Alteration of the Self: Psychedelics (BK-22)

Note: This article is not for everyone. It will make the most sense to those who have experienced a consciousness-altering drug trip and had trouble forgetting it or stabilizing afterward. Here goes:

LSD was virtually unknown to my generation in the early 1960s, although rumors were all around. The word on the street was that acid (as we came to call it), unlike any drug we knew up to them, actually could alter the mind itself, and permanently. Of course, most of this was pure speculation because few of us had yet taken or had any real experience with the drug. We trembled at what that might mean, but of course were still intrigued. Not everyone rushed out to try it. It was that down side that gave us pause, that acid could permanently alter and perhaps damage the mind. What could those words mean, “permanently alter?” That phrase alone kept many drug enthusiasts at bay.