Fascinating thread this one which reminds me of a great quote by the late great Timothy Leary which went something like:~
"LSD is a drug which can cause psychosis in those users who haven't yet taken it!"
LSD and similar substances were thoroughly tested by the military to investigate the possible uses towards bettering the killing machine mentality. What was found however, was that the soldiers tested on, subsequently dropped their weapons and started hugging each other and the nearest available trees! Some were even reported to have 'awakening' experiences.
At the same time, clinical experiments were being carried out with cronic alcoholism, multiple personality, depression, learning disabilities (the list goes on...). And in a very large percentage of cases total recovery from previous psychotic behavior was reversed with follow up studies of participants proving long lasting and positive life changes. Ofcourse, like the military studies there where lots of 'awakening' experiences happening aswell.
So, to recap: there is and are many drugs which are not very effective for producing aggressive and 'killing mentality' effects, which, at the same time are very congenial towards recovery from psychosis. In both seperate studies 'awakening' experiences were common.
As Terrence Mckenna used to say,
"LSD is NOT a cure for chronic alcoholism etc...it's simply a cure for STUPIDITY!"
What seems to die was only unreal to start with!
Injoy the ongoing and wonderful experiment called LIFE...
Bob23.