The experiences of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe then lead to increased tolerance, capacity to love, development to deep ecological concerns, and a tendency to seek one's well-being in harmony with that of others. There has been a tendency among professionals to see the LSD state as a toxic psychosis and the experiences induced by the drug as a chemical fantasmagoria that has very little to do with how the mind functions under more ordinary circumstances. However, systematic clinical research with LSD and related psychedelics has shown that these drugs can best be understood as unspecific amplifiers of mental processes. They do not create the experiences they induce, but activate the deep unconscious and make its contents available for conscious processing. The observations from psychedelic sessions have, therefore, general validity for the understanding of the human psyche.
Transpersonal experiences have a very special position in the cartography of the human psyche.
The recollective analytical level and the individual unconscious are clearly biographical in nature. The perinatal dynamic seems to represent an intersection or frontier between the personal and transpersonal. Transpersonal phenomena reveal connections between the individual and the cosmos that are at present beyond comprehension. However, the observations from modern consciousness research offer more than just fascinating new insights into human problems and a diagnostic contribution to the understanding of the global crisis. They also suggest new possibilities of approaching the dangerous situation in the world in a way that could influence its psychological roots.