Posted on 03/16/2011 1:16:56 PM PDT by woofie
more on Owsley:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/14/MND41IAC74.DTL&tsp=1
Ah, LSD... Nothing more fun then coming home to find a roommate’s friend naked, bleeding from his head, power out, standing in water, and ripping the pipes from my basement ceiling.
HAHAHA! remember George Carlin’s routine about all the insight he got while high. He had unlocked the secrets of the universe, but would forget when straight. He finally wrote it down while high. The next day he read it, and it said: “The survival of the species is the responsibility of everyone.”
I also read how musicians would get high before going on stage because it would make them play better. What it really did was make them play worse, but substantially heightened their appreciation for what they were playing. Which only proves that art is subjective. :)
For anyone who talks about how wonderful LSD is, I have two words: Syd Barrett.
LOL
I got a contact high just reading that.
“If we had personal computers back in the 1960’s, there would have been no need for drugs” -—LSD Guru and Harvard Psychologist Timothy Leary.
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You forgot to mention Keith Richards. I guess his acid supplier was more reputable.
>he could not remember the specifics of his insights,
LOLOL! How many breakthrough insights were made on acid, but then forgotten......
Syd Barrett was schizophrenic before he discovered LSD, though it certainly didn’t do him any good. The other member of PF were not permanently affected by their LSD use.
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I think Brian Wilson had a similar experience
Well that's one thing I can agree with him on: No broccoli!
In college I read a book “The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience”. I was telling a guy I would love to experience all that stuff IF the drugs were safe and no possible brain damage. He had been into drugs for years and cleaned himself up. His dismissal always stayed with me: “Those things are s**t”.
That way if he "writes" anything down we will be able to recover it from the movements of his fingers.
Then we'll finally have a key to the secrets of the universe ... or at least some good YouTube footage!
Steak topped with butter sauteed mushrooms and onions, steamed broccoli, and a fully loaded baked potato comprise my favorite meal...
I always head that William James came back down and realized he had written this:
Hogamous Hygamous Man is polygamous
Hygamous Hogamous Woman is monogamous
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