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World without Humanity

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29 July 2010

Problems in Using Drugs as a Trip to Mental Paradise

Aldous Huxley must be on drugs to even think of psychedelic drugs , as a means to solve a number of great mysteries and human problems . Oh , but he was on drugs , and so it figures . But as a respectable figure of the literature world , Huxley 's drug forays should be given a deeper introspection . In The Door in the Wall : Part II ' Jay Stevens describes the experimentations of Huxley and his associates with

mescaline and LSD . Huxley believes that mescaline opens doors to the Other World , while Stevens mulls over the drug 's ability to solve mental illnesses , because of its seemingly cathartic effect . Huxley also underscores the mental paradise that mescaline opens : Wafted across it on the wings of mescaline . we reach what may be called the Antipodes of the mind (qtd . in Stevens . This paper focuses on the place of mescaline in the field of psychology . It will be hard for psychotherapists to use mescaline , LSD , and other drugs to dissolve psychic defenses and help people resolve their mental problems , because not many people are prepared to take a psychological trip to the subconscious , where innermost insights , dreams , and demons can be found

Mescaline opens the worlds of innermost desires , and recognized desires can help people become more aware of their unconscious drives or they may find insatiable needs instead . An example is : Mortimer Hartman [who] was always eliciting violent sexual fantasies...

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