--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After breathing the solvents he had used produced no effect, Hofmann > suspected that the synthetic drug was the source. "LSD spoke to me," > he said. "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.' " > > "A peculiar pre-sentiment" - One of those intuitive > moments where the unconcious mind seems to know more about > what's going on than you do. > > Like Francis Crick dreaming of spiral staircases when > he was stuck on working out how DNA reproduced itself. > One of the greatest flashes of inspiration. But rumour > has it that when he was on his death-bed he admitted > the inspiration came to him during an acid trip.
Here's an interesting piece of American celebrity lore that I always found interesting. Picture Cary Grant, right? The quintessence of outgoing charm, poise, elegance, and savoir faire, even though he started life as Archie Leach in a poor neighborhood in England. Well, as it turns out, Cary Grant drop- ped acid 2-3 times a week for much of his adult life under the care of his psychiatrist, a rebel who "came up" during the early psychedelic revolution with Leary and Alpert, and who never abandoned his belief that it (LSD) could be a powerful and bene- ficial psychiatric tool. It would appear, given the generally positive response that most people have to the vibe of his long-term patient, that he was correct. I agree with Curtis and with others who said that the trouble with LSD was the "recreationalization" of the drug. It was a sacrament, and used as one, could lead to valuable insights -- about the world, about the self, and about Self. Like him, I never had anything but the most positive, uplifting experiences during the period that I experimented with LSD, and have the greatest respect for it. I liken its "cheapening" as something to party down with to some callous youth finding a 200-year- old bottle of the finest cognac and seeing it only as a way to get drunk.
