The Acid Diaries

Christopher Gray's numerous LSD trips over a three-year period progressed through three distinct stages, weaving an ongoing story from trip to trip. The Acid Diaries reveals the immense potential of LSD for transpersonal growth and spiritual development.

Christopher Gray (1942-2009) was well known for his involvement in the 1960s with Situationist International, for his various radical writings, and as Swami Prem Paritosh, disciple of the guru Osho. He translated Raoul Vaneigem’s BanalitTs de Base (as The Totality for Kids) and is the author of Leaving the Twentieth Century, the first English language anthology of Situationist ideas, and the biography Life of Osho.

Preface

1    Batch 25
2    Wonder Drug
3    The Doors of Perception
4    Psychopolitics and the Sixties
5    Bad Trips
6    The First Maps
7    Sleep--and Waking Up
8    Realms of the Human Unconscious
9    Session 1: A Low-Dose Trip
10    The First Group of Trips
11    Session 6: Doubling the Dose
12    BPM 2
13    Session 8: Windle Hey
14    Session 9: Mum
15    Underground Psychotherapy
16    Set, Setting, and History
17    God as Light
18    “I Saw a Man Cloathed with Raggs . . .”
19    Resistance
20    Psychedelics Since the Sixties
21    Resistance (continued)
22    Anna and A Cappella
23    Anna’s Death
24    Session 21: Being Two People Simultaneously
25    The Transpersonal
26    Tripping on the Heath
27    The Purple Flowers
28    “Ecstatic Journey of the Living into the Realm of the Dead . . .”
29    “Ecstatic Journey . . .” (continued)
30    Terrible Beauty
31    “Not the true samadhi . . .”
32    Session 27: Last Trip in the Woods
33    Demonstrations, Ecstasy, Advaita
34    Return of the Repressed
35    “Another World Is Possible”
36    “Another World Is Possible” (continued)
37    Toward a Sacramental Vision of Reality
38    Meltdown in God
39    Out of the Body?
40    Session 45: At Judges Walk
41    BPM 4
42    The Long Flashback
43    Interim Report
44    Interim Report (continued)
45    Mutual Immanence
46    Sanctus

Appendix: Ergot and the West

Notes

Bibliography: A Chronology of Psychedelic

Literature