The drug movement is an expression of that need. It is a dream, an idea; its converts, like all those aame with their own convictions, have charisma. That is why the observer is so often drawn to convinced LSD users, for they are alive, and the observer must sense the strength of their convictions. It is contagious. For those who subsist on the je- june diet of social accommodation, Protestant rigor, and reason, the charisma emanating from ones who have conviction evokes a psychic tropism.‘ The movement promises much—a return to paradise, a Utopia of the inner life-—and so LSD-25 becomes, if one may be allowed a neologism, a “Utopiate.” Whether the movement fullls its promise or whether it falters because of some insufciency in its mythology, some undesirable side effects in its means, or the intensity of its worldly opposition, the need for something will be no less strong. It is this need which must be kept in mind. Whatever happens to the drug movement as such, drugs will continue to be used to alter states of consciousness. To the extent that ordinary consciousness remains in a state of reactive despair to the world of reality——or is empty of that experience which mind senses as its own potential——people will join together to seek new meanings in some mythology.