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Ruburt has been reading about drugs that induce the so-called psychedelic experience.

Now I have been speaking about psychological structures that are far more complicated than those with which you are familiar. We can tie these two subjects together very nicely, dear friends. For in a very dim manner, the psychedelic experience can give you some glimmerings as to the nature of these more advanced psychological structures.

The psychedelic experience is a most fruitful one. Drugs are not a prerequisite however. In an experience without drugs, the ego loses its substantial quality momentarily. It remains however as a protection. In all our work we have been allowing the nonphysical self more and more freedom. We have been and we are expanding consciousness, and this consciousness includes the ego.

It is precisely because the ego is excluded from the psychedelic experience with drugs that difficulties are encountered afterward. Given the opportunity the ego can and does merge with other portions of the self, and yet loosely maintains a psychological framework within which the experience can be translated in your terms.

The psychedelic experience under these circumstances transforms the ego also in beneficial ways. Otherwise the ego is left behind, unable to perform, as a rule now, its primary functions. The ego can organize the old data when it undergoes a psychedelic experience as a part of the whole self. Then it can also organize the new data.

A trained and flexible ego will be able to momentarily relinquish its dominancy during the experience itself. We will have more to say here in connection with these advanced psychological structures, and what is called the psychedelic experience. At our next session, I will begin also to answer Ruburt’s questions concerning such an experience without drugs. You have many hints, and I will give you further instruction.