Chemical expansions of consciousness

Lykke, Mette, Marlene, Thais og Thomas.

The problem of formulation

How LSD effect the brain and how is the state of intoxication?

We will put ”Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, ”Go ask alice” and our topic into perspective.

The 3 stages

1. Sensory experiences: The senses intensify

2. Childhood experiences: Contact with repressed childhood experiences

3. Perinatal experiences: About the birth a) The paradise

b) The hellc) The deathd) The rebirth

“Go ask Alice”.

“Go ask Alice”

• Started to laugh, the pattern change colours, the music got louder

• Almost floating into stage 2. ”I was floating into another sphere, another world”.

Stanislav Grof’s stages

1. Sensory experiences

2. Childhood experiences

• Albert Hofmann in 1943• 0,025 mg is enough to get

a state of intoxication• There are different kinds of

LSD • LSD has an effect on 8-12

hours• The first 4-5 hours LSD has

the best effect

LSD

LSD chemical quality

• The active substance is lysergic acid, which transformed to other chemical connections.

• LSD = lyserg-syre-deithylamid

Serotonin

• Neurotransmitters liberates serotonin to the receptors

• Serotonin has an effect on our mood

• Ingesting of LSD increases the amount of serotonin

• The average contents of serotonin is 10mg for the hole body

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

• Made by The Beatles in 1967• CD: sg. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band• Inspired of a drawing by Julian Lennon

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

• First stage: Sensuous experiences• Lucy in the sky with diamonds is a hiddent acronym for

LSD

• The song is about a man who tells us about his stage of intoxination

• The song has surreal text

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGe9a72Gn_A

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,With tangerine trees and marmalade skiesSomebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,Towering over your head.Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,And she’s gone.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountainWhere rocking hores people eat marshmellow pies,Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,That grow so incredible high.

Newspaper taxis appear on the shoreWaiting to take you away.Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,And you’r gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Picture yourself on a train in a station,With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes

LSD vs. Go Ask Alice

• Both persons are in the fist stage

• Trying LSD

• Many colours and patterns

• Seeing unreal things

• Talking about candy

• Both having a great time

AT into perspective

• AT5 – constellation.

• Scientific >< The humanisticed

Chemical expansions of consciousness

• LSD >< Expansions of consciousness

Information retrieval list

• ”Go ask Alice” by Corgi Books

• www.wikipedia.org

• Henrik Rindom: Rusmidlerne biologi – om hjernen, sprut og stoffer.

• Stanislav Groft teori om fødselsoplevelser og religion

• Birgitte Bech: religions psykologi

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Lykke, Marlene, Mette, Thais og Thomas