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Masters and Houston - Castle and forest
Identifier
004342
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Masters and Houston were two psychotherapists/psychoanalysts who used drugs, principally LSD, in order to evoke buried memories or enable a person to understand themselves
A description of the experience
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience – Dr Robert Masters and Dr Jean Houston
….......”the first castle, on the forest's edges was almost below it and showed me that man's nature is such that he may not only alienate himself from nature, but also descend to an unnatural level where he goes beyond Nature by sinking to depths that leave him at the very bottom of everything, looking back up at what he has lost with mixed feelings of fear and regret. Then he has to climb back up through the forest, which will be a terrible ordeal in the beginning. He has to re-experience all of nature, good and evil alike, but then he at last becomes one with it, is at home there again and is able to stand with one foot at least out of and beyond the forest