I have written a lot about acid. I have always tried to make it clear that it wasn’t just the acid, that it was more how I had used it.

Although I have shared mostly about my own use, about how and why I had used it, I have sometimes made suggestions for its use by others. I have always thought that no one should ever consider doing it unless they were already aware of whom they were. I have always recommended psychotherapy as a precursor to tripping. Anyone trying it without self-knowledge will probably fuck up, as so many did in the sixties.
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Acid is definitely a medicine. I have experienced many positive and healing effects from using acid, such as direct physical healing of both pneumonia and sciatica.

Once, when I had pneumonia, instead of going to the doctor here in town, I backpacked into Rocky Mountain National Park with Aspen and did high dose acid there. I came down from the trip and the mountain feeling great and without the pneumonia.

Another time, I had been suffering grievously from sciatica for over three months before I finally got up my nerve to do acid. During the trip, I cried for hours, but, by its end, the pain had lessened dramatically, and I could walk again.
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I have also shared some of my magical acid experiences and what I have learned from them. Mostly I have learned that synchronicity and other magical psychic phenomenon are real and that God speaks to all of us always if we but listen.

My goal in sharing all this has been to stimulate and renew interest in acid for its more important aspects – those of healing and leading us back to Spirit. The world needs wise users of acid now more than ever. Somebody has to speak up and suggest this.

These days I’m not doing acid. I have gained so much from its use that I no longer need to use as I have in the past.