Posted on 03/16/2011 1:16:56 PM PDT by woofie
The story is told of a young chemist who, one evening, accidentally ingested a droplet of an unknown fluid from one of his test tubes, the leftovers of a past experiment.
Within minutes his mind went reeling and he was subjected to not only the wildest hallucinations, but also what he felt were world-altering insights into the nature of the universe.
The next day, after the drug had worn off, he tried to describe his experience to his colleagues and friends, but could not find the words to do it justice. Everyone he spoke to shrugged it off as a particularly vivid dream and went about their daily chores.
Frustrated, the next evening he placed a larger drop on his tongue, intentionally this time, and entered into a mental state beyond his imagining; he seemed to grasp, with no effort on his part, the very nature of existence. He not only saw God, he realized that he was and always had been part of God. He understood holistically and simultaneously every scientific axiom and principle — including ones that had not yet been discovered — as all being aspects of a single unified theorem of the cosmos, a theorem which he could inspect at his leisure, as if he were holding it in his hand.
But the next morning, once again, he could not remember the specifics of his insights, and his attempts to recount his breakthrough fell on deaf ears; his fellow scientists could not make heads nor tails of what he was saying, and his friends remained unmoved at his futile ramblings about God and the universe.
The young chemist was convinced down to the deepest recesses of his soul that he was perceiving a new level of reality, ......
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The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley does a good job.
All in all, I cannot fathom those who advocated widespead use of such a potent drug.
Unless set, setting and company is controlled, one can have a disastrous experience. Dropping acid at school or college on a whim is what often led to a horrible experience.
I just got high reading your post!
Replace the broccoli with steamed fresh green beans, or sauteed zucchini/squash/peppers/mushrooms and that's just about my favorite meal.
Keith was never a acid head (like Hendrix, Morrison, and Barrett). He was more of a heroin/booze type of guy.
Back about 1970 we would take little hits of ‘orange sunshine’ LSD of course. Playing music was my creative outlet and remember the heightened senses during the trip.
Colors and shapes moved like waves in the air-—it was kinda fun for awhile. The problems were after the trips-—left one drained and even feeling morose. Glad I stopped taking it after a few years only but had some friends who flipped out permanently—they took and used it way too much.
True, but he did partake. Once in 1976 after the Knebworth concert he crashed his Mercedes Gestapo Staff car on the way home and police found LSD on him. Anita was injured in that crash too.
Acid is a very strange drug, and widespread use is certainly a bad idea. It’s not something to do for “fun”. Most people cannot deal with what is essentially a chemically induced psychotic episode. (that could easily go the wrong way - the “bad trip”) I could not imagine anyone being addicted to LSD.
I guess I was lucky. We had a group who would get together most every Sunday for a summer and trip. It was mostly just kinda heightened senses, loss of time and an appreciation of life. We actually had a blast. Luckily nothing bad every happened.
Then, the guy who was making it got busted and that was that.
Tried mushroom tea a few times. Similar, but different.
That piece was excellent! Loved the last video especially, which shoes Dr. Weil, Leary and others to be members of those who officially lead the lost.
Stir-fried broccoli at the Chinese buffets is good too. ;-)
I studied under Walter Houston Clark, prof of psychology at Harvard during the Oleary phase. His book, Erowid Psychoactive Vaults : “The Psychedelics and Religion” by
Walter Houston Clark is still available. He continued his work at mental institutions through the 70’s
Wrong!
Really great article!
Cajun version: Po’ boy with a bowl of jambalaya.
New Age worldview people will not be able to escape the nihilism of the naturalistic world view by exploring the universe next door.
About the only way I like broccoli is raw drenched in ranch dressing, or in the Chinese-American version of beef and broccoli with lots more beef than broccoli and plenty of sweet and savory sauce to mask the landfill odors.
The other experiment that I remember the book talking about was psychiatrists giving the drug one time to men about 50 years old. Within a couple of years, more than half of them had completely changed their lives, starting new careers or making other big changes.
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