Albert hoffman worked in his Natural Sciences laboratory with air got its a black fungus that grows mostly on rye air god has been known in Natural Medicine since the middle ages but one of the new substances he isolated did not affect the Circulatory System as expected it affected the human psyche Lysergic Acid Dye Ethyl the mind l o s d. And so forth and has right away i realized that this was a tremendously interesting substance for psychiatry he agreed. After the first clinical tests in switzerland some daws decided to release l. S. D. For production the novel drug attracted enormous interest from Psychiatry Ists all over the world. Sandoz saw
the opportunity to offer some think quite amazing through the psychiatric and psychological circles so they were actually sending samples of l. S. D. To Universities Research institutes individual therapists and they were asking you know would you work with it and give us feedback if there is any legitimate use for their substance. So it came to the psychiatric clinic in prague. So i was sitting in session after session with artists with professionals and writing the reports. In the early years of the experimentation we thought about that of the others the session as experimental psychosis. And
if we can somehow identify whats happening there well be able also to find a substance that would neutralize it so that we would have a test tube. Solution for the most important problem in psychiatry you know schizophrenia and other psychosis which would be like the holy grail in psychiatry. Warning. And i mean. Not only to me and i. During the cold war other groups became interested in the new wonder drug l. S. D. Attracted the attention of international secret services at the forefront was the
used as guinea pigs for a terrible experiment. Their idea was to break a persons mental patterns down by giving them high doses of l. S. D. When that phase was over they would put them asleep for a long time using a sedative and then engage in a process called psychic driving. Where theyd have the same message piped in over and over again thousands of times. It was classic brainwashing. The cia wanted always a certain result they wanted to be able to predict what would happen and then do something to make that prediction come true l. S. D. Didnt always work that way and they found they ran into problems because it was an
unpredictable drug. The us army had more grandiose ideas about what they can do with the us the. War without death l. S. D. Warfare was the idea that. There is a group of normal soldiers responding directly to a series of Routine Drill Commands after receiving a small dose of l. S. D. Theyre going to be used and on discipline. The idea of being able to. Subdue might say the enemy without harming him or killing him was very appealing. L. S. D. Was a of interest because it was the most powerful drug available at the time. To
treat people with the psychedelic effects and so on or to. Alter their behavior. Because l. S. D. Made some volunteers uncooperative we wanted to have. A small contained space where we could have the individual sit and we could televise him as well as the psychiatrist asking him questions. You find the this sensation unpleasant. Way you like it very much. When you see things everywhere you see things most clearly in the central part of your vision the word up and we have one of the ends of my peripheral vision. Rather trying to take seven to. Seven from ninety to. Two. Individuals react to the stress of l. S. D. In various ways there is a subject who succumbs to what has been called cosmic laughter but it took. A lot of serious hours i. Think that was the kind of result we wanted to produce in a battlefield situation it would probably be dangerous for us we might end up on the Receiving End of the village devised. Bomb or heavy duty weapon we were not interested in provoking that. Go on over. Dr reiner now one. Point. Three. In the mid fiftys the american researcher Gordon Wasson made an unusual discovery in the highlands of mexico. And in conspicuous mushroom swallowed as a sacrament during religious rituals to contact the world of the gods. Gordon wasson took some samples of the mystic mushroom home to new york. And. Went on that the not get out and then they thought that theres that substance and basel the ls again and it has the same effect. On the pub so they asked us if we
were interested in analyzing the Mushroom Soup and thats how l. S. D. The brought this mushroom to my laboratory in my laboratory and get down. To that there isnt off the Natural Science shows what exists objectively speaking if they did but you still have to see it up with you have to reflect on it and a scientist sees secrets objective secrets see the you have a nice save the o. B. Even you have a new theory on the fly and i think that a chemist who is not a mystic is not a real chemist he doesnt comprehend that the. While analyzing the mexican mushroom Albert Hoffman dared to perform another Self Experiment in doing so he and his team were able to isolate the active ingredient for the first time similar seidman a chemical closely related to l. S. D. Get a boston lost or loss and was delighted he clicked on it he told us hed love to take us with him to mexico and show us this world wonders when the beads. So we went on that expedition to the tech country and the south that they cannot concede. The american took him to maria a highly respected heeling woman in the man diplomat as a texas two researchers wanted to test their sim aside been tablets on her. And trade gordon my Friend Gordon explained to maria sabina that we had isolated the spirit of the Mushroom Teeth he said he had taken yet so she could carry out her ceremony with these pills. And how felt i knew them she
organized a meeting that he it and when the pills had been handed out there was a wonderful ceremony that lasted until the next morning about it sitting with the beast in the moat and get out how to. Only indecent i think in the nice sacred drugs i basically discovered l. S. D. Thats what makes l. S. D. So significant not only due to its effect but also because of its Chemical Structure its alongst to these drugs that were discovered thousands of years ago. If it from the infinite number of plants if something had been selected and deemed sacred like i thought i was and thought this is kind of. At the end of the one Nine Hundred Fifty s. L. S. D. Had found its place in psychiatry it was regularly used in many clinics in europe and north america. An important think about the secular experiences is that they take you way beyond anywhere that psychoanalysis or some related schools can actually reach and thats were more stuff the emotional psychosomatic problems are coming from and there are also mechanisms of healing and transformation that are much more powerful than anything you can do on the level of biographical material. I really have also talked to a number of people who just you know have years of psychoanalysis and they say they didnt even come close to where they were the first secular exception to them. A wide circle of friends. I love parties but the alcohol was ruining it for me i cant shrink. And when l. S. D. Came along so you know her a heres something here is another direction to go with it. We have had some l. S. D. That was in the package and we had to create doses out of it and that was very difficult to do so we sort of got very deep into it ourselves you know sort of Magic Carpet Ride inside our own minds. And. I couldnt help but talk about these things and so the minute you start to talk about this everybody wants. Wherever the Old School Bus stopped the l. S. D. Parties got bigger. The acid test a Rite Of Passage into
a new psychedelic might stop. Millbrook on the american east coast. In the vacant Country House of a rich patron former Harvard Lecturer Timothy Leary founded
a psychedelic commune. The First Experience i had was with seven little mushrooms in mexico for the five hours after i ate these mushrooms i learned more about psychology and i had in the preceding sixteen years as a psychologist since that time ive done almost nothing but attempt to study at to learn more about how these experiences are produced and how they can be used for mass benefit. At Harvard Leary put the study of hallucinogenic drugs on the curriculum that was the beginning of the end for the ambitious professor and his team and. The only university. The one thing that it differed from the accepted social paradigm is that we took the drug itself because there would be to can behave us paradigms you wouldnt do that you would and the chairman of the department was pissed off at us for doing that you know i
thought that was unscientific. And they said you know if you do these studies quietly its a good im going to be ok. Like that but that was not larrys vision you see he had the vision it was is a democratic vision egalitarian this is too good not to share with everybody who are we to say. Timothy leary and his entire team were eventually fired from harvard his new headquarters millbrook a place for contemplation and adventure. Well i had a great time no growth i mean. It was a place to introduce people to the Psychedelic Experience in the most beautiful way possible. It was a center for people to come from every walk of life. From the highest
aristocrat and noble royal person down to the dirtiest the people everybody came it was a mecca for psychedelics any. Sort of very what are you up to here we teach the science in our ecstasy we teach people how to turn on. Or how to go out of their minds. By turner and we. Tune in to get beyond your routine ways thinking and acting and
experiencing. And we often say that. Were teaching people how to use the head. The point is that in order to use your. Ass to go out of your mind. In time. I need to stand and he placed an order with a company i dont know maybe two hundred grams of l. S. D. And half a kilo of solace ive been. Going to have to get out and then he invited me to come and visit him he said he was doing big events with the congress of this and so on. And i wrote him and i declined his even those with the least from the start of the spring up again when everything is still developing is a. Lot of moving communist. There
it was a provocateurs yes he liked being provocative he like you know saying things and all the. Way that people. He didnt care if they misunderstood he said think for yourself. America today is an insane asylum the American People are completely hung up on Material Acquisition on power on war making its an insane asylum over here and its our goal to live the spiritual level of the American People in the next five to ten years we expect that between twenty and Thirty Million americans will be using l. S. D. Regularly in their Spiritual Development and in the psychological growth. In california their Psychedelic Movement quickly gained ground Haight Ashbury previously a rundown district in San Francisco was transformed. It
was sort of a very exciting time in the Heyday Ashbery was lovely. There was a very Good Community spirit all the Little Stores for opening down on Haight Street People were. Very friendly with each other we all knew each other in the neighborhood and they would come up with wonderful ideas like lets have a party in some corner of the park and so the band would come out and bring their instruments to. The band called the great. Spirit make music. Music that. We tell young people today drop out of school because Schools Education today is
the worst narcotic run the. Dont politic dont vote these are old mens game impotent senile min that want to put you want to their old chess games of war and power drop out. To men with natural things take off your shoes get back in tune with gods hand you cant get caught in a conforming wrote lockstep which we call american society. On the happy of the fourth and then i accused him of forcing you to listen to young to young people very young people. Elites they put out l. S. D. Needs preparation it needs a certain i mature at. And its irresponsible to tinker with engine or enter the psyches of people who are still developing with and going strong and like that she thought it was all the means the men and i criticized him for that and fed. Him out for terrific and. On the street l. S. D. Or acid was initially tolerated by the police consuming the fashionable drug was not prohibited at first. What obviously was happening in people who were taking psychedelics particularly the Younger Generation is that they could not agree anymore it was the standards of the society that was around them they developed a whole different system of values the different their Life Strategy and so on. And part of it certainly was very strong antiwar feelings because when you have what i call transpersonal experiences where you feel essential oneness with other people and even with the enable species with nature and so on it has very significant
implications for. How you feel about war people killing each other. We sent hundreds of thousands of tablets to vietnam for free. We were supporting all the War Protesters so why not support our brothers and sisters saying age but have been drafted and dragged you know almost in chains to be killed in vietnam why not give them the same medicine that was causing the move. These demonstrations things are Fifty Thousand marchers in downtown something. Just go just to piece together. The rebellion in the in one Nine Hundred Sixty s. I think secular spirit were part of it very significant part but i dont think
there were because of what was what was happening. L. S. D. Became a symbol. Of all that was going a lot that was frightening all that seemed to be wrong. It was an easy scapegoat easy target for people who wanted to denounce the the Youth Rebellion denounce the Antiwar Movement very easy to denounce the drug war the drugs that were associated with those movements. After public debates about the dangers of l. S. D. Became increasingly heated the state of california eventually reacted in october one thousand Nine Hundred Sixty six the substance was prohibited. And my status changed from one who was a minor criminal to one who was a serious felon. Or i mean ive been convicted many times ive spent
time in fourteen different prisons all of this has happened to me as a result of my devotion to psychedelics. So im a criminal of course im a criminal. Shortly after the prohibition of l. S. D. More than Twenty Thousand people gathered in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco hippies radical students the most diverse sections in the Protest Movement got together for an enormous demonstration. The sound of the Youth Movement conquered the airwaves the mass media spread the
hippies message across the entire globe. The media put in a big story about the hey the ashbury and it was this lovely place to go and you might see john lennon or you know perhaps you know. In any way they created all monster for us. And within a few weeks it changed people came from all over america by the hundreds
and then the thousands and by early summer there must have been ten thousand people sleeping on the sidewalks and in the park and in every alley you know and trying to go hungry and homeless and it was crazy. Here some francisco hits one of the dance floors and you know you have two thousand people all taken five hundred micrograms of villas be thought this is going to be madness. I thought of this one of them out of the us and all context and i couldnt see under all that could work no how would you handle by. Ive Nine Hundred Sixty seven the Psychedelic Movement is in full bloom its the Summer Of Love ive. Ive
you know and then i can i find after my personal experiences with i never thought a substance was such an effect would ever reach the streets. Yes i mean Drug Abuse Substances out there it exists we dont have control over it anybody that has been in the hunt. For the bank. President nixon called Timothy Leary the most dangerous man in america a short time later leary received a draconian Prison Sentence for possession of two joints and. What happened was riri made the secular dish much more dangerous than they would be in responsible hands. So it may increase in the risks and minimizing the Benefits Flittered killed you know legitimate research. Albert hoffmans magic drug became his constant worry l. S. D. Ended up where it had started in psychiatry where it is still tolerated in some clinics. After the special authorizations for its use in psychiatry finally expired l. S. D. Disappeared underground as an internationally outlawed Drug Research in hallucinogenic substances seemed to fade into oblivion. We started our work with cilla side been in about two thousand. It was difficult but we got approved. People who are eligible for our trial are people who have anxiety and or depression secondary to their Cancer Diagnosis you to. Join. Us so after preparation of the volunteers schedule for their silis ive been sessions. What we would want and hope for them is that they have an experience thats uplifting and alters their. Perceptual sat in a way that makes the remainder of their life and their struggle with their disease process. Something thats really quite manageable for. The prognosis was very poor so my life just kind of got narrower and narrower i got
more exclusively focused on the cancer and. I became more withdrawn. Finally my daughter and friends. Sort of told me that i needed to do something. With. For the first hour and a half it was pretty frightening because i was fighting. I was resisting i wanted to open my eyes and make things snap back into place if the i didnt have the help of the people there i wouldve left the room and tried to walk around and get things to focus back in again you know to look familiar and. So the supervision i think is very important. Its. Just. The after about an hour and a half i calm down during that time i could pull up past relationships or current
relationships and look at them in great detail and. It was as if i was a. Child a little. To it. A layer. Playing. The depression itself lifted. That fundamentally changes the way you approach the world so youre youre opening out instead of narrowing down into a negative spiral. Its almost unbelievable that after one day. And not any follow up medications or anything that this could happen. Is not a good idea of the seigneur for the first ten years it certainly was a wonder drug so i mean it was a very important resource in psychiatry for patients on and i was convinced that the real use for l. S. D. Would still be found on your knees it couldnt just disappear that was impossible in this film and. Climate change. Winched. Pollution. Isnt it time for good. To go in africa people into projects that are changing no one far meant for the better its up to us to make a difference lets instrument. The current environment magazine. D. W. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a Military Dictatorship with just one t. V. Shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist and have walked off the streets of many can trust and their problems are all of this age fourteen social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. Corruption who can afford to stay silent when it comes to the sense that humans on the scene are my two folds who have decided to
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