The instrumentalization of psychedelics
The hippie generation lacked balance in dealing with psychedelics in the way that many were under the impression that you only had to take LSD often enough to see through everything and experience lasting enlightenment. Like all substances, psychedelics also have an end of effect. It is true that something can be opened up and triggered as the basis for a lasting change during the effect. However, temporary mystical experiences through psychedelics do not consolidate one as a master of mysticism. What is more decisive is the daily, sober willingness to expose one’s own shadow. Only those who have strong...