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enjoimx
Trad climber
santa maria, ca
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Apr 30, 2008 - 02:52pm PT
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Karl's post is well said.
I heard Huxley dosed on his way out, I wonder if Hoffman did the same.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Apr 30, 2008 - 03:55pm PT
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Hofmann suspected that the state had been caused by something in the lab. In an interview on his 100th birthday, he said, "I didn't know what caused it, but I knew that it was important."
After breathing the solvents he had used produced no effect, Hofmann suspected that the synthetic drug was the source. "LSD spoke to me," he said. "He came to me and said, 'You must find me.' He told me, 'Don't give me to the pharmacologist, he won't find anything.' "
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morphus
Mountain climber
Angleland
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Apr 30, 2008 - 05:27pm PT
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Apr 30, 2008 - 05:32pm PT
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For all practical purposes Albert was responsible for however good a climber I became and for two FA's. Unfortunately, and oddly enough, both routes - 'The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test' and 'The Leaves of the Failing Faith' - lasted only slightly longer than the respective trips due to a broken hold on each during the next day attempts at a second ascent. I guess in hindsight that they had an equally fleeting existence was somehow oddly fitting.
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JR@METOLIUS
Big Wall climber
BEND, OR
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Apr 30, 2008 - 07:49pm PT
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Wow, I had no idea Dr. Hofmann was still around. I had the pleasure of hearing him give a lecture at the University of Washington when I was a student there back in the 70's. Needless to say the student crowd was loving it when he described the world's first acid trip to us.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Apr 30, 2008 - 09:21pm PT
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karl, as you and others, know, I appear more worn-looking than him, and I'm not quite 52, I better dose up!
Enjo-yeah that's what I heard; at his request, a gift from Dr Leary. Allegedly Aldous' last words were "if there is a god, I believe in him." changed the doors of my perception, when I read that bit.
---Don't know about Hoffman but I doubt it
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Apr 30, 2008 - 10:50pm PT
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"I wonder if it's just what the sleeping world needs to see the need for change. "
-I remember where I was and what I was doing when I first had that epiphany, just sayin...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2008 - 12:49am PT
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I take regular doses of LEB - with a grain of salt - and it hasn't done me any harm yet. That I know of. :-)
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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We really need before and after photos and tests to determine the veracity and validity of that hypotheses, you know.
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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He's at the Homeworld waiting for us...
photo by MP and fractal generator...
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Trad
Trad climber
Northern California
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There's a nice remembrance by author Robert Stone in last week's NY Times magazine here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/magazine/28hofmann-t.html?ref=magazine
The last paragraph:
Over his long life, Hofmann took LSD many times. He developed a personal mysticism involving nature, for which he had a lifelong passion. One thing this very tolerant man decried in the Western drive for facile satisfaction was an alienation from the outdoors. The use of LSD made him more and more conscious of it. In nature he saw “a miraculous, powerful, unfathomable reality.”
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Mar 29, 2009 - 10:09am PT
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I like this image of Dr. Albert, surrounded by some of the nature that is another touch point between him and this community here.
Taken from the cover of the MAPS Bulletin last year. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies www.maps.org
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 29, 2009 - 11:08am PT
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Cerro Torre in the background ,no less!!!
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