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Originally Posted by One 66

Everything else around me is just an illusion. The only thing I know to be real is that which we feel as Love. Any idea I had was nothing/not real...

There is also a constant powerful theme in the NDE reports about the Infinite Love. In one of the first experience of Jim Fadiman with psilocybin, he reports:

At that point there was what might be described as songs of jubilation throughout the heavens: “another jerk wakes up!, Not jubilation at the realization of who I, Jim Fadiman, was, but who I was part of What a relief!
I moved into a space of feeling that I was not Part of everything but that everything was part of everything, and I was clearly part of that.

Suddenly, it was obvious there is no death, and that the fundamental waveform of the universe is best described in human terms as love.
This was all incredibly obvious.

And I believe that this kind of experiences can be partly seen as a way to transform a person. If the transformation succeeds, it becomes a reverse image of the mind control techniques - what I mean here is : it is partly like "white magic". The transformed person if she/he achieves to integrate the experience into the physical reality, becomes greater than what she was before.
To cite few examples, I believe the transformation (not necessarely through psychedelics) had good results for the following people: Ram Dass, Stan Grof, Jean Morzelle, David Icke, Krystle Cole on neurosoup.com ...

However the experience can be a poison if the experiencer don't know what to do with the experience. Sometime she/he can forget but often the power and reality of the experience cannot be erased nor put in harmony with daily reality, thus becoming a center of deep nostalgia.
Isolation is also frequent since the society usually reject the reality of these kind of experiences, again from Fadiman:

The next day I emerged, wondering what I should do, now that I knew what I knew, and given that I’d been reincarnated as a first-year graduate student at Stanford, in a world not hostile, but totally oblivious, to all of this.

So these kind of experiences if well managed can turn someone into a hero (McKenna, Icke, Cole...) or a waste product of society.


To go back to the subject, it is clear to me that on one hand the scientific evidences of the benefits of a well managed and informed usage of psychedelics are overwhelming, on the other hand this usage is banned at the international level of authority on this planet.
Not only was it banned and confused with other addictive dangerous drugs but also the structures to revive it are not here.
As a consequence a good visible chunk of the current illegal usage is for bad or recreative purposes therefore maintaining the hugly distorted image of the psychedelics in the consciousness of the mass.

The situation is staggering for me since one of the scientific way (repeatable, universal) to pass through the "firewalls" of the prison of the mind is literally cast into the mud and denied.