Tripping the light fantastic: the phenomenon of the hallucinogens
Ilana Belle Glass
October 14, 2016 DOI: 10.4324/9781315542355-23 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | The text recounts that Timothy Leary and fellow members of the League of Spiritual Discovery described a psychedelic journey as a journey to new realms of consciousness with limitless scope and content, characterized by transcendence of verbal concepts, space-time dimensions, and the ego or identity. |
Abstract
The final quote is from Timothy Leary (1964), the psychologist turned guru who, during the 1960s, first exhorted youth to &s;tum on, tune in and drop out&s;. He and other members of the League of Spiritual Discovery (LSD) described how &s;a psychedelic journey is a journey to new realms of consciousness. The scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are the transcendence of verbal concepts, of space-time dimensions, and of the ego or identity&s; (Leary et al., 1964: 11).