Etymology and Definitions of Psychedelics | What Are Psychedelics?
Channel: Real Talk Philosophy
Date: 2021-07-20

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, psychedelics are defined as: “drugs (especially LSD) that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness.” 

Jerome Jaffe, who was the drug Czar of the United States under Richard Nixon, psychedelics are chemicals that: “reliably induce states of altered perception, thought, and feeling that are not experienced otherwise except in dreams or at times of religious exaltation.”

The word psychedelic comes from the greek ψυχή, psyche, meaning “soul,” or “mind.” And δηλείν, delein, meaning “to manifest.”  So a simple etymological definition could be “mind manifesting” or “soul manifesting.” 

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