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Saturday, May 03, 2003

LSD: The Problem-Solving Psychedelic

“Many students have always learned on their own, of course, but with LSD it is entirely possible that self-teaching may take higher precedence than ever before. This is not because the drug provides a greater ability to absorb facts, but because it seems to provide a ëguts reaction’ to the facts, giving them a vivid immediacy and evaporating the intertia that blocks true intellectual curiosity. LSD enhances all learning responses if the frame of reference is already in the mind, and it lowers the threshold at which ëunderstanding’ occurs. The student who takes LSD for a purposeful experience is likely to gain a broader awareness of the adult world and its problems, which heretofore he may have thought were of no concern to him. Consequentely, his sense of responsibility deepens.” (Source Link)

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