“LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.”

— Stanislav Grof

LSD psychotherapy (1980), MAPS 2001 edition, Epilogue, p. 299.

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Czech pychiatrist 1931

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