Neuroscience for Kids: LSD

Can LSD Damage Chromosomes? NO

Will I Stare at the Sun and Go Blind?  NO

Could I get Strychnine in LSD?  NO

Will LSD stay in my body forever?  NO

Will my child be dosed with an LSD Tatoo?  NO

LSD

I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceeded home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.
- Albert Hofmann

LSD - My Problem Child
By Albert Hofmann
"Perhaps with all our modern knowledge we do not need the divine mushrooms any more. Or do we need them more than ever?"

The Nature of the LSD Experience
By James Terrill, PH.D.
"There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby, and invisible. And there is where God lives, where the dead live, the spirits and the saints, a world where everything has already happened and everything is known. That world talks. It has a language of its own. I report what it says. The sacred mushroom takes me by the hand and brings me to the world where everything is known. It is they, the sacred mushrooms, that speak in a way I can understand. I ask them and they answer me. When I return from the trip that I have taken with them, I tell what they have told me and what they have shown me."

LSD & Religious Experience
By Walter N. Pahnke
"Indications are, however, that what one does with a psychedelic experience may be more important than merely having it. Without integration into the on-going life of the individual, the experience may be only an irrelevant memory, no matter how beautiful. Much work is needed to integrate the insights from LSD when used as a part of psychotherapy. The analogy might be drawn of a trip to a new country. If the traveler knew nothing about the history and culture of this country, he might have an interesting trip, but only a fast-fading memory would remain"

Non Therapeutic Uses of LSD
By Stanislav Grof M.D.
"However, those who argue that LSD-induced spiritual experiences cannot be valid because they are too easily available and their occurrence and timing depend on the individual's decision, misunderstand the nature of the psychedelic state. The psychedelic experience is neither an easy nor a predictable way to God. Many subjects do not have spiritual elements in their sessions despite many exposures to the drug. Those who do have a mystical experience frequently have to undergo psychological ordeals that are at least as difficult and painful as those associated with various aboriginal rites of passage or rigorous and austere religious disciplines"