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G. R. Jordan, Jr.

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REFLECTIONS ON LSD, ZEN MEDITATION AND SATORI

PSYCHOLOGIA 1962 G. R. Jordan, Jr.

In the March 1961 issue of Psychologia Dr. Wilson Van Dusen presented LSD as a new means of arriving at satori, the Zen experience of sudden enlightenment. He said that the use of LSD is a faster method than years of meditation and suggested that the drug "could perhaps be used in a monastery in conjunction with conventional Zen practices to facilitate the student's development. ... " (1). From...