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LSD, TRANSCENDENCE, AND THE NEW BEGINNING
Proceedings of the January 1960 symposium on LSD
at the Napa State Hospital, Imola, California
from: LSD, The Consciousness-Expanding Drug, ©1964 David Solomon
On the 16th of January, 1960, a day-long symposium on lysergic
acid diethylamide was held at the Napa State Hospital, Imola,
California. The symposium attracted considerable regional
attention and was later broadcast over KPFA, an educational FM
station. Because of its length it has been impossible to publish
it in its entirety. As a joint contribution of the Mental
Research Institute, Palo Alto, JNMD herewith presents papers
given at the symposium by three members of that Institute, Dr.
Charles Savage, Dr. James Terrill and Dr. Donald D. Jackson. The
manuscripts have been edited by Dr. Savage and where possible
have been brought up to date with footnotes. An effort has been
made to capture the original spirit of the symposium, which was
characterized by a turning away from the conventional view of LSD
as a mere facilitator of therapy toward the view of it as a new
experience, a new beginning.
—David Solomon, from LSD, The
Consciousness-Expanding Drug,
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1964. ©David Solomon.
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