Posted on 01/08/2006 12:20:54 PM PST by wagglebee
BURG, Switzerland -- Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days. But outside there was only a white blanket of fog. He picked up a photograph of the view on his desk instead, left there perhaps to convince visitors of what really lies beyond the window.
Hofmann will turn 100 on Wednesday, a milestone to be marked by a symposium in Basel on the chemical compound that he discovered and which unlocked the Blakean doors of perception, altering consciousnesses around the world.
As his time left grows short, Hofmann's conversation turns ever more insistently around one theme: man's oneness with nature and the dangers of an increasing inattention to that fact.
"It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature," he said. "In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans," he said. "The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature."
And, yes, LSD, which he calls his "problem child," could help reconnect people to the universe.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
But the drug was hijacked by the youth movement of the 1960s and then unfairly demonized, he said. He concedes LSD can be dangerous and calls its promotion by Timothy Leary and others "a crime."
Does he have any evidence of success using LSD in psychoanalysis?
Interesting to hear he is still alive. He has been a great chemist.
But drugs like LSD and the like and their widespread use are the main reasosn we are in the liberal cesspool we are in now.
Oh yeah, Imagining spiders swarming out of your pores is real "medicine for the soul".
"Does he have any evidence of success using LSD in psychoanalysis?"
No, unfortunately, both the psychologist and the patient have to be tripping at the same time to communicate at the same level.....not enough functioning neurons were left in either for analysis.
Yeah he might still be alive, but Timothy Leary's dead....
......no...wait...he's just on the outside looking in.
Yes, he does. But you have to be crazy on acid to see it.
Ergot blight. Probably caused hallucinations for centuries among unknowing people, even back in the middle ages.
LMAO!
Ergotism was very likely the cause of irrational behaviors that resulted in the Salem Witch Trials in the 17th century.
http://web.utk.edu/~kstclair/221/ergotism.html
100 years? That's a lot time for flashbacks.
I can certainly believe it. Something has to explain the irrational behavior that got a lot of innocent people brutally killed.
When I was in college back in the 1960's, LSD was everywhere. San Francisco, Haight Street, the "Summer of Love." Two or three people I knew pretty well flunked out of school after they got involved with acid. One guy went on a really bad trip and was hospitalized for a couple of weeks. Another went nuts and just walked away from his scholarship. The last time I saw him he was a street bum begging for handouts.
Tuned out, turned off, dropped dead.
Oh yeah....that's REAL Medicine for the soul. Amazing huh?
That's a pretty broad claim--drugs equals liberalism--which I don't think you could support with the facts. (Plenty of drunks and pillheads on our side of the table, sorry to say.) That said, I took LSD about a dozen times in college and apart from one really fun afternoon in the Egyptian wing of a museum in New York ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD CAME OF IT-- the "revelations" that come from acid add up to so much bulls**t in the light of day--and I know this from hard experience. In exchange for a little wild fun, LSD drains away physical health, concentration, memory and true creativity. I met Leary a couple of times late in his life and it struck me that there was about 45% of a brain there.
I knew someone in college who had tried LSD before and experienced what he was like when he had a flashback. Wasn't pleasant.
The Drug Enforcement Administration reports that the strength of LSD samples obtained currently from illicit sources ranges from 20 to 80 micrograms of LSD per dose. This is considerably less than the levels reported during the 1960s and early 1970s, when the dosage ranged from 100 to 200 micrograms, or higher, per unit. (Source: NIH/DHHS)
Not sure. but Cary Grant swore by it!
if I am not mistaken, there is a limit that the body can absorb and you reach a plateau and thats it.....one could take a 10X overdose and the effects and longevity would remain the same......
Well, for knowing or claiming to know so much and how to save the world from the rest of us "over 30's crowd" they sure didn't contribute anything. Instead they got high and stayed that way.
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