Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVESKY--An acid tripper? Well, not exactly. But no other writer so well conveys the viccissitudes of the spiritual seeker. And perhaps Dostoyevsky, who knew well the spiritual insight that grows from extreme states of consciousness or from sickness itself, would not have criticized a spiritual insight that came from a chemical. Here is his description, from the idiot of the state of consciousness that proceeds an epileptic...
...SALINGER--Acid isn't always apocalyptic. Sometimes it can be as calm, an knowing, as cozy and full of detail as a Salinger story. Here is the revelation that concludes Zooey...
...Tibetan Book of the Dead, edited and announced by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner. Written as a manual for trippers, this adaptation of the teachings of Tibetan mystics is fun to read but shouldn't be taken too seriously. The guide outlines the stages of an acid trip and tells you how to react at each point. You'd probably be better off finding your...
There's a good deal of unnecessary confusion about what the acid experience is. It is not a fundamentally sensory experience. What LSD does to the way the mind hears music or the way it records visual images in relatively unimportant. People who go into tremendous hallucinations on LSD are probably having pretty low level, physically-rather-mentally-oriented trips. (Research has suggested that LSD might inhibit the flow of the chemical which replenishes the visual cortex of the brain, and thereby wears out the image receptors and causes hallucination. But, if this is the case or something like...
...significant effect of LSD is the way in which it makes you experience the self. The acid tripper achieves a level of consciousness of a self quite separate from what he knows to be his ego. He thinks he can communicate to people, animals, and objects on a level of pure consciousness. At the time of highest revelation he is totally apart from the problems, and constructs of his won ego and understands the whole universe to be ordered by a common benign, tingling consciousness that is aware of how each person's ego got to define his desires...