The Inventor of LSD Asked Steve Jobs for PR Help by Rebecca Greenfield on The Atlantic Wire In life, there are some people that disappoint you, and others who exceed your expectations. Albert Hofmann and Steve Jobs are of the latter category. Here is an excerpt from this article that appeared late last year. That Steve Jobs both did LSD and was also a well respected inventor, made him a good spokesman for a drug that more often gets associated with burnt out Dead Heads. That’s why the drug’s creator Albert Hofmann reached out to Jobs for comment on how Read more »
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Haight-Asbury Psychedelic Art and History Museum Video
Link for this Post: Haight-Asbury Psychedelic Art and History Museum Project Page I’m just about ready to be stuffed and put into psychedelic museum named for the historic location in San Fransisco, California, the Haight Asbury. The organizers sent me an email today with a link to this video and website. Here is a snip from what the museum is about The Haight-Ashbury movement left an undeniable impact upon the world and the reverberations of the psychedelic sixties are still being felt today. Strangely there is no museum dedicated to keeping the history alive and relevant for the millions of Read more »
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There is no hiding with LSD Says Susan Blackmore in the UK Guardian
There is no hiding with LSD Says Susan Blackmore Here is a snip from the longer article by Dr. Blackmore in the UK Guardian For me LSD is the ultimate psychedelic. It’s a tough one – one not to be taken lightly or often. A typical trip lasts eight to 10 hours and there’s no respite or way out once you’ve popped that tiny scrap of blotter in your mouth. I will even admit that on those rare occasions when I take it I feel some deep physiological reaction that makes me involuntarily shaky and afraid just before that fateful moment. So Read more »
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Magnetism and Hallucinated Great Balls of Lightening
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Magnetism and Hallucinations on Sean Kearney's blog Bionic Brain
Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists on the Technology Review blog
Sean Kearny sites a post in a blog post which suggests that magnetism may be responsible for people seeing ball lightening in storms. The basis of the speculation is a paper by a physicist on the effects of transcranial stimulation Transcranial stimulation in plain English means that someone's brain is a repeated series of magmatic pulses.
Transcranial stimulation is something I have read a bit about but would certainly not be up for Read more »
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- Browsing the Web I Discover the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary on the Open LibraryLink for this Post: Read the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary at the Open Library In April 1995, I moderated a panel at an event called the Whole Life Expo in San Fransisco, California called "The Future of Consciousness." Among the panel members was Timothy Leary. There was quite a bit of attention on Dr. Leary that afternoon. Earlier in […]
- Celebrating the 69th Annual Bicycle DaySixty-nine years ago, on April 19th, 1943, the late Swiss biochemist Dr. Albert Hofmann took the first planned LSD session. This day has been celebrated by members of the psychedelic culture since the Sixties. In 1983, Dr. Thomas Roberts began calling the day, Bicycle Day and it has been celebrated with increasing enthusiasm ever since. In San Fransisco, the […]
