Ram Dass, the iconic, countercultural, spiritual seeker, brought the wisdom of the East to those of us in the West through his many books and frequent, charismatic dharma talks. This view of his spiritual journey describes the transformation of Richard Alpert, clinical psychologist and product of the Western milieu’s often-shackling conventional expectations, into Ram Dass, the free, embodied...
Suppression of food intake in the rat was shown to follow injection of LSD-25 and this effect was determined to be dose dependent. When the effects of 10 daily injections of the drug were investigated, a suppression of food intake on each day indicated a lack of development of complete tolerance. These data show that caution is needed in interpretation of the behavioral effects of LSD-25 where...
After injection ofd-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25) in the rat, the animal shows symptoms of autonomic effects, such as profuse salivation, urination, and defecation. There is some indication that the somatic nervous system is also involved, since the animal exhibits hyperactivity in the first few minutes after injection, while after three to five minutes there is a tendency for all four...