There are many people who might say that even if LSD is the greatest experience that a person can have, so what? Of what use is it other than making someone feel good for a while, like a tranquilizer? To react this way is to miss the point completely. LSD can transform a person's life for the better in a way that nothing else can because it can knock out the ego and give the person a new perspective on everything.

This can be very useful. It was already stated that one LSD experience can solve a psychological problem that years of regular psychotherapy couldn't solve. This is possible, again, because the person is getting a new concept of reality and can analyze their problem from a new point of view and see the answer clearly now. It's like when a fog clears and the person can now see what's there. The person could spend the rest of their life talking to a therapist and just go in circles because the talk doesn't get rid of the fog that is blocking the answer. The fog is the ego and the ego has got to go in order to get anywhere.

To put it another way, talking to the therapist doesn't get beyond the verbal games or the negativity of Freud's theory of the brain. All typical therapy does is deal with negatives whether it's painful memories, fears, anxieties, tensions, feelings of inferiority, etc. Dealing with just negatives is limited, destructive and ineffective. The patient needs to get past the negativity of the ego into the positive, spiritual dimensions of the brain, something that Freud knew nothing about and that Western societies know nothing about.

On the concept of one LSD experience being able to do what other therapy can't do, here are two quotes from Stanislav Grof. The first is from page 239 of LSD Psychotherapy and the second from page 377 of Beyond the Brain, both books written by Grof:

"Under certain circumstances even a single psychedelic experience can have profound and lasting consequences. If the subject's personality structure has intrinsic potential for a fundamental positive or negative shift, the administration of LSD can catalyze and precipitate a sudden dramatic transformation. On occasion, one LSD experience has drastically changed an individual's world-view, life philosophy and entire way of being. It has mediated a profound spiritual opening in atheists, skeptics and materialistically oriented scientists, facilitated far-reaching emotional liberation and caused radical changes in value systems and the basic life style."

"Important emotional, psychosomatic or interpersonal difficulties that have plagued the client for many years and have resisted conventional therapeutic approaches can sometimes disappear after a full experience of a transpersonal nature, such as an authentic identification with an animal or plant form, surrender to the dynamic power of an archetype, experiential reenactment of a historical event, dramatic sequence from another culture or reliving what appears to be a scene of a past incarnation."

Things mentioned in the second Grof quote, just above, such as archetypes, reliving historical events or past incarnations and experiencing other cultures, all involve the visions seen with the eyes closed and may involve the symbolic dramas mentioned earlier. All of this is therapeutic because these experiences are so overwhelming and real that the person can't help but to be affected strongly and emotionally, enough so that the person can see that what was supposed to be such a problem is nothing. If the person has a religious experience and realizes that, ultimately, there is no problem and that any problem involves the ego and only the ego, then the person has been "cured".