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"LSD thing is fascinating in relation to this: it is an intentionally achieved schizophrenia, so to say, with the hope & expectation for spontaneous remission, which doesn’t always occur. Yoga is also an intentional schizophrenia: one breaks off, turns"
Joseph Campbell: Now what turned out here was that, as I’ve analyzed it since and discussed it with Dr. Ostow, the LSD retreat inward relates somewhat to the essential schizophrenia situation. The antinomianism, as he calls it, is more like the paranoid schizophrenia; that is to say, a sense of threat from outside, and the society or the establishment is absolutely… You know, there is a break — there is no communication with it, and all that, and it is interpreted only in negative terms, and not in terms of any understanding of what it is really about — so that you have, you might say, a lunatic asylum without walls: people are out in the street that ought to be in the bughouse; but this is a kind of violent outwardly directed action. The LSD thing is fascinating in relation to this: it is an intentionally achieved schizophrenia, so to say, with the hope and expectation for spontaneous remission, which doesn’t always occur. Yoga is also an intentional schizophrenia: one breaks off, turns inward. And the mystic process, as well, is very similar. TRACK 6: LSD, Psychosis, and Mysticism Date: March 4, 1970 Venue: The Cooper Union
September 8, 2026 at 6:23 PM