Who Turned on Whom From Dr. Albert Hofmann to You How Western Civilization Got High Again, One Head at a Time by PETER STAFFORD AND BRUCE EISNER First published in High Times Magazine, OCTOBER 1977 Republished in The High Times Reader, Nation Books, 2004 LSD often turns its users into “instant messiahs” with an urge to turn on friends, relatives, acquaintances, and perfect strangers. Marijuana, too, is a sort of friendship ambassador from the vegetable kingdom, telling us to declare peace on the world. And during the Forties and Fifties, as acid and grass slowly spread (Tom among an enlightened few to Read more »
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A Call for a Psychedelic Sanctuary
A Call For A Psychedelic Sanctuary — Updatedby Bruce Eisner Wooden ships on the water very free and easyEasy you know the way it’s supposed to beSilver people on the shoreline leave us beVery free and easySail away where the morning sun goes highSail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds flyTake a sister THEN by her handLead her far from this barren landHorror grips us as we watch you dieAll we can do is echo your anguished cry andStare as all you human feelings dieWe are leavingYou don’t need us
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By Bruce Eisner
LSD Purity — From High Times 1977 — Updated Graphics
LSD Purity – Cleanliness is next to godliness From High Times, January 1977
By Bruce Eisner
In the late 1940s, psychologists began experimenting with LSD as a “psychotomimetic” drug – one that causes the taker temporarily to mime the condition of psychosis. Some experimental subjects, however, and eventually some modern mystics like Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, and Alan Watts discovered in LSD a shortcut to the ecstasy and egolessness of nirvana. LSD was recognized as the switch that turned on the clear light of the void.
Today’s acid trip, however, is far more likely to resemble a live TV broadcast in Read more »
By Bruce Eisner
LSD and Aldous Huxley’s Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country
LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country
by Bruce Eisner (Note:;Published in Gaia News No.14 )
Note: See 2006 International LSD Conference talk based on this essay on Google Video
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realization of Utopias. Oscar Wilde
Albert Hofmann, the man who discovered the effects of LSD, has said that he hopes Read more »
By Bruce Eisner
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Why We Get High - Interview with an Alchemist: Bear Owsley Interview
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LSD Purity — From High Times 1977 — Updated Graphics
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Mystery of Time -
Albert Hofmann in America October 1988 -
Who Turned on Whom -
A Summer of New Beginnings
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