Word: bieberman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since she wants to bring psychedelics out into the open, Miss Bieberman encourages people to come to the PIC and ask questions. She tries to give them advice on how to "run sessions" and how to hold onto their experiences "up there" when they "come back down." She refers them to a book by Leary, Metzner, and Alpert called The Psychedelic Experience. "They come from all over," she said, "and they tell me about their experiences, and they're worried--did they do it right? Did they get far enough? And I tell them it's all the same...
Most of the people who go to see Miss Bieberman at PIC, however, just want to take drugs for kicks. "They consider themselves irresponsible, self-defeating, naughty," she says. "They take drugs too often, and without planning and forethought. So the insights they gain when they're 'up there' are quickly dissipated. They don't stay together after their sessions to discuss their experiences. These people may have unpleasant experiences when they take psychedelics in the wrong environment, going into it with the wrong attitude. It all depends on the attitude you go into it with...
...Miss Bieberman firmly believes that psychedelics can be put to "constructive" use, and that is the kind of use she is so intent upon bringing out into the open. "It's hard to explain to people who have not taken the drugs just what these good effects are," she says, "but they can give you a new perspective on the way you are living, and an increased sensitivity. You look at life in a completely different way when you're up and the important thing is to be able to apply this new perspective to your life when you come...
...combat this meaninglessness, Miss Bieberman plans to do research in the field of psychedelic drugs. "I want to find out how to help people reach what I call "The Psychedelic Experience" and not the unpleasant one--how to make them remember it, hang onto it, and make it applicable to their daily life...
...adds: "There's something not quite appropriate in idea. The psychedelic experience not like a sick man going to get cured--it is so subjective--you do it yourself. All another person can do is create the setting, and help out a little." This is the role Miss Bieberman would like to play for "people who want to get turned on in a good environment," she plans to set up in the future a center for this purpose. But she realizes that most of the people she has delt with only want to "turn on" and hardly care about...