This is an image that researchers Roberto Cavanna and Emilio Servadio requested that some people under the influence of psychedelics try to mentally transmit to other people in the early 1960s.

(“The intake of drugs in connection with divinatory practices is probably as old as mankind.”

—Cavanna, Roberto and Servadio, Emilio in ESP EXPERIMENTS WITH LSD-25 AND PSILOCYBIN: A Methodological Approach, 1964.)





(“The results indicated accurate comparisons in approximately 1 in 3 of the targets for LSD, with a rate of only 1 in 10 for the no-drug control condition.”

—David P. Luke, commenting on the research by Cavanna and Servadio, in “Psychedelic Substances and Paranormal Phenomena: A Review of the Research”, the Rhine Research Center, in the Journal of Parapsychology, Durham, North Carolina, 2008.)

(“In 1964, Federico Fellini experimented with LSD under the supervision of Emilio Servadio, his psychoanalyst during the 1954 production of La Strada.”

—Wikipedia)