I don't think Erin does a good job characterizing psychedelic drugs. Having taken some myself and having read many trip reports of LSD and mushrooms I haven't heard of anyone laboring under the delusion that they were speaking to satan or flying with angels (although some have reported "entity" contact usually with the use of DMT).
The hallucinations these drugs bring about are mostly optical and take the form of morphing geometric shapes superimposed upon your vision (they are not little talking green men delusions in other words). I'm sure you can, if you don't know what you are doing, get so caught up in the visuals that you begin to panic in a scary environment with suggestive imagery (like a cemetery or something) I suppose you could believe you were talking with satan or something but this is rare. Plus you have to really not know what you're doing.
My point is, Erin seemed to be painting LSD as a delusional drug which it is not. On the influence of LSD you are literally traveling "into" the brain, you begin to understand the psychological structures waking consciousness is built upon. Psychedelics are supposed to be a trail blazer for meditation and Mindfulness, not just to have some crazy trip.
Last edited by Mr.Mustache; 02-18-2008 at 11:37 PM.
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