[mattwilsonn888]

I wasn't aware of the credit the AA inventor gives for his fixing drinking problem to LSD - that's certainly an interesting story, From what I understand the connections one might make considering the religious tones AA has, the common idea of what a high dose LSD experience might entail and the fact that LSD and other psychedelics have proven effective against addiction all together match the science so far - tied together by the interesting fact that for people suffering with depression or addiction who seek out help through psychedelics, religious or spiritual experience, not necessarily dose, is what associates with life improvements including long term. Those who did not have what felt to them a deeply significant experience did not reap the same benefits.

I think though the psychedelic community can be somewhat pseudo-sciency (they were of course driven out of main stream science), the reference to psychedelics as a healing tool is apt. It is not the mere ingestion of psychedelics which helps people, but the intense and vivid realizations, visions, and feelings they come to experience which deeply affects them. Its a subtle difference - but I hypothesize that if you put people under anesthesia and gave them a high dose the long term results would be measurable weaker than those who were lucid for the experience.