DM Turner- The Esseential psychedelic guide

experiences in general) I've listed several publications in the bibliography
that contain lucid descriptions of powerful experiences. One such
description that I've included here is the first LSD experience of Stanislav
Grof. Stan Grof became one of the premier psychiatric LSD researchers
during the early Sixties. His current non-drug therapy, known as Holotropic
Breathwork, has produced powerful "transpersonal" experiences in many
people. Following is Grof's description of his first LSD experience in 1956. 2
"I couldn't believe how much I learned about my psyche in those few hours.
I experienced a fantastic display of colorful visions, some abstract and
geometrical, others figurative and filled with symbolic import. The sheer
intensity of the array of emotions I felt simply amazed me. I was hit by a
radiance that seemed comparable to the epicenter of a nuclear explosion, or
perhaps the light of supernatural brilliance said in oriental scriptures to
appear to us at the moment of death. This thunderbolt catapulted me out of
my body. First I lost my awareness of my immediate surroundings, then the
psychiatric clinic, then Prague (Czechoslovakia), and finally the planet. At
an inconceivable speed my consciousness expanded to cosmic dimensions. I
experienced the Big Bang, passed through black holes and white holes in
the universe, identified with exploding supernovas, and witnessed many
other strange phenomena that seemed to be pulsars, quasars, and other
cosmic events."
During his LSD session Grof instantaneously grasped that the experience he
was having resembled those described in the great mystical scriptures of the
world. "I was able to see the irony and paradox of the situation. The divine
manifested itself and took me over in a modern scientific laboratory in the
middle of a scientific experiment conducted in a communist country with a
substance produced in the test tube of a 20th-century chemist."
Occasionally with large doses of LSD, and less frequently with other
psychedelics, one will encounter what is known as the "Clear Light" or
"White Light." This is perceived as a supernaturally brilliant and blazing
pure light which radiates from within. The feeling which accompanies being
in the presence of the Clear Light is almost always described as divine bliss.
The experience of the Clear Light can only be attained by going through a
full ego death. This process is described in detail in the book The
Psychedelic Experience.
COMBINATIONS:
HARMALA ALKALOIDS - Harmala will add a unique dimension to an
acid experience. I find that it infuses the trip with a mystical and ancient
quality. While on acid I normally feel like I'm interfacing with my own