| LSD: God's Gift to Humanity (For Free & Legal Distribution) |
If enough people took LSD we would have peace, no money (or poverty), laws,
international boundary-lines. People would refuse to work at bogus jobs buy, for and
because of the almighty Devil Dollar.
As you may know, there is not much talk about LSD anymore. The federal
government cracked down on manufacturers by tracing precursor chemicals. There
are rumors that North Korea is supplying LSD. I'd like to convince Libya's populist
leader, Muammar Gadaffi, into manufacturing LSD for free and legal distribution.
Gadaffi also believes in eliminating money. (A powerful, mind-expanding, prioritizing,
civilizing dose could be manufactured for about the same price as aspirin.)
international boundary-lines. People would refuse to work at bogus jobs buy, for and
because of the almighty Devil Dollar.
As you may know, there is not much talk about LSD anymore. The federal
government cracked down on manufacturers by tracing precursor chemicals. There
are rumors that North Korea is supplying LSD. I'd like to convince Libya's populist
leader, Muammar Gadaffi, into manufacturing LSD for free and legal distribution.
Gadaffi also believes in eliminating money. (A powerful, mind-expanding, prioritizing,
civilizing dose could be manufactured for about the same price as aspirin.)
| I have been born again [after using LSD]. — Cary Grant LSD Creates Non-Conformists Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, Jay Stevens, 1987 |
The real reason LSD needed to be illegal wasn’t because it was making a tiny percentage of its users crazy,
but because of what it was doing to the vast majority. ... LSD wasn’t attracting nonconformists so much as it
was creating them.
One couldn't, for example, after a serious immersion in LSD, go back to the 9-to-5 world of sales managers
and upward mobility. Better to work for yourself, doing something simple and useful, which was why so many
hippies became entrepreneurs, farmers, craftspeople. For most, the psychedelic experience dealt a serious
blow to their desire for power, and all those buttresses to the power urge that go by the name ambition.
Suddenly they had nothing to motivate them, particularly when they backed away from the rigors of the ancient
pursuit of Mammon.
but because of what it was doing to the vast majority. ... LSD wasn’t attracting nonconformists so much as it
was creating them.
One couldn't, for example, after a serious immersion in LSD, go back to the 9-to-5 world of sales managers
and upward mobility. Better to work for yourself, doing something simple and useful, which was why so many
hippies became entrepreneurs, farmers, craftspeople. For most, the psychedelic experience dealt a serious
blow to their desire for power, and all those buttresses to the power urge that go by the name ambition.
Suddenly they had nothing to motivate them, particularly when they backed away from the rigors of the ancient
pursuit of Mammon.
| Tune in, Turn On, Drop Out. — Dr. Timothy Leary ‘LSD an Aphrodisiac’ — Dr. Says Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, Jay Stevens, 1987 |
Dr. Timothy Leary, interviewed by Playboy, announced that LSD was the most powerful aphrodisiac ever
discovered. "Let me put it this way," he said, "compared with sex under LSD, the way you’ve been making
love – no matter how ecstatic the pleasure you think you get from it – is like making love to a department-store-
window dummy. "The three inevitable goals of the LSD session are to discover and make love with God, to
discover and make love with yourself, and to discover and make love with a woman."
Leary taught psychology at Harvard and realized that psychiatry benefited only 33 percent of those who tried
it; 33% remained the same and 33% became worse.
discovered. "Let me put it this way," he said, "compared with sex under LSD, the way you’ve been making
love – no matter how ecstatic the pleasure you think you get from it – is like making love to a department-store-
window dummy. "The three inevitable goals of the LSD session are to discover and make love with God, to
discover and make love with yourself, and to discover and make love with a woman."
Leary taught psychology at Harvard and realized that psychiatry benefited only 33 percent of those who tried
it; 33% remained the same and 33% became worse.
| Psychedelics : Religion :: Telescopes : Astronomy — Dr. Timothy Leary Bill Gates & LSD |
PLAYBOY (December 1994): Ever take LSD?
GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago.
PLAYBOY: What does that mean?
GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended up not doing subsequently.
PLAYBOY: One LSD story involved you staring at a table and thinking the corner was going to plunge into your
eye.
GATES: [Smiles]
PLAYBOY: Ah, a glimmer of recognition.
GATES: That was on the other side of that boundary. The young mind can deal with certain kinds of gooping
around that I don't think at this age I could. I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever
challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.
GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago.
PLAYBOY: What does that mean?
GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended up not doing subsequently.
PLAYBOY: One LSD story involved you staring at a table and thinking the corner was going to plunge into your
eye.
GATES: [Smiles]
PLAYBOY: Ah, a glimmer of recognition.
GATES: That was on the other side of that boundary. The young mind can deal with certain kinds of gooping
around that I don't think at this age I could. I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever
challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.
| Before LSD became illegal, Beverly Hills psychiatrists gave LSD to Cary Grant, James Coburn, Jack Nicholson, Novelist Anais Nin and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. |
| A Brave New World Revisited By Aldux Huxley (1958) |
In The Brave New World (1931) of my fable there was no whisky, no tobacco, no illicit heroin, no bootlegged
cocaine. People neither smoked, nor drank, not sniffed, nor gave themselves injections. Whenever anyone felt
depressed or below par, he would swallow a tablet or two of a chemical compound called soma. The original
soma, from which I took the name of this hypothetical drug, was an unknown plant (possibly Asclepias acida)
used by the ancient Aryan invaders of India in one of the most solemn of their religious rites. The intoxicating
juice expressed from the stems of this plant was drunk by the priests and nobles in the course of an elaborate
ceremony. In the Vedic hymns we are told that the drinkers of soma were blessed in many ways. Their bodies
were strengthened, their hearts were filled with courage, joy and enthusiasm, their minds were enlightened
and in an immediate experience of eternal life they received the assurance of their immortality. …
In LSD-25 the pharmacologists have recently created another aspect of some – a perception-improver and
vision-producer that is, physiologically speaking, almost costless. This extraordinary drug, which is effective in
doses as small as fifty or even twenty-five millionths of a gram, has the power (like peyote) to transport people
into the other world. In the majority of cases, the other world to which LSD-25 gives access is heavenly;
alternatively it may by purgatorial or even infernal. But, positive or negative, the lysergic acid experience is felt
by almost everyone who undergoes it to be profoundly significant and enlightening. In any event, the fact that
minds can be changed so radically at so little cost to the body is altogether astonishing.
As well as tranquilizing, hallucinating and stimulating, the soma of my fable had the power of heightening
suggestibility, and so should be used to reinforce the effects of governmental propaganda.
In his 1954 book, The Doors of Perception, Aldus Huxley wrote of his mescaline experience: "But the man
who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be the same as the man who went out. He will be
wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance, yet better
equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable
Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend."
Jim Morrison got the idea for the name of his band from The Doors of Perception.
cocaine. People neither smoked, nor drank, not sniffed, nor gave themselves injections. Whenever anyone felt
depressed or below par, he would swallow a tablet or two of a chemical compound called soma. The original
soma, from which I took the name of this hypothetical drug, was an unknown plant (possibly Asclepias acida)
used by the ancient Aryan invaders of India in one of the most solemn of their religious rites. The intoxicating
juice expressed from the stems of this plant was drunk by the priests and nobles in the course of an elaborate
ceremony. In the Vedic hymns we are told that the drinkers of soma were blessed in many ways. Their bodies
were strengthened, their hearts were filled with courage, joy and enthusiasm, their minds were enlightened
and in an immediate experience of eternal life they received the assurance of their immortality. …
In LSD-25 the pharmacologists have recently created another aspect of some – a perception-improver and
vision-producer that is, physiologically speaking, almost costless. This extraordinary drug, which is effective in
doses as small as fifty or even twenty-five millionths of a gram, has the power (like peyote) to transport people
into the other world. In the majority of cases, the other world to which LSD-25 gives access is heavenly;
alternatively it may by purgatorial or even infernal. But, positive or negative, the lysergic acid experience is felt
by almost everyone who undergoes it to be profoundly significant and enlightening. In any event, the fact that
minds can be changed so radically at so little cost to the body is altogether astonishing.
As well as tranquilizing, hallucinating and stimulating, the soma of my fable had the power of heightening
suggestibility, and so should be used to reinforce the effects of governmental propaganda.
In his 1954 book, The Doors of Perception, Aldus Huxley wrote of his mescaline experience: "But the man
who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be the same as the man who went out. He will be
wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance, yet better
equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable
Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend."
Jim Morrison got the idea for the name of his band from The Doors of Perception.
| LSD Manufacturer Sentenced to LIFE! By Steve Fry • The Capital-Journal (Topeka, KS) • 11/25/03 |
The chemist who manufactured LSD in a clandestine lab near Wamego and the man who set up, tore down
and transported the LSD lab received long prison sentences in U.S. District Court on Tuesday.
William Leonard Pickard, 58, Mill Valley, Calif., was sentenced to two concurrent life terms in prison without
parole, and Clyde Apperson, 48, Sunnyvale, Calif., was sentenced to two 30-year sentences without parole.
Pickard and Apperson were convicted March 31 on felony charges of conspiracy and possession of LSD with
intent to distribute more than 10 grams.
The sentence announcements followed a two and one-half day hearing in which the defendants challenged a
federal Drug Enforcement Administration chemist's calculations of how much LSD was seized. Federal
officials said that evidence of liquid and powder LSD, an LSD by-product and two precursors to LSD showed
that it would have produced an estimated 2.8 billion doses of LSD.
In sentencing Pickard, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Rogers said he had very little discretion in imposing
two life sentences once he learned the amount of drugs linked to the case and that Pickard had two prior drug
convictions.
Evidence shows that a "considerable amount" of drug was made at a former missile silo near Ellsworth and
earlier at a site in Santa Fe, N.M.
Pickard and Apperson will appeal their convictions, their defense attorneys said Tuesday.
Apperson would be eligible to earn up to 54 days of "good time" each year, meaning he could be released
after serving about 25 years six months. The good time doesn't apply to Pickard's life sentence.
and transported the LSD lab received long prison sentences in U.S. District Court on Tuesday.
William Leonard Pickard, 58, Mill Valley, Calif., was sentenced to two concurrent life terms in prison without
parole, and Clyde Apperson, 48, Sunnyvale, Calif., was sentenced to two 30-year sentences without parole.
Pickard and Apperson were convicted March 31 on felony charges of conspiracy and possession of LSD with
intent to distribute more than 10 grams.
The sentence announcements followed a two and one-half day hearing in which the defendants challenged a
federal Drug Enforcement Administration chemist's calculations of how much LSD was seized. Federal
officials said that evidence of liquid and powder LSD, an LSD by-product and two precursors to LSD showed
that it would have produced an estimated 2.8 billion doses of LSD.
In sentencing Pickard, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Rogers said he had very little discretion in imposing
two life sentences once he learned the amount of drugs linked to the case and that Pickard had two prior drug
convictions.
Evidence shows that a "considerable amount" of drug was made at a former missile silo near Ellsworth and
earlier at a site in Santa Fe, N.M.
Pickard and Apperson will appeal their convictions, their defense attorneys said Tuesday.
Apperson would be eligible to earn up to 54 days of "good time" each year, meaning he could be released
after serving about 25 years six months. The good time doesn't apply to Pickard's life sentence.
| The source for this story, edited by Bruce, is unknown |
The Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, on the grounds of the state’s Spring Grove Hospital near
Baltimore, is better known in certain scientific circles as Spring Groove. The mellow-yellow building, custom
designed in 1969 for LSD research, is set among dark Victorian asylum structures with barred windows, a
symbol of the bright hopes of the dawn of psychopharmacology. Behind its plane brick walls, in special suites
with kitchens and bathrooms that allowed for lengthy therapeutic “trips,” researchers tried to harness LSD to
explore the workings of the brain and transform the treatment of mental illness. These days Spring Groove
houses schizophrenia research but no LSD.
The scientists who had been so sure that the most potent hallucinogen ever known would quickly prove its
therapeutic utility found they had a tiger by the tail. Some zealously promoted the drug as a psychiatric cure-all
– “God in a pill.” Others, alarmed by some scientific misuse and massive public abuse, insisted that LSD was
dangerous and scientifically worthless. A third group of neuroscientists quietly stated that LSD was a
fascinating if unruly research tool that required a lot more study. These moderate voices were drowned out by
the outcry against the burgeoning drug-abuse epidemic of the early ‘70s. The government successfully
stopped human experimentation with hallucinogens in the lab – though not in the street. By the mid ‘70s, LSD
seemed destined to go down in history not as a psychiatric wonder drug but as the love philter of Woodstock
and the Grateful Dead.
Some researchers and drug-abuse agency officials maintain that enough is known about hallucinogens to
keep them out of the lab as well as off the streets. “Researchers had high hopes for LSD as a magic short cut
to psychological insight,” says Dr. Jerome Jaffe, associate director for treatment policy at the Federal Office
of Treatment Improvement. “Unfortunately, its therapeutic benefits were outweighed by serious long lasting
problems, such as schizophrenia-like syndromes and depression. At the end of the road, LSD research
showed us that the drug causes such serious problems that it has no promise as a therapeutic agent.” LSD,
like marijuana and heroin, is a schedule 1 drug; no human research can be done without official government
approval.
Yet other scientists say that human research with hallucinogens, still severely limited, could be productive and
will probably return as more and more sophisticated compounds, both legal and illegal, appear. "I think it’s
likely that careful, systematic research in humans will be sanctioned in the next decade," says Dr. Daniel X.
Freedman, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at UCLA. During 30 years of research at prestigious
institutions, including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Yale and the University of Chicago, he has
employed LSD to study brain function, the mechanics of perception and the fine neurochemical line between
sanity and madness.
Such research, Freeman says, could provide unique insights. “Is LSD a pathway to understanding the brain
and behavior? It sure as hell is,” he says. “Did we have that pathway before? We sure as hell didn’t.”
Although scientists have learned quite a bit about how LSD affects neurons, they still have only an
underground knowledge of its effects on people, according to Freedman. “LSD reduces the constancy’s in the
way subjects deal with drab reality, and so creates the opportunity to consider new, more adaptive
approaches to life and to rearrange values and attitudes. That’s the point of psychotherapy, to offer the patient
the means of new learning, and it’s possible that drugs could help. That’s what should be explored
scientifically – not whether such a drug is good or bad.”
The idea of employing LSD to attack problems such as neurosis and addiction was a response to a problem
plainly evident by the ‘60s: A great many people need psychotherapy, but therapy is lengthy, costly and often
ineffective. An adult finds it hard to change because character structure is established very early, at a deep
emotional level that’s hard to access later. LSD was regarded as a chemical means to produce the fresh,
baby-like perception that is necessary to inaugurate new approaches and habits.
“LSD makes a person very suggestible, and that’s the royal road to wisdom,” says Dr. Timothy Leary, a
former Harvard professor and personality expert who’s now a software designer in Los Angeles. Before his
"High Priest" phase, in a project conducted with the Massachusetts department of corrections, Leary used
psilocybin, an LSD-like drug, to provide prisoners with a powerful "born again" catalyst for behavioral change
that would reduce their 70% rate of recidivism. Before long, Boston criminals were indeed talking about love
and oneness but the promising research was cut short by Leary's own transformation from scientist to guru.
[Before Leary became guru, he co-authored a report showing that psychotherapy was a hoax: those receiving
psychotherapy were no better off than those who didn’t, one-third improved, one-third remained the same and
one-third got worse.]
“Using LSD to produce vulnerability is okay only if the set and setting for the experience are benign,” Leary
adds. A malignant example: From the ‘50s to early ‘70s, the CIA tested the drug’s brainwashing utility in 149
projects at universities, hospitals and prisons; in 39 of them, LSD was often given without the recipients’
knowledge or consent. [In fact, every spook in the CIA, including President Bush has taken LSD.]
Leary was far from alone in hoping that LSD could help fight addiction. William James, the father of modern
American psychology, said the best cure for dipsomania is religomania and the nondenominational peak
experience produced by LSD seemed to many researchers to have great potential for treating drug and
alcohol problems.
Dr. Herbert Kleber, now the federal government’s deputy drug czar, did research on LSD early in his career;
he says the manufacturer pulled the drug from the market before he could finish. “After spending another 20
years on addiction,” he says, “it’s clear to me that religious-type experience can be very helpful in treatment –
after all, that’s the basis of AA. There are two problems with using LSD this way. The instant mysticism
associated with LSD isn’t effective in the long run and when you try to assess why such an experience helps in
concrete terms – a basic requirement in science – it’s very difficult. Some people were helped by LSD
therapy short-term, some weren’t – It’s like many drug treatments.”
It’s especially like psychotherapy. as Freedman says of both LSD and talk treatment, “Do they produce an
experience? Yes. Are they effective? Maybe.” He thinks it’s pointless to subject the same criteria the FDA
uses to evaluate medicines such as antipsychotics and antidepressants, drugs that relieve symptoms of
psychiatric diseases in predictable, measurable ways. “The search for self-knowledge and mastery is a
different thing from relieving symptoms,” says Freedman. “A different category and mode of regulation should
be established for agents that enhance insight and reflection.”
At this point, many researchers interested in hallucinogens are unable to study the drugs’ pharmacological
effects because of politics and red tape. Dr. David Nichols, a professor of medicinal chemistry at Purdue,
says, “LSD was the new technology for psychiatry, and it remains untapped. As with many drugs, including
penicillin, second and third-generation drugs, could have improved efficacy. That the research was stopped –
and not the abuse – is tragic because LSD belongs in a medical setting, not the back seat of a car.”
LSD’s oh-wow effects on perception were stumbled upon accidentally by Albert Hofmann, a distinguished
pharmacologist at the venerable Swiss drug company Sandoz. One day in 1943, he ingested 250-millionths of
a gram of Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 – a compound he was researching for use as a respiratory stimulant
– and had an extraordinary bicycle ride home. As Levine says, “When such a minute amount of an agent –
LSD is measured in millionths of a gram – produces such a powerful experience, you assume it must be
biologically significant.”
Scientists initially hoped LSD might be especially good for unraveling the mystery of schizophrenia. They first
associated the drugs effects with the illnesses symptoms, then found LSD’s molecular structure resembles
that of serotonin, a brain chemical that helps regulate stimuli to the brain and responds from it. Researchers
speculated that schizophrenia might be caused by a neurochemical malfunction – perhaps too little or too
much serotonin – that somehow produced chronic LSD-like affects.
Although in the long run LSD neither cured or even accurately mimicked schizophrenia, the studies
strengthened the ides that a chemical mechanism could underlie that disease, says Freedman.
[Drs. Humphry Osmond and John Smythies published an essay in 1951 called A New Approach to
Schizophrenia, they theorized that anxiety caused the release of a hallucinogenic adrenaline (the molecular
structures of mescaline and adrenaline are similar) leading to more stress and deeper levels of psychosis and
withdrawal from “reality.” They also stimulated research chemists to sythensize adrenochrone, a synthetic
decomposition of adrenaline that mimics psychosis. Osmond and Smythies later became very enthusiastic
about LSD.]
[Bruce A. Friedemann believes that persons born breech may act schizophrenic because of different levels of
blood in the brain. In the womb, the blood flows to the head in a “normal” birth (96% of the time) whereas, the
blood in a person born breech goes to the heart. Breech Birth & Personality]
The effort to illuminate the serotonin system, in which LSD plays a unique role, is one of the hottest and
potentially most lucrative areas of pharmacology. [The amino-acid tryptophane was banned from over-the-
counter sale because it inexpensively effected serotonin without a Dr’s paternalistic prescription for
expensive, dangerous tranquilizers and sleeping pills.] New classes of diet and sleeping pills, tranquilizers
and antidepressants aren’t the only possible by-products, says Jacobs: “If the times were such that people felt
mood-altering drugs other than alcohol were okay, chemists could supply specific compounds with few side
effects to make them insightful, mellow or whatever.”
“When we talk about the “psychedelic experience,” all we’re really talking about is the functioning of equipment
in the brain that permits consciousness of any kind.” says Freedman. “You can only have the LSD trip that’s
already in your head – it’s a physiological event. Rather than adding something foreign to the brain, LSD
releases some of the brain’s normally suppressed latent capacities, rearranges what’s there, increases
sensitivity to stimuli usually ignored and turns up the volume. The breaks are off and certain neurological
systems function hypermaximally.”
When asked how a person who has never taken a hallucinogen can imagine what it’s like, scientists often
bring up babies. According to Jacobs, a baby probably couldn’t distinguish between such a drug-induced
state and normal perception.
The LSD experience is full of striking variations on what’s expected. The drug heightens the emotions and
senses to unprecedented intensities. Vision is the prime example: colors brighten, details sharpen and the
empty space around objects throbs with a life of its own.
In contrast to most heavily abused drugs, LSD doesn’t invite compulsive use. In fact, if it’s taken three or more
days in a row, it stops producing its effects. Moreover, the intensity and cerebral nature of those effects are
grueling even when gorgeous. As one researcher puts it, ‘Taking LSD is like being grabbed by the collar and
thrown into a psychic wall for eight hours.’ Not surprisingly, surveys of volunteers for legal LSD experiments
showed that the well balanced [or ignorantly blissful] found the drug interesting but only wanted to try it once,
twice or three times. [LSD is Sacrament.]
Baltimore, is better known in certain scientific circles as Spring Groove. The mellow-yellow building, custom
designed in 1969 for LSD research, is set among dark Victorian asylum structures with barred windows, a
symbol of the bright hopes of the dawn of psychopharmacology. Behind its plane brick walls, in special suites
with kitchens and bathrooms that allowed for lengthy therapeutic “trips,” researchers tried to harness LSD to
explore the workings of the brain and transform the treatment of mental illness. These days Spring Groove
houses schizophrenia research but no LSD.
The scientists who had been so sure that the most potent hallucinogen ever known would quickly prove its
therapeutic utility found they had a tiger by the tail. Some zealously promoted the drug as a psychiatric cure-all
– “God in a pill.” Others, alarmed by some scientific misuse and massive public abuse, insisted that LSD was
dangerous and scientifically worthless. A third group of neuroscientists quietly stated that LSD was a
fascinating if unruly research tool that required a lot more study. These moderate voices were drowned out by
the outcry against the burgeoning drug-abuse epidemic of the early ‘70s. The government successfully
stopped human experimentation with hallucinogens in the lab – though not in the street. By the mid ‘70s, LSD
seemed destined to go down in history not as a psychiatric wonder drug but as the love philter of Woodstock
and the Grateful Dead.
Some researchers and drug-abuse agency officials maintain that enough is known about hallucinogens to
keep them out of the lab as well as off the streets. “Researchers had high hopes for LSD as a magic short cut
to psychological insight,” says Dr. Jerome Jaffe, associate director for treatment policy at the Federal Office
of Treatment Improvement. “Unfortunately, its therapeutic benefits were outweighed by serious long lasting
problems, such as schizophrenia-like syndromes and depression. At the end of the road, LSD research
showed us that the drug causes such serious problems that it has no promise as a therapeutic agent.” LSD,
like marijuana and heroin, is a schedule 1 drug; no human research can be done without official government
approval.
Yet other scientists say that human research with hallucinogens, still severely limited, could be productive and
will probably return as more and more sophisticated compounds, both legal and illegal, appear. "I think it’s
likely that careful, systematic research in humans will be sanctioned in the next decade," says Dr. Daniel X.
Freedman, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at UCLA. During 30 years of research at prestigious
institutions, including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Yale and the University of Chicago, he has
employed LSD to study brain function, the mechanics of perception and the fine neurochemical line between
sanity and madness.
Such research, Freeman says, could provide unique insights. “Is LSD a pathway to understanding the brain
and behavior? It sure as hell is,” he says. “Did we have that pathway before? We sure as hell didn’t.”
Although scientists have learned quite a bit about how LSD affects neurons, they still have only an
underground knowledge of its effects on people, according to Freedman. “LSD reduces the constancy’s in the
way subjects deal with drab reality, and so creates the opportunity to consider new, more adaptive
approaches to life and to rearrange values and attitudes. That’s the point of psychotherapy, to offer the patient
the means of new learning, and it’s possible that drugs could help. That’s what should be explored
scientifically – not whether such a drug is good or bad.”
The idea of employing LSD to attack problems such as neurosis and addiction was a response to a problem
plainly evident by the ‘60s: A great many people need psychotherapy, but therapy is lengthy, costly and often
ineffective. An adult finds it hard to change because character structure is established very early, at a deep
emotional level that’s hard to access later. LSD was regarded as a chemical means to produce the fresh,
baby-like perception that is necessary to inaugurate new approaches and habits.
“LSD makes a person very suggestible, and that’s the royal road to wisdom,” says Dr. Timothy Leary, a
former Harvard professor and personality expert who’s now a software designer in Los Angeles. Before his
"High Priest" phase, in a project conducted with the Massachusetts department of corrections, Leary used
psilocybin, an LSD-like drug, to provide prisoners with a powerful "born again" catalyst for behavioral change
that would reduce their 70% rate of recidivism. Before long, Boston criminals were indeed talking about love
and oneness but the promising research was cut short by Leary's own transformation from scientist to guru.
[Before Leary became guru, he co-authored a report showing that psychotherapy was a hoax: those receiving
psychotherapy were no better off than those who didn’t, one-third improved, one-third remained the same and
one-third got worse.]
“Using LSD to produce vulnerability is okay only if the set and setting for the experience are benign,” Leary
adds. A malignant example: From the ‘50s to early ‘70s, the CIA tested the drug’s brainwashing utility in 149
projects at universities, hospitals and prisons; in 39 of them, LSD was often given without the recipients’
knowledge or consent. [In fact, every spook in the CIA, including President Bush has taken LSD.]
Leary was far from alone in hoping that LSD could help fight addiction. William James, the father of modern
American psychology, said the best cure for dipsomania is religomania and the nondenominational peak
experience produced by LSD seemed to many researchers to have great potential for treating drug and
alcohol problems.
Dr. Herbert Kleber, now the federal government’s deputy drug czar, did research on LSD early in his career;
he says the manufacturer pulled the drug from the market before he could finish. “After spending another 20
years on addiction,” he says, “it’s clear to me that religious-type experience can be very helpful in treatment –
after all, that’s the basis of AA. There are two problems with using LSD this way. The instant mysticism
associated with LSD isn’t effective in the long run and when you try to assess why such an experience helps in
concrete terms – a basic requirement in science – it’s very difficult. Some people were helped by LSD
therapy short-term, some weren’t – It’s like many drug treatments.”
It’s especially like psychotherapy. as Freedman says of both LSD and talk treatment, “Do they produce an
experience? Yes. Are they effective? Maybe.” He thinks it’s pointless to subject the same criteria the FDA
uses to evaluate medicines such as antipsychotics and antidepressants, drugs that relieve symptoms of
psychiatric diseases in predictable, measurable ways. “The search for self-knowledge and mastery is a
different thing from relieving symptoms,” says Freedman. “A different category and mode of regulation should
be established for agents that enhance insight and reflection.”
At this point, many researchers interested in hallucinogens are unable to study the drugs’ pharmacological
effects because of politics and red tape. Dr. David Nichols, a professor of medicinal chemistry at Purdue,
says, “LSD was the new technology for psychiatry, and it remains untapped. As with many drugs, including
penicillin, second and third-generation drugs, could have improved efficacy. That the research was stopped –
and not the abuse – is tragic because LSD belongs in a medical setting, not the back seat of a car.”
LSD’s oh-wow effects on perception were stumbled upon accidentally by Albert Hofmann, a distinguished
pharmacologist at the venerable Swiss drug company Sandoz. One day in 1943, he ingested 250-millionths of
a gram of Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 – a compound he was researching for use as a respiratory stimulant
– and had an extraordinary bicycle ride home. As Levine says, “When such a minute amount of an agent –
LSD is measured in millionths of a gram – produces such a powerful experience, you assume it must be
biologically significant.”
Scientists initially hoped LSD might be especially good for unraveling the mystery of schizophrenia. They first
associated the drugs effects with the illnesses symptoms, then found LSD’s molecular structure resembles
that of serotonin, a brain chemical that helps regulate stimuli to the brain and responds from it. Researchers
speculated that schizophrenia might be caused by a neurochemical malfunction – perhaps too little or too
much serotonin – that somehow produced chronic LSD-like affects.
Although in the long run LSD neither cured or even accurately mimicked schizophrenia, the studies
strengthened the ides that a chemical mechanism could underlie that disease, says Freedman.
[Drs. Humphry Osmond and John Smythies published an essay in 1951 called A New Approach to
Schizophrenia, they theorized that anxiety caused the release of a hallucinogenic adrenaline (the molecular
structures of mescaline and adrenaline are similar) leading to more stress and deeper levels of psychosis and
withdrawal from “reality.” They also stimulated research chemists to sythensize adrenochrone, a synthetic
decomposition of adrenaline that mimics psychosis. Osmond and Smythies later became very enthusiastic
about LSD.]
[Bruce A. Friedemann believes that persons born breech may act schizophrenic because of different levels of
blood in the brain. In the womb, the blood flows to the head in a “normal” birth (96% of the time) whereas, the
blood in a person born breech goes to the heart. Breech Birth & Personality]
The effort to illuminate the serotonin system, in which LSD plays a unique role, is one of the hottest and
potentially most lucrative areas of pharmacology. [The amino-acid tryptophane was banned from over-the-
counter sale because it inexpensively effected serotonin without a Dr’s paternalistic prescription for
expensive, dangerous tranquilizers and sleeping pills.] New classes of diet and sleeping pills, tranquilizers
and antidepressants aren’t the only possible by-products, says Jacobs: “If the times were such that people felt
mood-altering drugs other than alcohol were okay, chemists could supply specific compounds with few side
effects to make them insightful, mellow or whatever.”
“When we talk about the “psychedelic experience,” all we’re really talking about is the functioning of equipment
in the brain that permits consciousness of any kind.” says Freedman. “You can only have the LSD trip that’s
already in your head – it’s a physiological event. Rather than adding something foreign to the brain, LSD
releases some of the brain’s normally suppressed latent capacities, rearranges what’s there, increases
sensitivity to stimuli usually ignored and turns up the volume. The breaks are off and certain neurological
systems function hypermaximally.”
When asked how a person who has never taken a hallucinogen can imagine what it’s like, scientists often
bring up babies. According to Jacobs, a baby probably couldn’t distinguish between such a drug-induced
state and normal perception.
The LSD experience is full of striking variations on what’s expected. The drug heightens the emotions and
senses to unprecedented intensities. Vision is the prime example: colors brighten, details sharpen and the
empty space around objects throbs with a life of its own.
In contrast to most heavily abused drugs, LSD doesn’t invite compulsive use. In fact, if it’s taken three or more
days in a row, it stops producing its effects. Moreover, the intensity and cerebral nature of those effects are
grueling even when gorgeous. As one researcher puts it, ‘Taking LSD is like being grabbed by the collar and
thrown into a psychic wall for eight hours.’ Not surprisingly, surveys of volunteers for legal LSD experiments
showed that the well balanced [or ignorantly blissful] found the drug interesting but only wanted to try it once,
twice or three times. [LSD is Sacrament.]
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Abrams, Isaac – artist
Alpert, Richard a.k.a. Baba Ram Das – psychologist, author, guru
Anderson, Jon – lead singer of Yes, said he took LSD because Paul McCartney had but McCartney did
not like LSD, whereas Harrison & Lennon did (this schism caused disharmony among The Beatles).
Atwell, Allen – artist
Barlow, John Perry – EFF founder
Barret, Syd – (and the rest of Pink Floyd)
Belushi, John – actor
The Beatles – musicians, see Jon Anderson and John Lennon
Black Sabbath – Ozzie Osborn, musicians
Bowie, David – pop musician, who basically lived with Andy Warhol during the 60's.
Burroughs, William – Beat Poet
Bush, Pres. George H.W. – former head of the CIA. The CIA experimented extensively with LSD and many
agents took it so they would know they were not going crazy if it was given to them. Bush Sr. always
appeared bright to me whereas his sons are dopes, crooks and cheaters.
Carlin, George – counterculture comedian
Carter, Jack -- son of former President Jimmy Carter, who is considering a Senate run in Nevada, was
kicked out of the Navy for using marijuana and LSD.
Carrol, Lewis – mathematician, photographer, author: "Alice in Wonderland" – (mushrooms)
Castanada, Carlos – anthropologist (hallucinogens)
Coburn, James – actor
Coleman, Ornette – He spoke very fondly about his LSD experiences
Coltrane, John – Jazz musician. To discern the inner spiritual beauty of late John Coltrane requires the ear
of faith - or perhaps some LSD, which the saxophonist was taking regularly by that time. Effectively, at that
point jazz had ceased to be a popular musical form, and became a cult. Coltrane wasn't just a hard act to
follow; he was impossible.
Corman, Roger – movie director
Crick, Francis -- Nobel Prize winner for structure of DNA, "Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the
secret of life," The Daily Mail (London), 8/8/2004.
Crosby, David
Crowley, Aleister – magician, author: "Magick Without Tears", "Moonchild", "The Book of Thoth", "Diary of
a Drug Fiend", "Theory of Magick"
Davis, Miles – ??? listen to Bitches Brew, On the Corner and LIVE EVIL
Ellis, Dock – baseball player. He mentions the incident in his autobiography. From an interview I saw on TV,
he said he wasn't in the rotation that day, so he dropped thinking he wouldn't be pitching. For some reason
he got called to the mound, didn't think it would be a good idea to confess to having dropped acid, and
pitched the game. I don't remember whether he was the winning pitcher, and I recall that someone else
mentioned he gave up quite a few walks, too. In the interview he said it was a pretty strange experience.
Ellis, Havelock – physician, author: "Psychology of Sex", essay: "Mezcal: A New Artificial Paradise" –
(peyote)
Eminem – Rap artist
Fisher, Carrie (a.k.a. Princess Leia) – She got to a point where she even checked herself in to Betty Ford
because she claimed she was addicted to LSD (obviously psychologically.) I recall from interviews I've seen
with Carrie that there was more involved in her addiction than LSD, I think that Percodan might have been
the other drug she did a lot, I could be wrong though. I do remember it was a very addictive drug, I think it was
an opiate, and I'm sure she probably quite a bit of cocaine as well. Carrie is a good writer, "Post Cards
From The Edge" is really a good novel, better than the movie in my opinion.
Fonda, Peter – actor appeared with Dennis Hopper: "They were passing cocaine around at meetings and
I just didn't want it. When I was doing Fallen Angels, Peter Fonda was talking about LSD and said, 'Come
on, Nancy, you should try it, it's great - I just woke up on the shelf of the linen closet.' " – Nancy Sinatra
Foucault, Michel lords over the fields of history, literary theory, queer theory, medicine, philosophy and
sociology, and his ideas have permeated society in general. His best-known theses, that the concept of
"truth" is relative, that "madness" is a cultural creation and that "history" is mere storytelling, are now familiar
fare at enlightened dinner parties (and those contemptuous inverted commas are mandatory).
Friedland, Robert – billionaire mining entrepreneur not only is planning on developing a major copper and
gold project there through his company Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, but he helped bail out Mongolia from its $11.4
billion debt to Russia. Friedland, best known for the discovery by one of his companies of the massive
Voisey's Bay nickel deposit in Canada in the early 1990s, said he expects by the end of the year a full
feasibility study for the open-pit portion of the project, from which banks assess whether it is worth financing.
About to turn 54, the Woodstock-generation Friedland is a colorful character in an industry with its fair share
of mavericks, loners and eccentrics. As a teenager he was arrested on charges of selling LSD to an
undercover cop, and in the 1970s he embarked on a tree farm business in Oregon with Apple Computer
founder Steve Jobs.
Garcia, Jerry – musician (Grateful Dead), philosopher.
Gates, Bill – reported to have used it a few times in college (see Playboy interview herein)
Grateful Dead – their sound guy was manufacturing most of the stuff in San Fran in the 60's (Owsley also
supplied.)
Grey, Alan – who won an award for the album cover of the String Cheese Incident's "Untying the Not", said,
"I'd like to thank God and LSD and all the psychedelics for the beautiful visions of our infinite being.
Grey, Spaulding – actor, "Swimming to Cambodia." (Pol Pot, who believed in eliminating money was
slandered by devils. (See Pol Pot quotation and reference on my website.)
Groff, Stanislav – Psychedelic psychiatrist, Author of LSD Psychotherepy.
Hagman, Larry – actor JR Ewing "Dallas", Captain Nelson "I Dream of Jeanie" porn star Jenna Jameson
(see below) did a parody, "I Dream of Jenna" • Hagman revealed he'd rather die than have a liver transplant:
part of his liver was removed last year after bacteria attacked his organs. The 72-year-old said: "I was on my
back for a month. My muscles atrophied. I didn't have any strength. They said if I did need one (a liver), then
they would put me on the (transplant) list. I said, 'Don't bother. I'm 72-years-old and I don't want to deprive
somebody of a new liver just because I'm greedy.' "I feel fine now. I am not afraid of death. I took LSD 40
years ago and had ego death. That took the fear of death away."
Heffner, Hugh – Playboy (I'm just guessing.)
Hendrix, Jimi – musician, singer, legendary guitar player. Hendrix had everything – he had the vision, the
mentality and the will. What he didn’t have was the self-discipline. His problem was, he didn’t have the right
person, the right woman, to say: “Put this aside,” or “What do you see yourself doing 20 years from now?” [I
don’t think Hendrix liked women, his songs were mean.] He was in Berkeley and I saw him, and I could see
he needed something he wasn’t getting. Sometimes you need to step back from a circle of friends and
habits – as Coltrane and Miles did – into a period of just crystallising you existence. Otherwise, you become
a performing monkey: everyone gives you more cocaine and says you play like god, but one night you play a
genius and then the next night you suck. It’s like Coltrane or Wayne Shorter or Herbie Hancock. Few
musicians take the time to crystalise their existence. Hendrix took LSD, like I did, but he never realised what
I did: that this is what you do but it’s not what you are. – Carlos Santana
Hofmann, Albert – chemist, discovered LSD and became a proponent LSD. Shulgin asked Hofmann
what he thought of MDMA (Ecstasy). He replied, "Finally something I can do with my wife." Hofmann wanted
to market LSD in small doses as an antidepressant. Link to Hofmann website here.
Hopper, Dennis – actor appeared with Peter Fonda
Huxley, Aldous – author: "Brave New World", "Island", "Doors of Perception", Died day CIA Killed JFK. On
his deathbed he took 100 micrograms of LSD.
James, William – physician, philosopher (Peyote)
Jameson, Jenna – porn star, her brother said they liked to trip in the casinos of Las Vegas
Jolie, Angelina -- Actress, he's done Cocaine, E, LSD and heroin.
Jobs, Steve – co-creator of the Apple computer, the NeXt computer and former head of Apple Computers,
Inc.. Jobs was interviewed in "Time" Magazine (their "Year of the Computer" issue) about how (prior to
starting Apple) he had taken LSD and "heard a wheat field singing Bach to him" or a similar positive
reference. Said, "LSD was one of the three most significant events in my life." (What the Dormouse Said:
How the 60's Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry", John Markoff, 2005)
Kapor, Vince – the inventor of Lotus 123. Of course, he has turned into one of those "... but I didn't really
*like* taking drugs <whine> ..." maggots of late.
Kesey, Ken – author: "One Flew Over the Coo-Coo's Nest", "Once a Great Notion", sold blotter-paper art
Kid Rock – musician
Kilmister, Lemmy -- MOTORHEAD wildman credits LSD with making him a more caring person.
The ACE OF SPADES singer claims his experiences while under the influence of acid opened his eyes to
the importance of treating everybody with respect. The 58-year-old says, "It's the only drug that really does
that. It made me more aware and helped me realise what other people are about.
King, Steven – has alluded a number of times (in his non-fiction writing such as 'Danse Macabre') to having
taken LSD, though I'm not sure he actually comes right out and says it. I would think he might be willing to
make a public statement, given the opinion of the government he's expressed in novels like 'Firestarter' and
'The Stand'.
Kubrick, Stanley – filmmaker
Leary, Timothy – psychologist, father of Transactional Analysis, software author: "Mindwheel". (See more of
Leary's quotations herein). Nixon considered Leary the "most dangerous man in America." See more on
Nixon's involvement in the coup d'etat in Dallas: CIA Killed JFK. Actress Uma Thurman's mother, Nena was
once married to Leary. They divorced after only one year. Nena then married a devoted Buddhist named
Robert Thurman.
Leich, Donovan – musician
Lennon, John – (Beatle), revolutionary, likened unto Christ: "Instant Karma" "Imagine there's no country,
nothing to kill and die for." Lennon was murdered by a hypnorogrammed assassin, see, Who Killed John
Lennon?, Fenton Bresler, 1989. (Sirhan Sirahn, the alleged assassin of Robert F. Kennedy was also
hypnoprogrammed, see evidence here.)
Lilly, Dr. John Cunningham – physician, scientist (electronics, dolphin communication, sensory
deprivation), philosopher, author: "Mind of the Dolphin", "Center of the Cyclone, "Programming and
Metaprogramming in the Human Bio-Computer." The movie "Altered States" was based on Dr. Lilly's
experiments.
Love, Courtny -- musician. "Because I was given acid at four, I think my mind was freed. My father was this
shyster who would get money from the government to make LSD, and bad LSD." Love claims her father may
be responsible for an especially toxic batch of acid that made its way to California's Altamont Music Festival
in 1969, believed to be behind the deaths of four revellers. She explains, "Allegedly the brown acid at
Altamont was his. He can't go to Marin County (near San Francisco), because (he has) a hit out on him."
Manson, Marilyn – musician
Mitchell, Wier – physician, author: "Injuries of the Nerves and their Consequences" – (Peyote)
Moore, Marcia – Sheraton Hotel heiress, author: "Hypersentience", "Journeys into the Bright World"
Morrison, Jim – lead singer for The Doors realized the absurdity of MONEY and wearing clothes. See more
about Morrison here.
Mothers of Invention – musicians
Mullis, Dr. Kary – Nobel Prize winning DNA expert, and surfer. Mullis received a 1993 Nobel Prize for
single-handedly inventing the PCR reaction, one of the most important advances in molecular biology ever
made. When asked by a reporter what his hobbies were, he replied that they were surfing, chasing young
women, and using hallucinogenic drugs. (Hopefully not all at the same time.) He said this prior to receiving
his prize, and was told by a friend on the nominating committee that he had been up for consideration but
would not receive the prize until he cooled it with the LSD talk. He did cool it, and the next year got the prize. I
got this from an excerpt from his book "Dancing Through the Mind Field", which was on the Internet a couple
of years ago.
Nicholson, Jack – actor
Nin, Anais – writer, liberated woman
Nolte, Nick -- Actor: In the early Sixties, when Leary and Alpert were sending LSD around, a professor of
photography that I was working with had received a letter from them with instructions on how to take it. You
had to let go and realise they were all hallucinations. That way you're fine. So we would go out to the
desert, take the LSD and lay down in sleeping bags for eight hours. Ken Kesey said you could walk
around on it, but taking acid and going to a concert became a nightmare. (LSD & MDMA are the best
drugs to take at a concert where there's plenty of room to dance. -- Raquel)
Osmond, Humphry – Psychiatrist, coined word, "psychedelic", gave Huxley mescaline, experimented with
LSD to cure alcoholism, see below
Santana, Carlos – musician, see Hendrix, above.
Shulgin, Alexander – PsychoPharmacologist/Chemist, author of PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story and
TIHKAL: The Continuation. The titles are acronyms: "Phenethylamines/Tryptamines I Have Known &
Loved". These volumes chronicle the author's psychedelic experiments and includes recipies for future
pioneers. Shulgin received a plaque from the Department of Justice for his "significant personal efforts to
help eliminate drug abuse." His wife, Ann says that he never planned to make money from his inventions.
He didn't mind helping the government put amphetamine or cocaine dealers in jail. Those drugs were "false
in some way," he says. "The sense of power they give is not real." They were only marginally better than
marijuana — in his opinion "a complete waste of time." [Yes, I prefer LSD to pot but . . .] On a neurochemical
level psychedelics release the same mood modifiers — such as serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine —
as many antidepressants. Shulgin is no longer calling his compounds psychedelics. His latest molecules
are better described as antidepressants, he says. See 10-page article about Shulgin in Playboy, March
2004.
Sklar-Weinstein, Arlene – artist
Smith, Adam – you know, the guy who hosts the TV show "Adam Smith's money world" on public television.
In one of his earlier books, "Powers of Mind," he mentions his experiences with LSD in the context of
controlled, scientific experimentation and a bunch of other cool stuff, like the time he spent in the Arica
program, going to Esalen, and time he met Carlos Castenada.
Smith, Huston – pioneering religious scholar
Stone, Oliver – (director of "Platoon", "JFK", and much more) said on "Later with Bob Costas" he took a lot
of acid after returning from Vietnam. See "CIA Killed JFK" on my website.
Stravinsky – Composer (LSD ??)
Ram Daas – psychologist, author, guru
Rather, Dan – (source: Ladies Home Journal. July 1980.) Rather acts like a zombi now.
The Rolling Stones – (rock-and-roll) Listen to Their Satanic Majesties’ Request
Warhol, Andy – artist (I liked "Factory" workers, Candy Darling & Mora Moynihan)
Watts, Allen – Zen philosopher, master’s degree in religion, doctorate in divinity, author: "The Joyous
Cosmology", "Zen Sticks, Zen Bones", "The Taboo against Knowing Who You Are", "The Wisdom of
Insecurity".
Wiel, Andrew – physician, psychopharmacologist, anthropologist, fire-walker, alternative health expert,
author: "The Natural Mind", "Spontaneous Healing", "8 Weeks to Optimum Health" marijuana, peyote, yage
(S. American hallucinogen) Lives is Tucson AZ too. He writes that LSD is pharmocologicly safe but not for
unstable minds, i.e., you won't die from an overdose unless you do something stupid.
Wilson, Brian – The Beach Boys
Wozniak, Steve – Apple Computer co-founder
Alpert, Richard a.k.a. Baba Ram Das – psychologist, author, guru
Anderson, Jon – lead singer of Yes, said he took LSD because Paul McCartney had but McCartney did
not like LSD, whereas Harrison & Lennon did (this schism caused disharmony among The Beatles).
Atwell, Allen – artist
Barlow, John Perry – EFF founder
Barret, Syd – (and the rest of Pink Floyd)
Belushi, John – actor
The Beatles – musicians, see Jon Anderson and John Lennon
Black Sabbath – Ozzie Osborn, musicians
Bowie, David – pop musician, who basically lived with Andy Warhol during the 60's.
Burroughs, William – Beat Poet
Bush, Pres. George H.W. – former head of the CIA. The CIA experimented extensively with LSD and many
agents took it so they would know they were not going crazy if it was given to them. Bush Sr. always
appeared bright to me whereas his sons are dopes, crooks and cheaters.
Carlin, George – counterculture comedian
Carter, Jack -- son of former President Jimmy Carter, who is considering a Senate run in Nevada, was
kicked out of the Navy for using marijuana and LSD.
Carrol, Lewis – mathematician, photographer, author: "Alice in Wonderland" – (mushrooms)
Castanada, Carlos – anthropologist (hallucinogens)
Coburn, James – actor
Coleman, Ornette – He spoke very fondly about his LSD experiences
Coltrane, John – Jazz musician. To discern the inner spiritual beauty of late John Coltrane requires the ear
of faith - or perhaps some LSD, which the saxophonist was taking regularly by that time. Effectively, at that
point jazz had ceased to be a popular musical form, and became a cult. Coltrane wasn't just a hard act to
follow; he was impossible.
Corman, Roger – movie director
Crick, Francis -- Nobel Prize winner for structure of DNA, "Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the
secret of life," The Daily Mail (London), 8/8/2004.
Crosby, David
Crowley, Aleister – magician, author: "Magick Without Tears", "Moonchild", "The Book of Thoth", "Diary of
a Drug Fiend", "Theory of Magick"
Davis, Miles – ??? listen to Bitches Brew, On the Corner and LIVE EVIL
Ellis, Dock – baseball player. He mentions the incident in his autobiography. From an interview I saw on TV,
he said he wasn't in the rotation that day, so he dropped thinking he wouldn't be pitching. For some reason
he got called to the mound, didn't think it would be a good idea to confess to having dropped acid, and
pitched the game. I don't remember whether he was the winning pitcher, and I recall that someone else
mentioned he gave up quite a few walks, too. In the interview he said it was a pretty strange experience.
Ellis, Havelock – physician, author: "Psychology of Sex", essay: "Mezcal: A New Artificial Paradise" –
(peyote)
Eminem – Rap artist
Fisher, Carrie (a.k.a. Princess Leia) – She got to a point where she even checked herself in to Betty Ford
because she claimed she was addicted to LSD (obviously psychologically.) I recall from interviews I've seen
with Carrie that there was more involved in her addiction than LSD, I think that Percodan might have been
the other drug she did a lot, I could be wrong though. I do remember it was a very addictive drug, I think it was
an opiate, and I'm sure she probably quite a bit of cocaine as well. Carrie is a good writer, "Post Cards
From The Edge" is really a good novel, better than the movie in my opinion.
Fonda, Peter – actor appeared with Dennis Hopper: "They were passing cocaine around at meetings and
I just didn't want it. When I was doing Fallen Angels, Peter Fonda was talking about LSD and said, 'Come
on, Nancy, you should try it, it's great - I just woke up on the shelf of the linen closet.' " – Nancy Sinatra
Foucault, Michel lords over the fields of history, literary theory, queer theory, medicine, philosophy and
sociology, and his ideas have permeated society in general. His best-known theses, that the concept of
"truth" is relative, that "madness" is a cultural creation and that "history" is mere storytelling, are now familiar
fare at enlightened dinner parties (and those contemptuous inverted commas are mandatory).
Friedland, Robert – billionaire mining entrepreneur not only is planning on developing a major copper and
gold project there through his company Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, but he helped bail out Mongolia from its $11.4
billion debt to Russia. Friedland, best known for the discovery by one of his companies of the massive
Voisey's Bay nickel deposit in Canada in the early 1990s, said he expects by the end of the year a full
feasibility study for the open-pit portion of the project, from which banks assess whether it is worth financing.
About to turn 54, the Woodstock-generation Friedland is a colorful character in an industry with its fair share
of mavericks, loners and eccentrics. As a teenager he was arrested on charges of selling LSD to an
undercover cop, and in the 1970s he embarked on a tree farm business in Oregon with Apple Computer
founder Steve Jobs.
Garcia, Jerry – musician (Grateful Dead), philosopher.
Gates, Bill – reported to have used it a few times in college (see Playboy interview herein)
Grateful Dead – their sound guy was manufacturing most of the stuff in San Fran in the 60's (Owsley also
supplied.)
Grey, Alan – who won an award for the album cover of the String Cheese Incident's "Untying the Not", said,
"I'd like to thank God and LSD and all the psychedelics for the beautiful visions of our infinite being.
Grey, Spaulding – actor, "Swimming to Cambodia." (Pol Pot, who believed in eliminating money was
slandered by devils. (See Pol Pot quotation and reference on my website.)
Groff, Stanislav – Psychedelic psychiatrist, Author of LSD Psychotherepy.
Hagman, Larry – actor JR Ewing "Dallas", Captain Nelson "I Dream of Jeanie" porn star Jenna Jameson
(see below) did a parody, "I Dream of Jenna" • Hagman revealed he'd rather die than have a liver transplant:
part of his liver was removed last year after bacteria attacked his organs. The 72-year-old said: "I was on my
back for a month. My muscles atrophied. I didn't have any strength. They said if I did need one (a liver), then
they would put me on the (transplant) list. I said, 'Don't bother. I'm 72-years-old and I don't want to deprive
somebody of a new liver just because I'm greedy.' "I feel fine now. I am not afraid of death. I took LSD 40
years ago and had ego death. That took the fear of death away."
Heffner, Hugh – Playboy (I'm just guessing.)
Hendrix, Jimi – musician, singer, legendary guitar player. Hendrix had everything – he had the vision, the
mentality and the will. What he didn’t have was the self-discipline. His problem was, he didn’t have the right
person, the right woman, to say: “Put this aside,” or “What do you see yourself doing 20 years from now?” [I
don’t think Hendrix liked women, his songs were mean.] He was in Berkeley and I saw him, and I could see
he needed something he wasn’t getting. Sometimes you need to step back from a circle of friends and
habits – as Coltrane and Miles did – into a period of just crystallising you existence. Otherwise, you become
a performing monkey: everyone gives you more cocaine and says you play like god, but one night you play a
genius and then the next night you suck. It’s like Coltrane or Wayne Shorter or Herbie Hancock. Few
musicians take the time to crystalise their existence. Hendrix took LSD, like I did, but he never realised what
I did: that this is what you do but it’s not what you are. – Carlos Santana
Hofmann, Albert – chemist, discovered LSD and became a proponent LSD. Shulgin asked Hofmann
what he thought of MDMA (Ecstasy). He replied, "Finally something I can do with my wife." Hofmann wanted
to market LSD in small doses as an antidepressant. Link to Hofmann website here.
Hopper, Dennis – actor appeared with Peter Fonda
Huxley, Aldous – author: "Brave New World", "Island", "Doors of Perception", Died day CIA Killed JFK. On
his deathbed he took 100 micrograms of LSD.
James, William – physician, philosopher (Peyote)
Jameson, Jenna – porn star, her brother said they liked to trip in the casinos of Las Vegas
Jolie, Angelina -- Actress, he's done Cocaine, E, LSD and heroin.
Jobs, Steve – co-creator of the Apple computer, the NeXt computer and former head of Apple Computers,
Inc.. Jobs was interviewed in "Time" Magazine (their "Year of the Computer" issue) about how (prior to
starting Apple) he had taken LSD and "heard a wheat field singing Bach to him" or a similar positive
reference. Said, "LSD was one of the three most significant events in my life." (What the Dormouse Said:
How the 60's Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry", John Markoff, 2005)
Kapor, Vince – the inventor of Lotus 123. Of course, he has turned into one of those "... but I didn't really
*like* taking drugs <whine> ..." maggots of late.
Kesey, Ken – author: "One Flew Over the Coo-Coo's Nest", "Once a Great Notion", sold blotter-paper art
Kid Rock – musician
Kilmister, Lemmy -- MOTORHEAD wildman credits LSD with making him a more caring person.
The ACE OF SPADES singer claims his experiences while under the influence of acid opened his eyes to
the importance of treating everybody with respect. The 58-year-old says, "It's the only drug that really does
that. It made me more aware and helped me realise what other people are about.
King, Steven – has alluded a number of times (in his non-fiction writing such as 'Danse Macabre') to having
taken LSD, though I'm not sure he actually comes right out and says it. I would think he might be willing to
make a public statement, given the opinion of the government he's expressed in novels like 'Firestarter' and
'The Stand'.
Kubrick, Stanley – filmmaker
Leary, Timothy – psychologist, father of Transactional Analysis, software author: "Mindwheel". (See more of
Leary's quotations herein). Nixon considered Leary the "most dangerous man in America." See more on
Nixon's involvement in the coup d'etat in Dallas: CIA Killed JFK. Actress Uma Thurman's mother, Nena was
once married to Leary. They divorced after only one year. Nena then married a devoted Buddhist named
Robert Thurman.
Leich, Donovan – musician
Lennon, John – (Beatle), revolutionary, likened unto Christ: "Instant Karma" "Imagine there's no country,
nothing to kill and die for." Lennon was murdered by a hypnorogrammed assassin, see, Who Killed John
Lennon?, Fenton Bresler, 1989. (Sirhan Sirahn, the alleged assassin of Robert F. Kennedy was also
hypnoprogrammed, see evidence here.)
Lilly, Dr. John Cunningham – physician, scientist (electronics, dolphin communication, sensory
deprivation), philosopher, author: "Mind of the Dolphin", "Center of the Cyclone, "Programming and
Metaprogramming in the Human Bio-Computer." The movie "Altered States" was based on Dr. Lilly's
experiments.
Love, Courtny -- musician. "Because I was given acid at four, I think my mind was freed. My father was this
shyster who would get money from the government to make LSD, and bad LSD." Love claims her father may
be responsible for an especially toxic batch of acid that made its way to California's Altamont Music Festival
in 1969, believed to be behind the deaths of four revellers. She explains, "Allegedly the brown acid at
Altamont was his. He can't go to Marin County (near San Francisco), because (he has) a hit out on him."
Manson, Marilyn – musician
Mitchell, Wier – physician, author: "Injuries of the Nerves and their Consequences" – (Peyote)
Moore, Marcia – Sheraton Hotel heiress, author: "Hypersentience", "Journeys into the Bright World"
Morrison, Jim – lead singer for The Doors realized the absurdity of MONEY and wearing clothes. See more
about Morrison here.
Mothers of Invention – musicians
Mullis, Dr. Kary – Nobel Prize winning DNA expert, and surfer. Mullis received a 1993 Nobel Prize for
single-handedly inventing the PCR reaction, one of the most important advances in molecular biology ever
made. When asked by a reporter what his hobbies were, he replied that they were surfing, chasing young
women, and using hallucinogenic drugs. (Hopefully not all at the same time.) He said this prior to receiving
his prize, and was told by a friend on the nominating committee that he had been up for consideration but
would not receive the prize until he cooled it with the LSD talk. He did cool it, and the next year got the prize. I
got this from an excerpt from his book "Dancing Through the Mind Field", which was on the Internet a couple
of years ago.
Nicholson, Jack – actor
Nin, Anais – writer, liberated woman
Nolte, Nick -- Actor: In the early Sixties, when Leary and Alpert were sending LSD around, a professor of
photography that I was working with had received a letter from them with instructions on how to take it. You
had to let go and realise they were all hallucinations. That way you're fine. So we would go out to the
desert, take the LSD and lay down in sleeping bags for eight hours. Ken Kesey said you could walk
around on it, but taking acid and going to a concert became a nightmare. (LSD & MDMA are the best
drugs to take at a concert where there's plenty of room to dance. -- Raquel)
Osmond, Humphry – Psychiatrist, coined word, "psychedelic", gave Huxley mescaline, experimented with
LSD to cure alcoholism, see below
Santana, Carlos – musician, see Hendrix, above.
Shulgin, Alexander – PsychoPharmacologist/Chemist, author of PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story and
TIHKAL: The Continuation. The titles are acronyms: "Phenethylamines/Tryptamines I Have Known &
Loved". These volumes chronicle the author's psychedelic experiments and includes recipies for future
pioneers. Shulgin received a plaque from the Department of Justice for his "significant personal efforts to
help eliminate drug abuse." His wife, Ann says that he never planned to make money from his inventions.
He didn't mind helping the government put amphetamine or cocaine dealers in jail. Those drugs were "false
in some way," he says. "The sense of power they give is not real." They were only marginally better than
marijuana — in his opinion "a complete waste of time." [Yes, I prefer LSD to pot but . . .] On a neurochemical
level psychedelics release the same mood modifiers — such as serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine —
as many antidepressants. Shulgin is no longer calling his compounds psychedelics. His latest molecules
are better described as antidepressants, he says. See 10-page article about Shulgin in Playboy, March
2004.
Sklar-Weinstein, Arlene – artist
Smith, Adam – you know, the guy who hosts the TV show "Adam Smith's money world" on public television.
In one of his earlier books, "Powers of Mind," he mentions his experiences with LSD in the context of
controlled, scientific experimentation and a bunch of other cool stuff, like the time he spent in the Arica
program, going to Esalen, and time he met Carlos Castenada.
Smith, Huston – pioneering religious scholar
Stone, Oliver – (director of "Platoon", "JFK", and much more) said on "Later with Bob Costas" he took a lot
of acid after returning from Vietnam. See "CIA Killed JFK" on my website.
Stravinsky – Composer (LSD ??)
Ram Daas – psychologist, author, guru
Rather, Dan – (source: Ladies Home Journal. July 1980.) Rather acts like a zombi now.
The Rolling Stones – (rock-and-roll) Listen to Their Satanic Majesties’ Request
Warhol, Andy – artist (I liked "Factory" workers, Candy Darling & Mora Moynihan)
Watts, Allen – Zen philosopher, master’s degree in religion, doctorate in divinity, author: "The Joyous
Cosmology", "Zen Sticks, Zen Bones", "The Taboo against Knowing Who You Are", "The Wisdom of
Insecurity".
Wiel, Andrew – physician, psychopharmacologist, anthropologist, fire-walker, alternative health expert,
author: "The Natural Mind", "Spontaneous Healing", "8 Weeks to Optimum Health" marijuana, peyote, yage
(S. American hallucinogen) Lives is Tucson AZ too. He writes that LSD is pharmocologicly safe but not for
unstable minds, i.e., you won't die from an overdose unless you do something stupid.
Wilson, Brian – The Beach Boys
Wozniak, Steve – Apple Computer co-founder
| LSD & The Passion Of Christ |
"Bad trips" on LSD result from the eleven-hour forced introspection that the drug creates. Most cannot stand
to look that closely at themselves, certainly not for that long. That's why Leary and company were getting
complete cures of psychotics after five or six guided LSD trips, of course, before the government stepped in
and outlawed the drug. Well, this movie ["The Passion of Christ," by Mel Gibson] is like being on acid for two
straight hours, only the subject isn't yourself, it is Jesus Christ. -- Edgar J. Steele
to look that closely at themselves, certainly not for that long. That's why Leary and company were getting
complete cures of psychotics after five or six guided LSD trips, of course, before the government stepped in
and outlawed the drug. Well, this movie ["The Passion of Christ," by Mel Gibson] is like being on acid for two
straight hours, only the subject isn't yourself, it is Jesus Christ. -- Edgar J. Steele
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