the influence of a psychedelic substance. Siebert has reported on a number of themes which are frequently experienced with salvinorin A. 

These three volunteers represented only a fraction of the varieties of experience we observed in our volunteers. Other publications provide additional examples. In their highly scholarly book, Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, Lester Grinspoon and James Bakalar provide many other examples of individual personal experiences. Highly literate or artistic individuals often describe elaborate spiritual visions or magical mystery tours (as in the Beatles song, perhaps inspired by such trips). 

It struck me, therefore, that if any of the psychedelic chemicals would in fact predispose my consciousness to the mystical experience, I could use them as instruments for studying and describing that experience as one uses a microscope for bacteriology, even though the microscope is an "artificial" and "unnatural" contrivance which might be said to "distort" the vision of the naked eye. However, when I was first invited to test the mystical qualities of LSD-25 by Dr. Keith Ditman... 

LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, was not discovered until 1938 and was not used as a hallucinogen until 1943. LSD is related to plant seeds that produce visions. The word psychedelic appeared in 1950 to describe combined mental and physical experiences after taking hallucinogens. 

Psychedelic Agent 3 (BZ), 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, also known as agent buzz, is a potent psychoactive chemical that affects the central nervons system as well as the drcnlatory, digestion, salivation, sweating, and vision systems. Those exposed experience hallncinations, and it acts as a sedative. The experience is much the same as that encountered by the narcotics amphetamines and cocaine. Three to four days after exposure, full recovery is expected from BZ intoxication. The TLV-TWA for BZ is 0.004 mg/m and the general popnlation limits are 0.0001 mg/m BZ has an ICtjo value of 101 mg-min/m (15 1/min) and an estimated LCt5o of 200,000 mg-min/m. ... 

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