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Please don't spread unsubstantiated claims. You'll need to provide a source for this claim. This sounds genuinely interesting. However if it's not backed up by

• alchemism 8y ago
  Here's a few links to explore further: "This is some rare TV footage of LSD research conducted in Los Angeles in 1956 by Dr. Sidney Cohen, which included an interview with Gerald Heard, an Anglo-Irish philospher who turned on a number of influential Americans in the 1950s. Among them was AA co-founder Bill Wilson, who thought LSD could help some drunks have a spiritual awakening. Wilson's first trip was in this very room in summer of 1956 and was supervised by Dr. Cohen and guided by Mr. Heard. The whole story, and much more, is told in "Distilled Spirits -- Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk" by Don Lattin, the author of the bestselling "The Harvard Psychedelic Club." The "Famous Writer" in this blend of memoir and group biography is Aldous Huxley, the author of "Brave New World" and "The Doors of Perception." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeO2BOdmkEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeO2BOdmkEg and https://aabeyondbelief.org/2015/10/21/the-lsd-experiments/ https://aabeyondbelief.org/2015/10/21/the-lsd-experiments/
• whatyoucantsay 8y ago
  > However if it's not backed up by evidence then you're just spreading misinformation. Do you hold all comments to that bar, or only the less-pedestrian ones?