kontextmaschine:

I guess it is kinda my role to keep this knowledge alive for the next generation so…

Y'all know about the Good Friday Experiment, that time at Yale in the ‘50s where they gave a bunch of seminary students psilocybin to see if it helped them have transcendental experiences with God and it did?

You know that the foundational concept of “set and setting” – the mentality someone brings and the stimuli they experience as the key determinants of an experience, not chemical purity or even particularity – came from a weird Canadian Catholic who in the period between WWII and Vatican II wanted to remake the Church around acid as a sacrament to like, contemplate the suffering of Mary, Mother of God?

Like seriously one of his early results was “gave people acid and had them fixate on an image. Warm maternal scenes of Mary seem to encourage good trips; the bleeding thorn-wrapped disembodied Sacred Heart promotes bad ones”

(Ed: Al Hubbard)