“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Monday evening’s session concerned the use of hallucinogenic drugs, including LSD, as therapy; no book dictation was involved. Actually, once Jane began speaking for Seth the session went very well indeed, and lasted until midnight. Our visitor is to send us transcripts of the tapes he made. At day’s end Jane and I were exhausted.

I want to discuss the state of grace in some detail and in different ways throughout this book. (Pause.) The young man who came here described in some detail the way in which LSD is used in therapy work with patients. The psychologists hoped to bring about a cure for various emotional difficulties, to literally introduce a “state of grace.” Period.

The material that I have just given you is necessary for any understanding of the ways in which massive doses of LSD can affect the individual. Here we are dealing with an artificial and forced method of, hopefully, bringing about physical, psychic and spiritual illumination. Such enlightenment is supposed to lead to better health, self-knowledge, and provide an inner state of peace. Through such therapy, conscience is to be encountered and conquered once and for all.

(9:29.) A discussion involving LSD, conscience, the “death and birth of the self,” mental health and spiritual illumination, may not seem applicable to those of you who have not taken drugs. But all of you do hope for illumination, greater vitality and understanding in one way or another, and wonder what methods might help you achieve these ends. Much of this book will be devoted to various techniques that will help you change your own reality for the better.

Many have come to me, or written after “bad trips”; the young especially, always great searchers after truth, and very tempted to look to the chemical, LSD now,¹ as the latest method of finding it. [...]

In therapy using massive doses of LSD, a condition of chemically enforced insanity takes place. [...]

Under LSD you are highly suggestible. [...]

[...] (Jane leaned forward for emphasis:) Such massive doses of LSD chemically activate all levels of cellular memory to such an extent that in certain terms they are no longer in charge of themselves, and the memories can then emerge unpredictably when the system is under stress. [...]

[...] Note, though, that Seth’s statements here refer only to LSD, used under certain conditions. [...]

When massive doses of LSD are used, you are artificially creating a disaster area from which you hope to salvage an efficient working self. [...]

[...] The nightmare itself can be like a shock treatment given by one portion of the self to another, in which cellular memory is touched off much as it might be in such an LSD session.

[...] In the same way that some LSD treatment finally results in a feeling of rebirth (that is often only temporary, however), so a period of such nightmares often leads quite naturally to dreams in which the self finally makes new and greater connections with the source of its own being.

[...] In times of seemingly calamitous encounters with nature, individuals may find themselves amazed at their capacity to relate with other people, but in the artificially induced psychic disaster area of massive LSD therapy, the situation is reversed. [...]

The well-meaning announcements pertaining to heroin, marijuana, and acid (LSD) can also be damaging, in that they structure in advance any experience that people who take drugs might have. [...]

[...] Your LSD and similar drugs do to some extent lift the imprinting process, though never completely.

[...] If someone had slipped me an LSD cube on the sly, the experience couldn’t have been more bizarre. [...]

[...] The organizational structure of perception can indeed be broken up, as recent LSD experiments certainly show. [...]

[...] “Wow,” she exclaimed, “I wouldn’t touch acid [LSD] for anything after this. [...]

[...] This organizational structure of perception can be broken up, as recent LSD experiments certainly show. [...]