The proposed theoretical and practical framework should be considered as an attempt to organize and categorize innumerable new and puzzling observations from several thousand LSD sessions and present them in a logical and comprehensive way. Even in its present rough form, this conceptual framework has proved useful in understanding the events in psychedelic sessions run in a clinical setting, as well as LSD states experienced in the context of non-medical experimentation; following its basic principles has made it possible to conduct LSD therapy with maximum benefit and minimum risk. I believe that it also offers important guidelines for more effective crisis intervention related to psychedelic drug use and more successful treatment of various complications following unsupervised self-experimentation.