Sober thoughts on the potential of LSD

I believe in the potential of LSD. It has been unjustifiably vilified. It is one of the many avenues to breach areas of the mind that are not so conspiculously available to exploration. Like any other journey into unknown frontiers, it is sometimes wrought by surprise and difficulty, or in the standard vernacular, there exists a capacity for the proverbial "bad trip". I have used the drug on many occasions though all of those were over a decade ago. Yet to this day, I cannot be fascinated by the realm it propelled me into. I think of the man who accidentally discovered the substance in 1938 and subsequently accidentally ingested it in 1943. This man, Albert Hofmann, recently died in 2008 at the age of 102. He seemed like a genuinely kind human being who was fascinated by nature and the potential of humanity to better itself spritually/evolutionarily/altruistically/psychologically, particularly with respect to his "problem child" LSD. Essentially, he and I shared the common belief that LSD had the potential to create a kind, loving species not motivated by exploitation and avarice for personal gain.

I reflect on my own experiences with LSD and barring two unfortunate experiences, one mental, the other physical (nausea), they were extremely enjoyable and insightful. If I still ran in lysergic circles, I would most certainly take some. With LSD, one feels an extraordinarily enhanced sense of brotherhood with all of humanity, the animals, the universe, there are no enemies, everyone is loved, aggression dissipates and seems obsolete, archaic, barbaric, there is no "us and them", we are all one. The ego is a complete illusion. And I truly believe this is why it is illegal and has been demonized. With all due sincereity, I believe that the establishment views this as a threat to their order of control (a farce per se), they can't let go and don't want others to let go of their petty prejudices of culture, religion, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, class, etc. Most of reality is a construct, a fabrication, e.g. money, nationality, religion, gender roles...Just let it go.

Is LSD the only route to this realization? No, but it can certainly faciliate it and I don't believe that is such a bad thing. If the ultimate end is that people will stop killing and hurting each other and loving all of existence, it can't be all that horrible.