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When I first became aware of LSD it was through drug education in school 1966. It was not yet on the prohibited list. Being naturally inquisitive, after reading a bit about Albert Hofmann, I soon found myself stepping up to a hit of the legendary "purple micro dot." Unlike what I was told by my supplier I did the whole thing. He had suggested strongly that I cut it into quarters. I could barely see the tiny tab.
I “dropped” it as I turned to walk home. By the time I had come home about a half hour later, I had forgotten that I had done it. This was the calm before the storm, normal to every trip I’ve done since.
I put my brother’s new Jimi Hendrix album "Electric Lady Land" on his desktop old fashioned record player. I felt bushed and laid my head down on my forearm on the desk beside the record player.
As the music came on, I found myself inside the grill cloth of the record player, walking amongst the tall tubes glowing. When I realized that this was a hallucination I sat up with a start. My arms were miles long, like thin spaghetti. I went to talk and giggle with my brother whose freckled face blended into the textured wall he sat against, so all I could see were two eyes framed in his Lennon glasses. He was playing his guitar as usual.
I walked downstairs to watch some TV before dinner (how could I eat?) The Vietnam War and its gruesome news intruded into Mr. Hofmann’s magic.
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Re: A Personal Tribute To Albert Hofmann
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 10, 2008 at 08:12Under my post on Sunday News CBC, website http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/2008/05/050408_3.html#comments linking to here you'll find a very interesting post by Jethro Bodine. I like how he states "the Dionysian elements from the depths of the unconscious and the heights of the superconscious" under the Oracle's post. I've been pitching various CBC shows about airing a clip of the Oracle giving the world an Umbrella flying lesson. I told George of The Hour, his friends call him Strombo, that if he debuted the Oracle ( an Ancient Greek tradition) and someone who took the Umbrella flying lesson to heart, actually used it to generate an idea which could save the human race, it would be due to his (george's) doing. The Human race would owe their survival to Strombo and The Hour. Why not send him or Sunday News, Carole and Evan, some demands for the Oracle giving his flying lesson. How much effort can it take to compose an email? Ever wanted to participate in something like the paperclip scheme? A much more important birth of an Oracle. I need a job as an Oracle!
I will paste it here because it is a pure insight, unblemished by politics. Keep in mind that when I first saw the relationships in "Do human's have a political gene" http://www.orato.com/health-science/2008/04/24/do-humans-have-political-..., my head was filled with science fresh from making the Dean's list with a 4.0 average. I was on fire inside, reveling in the knowledge I had gained. I did two hits of Window Pane, and as I stood wondering at the chemistry of Autotrophs, Heterotrophs, The Citric Acid Cycle, Photosynthesis, I began to think about human society, politics---why having grown up in the same family, my brother and I are opposite in our politics.
This is what LSD does for me. I resent the likes of a liar like Stephen Harper telling me he knows whats best. He knows nothing of God, science or rational thought. He knows only of control and marketing his will.
Posted by: jethro bodine | May 7, 08 11:13 PM
"If mankind is to survive, then we need a completely new way of thinking."-Albert Einstein
0. "To be socialized means that one has absorbed and accommodated to predetermined conceptions of the way things are and ought to be. The more prolonged, systematic, and effective the socialization, the less self-conscious people are about the different factors and forces that shaped them. One may resist and resent the process but if one wants to occupy a certain place and role in society (e.g., lawyer, physician, psychologist) one has to traverse successfully the rites of passage. The socialization may be partial but its effects are never absent. For most people the process is far more than partial; it is so successful that for all practical purposes there is no questioning, no self-consciousness, about the forces that shaped them and their conception of society."
1. "The use of naturally occurring, exogenously administered substances for inducing altered states of consciousness extends back to ancient times. Cannabis products and certain species of mushrooms were used as long ago as the time of the Vedas, in India, nearly 5000 B.C. In the New World, mushrooms and certain cacti, barks, and vines were employed for similar purposes by indigenous cultures. Abuse apparently was fairly rare, perhaps because careful cultural, religious, and social proscriptions determined a uniform manner in which these substances were used and the experiences one was expected to have as a result of their use."
2. "Because of their capacity to provide experiential access to the numinous dimensions of existence and to the world of archetypal realms and beings, non-ordinary states represented the main vehicle of the ritual and spiritual life of the pre-industrial era. They also played an essential role in the diagnosing and healing of various disorders and were used for cultivation of intuition and extrasensory perception (("A person who believes he has experienced telepathy during a mescaline or LSD session often conceptualizes that the paranormal episode occurred because he is united with his fellow man through a 'common energy' or 'psychic force'. God is often seen as the 'universal flow of love' which unites all living things. This notion is not unlike the pantheistic belief that everybody and everything join communally to comprise God ("...but inconceivable as it seems to ordinary reason, you-and all other conscious beings as such-are all in all. Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance."-Schrodinger)).
3. By comparison, the industrial civilization has pathologized non-ordinary states, developed effective means of suppressing them when they occur spontaneously, and has rejected or even outlawed the contexts and tools that can facilitate them. Because of the resulting naivete and ignorance concerning non-ordinary states, Western culture was unprepared to accept and incorporate the extraordinary mind-altering properties and power of psychedelics."
4. "The sudden invasion of the Dionysian elements from the depths of the unconscious and the heights of the superconscious was too threatening for the Puritanical values of our society. In addition, the irrational and transrational nature of psychedelic experiences seriously challenged the very foundations of the world-view of Western materialistic science. The existence and nature of these experiences could not be explained in the context of the mainstream theories and seriously undermined the metaphysical assumptions on which Western culture is built." ("It seemed that scientific psychiatry was treading on dangerous ground. An embarrassing number of patients were having religious or conversion experiences in therapy with LSD, the erstwhile psychotomimetic. How were these to be understood when the framework of Freudian theory left no room for accomodation to religious or aesthetic discourse? Too many patients were having unitive experiences, too few were having recollections of the primal scene.")