PART 2: PREFACE

Part II is entirely the words of others. I have read about 75 books on the general subject of LSD and have noticed certain words that keep coming up, words like consciousness, reality, awareness, perception, spiritual, clarity, insights, ecstasy, joy, radiance, vision, beauty, unity, etc. For each word, more than 100 of them, I have a separate chapter. If the chapter is "perception," there will be every line that I think is a good line from those 75 books that includes the word. It can be a full sentence or a few of them together in a paragraph. It might be just a phrase or partial sentence if I thought it was better without the rest of the original author's sentence. In some cases, I took a word or a few words out if I thought it sounded better that way but did not add any words. It's still all the words of others. The only words I wrote in Part II are occasional comments in parentheses.

What I have tried to do, in general, is take what I think is the best of what many others have written about LSD and organize it all in a certain way. There is going to be repetition. For example, the phrase, "new spiritual feelings of a cosmic nature" would be listed 5 times, in the chapters for new, spiritual, feeling, cosmic, and nature. It's like a gigantic word puzzle. Each sentence or partial sentence is by itself and not linked to the one just before or after because they're all from different books and writers. There is no continuity in that sense. Therefore, it's a good idea not to be in a hurry and to read it slowly. Each line is just its own line and when there are a bunch of them in a row where they're all just one line, there won't be spaces between them.

There are thousands of great ideas here and I can freely say that because I didn't write it. There are no footnotes here because every line would have to be footnoted and if I had to do that, then this project wouldn't be worth doing. I'm trying to put together what I think is the best information about LSD and not worrying about who wrote what line. I'm just interested in what was said, not who said what and I hope everyone understands.

NOTE: This is a tentative list and that if anyone wants to see a particular chapter right away, I could send you the word document I have for that chapter via e-mail.


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