hearing in passing a TV announcer from the TV in my parents bedroom as I walked by the door talking about LSD and hippies and quoting some of them as saying they could “hear colors” and “see music“, and it stopped me dead in my tracks and sparked an intense curiosity and started me thinking in my 12 year old brain something like “what if the world isn’t the way I’ve been told or the way it appears?“
Later, a few years later, I found some books by some guys named Castaneda, and Watts.
After that I figured I was grandfathered in. ;-);-);-)
From Wiki:
Spiritual
LSD is considered an entheogen because it can catalyze intense spiritual experiences where users feel they have come into contact with a greater spiritual or cosmic order. Some users report insights into the way the mind works, and some experience long-lasting changes in their life perspective. Some users consider LSD a religious sacrament, or a powerful tool for access to the divine. Dr. Stanislav Grof has written that religious and mystical experiences observed during LSD sessions appear to be phenomenologically indistinguishable from similar descriptions in the sacred scriptures of the great religions of the world and the secret mystical texts of ancient civilizations.[44]
Such experiences under the influence of LSD have been observed and documented by researchers such as Alan Watts, Timothy Leary and Stanislav Grof. For example, Walter Pahnke conducted the Good Friday Marsh Chapel Experiment in 1962 under Leary’s supervision, performing a double blind experiment on the administration of psilocybin to volunteers who were students in religious graduate programs, e.g., divinity or theology.[45] That study provided evidence that psychotropics may induce mystical religious states.[46]
The first sample I saw was from a surf buddy who had gone to the Watts Acid Test. Little known factoid: it spread rapidly through the surfing population from West Coast to East Coast. Surfers were among the earliest adopters. The Merry pranksters spread the word by land, the surfers by sea.
“Chickens in the barnyard, chickens in a tree, chickens driving Cadillacs to Washington, D.C….the day I said Hey! Hey! Hey! took a little LSD and set my chickens free!”
The discussion came around to Yellow Submarine and she said it was too bad the Beatles were using that bad drug LSD.
I couldn’t help myself. Knowing what I know, I found myself telling her what I really think.
My questions: Do the people who have banned it know what it really is and did they ban it because they don’t want people to have that road? that experience? Do they think traditional religion is far from the path to It, so trad religion is ok but getting There must be prevented?
Or are they protecting trad religion’s power? Or do they really think LSD is a bad thing?
Thanks, Doc. I hope you’re doing well wherever you are!
must have been either 1970 or 1971, in Bloomington, Indiana, with my good friend from childhood and several of her friends. the first time i smoked hash was the same night, to ease the edges coming down. the first of many trips to come. i wouldn’t trade those experiences for anything. thanks to those who went before!
…I came on to this thread late, and maybe no one will see it or care to put in the time…BUT… I cannot leave the thread without THE difinitive soundtrack.
…or at least an abreviated version of it.
Break out that vinyl copy of ‘Live Dead’ and give it a spin to toast Dr. Al.
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…and creational use.
The difference is point of view.
on your next step on the path….
♥~
I am he as you are he
as you are me
and we are all together
See how they run like
pigs from a gun
see how they fly
I’m crying
…”Tune in, turn on, and drop out!” in 1968.
I wore out the grooves on that one, plus Iron Butterfly’s “In A Gadda Da Vida” and Hendrix’s “Axis: Bold As Love” that year.
Thanks for being you.
thanks for showing me the universe in my grapefruit and everything, the magic golden web.
hearing in passing a TV announcer from the TV in my parents bedroom as I walked by the door talking about LSD and hippies and quoting some of them as saying they could “hear colors” and “see music“, and it stopped me dead in my tracks and sparked an intense curiosity and started me thinking in my 12 year old brain something like “what if the world isn’t the way I’ve been told or the way it appears?“
Later, a few years later, I found some books by some guys named Castaneda, and Watts.
Heh! And here I am. I think…
Completely out of your mind.
Author
On The Bus without him.
This blog wouldn’t exist either.
Dancing madly backwards
Dancing on a sea
Erasing all my memories
Of blackness in my dreams
Tip toe, tip toe quickly
Forget about your cares
And remember underneath you
Is just a sea of air
Just remember underneath you
Is just a sea of air
Wishing all your wishes
Landing on a star
Knowing you are planted here
Knowing that(‘s) so far
Dance, dance faster
Madly dance away
But remember underneath you
Is just a sea of air
Just remember underneath you
Is just a sea of air
The influence of AH is enormous. We’re just now beginning to see how wide ranging it is.
After that I figured I was grandfathered in. ;-);-);-)
From Wiki:
The first sample I saw was from a surf buddy who had gone to the Watts Acid Test. Little known factoid: it spread rapidly through the surfing population from West Coast to East Coast. Surfers were among the earliest adopters. The Merry pranksters spread the word by land, the surfers by sea.
It got me to the opposite shore.
Can you add a recommend button for this please? I have a feeling, last respects, and memories, might go on for days. 🙂
He sure made my teen years a lot more colorful.
East meets West meets acid.
The discussion came around to Yellow Submarine and she said it was too bad the Beatles were using that bad drug LSD.
I couldn’t help myself. Knowing what I know, I found myself telling her what I really think.
My questions: Do the people who have banned it know what it really is and did they ban it because they don’t want people to have that road? that experience? Do they think traditional religion is far from the path to It, so trad religion is ok but getting There must be prevented?
Or are they protecting trad religion’s power? Or do they really think LSD is a bad thing?
Thanks, Doc. I hope you’re doing well wherever you are!
must have been either 1970 or 1971, in Bloomington, Indiana, with my good friend from childhood and several of her friends. the first time i smoked hash was the same night, to ease the edges coming down. the first of many trips to come. i wouldn’t trade those experiences for anything. thanks to those who went before!
…I came on to this thread late, and maybe no one will see it or care to put in the time…BUT… I cannot leave the thread without THE difinitive soundtrack.
…or at least an abreviated version of it.
Break out that vinyl copy of ‘Live Dead’ and give it a spin to toast Dr. Al.
Beatles schmeetles.