[woofie]

Owsley Stanley died on Sunday and this is a fascinating look at the LSD years. watch the clips

more on Owsley:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/14/MND41IAC74.DTL&tsp=1

[woofie]

Owsley :

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/14/MND41IAC74.DTL&tsp=1

[xenob]

Ah, LSD... Nothing more fun then coming home to find a roommate’s friend naked, bleeding from his head, power out, standing in water, and ripping the pipes from my basement ceiling.

[RobRoy]

HAHAHA! remember George Carlin’s routine about all the insight he got while high. He had unlocked the secrets of the universe, but would forget when straight. He finally wrote it down while high. The next day he read it, and it said: “The survival of the species is the responsibility of everyone.”

I also read how musicians would get high before going on stage because it would make them play better. What it really did was make them play worse, but substantially heightened their appreciation for what they were playing. Which only proves that art is subjective. :)

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

For anyone who talks about how wonderful LSD is, I have two words: Syd Barrett.

[Mr. Mojo]

He not only saw God, he realized that he was and always had been part of God. He understood holistically and simultaneously every scientific axiom and principle — including ones that had not yet been discovered — as all being aspects of a single unified theorem of the cosmos, a theorem which he could inspect at his leisure, as if he were holding it in his hand.

I got a contact high just reading that.

[Tea Party Reveler]

“If we had personal computers back in the 1960’s, there would have been no need for drugs” -—LSD Guru and Harvard Psychologist Timothy Leary.

[loungitude]

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[swarthyguy]

>he could not remember the specifics of his insights,

LOLOL! How many breakthrough insights were made on acid, but then forgotten......

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"and blamed a heart attack several years ago on the broccoli his mother made him eat as a child"

Well that's one thing I can agree with him on: No broccoli!

[who_would_fardels_bear]

We need to put someone on LSD in a virtual reality chamber so all of his movements can be precisely mapped.

That way if he "writes" anything down we will be able to recover it from the movements of his fingers.

Then we'll finally have a key to the secrets of the universe ... or at least some good YouTube footage!

[tflabo]

Back about 1970 we would take little hits of ‘orange sunshine’ LSD of course. Playing music was my creative outlet and remember the heightened senses during the trip.
Colors and shapes moved like waves in the air-—it was kinda fun for awhile. The problems were after the trips-—left one drained and even feeling morose. Glad I stopped taking it after a few years only but had some friends who flipped out permanently—they took and used it way too much.

[Paved Paradise]

That piece was excellent! Loved the last video especially, which shoes Dr. Weil, Leary and others to be members of those who officially lead the lost.

[RobRoy]

Really great article!

[mjp]

New Age worldview people will not be able to escape the nihilism of the naturalistic world view by exploring the universe next door.

[Billthedrill]

I've never actually noticed any lasting - OH GOD THE PURPLE SPIDERS ARE BACK THEY'RE BACK SOMEBODY LOAN ME A CAN OF HAIRSPRAY AND A LIGHTER GAAAAAA! - aftereffects, myself.

[GraceG]

LSD is to your mind as a bucket of water is to a powered on computer.

[TsonicTsunami08]

His decision to move to the tropical northern side of the country in the early ‘80s was based, in part, on his belief that global warming would lead to a new ice age.

huh?

One too many hits of 4way!

[Jeff Chandler]

L.S.D.

[1010RD]

Mr. Stanley became a naturalized Australian citizen in 1996, living off the grid with wife Sheila in the bush of Queensland. His decision to move to the tropical northern side of the country in the early '80s was based, in part, on his belief that global warming would lead to a new ice age and the region would be the most likely to survive.

Okay, he sounds like a goofy liberal and there's also this:

Mr. Stanley lived on an all-meat and dairy diet. He believed vegetables were toxic and blamed a heart attack several years ago on the broccoli his mother made him eat as a child. He lost one of his vocal cords to cancer in 2006.

That LSD must have really fried his brain.