Final Question 14
Other than occupying Grof’s interests and investigations, LSD changed his life. Horgan writes, “Although he began his career as a strict Freudian and an atheist, over the years his views changed radically as a result of his research on LSD and other drugs.” LSD was the reason behind his work. Grof originally studied to be a Freudian psychoanalyst in college. After college he tried LSD and obviously enjoyed it enough to base his career around it. He argues that LSD can unlock unconscious memories, including scenes from childbirth and infancy. I think his Freudian teachings had a large impact on how he interpreted his research on LSD. He derived many other logical ideas that went along with psychedelic use. I also think that without LSD, Grof wouldn’t have work or a career, or at least famous ones. He’d still be dream interpreting and listening to people’s free associations if he hadn’t experimented with LSD. LSD was essential to his work because that’s mostly what he worked on. It gave rise to his different thinking and different approaches to research.
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