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...editor of this anthology concludes his arguments for wider distribution of LSD with the statement, "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate and fix the levels of consciousness to which men might aspire... Die Gedanken sind frei." Later in the book Dan Wakefield notes, "It has been reported that a pound of LSD dropped into a city's water supply could produce a psychosis of the population that would last long enough for enemy troops to take over...
Almost every contributor to this book has his own optimistic theory about LSD's application. The book contains more answers than questions. Reading it one gets the disturbing picture of a lot of children playing with fire: Timothy Leary proposing psychedelic colonies, one researcher giving LSD to psychotics, another giving it to people approaching death. Psychologists play with philosophy and novelists toy with psychology...
Solomon's anthology covers two possible approaches to LSD. Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, and Aldous Huxley speak for visionary, mystical use of the drug. The medical contributors have made isolated experiments in the use of LSD in psychiatric therapy, both in a psychoanalytic framework and in group rehabilitation...
Antics & Reaction. In the last few years, Dr. Cohen and other reputable researchers have been disturbed by what he calls the "beatnik microculture" and its abuses of LSD and other hallucinogens. The danger, he says, is that public reaction against oddball antics may set back serious research for many years...
...tempting, he suggests, to say that one gets from the LSD encounter what one deserves, but he quotes Aquinas for a more accurate summation: "Quidquid recipietur secundum modum recipientis recipietur"-our nature determines what we receive. But mankind will not always know its present mental limits. "The mind's surmised and still unknown potential," says Dr. Cohen, "is our future. The experience called hallucinogenic will play a role in leading us into the future...