Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 107: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION human race to take drugs in some form. Advantages could be claimed for it, and if one compares the reactions of mescalin to those of alcohol, which releases all inhibitions so that the taker becomes a menace to himself and those around him, little more need be said. PSYCHIATRIC DRUG LSD-25 is an entirely differ- ent drug regarding reaction. It is probable that it will be only used in the realms of psychiatry and proves, accord- ing to recent reports, to have an interest for the treatment of mental conditions far beyond any other chemical. It is general knowledge that repressed memories of certain incidents are capable of pro- ducing worries, eccentric be- haviour, and unhappiness. It has been the custom to under- go treatment by psychoanaly- sis which may involve the patient and psychiatrist in lengthy sessions until the repressed factor is eventually brought from the subcon-, scious mind into the forefront of the conscious mind. Treatment with LSD-235 is such that the barriers between these long lost memories and their surfacing can be re- moved. Some of the reports are such that it is clear, that the patient has dipped, for a short time at least, into the snake-pit. Terror and fear are also usually experienced, and care has to be taken when giving this treatment that the patient is not driven over the edge into a true state of insanity. On the other hand, for those of us who do not have to undergo the terrors of this mental regurgitation there are many surprising and interest- ing memories which are pro- duced by more than one per- son. For those who have had the opportunity of reading the novel called The Mutants, the story you will remember is based upon the regurgitated thoughts of previous ances- tors. Upon this hook the story is hung and spread; as a history of the telepaths who have been created by radio activity. It is this type of occurrence which LSD-25 produces, though it must be remembered that one thing is fiction and the other is fact. Certain patients have remembered their own births and re- experienced those occurrences. Others report upon their re- turn to a specific age. For 106 comicloooks.com