From Medication
to Meditation

talks on health, drugs, disease, doctors, meditation,
fasting, breath, exercise, yoga, mind, body, dying, food,
Eastern vs. Western methods, AIDS, relaxation, pain,
laughter, euthanasia, enlightenment....

by Osho

compilation book –
selected excerpts from talks given live
1965-1990
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    Osho,
    Can LSD be used as a help in meditation?

    LSD can be used as a help, but the help is very
    dangerous. It is not so easy. If you use a
    mantra, even that can become difficult to throw,
    but if you use acid it will be even more difficult to
    throw.

    The moment you are on an LSD trip you are not
    in control. Chemistry takes control and you are
    not the master. And once you are not the
    master, it is difficult to regain that position. The
    chemical is not the slave, now you are the slave.
    Now how to control it is not going to be your
    choice. Once you take LSD as a help you are
    making a slave of the master, and your whole
    body chemistry will be affected by it.  

    Your body will begin to crave LSD. Now the
    craving will not just be of the mind as it is when
    you get attached to a mantra. When you use
    acid as a help, the craving becomes part of the
    body; the LSD goes to the very cells of the
    body. It changes them, you inner chemical
    structure becomes different. Then all the body
    cells begin to crave acid and it will be difficult to
    drop it...

                                                       – Osho
                    From Medication to Meditation, ch. 8
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