At the present time I consider LSD to be a powerful unspecific amplifier or catalyst of biochemical and physiological processes in the brain... The capacity of LSD and some other psychedelic drugs to exteriorize otherwise invisible phenomena and processes and make them the subject of scientific investigation gives these substances a unique potential as diagnostic instruments and research tools for the exploration of the human mind. It does not seem inappropriate and exaggerated to compare their significance for psychiatry and psychology to that of the microscope for medicine or the telescope for astronomy.
Stanislav Grof
Realms of the Human Unconscious (pp. 32-3)
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