A debate concerning the certainty of materialists regarding their worldview seems like a good place to acknowledge chemist Albert Hofmann PhD. who died in Switzerland yesterday. Hofmann was no materialist and in fact was a student of the mystical for his whole life, triggered by an experience he had as a child which he often recounted. As a researcher at Sandoz studying ergot fungus and derivatives of such, he began to have a series of dreams several years into this program. Each dream featured the number 25, visions of molecules and various mystical symbols as he has told it. After many nights of this he began to realize that the number 25 referred to the 25th entry in his notebooks, the 25th molecule he synthesized in the series several years before the dream sequence. So he goes to his laboratory and synthesizes the molecule again and the rest is history. He abbreviated the name of the molecule LSD-25 in tribute to this amazing story. So materialists should tackle this legendary story and explain the source of the INFORMATION regarding the 25th molecule that kept impinging into the scientist’s phyche during sleep. Is the gentle Dr Hofmann untruthful when telling this story countless times over the course of his life? The dates of the events are well documented and witnessed. He told of the dreams at the time to witnesses and went back to his notebooks and resynthesized the molecule.
And further I would challenge the materialists to read the classic and revolutionary “Realms of the Human Unconscious” by Grof and explain away the findings of his 17 years of clinical research into therapeutic LSD employment. The book demonstrates that resolution of serious personlity disorders is concommintant with opening of spiritual dimensions in his subjects which, in his words “appear intrinsic to the human personality”. This opening is experienced by the subjects as an ego-shattering encounter with a benevolent ultra-intelligence. Read the book guys, then have at it. Is this a subject worth looknig into, considering that science and academia seems helpless to alleviate the worst suffering that afflicts humanity?
