It merely acts as a chemical key - it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.” – The Psychedelic Experience Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. Most recently they have become available to anyone through the ingestion of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT etc.
Such experiences of enlarged consciousness can occur in a variety of ways: sensory deprivation, yoga exercises, disciplined meditation, religious or aesthetic ecstasies, or spontaneously. The scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are the transcendence of verbal concepts, of spacetime dimensions, and of the ego or identity.
“A psychedelic experience is a journey to new realms of consciousness.
