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Hallucinations here are not "really" hallucinations in a sense you rarely actually see things that are not there (for that, google deliriants). It's more like, everyone is acting out a certain role or a set of role in lives, and have been doing it for so long that they have forgotten they are just acting.

LSD and such smash the fourth wall of human theater, allowing actors to realize they are actors. Once they have realized this they have several options:

1) Continue playing the role they were playing after coming down, if they like it.

2) Change the role -- hence why a lot of people change their lives after dropping psychedelics.

3) Leave the play for a while -- this is possibly why some people commit suicide after psychedelics.

It's like, imagine you're coding.. and you're just so in flow that you forget you can do anything but code: you don't go to the bathroom, forget about food, in the zone. Now somebody snaps the chair out of you, and you realize you can do more things than just code. Now imagine you've been coding for 10-20 years straight.

Well, acid is like that guy who snaps the chair out of you.

Society considers it dangerous because it has spend so much time making you exactly what it wants, training you, brainwashing you with random shit that it doesn't want you to actually gain control of who you want to be.

You wouldn't want a dog you trained for years to bring sticks and shit on the toilet to realize all of a sudden it doesn't have to follow your commands all the time.

I suppose, and I just realized this now, that psychedelics are a way of chemically disabling social conditioning for a while. Perhaps marijuana is associated with lack of motivation not because it makes you unable to do things, but because it makes you realize some things are not worth giving a fuck about.

I think what he means to say is that a lot of what is self evident to people within gears of society is not really that important or valuable. We were born into this wheel, we live within this wheel and the culture gives us no tools to look beyond it (The Proverbial Platon's Cave).

Psychedelic drugs give one a chance to experience perception and world from a completely, completely different perspective. A change of perspective may be terrifying for some, for others it may be a blessing. In either way they are a tool, that operates one's brain. If I take an atheist angle. Your belief in God also affects chemical composition of your brain and it also induces paranoias and hallucinations in some, it doesn't help anyone hear or see better. See where I am going? You are beating a straw man here my friend.

Also let me inform you that psychedelics should not and usually (except few, few extremes) are not used on daily basis. Hell they are not used on any kind of regular basis, because the experience is supposedly too powerful and one does not feel any kind of crave to do it again very soon after a trip.

And another revelation, Idle Rich are not interested into LSD - because it may shake their world a bit too much. They are interested in Cocaine, rough sex and other forms of extreme decadence. Now that shit is dangerous beyond words. Those are the junkies I am afraid of and the sad fact is that we let inmates run the asylum. They are everywhere. Every year I see more and more of proof how Cokeheads are running Western civilization into the ground.

p.s.: So you have seen 1000 people lose their minds on LSD?

While I disagree with you, I respect your right to have an opinion. Personally, I believe in God as well, but I also believe there is more to God than simply following scripture.

Regarding hallucinogenic drugs, I believe we are born with a set of filters which shape what we can perceive about the world at large. Who knows why those filters are in place, but they are. The filters are very rigid, and are constantly reinforced by the social structure of the world. Hallucinogens allow one to experience thought with those filters eased somewhat. Not removed entirely, but weakened.

Regarding number 1001...no. I'd rather show number 1001 what had happened to the thousand who went before him/her, and then say "proceed at your own peril". It should be up to that person, and not me, how they live their lives. My own perceptions and experience is fine to be offered as advice, but in no way should I use both to define laws to rule others.

What if the opposite were true and the norm was to take LSD? Wouldn't you like to have the option to not based on your own free will?

> And if you believe in God, as I do, why in the world would God choose to reveal himself to only those that take illegal, dangerous and usually expensive drugs? Does God only like the idle rich? Nope that makes no sense either.

And we wouldn't want the world to not make sense, would we. No, everything must be logical.