Comments on: The Spirit Molecule

By: Lee Schneider

Lee Schneider — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:26:03 +0000

Thanks for jumping in on this, Bruce. Roz Dauber also called me attention to Dr. Hoffman’s letter to Jobs.

By: Bruce Shlain co-author Acid Dreams

Bruce Shlain co-author Acid Dreams — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:17:05 +0000

Some promising areas of LSD research were with alcoholism in Canada — it brought on the DT’s, or final stages, and had a lower recidivism rate than anything else tried, and also with autistic patients. To me the most interesting work was with terminal cancer patients, by Dr. Stanislas Grof in what was then Czechoslovakia. He gave them intravenous injections of LSD while wearing dark eyeshades. He developed a detailed psychic map of where his patients traveled, but it was largely ignored by the medical community because he posited that intra-uterine memories were involved. One of Grof’s books on this work is The Human Encounter with Death, which is quite powerful. And just this week, LSD was in the news, the NYT published LSD inventor Dr. Albert Hoffman’s letter to Steve Jobs after hearing that Jobs owed some of his most creative thinking about the cyber-revolution to his psychedelic experiences. Here’s a link to that story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-grim/read-the-never-before-pub_b_227887.html

By: Lee Schneider

Lee Schneider — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:53:23 +0000

I’m going to look further in the Lilly dolphin research. There might be a secret with the dolphins!

By: realitysurfer

realitysurfer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:40:18 +0000

Please check out my LSD Documentary. posted at youtube

Link to part one of four from POWER AND CONTROL LSD IN THE SIXTIES

GROUCHO ON ACID, DOC ELLIS PITCHES A NON-HITTER WHILE HIGH, CIA LSD BROTHEL AND MORE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZdz0G4lG6k&

By: Jeff Schneider

Jeff Schneider — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:15:43 +0000

Wow, this topic brings back memories. I can remember hours of debate back in college about the value (or not) of altered states and “higher levels of consciousness” on the human experience. Remember Andrew Weil’s “The Natural Mind?” His book was an attempt to legitimatize all of this, to prove it wasn’t just a bunch of kids fooling around with drugs.

Maybe the secret is with the dolphins. They’re laughing at us all the time because we haven’t figured it all out yet.