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A Dissertation On The Constructive (Therapeutic and Religious) Use of Psychedelics PDF
A Dissertation On The Constructive (Therapeutic and Religious) Use of Psychedelics PDF
A Dissertation On The Constructive (Therapeutic and Religious) Use of Psychedelics PDF
Regular funding for off-mainstream research is hard to find, even in The Nether-
lands. After ten years of studying, lecturing about and researching drug use, I’ve decided
m
been studied where much like it is one aspect of driving for the driver. To
understand the significance of drug use, one has to move to
to explore altered states our knowledge of, for instance, addiction, is in fact con-
structed by the way social science operates in an anti-drug
of consciousness for context. These and other issues provide a theoretical frame-
work that relates the themes to be treated in the following
spiritual/religious reasons
erately sought to explore altered states of consciousness for
therapeutic reasons, for spiritual/religious reasons and for
recreational reasons. Chapter 2 deals with hallucinogenic
and for recreational drugs and the therapy of the Dutch psychiatrist Bastiaans,
” who treated many patients who were traumatized by the
reasons. Second World War, mostly resistance fighters and concen-
tration camp survivors, who would now be diagnosed with
post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The small survey indicates that severe, chronic
symptoms and complaints have been palliated or cured in his ‘psycholitic’ therapy. As of
today, a majority of our respondents indicate partial to complete recovery from the
traumas and related symptoms from which they suffered upon entering LSD (and/or
ketamine and/or psilocybin) assisted treatment. They were and are positively satisfied
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with their treatment [See: Ossebaard, H.C. & Maalsté, effectiveness with regard to ASC. In the 2nd Century
N. (1999). The Bastiaans method of drug-assisted AD, the Greek astronomer Ptolemy described how dur-
therapy. Bulletin of the Multidisciplinary Association for ing an experiment, the rays of sunlight falling through a
maps • volume XI
Psychedelic Studies 9(2), p. rotating spoked wheel were
3-9; http://www.maps.org/ “
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The drink has traditionally forming patterns of color and
light that induced euphoria in a
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study will enlighten this im-
been used for medical and bystander. The 19th Century
French psychologist Pierre Janet
portant area of human suffer-
religious reasons without discovered the calming effect of