"Your letter made me happy. I know you are a sincere seeker of Truth. My love will help you. My love blessing to you and those with you. Letter follows. Meher Baba."
Meher Baba said to tell you that he knows everything — He knows LSD is different from the opium derivatives and although you will see from the body of this letter that Meher Baba does NOT countenance drug-taking for spiritual experiences, he says that you can, if you want to, take LSD three more times and then you should stop taking it completely.
Meher Baba says that you should not come to India this year, but you should love him more and more and remember him wholeheartedly, and continue studying his books. And, I would recommend you also read Francis Brabazon's Stay with God and The East-West Gathering , and see when possible the film of the East-West Gathering. (Contact Mr. and Mrs. Fred Winterfeldt at Carnegie House, 100 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019, for these two books and the film.)
Although Meher Baba is in seclusion and all correspondence to and from Meher Baba is severely restricted, he, in his love, explained to us the consequence of drug-taking for spirituality, the gist of which follows:
No drug, whatever its great promise, can help one to attain the Spiritual Goal. There is no shortcut to the Goal except through the grace of the Perfect Master, and drugs, LSD more than others, give a semblance of "spiritual experiences," a glimpse of the false reality.
The experiences you elaborate in your letter and book are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage you will never reach water and the search for God through drugs must end in disillusionment. Meher Baba, who knows the Way, who is the Way, cannot approve the continued pursuance of a method that not only must prove fruitless but leads away from the path that leads to Reality.
It is human, and therefore necessarily wrong-sighted, to view the result of the drug by its immediate relative effects — our inability to calculate its end result is beyond our human knowledge, and only the true Guide can point the way.
To a few sincere seekers such as yourself, LSD may have served as a means to arouse that spiritual longing which has brought you into contact with Meher Baba, but once that purpose is served further ingestion would not only be harmful, but have no point or purpose. Now your longing for Reality cannot be sustained by further use of drugs, but only by your own love for the Perfect Master, which is a reflection of his love for you.