LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven

A must read for psychonauts

Chris Bache fez o primeiro trabalho de um uso de longo prazo de LSD (20 anos). O método utilizado por Bache leva a experiência lisérgica a um nível completamente diferente do que geralmente é associado ao LSD. Os relatos dele mais se comparam ao que geralmente é experenciado com DMT. Uma leitura de valor extremo para todos psiconautas.

I have read this as the true version of a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, an awe-inspiring testimony to man's capabilities to make sense of its existence.

More amazing than you can imagine...

This an utterly unique book in all of its aspects: the LSD angle certainly, but combine that with a serious use of it over 20 yrs of personal research, AND an exhaustive chronicling of those 70+ experiences, wherein he wrote down his reflections and remembering which has now been used to write this book. It's phenomenal. Dr. Bache is phenomenal.One thing that I have found very interesting about his experiment in consciousness thru the use of an entheogen is the question: how does his experience of the Divine and Its world relate to the experience of yogis and self-realized masters? Back in the day we hippies were admonished to "give up the drugs" and instead use the sober accepted route through meditation, etc.LSD will certainly take you to the Mountaintop but then you lose the heavenly experience on the way down. Whereas with spiritual endeavors you gradually get to the Moutaintop and absorb It All along the way up. And then retain it. Well, Dr. Bache's experience and research tests that admonition. He has shown that if one is serious about the use of LSD using it as a clinical trial so to speak, and keeps at it and doesn't give up when the going gets rough, one may obtain the same level of "higher consciousness" (or higher!).I don't know of any spiritual masters, self-realized gurus, etc. who have reported back to us their experiences and insights during samadhi. They just give a general summary by saying they were absorbed in the Divine Mother, or some other deity, saw a Great White Light, and realized +All is One! Well, yeah..and? Bache has given us more details at least as they were revealed to him.Christopher Bache is a true original. I like the term another reviewer used here: psychonaut. For my money he has gone farther and faster and higher than any NASA astronaut. And come back to Earth to tell us of the marvels he saw.