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Psychedelics

How involved were you in the psychedelic end of research?

Ed Mitchell I haven't been involved in it for twenty years.

Having once been there you never forget, presumably?

Ed Mitchell And you very quickly realise that it is a false start, because you have all the capability of doing the same thing without it and with less debilitating side-effects.

What would you recommend?

Ed Mitchell Meditation does exactly the same thing.

God

Is there any particular spiritual tradition which has helped you in formulating your own beliefs?

Ed Mitchell Well, all of them. I characterise in my books the four traditions - the Chinese tradition which came out of Taoism, the Buddhist tradition, the Zoroastrian tradition that came out of Persia and the pre - Socratic scholars. Those pre - Socratic scholars all looked at the nature of the internal experience. I described that time of the four civilisations as the parable of the four blind men examining the elephant. One with the tail, one with the leg, the trunk and the ear, they all came up with part of the picture but not the whole picture. It takes all of them to get the whole picture. Unfortunately Western, Judaic-Christian tradition has followed the Aristotelian line of thought and ignored the Platonic line of thought and it takes both of them to get the whole picture.

So we're in a unique position now to have access to all these perspectives at once?

Ed Mitchell That's exactly what we need, the integration and coherence of knowledge, not emphasising one aspect or the other but integrating the whole.

Further Research
The Institute of Noetic Sciences
NASA

Further Reading
'The Way of the Explorer' Dr. Edgar Mitchell - Published by Putnam

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