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Osmond, Dr Humphry - Misc. Quote
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
from the Obituary Dr Humphry Osmond The Telegraph
For Osmond - who, far from being a hippy, was a respectable research scientist - the need to protect society had the effect of limiting progress.
"I believe," he wrote, "that psychedelics provide a chance, perhaps only a slender one, for homo faber, the cunning, ruthless, foolhardy, pleasure-greedy toolmaker, to merge into that other creature whose presence we have so rashly presumed, homo sapiens, the wise, the understanding, the compassionate, in whose fourfold vision art, politics, science and religion are one."
"My experiences with these substances," he added, "have been the most strange, most awesome, and among the most beautiful things in a varied and fortunate life."