Bad reactions to LSD are almost certainly dependent on the user. It is becoming increasingly easier to diagnose schizophrenics clinically as patients suffering physical disorders -- these people should be very cautious, if not completely avoidant of truly powerful psychoactive drugs like LSD. There are another class of people who use LSD irresponsibly, ignoring important factors like set and setting -- bad reactions, more acute then chronic, are likely to occur here as well. Really the only serious physiological concern about LSD use has been that it may cause chromosome damage -- this was first reported by Cohen et al. in 1967. These findings were seldom replicated, and were contradicted by other studies (Loughman et al., 1967; Bender et al., 1968; Pahnke, 1970). In 1977, Maimon Cohen, one of the invesigators who first reported this a decade earlier, stated that no conclusions could be drawn based on existing evidence (Cohen et al., 1977).
"the ego is like a petty tyrant who must fulminate on the rightness of its position as a compensation for the swamp of doubt upon which its castle is built"
The ego, our conscious sense of who we are, is an affectively charged cluster of replicated experience. It is the central complex of consciousness whose boundaries are fluid, malleable and easily violated. We need ego to conduct the business of life, to mobilize psychic energy and direct it towards goals, to maintain a degree of self consistancy and continuity so we can move forward from day to day, context to context. But the central project of ego is security which, understandably, stands over against the massive onslaught of energies from without. From the ego's narrow view of the world, the task is security, dominance and the cessation of conflict.
Psyche or soul is simply our word for the mysterious process through which we experience the movement towards meaning. So far as we know, ours is the only species which feels driven to find meaning.
bodleing Forum Posts (13,810)
So does he!!!
700 billion dollar rescue bill rjected
Figures are provisional at this moment,but it looks like its been turned down.