LSD Experience - Revelations of the Mind

Part 3 – Chapter 1

Part III – Chapter 1

Chapter 1 is all of the statements and partial sentences from all over Part II coming from
hundreds of different people talking in the past tense about what they saw, felt, thought,
realized, or discovered during their LSD experiences.

sides and their contents sparkled like diamonds and rubies.

I was immensely grateful that I was able to have this experience.

A full realization broke upon me in a new way not just apprehended as an idea but
experienced in my body.

A glance was as powerful and direct a message as the most privately and elaborate verbal

A godlike sublimity swallowed up my soul. I was overwhelmed but I leaned on God and
was immortal through all changes.



form of potent energy is clearly involved.

Aldous was chuckling away very pleased with himself and I was rolling on the floor with
laughter. (That was Timothy Leary looking back at a trip he had with Aldous Huxley.)

After so many years of wandering, I had come home. I had received the most precious
gifts there are, the gifts of life and love.

particle nature.

All the processes that filter, screen and regulate perception seemed to have been
suspended. As Huxley put it, the mind’s “reducing valve” had been inactivated.

All the fine distinctions between logic, metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics seemed to be
such nonsense.

the sky.

Although there was thinking, talking going on, my mind was being used, yet there was no

An architect on LSD figured out the design for an arts and crafts shopping center. He
caught the essence of the image.



vibrations through my whole being.

within a kaleidoscope.

as a bird does, only in harmonious slow motion.


As the truth of the situation dawned on me, the word “father” resounded in this heaven of
light and I was taken up and absorbed by the unspeakable Godhead.-

At one point, everything appeared to be uproariously funny, especially the gestures and
actions of people going about their everyday business.

time, such exuberance and wildest joy.


divine, like anything else.)


this Eden, this forest paradise.

Brilliantly colored objects in the images seemed to generate a light of their own, waves of
color. (eyes closed)

melody and of our movements one.

Certain pieces of music came across under LSD as so holy, it was almost as though God
was humming the tune.

Charlie was completely on his own trip. It looked like he was in a playpen. You could
look at him and see toys and stuffed animals.

infinite dimension. My consciousness swelled.

Colors are typically very bright, penetrating and explosive; the light and color contrasts
are enhanced and deepened.

Colors seemed deeper and richer; and a soft, natural light seemed to reflect from all

sexual, blues and greens, cool, serene and rational.

ready to break through its clear-cut outline.

Emotionally, aesthetically and religiously, the experience was the most intense,
impressive and valuable day I have ever experienced.

Emotionally I experienced death and birth as similar events, two ends of the same
continuum and therefore to be similarly interpreted.



Even when I returned to my usual state of consciousness, I had the feeling that this
experience would have a lasting effect.

Every acoustic perception became transformed into optical perceptions. Every sound
generated a vividly changing image, with its own consistent forms and color.

Every person possesses a tremendous fund of God-given talents. I lay thinking that when
talents remain unrecognized and unused, it was because of emotional blocks.

morning sunshine. (eyes closed)

Every surface of my skin could feel it. I felt like it was touching us in a physical way.
(He’s talking about music.)

rocks, cacti the entire landscape was radiating with relevance.

bones. Touching it was ecstasy. Sensations were exquisite.

Everything seemed to have a much greater—very much greater significance than

Everything that I ever believed in, everything that I did or pursued, everything that
seemed to give my life meaning, suddenly appeared utterly false. (That is a revelation.)

a 19th century vaudeville show (eyes closed).

Experiences from even the earliest childhood were vividly recalled. This does not involve
an ordinary recollection, but rather a true reliving.





prosaic one-hundred-thousandth of the experience itself.



For several hours I mostly hummed and sang, laughed and chuckled, as emotional
defense patterns dissolved in empathic acceptance.

mystery, a divine play of energy.

For the first time, I was seeing colors and forms and things in themselves (seeing objects
as alive and meaningful).


mean someone else’s state of mind.


channels that seemed to permeate his entire being.

He came to the realization of the Self which is the enlightenment of the darkness that is
ignorance and the deliverance from the mortal consequences of that ignorance.


as he had never known before.

golden trove of submerged knowledge.

He felt himself move into a totally different and deeper level of consciousness, a level
that was entirely new to him.

He felt his life had been “transfigured” by the “new being” which had emerged out of the
depths of his psyche.

cleansed and wide open.

is—an unfathomable mystery, a divine play of energy.

He felt that he had “cleansed his lenses,” the world looked different, like washing a
muddy car. A heightened sensory awareness stayed with him after this session.

emotions for himself throughout eternity.

like that in his whole life.


He found it difficult to read while eating because the taste of food obscured the meaning
of the words.

He found the whole experience exhilarating for having given him insights into his psyche
and the nature of existence that he hadn’t thought himself capable of achieving.

He had a profound experience of God which he describes as the most joyous moment of
his life.

he had previously not even imagined could exist.

strange and mysterious.

He reported a “continual stream of penetrating insights and deepened philosophical

He said the session had been the most important, profound and intense experience of his

destroyed; everything was in eternal flux and transformation.

which remains hidden from everyday sight.

hypersanity, not subsanity.

He was convinced that this consciousness was the Creator of the entire physical universe.
(That’s not ego consciousness.)

He was fascinated by the dimensions of the experience and by the richness of insights
that it entailed.

He was not remembering back reflectively, but instead he was directly perceiving the
experience and the meaning of the experience.

perishing were just chapters in the same great book.



His consciousness was providing him with amazingly detailed, complex and concrete
information that he had never dreamed possible.

sidewalks and lamp posts.

“infantile bliss” is positive and mature.)

His laughter grew louder and louder and when he tried to stop he could not close his
mouth. It stretched wider and wider.

and felt reborn, his senses vibrating, attuned.

Absolute in the folds of a pair of flannel trousers!


I advanced toward the table. With every step its distance increased. The lights, the faces,
the furniture receded.

I again experienced that expansion of feeling, a new mental amplitude difficult to
describe but quite intense.

I anticipated a remarkable experience, but was in no way prepared for the mind-
staggering voyage into distant dimensions that was my first acid trip.

I awakened into a brilliant, overwhelmingly glorious light. It was very brief but I’d never
experienced anything like it in my life. It had quite an impact.

I became a great variety of winged creatures, each with feelings so intense that it seemed
impossible for their small bodies to contain such emotions.

ripening of my soul.

I became increasingly cognizant of the sacredness of the experience I was undergoing
and felt an expansion of consciousness beyond the confines of my head and my body.


I began to fall in love with her as my hand warmed to hers. Warm hand, warm mind,
warm world, after an Eskimo existence.


know about the soul’s journey.

I closed my eyes and almost instantaneously, I went out of body to a place of power and
shamanic possibility.

exploded, raced by.

by voices that were audible only inside my head.

I could find no possible relation between anything Freud had talked about and this
experience with its exalted spirituality.

entity has become separated from the physical body.

attractive before.

wonderful and full of meaning after all.

and freedom in general).

every hunger I had ever known.


I distinctly had the sensation of having been with God in the energy center of the


I emerged from this experience touched to the core and immeasurably impressed by its

the dichotomy between subject and object.

knowing and known.

I experienced a variety of processes that had nothing to do with ordinary human


myself, there had hidden this heaven now being revealed.

I felt a certain reunion with thoughts and sensations that were pure, as if they were being
experienced for the first time.

and overwhelming delight.

I felt a warm oneness with all that live, a marvelous unity and harmony with the very
universe itself.



I felt as though the “essence” of me was being liberated to join the “essence” of
everything else about me.

I felt as though the fullest floods of the energies of the universal Mother were flowing
through me.

eternity without a single problem to be solved.

and the flow of life.

I felt I was ascending and passing into a new dimension, that I was expanding upward as
well as outward into an astral plane, a higher sphere of creation.

been living under all my life.


energy which expresses itself as rhythm in all things.

I felt my filaments infiltrating the tangled web of their essence bodies. I surrendered to
the ancient process and felt the embracing union.

I felt my mind being stretched, as if my faculty of abstracting and conceptualizing was
being left on the surface, still capable of operating, but not interested in doing so.

each of us.

I felt one could not get closer to heaven. (That means being in heaven, not close and
unable to get closer.

highest vibration.

I felt that I was being transported to some mysterious place where the secrets of life and
the universe were revealed.

within me.


I felt that something of utmost relevance had happened to me on this session day and that
I would never be the same.

of thing shall be well.”

I found myself in the middle of a cosmic drama of unimaginable proportions. (eyes

his veils.

was setting out upon a journey of years through heavenly territories.

I had a strong physical sensation that I was cold, but on the other hand, I seemed to be
without a body at all which suggested that the coldness had nothing to do with the body.

I had a thousand ears, each one with a different headset on, each earphone bringing in a
different music.

I had been liberated tremendously by this experience and by finding that the pain in my
life wasn’t necessary.

the world I had previously known.

I had had a glimpse of eternity and beside it, the daily concerns that had once
preoccupied me dwindled.

unity and involvement with the concrete material world.

of music, the secret of its magic.

I had never talked so openly about myself before in my life. And it was easy. I didn’t feel
like hiding anything about myself.

I had no desire, in fact, had a definite antipathy to disciplined thought of any kind. I
simply wanted to be and flow with the tide.



I had the keenest feeling of being out of my body, floating in the field of energy. It was
incredibly exhilarating.

leads to this,” “this is complete harmony and ecstasy”.



a world newly created.

I knew myself to be this single, encompassing Consciousness. I knew that its Identity was
my true identity.

exists without form.

glimpse into a world beyond ordinary reality.

that it had never passed away from the world.


beauty of every little grain of it.


between the stars.

the bottom!

wonderful world. I don’t have to run anymore.

undecipherable mystery.


conflict anywhere at all.


the place where God is.”

I perceived patterns, molecular structures connecting everything, which went through
everything, transcended everything, went beyond everything.


sharp, magnified.

fraction of reality.

I realized that I was dead and that I was in the place which is the aboriginal base of all

I realized that the mind and the senses that provide inputs to the mind were all grossly
underutilized faculties in the study of the world around us.

I realized that the seed of life is consciousness and that, as such, life essentially never

I realized that under the proper circumstances, psychedelic experiences are truly, a “royal
road to the unconscious.”

most people and gratitude that such ecstasy had been mine.

I remember falling upward towards a mass of designs and all different colors or lights. It
may sound nutty, but I was there. (You read that right. It says “falling upward.”)

I remembered detail that under ordinary conditions I could not possibly have

seemed absurdly unimportant.


differentiation all my life.

back to the old lady.

I saw deep parallels between various mathematical concepts and altered states of

describe, is the whole of life.

be boldly written on his features and reflected in his mannerisms.

Presence. I became conscious in myself of eternal life.

arms to God.

physical configurations. (eyes closed)

me unseen, unheard and untapped.

building up to something supremely special.

I sensed that my identity was shifting from being the manifestation of this Energy to
being the Energy itself.

I sensed the cosmic quality of the energies and experiences involved in the world of
living forms.



I started experiencing a strange excitement that was dissimilar to anything I have ever felt
in my life.

I started the process of throwing things out of my mind, junking mental furniture that had
been clogging up my brain.

closed behind me.

astonishment and mystery, an ecstatic nirvana.

extraordinary character of light and color is unbelievable.

that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

I thought how trivial and absurd the things were that tied me to my conventional
existence. I had such great insight into the nature of things.


I understood how my normal perception of the world was constricted by many
prohibitions I had somehow accepted.


I wanted to feel the color of a purple glass and I seemed to be one with the soft glowing

beauty and the whole mad ecstasy of lovliness.

I was alone and adrift in infinities—lost in the universe of myself, vast and teeming, and
in no thing different from the one we call outside. There is no outside.

I was at the beginning of my life. I had just been born. I was alive! Thank God I was
finally alive!

inside one that was expansive, joyful and peaceful.


longer I, but a part of the Divine Workings.

I was dazzled. Layers of iridescent silk cascaded from a waist-band; the subtle shading of
its colors



I was getting insights as to why the child’s psyche is so fascinated and captivated by
various mythic stories and their characters.

that great.

I was in a daze, stunned by what had happened, trying to figure out what to do with these
revelations, what to do with life.

meant something.

I was learning that all things are one, and all things are a part, an essential part, of my


I was looking at what Adam had seen on the morning of his Creation, the miracle,
moment by moment of naked existence (what Huxley saw while looking at a flower).

I was now discovering dimensions of the cosmos that are usually hidden to our senses
and intellects.

I was overcome by a warmth and sense of comfort that I’ve never experienced before or

participation in the Holy company, in the venerable dance.

I was overjoyed—filled with wonder and delight. I knew the reasons behind existence,
time, space, goodness, pain—and I rejoiced.

resplendently rich. I never imagined such beauty.

I was struck with a new sense of possibility, that I could be awakened to dozens of
wondrous phenomena.


I was wondering at one point if I was living or was this heaven that I had heard so much

I went back into my childhood, back to my conception and back before the creation of the
earth. (eyes closed)

become one.

I wondered if I would ever return to normal consciousness. Mostly I hoped I wouldn’t.
God-consciousness seemed preferable.

I would just laugh and laugh. I understood stuff that tickled me so much that it made me
roll around and laugh until the tears would roll down my face.

playground of movement, color, light, warmth.


ego is immortal.)

brilliant light and washed by an enormous sense of peace.

newly created.

from the animals, plants and even things.

Individual experience became lost and the experience became one of joining, entering
into God.


It became clear that these extraordinary phenomena were normal and natural

into the Universal Self.

It became unmistakably obvious to me that my workaday mind was only the tip of the
consciousness iceberg.

It began to dawn on me that the origins of some philosophical and religious ideas might
be better understood by a scholar who had ingested and experienced the psychedelics.

it was very valuable.

which I wove the fabric of my experience.

It expanded and dignified the soul with a sudden access of glories such as no earthly
kingship could give.


It occurred to me that the importance of music was, like art, its power to convey

It removed the limitations of my conscious mind, thus permitting me to know the
unlimited force of my underconsciousness.


was only 15 minutes.

something one had known once.

what Jung called the “absolute knowledge of the unconscious.”

It seemed that I had got an understanding of things which I’d been trying to understand
for a long time, problems of good and evil and so on.

It seemed to me that what I had experienced was essentially and with few exceptions, the
usual content of experience but that, of everything, there was MORE.

world entrancingly complicated, as if I were involved in a multidimensional arabesque.

the force thrust him out of time.

good cheer, one of extraordinary cosmic blessedness.

never known such joy.

It was a feeling that was deeper, more profound, more moving, more meaningful, than
any feeling I have ever had.

It was a process that unveiled some of the deepest mysteries of life, mysteries which I
never dreamed could be revealed.

experience this side of the Beatific Vision.”

It was all perfectly new again, mysterious and of great promise; everything that had once
been could be revived.

brightly and clearly, and everything seemed imbued with life.



It was like escaping from a refrigerator into the sunshine. I could feel myself coming
alive in that light of hers, that radiating warmth.

how sensuous!


It was not that I had attained anything; it was as if I had just remembered something that I
always had.

It was something magical, something out of another world, which was thrown into this


It was the work of an unearthly builder, and my soul stood before it in a trance of ecstasy.
(eyes closed)

It was time for the old mind to die, so that a new one, with expanded sensibilities, could
be born.

It was very evident to her that there was a Spirit, an entity higher than herself and that
was part of her. She finds that love is communication with God.

It was with this insight that I was born into a new world. A new form of consciousness
had taken over.

human as well as the mystical.

began to dawn.

Like a blind man newly healed and confronted for the first time by the mystery of light
and color, he stared in uncomprehending astonishment.

Like the flowers, the books glowed when I looked at them, with brighter colors, a
profound significance.

jewelry, mosaic, tracery and abstract images.

iridescent glass.

LSD just blew the frame right out of the picture. It gave you a sense of infinite
possibility. LSD gave us the idea it could be different. It was tremendously inspiring.

Mannikins in the windows were smiling. Liz Taylor on a poster several times gestured
for me to come to her.


Music seemed to awaken a depth in me that I never knew existed. With each note, I
seemed to soar to higher heights.

vaulting like rockets across his consciousness.

perfect connection between my body and everything that was happening.

My consciousness was taking everything in on an elemental, prelingual basis. There was
no distraction.

My experience was so deep, so moving, so meaningful. What I really discovered under
LSD is love. Some call it God.



My hearing was very sharp. I could listen to any one instrument in an orchestra if I
wanted, or hear any one singer in a choral group.

never known.

my life.


right and to be desired.


within me.

My sense of touch became very intensified, the blanket covering me came alive and I
touched my face and felt every particle of my skin.

away. I could hear the whispering far off from me.

My senses were multiplied as if I had a hundred eyes, a hundred ears, a hundred




My state of consciousness underwent a process of purification and became absolutely
pristine and radiant.

numinous quality.

at the time.

blissful state of transcendence.

light plus jewels of such indescribable beauty. (eyes closed)

him as “illusory.”

love was available.

pulsating or rippling waves of color. (eyes closed)

Objects were apprehended as “presenting themselves more forcefully” as being less
opaque, more easily yielding up meanings”.


Once the God self was recognized and appreciated, all need for arrogance and egotism
was gone.

Once they had eaten the apple of expanded consciousness, there was no going back. The
umbilical cord that tied them to the world of the mundane was irretrievably sundered.

One could only align oneself in the streaming torrent or the turbulence became

One felt perfect communication going on, a kind of direct interchange. It was like an
intense and overwhelming orgasmic immersion.


like a sun.


“Peeling the onion” of my conditioning revealed much that I had unthinkingly accepted
as “the way things are”.

Other World.


Random details of my surroundings suddenly stood out strongly and somehow appeared
to be “meaningful”.

the way it combined with the shadow and the light.


Something told me that if there was any microphone I could use to ask God a question, it
was peyote.

special grace and privilege.

She got in touch with what she felt was pure being and realized that it cannot be
comprehended and does not need any justification.

She was now able to experience herself and the world in a way completely different than
ever before. She had zest for life.

Some torn fragments of party decoration were scattered on the floor and they sparkled,
dazzling black shiny ebony jewels.


Spacial relationships had ceased to matter very much and my mind was perceiving the
world in terms of other than categories.

harmony I saw among all beings.

mysteriously beautiful.

Suddenly I felt the presence of a strong energy field, as though I were at the center of a
vortex of sacred energy.

everywhere, white light with a clarity beyond description.


The awareness that God was in every nook and cranny of the universe was now so

realized this beauty was God.


(That was Aldous Huxley.)

The chair was warm, breathing, alive against my back. The chair and I were breathing as

the lighted trees in the windows of homes had a fairytale quality.

fables as a child.


shining air.

The colors were not only more luminous and phosphorescent, they were different in
quality from any color previously seen.

absolutely overwhelming, and intoxicating and…joyous!

valleys and mountains of raw, furrowed, gleaming color.


were intertwined with the physical aspects of Nature.

The experience opened into a world of millions of colors and eventually into images of
swirling galaxies. (eyes closed)

sacred wow.

of this Other World.

I never experienced before.

The glitter of metal and gems were intensified to the highest pitch of what may be called
intrinsic significance.

my heart leap, almost mad with ecstasy.


dancing, laughing, a quiet network of high intensity conversation.

The important point was that the tree of my emotions was being vigorously shaken and
liberated of some withered leaves which had hung on it too long.

The journey to the home and youth of the soul, it was everywhere and nowhere, it was
the union of all times.

rather than learned.

The light reflections became important, meaningful and mysterious. It had some secret

The light was changing color kaleidoscopically with a different pitch of musical sounds
(Color changes as sounds change.)

The mind was concerned not with space, measures and locations, but with living and

The movie I thought was life turned out to be merely the cartoon. (Yes, there is much,
much more.)

The music contributed not a little to my understanding of what had happened to me. (To
be clear, the music contributed a lot.)

than anything he had ever found in the same music.


“diamond consciousness”.



the music. Suddenly, I was aware that the colors were the music. (the colored music)


The rigidity of the normal mind was so different from the complete openness of the
psychedelic situation.

The room expanded and contracted in the most extraordinary manner, like an accordion
played slowly.



The subject felt that he had been able to recapture a view of his wife that he had at the
time of their marriage and that he understood her better.

The subject had what he regarded as an intensely interesting and remarkable session,
“probably the most interesting 10 hours” of his life.

seemed to blend into the music.

The truly significant aspects of the sessions were entirely nonverbal and nonconceptual,
and slipped through our category nets like water through a fishnet.

The unfathomable beauty and joy was right there, all around, everywhere, just waiting to
be seen and appreciated.

underlying structure which glowed and pulsed like a living force.


join the dance.

vibrate a little bit and settle back into still again.

The whole of my being and the world’s existence and history had suddenly made
complete sense to me.

The women changed toward ideal pictures or representatives of the sensuous temptress or
the Madonna.



immediately followed by an intellectual illumination impossible to describe.

inner heaven.

There was a sense of having shared something with him in some unremembered time, a
most profound experience.

There was a sea of possibilities out there (in there?), other realities, an infinite array of
programs for other futures.

There was a surging sensation of appropriateness and “rightness” about everything that
went on.

and expression of ecstasy.

only real and eternal state of being.

There was full conscious awareness of biochemical processes, cellular divisions and
tissue growth.

There were many dimensions that were far beyond anything that one could produce in
fantasy in a usual state of mind.

somehow, intrinsically knew. (eyes closed)

These drugs tremendously intensified bodily sensations— taste, smell, touch, colors,
sounds, motion, breathing.

These living gems, glowing with internal radiance, encrusted the buildings, mountains,
banks of rivers, trees (eyes closed).

instrument of intense insight to bring them forth.

power these “sacred mushrooms” exercise.

They had transcendent experiences that have made them aware of previously hidden
areas of existence.

Things the least suspected of having a significance beyond their material agency were
perceived to be the most startling illustrations and incarnations of spiritual facts.

This feeling made me realize as never before that the need for spirituality was a universal
need of every individual who loves.

dance and sing in the sunshine.

the wholly stuff that got in the way of my direct perception of the here and now.

about it.”

commonly only talked about or read about.


This was interesting, how dimension and color and other things all were mixed up in that
they were all part of the whole pulsating ebb and flow.

This was the most interesting and thought-provoking thing I have ever experienced in my

Thousands of Christmas lights came into view—different shapes and forms and designs
of colors that was of tremendous brilliance and elegance.

Through the richness of her experience, she discovered that the dimensions of her being
were greater than she thought.



unconscious and became real and vivid once again.

fingertip and the fabric than one had ever known about either.

asleep, watched by an eternal nurse.


We all felt that we have achieved the state of ultimate fulfillment; we have reached the
source and the final destination, as close to Heaven as I could imagine.

We danced the shaman’s dance together.

understood only by those who have experienced euphoria.

We gave up using words and were just using gestures and movement and laughing our
heads off. (That was a Hassidic rabbi tripping with Timothy Leary.)

We were changed forever, because we were experiencing these inspiring truths. And we
could laugh at ourselves as well, as we saw through our various ego-trips and guises.

What I experienced was the usual content of experience but that of everything, there was


inside of my eyelids.

When I closed my eyes, there was an endless flow of dancing geometrical forms in the
most magnificent combinations of color.

When I was strongly under the influence of the drug were the most important hours of my

When the ego-personality was ripped away completely, what was left was “purest love”
and a sense of oneness with all living creatures.

Whenever I’d taken LSD, I’d always sought a revelation of the sacred. Now I was in the
midst of one. It was a great honor, a blessing, and I felt very humble.

Where had the universe gone? There was no world anymore. The person is not even sure
that he exists.

between earth and heaven.

deep within each person.

With the aid of these drugs, I was exposing myself to the most intense emotions available
to the human nervous system.








A merging. I couldn’t tell which of us was which. I was in her body and she in mine. It
was incredible and when I finally came, it was like no orgasm I ever had before. It was
my whole body.

A professional engineer-physicist who was skeptical about the enhancement of creativity
through LSD was surprised by the “intensity of concentration, the forcefulness and
exuberance” with which he could work.

persisted for the entire day.

entered the stream, only the emergence out of it.

As barriers dissolved, it became apparent that we are and always have been part of an
infinite family in an interdependent universal order—a complex web of interconnected
and interpenetrating relationships.

As each design was born and arranged itself, it dissolved and the next one followed
without confusion. These designs were preparatory sketches for entire Oriental cities.
(eyes closed)


other persons.



I ever had in my life.


seen by the mortal eye.”


Completely unrelated events became intrinsically connected in my mind. (Those “events”
were never “completely unrelated” and were always “intrinsically connected” regardless
of whether a person is ever consciously aware of that.)

from the center of my being.

Death, instead of being the ultimate end of everything, suddenly appeared as a transition
into a different type of existence; the idea of the possible continuity of consciousness
beyond physical death seemed to be much more plausible than the opposite.

mystery to all who had not had such feelings.

During the playing of the record, I felt myself being swept along by the movement of the

every fiber of my body I knew it was so.

joy, of importance, of intoxication of life.


thunderstruck by what I actually saw.

lasting reward.

experiences, the oneness with God.

nature harmonized with what he had inwardly seen.

He had a twinkle in his eye and a wise, cool way of looking at you that told you he was a
man who had seen a lot and suffered a lot and was still looking for the funniest and wisest
part of everyone he came in contact with.

He remarked upon a gathering emotional intensity, expressing his surprise that such an
emotionally charged psychical environment also could be experienced as “a state where all
that is happening is good and supremely in one’s best interest.”

He was taken back through the evolutionary process right down to single-cell life and
then back up through the layers and strata of oceanic, amphibian, and terrestrial

coming from the knowledge of having accomplished something enormously worthwhile,
of having made some very great advances.”



ecstatic mammalian memories, delightful tissue recollections.


I felt I had now experienced the grace of God. Truly I had been given a gift of infinite
worth. I could understand why human beings throughout history have relentlessly
pursued truth and sought enlightenment.



was beginning to find God.

I found myself discussing who I was, what I was doing, what I wanted from life, what life
meant to me, and a series of questions that I hadn’t been concerned with since I was a


described in either religious or poetic ones.

cried, “I am in eternity.” In the presence of that first sublime revelation of the soul’s own

I had the most profound experience of my life. From this single experience, the whole
scope, depth and direction of my life have changed miraculously. Indeed a miracle has
happened to me.



I learned that the brain is an underutilized computer, that normal consciousness is one
drop in an ocean of intelligence, that consciousness and intelligence can be systematically
expanded, that the brain can be reprogrammed.

I looked around the room. Ramakrishna’s statue breathed and his eyes twinkled the
message. Vivekananda’s brown face beamed and winked. Christ grinned to be joined
again with his celestial brothers.


I realized that it was not up to us to dictate what the human psyche should be like in order
to fit our scientific beliefs and worldview. Rather, it is important to discover and accept
the true nature of the psyche and find out how we can best cooperate with it.

how to ask.

to new existences and whole colorful worlds.

herself through the various living forms.



I was lifted entirely out of the world of hitherto conceivable being and invested with the
power of beholding forms and modes of existence which on earth are impossible to be



I went someplace overwhelmingly different that night, and to a large extent, stayed there
for the rest of my life. My transformation didn’t go through phrases. I was simply
somebody different after that.


previously known.


pervades the universe, each of them different aspects of God.

It was as though for all of your normal waking life you have been caught in a still
photograph, in an awkward, stereotyped posture. Suddenly, the show comes alive,


It was very evident to her that there was a Spirit, an entity higher than herself that was
part of her. She has found the psychedelic sessions helped her to cut through the layers of
unconsciousness that keep her from realizing her true nature.

then closing on themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains,
rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux. (eyes closed)


different frequency.

My comrades appeared to me disfigured, part men, part plants. So strange did they seem
that I writhed with laughter and overcome by the absurdity of the spectacle, flung my
cushions in the air.


My emotionally heightened awareness saw through the static, one-dimensional, ego-


if they were walking into “me.”


began to fall together and make sense.

accompanies us everywhere.



important, but I didn’t yet know how or why.

everything else in the universe, including the universe itself.)

the dance going.”

nothing inharmonious could enter.

glow of light.

knew it as an exterior and universal fact.

energy at varying frequencies.


The creak of an armchair, a word pronounced with a deep voice vibrated and rumbled
about me like the reverberations of thunder. My own voice seemed so loud that I dared
not speak for fear of shattering the walls with a bomblike explosion.

beauty and the sound of celestial music:…Ecstatic feelings of timelessness,
weightlessness, serenity and tranquility.

The experience was highly significant. He comprehended “the essential All-Rightness of
the universe.” (Ultimately, the universe is good and right no matter how bad things seem
to get.)

The flower’s incredibly exquisite petals opened on the room, spraying indescribable
cool and warm, reedlike and tinkling.

never reappeared.

The intensity of the love feelings caused sexual hungers and reactions to be markedly
heightened. Intercourse took on such depth of meaning as to have a religious



be alive, evolving, sending out decipherable signals.

The part of the mind given to trivial things surely had no immortality and the ego, which
continuously pushed us about trying to satisfy its selfish wants, would be dissolved and
good riddance.

paradox in transcendence became clear.

The screening or selective apparatus of our normal interpretative evaluation of experience
had been partially suspended, with the result that I was presumably projecting the
sensation of meaning or significance upon just about everything.

The sensation was reminiscent of the times I had inhaled nitrous oxide at the dentist’s
office. But that had been like standing at a door. This time, I was going in. It also felt like
going home.

The thought occurred to me that since every minute of our lives was ruled by our
feelings, it was tragic we had so little contact with this part of ourselves where forgotten
feelings lay hidden.

life that was in me.


psychedelic energy.



notes danced along a silver staff of music that stretched out from one eternity to another,
beyond the planets and stars and space itself.

There were brilliantly colored geometric patterns flashing across. I could not identify any
one of the patterns. They were varied in shape and size and color and they flashed all
around, everywhere. (eyes closed)

intellectualism, moralism and institutionalism.

innately moral self.

This was a primal surge of unnamed energy, without direction or structure, amazing in its
power. One could only align oneself in the streaming torrent or the turbulence became
overwhelming. (If the ego fights this, it will have a very very hard time.)

This was the chamber of the unconscious where lay recorded all our past experiences and
feelings, race history, universal wisdom, such power and strength and the depths and
mysteries of life itself.


We felt ourselves get smarter, and looked into each other’s eyes and loved each other for
sharing the understanding that was making us both have these good vibes and this good
smart thing happening together. It was very strong, very high.

truly alive.

When I closed my eyes there was an endless flow of geometrical forms in the most
magnificent combinations of color. I could not help thinking at this time how a man in

sphering on its destiny.

With great emotion, he announced that “this is of vital importance to me” and that he
“absolutely must get to the bottom” of what he felt was being disclosed to him about his
own nature.

of goodness itself that I felt.

view of things.


evolution of the universe.


unworthy of such blessedness.

illuminated by radiant light emanating from an unidentifiable supernatural source. The

He started experiencing dramatic scenes that seemed to be happening in another century
and in a foreign country. They involved powerful emotions and physical feelings and
seemed to have some deep and intimate connection to his life; yet none of them made any
sense in terms of his personal biography. (eyes closed)

all is in the long run absolutely certain.


the whole of life.



relate to that did not have the real LSD experience.)


constructed by the mind, There was a sea of possibilities out there (in there?), other
realities, an infinite array of programs for other futures.

would do artists, architects, and painters good.

was the sum of my real experiences.

I had, on that day, entered William Blake’s Palace of Wisdom. He had been there, too.
And, I was to learn later, so had many others. And so can you. It’s our birthright. We are
all supposed to dwell in the mansion at the top of the hill. It’s our ultimate destiny. It’s
cosmic consciousness. Nirvana. Satori.


gods and lifted up the Empire State Building.

inscrutably, as he lit up the environment.

and utterly unsuspected.

I now felt I had had some direct experience of the ineffable realms of union with God,
and I discovered that my dissatisfaction with conventional religion was not due to the
death of God, as some theologians proclaimed, but rather to the impoverished concepts of
God, currently in vogue.

I never suspected that the ancient spiritual systems had actually charted, with amazing
accuracy, different levels and types of experiences that occur in non-ordinary states of
consciousness. I was astonished by their emotional power, authenticity, and potential for
transforming people’s views of their lives.

serenade me.


I took my wife’s hand and it seemed to me a great force of love flowed through my hand
into hers and also from her hand into mine and that then this love was diffused
throughout our bodies. Her smile, he whole face was beautiful beyond description and I
wondered if I would be able to see her like this when the drug experience had ended.

I understood, at that moment, what the concept of being born again was all about. Jesus
the Christ says in the Christian bible, “you must be born again.” And I knew what he
meant. You must go into yourself…all the way into yourself…to your beginning, your
origin. Into the waters of your unconscious. Into the core of you.

which I had, in this moment, fully awakened.

more and was willing to take the risk.


attention, mainly, the physical plane.




become one body with my whole surroundings.

walls, the human spirit could be liberated.

delightful…For me, this experience was liberation.



particular day.

two the whole world appeared as a blaze of glory.

esoteric states.

One could “feel” his “parental heritage” and their contributions to his “cellular structure.”
her and what my father’s body feels like to my father.

contact is very communicative.)



Even my body feels different; I am pain free.”

Slowly, I felt the physical and energetic resistance between us give way. There was still a
solid form, but it was now somewhat fluid, like mercury. Then I felt the boundary
between what was me and what was him dissipate, and I merged totally into him. I felt a
complete oneness with him and his spirit, as though I’d gone right into his body.

Somebody brought back sherbet. It was Haagen Dasz and I took one mouthful. It was
absolutely delicious. I thought it was the best thing I had ever tasted in my life. I could
taste every nuance of the flavor and also felt, really felt, the texture as I never had before
in my life.

encompass it.


articulated beyond anything which the mortal and perishing sight could possibly imagine,

The “mechanism” by which we screen our sense-data and select only some of them as
significant had been partially suspended. Consequently, I felt that the particular feeling
which we associate with “the meaningful” was projected indiscriminately upon


There was simply a pattern of action, of process and this was at one and the same time
the universe and myself with nothing outside it either to trust or mistrust and there
possibility of a finger’s touching its own tip.

the blissful radiance of the heavenly visions.

totally new vitality and an understanding of life’s true value.

ever shall be.

To my great surprise, various interesting scenes started unfolding in front of my eyes.
The persons participating in these scenes were highly stylized and slightly puppet-like.
The general atmosphere was rather amusing and comical, but with a definite undertone of
secrecy and mystery. (eyes closed)

all creation!






joy, oneness, and blissful security.



delight, finally exulting in a flower.


altogether, and there was only infinite being.


doubts on many of his previous philosophical certainties. His doubt deepened as he began
to suspect that the experience which at first he had interpreted as a regressive preverbal
future post-verbal modes of communication.

somehow in spite of all its outwardly stupid and cruel distortions.

God, whatever you might call something all-encompassing.

I felt welcomed, as though I were becoming a part of the forest, as though it were
enclosing and caressing me as I moved deeper and deeper into it—like I was arriving at a
family reunion and being embraced by the whole brood. There were mythic and fairy-tale
overtones along the lines of Alice and Wonderland or Frodo in The Bobbit arriving at the
Court of the Elf King.

on and putting your trust in.


always dreamed of.

before. I could laugh at my old self-image, which included “not being musical.” I was

I “saw”, though that is not quite the word, the evolution of the universe. I felt the various
which I observed everything. (eyes closed)


to the inanimate in watchfulness.

I was experiencing how consciousness manifests itself in separate forms while remaining
From this perspective my individual identity and everybody else’s appeared temporary
numinous encounter.

I was looking at the furniture as the pure aesthetic whose concern is only with forms and
Light and was infinite in its significance.



jell-o. Some torn fragments of party decorations were scattered on the floor and they
joking about the fortune in jewels on the floor.

was since he had felt this precious sensation.

true nature of reality.

in the sessions as representing timeless and centered consciousness uninfluenced by the
experiences were related to the mystical consciousness and deep religious significance of
certain plants.

scenes again.)


race a little better

understanding intuitive ways of knowing.

entirely different.

of creation in which she identified with “the Great Goddess-Mother Earth”. Her
with the Earth.”

Subjects repeatedly reported that they experienced consciousness of the ocean. On other
occasions, they have identified with what they felt to be the consciousness of fire. Many
LSD subjects also stated that they experienced consciousness of a particular material or
even the microworld of the atoms. (You can experience and/or identify with the
consciousness of anything.)

Suddenly I burst into a vast, indescribably wonderful universe. Although I am writing
this over a year later, the thrill of the surprise and amazement, the awesomeness of the
revelation, the engulfment in an overwhelming feeling-wave of gratitude and blessed
wonderment, are as fresh, and the memory of the experience is as vivid, as if it had
happened 5 minutes ago.



The dimensions of the room were changing, now sliding into a fluttering diamond shape,
then straining into an oval shape as if someone were pumping air into the room,
expanding it to the bursting point. I was having trouble focusing on objects. They would
melt into fuzzy masses of nothing or sail off into space, self-propelled, slow-motions trips
that were of acute interest to me.



moving, breathing, changing, as if it were alive.

The process I was witnessing in others and experiencing myself had a deep similarity
with shamanic initiations, rites of passage of various cultures, and the ancient mysteries
of death and rebirth. Western scientists had ridiculed and rejected these sophisticated
procedures, believing that they had successfully replaced them with rational and
scientifically sound approaches.

imperfect images of everyday life.


embryological development. While I was experiencing all the complexities of the
my animal ancestors.



dimension that gave hope to humanity.


little pieces of vegetable was to me the cosmos, round and infinite, punctuated by light

Crying and laughing are branches of the same tree—the tree of emotions. Not two of the
leaves are the same, yet all have the same roots: the capacity to feel and the need to
express those feelings. Whether I was crying or laughing was really not too important,
except on the conventional level. The important point was that the tree of my emotions
was being vigorously shaken and liberated of some withered leaves which had hung on it
too long.

the mystical reality.

Everything in this universe appeared to be conscious. After having had to accept the
possibility of fetal consciousness, I was confronted with an even more startling
discovery: consciousness might actually pervade all existence. My scientific mind was
heavily tested by this possibility until I realized that although many of these experiences
were incompatible with our common sense, they were not necessarily out of the realm of

The sequences of embryonal development were intermingled with phylogenetic
flashbacks showing the transformation of animal species during the historical evolution
of life. (eyes closed)

I discovered within myself a complex inner world, rich in sensibility, symbol, feeling,
and metaphor, not only for accessible recollections of my life and those more deeply
stored in my unconscious, but also for those that transcended my own direct experience.
It was as if the events of my life the lives of my forebears and unknown people from
earlier periods of history and diverse cultures were passing through me. I was both actor
and audience in this drama.

Holy Thing.

enriched and enlivened beyond comparison.

identifications and constrictions of consciousness.

that I was experiencing something like mystical revelations.

A divine calm swept through my soul.
A door had been opened in my mind and senses that would never close completely.
A feeling of great antiquity filled the room.
A larger and more comprehensive self emerged.
A mellow glory transfused me.
A new capacity for human relationships was formed.
A new life began for me.
A piece of bark on the tree was magically smooth.
A vision of celestial glory burst upon me. (eyes closed)
Afterward, I felt I had gone through a powerful experience.
All colors glowed and pulsated.
All colors took on a quality of gems.
All life seemed so infinitely precious that I cried aloud.
All my senses vibrated in a condition of highest sensitivity.
All phenomena were greatly enhanced.
All reality was totally present, including the past and future.
All seemed indescribably lovely and significant to me.
All the colors I have ever beheld are dull as compared to these.
All was just color on the finest kind of texture.
All was serenity, ecstasy, revelation.
An increasing feeling of liberation came over me.
Barriers had dissolved.
Beyond me the view stretched endlessly away.
books—All of them glowed with living light, jeweled books.
Book jackets gleamed with godliness.
Celestial chords were trembling up into their sublime fullness.
Color visions began to evolve into immense vistas of enchanting beauty. (eyes closed)
Colored forms swayed to the music.
Colors became more vivid.
Colors were alive and clear.
Colors were fresh and clear.
Could I hurl myself into the chaos with nothing but my trust in the energy?
Deep within was the thirst for a greater knowing of the ancient Wisdom.
Delightful electrical forces surged through his body, the ecstatic flow.
Depth perception was increased far beyond normal standards.
Differentiation between interior and exterior experience seemed to cease.
Doors to my psyche opened.
Duality seemed to merge into bliss.
Ecstatic energies pulsated up my arms and rocketed into my brain.
Emotions intensified, changed with lightning quickness.
Entirely new realms of possibility opened up.
Even inanimate objects sent signals, took on meaning.
Even ordinary space was extraordinarily transformed.
Even slight and subtle shifts of facial expression were meaningful.
Even the downtown smog seemed to sparkle.
Every line and color was constantly breathing and mutating.
Every object in the room became a living, mobile breathing world.
Every sense was preternaturally awakened.
Everything appeared in an uncommonly clear light.
Everything had a shining quality of newness and eternity.
Everything has worlds and worlds of meaning.
Everything I perceived seemed much more beautiful, brighter, alive, warmer.
Everything seemed fresh and sparkling, exploding into brilliant colors.
Everything seemed new and in a way strange.
Everything seemed so clear and beautiful.
Everything seemed so rich and intense.
Everything shone dazzlingly clean.
Everything shone with the Inner Light and was infinite in its significance.
Everything was alive, pulsing, everything connected.
Everything was clear and bright.
Everything was crystal clear and exquisite.
Everything was experienced as completely real.
Everything was given a glowing life.
Everything was gorgeous.
Everything was holy.
Everything was quivering with life, even inanimate objects.
Everything was suddenly magnified, extraordinarily marvelous.
Everything was supernaturally clear.
Everything was touched with eternity. Time was no longer.
Everything you looked at was pulsing and glowing with divine radiance.
Faces became mysterious, stylized, angelic, transfixed, idealized.
Feelings were those of absolute awe, reverence, and sacredness.
Flowers began to flare up and send out flashes.
For hours every sound had its color and form as truly as scenery could have them.
For the first time, I understood not on a verbal level.
For us, the planet was without Original Sin.
From horizon to horizon there flashed a glory.
From within emerged an archetypal nobility.
Grapes and bananas tasted most delicious in a very rich and sensuous way.
He exploded into cosmic laughter.
He felt “At that instant, I had contacted the universe.”
He felt certain that something extremely important had happened to him.
He felt clean and marvelously refreshed.
He felt the evolutionary process in his body.
He had honestly seen the Big Eternity.
He had transcended time and space and experienced “Heaven.”
He had very rich and enjoyable interior visions for many hours.
He has been blissfully united with the ground of the universe.
He hungered and thirsted for the spiritual.
He mentioned a slight tremor experienced as running through his whole body.
He moved into a world that existed in the deepest recesses of his consciousness.
He realized that he wasn’t the writer so much as the messenger.
He said he never felt better or enjoyed food more.
He saw “miracle,” heard “holy music.”
He seemed to experience directly his brotherhood with all of mankind.
He underwent an intense mystical episode.
He voyaged to uncharted realms of his own neurology.
He was far and deep into experience and sensation.
He was going through something very intense, of great importance.
He was graceful to trip with.
He was in total rapture and later considered this vision a grace.
Heaven was on the other side.
Her eyes danced when she saw me.
Her inner conflicts were resolved and “the whole universe fell into place.”
Her inner world was very rich and dramatic.
Her powerful image-energy machine flooded mine and I spun into her head.
His art was inspired by the visions he saw on LSD.
His ego dissolved and he became all of existence.
His eyes expressed great wisdom.
His eyes had a far-away look.
His eyes twinkled as if he had seen the Ultimate Joke.
His eyes were pure mirrors of the soul.
His “trip” to another level of consciousness was “a pure delight”
His visions were vivid in color, always harmonious.
Hofmann observed wild colors in a world without stability or form.
I achieved transcendent sexual fulfillment.
I bathed in the glow of liberation.
I became alert to all sorts of signals previously invisible.
I became aware of almost electrical surroundings.
I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it.
I began to discover new possibilities within myself.
I ceased to exist, but could have “looked back on my ego” and answered questions.
I could feel objects in the room without touching them.
I could feel the depth of my love for life itself.
I could no longer feel my body.
I could reach the stars.
I could see colored shadows across the sky.
I could see the patterns in their psyches.
I crawled to the chair which seemed so high off the floor.
I discovered trees.
I don’t really fear death because I feel like I experienced it.
I dwelt in an inner communion with heaven.
I emerged from this experience moved to the core.
I entered a realm deep in the spirit world.
I experienced dimensions of being usually inaccessible to consciousness.
I fell headlong through my own inner space.
I felt a deep union with God.
I felt a great heart-rending yearning rising from the depths of my soul.
I felt a great peace.
I felt a strong presence of a good spirit.
I felt a whole new dimension of love and compassion.
I felt as if I could penetrate directly to everybody’s soul.
I felt as if my soul had just been spread all over the universe.
I felt as if ten tons had fallen from my shoulders.
I felt blessed and exalted.
I felt clean and strong and peaceful.
I felt energized, pure and glorified.
I felt freer than I had ever felt before.
I felt healed, as though I were suddenly touched by God.
I felt His presence. It was so overwhelming.
I felt I could capture the secret of life.
I felt I was home or in true Reality.
I felt I’d tapped into the rhythm all around us.
I felt in touch with a sense of divinity within.
I felt like I love everybody.
I felt like I might come to heaven if I die…I was there.
I felt like I’d arrived at my true self.
I “felt my body” in a completely new way.
I felt my perceptions were being sorted in terms of new and different categories.
I felt myself lifted up and carried off on a current that held the very essence of the future.
I felt overwhelmingly tuned in to the “true nature of things.”
I felt part of an awesome primal hum.
I felt profound empathy with life, strong ecological awareness.
I felt reborn in a transcendent fountain of All Energy.
I felt so great, so free and relieved.
I felt that I had made a great discovery or as if another personality had been born.
I felt that I had uncovered a truth.
I felt that in a second I had lived through a century.
I felt that my energy was somehow merged with the universe.
I felt the bell of truth ring in me.
I felt the blood moving through my veins.
I felt the great oneness of all things.
I felt the life in the earth.
I felt the tingling in my fingertips (often the first sign of getting off).
I felt the warmth radiate from him.
I felt us uniting at the roots.
I float down the torrential stream of timelessness, one with it.
I flowed in ecstasy.
I floated through a tremendous heaven.
I floated to the door.
I found a wealth which satisfied all wishes.
I found myself giggling about philosophical concepts of reality.
I found myself hovering over a sort of Alice in Wonderland landscape.
I gazed heavenward, as one fascinated by mystical eyes.
I got deeper and deeper into this state of realization.
I got my deepest and clearest understanding of religion.
I had a feeling of colored musical notes floating around.
I had a major revelation that changed my whole life perspective.
I had a palpable intuitive sense of life after death.
I had a powerful experience of mystical rapture.
I had a vivid spiritual self that had been there all the time, waiting for me to discover it.
I had an amazing mixture of feelings.
I had awakened from a long ontological sleep.
I had been permitted a glimpse into beautitude.
I had been struck by lively dissonance of its colors.
I had clearly arrived at the pinnacle of spiritual evolution.
I had experienced enough to realize there was much remaining to be explored.
I had experienced unexpected, impressive things.
I had ideas and experienced feelings entirely new to me.
I had known the living spirit of nature.
I had my acid glasses on.
I had never felt as close to nature before.
I had never felt myself to be so liberated.
I had never felt this wonderful before.
I had never heard music in this manner before.
I had never known what awe was.
I had never seen it so clearly before.
I had not known that one could love with such intensity.
I had seen the enameled meads of Paradise.
I had the feeling that I had reached infinity.
I had uncovered forgotten emotions and experiences of unbelievable reality.
I had very clear images with my eyes closed.
I hadn’t felt so at home in the world since I was a little child.
I have never seen such color before.
I kept getting these wonderful feelings, all through my body.
I knew the meaning of things I never comprehended before.
I knew that this was the truth.
I laughed internally.
I laughed so hard that I wound up crying.
I laughed with intense pleasure.
I lay in the grass, felt its wondrous texture.
I lay on my back stunned, amazed and euphoric.
I leaped into the unconscious and began the exploration of my subterranean landscape.
I looked at my watch and forgot what time was.
I looked deep into her eyes.
I looked into endless depth and felt the powerful pull of eternity.
I looked speechlessly into heaven.
I moved into an undiscovered country.
I moved through a world that was beautiful and intensely interesting.
I never experienced anything quite so overwhelming in my whole life.
I opened my eyes. I was in heaven.
I penetrated into the true nature.
I perceived much more clearly than ever before.
I rediscovered love.
I rolled around the floor trying to avoid going downstream.
I saw a city of light.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
I saw colors I never experienced before.
I saw Eternity.
I saw the sun so close I could touch it.
I saw the universe through new eyes.
I seemed to take off my body and sit in my soul.
I slept as I have not slept since childhood.
I slipped back into forever where I didn’t exist.
I started noticing that the objects around me were endowed with awesome energy.
I started to experience a most fantastic happiness.
I stood overwhelmed by the vision.
I surrendered to the ancient process and felt the embracing union.
I swam into the kitchen.
I thought, “This is the truth behind all religions.”
I wanted not to speak, only to experience it silently.
I wanted to bring myself closer to the higher sources of life.
I was able to detect which note came from one violin and which from the other.
I was an angel ascending to heaven.
I was astonished by the emotional power, authenticity and transformative potential.
I was aware of a higher sphere.
I was awed by the vast range of consciousness.
I was back at the beginning of creation. I experienced what the myths of creation tell us
I was beyond the hold and protection of a body.
I was conscious of immense joy, incredible bliss.
I was conscious of my brain as alive, cells incredibly active.
I was convinced that I’d seen the answer.
I was deeply touched.
I was elevated to a higher level of existence.
I was enjoying a new feeling of love.
I was entering into another dimension of existence.
I was eternally in trip time.
I was ever aware that beauty was God.
I was experiencing a state of inner peace and serenity.
I was filled with a genuine sense of profound hilarity.
I was finding a wonderful new sense of completely trusting someone else.
I was free from all traces of suffering.
I was godly and eternal.
I was having the ride of my life.
I was literally experiencing the world as a child would and I loved it.
I was melting into that iridescent current of divine love.
I was more alive than I’ve ever been in my life.
I was more aware of the exuberance of nature.
I was moving and living in another time dimension.
I was not…listening to a recording, but…was the music itself.
I was now all consciousness.
I was now opening up like a tender flower.
I was overcome by the remarkable brilliance of the colors.
I was overwhelmed by the sheer bliss.
I was overwhelmed to find myself still in existence.
I was ready. But not for what I experienced! It was awesome!
I was so exalted by life that I felt I was not touching the ground.
I was suddenly confronted with something so much greater than oneself.
I was suffused with feelings of excitement and pleasure.
I was swept away by every conceivable variety of pleasant emotion.
I was taken to another world, another time.
I was transcended to a magical realm.
I was undergoing radical transformations.
I went for a walk and literally discovered the world.
I wondered whether I would be able to unbutton my pants.
I wondered why I had not comprehended meanings which now seemed so obvious.
I would just feel that vibe wash through me and light up all my electricity.
I’d recovered the sort of Nutcracker Suite universe of the four year old.
I’d turned into the cosmic harmony.
In a photograph, the oranges and yellows of the leaves were vibrant and luminous.
In an instant he now saw all.
In religious language, I was in eternity, beyond time.
In their enthusiasm, they returned from the Other World with a childlike energy.
Incredible amounts of energy seemed to be flowing through his entire body.
Insights came to me like comets flashing across the dome of my consciousness.
Instead of just my ears hearing the music, all my senses seemed to encompass the sound.
Instead of looking at a painting, I was climbing into it, almost through it.
It cleaned me like a bath in my mind. I felt clean and good.
It deepened my sense of reality. In fact, it blew it out of the water.
It had been a real epiphany, a revelation of God.
It looks like the ceiling opens up and God looks in.
It opened for me a cheering sky of hope.
It opened the Pandora’s box of the unconscious.
It opened up a gate that has been closed for a long time.
It revealed to me new and uncharted areas of the human unconscious.
It seemed as though the bottom had fallen out of the universe.
It seemed that I had no boundaries and was reaching into infinity.
It seemed to me that each object had somehow been touched by God’s sublime Presence.
It seems I fused with the music and was transported on it.
It snowed a pristine blanket of renewal.
It taxed my spirit to the limit.
It was a great warm and glowing feeling.
It was a profoundly moving, real and deeply meaningful experience.
It was a very deep, emotional trip.
It was a world where miracles were possible, acceptable and understandable.
It was all so real and new.
It was an adventure in entirely new audio-visual sensations.
It was an experience of self-recognition which opened my eyes.
It was as if parts of my brain “awoke,” which had been dormant.
It was as though an ancient truth had been revealed to me.
It was as though he had just put on his first pair of glasses.
It was breathtakingly beautiful.
It was dramatic.
It was extraordinarily therapeutic.
It was good. A new kind of good.
It was inexpressibly wonderful.
It was like walking into some enchanted, magical forest kingdom.
It was magic, far-out beautiful magic.
It was not only bliss, it was also understanding.
It was straight telepathic communication. I was in his mind, he was in my mind.
It was the most satisfying experience of my life.
It was the richest event of my life.
It was total experience, with all the senses opened wide.
It was tremendously erotic.
It’s an experience of great beauty. I cried for joy.
Joy overflowed the mind and invaded the body.
LSD gave a sense of bliss and oneness with life.
LSD magnified the environment.
LSD opened exciting new perspectives and interesting possibilities.
LSD opened up paths of thinking that I never knew existed.
Legends came to my consciousness.
Looking at the cards, the shadings suddenly became very meaningful.
Love glowed from his face.
Magnificent galaxies tempted me with their majestic silence and staggering beauty.
Magnificent, I never really saw color before
Meaning after meaning became strikingly clear.
Mr. C. was a Leyden-jar of laughter, charged to the limit.
music—The sound flowed through every fiber of my body.
My aesthetic sensibilities were profoundly enhanced.
My body felt elastic and full of energy.
My breathing and train of thought had a strong correlation with the music.
My consciousness expanded and reached cosmic dimensions.
My consciousness seemed to explode into cosmic dimensions.
My consciousness seemed to rise into a wonderful limitless space.
My consciousness was overwhelmed by a kind of primordial power.
My cosmic odyssey went on and on.
My emotions became so overwhelming that they cannot be put into words.
My essence transcended my physical being.
My experience seemed to acquire incredible depth and breadth.
My eyes penetrated farther and farther into the immensity.
My field of vision fluctuated.
My field of vision swayed before me.
My fingertips discharged a pringling, vibrating current.
My husband’s red plaid shirt was glowing with a peculiar intensity.
My interest in altered states had been awakened.
My lungs were bursting with the joyful song of being.
My mind penetrated into some of its own kingdom.
My mind was floating blissfully.
My old foundation had been eaten away by acid.
My soaring consciousness expanded.
My thoughts became crystal clear.
My visual environment was progressively clearer and clearer.
My watch, I knew was in another universe.
Never was the sky so blue.
New circuits of the brain were open.
New dimensions of my mind were coming into being.
No spectacle had ever affected him with such a magic spell.
Now I know why the fairy tales are full of jewels.
Now I saw with an inside view.
One felt one’s body to be super charged with energy.
One moment of clock time can be an eternity of ecstasy.
One pot was so well endowed with divinity that I wouldn’t come closer than 4 or 5 feet.
Ordinary remarks seemed to reverberate with double and quadruple meanings.
Our eyes met and engaged in an eternal, nonverbal exchange.
Our lovemaking had a new depth of meaning.
Overwhelming sensations were seemingly continuous.
People looked familiar, even those I didn’t know.
People who walked into the room were really walking around in my mind.
Perceptions changed from moment to moment with intensive decidedness.
Perfect beauty abounded.
Play was played eternally.
Reading, the words ran into one another and changed shapes.
Revelation upon revelation came.
Rich and extraordinary imagery appeared. (eyes closed)
Sensations were acute. I heard, saw, felt, smelled and tasted more fully than ever before.
Shapes and colors intensified.
Shapes glistened and sparkled with such diamonds as to be unimaginable in splendor.
Shapes were shifting and layers were coming off of things.
She experienced a beautiful, warm, nourishing, golden glow.
She experienced the stages of species evolution.
She felt a new emotional freedom.
She felt like she was being carried upward and held by the music.
She gained emotional freedom.
She had a beautiful aura.
She had experienced the unity of all existence.
She looked ineffably beautiful.
She looked mythic.
She radiated energy.
She relived with intense emotion past events.
She saw that everyone is connected to Spirit.
She saw the whole universe laid out before her.
She smiled a mystic smile.
She underwent a profound spiritual transformation.
She was experiencing ecstasy and transcendental bliss.
She was tapping genuine levels of cosmic wisdom.
Slowly, the music seemed to absorb all my consciousness.
Somewhere, time was passing.
Soul-shaking emotions took over, each seeming more intense than the previous one.
Sounds were translated into vivid colored images.
Sounds were transposed into visual sensations.
Space expanded.
Space was converted into flowing process.
Space was irregular, a space that expanded and contracted.
Space was perceived in a totally new and almost intriguing perspective.
Stars in the sky seemed to have special significance.
Suddenly, his whole psychic field of consciousness erupted.
Temples and gardens, fountains and vistas stretched continually. (eyes closed)
Temples and gardens, pyramids and unearthly rivers began to float along. (eyes closed)
The air seemed washed to sparkling cleanliness.
The air was filled with curving color webs.
The air was fresh and clear.
The beautiful visions were the stimuli for spiritual emotions.
The beauty was so intense that I sobbed.
The boundaries of my mind opened.
The broadest scope of vision which was possible was now ours.
The colors in the room were vibrating, alive, glowed.
The colors were sumptuous, rich and bright.
The combined emotions were so overpowering.
The deepest level of the experience was purely spiritual.
The different colored lights meant things.
The dimensions of being I entered surpassed the wildest fantasies of my imagination.
The dimensions of the room were changing.
The drug released such a flood of new thoughts and perceptions.
The effect was dazzling.
The emphasis was on experience and feeling (not verbal talk).
The entire experience seemed charged with value and significance.
The entire world seemed to shimmer with a beautiful radiance.
The experience opened up into an experience of oceanic bliss.
The experience seemed to satisfy every human want, physical or spiritual.
The experience was fantastically extraordinary.
The experience was genuine, a view of what was possible.
The experience was so tremendously blissful and enlightening.
The experience was intense and highly emotional.
The extreme beauty invaded consciousness like a vision from heaven.
The exultation was pure and holy.
The feeling I received was so true I couldn’t deny it.
The floor seemed to tilt and roll.
The flowers trembled on the brink of being supernatural.
The garden acquired an atmosphere that was distinctly exotic.
The girl turned into a presence, magic and mysterious.
The gleam flashed on me with increasing radiance.
The going was into intenser beauty, deeper significance.
The grass was the greenest I had ever seen.
The great radiance filled the sky.
The home and youth of the soul was everywhere and nowhere, the union of all times.
The inward journey deepened.
The intensity of all emotions increased to overpowerful proportions.
The intensity of the colors was beautiful.
The light aroused me.
The light grew brightly. The understanding deepened.
The moon and stars were nearer and leaping on the sky.
The multicolored mosaic of space seemed to stretch.
The music became very profound, or my feeling became so.
The music burst through the walls and overwhelmed him.
The music carried and sustained me.
The music flowed through me.
The music he had heard a hundred times before, had been reborn.
The music rolled on in orgiastic waves of sound and color.
The music seemed multidimensional, very beautiful.
The music seemed to take over the direction of the experience.
The music sounded divine.
The music wove me into a cocoon and I burst out as a butterfly.
The nature of the infinite was realized by the mind.
The object on which I concentrated became a radiance of pure light.
The object psychically glowed. It seemed shiny to me and had a good clean vibe.
The paintings seemed suffused with a crystal light.
The past was the property of another life. (It’s a new life now.)
The pavements were a mosaic of dancing leaf-shadows.
The radiant colors flooded the room.
The range of my vision was vastly expanded.
The red necklace of my assistant took on a luminous sparkle.
The red stool throbbed.
The relationship of each being to the whole was somehow religious and also sexual.
The rhythm of the music became outbursts of beauty.
The room almost began to melt and flow.
The room breathed.
The room grew suddenly brighter and I took this as a sign that I was close to the truth.
The room had taken on new meaning for me.
The room seemed to shimmer. The world shimmers.
The room took on a unique flavor.
The room was celestial, glowing with radiant illumination.
The room was full of a great glory.
The rose came back into my life.
The sacrament had unlocked the door.
The sensation I now experienced was new.
The sensation of falling was similar to that of soaring.
The sky was more deeply blue than ever.
The spiritual path was the center of his life.
The stars were awesome.
The stars were dancing in vibration to the sound.
The stove, chairs, bottles—I bowed to each of them.
The stream broadened and grew glorified.
The sun was sending a thrill of light.
The sun was shining with a brightness that seemed almost supernatural.
The telephone set was wiggling and juggling like a demented jellyfish.
The total atmosphere was definitely paradisal and heavenly.
The tranquility and the vibrations were healing.
The trees seemed as alive as the animals.
The trees waved at us.
The trees were sparkling with gold.
The trip had been SO interesting and ecstatic.
The trip was full of life and joy.
The underlying qualities of being were universal.
The universe was experienced as living and not a dead machine.
The vision changed my life.
The vision had intense emotional resonance.
The vision was primal.
The visions were influenced in content by the music.
The visions were perfectly clear.
The vistas through the shrubbery were magically intriguing.
The whole cosmos broke loose around me.
The whole world was my body.
The women’s necklace and rings and bracelets came alive with glittering reflections.
The wood was a gorgeous, rich golden color.
The woods were vocal with heavenly music.
The world turned into an orgy of color, a rainbow symphony.
The world was full of promise and hope.
Their beauty made me drunk with ecstasy.
Their minds were enlightened in an immediate experience of eternal life.
There seemed to be a pulsation, vibration within all objects.
There was a bright, radiant glow about Anniel’s face.
There was a clear awareness.
There was a feeling of knowing everything there is to know.
There was a heavier dimension to all this than I had realized before.
There was a psychic link between us.
There was a sense of buoyancy—an inexpressible joy.
There was a tempo, but no time.
There was full awareness of biochemical processes, cellular divisions and tissue growth.
There was joy in the wash of tears.
There was just the Great Divine, ineffable yet tangible.
There was mystery in the air.
There was no question that magic was real.
There was nothing but God.
There was overwhelming significance in all this.
There was raw emotion in the room. Suppressed feelings came to the fore.
There was revelry within.
There was such a bright and dazzling radiance.
There was the sense that the world has no greater claim to substance than does a dream.
There were fantastic energy flows and information flows going through me.
These drugs tremendously intensified bodily sensations.
They became aware of the nature of the unconscious.
They discovered within themselves that universal river of ecstasy.
They experienced a deep inward change in their spiritual awareness.
They felt keener and more refreshed.
They had felt themselves to be in a rare state of accord and understanding.
They laughed in ecstatic revelation.
They said that they felt themselves “reborn” to a new sense of unity and harmony.
They stepped beyond the restrictions of their usual state of awareness.
They were all high on the magic.
They were shocked by the power and complexity of LSD.
Things felt more sacred, more intense and indescribably wonder-filled.
Things I had read and passed over before now took on a new and psychedelic dimension.
Things moved toward and away from me as though on waves.
This awareness was sudden but timeless.
This inner letting go would ultimately liberate him.
This self-evidently was the mind’s natural state.
This tour was the most extraordinary journey of my life.
This vision had a sort of archetypal or mythic quality. (eyes closed)
This was the fulcrum moment of eternity. God was present.
This wisdom was of a mystical nature.
Trees waved their slender limbs in invitation. Flowers winked.
Throbbing currents moved through my body.
Throughout everything, the music seemed an intrinsic part of the experience.
Twilight deepened.
Under LSD, childhood memories emerge which are relived with intense emotion.
Under LSD. I relived the strongest, most intense emotional experiences conceivable.
Unimaginable depth and range of sensations filled my entire being.
Uninhibited release of emotion can be immensely liberating.
Vistas opened.
Walls, ceiling, floor and furniture sparkled virginally.
Walls of buildings had an added dimension to their surfaces.
We could see with the miracle of LSD vision.
We saw the multiple facets of our potential.
We were again able to speak silently, heart to heart.
We were having visions together.
We were loving and the vibes were getting very intense.
What I was experiencing now was new and very exciting.
What the initiate experienced was “new, astonishing, inaccessible to rational cognition.”
When he closed his eyes, the color dazzled him.
When the experience ended, he felt that some of his conflicts had been resolved.
With ecstasy, the whole soul drank in revelations.
With the completest understanding, I saw the center of creation.
Without being a mathematician, I understood the infinite.
Words would come up from the paper toward me and then recede.

as though one had stood before the Infinite in profound humility, overwhelmed by
feelings of awe and reverence

loving, searching and soaring into the infinite

became a giant and was afraid the room wouldn’t be able to contain him, afraid his
expanding body might crush the guide’s body

of reality

impetus of the psychedelics

confronted by a chair, which after a long time and with considerable difficulty, I
recognized as a chair

contacted an Energy or an Intelligence that seemed to deserve the description


developed an affirmative attitude toward the totality of existence and a general
acceptance of whatever happens in life as being ultimately all right

discovered in her first experience that life is about expressing what she calls the Real
Self, a concept which she had not previously explored

dwindled to molecular proportions and was afraid of falling through the vast spaces
between the atoms, wanted to cling to the arm of the guide

attained the truth

through being completely here and now

experienced an intense white light followed by a massive intellectual and moral

experienced that expansion of feeling, a new mental amplitude difficult to describe but
quite intense

world (eyes closed)

felt that this experience was a stage that everyone would have to go through one way or
another in order to reach a higher


anything he had ever found in the same music


had opened new vistas to my experience and has hinted at many other realms yet to be

had unitive states in which you melted into the cosmos and felt yourself to be part of an
interconnected web of consciousness

and supernatural radiance (eyes closed)

image after image after image, flowing in succession more rapid than I would have
wished, but all exquisitely detailed and with colors richer and more brilliant than those
either nature or the artist has yet managed to create (eyes closed)

introduced to unfathomable realms within, new awarenesses and undiscovered

jokingly complained about “constantly being tickled by fishes (a person’s comment about
his experience of being an ocean)

spiders of a thread of unraveled emeralds

immense journey


realized for the first time that during all the years of his life he had been behaving “like a
person who had no mind”

reported that their previous suicidal tendencies had actually been unrecognized cravings
for the ego-death and transcendence

unconceptualized event

might well be worth the whole of life


clarity and reality of what was felt


tuned in to experiences and values on sensory and spiritual levels which are diametrically
opposite to the materialistic power orientation of the American mainstream

undergone a series of evolutionary metamorphoses carrying them from protoplasm up to
man and experiencing all the stages on life’s way



transcendental experience of great intensity and depth

and lovely as you could want

amazed at the whole religious content of his experience
appeared as if bathed in a clear, magic brilliance
as if I had been pulled through infinity
as though I had experienced everything that ever happened all in one instant
as though someone had taken his senses and turned up the volume as far as it would go
awed by her discovery
awed by the realization
books, all of them glowed with living light, jeweled books
broke out of the prison of their linguistic and cultural conditioning
called this experience the most interesting and thought-provoking of his life
converted from righteousness to total selflessness and God-centeredness
could look at reality with eyes unclouded by convention
could see objects from perceptions which were normally impossible
disclosed the nature of reality to him
discovered a new unexpected source of strength and their true identity
discovered and experienced feelings of cosmic unity
discovered final truths
discovered how to free the mind of humanity from culturally conditioned limitations
discovered infinite realities within the brain
discovered that “I” exist independent of social ego
discovered the truth
discovered their immortality and eternal life
entered a world of fantastic shapes, colors and visual detail
entered dimensions of consciousness that permanently altered their concept of reality
experienced a deep level of enlightenment
experienced a deep reverential attitude to the divine
experienced a glimpse of the pure truth
experienced a psychic rebirth
experienced a surge of energy, closely followed by a feeling of intense mental activity
experienced an intense awareness of God’s presence, a conversation with God
experienced that expansion of feeling
experienced this heightening of intrinsic significance
explored their own spirituality
eyes that had the depth of eternity
eyes which had the most remarkable depth and radiation
felt a clear-headed tranquility
felt as a powerful mystical opening and reconnection with the divine
felt cleansed
felt his mind go lifting up through the layers of consciousness
felt immersed in a warm, golden glow and experienced herself as loving and being loved
felt overflowing energy
felt she became electric with fantastic energy going through her
felt with an intensity a thousand times greater than when it happened (a memory)
flipped out of his mind and spun up to heaven
flipped out of their conditioned mind sets into the world of magic, myth, and Mysticism
found one’s true identity in the inmost Self
found they had creative capabilities they’ve never suspected
freed me from many planes that I was trapped in
glimpsed what is beyond the door
glowed with a living golden radiance
had a profound influence
had an experience that completely turned his life around
had arrived at awareness of everything
had dived inward and was reliving phases of childhood
had never dreamed that such heavenly bliss was available to mankind
how liberating and glorious it was
lifted me to the heights in a wonderful fashion
looked at the painting, could “taste the color red”
looked into the heart of creation
made him a new man and radically changed his way of life
opened doors to other planes
opened the door to the discovery of myself
opened the neural doors to the future
opened up my sensory awareness
opened up so many areas of exploration for me
overwhelmed with perceptual changes
passed through the gate and entered the spell of the magic
perceived with great clarity and distinctiveness
produced a very rich array of insights
realized the Buddha nature of all creatures
realized the possibilities of his true self
received a great flash of insight
revealed the glory, the infinite value and meaningfulness of naked existence
saw beautiful scenes and colors and felt rich emotions
saw flying masses of color
saw luminous, moving patterns of great beauty
saw visions of such beauty that he sobbed with joy
shone with a kind of glassy, jade-like radiance
shucked off the mind and awakened to eternity
spent hours in pure metaphysical joy
spoke in a voice that sounded as if, in fact, it were coming from the depths
spun out into the richness of inner space
stimulated areas of consciousness not usually brought to the surface
surrounded by the most beautiful creations of Art
suspended outside the illusion of time
swept up to heaven
tapped into that ancient heavenly connection
the beauty of nature, the feeling it awakened in me
the full conviction that all I heard and felt was real
the “layerness” I felt in myself
the possibility of freedom I felt
the profound depth of what I felt
the sky and landscape whose splendors were vivid
taught me experientially what awe is
this greatness of beauty and goodness that I saw and felt
vividly experienced memories of his childhood
was a profound and overwhelming mystical experience
was at the heart of meaning and the radiant core of the energy process
was glory enough for a lifetime
was like uncovering a secret revelation or discovering the Holy Grail
went down the stairs and they never ended, like going down into the center of the earth
were illuminated with new meaning
whirled through the energy dance, the cosmic process
whose face was radiant with divine majesty

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