Acid test: scientists show how LSD opens doors of perception – The Guardian

ScienceStudy analysing brain scans of people finds psychedelic drug lowers barriers that constrain thoughts
When Aldous Huxley emerged from a mescaline trip that veered from an obsession with the folds in his trousers to wonder at the miraculous tubularity of the bamboo legs on his garden chairs, he offered an opinion on how the drug worked.
Writing in The Doors of Perception, his 1954 book that took its name from a William Blake poem, Huxley declared that the psychedelic lowers the efficiency of…

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