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On the verbal level an education in the nature and limitations, the uses and abuses of language; on the wordless level an education in mental silence and pure receptivity; and finally, through the use of harmless psychedelics, a course of chemically triggered conversion experiences or ecstasies—these, I believe, will provide all the sources of mental energy, all the solvents of conceptual sludge, that an individual requires. With their aid, he LSD—The Consciousness-Expanding Drug 48 should be able to adapt himself selectively to his culture, rejecting its evils, stupidities and irrelevances, gratefully accepting all its treasures of accumulated knowledge, of rationality, human-heartedness and practical wisdom.

These had some of the energizing and euphoriant effects of cocaine but did not seem to be so dangerously addictive. This group of substances produces in some—but not by any means all of those who take them—a feeling of well-being, a lessening of fatigue, reduction in appetite accompanied by tension, irritability and sometimes sleeplessness. When these effects wear off a few people become unusually depressed. Quite small single or continuous doses make a few of those who take Amphetamine seriously muddled and disturbed.

34 LSD—The Consciousness-Expanding Drug His classification may differ from the one we use now, but it is still useful and his splendid book* is extremely stimulating. During the first half of the twentieth century knowledge increased slowly. In the 1920's more barbiturates were synthesized, and this engendered new possibilities for addiction which speedily and tragically developed. Barbiturate poisoning is now one of the main means of suicide in the Western world. Yet these same man- and woman-killing chemicals have been enormously valuable, particularly in inducing sleep and anaesthesia.

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