OT: Acid Jazz
Johnny Asia
How many of you took LSD? The father of LSD will turn 100
tomorrow. He took the stuff for decades. I'm thinking I should start
taking it again, so I'll live to be 100 too. Anyone care to join me?
We can have a big Acid Jazz Jam up in Woodstock, up at Magic Meadow
on Overlook mountain. The full moon gatherings up there are legendary,
Van Morrison wrote "Moon Dance" up there. Come on, let's party!
What have we got to lose?
I took a dose of Sandoz pharmaceutical LSD and went to hear BB King
and Ten Years After at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Or did I
hallucinate that? I have Albert Hoffman to thank for that fine dose
of acid. May he live another 100 years!
Father of LSD Celebrating 100th Birthday
By SAM CAGE, Associated Press Writer
GENEVA - LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet
the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its
first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary Wednesday — in
good health and with plans to attend an international seminar on the
hallucinogenic.
"I had wonderful visions," Albert Hofmann said, recalling his first
accidental consumption of the drug.
"I sat down at home on the divan and started to dream," he told the
Swiss television network SF DRS. "What I was thinking appeared in
colors and in pictures. It lasted for a couple of hours and then it
disappeared."
LSD inspired the 1960s hippy generation and was immortalized in the
Beatles' hit "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," although the band denied
any connection. But it was also known as Like Swift Dead.
For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended
his invention.
The chemist — who still takes nearly daily walks in the picturesque
village where he lives in the Jura mountains with his wife of 70
years, Anita — discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while
studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other
grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm, now part of Novartis.
The company declined to comment for this story.
Hofmann was the first person to test the drug when a tiny amount of
the substance seeped on to his finger during a repeat of the
laboratory experiment in April 1943.
"Everything I saw was distorted, as in a warped mirror," he wrote of
the experience, noting his surprise that LSD was able to produce "such
a far-reaching, powerful, inebriated condition without leaving a
hangover."
The chemist experimented with a larger dose three days later, but the
result this time was a "horror" trip, he wrote. His surroundings
turned into threatening images. A neighbor was transformed into a
wicked witch.
"I was filled with an overwhelming fear that I would go crazy. I was
transported to a different world, a different time," he wrote.
The drug was popularized by Timothy Leary, the one-time Harvard
lecturer known as the "high priest of LSD," whose "turn on, tune in,
drop out" advice to students in the 1960s glamorized the hallucinogen.
The film star Cary Grant and numerous rock musicians extolled its
virtues in achieving true self-discovery and enlightenment.
The United States banned LSD in 1966 and other countries followed
suit.
Hofmann maintains that was unfair, arguing the drug was not
addictive. He has repeatedly said the ban should be lifted so LSD can
be used in medical research, and he took the drug himself —
purportedly on an occasional basis and out of scientific interest —
for several decades.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060110/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_lsd_inventor
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Johnny Asia, Hippie Guitarist
http://johnnyasia.info
"I say play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what
you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing even if it does take
them fifteen, twenty years." - Thelonious Monk
DaveK
> How many of you took LSD? The father of LSD will turn 100
> tomorrow. He took the stuff for decades. I'm thinking I should start
> taking it again, so I'll live to be 100 too. Anyone care to join me?
> We can have a big Acid Jazz Jam up in Woodstock, up at Magic Meadow
> on Overlook mountain. The full moon gatherings up there are legendary,
> Van Morrison wrote "Moon Dance" up there. Come on, let's party!
> What have we got to lose?
>
>
> I took a dose of Sandoz pharmaceutical LSD and went to hear BB King
> and Ten Years After at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Or did I
> hallucinate that? I have Albert Hoffman to thank for that fine dose
> of acid. May he live another 100 years!
>
>
> Father of LSD Celebrating 100th Birthday
>
> By SAM CAGE, Associated Press Writer
>
> GENEVA - LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet
> the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its
> good health and with plans to attend an international seminar on the
> hallucinogenic.
>
> "I had wonderful visions," Albert Hofmann said, recalling his first
> accidental consumption of the drug.
>
> "I sat down at home on the divan and started to dream," he told the
> Swiss television network SF DRS. "What I was thinking appeared in
> colors and in pictures. It lasted for a couple of hours and then it
> disappeared."
>
> LSD inspired the 1960s hippy generation and was immortalized in the
> Beatles' hit "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," although the band denied
> any connection. But it was also known as Like Swift Dead.
>
> For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended
> his invention.
>
> village where he lives in the Jura mountains with his wife of 70
> purportedly on an occasional basis and out of scientific interest -
> for several decades.
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060110/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_lsd_inventor
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>
> Johnny Asia, Hippie Guitarist
> http://johnnyasia.info
>
>
>
> "I say play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what
> you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing even if it does take
> them fifteen, twenty years." - Thelonious Monk
Heh, I can barely handle weed, much less anything hallucinagenic.
Which is of course, why I don't do any of it....
How's life up in the frozen north? I will probably be in your area
some time in march for more Buddhist stuff. I really should arrange it
so that I can see you play somewhere. What's the cheapest, shittiest
hotel in the Mt. Tremper/Woodstock area?
Max Leggett
yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>How many of you took LSD?
I didn't inhale.
>The father of LSD will turn 100
>tomorrow. He took the stuff for decades. I'm thinking I should start
>taking it again, so I'll live to be 100 too. Anyone care to join me?
When I woke up this morning I felt like 100. Maybe I shoulda hadda tab
of microdot instead of the espresso. It's been raining for so long
here that everything's gone blurry anyway, so it wouldn't make much
difference.
> I took a dose of Sandoz pharmaceutical LSD and went to hear BB King
>and Ten Years After at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Or did I
>hallucinate that?
You hallucinated it. What you saw was Herman's Hermits with Freddie
and the Dreamers opening. And it was in Buffalo.
>of acid. May he live another 100 years!
I'll go for that! Is that why they call him Weird Albert?
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I have had to be diligent. Anyone with equal diligence would have done as much.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johnny Asia
>
>How's life up in the frozen north? I will probably be in your area
>some time in march for more Buddhist stuff. I really should arrange it
>so that I can see you play somewhere. What's the cheapest, shittiest
>hotel in the Mt. Tremper/Woodstock area?
The Phoenicia Hotel, it's 2-3 miles from the monastary
in Mt. Tremper. Gangster Dutch Schultz used to go there, legend has
it that he hid some treasure in the woods nearby.
http://www.ulstertourism.info/inns.html
http://escapemaker.com/ny/phoenicia/phoenicia.html
Johnny Asia
>>hotel in the Mt. Tremper/Woodstock area?
>
>
>The Phoenicia Hotel,
"Phoenicia is a quirky amalgam of dyed-in-the-wool lifers, artistic
souls, leather-clad bikers and solitary curmudgeons who get along,
perhaps, because they agree that it is worth forgoing amenities like
Laundromats and malls for peace and quiet.
From The New York Times, June 28, 2002, Friday
ESCAPES HAVENS; Weekender | Phoenicia, N.Y.
http://www.slowart.com/limner/htm/nytimes.htm
JC McNeil
Johnny Asia wrote:
> How many of you took LSD? The father of LSD will turn 100
> tomorrow. He took the stuff for decades. I'm thinking I should start
> taking it again, so I'll live to be 100 too.
Yes, Vitamin A is good for you . . just, unfortunately, illegal . . but
you can join a peyote or ayahuasca church
misterwilliamc
And here I thought you might be referring to Billy Butler and some of
his things repackaged under the acid jazz moniker.
Yeah, the 'ol d-lysergic acid diethylamide 25.
And the '50s CIA Manchurian Candidate trials, discovering re-programming
to an extent could be accomplished, but that danged pesky God thing
would come up here and there, and those permanent I.Q. boosts...
That 'ol devil Timothy, and his vision of re-programming clinics across
the country for people to be rid of deleterious thought/habit patterns...
together with the increasing in vogue use among ever-widening circles of
thrill seekers, explorers...
possibilty of Critical Mass...
Fed Schedule One clampdown, can't have wholesale de-programming,
re-programming unless they're the ones doing it... So much for
Democrat/Republican when it comes to Power/Control Freaks... Bobby
Kennedy would-be might-be can't let go of reins/reigns benign king on
board for that one.
Leary adapts clown prince persona in attempt at wholesale raising,
knowing it is sloppy, far from ideal, that there would be casualties.
Goes to Mexico to set up proto-clinic.
Nabbed at border coming back into states.
Sent to Vacaville...
Leary a real magician by the way, as in Magick. Right there with Crowley.
Someone mentioned ayahuasca.. dimethlytryptamine, schedule one, and beta
carbolines.
Recent research indicates pineal gland secretes the first, body conjures
the trigger second, in relation to REM.
Technically against the law to dream in U.S.
Recent research (hah bah)... magicians, mystics, prophets who have
reverse-engineered states have known the mechanics of blast off, the
Star Ship contraction, the spreading self across the Universe expansion,
for ages...
External plants (lsd itself a result of researching rye fungus for
migraine help) training wheels for some.
Power/Control freak thing into play fairly recently... Chinese
government cracked down on growing, "cult," that featured a form of chi
kung that if dilligently practiced ultimately results in control of that
internal chemistry set Dream Machine Reality Tweaking fantastic plastic
user created universe machine...
Just can't have Wholesale Re-Programming into New Realities...
Finer points, levels (the best) omitted due to space/time limitations.
Would like to detail some of peyote (mentioned in thread), and cousin
San Pedro (Saint Peter, as in Gatekeeper...)
as well as Witch's Brew (that Bitches Brew reference), solanaceous
niceties with digitalis (to protect heart), group of folks hundreds of
years ago on Pacific Coast and datura, tree tobacco, castor bean coming
of age death trip only the strong survive...
Would like to talk about conjuring ufos for your pedistrian awed
neighbors (there was a time when some were terrified) or becoming the
UFO Yourself for those fabulous night excursions...
But No.
It's been said:
Drugs are for people who can't handle reality.
Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.
And that: Reality is What You Make it.
The first two Bluurrreeee, that last a couple notches in the right
direction in the OmnipotentOmnipresentOmniscentOptometrist which is
clearer this one or this one....
Oh the Fall was a Loooong Way Down.
Old battle for Hearts and Minds... the onion layers of that one.
So. Hope you enjoyed the short trip.
Has anybody Turned On Tuned In Dropped Out with Billy Butler, Bill
Doggett Honky Tonk man, tasty Prestige solo outings with that volume
pedal, lately?
Willie K. Yee, MD
in my spiritual development. I was one of the few people then who knew
what they were doing (as much as anyone can) having written my high
school senior graduation essay on the subject in 1961, under the
guidance of a teacher who was one of Sidney Cohen's first subjects,
and a follower of Gerald Heard, who was the one person who understood
from the beginning what the potential, dangers, and future (which he
predicted with uncanny accuracy) of psychedelics were.
Oh, yes, and I inhaled.
Johnny Asia
MD) wrote:
>Taking acid in the late '60s (a total of 2 1/2 trips)
1/2 a trip?
I came up with my name on a trip.
"Johnny Asia, the All-American boy with the wisdom of the Orient"
I started laughing out loud when that popped into my head, my
girlfriend laughed too. I'm still laughing 30 years later, and the
acid only cost $4. What a bargain!
My girlfriend and I went to see "Clockwork Orange" together, tripping
on Orange Sunshine. We were the only 2 people in the theater
who were laughing. It was at a large Chicago theater, when the movie
first came out. People looked at us like we were crazy, laughing about
such a weird movie.
She was a crazy girl, and she looked like Wonder Woman.
(I didn't hallucinate that) Her father is a well known psychologist.
He drove the poor girl crazy. He should have taken some LSD.
JC McNeil
misterwilliamc wrote:
> Someone mentioned ayahuasca.. dimethlytryptamine, schedule one, and beta
> carbolines.
> Recent research indicates pineal gland secretes the first, body conjures
> the trigger second, in relation to REM.
> Technically against the law to dream in U.S.
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ayahuasca/ayahuasca_law14.shtml
misterwilliamc
> http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ayahuasca/ayahuasca_law14.shtml
As a step to alternate end game of particular absurdity, utilization of
an absurdity:
If interested folks were on their toes, they'd be pushing for getting
cerebrospinal fluid samples (ouch) from every person in Congress, Pres,
V.P., cabinet....
With the threat of throwing each and every in the clink as habitual
schedule one users/producers, offenders...
Sometimes people trying to get out of the box still think in it.
And for most just too many other fish to fry, and more pertinent the
process of getting fish itself, i.e., getting by/making it/surviving, to
put up too much of a fight on too many fronts.
Willie K. Yee, MD
yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:34:09 GMT, wk...@bestweb.net (Willie K. Yee,
>MD) wrote:
>>Taking acid in the late '60s (a total of 2 1/2 trips)
>
>1/2 a trip?
Yeah. I took some green stuff that was supposedly mescaline, smoked
some killer weed and was high enough but definitely not tripping like
LSD, so I have know idea what was going on really. Didn't change my
life the way acid did.
JC McNeil
Oh, I was taking 1/2 a trip as meaning "1-way" instead of "2-way" . .
as in you went there and didn't come back.
Willie K. Yee, MD
>Oh, I was taking 1/2 a trip as meaning "1-way" instead of "2-way" . .
>as in you went there and didn't come back.
>
Nah. I went half-way there and got turned around.
Johnny Asia
http://www.lsd.info
Throughout history people have used mind-expanding substances to
explore consciousness and enhance their lives. Our purpose at the
Albert Hofmann Foundation is to gather the records of these endeavors
and to further the understanding and responsible application of
psychedelic substances in the investigation of both individual and
collective consciousness.
Dr. Albert Hofmann, on the occasion of celebrating the 50th
anniversary of his famous bicycle ride :
"You, my dear friends, and millions all over the world who now
commemorate the 50th birthday of ergot's child, we all testify
gratefully that we got valuable help on the way to what Aldous Huxley
said is the end and the ultimate purpose of human life--enlightenment,
beatific vision, love. I think all these joyful testimonies of
invaluable help by LSD should be enough to convince the health
authorities, finally, of the nonsense of the prohibition of LSD and of
similar psychedelics."
Much more :
http://www.hofmann.org
JC McNeil
to make sure we do the right thing?
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=42027
Johnny Asia wrote:
> http://www.lsd.info
>...I think all these joyful testimonies of