A hit of Christian mysticism
Besides the fact that the Pahnke quote is, somewhat ironically but understandably, hard to read (to translate to street-speak: the people who dropped got waaay more into the mystic, maaan), what strikes me is how far we've traveled from this sense of exploration and optimism.
Good Friday experiment, a test conducted on Good Friday, 1962, at Boston University's Marsh Chapel by Walter Pahnke on a number of divinity students, to determine the usefulness of psilocybin for facilitating mystical experience. According to Pahnke, the experiment determined that "the persons who received psilocybin experienced to a greater extent than did the controls the phenomena described by our typology of mysticism."
-- wikipedia
Besides the fact that the Pahnke quote is, somewhat ironically but understandably, hard to read (to translate to street-speak: the people who dropped got waaay more into the mystic, maaan), what strikes me is how far we've traveled from this sense of exploration and optimism.
