LSD Professor is Barred From Entering US EVER

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Monday, April 23, 2007

LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US


Andrew Feldmar.

BC psychotherapist denied entry after
border guard googled his work.

By Linda Solomon
Published: April 23, 2007

Andrew Feldmar, a well-known Vancouver psychotherapist, rolled up to the Blaine border crossing last summer as he had hundreds of times in his career. At 66, his gray hair, neat beard, and rimless glasses give him the look of a seasoned intellectual. He handed his passport to the U.S. border guard and relaxed, thinking he would soon be with an old friend in Seattle. The border guard turned to his computer and googled "Andrew Feldmar."

The psychotherapist's world was about to turn upside down.

...more - http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/23/Fe...ampaign=230407

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Closed doors of perception

Summer of Love: I was accused of "moral turpitude" for publishing an
article in a respected journal about the uses of LSD in psychotherapy.

Andrew Feldmár
August 8, 2007 10:00 AM


I was 26, just switched from mathematics into psychology. RD Laing's quasi-mystical book, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise was hot off the press. I didn't yet know that I would seek him out and acquire him as therapist, teacher, supervisor, mentor and friend. I was reading Watts, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, I was looking for therapy, I was looking for love. A decade before, I had escaped from my family and country, Hungary, to be free, and now there I was, being insatiably curious, in Canada.

I had heard of LSD-25. I knew that Duncan Blewett at Saskatchewan's Weyburn Hospital had studied it with Humphry Osmond and Abram Hoffer, and concluded: "Psychedelic drugs are to psychology what the microscope is to biology or the telescope is to astronomy." Osmond introduced Aldous Huxley to psychedelic drugs, and the latter wrote in The Doors of Perception: "The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend."

...more - http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...erception.html