Fall, 1963: More on LSD

Anais Nin is drawn to the fact that people understand her novels when they are under the influence of LSD whereas when not under the influence, this understanding eludes them. LSD could instantly open their senses and unconscious, while with other methods such as analysis, this opening was not so quick or easy. Many artists naturally have access to the visions, senses, dreams, feelings, imagination, invention, creation that LSD makes available to the masses. Anais feels that the real culprit is "a culture which made drugs necessary, a culture of false values, slavery to commerce, taboos in the dream, aesthetics and the senses, taboos on imagination and freedom of the individual."