... ancient Greece and the Middle Ages the Rosicrucians, the Alchemists, the Illuminati. The lure of higher consciousness had exercised a fascination across the centuries, and whether it was Athenians ... the Herald Examiner, "are treacherous and harmful. The heaven into which they usher their victims soon turns into a hell of sickness and moral degradation. They kill, first the soul, then, ... mescaline seemed to shatter the unity of the ego. It opened the Pandora's box of the unconscious. The first human experiments, aside from the self-experimentation of the Sandoz staff, were conducted...