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LSD, Spirituality, and the Creative Process: Based on the Groundbreaking Research of Oscar Janiger, M.D.

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'Analysis of Janiger's `50s-`60s study of 968 volunteers who received one to four doses of LSD-25. The list of the range of backgrounds of the study participants is fascinating in itself. Much of the text relates the accounts of the participants experiences. Over the course of the eight-year study several subsets emerged and are discussed.

Interestingly, the overall response of the participants
(only 48 could be found) in the 40-year follow-up, even by those whose experiences included high degrees of discomfort, was positive.

Dr. de Rios's writing is highly readable while retaining sufficient structure and detail to qualify it for citation in the ethnographic literature. Includes a bibliography.

I have always been curious about LSD and what it does to your brain or consciousness. I was curious why people would take such a "dangerous" drug without fear of "bad trips."
This book explained really well to me what LSD is all about and what it truly does to people. Most importantly, I realized why it is banned and outlawed. Somehow this book made me realize that there truly seems to be something to spirituality. To a degree, it kind of reinstated my faith in a higher power again.

For anyone curious about the effects of LSD on one's psyche, consciousness or brain, this is the book to read.