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the "progressive initiative to demystify the psychedelic experience" being pursued by Carhart-Harris and colleagues (Carhart-Harris et al. 2018). While it is possible that psychedelics afford propositional knowledge gain, I suggest the most promising idea is that they offer new knowledge of old facts (Gertler 1999). spite of our best efforts to produce such an experience, some of our subjects escaped into a psychedelic experience. The new term came out of a regular correspondence that developed between Osmond and Huxley. Psychedelic—coming from the Greek psyche Humphry Osmond, an early LSD, mescaline, morning glory seed and adrenolutin researcher The five levels of the psychedelic experience range from very mild sensations to full blown, expansive hallucinations. These levels are a useful guide when learning what to expect from a psychedelic experience. But, just keep in mind that there are really no boundaries between these levels, and you can easily slip between the states mentioned VARIETIES OF TRANSPERSONAL EXPERIENCES: OBSERVATIONS FROM LSD PSYCHOTHERAPy. S. Grof. Published 2003. Psychology. Until recently the theoretical structures of psychiatry and psychology were based on the observations of a rather limited range of mental phenomena and human experiences. Very little systematic and serious attention was given to a metic or the psychedelic experience (except per- schauung. This includes, of course, his ready THEVARIETIESOF PSYCHEDELICEXPERIENCE confinement to the shrunken world of psychiatric medicine Synanon, and of Schizophrenics Anonymous· of, to use Dr. Hoffer's words, "oil the goodness of the varieties of psychedelicexperienc4,the authorsore I discuss the ontological nature and heuristic value of psychedelic experience. I argue that psychedelic phenomena may manifest the activity of certain mental formations and brain mechanisms that otherwise remain hidden. Thus, psychedelic phenomena can be heuristic tools and intriguing objects of the scientific study. I consider two types of The list of mental health disorders that may someday be treated by psychedelic-assisted therapy is long, and it includes widely diagnosed conditions such as "clinical depression" or major depressive disorder (MDD), substance addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). I myself have experimented with five of the principal psychedelics: LSD-25, mescaline, psilocybin, dimethyl-tryptamine (DMT), and can- nabis. I have done so, as William James tried nitrous oxide, to see if they could help me in identifying what might be called the "essential" or "ac- tive" ingredients of the mystical experience. contribution to psychedelic experiences could be obtained by observing pro- spectively recurrent major mood disorders. First, such observations suggest that the oscillations taking place in the brain at the time of the substance's ingestion significantly influence the intensity and oscillatory unfolding of the psychedelic experience. Second, In response to a recent call to rid psychedelic science of the concept of mystical exp