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<em>Is LSD a great spiritual teacher? Or indeed a teacher at all? My answer is an emphatic "Yes", even though there will always be students who learn nothing from their teachers or misuse what they do learn.</em>

<em>That experience, as many writers have explained, depends dramatically on the set and setting – on what you expect of the trip, where you are, whom you are with, and how safe you feel. One of the tragedies of drug prohibition is that we have never developed a culture in which young people can learn how to use powerful drugs properly from older, wiser and more experienced psychonauts. </em>

The great Sue Blackmore on her experiences with LSD in the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/mar/22/lsd-acid-trip-self-knowledge" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>

Which seems as good a time as any to remind you of the upcoming <a href="http://breakingconvention.co.uk/" target="_blank">Breaking Convention</a> psychedelics conference, co-programmed by <em><a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/books/strange-attractor-journal-four/" target="_blank">SAJ4 </a></em>contributor Dr David Luke, taking place at the University of Canterbury on 2-3 April.

The weekend features a host of speakers including Mike Jay, Paul Devereux, Andy Roberts, Amanda Feilding, Graham Hancock, Andy Letcher and others, plus live music from <a href="http://www.raagnagrok.co.uk" target="_blank">Raagnagrok</a> and much more! Strange Attractor will also be there with books for sale and it promises to be a fun and enlightening weekend.

Book tickets <a href="http://breakingconvention.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a>