In the visions with the eyes closed, it's possible to see any event from your past, any event from anyone's past no matter when they lived and you can relive the history of evolution from the beginning of life forms. You can feel yourself as a one-celled organism and keep developing until you are a fish, for example, and keep on developing until you are a Homosapien. Some have a theory that everyone, during the 9 months inside the mother's body before being born, goes through all the evolutionary stages leading up to becoming a Homosapien or human being. We are Homo Sapiens in the limited world of the ego. The next evolutionary stage of man will be when we have moved beyond the ego. That will be the Age of Aquarius, some time in the new millennium.

The visions can be very educational. For example, if someone is seeing a living scene from ancient Egypt, the architecture will not be modern architecture but that of ancient Egypt. The people, what they are doing, their costumes, the landscapes and everything seen will be from that culture at that time. You can see all of this for real as it actually was, just like if you saw a vision of your parents wedding, you would see it exactly the way it was. The person who took the LSD may have known nothing about ancient Egypt, but by the time the trip is over, that person can know quite a bit.

On this concept of having access to all kinds of information that a person wouldn't seem to know anything about and how LSD can bring it all out, we again return to Stanislav Grof and his book, Beyond the Brain. This is from page 42:

"One can transcend the limits of a specifically human experience and tune into what appears to be the consciousness of animals, plants or inanimate objects. In the extreme, it is possible to experience the consciousness of all creation, of the entire planet or of the entire material universe."

"Individuals who encounter transpersonal experiences of this kind in their psychedelic sessions frequently gain access to detailed and rather esoteric information about the corresponding aspects of the material universe that far exceeds their general educational background and their specific knowledge of the area in question. Thus, the reports of LSD subjects who have experienced episodes of embryonic existence, the moment of conception and elements of cellular, tissue and organ consciousness abound in medically accurate insights into the anatomical, physiological and biochemical aspects of the processes involved. Similarly, ancestral experiences, elements of the collective and racial unconscious in the Jungian sense and "past incarnation memories" frequently bring quite remarkable details related to specific historical events and costumes, architecture, weapons, art or religious practices of the cultures involved. LSD subjects who relived phylogenetic memories or experienced consciousness of contemporary animal forms not only found them unusually authentic and convincing, but also acquired extraordinary insights concerning animal psychology, ethology, specific habits, complex reproductive cycles and courtship dances of various species."

"Those individuals who have reported episodes of conscious identification with plants or parts of plants had sometimes remarkable insights into such botanical processes as germination of seeds, photosynthesis in the leaves, pollination or exchange of water and minerals in the root system. Equally common is a sense of identification with consciousness of inorganic matter or processes, such as gold, granite, water, fire, lightning, tornado, volcanic activities or even individual atoms and molecules. Like the preceding phenomena, these experiences can be associated with surprisingly accurate insights."