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Masters and Houston - Out of body on LSD
Identifier
004274
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Masters and Houston were two American psychologists who experimented with LSD as a means of psychoanalysis. The 'subjects' were willing, but probably completely unaware what LSD can do to the brain long term or what havoc it can wreak on a sensitive
A description of the experience
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience – Dr Robert Masters and Dr Jean Houston
Case Study S female university instructor age 24 , LSD '225 micrograms
“Continuing to observe the scene below the balcony, it seemed that my consciousness was projected downward, and with it my perceptions, so that I saw the passers by as if I were standing on the pavement and confronting them. From this perspective, they became an animated waxworks, escapees from Madame Tussaud, who bit their wax nails, clutched their wax newspapers, and knit their wax brows as they thought waxen thoughts. I kept wondering how long they could keep up the charade before they melted down into puddles and oozed away along the pavement”
Masters and Houston comments:
There are vivid eyes closed images, the empathetic experiencing of a picture and the projection of consciousness to a point some distance from the body with visual perception appearing to be from that point and not from the actual physical location of the organs of sight