You may feel LSD has made a "better" man of you socially and personally. But one will be a better man through love than one can ever be through drugs or any other artificial aid. And the best man is he who has surrendered himself to the Perfect Master irrespective of his personal or social standing.
Meher Baba has pointed out that the experiences derived through drugs are experiences by one in the gross world of the shadows of the subtle planes and are not continuous. The experiences of the subtle sphere by one on the subtle planes are continuous, but even these experiences are of illusion, for Reality is beyond them. And so, although LSD may lead one to feel a better man personally, the feeling of having had a glimpse of Reality may not only lull one into a false security, but also will in the end derange one's mind. Although LSD is not an addicting drug, one can become attached to the experiences arising from its use and one gets tempted to use it in increased doses, again and again, in the hope of deeper and deeper experiences. But eventually this causes madness or death.
Only the One who knows and experiences Reality, who is Reality, has the ability and authority to point out the false from the real. Hence, Meher Baba tells those who care to heed him that the only real experience is to see God continuously within oneself as the Infinite Effulgent Ocean of Truth, and then to become one with this Infinite Ocean and continuously experience infinite power, knowledge and bliss.
These statements to Richard Alpert, and other statements Baba made, were eventually printed in a pamphlet God In A Pill? which was widely circulated to college students in America during the late 1960s and early 1970s, urging them to stop taking illicit drugs, such as LSD and marijuana.
On Sunday 28 November 1965, Jehangu, Rustom, Sohrab and Elcha Mistry came to Meherazad for the day. The following day, Rama's brother Dhiraj and the Khilnanis were permitted darshan. For several months prior to this, Prem Khilnani's promotion had been withheld. In the usual course of his career, he should have been a district judge by then. He had received a letter about the possibility of receiving a promotion and a transfer to Alibag, but nothing had been decided officially. At Meherazad, after taking darshan, Prem handed the envelope with the letter to Baba.
"Is there money inside?" Baba joked.
Prem kept quiet and Baba smiled.