DM Turner- The Esseential psychedelic guide

neophobically controlled major media sources: television, newspapers, and
large magazines. There is also political pressure at all levels to conform to
the views of the ruling politicians. Do you think CBS would broadcast an
overtly pro-drug commercial even if you paid them well? The government
also controls the content of what is taught in schools. What is commonly
called "drug education" is better defined as "anti-drug brainwashing." Any
positive appraisals of drugs are absent from school course materials.
Teachers seldom inform their students that over 99.9% of the people who
take ecstasy have a positive experience. A recent psychiatric M.D. graduate
from Harvard was not even aware that psychedelics had ever been used in
therapy. Psychedelic use in therapy was widespread until LSD was made
illegal in 1966, and the results from their use were highly successful. During
the past 28 years limited research and therapy using psychedelics has
continued, primarily in Switzerland and Germany (Although in recent years
the FDA has agreed to resuming a small number of studies involving human
use of psychedelics here in the U.S.)
Much of a psychedelic trip is based on a person's mental set. The negative
media on psychedelics causes many people to take these substances with
unwarranted fears, thus diminishing the potential of the experience, and
probably causing some people to freak out. Someone embarking on a trip
with the idea "This substance is an ancient gift of the Gods, it will allow me
to gain a new experience of life" will have a different experience than a
person with the idea "Someone told me this is fun, but it's illegal and I'm
worried about getting busted, and I'm afraid I'll lose control and jump out of
a window. "
There has always been some accurate information about psychedelics
available, but it's been something one's had to search for Many who have
found, understood, and applied this knowledge have benefited immensely.
This book was written to spread this information to a larger group of people
in hopes of enlightening many on the potentialities of the psychedelic
experience, and dispelling some of the misinformation that has previously
been disseminated on this topic.
1. See Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality by R. Gordon Wasson.
2. See The Road to Eleusis by Hofmann, Ruck, and Wasson.