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Osmond, Dr Humphry - Video of the Christopher Mayhew experiment
Identifier
015783
Type of Spiritual Experience
Invisible input - bliss and peace
Out of time
Hallucination
Number of hallucinations: 1
Background
A description of the experience
The Mescaline experiment: Humphry Osmond and Christopher Mayhew
English:
This short video documents an experiment in 1955 in which he administered mescaline to Christopher Mayhew, a member of parliament. Mayhew ingested 400mg of mescaline hydrochloride and recorded his experience on camera.
The footage was originally supposed to be broadcast on BBC.
Mayhew himself maintains that it was a genuine mystical experience which "took place outside time" and wanted it to be shown. However, an "expert" committee of psychiatrists, philosophers, and theologians reviewed the footage and reached a unanimous verdict that Mayhew's experience was not a valid mystical experience. So it was never broadcast.