Anais Nin experimented with LSD in the fall of 1955 under a doctor's supervision, and now, almost eight years later, she's meeting Timothy Leary and others, discussing the pros and cons of its use. Her experience resembled a "waking dream very closed to the states I reached by writing. I did not realize that America with its pragmatic culture had no access to this inner world." Anais says further that no one except neurotics and psychoanalysts paid attention to dreams and that many people had never been taught to dream, "to transcend outer events and read their meaning. They had been deprived of all such spiritual disciplines."
She ends this entry of her diary with columns "for" and "against" LSD.
For LSD: it's a shortcut to the unconscious, expanded consciousness, greater awareness of the unconscious self that children and artist have and is useful for those who've become out of touch with their deepest self. It can provide inspiration, creativity, imagination, spontaneity.
Agaist LSD: it should not be used carelessly by people seeking "kicks" and without supervision because it can be dangerous to people with heart or liver problems, and people should not drive, swim, or go to work under its influence.
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