Celebrated composer, Laurence Rosenthal recounts his experience with LSD in our summer issue: THE WI

Celebrated composer, Laurence Rosenthal recounts his experience with LSD in our summer issue: THE WILD: 

I had known about drugs given to novices in mystical schools of the East at the beginning of their training, for the purpose of providing a confirming glimpse of the kind of state they might one day reach through their own inner work. In fact it was a motive related to this idea that led me to try LSD. And now the mounting magnificence of the hours, growing constantly more radiant, finally melted all resistance.

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Photograph by Josep Molina Secall