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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That was flat out hilarious! Thanks
I came out of an alcoholic blackout once with a fireplace poker in my hand and my terrified girlfriend backed up against the wall with me threatening to bash her brains out. Whats your point?
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LSD is to your mind as a bucket of water is to a powered on computer.
He probably fit in well at the mental institutions... thanks for the info. Never heard of that guy or his book.
“Nice web, Mr Crack Spider.”
His decision to move to the tropical northern side of the country in the early ‘80s was based, in part, on his belief that global warming would lead to a new ice age.
huh?
One too many hits of 4way!
Read about Syd Barrett, one of the founders of, and the guy who named, 'Pink Floyd'.
Huxley also took the equivalent of about 20 doses of LSD intravenously while on his death bed. His wife shot him up with it, at his request. Huxley died on the same day as JFK and C.S. Lewis.
He provided scientific cover for Leary at Harvard. Not what you would expect, he was a tweedy, mature scholastic with estensive credentials, especially in criminal psychology. He ran several research projects studying the religious dynamics of life changing therapy. He came to believe that LSD lent itself to such life changing experience.
Yes, I actually own a documentary about the beginnings of PF.
It’s named after two guys. ;)
I was aware that Huxley went out tripping but not the amount!
And for those interested, “Stormin’ Heaven” is a decent exposition of the history of the substance, the government interest, the scientific debates and ultimately it’s evangelisation and associated use, including CIA agents dosing themselves and spiking others at Langley no less and then among intellectuals and students and the general population.
Thanks. Very interesting.
Okay, he sounds like a goofy liberal and there's also this:
Mr. Stanley lived on an all-meat and dairy diet. He believed vegetables were toxic and blamed a heart attack several years ago on the broccoli his mother made him eat as a child. He lost one of his vocal cords to cancer in 2006.
That LSD must have really fried his brain.
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