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gentlemen, what is the LSD Rescue Service? Well, we have evolved over the last two years, a a vision that there is a need for responding to bad LSD experiences. And we've been doing a word of mouth for the last two years and we're trying to now

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formalize a structure an institute which can answer, you know, this kind of a need. We also have the function of referral where we work with other clinics around town in the Bay Area to refer people to and information and seminars that we're going to offer to

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train people and what to do in situations like this. And also we have our basic research function which is where it all began anyway. Now in your rescue function is this uh somewhat similar to an alcoholics, anonymous type of operation only in this instance for LSD

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trip? Well, to some extent it's similar, I think that, I'm not sure all of our staff and in fact, I know for a fact all of our staff have not used LSD. Some of our staff have many of those who have used these mind expanding drugs,

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refer to them as religious experience and they have come to us as theologians as well as psychiatric social workers and so on. Two discuss the phenomena of the religious experience. How many calls do you get? Well, it depends, yeah, we have an emergency number and it

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depends, it's word of mouth right now, but we get three and four calls a week on the average, it's usually on the weekends, holidays, we expect more. Well, one young man came into the center and he wanted somebody to turn off the light while he was

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just actually standing out in the sunlight and the sun is something we don't have a great deal of control over in terms of turning it off. But we did take him into a room which was dark and we did sit him down and we did turn

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on some music, which was not bad. But it was very simple Direct service. And he sat there for about three hours. We talked to him, let him know that there was somebody there to help him if he wanted to help and just helped him relax and

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deal with the chemical reaction was happening to him. We are concerned with responding to an invitation on the part of someone whose senses that they're in trouble or want help two give to them support to get them through the physiological experience and then to help them

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re evaluate ah the experience they've had. If they bring it up in theological terms, basically ours is originated as a church sponsored function, responding to humanitarian request, the Rescue Service. It's come to our attention through some basic research that was done a couple of years ago

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that on occasion some people do have what they call a bad experience. And they need help to get out of that particular experience ourselves. And everyone, we've talked to everyone, we thought