Hofmann's Potion
Albert Hofmann, the creator of LSD, has died at age 102.
If LSD makes you think only of getting high and partying, you should take a look at Connie Littlefield's wonderful documentary Hofmann's Potion, which you can stream here (and Connie doesn't mind, because she links to it herself). Update: the stream is no more.
Hofmann and the early LSD pioneers (Cary Grant was an enthusiast) saw the drug as a powerful tool for helping people with schizophrenia and for opening up new avenues to an understanding of the functioning of the mind.
I am told by those who have tasted it that he also made delicious brandy, from his own fruit trees.
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If LSD makes you think only of getting high and partying, you should take a look at Connie Littlefield's wonderful documentary Hofmann's Potion, which you can stream here (and Connie doesn't mind, because she links to it herself). Update: the stream is no more.
Hofmann and the early LSD pioneers (Cary Grant was an enthusiast) saw the drug as a powerful tool for helping people with schizophrenia and for opening up new avenues to an understanding of the functioning of the mind.
I am told by those who have tasted it that he also made delicious brandy, from his own fruit trees.
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2 Comments:
Don't know if you've read "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley...The book is an intelligent description of the author's experience with Mescale, drawing comparisons with Buddhist enlightenment and phemenelogy...written in the days before epidemic use of speed or crack. Just seemed like a carefree time where the mind altering drugs were used to expand one's consciousness and not just as an escape from poverty or boredom.
I think I may have gotten my copy from you.
Huxley's widow is in the film, by the way.
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