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the general manager of K r O N T v. San Francisco Mr. Harold PC. The film, which you are about to witness, is one of the many non entertainment public service programs produced in color by Koron TV Channel four San Francisco rights to this film specifically

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prohibit its use for blood cast without the express permission of Koron TV. The management of Koron TV hopes you will derive some benefit from this presentation and we solicit your comments. Yeah. Oh yeah, E Uh huh. Mhm. Uh huh. What is the difference between reality and

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illusion between sanity and madness? If the world were to melt before your eyes dissolving into fragments of color and shadow, it would be a frightening place yet 20th within those shattered fragments, you sense new truths about the world about yourself. What would you say of such

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an experience? Assignment for Produced in the community. Interest by the news and documentary programs Department of Koron TV Tonight LSD Thea Other Side of reality A special report in color on the most powerful of a new group of synthetic drugs which altered the consciousness of man,

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this tiny ampule of LSD 25 has a power to put before your mind's eye images so strange as to make your wildest dreams seem prosaic, dull, uninspired. Doctors call it Psych Otto mimetic, for it produces temporary changes in personality that seems somewhat like the insanity known.

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A schizophrenia science finds the drug is not physically harmful, not habit forming, not even painful. But it is said of LSD that whoever submits to its potent spell will be changed by the experience, perhaps subtly, perhaps profoundly changed. And this awesome magic of 20th century chemistry,

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seeming to fashion new personalities in the test tube both entices and alarms us so on many fronts, the voice of society resounds with conflicting opinion. LSD and related drugs make it possible, for the first time to study in the laboratory under controlled conditions, human experiences and

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altered states of consciousness that have existed from the dawn of recorded history. Uhh. The case for LSD remains to be proven either as it's being a true imitator of the national occurring psychosis that is a so called model psychosis, or for the more recent opinion that

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it is an effective and short route to psychotherapy. Seems to me that what used to be construed is insanity is now being construed is inside, but that there is very little evidence that the latter viewpoint is any more accurate than the former. It's not surprising that

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LSD has many critics about its usefulness, because there is no form of psychotherapy about which there are good scientific evidence that it works. And this includes everything from psycho analysis to ordinary psychotherapy to hypnosis. It can't be easily prove there are too many variables to set

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up the scientific experiment to show that any form of psychotherapy works. Although we all have our strong feeling that it does that they the first ones do work. I'm very skeptical about the value of LSD and psychiatric treatment. I'm very concerned about its wide spread and

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uncontrolled views that I am enthusiastic about it in certain specific research activities. For me, the most important value of these substances is that they open up the possibility of understanding the meaning of life as a whole. I do not believe that the vision seen while under

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the influence of LSD have any religious significance. Also, I am very apprehensive about anything that allows man to manipulate the mind or paralyzed the conscience and conscious behavior of other men. Since its introduction in 1943 LSD has been widely studied. Contemporary philosophers and artists have written

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eloquent accounts of the forbidden fruit of drug induced experience. In a moment, we will join a young woman who ventures to explore the other side of reality by taking LSD. I'm professionally interested in LSD. Uh, because I work in the field of mental health. I've heard

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that it gives a person a new way of perceiving the world himself and his relationships with people in the world. I hope that, uh, work with this drug may lead to helping people to have find a better and more creative part of themselves. Personally, I've been

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a fortunate person. Um, I've had many opportunities in life and have been successful in my work. But sometimes it seems to me that I try so hard to do what's right and to avoid difficulties that I miss some of the beauty and excitement of life. So

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perhaps I might get something out of the experience for myself. A swell. Anyway, I'd heard of the research work being done by Dr Joseph Downing, uh, chief of mental health services at San Mateo County Hospital. So I went in to see him and arranged to be,

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ah, volunteer research subject. Now, you probably feel some effects in about half hour, more or less. I want to remind you again that this is your day and even though you're on camera, but you shouldn't be concerned about us, that you should go ahead and go

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into this experience fully. We're here to take care of you, and you can trust yourself. You don't need to worry about control, and the more you accept the experience more, you get out of it. Uh, Mary and I are here, too. Be your companions. Um, do

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you have any questions? Anything like that? Just ask us. There was one thing I want to emphasize. It may be that you become confused as to what's really what isn't really Well, if this happens, I'll remind you that I told you this might happen. And then

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I'm with you. It sometimes happens to people. And this way you could know because your memories perfectly intact. Uh, what is what is it, really? You begin to relax now, and I want to tell you that you're going to run into things you're afraid off everyone

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does. The thing to do is to go ahead, push ahead and face them, and I can promise you that they'll vanish, that you'll have the strength to face one. And once you've gone through that, then you'll come out on the other side and you'll begin to

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find yourself. Our society is up against the problem that the individual has to spend so much time so much of his life, so much of his energy. But integrating with other people, just learning to live in our society that gets more and more complicated, that he

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has less and less left over to get acquainted with himself. Um, what the drug may well do is to make it possible when you become adult, for example, to get around some of these acquired habits patterns which entirely necessary on and go back towards your own

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creative core. I'm not afraid. Oh, why have I been afraid to feel them? Move system? I feel so good to cry, feel miserable. That even feels good. That's right, just to feel aggravated so good. What about you afraid to before it's

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like I was afraid that emotion would swallow me up, but it doesn't. It's like I said, I should stop this every time I'm with it, too. I was within the cave, but at the same time I was outside of it. And I had a thought that

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made it seemed very funny And is as I became funny, lovely designs and patterns were dancing all around the cave. They were iridescent and sparkling. It was a happy place, full of happy images. And I thought that seemed so funny was that maybe this cave was

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a womb. But this is silly after all. You know, who am I to think that I should remember what it would be like to be in the room? And yet, and yet there was something about it. The idea was left even though I laughed and enjoy

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the happiness of laughing at the idea. Uh huh. Who's a rose? Some of that beauty that you love so much. E Oh, Oh, really doesn't miss. I'm laughing. You don't know what I'm laughing. I'm just happy that you're laughing because somebody who felt this

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way before it was trying so hard to communicate. But it's all layers and layers and layers. Support leaves me get Tau all those layers and layers and layers of you. He was trying so hard to communicate, and so we thought, Well, Rose, that's something that everybody

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thinks of us pretty. So I'll see a rose. Yeah, And then he then he tried toe use words tweeting how to use to communicate the feeling. How things Yeah, that beauty. That was the best he could do. You can't communicate it very well. It's not Rose.

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It's just that there's no way to describe it. But you can't do it. A word you say. Okay, don't don't make the mistake of thinking that the communications about it that Rose is just a message from that person who thought two movie. That's the message, because

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it's so difficult to communicate what we really feel about things. We developed words and forms of communication that we commonly use, and they pretty well get us through the business of life. But because thes forms are really such inadequate condensation of what we really know, what

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feel, we have to accept the fact that we rarely really understand each other, that the gulf between us is enormous and that we must make allowances for people because we don't understand them and they don't understand us right now. You find yourself coming back to the

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the world the rest of us live in mhm. Ah, it hasn't changed very much as it mhm. Let's see it g 5.5 hours since you took the drug. Uh huh. You see that long? Mhm. There were times when it seemed like time was creeping by and

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the rest of what I lost track of I think now perhaps this experience will change me. I'm not sure I don't know whether it will stay with me, but it seems to me that I'll be less afraid of being hurt and therefore more free, free to

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be kinder to others, to give more and to live more than I have before. LSD is an experimental research drug which is relatively safe to use in a hospital or clinic under controlled conditions. It is not as yet a treatment drug because we do not know

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it's indications for use or the dangers attached to its use. We see three potential areas of value and the use of this drug, the first is in the study of mental processes, which are in effect, loosened or split by the effect of the drug. A second

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area of the drug use is that, apparently, in conjunction of psychotherapy by a confident and trained therapist, it has times is of use to some individuals in coming to a deeper and more unified understanding of their problems. This, of course, has to be in the context

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of adequate preparation and psychotherapeutic follow up. Finally, the drug may be a way of studying certain types of states of consciousness, such as extrasensory perception, green states, mystic states such as occur in some religious conversion states and finally certain of the psychotic states, which up to

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now have not been entirely accessible to understanding Science. And most informed laymen generally agree with Dr Joseph Downing that LSD has pointed us toward new research into the mysteries of the mind. But perhaps because no one knows how the drug acts upon the brain, scientists differ

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sharply in their conclusions. Following a lengthy experiment of the highly regarded Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto to researchers hold opposite views, institute director Dr Don Jackson is enthusiastic about LSD and explains why some other practitioners failed to understand the usefulness of the drugs. Well, the

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whole nature of the LSD experience is hard for anyone who's handed to talk about, because we don't have the the means of translating it easily to another person. The experience is the reason that we had all our therapist taking honesty themselves is that that's so much

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more is going on in the person's head than the observer or therapist has any idea about or that the patient reveals. But, um, it's very difficult to account for it, and it's frightening in some ways to some of the patients. But Dr Jerome or M'land, who

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participated in the institute study and now is in private psychiatric practice in San Francisco, makes this critical evaluation. My experience was really with patients who had LSD as part of their psychiatric treatment in connection with a specific research project. I saw these people over a year

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or two following the psychiatric following their sessions in psychiatric treatment. Initially, it did look a Ziff. There were significant changes. However, this proved to be largely temporary and mostly seemed to be period of elation and excitement. Most often the patient felt that he's gone through something

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and for that felt better. But this was temporary. It took a lot of hard psychiatric work before the patients were able to realize that they could feel better about themselves through an understanding of themselves. This really bought more sustained improvement. I couldn't see where the LSD

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sessions themselves anything but complicates the treatment. The drug is extremely potent, unpredictable and carries with it considerable psychological risk. Among those who value the drug as a research tool, there are strong objections to certain highly publicized uses of it. This is Dr Leo Hollister, associate chief

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of staff at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto. On the whole, uh, much of the better scientific work has been done by basic scientists working in the laboratories, usually with experimental animals. However, the problem here is that we don't know just how relevant much of

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this research is to the, uh, main problems concerned with Saikat. A mimetic agents when we get into the area of research done with patients or with human volunteers, uh, the research efforts fairly much to be desired. Few of them are control. A few of them use

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objective ways to measure effects. And on the whole, I think many people are rather unhappy with the result of the type of research being done so far. Uh huh, rather than dignified by the name research, I will make an allusion to the type of alleged research

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is being done by leg groups or poorly trained groups in which the drugs were given predominantly for kicks frequently to people who may be in serious emotional difficulties to begin with on board under certain things, which in no way could be construed as a true research

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effort. Undoubtedly, the most perplexing aspect of LSD relates not to science but to religion, and its warmest advocates suggest the mystical experience induced by the drug is a profound religious importance. Here at Mendocino State Hospital, we have been experimenting for a year and a half on

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the treatment of alcoholism and women with the drug LSD. In a scientific evaluation of these substances, we may be making a mistake of attempting to judge them by what changes they caused an observable behavior of people. We are thinking much of pathology sickness, and whether or

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not this is helped by it, My only impression and experience suggests that these drugs can cause not in everyone. This is not given everyone, but can cause a change of values or the meaning of their life or of the perception of beauty in the world. Or,

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if you want a change in religious understanding. In a very large sense, is this aspect of the substances I would like to see investigated, more fully. Son clergyman would agree with Dr Wilson Van Dusen, acting research chief at Mendocino State Hospital. Others, like Rabbi Alvin I.

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Fine of Congregation Emmanuel in San Francisco, believe the drug state to be the antithesis of the Judeo Christian religious tradition. LSD offers some fascinating possibilities for speculation. It is not new to use artificial means to induce states of vision or trancelike states in which the senses

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seem to be radically increase. There have been men in literature, the arts, Uh, and in music there have been many, even in certain religious situations, who seem to have been under similar states. Uhh! Induced by artificial means we have much more that we need to know

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about LSD and this entire experiment. It seems, to offer a good many possibilities of fruitful research in human behavior. Also, it seems to offer some possibilities as a psychotherapeutic techniques, but I doubt that it would offer anything in my mind of a creative approach to religious

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experience. In addition to that, we have to decide or try to discover whether or not the state in which one finds himself under the influence of LSD, uh, heightens his senses, sharpens them radically so that what he sees is objective reality, but seen and known in

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a profound er way than through our normal senses, or whether this is simply a subjective experience, much like a nightmare or an induced dream. Also, I would add one other word of caution about LSD and its potential use. I looked with grave suspicion and apprehension upon

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anything that gives us the ability to manipulate the mind or toe paralyze uh, man's conscious behavior. It seems to me that this could lead to a very effective means of brainwashing and conscience washing and in my religious belief, man's ability to reason for himself and to

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come to objective moral judgment. Onda choose what he believes to be right and wrong is essential within the character of man and essential. Uh, to a free society. Thus, LSD entices and disturbs us. For there is much to be learned about the human mind. More perhaps,

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than than any other area of man's being. The horizon of our limited knowledge about the mind of man is being extended by judicious use of this strange and perplexing miracle of 20th century chemistry. The drug that alters the consciousness of man. Assignment four has been presented

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in the community Interest produced in color by the news and documentary programs Department of K R O N T. V E. Yeah, join us next Monday evening at 6 30 when the news and documentary programs Department of Koron TV presents another report to the West on

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Assignment four.