An amazing book from the 1970's entitled "the Book of the Mother". the first two paragraphs of the introduction says it best: "This is a book about psychedelic experience and about babies. The material in this book developed out of the distribution of approximately twelve thousand, 250-microgram doses of LSD over a period of ten years. This distribution was worldwide and included the following cultures: 1. Judeo-Christian: upper and middle classes, peons, dropouts, prison and jail inmates, and mental patients; 2. Moslem: middle and lower classes; 3. Hindu-Buddhist: middle and lower classes, yogis, and monks; 4. Animist: no class structure. Members of the community that produced this book have altogether ingested LSD on approximately four thousand occasions in every life situation imaginable. This amounts to a depth and variety of LSD experimentation that no other research venture has approximated. The conclusion of this experimentation is that the LSD experience reactivates the space-time reality and sense-perception awareness of childhood, infancy, and interuterine existence. Moreover the degree to which an LSD user's experience is traumatic is the degree to which the user experienced trauma while in the womb, during birth, and in early childhood." In this cosmology there are 9 dimensions of consciousness/reality. There are also four covenants that the community members agree to live by: non-ownership, non-violence, open and honest communication, and tantra thanks Oona and radioActive sanDiego read more Less