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Miller, Dr. Richard Louis

 
9781644115435: Psychedelic Wisdom: The Astonishing Rewards of Mind-Altering Substances
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1644115433 ISBN 13: 9781644115435
Verlag: Park Street Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Shares wisdom-bringing psychedelic experiences from authorities well-known in psychedelic history, therapy, and research

• Reveals how these scientists, doctors, therapists, and teachers have applied their entheogenic experiences in their professions, leading to therapeutic advancements, scientific discoveries, and healing for thousands

• Includes contributions from scientific psychonaut Amanda Feilding, psychedelic swami Dr. Allan Ajaya, “America’s Doctor” Dean Edell, convicted psychiatrist Frederike Meckel Fisher, love doctor Charley Wininger, professor of psychedelics Thomas B. Roberts, ethnobotanical explorer Dennis McKenna, the “Sunshine Makers” Tim Scully and Michael Randall, as well as many others

Over the past decade, many famous entrepreneurs and celebrities have begun to open up about their life-changing experiences with psychedelics that led to their personal successes. But less well-known are the wisdom-bringing psychedelic experiences of many top psychologists, psychiatrists, researchers, and others who have taken what they learned from their entheogenic experiences and applied it in their professions, leading to therapeutic advancements, scientific discoveries, and healing for thousands.

In this profound book, Dr. Richard Louis Miller shares stories of psychedelic transformation, insight, and wisdom from his conversations with 19 scientists, doctors, therapists, and teachers, each of whom has been self-experimenting with psychedelic medicines, sub rosa, for decades. We hear from scientific psychonaut Amanda Feilding, founder of the Beckley Foundation; ethnobotanical explorer Dennis McKenna; research advocate and head of MAPS Rick Doblin; and the “Sunshine Makers”: Tim Scully, the scientist taught to make LSD by Owsley Stanley, and Michael Randall, the leader of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. We learn about recasting “bad trips” as unfamiliar challenges from psychedelic swami Allan Ajaya as well as the therapeutic uses of MDMA from “the love doctor” Charley Wininger and gain decades of insights from psychedelic professor Thomas B. Roberts as well as several others.

Revealing the psychedelic wisdom uncovered in spite of decades of the “War on Drugs,” Dr. Miller and his contributors show how LSD and other psychedelics offer a pathway to creativity, healing, innovation, and liberation.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dr. Richard Louis Miller, MA, PhD, has been a clinical psychologist for more than 50 years. He is host of the syndicated talk radio show, Mind Body Health & Politics. The founder of the nationally acclaimed Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program, he has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan and Stanford University, an advisor on the President’s Commission on Mental Health, a founding board member of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco, and a member of the national board of directors for the Marijuana Policy Project. He lives in Fort Bragg and Wilbur Hot Springs, California.

Rick Doblin is the president of MAPS.

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From Chapter 1. Tim Scully and Michael Randall

The Sunshine Makers Revisit Their Quest to Turn on the Whole World

Robert “Tim” Scully (seventy-seven years old) is a computer engineer known for his work in the production of LSD during the 1960s, as well as distribution of LSD as a member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. In 1973, he was indicted and soon after convicted for making the LSD product known by many at the time as “Orange Sunshine.” Although he was sentenced to twenty years in prison in 1974, Scully only served two years, beginning in 1977. He was released on parole in 1979, after which he continued his distinguished career as an engineer. He was a lecturer in parapsychology at John F. Kennedy University and held a part-time appointment as an assistant research psychologist in the psychophysiology laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. He founded Pacific Bionic Systems and has published numerous articles on biofeedback and other technical topics.

Michael Randall was also a founding member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, which helped distribute an estimated 130 million hits of LSD. Randall refers to LSD as a “sacrament,” and it became his mission to help “turn on” as many people as possible, so they too could share the life-changing experience he had with LSD in 1963 for the first time. Like Scully, Randall served time in prison for his involvement in the Brotherhood. He spent five years incarcerated, after living for more than twelve years on the run with his wife, Carol, and his children.

Both men were featured in the 2015 documentary The Sunshine Makers. Steve Jobs was just one of the millions of Americans who were introduced to psychedelics through the Brotherhood’s efforts, although only a small number suffered the immensity of legal consequences that Scully and Randall faced. Many of us owe our own personal transformation to psychedelics—or at least the phones and computers we use daily—to their courage and convictions.

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Soon after it first aired in 2015, this interview with Michael Randall and Tim Scully quickly became one of the most popular episodes in the history of my radio program, Mind Body Health & Politics. Some six years later, I was inspired by this program to reach out to other psychedelic elders, for whom the statute of limitations, or ability to speak largely in the past tense about their sub-rosa experiences with psychedelics, gave them a feeling of freedom to speak openly.

Dr. Richard Louis Miller (RLM): Gentlemen, I heard that when you got together just recently for the premiere of the movie The Sunshine Makers that features both of you, it had been forty-four years since you’d seen each other. Is that true?

Michael Randall (MR): Yeah, that’s true. It was good to see Tim. We’re lifelong friends. We’re very happy to be back in touch. We love each other.

Tim Scully (TS): I second the motion.

RLM: Tim, I want to go back a long time to the beginning of your involvement as the chemist behind Orange Sunshine. Can you tell us something about how it began for you and what your motivations were?

TS: It started back in 1965. A childhood friend of mine was studying Eastern philosophy and turned me on to Aldous Huxley’s books about psychedelics—The Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell, and Island—and convinced me that we ought to try to find some LSD and take it. In April 1965, we both took LSD together and had fantastic experiences. The experience for me was like getting struck by lightning, and it totally changed the direction of my life. After coming down from the experience and walking out in the morning and smelling the flowers and the freshly cut lawn, I turned to my friend Don and said, “We could make a lot of this and give it away. If we did that, it might save the world. If everybody could share this same experience of oneness with every living thing and with the universe, people wouldn’t be as mean to each other and wouldn’t be as destructive of the environment.”

That’s where we started.

RLM: You’re saying that one LSD experience in 1965 changed the course of your life and awakened an idealism toward helping humanity. Do you remember anything about what gave you the courage? You were a scientist already. You were a scientist in high school. You were already very involved in inventions. I’ve read a lot about your background at that time. You were basically a science nerd, if you want to use that terminology. Where did you muster courage to take something that could change the course of your life at such a young age? Do you recall?

TS: My mother was from an English Protestant background, and my father was from an Irish Catholic background. We didn’t have a lot of formal religious training because there was considerable disagreement between the two sides of the family, but I was curious about the big questions of why we’re here and what life is about. I had always been taught from my earliest age that what I should do in life is to somehow try to make life better for everyone. My mother used to say, “Imagine you’re at the end of your life looking back. Think about how you’ll feel about yourself if you do whatever it is you’re about to do. Choose things that will make you feel good looking back at the time you die and make you feel that you made a positive contribution.”

RLM: In 1965 you took a dose of LSD that changed the course of your life. Leary and Alpert were fired from Harvard for their experiments in 1963, so you probably were aware of that. LSD became illegal in 1968. Do you have any idea how much LSD you took in 1965 during that one experience, so that you came away from that experience wanting to save the world by manufacturing LSD?

TS: My friend Don and I split one of Owsley Stanley’s doses, so we took about 150 micrograms each, which is just enough for you to experience “oneness.” If we had taken much less, the experience would have been different. A surprising number of people—when they take at least that much LSD—have the sense that it’s the most significant experience of their life.

HEAVY DOSES IN TINY PACKAGES: TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SUGAR

RLM: What does 150 micrograms look like? If you picture one of these little packages of sugar that you get in restaurants—sugar or Splenda—the amount of little white powder that comes out is approximately a gram. There are 28 of those little packages in an ounce. One of those grams is 1,000 milligrams, and one milligram is 1,000 micrograms. Can you see 150 micrograms with the naked eye?

MR: Just barely. It’s about the size of a grain of sugar in that package.

RLM: A very tiny amount of something so powerful changed the course of your life. That was your beginning. Michael, how did you get involved with the founding of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love?

MR: It’s similar to what Tim was recounting—an experience that changes one’s life forever. You’re never the same. It is an awakening. It is suddenly an epiphany beyond all imagination. You automatically want to share this profound experience with everybody. It is a complete oneness. Like Tim, I was raised in a family that wasn’t a really strong religious or churchgoing family. I hadn’t been ingrained with religion. I suddenly became a little bit religious—not in a formal way, but I understood that there was a creator, and I...

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Verlag
Park Street Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1644115433
ISBN 13 
9781644115435
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384
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