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Within a single lifetime our physical environment has been changed almost beyond recognition. Yet there's been little corresponding change in how we as individuals relate to the world and experience reality. New tools and techniques of the human potentiality and presenting to us an exhilarating and dangerous frontier renewing in our minds the old questions what are the limits of human ability the boundaries of the human experience. What does it mean to be a human being. Seminar banks are a series of discussions focusing attention on the front areas of human development produced by K x K x FM in San Francisco and cooperation with the excellent Institute of Big Sur California a Center which studies those trends and religion philosophy and the behavioral sciences which emphasize the potentialities of human existence. This week we present a discussion on LSD and the human potential by Dr. Sidney Cowen chief of the psychiatry service at Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles. Dr.
Cohen is one of the leaders in research on the uses of LSD. Written an authoritative survey on the subject entitled Beyond with him now is a Sydney Cohen as he met in session with his seminar at the institute. Program I was thinking of. When I went down. However.
Back. Back. Bribe the Group of that. Rock may be rare where we are what we are and who.
You are. About. A quarter back and about. I don't talk about how many were wrong. I have a strong crew of rock and rap rap rap rap
Brown on the bottom and work with the mirror because they're wrong. How proud. Oh I don't think. That. With a broom and with whatever right. Now. Or I'm going to
get. Robbed. I. Do have. But it's potential. Ron Paul. Rapped out over the track. Remember.
That. Only on a rational level but. Something that will. Grab the room. The room with. An important part of our. Movement. In our market. There have been a lot of harm
for example. Battling the war but perhaps the. Development. Future I draw that are areas of the brain of the developing most rapidly. If we were to extrapolate into the future we would think that would become sapiens
in the back of the word. Who has been called for when they were going to war with our track which we order to cope with thinking in things that may have great possibilities. I'm not with you. Will bring a new and weapon
frame of rap and a new point of view a new focus a new who leapt at the same things. Now who are on the con men in motion than our ordinary that our ordinary role. I knew you were a way of seeing things and seeing live reacting live and appear our will. Put us in another position or in the whole framework apart. And we owe them our experience of things.
Our situation or personal situation or the internal question of what it was all about and who am I one. From another point of view and it is always the psychotherapy is in their living to be able to turn things upside down or even look at them from a 90 degree angle different than ordinary. With that and the possibility that with a certain type of our story. Then of course and with something I suspect we'll spend a lot of time on in the next day. But it will matter.
Rob is technically core the concept for the self image and the row on the second hand to wipe out our self identity. The earth illusion of the ego call what the real means rock significant and what can be learned from it. A walk can be brought back from such an experience so that in these sober days of living we can grow. CrossFit training development. What use whatever word you wish. And then of course there's the thing which was
the question of. Hanging with those of you who know the role what a normal perception of all of you a single or you experiences through the day. Who knew. Who's with the new right. That are in the throes of it. One would hope that with the ball
for Warren and not continue with it were possible that it is desirable. My one of my things will be that. One group Warren indulges in a psychedelic goodness that can come from it must be brought back to who you are and now and then and. And that the things that are made in the daily living are the obvious and that one has been struck by the lightning consciousness in there. Everything has to be there.
One has to get back and acquire what has been achieved. If they haven't achieved and get to a better order in one barely living. And I have a quote here which I think it was something that some of you may recognize. My activities are no different from the activities of all men but I myself am in unison with them. No acceptance no rejection. Everywhere no resistance to the miracle or the supernatural one of drawing water carrying fire or it's
what you do in this real fact that we're in this world of now that is the important thing that any people in the other day. But what you do with those. Around the word create quitting has already been named in the nine one one. Is it possible that this is an experience. We are talking who do and who and who is with her for what is create. Everyone can find it differently. I have a very simple definition for one with you that I offered
you with one definite that might be defined in. A factory and a review no solution to any problem artistic or scientific or life and other were their big qualities of novel and requiring appropriateness. Goodness. It has to rob with the problem. It certainly has marble floors but they aren't an issue of creativity with you in that they
are not in almost all of them appropriate. And we may talk more about the question of whether they knew a hole in that occur under the yellow day. And if I may use the word there I don't know whether the word now whether one has greater access to one's unconscious after one has been with MLA experience. I really don't know the answer to this. I don't
know whether the art which is called nowadays is indeed something which will connect with the future work or create creative work and I don't know a little bit later about the work we're doing in the plant to determine whether under certain conditions. Imaginative thinking can do to be produced by people who have undergone under the theory and to those who have math. With them we're now on the way. And the fact that the area in which
I interact with you know. Using all of our men in the training of the emotion whether they're cleaning that area that we accept in the training of the emotion could be thought the psychedelic. Point out how important it must be for the masses of humanity. Learning how to live emotionally in a more suitable way than they
are being taught or not. For. The Russian all has spread far beyond the development of the emotional lives of men and this is the great thing of course and of course unlike what we are these are people who think progress and thought over the possibility that under certain conditions at certain periods one live to experience the one called The other might be a royal way of training the emotion so that
instead. What we think is the desire where we would have something other than broken an individual. So those are some of the areas perhaps not all or by any means I may well have left out a number of points that you can remind me of but things are some of the areas where the positive use of our might might conceivably have. I have a feeling though that I think I may be
talking in a real manner because the day may never come when our right it will be used in. Purpose is of the right. It's very likely that my hopes and perhaps yours or the development of technique to the potential of chemical
if you will tell you why. One who. Are the very core of the core of the good of their dollar and only if you will where I talk about the fact that I'm an expert at that. I could tell you a good deal but only if you were. The thought of interlude and I thought you had a question about
what I'd better go on to go on to something else. Person or that of no with I would call with the illusion no. One knows. And because the very in the variance is that this is the day in which the person self is the real reality. In which was
willing. Then I have a feeling mind. But I wonder why the experience of how they're all wired with a capital are moving. Horribly other than our critical faculties that
were not. Again who are bragging that our part of the mind when we're doing that. Quite or quite that whatever in a band and therefore without knowing
that the pot has been about a quarter where no one will ever know. But I would like that. Obviously a matter of faith one can never prove one way or another one brewing with or without the right make things happen in. That being
reality the way I have been in what we call quite a point in the whole thing in Iraq.
Series
Seminar: Big Sur
Episode
LSD and human potentiality, part one
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University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
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Episode Description
This program, the first of two parts, presents a discussion by Dr. Sidney Cohen, author of The Beyond Within, a survey of LSD research.
Series Description
Discussion and lecture series from Esalen Institute at Big Sur, Calif., headed by Michael H. Murphy devoted to exploring the psychological nature of man.
Date
1967-08-24
Topics
Philosophy
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00:30:15
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Producer: Esalen Institute
Speaker: Cohen, Sidney, 1910-
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University of Maryland
Identifier: 67-30-12 (National Association of Educational Broadcasters)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Duration: 00:29:42
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Chicago: “Seminar: Big Sur; LSD and human potentiality, part one,” 1967-08-24, University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-g7374w2s.
MLA: “Seminar: Big Sur; LSD and human potentiality, part one.” 1967-08-24. University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-g7374w2s>.
APA: Seminar: Big Sur; LSD and human potentiality, part one. Boston, MA: University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-g7374w2s