How to Change Your Mind

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  • In a 1969 essay in the Harvard Theological Review, Walter Pahnke described several distinct
    modes of psychedelic consciousness, including one he termed “the cognitive psychedelic
    experience.” This is “characterized by astonishingly lucid thought. Problems can be seen from a
    novel perspective, and the inner relationships of many levels or dimensions can be seen all at
    once. The creative experience may have something in common with this kind of psychedelic
    experience, but such a possibility must await the result of future investigation.”

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