
unexpected responses from the subject.

As drugs entered the scene, songwriters and musicians became interested in interior
experience, outer space and the Meaning of Reality.

piece of music.


new approach.

in you.

choice of music.

as naked energy trembling in space, timeless.

as powerful mind-altering tools.

psychological defenses and surrender fully to the experience.

listening to it.

Men long ago, in ages however primeval, realized Beauty, and answered back its thrill
with gladness and hymns.

Music, dancing, rhythm—all these are art forms which have no goal other than

Music has several important functions and adds more dimensions to the psychedelic

subject in letting his feelings come out.


perceive before.

the mode of language.


Rock musicians are consciously and deliberately attempting by music to raise the

Some of the highest spirits of the West have spoken through music, expressing through
sound something of the upper reaches of consciousness.

The archives of cultural anthropology contains countless examples of extraordinary
trance-inducing instrumental music, chanting and dancing.

to adjust the music to the nature of the experience.

The processes of nature are like the arts of music and dancing, which unfold themselves
without aiming at future destinations.

The psychedelic style involves a resolution in our concepts of art and creativity, the new


music, frequently mediate a new understanding of art and artistic movement.

They shouldn’t be considered drugs at all, but should be classed with poetry, music,
literature and art.

become a dynamic element in whatever creativity I may possess.



not unlike that of the individual under LSD.


contours sharpened, music more emotionally profound, the spatial arrangements of
objects more meaningful.


As all great musicians have insisted and as anybody who has listened to music with
understanding agrees, music has some kind of cognitive meaning. It does say something
about the nature of the universe. Beethoven insisted on this very strongly.


psychedelic experiences, nonmusical persons develop vivid interest in music and others
discover entirely new ways of experiencing it.

experience itself as anything less than a God?

psychedelic process.

One of the most common statements one reads in subjects’ reports about LSD sessions
their life.

and spirituality, to mention only a few.

Shapes devoid of content could produce feelings of meaning in the same way that
and emotions.

to sound and music within yourself, internally, that only you hear, but it can also refer to
sound and music in the external world that everyone who is there can hear.)

There is probably not one major rock group that has not been influenced, directly or
indirectly, by LSD and paid homage to the ecstatic experience in one or more of their
songs. (That was written in 1968.)

This new psychedelic style has produced not only a new rhythm in modern music, but a
new literature and has begun to revise our philosophic and psychological thinking.


the modalities of music.

than sound.


complex. And beware, my friends, they are relentless.

they never dreamed they had.



from the subject.

Sensory perceptions become especially brilliant and intense. Normally unnoticed aspects
profound, the spatial arrangements of objects more meaningful.

and reached extraordinary vitality, originality and freedom of artistic expression.

provides for our senses.

Dante described the song of the angels in heaven as “the laughter of the universe.”
Existence is basically a kind of dancing or music, an immensely complex energy pattern.
External objects dance and sing.
God is a singing, swinging energy process Who likes to laugh and make love.
More and more, it seems that the ordering of nature is an art akin to music.
Music became a language of heads. (potheads and acidheads)
Music can assume a previously inconceivable emotional and aesthetic intensity.
Music can develop into a euphoric experience.
Music frequently becomes an absorbing delight, even to the nonmusical.
Music has added dimensions.
Music intensifies and deepens the process.
Music is an essential part of psychedelic psychotherapy.
Music is heard with increased fidelity and dimension.
Music is pure play.
Music may produce visions of color.
Music produces emotional states.
Prose is talk. Poetry is music, musical-emotional more than conceptual-mental.
Surrendering can be greatly facilitated by music.
The experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, music.
The music seems to play in you.
The walls change color with the music.
The world does not point to a meaning beyond itself. It is like pure music.
There is a potential contemplative dimension in music.
There is such a thing as music therapy.
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection.
You see music-like dancing particles and see sound in multicolored patterns.

complete in themselves.


I feel the music flowing uncontrollably through our bodies.



Beautiful, soft colors emerged and exploded as climaxes of the tone (music) were

Celestial music of inexpressible beauty seemed to make the rhythm of the universe, of the
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.

He could distinguish the exact notes played by each of two different violinists, both
playing the same part and both in the middle of the full orchestra.

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

I had never heard music played like that before. I suddenly understood the very essence
of music, the secret of its magic.

beauty and the whole mad ecstasy of lovliness.

meant something.

It did not matter what music it was. It was not music as such but rhythmic sounds around
which I wove the fabric of my experience.

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

Listening to music with closed eyes, I beheld the most fascinating patterns of dancing
jewelry, mosaic, tracery and abstract images.

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

music—The whole body shimmered with the chords. The chords were multi-colored,
vaulting like rockets across his consciousness.

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.

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

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

The music had an intensity of beauty, a depth of intrinsic meaning incomparably greater
than anything he had ever found in the same music.

The music seemed to lift me with infinite tenderness into the air where I floated bodiless
and weightless, moving gently in rhythm (with the music).

The radiant colors flooded the room, folding over the top of one another in rhythm with
the music. Suddenly, I was aware that the colors were the music (the colored music).

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

seemed to blend into the music.

dance and sing in the sunshine.

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


It seemed to me that the feelings of joy, rhythm, appreciation of music and the many
other emotions I had experienced were all part of an intrinsic spiritual power which
pervades the universe, each of them different aspects of God.

She was deep in a world where color became magnificent music and music became
beautiful colors and designs, a symphony of radiance and sound, a world in which
nothing inharmonious could enter.

The culminating experience was one of transcendental peace, with visions of supernatural
beauty and the sound of celestial music…Ecstatic feelings of timelessness,
weightlessness, serenity and tranquility.

There was more than music: the entire room was saturated with sounds that were also
feelings—sweet, delicious, sensual—that seemed to be coming from somewhere deep
down inside me. I became mingled with the music, gliding along with the chords.

There was only the music and then bright colors that turned out to be musical notes. The
notes danced along a silver staff of music that stretched out from one eternity to another,
beyond the planets and stars and space itself.

A subject who had “almost no sense of smell” was invited to try to smell a lemon. He
was told to “smell the lemon in the music.” At once, the subject declared himself able to
“hear the smell.” Then he said he could smell the lemon in the music. Then he was able
to smell the lemon directly.

At the end of the record, I felt that I had been on a long journey and that I had come to
my destination. My guides came to me and welcomed me into this “brave new world.” I
felt that I had reached the psychedelic shore and enjoyed the wonderful things around me.
I felt joyous and deeply related to everything, as if I were part of a whole. It was a sense
of total relatedness and involvement, bringing with it a sense of joy, peace and wonder.

delight, finally exulting in a flower.

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

Celestial chords were trembling up into their sublime fullness.
Colored forms swayed to the music.
For the first time, his awareness of a piece of music was completely unobstructed.
He heard music like that which Beethoven “may have heard in dreams, but never wrote.”
He saw “miracle,” heard “holy music.”
His “insight” was induced by music.
I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it.
I had never heard music in this manner before.
I was able to detect which note came from one violin and which from the other.
I was not…listening to a recording, but…was the music itself.
Instead of just my ears hearing the music, all my senses seemed to encompass the sound.
It seems I fused with the music and was transported on it.
music—The sound flowed through every fiber of my body.
My breathing and train of thought had a strong correlation with the music.
She felt like she was being carried upward and held by the music.
Slowly, the music seemed to absorb all my consciousness.
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 pulsed through me, striking my very organs at their core.
The music rolled on in orgiastic waves of sound and color.
The music seemed like a celestial melody.
The music seemed more beautiful than any kind I had ever heard before.
The music seemed multidimensional, very beautiful.
The music seemed to take over the direction of the experience.
The music sounded divine.
The music vibrated through my body as if I were one of the instruments.
The music wove me into a cocoon and I burst out as a butterfly.
The rhythm of the music became outbursts of beauty.
The visions were influenced in content by the music.
The woods were vocal with heavenly music.
Throughout everything, the music seemed an intrinsic part of the experience.

God’s great song

a keen appreciation of the beauty of the music, my surroundings and myself, although
without egotism

he had found in the same music

awesome beyond-musical choruses that surged to holy crescendos of sound and then
receded to equally holy silence

anything he had ever found in the same music

music which provoked intense pleasure sensations as if each nerve end were being
simultaneously stimulated


the purest of soul-searching, high-classic, rock-concert music, the sound of the
miraculous space between eternity—between paradise

a music that was at once primordial and future bound
a “musical” conception of the world in which order is dynamic and changing
a richer music
a transition of everyday experience into something of the same as music
a wondrously beautiful heaven of visual imagery and music
aesthetic, emotional, psychological, physiological and biochemical effects of music
all forms dancing to the nuclear tune
can enhance appreciation of art and music
change in time sense listening to music
discovering entirely new ways of listening to music
environmental stimuli like music
experiencing the emotions aroused by music
inspiring music
listening to music, discovering entirely new dimensions in pieces that he knew quite well
magic lights and music
music a source of insight
music an important unifying and deepening element in the sessions
music refined to its ultimate ethereal spirit
music so soul satisfying
music to create rhythmical patterns of incredible richness
music to fill the new spaces in one’s mind that drugs unlocked
music very helpful for mood change
Plato’s idea of the “musical unconscious” or as he called it, “the spiritual unconscious”
psychedelic drugs inspiring talented musicians to create new kinds of work
the essentially musical and dancing spirit of the universe, the musical quality of nature
the extensive use of music for ritual, healing and spiritual purposes
the extreme clarity and beauty of the music
the extraordinary potential of music for psychotherapy
the glorious rapture of music
the magic of music
the most heavenly music I have ever heard in my entire life, incredible beautiful
the music and the passion and energy pouring into the room
the music, the vast music
the musical or dancelike character of the world
the musical vibration of the world
the secret messages of glorious sexual liberation spread by rock and roll
the sound-textures of various musical instruments
this rapture of music
to go deeper into myself through the music
what true pop music is all about, the obliteration of thought for sensation

One thought on “Music”

  1. On the 8th day God created LSD, Little Feat, Phish. Pure Prairie
    League, and yes, the Hellecasters!!!

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