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Show yc . JL"rusr) LSD Experimenter Starts Cult Stfudeirafrs Pebeiffe Prog's Use for Religj ... . . tV,o montal rnntentS Com- I he feels." lmn!, If' (Editor's Note: licccnt rumors, hinting thai LSI) is being used by some Vniversity of I'tah students, stu-dents, have brought the issue of drills on the college campus into the foreground. This is the eon-eluding eon-eluding article of a two-part series se-ries dealing with student drug use in American universities: By Steven A. Bookshester Collegiate Press Service WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) The debate over the use of LSD continues on numerous college campuses and it takes place on many different levels. One aspect as-pect of the LSD controversy is the drug's supposed ability to provide religious experience. Timothy Leary, one of the early researchers on LSD at Harvard University, has founded found-ed a religious cult based on the drugy experience. He calls it the League of Spiritual Discovery Discov-ery (LSD). Speaking last week at the University of Oregon, Leary suggested, sug-gested, "When you turn on . . . you go . . . out of your mind. And when you go out of your mind, you come to your senses, you resurrect your body, and you discover that you are two billion bil-lion years old." Dismissed from Harvard In this manner, Leary, who was dismissed from Harvard for his drug experiments, said that the individual who takes LSD is linking himself with the stream of life since the beginning of existence. ex-istence. During a mid-January speech at Stanford University, Leary advised students to found their own LSD-based religion. "Everyone "Every-one of us has to be his own he feels." Can Measure Effect The report states, "To be sure, one can measure the drug's effect on certain measures meas-ures of psychological functioning function-ing the ability to perform some standardized task, such as placing pegs in a board or remembering nonsense syllables but this does not tell us what the drug experience is like." Drug psychoses, the unpublished unpub-lished study says, may arise from the definition by a user of certain unusual symptoms the individual chooses to associate asso-ciate with his drug use. Interpret Symptoms The individual may interpret these symptoms "to mean that he has lost his grip on reality, his control of himself, and has in fact 'gone crazy.' " At that time, the report suggests, "the drug experience, perhaps originally ori-ginally intended as a momentary entertainment . . . looms as a monsterous event which will disrupt one's life in a possibly permanent way." The report suggests that "faced with this conclusion, the person develops a full-blown anxiety an-xiety attack any psychiatrist will certify as a psychotic episode." epi-sode." , William H. McGlothlin of the University of Southern California's Califor-nia's psychiatry department reported re-ported in a recent seminar that "there is some tendency for persons scoring high on (tests of) aesthetic sensitivity to have mor intense m, ' , reains and o 01 ened." 0 ' McGloSS1 t0Wfrd Prefer to live "7'- p tend to ore practical J- ,V-tend ,V-tend to have fr actions." The McGlothlin sented at a ! !" i American PsyJ? ' ers describe st frequently . greater appreciatioi:, and enhanced M(Kl self and others " v Fifty-eight perctl,. Participants in the s 1 ment reported thatt1:! experiences had J effect. These sublJ," 'u given 200 meg. 0f Lffi" separate occasions ' tV Nearly one-third of tt reported "various : and attitude changes ; decreased anxiety, a terialistic viewpoint, t er introspection and ttf. McGlothlin, testing '' jects six months alter : taken LSD, suggests show "small changes" s: "quite minimal when r .tt with the effects reported-p ent-day LSD entail m limit the mental contents coming com-ing into conscious awareness." A study by John C. Lilly of the Communication Research Institute of Miami claims that LSD frees man's "human computer" com-puter" from many limitations. The study suggests that LSD gives individuals the opportunity opportuni-ty to look at themselves comprehensively, com-prehensively, allowing for serious seri-ous introspection not normally possible. Other reports disagree with these findings and there is a conflict over the side effects of LSD use as well. 5 Per Cent Have After Effects Food and Drug Administration officials claim that at least five per cent of individuals using LSD experience psychological after-effects. Estimates from other sources range upward from one per cent. The question is battled over in a number of journals and papers published in recent months. A draft of an unpublished study done recently at a large Midwestern Mid-western university comments, "Scientists measure and have explanations for the actions of many drugs on such observable indices as the heart and respiratory res-piratory rates, the level of various vari-ous chemicals in the blood, and the secretion of enzymes. "In contrast, the subjective changes produced by a drug can be ascertained as-certained by asking the subject, sub-ject, in one way or another, how Moses, his own Galileo, and work out his own system with Caesar," he stated. "The kingdom king-dom of God is within your own body." Disagreement Made Another January speaker at Stanford, Dr. Allen Cohen of the University of California at Berkeley, disagreed with Leary's analysis of LSD's spiritual powers. pow-ers. Cohen, who at one time worked with Leary, charged that LSD is a "fake." A 30-time user of the drug, Cohen claimed LSD "did not develop de-velop me spiritually and had no application to everyday life." Cohen said the drug, which he stopped taking a year and a half ago, leads to "spiritual egotism with users extending egos rather ra-ther than transcending them." Another debate over LSD centers around its reported ability abil-ity to stimulate creativity. A Stanford University study by Drs. Willis Harman and James Fadiman reported recently that, "given appropriate conditions, the psychedelic agents can be employed to enhance any aspect as-pect of mental performance." Produced Photon Model The subjects of the experiment produced a new conceptual model mo-del of a photon, a design of a linear electron accelerator beam steering device, a mathematical mathemati-cal theorem regarding nor-gate circuits, and several innovations in architecture and design. The report states, "The. psy-chedelics psy-chedelics appear to temporarily inhibit censors which ordinarily |