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...Death."LSD (D-lysergic acid diethylamide) has so far proved no cure for any disease. The overriding interest of both scientists and pseudo scientists in LSD (and, to a lesser extent, in the other hallucinogens) is in its effects on the mind. And these are so fantastic that most experimenters insist words are not the right medium for describing them, but they have devised no better tool for communication...
...that has been published about the pros and cons of LSD and other hallucinogens, there has been no impartial appraisal by a competent scientist writing in lay language. Now, in The Beyond Within: the LSD Story (Atheneum, $5), Dr. Cohen has done the job with commendable skill. Man's drive to find out what his mind is like, says Cohen, besides "including a search for release from the painful realities of' disease, disaster and death . . . also at tempts to find an answer to the question of how one human should relate to an other, and how man should...
...incredibly intensified perception. This may be pleasurable or not, depending on the individual's emotional state. Most people seem to float, and often to be outside themselves, so that they are really two selves. A common feeling is that there is "a little bit of death" in the LSD experience, but usually it is not frightening because the subject is dissociated from himself and can observe the situation dispassionately...
...Smell of Music. One of the unique qualities of LSD, says...
...hill "like one of those sick animals that make a canny retreat into some refuge and watch stealthily for danger." He does almost nothing at all, and does it so well that his perceptions suffer strange and vivid changes as in the first symptoms of paranoia or LSD poisoning...