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Yidam
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highpsybutterfly
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Posted : Jan 14, 2006 11:50
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candyman
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Posted : Jan 14, 2006 12:18
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On 2006-01-14 11:50, HighPsybutterfly wrote:
People please check out the article on Sir hoffmans Creation in HINDUSTAN times (13th jan)
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hey, could someone go through the trouble of typing it out here.. am not in india so i dun have access to hindustan times. would love to know what they wrote.. |
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highpsybutterfly
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Well.... the article describes the invention .... and says it was not intended to be a Harmful drug.... the politics in the usa made it look bad....and on his 100 bday his wish was to reopen the case and make it availble for test....
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Thanks HPB.. well its not a harmful drug anyways.. its harmful when u do too much at a shot or too often i guess, but anyone doing that is stupid. its ur fault if u think u can do like 3000 mics on 1st time and stay normal. hehehe.. though even that wont have any physical harmful effects.. anyone doing a D, shud do a lil research on what they're abt to do and how much of it is okay.. Dr Hofmann's problem child has been the greatest thing i've ever experienced..  |
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ALBERT Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small
corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here,
hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear
days. But outside there was only a white blanket of fog hanging just
beyond the crest of the hill. He picked up a photograph of the view on
his desk instead, left there perhaps to convince visitors of what
really lies beyond the windowpane.
Mr. Hofmann will turn 100 on Wednesday, a milestone to be marked by a
symposium in nearby Basel on the chemical compound that he discovered
and that famously unlocked the Blakean doors of perception, altering
consciousnesses around the world. As the years accumulate behind him,
Mr. Hofmann's conversation turns ever more insistently around one
theme: man's oneness with nature and the dangers of an increasing
inattention to that fact.
"It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature," he
said, listing to the right in a green armchair that looked out over
frost-dusted fields and snow-laced trees. A glass pitcher held a
bouquet of roses on the coffee table before him. "In the big cities,
there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are
products of humans," he said. "The bigger the town, the less they see
and understand nature." And, yes, he said, LSD, which he calls his
"problem child," could help reconnect people to the universe.
Rounding a century, Mr. Hofmann is physically reduced but mentally
clear. He is prone to digressions, ambling with pleasure through
memories of his boyhood, but his bright eyes flash with the
recollection of a mystical experience he had on a forest path more than
90 years ago in the hills above Baden, Switzerland. The experience left
him longing for a similar glimpse of what he calls "a miraculous,
powerful, unfathomable reality."
"I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature," he said, laying
a slightly gnarled finger alongside his nose, his longish white hair
swept back from his temples and the crown of his head. He said any
natural scientist who was not a mystic was not a real natural
scientist. "Outside is pure energy and colorless substance," he said.
"All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes
see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to
make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings."
He became particularly fascinated by the mechanisms through which
plants turn sunlight into the building blocks for our own bodies.
"Everything comes from the sun via the plant kingdom," he said.
MR. HOFMANN studied chemistry and took a job with the Swiss
pharmaceutical company Sandoz Laboratories, because it had started a
program to identify and synthesize the active compounds of medically
important plants. He soon began work on the poisonous ergot fungus that
grows in grains of rye. Midwives had used it for centuries to
precipitate childbirths, but chemists had never succeeded in isolating
the chemical that produced the pharmacological effect. Finally,
chemists in the United States identified the active component as
lysergic acid, and Mr. Hofmann began combining other molecules with the
unstable chemical in search of pharmacologically useful compounds.
His work on ergot produced several important drugs, including a
compound still in use to prevent hemorrhaging after childbirth. But it
was the 25th compound that he synthesized, lysergic acid diethylamide,
that was to have the greatest impact. When he first created it in 1938,
the drug yielded no significant pharmacological results. But when his
work on ergot was completed, he decided to go back to LSD-25, hoping
that improved tests could detect the stimulating effect on the body's
circulatory system that he had expected from it. It was as he was
synthesizing the drug on a Friday afternoon in April 1943 that he first
experienced the altered state of consciousness for which it became
famous. "Immediately, I recognized it as the same experience I had had
as a child," he said. "I didn't know what caused it, but I knew that it
was important."
When he returned to his lab the next Monday, he tried to identify the
source of his experience, believing first that it had come from the
fumes of a chloroform-like solvent he had been using. Inhaling the
fumes produced no effect, though, and he realized he must have somehow
ingested a trace of LSD. "LSD spoke to me," Mr. Hofmann said with an
amused, animated smile. "He came to me and said, 'You must find me.' He
told me, 'Don't give me to the pharmacologist, he won't find anything.'
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HE experimented with the drug, taking a dose so small that even the
most active toxin known at that time would have had little or no
effect. The result with LSD, however, was a powerful experience, during
which he rode his bicycle home, accompanied by an assistant. That day,
April 19, later became memorialized by LSD enthusiasts as "bicycle
day."
Mr. Hofmann participated in tests in a Sandoz laboratory, but found the
experience frightening and realized that the drug should be used only
under carefully controlled circumstances. In 1951, he wrote to the
German novelist Ernst Junger, who had experimented with mescaline, and
proposed that they take LSD together. They each took 0.05 milligrams of
pure LSD at Mr. Hofmann's home accompanied by roses, music by Mozart
and burning Japanese incense. "That was the first planned psychedelic
test," Mr. Hofmann said.
He took the drug dozens of times after that, he said, and once
experienced what he called a "horror trip" when he was tired and Mr.
Junger gave him amphetamines first. But his hallucinogenic days are
long behind him.
"I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore," Mr. Hofmann said. "Maybe
when I die, like Aldous Huxley," who asked his wife for an injection of
LSD to help him through the final painful throes of his fatal throat
cancer.
But Mr. Hofmann calls LSD "medicine for the soul" and is frustrated by
the worldwide prohibition that has pushed it underground. "It was used
very successfully for 10 years in psychoanalysis," he said, adding that
the drug was hijacked by the youth movement of the 1960's and then
demonized by the establishment that the movement opposed. He said LSD
could be dangerous and called its distribution by Timothy Leary and
others "a crime."
"It should be a controlled substance with the same status as
morphine," he said.
Mr. Hofmann lives with his wife in the house they built 38 years ago.
He raised four children and watched one son struggle with alcoholism
before dying at 53. He has eight grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren. As far as he knows, no one in his family besides
his wife has tried LSD.
Mr. Hofmann rose, slightly stooped and now barely reaching five feet,
and walked through his house with his arm-support cane. When asked if
the drug had deepened his understanding of death, he appeared mildly
startled and said no. "I go back to where I came from, to where I was
before I was born, that's all," he said.
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Stash
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Posted : Jan 15, 2006 15:44
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@ trancing_to_dancingshiva --- a nice read
At the end there is a DOOR & waiting for you on the other side of that door is either HEAVEN or HELL |
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Thank u for showing me a 100 doors evrytime i wake up...Happy Birthday Uncle Hoffie!..Luv Psychoshiv!
To live his own life,then again n again 4 the remainder of that life he must trade the illusion of uncertainty 4 the holy insecurity of never knowin 4 sure whats it all bout!..luv psycoshiv! |
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magicmashroom
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Posted : Jan 16, 2006 15:53
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HaPpY trIpPy BiRthDaY Mr. Hoffman .
U RoCk !
Of All The ThinG i hAve TriEd,"TryIng" Was The HaRdeSt!!
(((((((Jai Hind))))))) |
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Posted : Jan 16, 2006 16:51
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thank u hoffman for making me a better person in lifee hope to meet u up there one dayy |
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Kalari
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On 2006-01-14 17:13, trancing_to_dancingshiva wrote:
ALBERT Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small
corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop...................
"I go back to where I came from, to where I was
before I was born, that's all," he said.
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very interesting and informative dude! thanx!
and a very very happy bday to mr hoffman (now belated) i dont hope, m sure that he had the time of his life that day also! cuz he has declared that its no more a problem child, when he saw thousands of ppl gettin up n singin happy bday for him and thanking him for what he has done for us, he said that from now on, its my wonder child!!!
wat a guy!!  )))))))
hats off to u dr. hoffman for livin these 100 years n still going strong! u have given a big fucking slap to all those ppl who say "say no to drugs"!! 
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"On a trip to India in 1965 Leary was converted to Hinduism. In the following year he founded a religious community, the League for Spiritual Discovery, whose initials give the abbreviation LSD." : Albert Hoffman - LSD My Problem (now WONDER) Child.  |
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Posted : Jan 20, 2006 21:00
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HAY A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR HOFFMAN UR LSD IS THE BEST I EVER AHD HOPE U WILL BE CELEBERATING UR 200 YERS OF BIRTHDAY WITH ME |
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Sometimes it the wise that do the Right thing and sometimes its the INSANE!
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