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Hofmann's Potion (2002)
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Open Your Eyes!
go to the garden,
go to the woods.
Open your eyes!
👁
Dr. Albert Hofmann
(11 January 1906 - 29 April 2008)
April 19 - Bicycle Day Turns 75
AO +2018, April 19 ☉ The 75th Anniversary Of Bicycle Day
AO +1943, April 16 - Sunrise Over Serendipity Day
Whilst quite a large part of the World tore its Self into smaller pieces to draw new lines on the map -once again, for the sake of power, by the rule of greed- a fungus of certain infamy, felt the shunning of her offspring had lasted long enough after its birth in 1938. Therefore, she sent her child back to Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, to communicate with the doctor responsible for its delivery, five years earlier, when and where her baby first saw light on Earth.
Their initial contact, then and there in the lab, left the doctor feeling confused to such a degree, that he could not focus on or continue with his work. He returned to his home and, after regaining a relaxed state of mind, became moderately hypnotized by the visual aspects of the lingering transmission, which mesmerized him for a couple of hours.
When his ego resumed consciousness control behind the dashboard of his mental processing unit, the doctor, who actually had a professional foreground in chemical sciences, thought he had actually enjoyed quite a pleasant experience, due to an unsolicited intoxication. In fact, at that time he gathered he had maintained a less-than-perfect level of sterility procedures at the lab; that he must have unwittingly ingested a minute amount of the substance he had felt to reinvestigate that day. It would take quite a while before both sides of the nondual nature of their first contact would dawn on him. Until that time, it would appear to him a serendipitous event had occurred.
From the human perspective of a materialistic individual, this particular substance, the offspring of said infamous fungus, would soon become a renowned tool -the most powerful of its kind to date- to explore the inner realms of the Terran psyche. Some of us consider it a spiritual antiseptic, whereas others may even refer to it as an evolutionary counterweight to maintain the dynamic balance of Nature during the creation of a device of destruction, conceived in the same era, on the warfaring side of the globe. ... Such peculiar ways the Universe finds to equilibrate its Self.
In this historical play, Albert Hofmann performs the role of the doctor; Claviceps Purpurea, also known as Mother of Rye or Mutterkorn, plays the part of the zealous fungus. Their "Sorgenkind" bears the name LSD.
AO +1943, April 19 - A Cautious Pinch Of Psychedelic
Not quite content with the result of their first encounter, as her child had obviously not spoken loud and clear enough to become fully and unequivocally understood by the doctor and therefore did not receive the essential attention it deserved, Mother of Rye arranged for a second meeting, three days later.
The whispering echo of her voice presented Dr Hofmann with the deliberated decision to self-prescribe the first dose of LSD, in order to enable the two to make closer acquaintance. Easily convinced by the vivid memory of his recent pleasance, the scientist reasoned that by consciously repeating the experiment, it should become establissed with certainty whether or not the serendipitous encounter between his research chemical and his self had indeed happened accidental.
The self-administered "cautious dose" -250 micrograms, in retrofact- proved not as small as Hofmann had expected. Not quite, not by far. Little did he foresee about the friendly onslaught of chaos at his very fingertips, screaming in eager silence. Yet as soon as he felt inebriated by the initial effects, he laid down his work and asked his assistant to accompany him on his bike ride home, as it seemed unsafe to him to head out on the road by himself.
Moments later, looking over his shoulder whilst biking, he could see Mother of Rye, fading into the distance, waving with a wide smile and a satisfied sigh, as she knew she had accomplished her Great Work. Finally her child made its way into the wide, wild World.
The trip that followed wrote history and its effects resonate throughout spacetime, far beyond here and now. This date, April 19, has become known around the globe as Bicycle Day - the annual cerebralation* of Dr Hofmann's serendipitous discovery and the quintessential bike ride.
* cerebralation (n), from cerebralate (v):
a personal:eye:zed portmanteau
of cerebral and celebrate
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2014 - 2018 / CCBYNCND4.0
As always and (un)usual, between Now, Never and Forever:
click any highlighted text for additional, linked content.
- a short essay on the Psychedelic Renaissance:
How About A Positive LSD Story?
- essential reading:
LSD - My Problem Child (Hofmann)
available online at MAPS (english)
Erowid (english / german / russian)
and the Psychedelic Library
- more relsdated literature:
Erowid / Psychedelic Library
- essential viewing, see below:
Hofmann's Potion (Littlefield)
The Substance (Witz)
∞
.: from sorgenkind to wunderkind :.
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2014 - 2018 / CCBYNCND4.0
April 16 - Serendipity Day's 75th Anniversary
April 16 - Serendipity Day's 75th Anniversary
- Bicycle Week 2018 - April 16 through 19 -
on the one hemisphere, helping psychiatrists and psychologists alike to gain understanding of the state of mind of patients in particular and of humanity in general, catalyzing underground movements during the Fifties, exploding into the cultural revolution during the Sixties, aiding countless artists, designers, musicians, philosophers, scientists and writers to find new, creative ways of expressing their craft of choice;
on the other hemisphere, giving intelligence agencies hope of a new truth serum or an incapacitating agent, involving extensive testing on privates and other fellow primates, distressing conservative captains of industry and the establishment's echelons around the globe for enhancing chaos and breaking the shackles that bind us to the hallucinatory old world hierarchical structure of society;
eventually becoming banned in the USA in 1966 and the rest of the world soon after, returning underground during the Seventies and making a glorious recurrence by the end of the Eighties, meandering its way through the Nineties and returning smack-dab center stage during the second half of the second decade of the 21st Century AO ...
Yes.
In 1943 Albert Hofmann discovered
LSD
judged by some (mostly those who have never tried it) as one of the most dangerous substances known to man, whereas some saw and some others still see it as “a spiritual antidote to the atom bomb”, a device developed nearly simultaneously, deep down in that trough, during the 1940s.
Considering all ups and downs, Hofmann initially gave his discovery the nickname Sorgenkind, or "Problem Child", but eventually came full circle to recognize the Wunderkind he fathered.
- image sampled from lsd75.ch -
Now, as we cerebralate the 75th anniversary of its discovery, whilst fear-mongering headlines seem to prefer to relapse to instilling fear - fear for one another, fear for another world war - yet humanity clearly surfs the rising crest of the Psychedelic Renaissance, the antidote continues to gain momentum and potential. Observing the latter development and this year's Bicycle Day festivities, two main events top the charts of this week's agenda:
lsd75.ch - in Basel, the birthplace of LSD
maps.org/lsd75 - in California, home of MAPS
Other than that: check your local event schedule,
saddle up, hop on & bike along around the globe!
For a lack of proper footnotes with a list of sources and resources, click any highlighted text for more details, and follow the following links to previously posted lysergically charged verballistics, titled:
- April 16 - Ludic Serendipity Day (part 1 of a short essay)
- April 19 - Bicycle Day (part 2 of a short essay on the birth of LSD)
- How About A Positive LSD Story? (a less-short essay covering certain scientific topics concerning the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance)
∞
.: tring tring :.
apart from the quoted:
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2018 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Après-Bicyclette
2017, April 19+7, Après-Bicyclette
Une semaine après notre Grand Départ annuel ...
One week after crossing the starting line of our annual Bicycle Day cerebralations, we make our aumward return. At the finish, holding out a black and white checkered blotter flag, Saint Albert Uncle Hofmann welcomes us. Our outward spiraling wheels slowly stop spinning as we come down to a halt next to him, flagging down our bikes.
After a wide and warm embrace, he holds us softly by the shoulders, looks us in the eye and smiles, then turns to our side, joins us as our gaze floats out over the Earth's plane stretching out in front of us, pauses to breathe, then speaking sincere words of swissdom ...
"Alienation from nature and the loss of the experience of being part of the living creation is the greatest tragedy of our materialistic era. It is the causative reason for ecological devastation and climate change.
Therefore I attribute absolute highest importance to consciousness change. I regard psychedelics as catalyzers for this. They are tools which are guiding our perception toward other deeper areas of our human existence, so that we again become aware of our spiritual essence. Psychedelic experiences in a safe setting can help our consciousness open up to this sensation of connection and of being one with nature.
LSD and related substances are not drugs in the usual sense, but are part of the sacred substances, which have been used for thousand of years in ritual settings. The classic psychedelics like LSD, Psilocybin and Mescaline are characterized by the fact that they are neither toxic nor addictive. It is my great concern to separate psychedelics from the ongoing debates about drugs, and to highlight the tremendous potential inherent to these substances for self-awareness, as an adjunct in therapy, and for fundamental research into the human mind.
It is my wish that a modern Eleusis will emerge, in which seeking humans can learn to have transcendent experiences with sacred substances in a safe setting. I am convinced that these soul-opening, mind-revealing substances will find their appropriate place in our society and our culture."
Albert Hofmann
2007, April 19
- image from the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors shop,
printed on the backside of the card with the painting
"St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution" by Alex Grey
· visit alexgrey.com & shop.cosm.org for more details
· click any or all of the highlighted links for additional content
☉
.: paving the path :.
apart from the sampled,
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2017 / / CCBYNCND4.0
April 19 ☉ Bicycle Day
2017, April 19 - Bicycle Day
1943, April 19 - Not completely content with the result of their first encounter, three days earlier, as her child had not spoken loud and clear enough to become fully and unequivocally understood by the doctor and therefore did not receive the essential attention it deserved, Mother of Rye arranged for a second meeting, three days later.
The whispering echo of her voice presented Dr Hofmann with the deliberated decision to self-prescribe a small dose of LSD, in order to enable the two to make closer acquaintance. Easily convinced by the vivid memory of his recent pleasance, the scientist reasoned that by consciously repeating the experiment, it should become establissed with certainty whether or not the previous serendipitous encounter between his research chemical and his self had indeed been accidental.
The self-administered "cautious dosis" -250 micrograms, in retrofact- proved not as small as Hofmann had expected. Not quite, not by far. Little did he foresee about the friendly onslaught of chaos at his very fingertips, screaming in eager silence. Yet as soon as he felt inebriated by the initial effects, he laid down his work and asked his assistant to accompany him on his bikeride home, as it seemed unsafe to him to head out on the road by himself.
Moments later, looking over his shoulder whilst biking, he could see Mother of Rye, fading into the distance, waving with a wide smile and a satisfied sigh, as she knew she had accomplished her Great Work.
The trip that followed wrote history and its effects resonate throughout spacetime, far beyond here and now. This date, April 19, has become known around the globe as Bicycle Day - the annual cerebralation* of Albert Hofmann's Serendipity.
Trring Trrring!
Satyr Barbarossa
- Forest of Eleusis, Earth
original writ: 2014, April 16
second edition: 2015, April 19
third edition: 2016, April 19
fourth edition: 2017, April 19
As always and (un)usual, between Now, Never and Forever:
click any highlighted text for additional, linked content.
- essential reading:
LSD - My Problem Child (Hofmann)
available online at MAPS, Erowid
and the Psychedelic Library
- more relsdated literature:
Erowid / Psychedelic Library
- essential viewing, see below:
Hofmann's Potion (Littlefield)
The Substance (Witz)
* cerebralate:
a personal portmanteau
of celebrate and cerebral
∞
.: serendipity awaits :.
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2014 - 2017 / CCBYNCND4.0
April 16 ☉ Ludic Serendipity Day
2017, April 16 - Ludic Serendipity Day
1943, April 16 - Whilst quite a large part of the World tore its Self into smaller pieces - once again, for the sake of power, by the rule of greed - a fungus of certain infamy, felt the shunning of her offspring had lasted long enough after its birth in 1938. Therefore, she sent her child back to Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland, to communicate with the doctor responsible for its delivery, five years earlier, when and where her baby first saw light on Earth.
Their initial contact, then and there in the lab, left the doctor feeling confused to such a degree, that he could not focus on or continue with his work. He returned to his home and, after regaining a relaxed state of mind, became moderately hypnotized by the visual aspects of the lingering transmission, which mesmerized him for a couple of hours.
When his ego resumed consciousness control behind the dashboard of his mental processing unit, the doctor, who actually had a professional foreground in chemical sciences, thought he had actually enjoyed quite a pleasant experience, due to an unsolicited intoxication. In fact, at that time he gathered he had maintained a less-than-perfect level of sterility procedures at the lab; that he must have unwittingly ingested a minute amount of the substance he had felt to reinvestigate that day. It would take quite a while before both sides of the nondual nature of their first contact would dawn on him. Until that time, it would appear to him a serendipitous event had occurred.
From the human perspective of a materialistic individual, this particular substance, the offspring of said infamous fungus, would soon become a renowned tool -the most powerful of its kind to date- to explore the inner realms of the Terran psyche. Some of us consider it a spiritual antiseptic, whereas others may even refer to it as an evolutionary counterweight to maintain the dynamic balance of Nature during the creation of a device of destruction, conceived in the same era, on the warfaring side of the globe. ... Such peculiar ways the Universe finds to equilibrate its Self.
In this historical play, Albert Hofmann performs the role of the doctor; Claviceps Purpurea, also known as Mother of Rye, plays the part of the zealous fungus. Their Sorgenkind bears the name LSD.
... continues on April 19. In the meanspacetime,
click any highlighted text for additional content.
Satyr Barbarossa
- Forest of Eleusis, Earth
original writ: 2014, April 16
second edition: 2015, April 16
third edition: 2016, April 16
fourth edition: 2017, April 16
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.: from sorgenkind to wunderkind :.
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2014 - 2017 / CCBYNCND4.0
How About A Positive LSD Story?
cartoon by ZenPencils
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How About A Positive LSD Story?
mainstream media drop acid collectively
recent scientific research illuminates headlines
2016, April 29 - post April 16 & 19
From Sorgenkind To Wunderkind
Now that all floating dust, blown up in our trails like lucent traces, etherealized during last week's annual cerebralatory bicycle ride, slowly comes to settle its self, the time arrives for our shared attention to concentrate on current affairs. First, let us segue into the reasonably recent past for a short introduction. If you've watched the last couple of seasons of internet, like most of us have, you may have come across this particular piece of standup philosophy:
"Always that same LSD story, you've all seen it: 'Young man on acid, thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. What a tragedy.' What a dick! If he thought he could fly, why didn't he take off from the ground first? Check it out? You don't see ducks lined up to catch elevators to fly south. They fly from the ground, you moron, quit ruining it for everybody. ... How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be newsworthy, just once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstitions and lies, just once? I think it would be newsworthy ...
'Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves.
Here's Tom with the weather!'"
- Bill Hicks, Revelations (link)
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
Well, Bill ... it may have taken quite the little while, quite a few seasons in deed and ditties, but here comes Tom with the news - finally! In fact, in the light of recent progress made in the psychotropics department of neuroscience, some of last fortnight's headlines actually read:
LSD Makes The Brain More "Complete"
But, before we run off, zealously yet blindly, to score and drop us some acid[!], let's continue until the end of the page, before we turn to another. After shedding more light - and quite literally so - on the interaction between psilocybin and the human central nervous system, with the human brain as their particular focal point (source: abstract / lecture), Robin Carhart-Harris et al * now bring to our shared table of knowledge, a research paper, titled:
Neural correlates of the LSD experience
revealed by multimodal neuroimaging
· for the short of it, click here
· for the full of it, click here
· for the rest of it, click here
- these four links connect to the website of PNAS,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Not equipped with a pair of seriously scienterrific goggles? Then read about it in some of the science-related media, available online:
Tech Times, LSD makes the brain more complete (link)
Nature, Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness (link)
Science Daily, How LSD can make us lose our sense of self (link)
Some of the mainstream media that picked up on the positive vibes:
CNN, This is your brain on LSD, literally (link)
Reuters, Brain scans show how LSD mimics the mind of a baby (link)
The Guardian, LSD's impact on the brain revealed (link / more)
The Independent, LSD makes the brain more 'complete' (link)
The Daily Beast, LSD makes your brain more 'flexible' (link)
The last article linked in line ends with the quote:
"We think that what we experience normally is reality, but the truth is our brains are just constructing reality for us," - Enzo Tagliazucchi, Institute of Medical Psychology, Kiel Germany; one of the scientists involved in this experiment*, sounding a bit like Dr. Timothy Leary.
Getting dazzled by towering amounts of words on The Screen? Then watch The Young Turks on Youtube discussing the issue: click here.
A Personal Perspective
Of course, we cannot assert that 'brain scans show how LSD', or any other psychotropic compound, 'mimics the mind of a baby'. We may give the actual assertion a spot on the front page, of course, but it seems quite the factual challenge to 1) scan the brain of LSD itself with any techniques available to us, here and now, and 2) pursue a query into the mind of a baby without producing answers of such nondual nature that mostly practitioners of Eastern philosophy may deem useful - no standard issue hard science material as commonly craved in the West.
However, we can study if the way the brain of a human adult, when operating under the influence of LSD, might mimic the way the brain of human baby seems to function, when not operating under the influence of LSD. But first anthropomorphizing a psychedelic substance and then comparing it with 'the mind', a rather fickle concept, instead of 'the brain', seems to me like comparing a telescope with a cosmological theory concerning dark matter. But then again, I do not write headlines for Reuters. Not yet.
And even though a headline like "This is your brain on LSD" seems to try to get an obvious yet valid wink across to the ever so (in)famous "This is your brain on drugs" commercials, this actually sounds quite misleading as well. None of the articles show an actual brain on LSD, just as the original scientific paper does not. They show digital pictures, visual representations of scans made with various neuroimaging techniques, of cross sections of the brains of subjects under the influence of LSD, and of the same volunteers' brains with a placebo, functioning as a control observation.
"... Finicky on semantics much?" mocks the smirking Self.
Quite, but with proper cause, in my humble opinion. When it comes to getting scientifically based messages across, it seems wise to inform as correctly as possible, in order to make sure the ubiquitous Miss Quote and the ever-persistent Miss Interpretation do not start competing with each other beside the headlines, over the heads of the actual scientists, obscuring their findings with oversimplified language, and make their way as watered down memes into the gesunkenes Kulturgut, into our mind at large ... "'God' particle", anyone?[1]
The Top Of The Tip Of The Iceberg
Of course, all these headlines do not read as interesting as all the content of these articles does. Still, I feel more attracted to read news items titled "LSD makes the brain more 'complete'" than the ones skepticized above. To me, this type of headline speaks a volume of unattached positivity: looking at the bright side without shouting it from the rooftops, but also without overtly ambiguous or sensationalist phrasing. This type of positivity tends to appeal more to the curious reader, more so than a shot of negativity, yet it also helps to remain skeptical, esp:cially with a case like Francis Crick in mind[2], whilst keeping one eye on Dock Ellis' No-Hitter and another on other recent news about the practice of microdosing returning to a more favorable spot on stage in Silicon Valley[3], like it supposedly enjoyed during the development of our now-cherished microprocessing power plants.[4][5]
Then and then again, not one of us can see the whole of the Earth's Ocean at once, as similar as newspapers and other media can only cover a part of the top of the tip of the iceberg that seems to float on its surface. Anywave and shortly phrased: I do indeed feel glad about the fruitful turn our scientific research, our scrutinous study of the effects of psychedelic substances has taken in recent years. As this research clearly yielded results that guide the field in a prosperous direction, and conclusions that pave the way for more and minute examination of the beneficial effects and functions of our interaction with psychedelics, I patiently yet eagerly await the harvest of fruits ripening in the fields of our near future.
From Beyond The Pale To Beyond The Veil
Whatever way we may look at it, it seems rather evident that the uninterrupted strive for scientific justice does indeed prove itself propitious and renders those, who patiently await the unfolding of reason, favorably disposed. From now on, specifically after making scientific progress, yet also particularly after recently lifting the veil that obscured the apparently racist roots of the War on Some Drugs[6], covered by controversy since the time of its origin during the Nixon Years, ... yes, from now on, we may leave all scare tactics and other fallacies and redundancies, lies and lullabies behind. From now on, let us head out with an honest approach and an open-minded attitude towards psychedelics, incorporate scientific experience in our personal opinions, and confront with love and laughter all residual naivety and lingering ignorance that may cross our path.[!]
Departure, Fulfilment, Return
Whether intended for scientific, self-exploratory, shamanistic, spiritual or therapeutic purposes, we can consider LSD as one of the most powerful and versatile tools available. With its use, as with other powerful tools, comes a certain responsibility. As Richard Feynman so joyfully shared with us, finding things out can result in a lot of pleasure. But interacting with a psychedelic tool and aiming for "the sheer fun of it" seems like a rather tricky endeavour, to say the euphemized least. See it as a form of traffic: if we do not consider certain rules, we might end up damaging our vehicles.
As the experience itself unfolds in three distinct stages, very much like Joseph Campbell's 'departure, transformation and return' sums up the progression of a traditional epic journey, so does its development depend upon the traveller's initial coordination within the three distinct dimensions: set, setting and intent. In short: set stands for personal mindset, setting describes the local environment and intent encompasses desired direction.
During one's quest, the mind may manifest itself in many guises, and as a tool of transcendence, LSD certainly doesn't come equipped with the most straightforward of manuals. If all of the above already reads like the companion for Verbosity 101, (do not) wait until your third eye feasts on The Psychedelic Experience, one of many books spawned by the acidophilic culture, with quite a lot of practical instructions. Another iceberg's tip, per haps, but rest assured: it has colder feet than all of us do. All in all, as long as we do not regard mere fun as the single, ultimate goal, a psychedelic experience can provide a wonderful ride. And as far as the ride itself goes: do not feel obliged to travel by yellow submarine; a bicycle works just fine.
Trring Trrring!
In memory of Dr. Albert Hofmann
1906/01/11 - 2008/04/29
the father of LSD
* for complete and correct references to the referred research and researchers, please follow the highlighted links to the respective sources, above there or below here:
link 1 (psilocybin research) & link 2 (LSD research)
[!] Siriusly and for the record: I do not advocate the impulsive, aimless consumption of psychedelics. Personally, I admire the degree of multi-functionality that psychedelic agents may provide to explore altered states of awareness, one that exceeds the degree to which pranayama, trance-dance and zazen may do, for instance, and by quite an order of magnitude. Nonetheless, I do advocate honest education, of ourselves and others, I laud proper scientific research, advise proper guidance, applaud proper training, and proclaim: as we never stop changing, may we never cease to study our Self.
[1] Higgs Boson 'God' particle nickname mishap, source: Wikipedia
[2] Crick-DNA-LSD-mismatch, source: Reality Sandwich
[3] some of the media mentioning microdosing:
Huffington Post / High Existence / Forbes / Rolling Stone / Telegraph
[4] Silicon Valley on Acid, source: Scaruffi / Guardian
[5] What The Dormouse Said, John Markoff, source: NY Times
[6] some media that can see Nixon's forest through the grapevine: Huffington Post / CNN / Vice / Daily Mail / Daily News
· extrasitual onlinear resources:
LSD - My Problem Child, Albert Hofmann, 1980 (link 1 / link 2 / link 3)
MAPS - the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (link)
Richard Feynman - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (link)
Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth (link)
Erowid LSD Literature Vault (link)
Bill Hicks on Youtube (link)
Zen Pencils' website (link)
· satellites on LSD in blogular orbit:
April 16 - Ludic Serendipity Day
April 19 - Bicycle Day
War No More - VII
Bicycle Day 2003 Reprise
A Timeless Goosebumper - 2015.04.18
A Timeless Goosebumper - 2015.04.20
Signing off for today, with a word from the wise:
"Some things take years and years and years as they finally find the right solution, and I am convinced LSD will find the place it needs in the human culture." - Dr. Albert Hofmann, who serendipitously delivered Mother of Rye's child, quoted from the Hofmann's Potion documentary (NFB Canada - source)
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Silently,
the tip of an iceberg
hovers off into the distance
frozen water
towards the edge
of the horizon
in the shadow
of the Sun
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.: read up - expand the mind :.
all text, apart from the sampled
ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa (cc) 2016
April 19 ☉ Bicycle Day
2016, April 19 - Bicycle Day
1943, April 19 - Not completely content with the result of their first encounter, three days earlier, as her child had not spoken loud and clear enough to be fully and unequivocally understood by the doctor and therefore did not receive the essential attention it deserved, Mother of Rye arranged for a second meeting, three days later.
The whispering echo of her voice presented Dr Hofmann with the deliberated decision to self-prescribe a small dose of LSD, in order to enable the two to make closer acquaintance. Easily convinced by the vivid memory of his recent pleasance, the scientist reasoned that by consciously repeating the experiment, it should become establissed with certainty whether or not the previous serendipitous encounter between his research chemical and his self had indeed been accidental.
The Self-administered "cautious dosis" -250 micrograms, in retrofact- proved not as small as Hofmann had expected. Not quite, not by far. Little did he foresee about the friendly onslaught of chaos at his very fingertips, screaming in eager silence. Yet as soon as he felt inebriated by the initial effects, he laid down his work and asked his assistant to accompany him on his bikeride home, as it seemed unsafe to him to head out on the road by himself.
Moments later, looking over his shoulder whilst biking, he could see Mother of Rye, fading into the distance, waving with a wide smile and a satisfied sigh, as she knew she had accomplished her Great Work.
The trip that followed wrote history and its effects resonate throughout time, far beyond our common present. This date, April 19, has become known around the globe as Bicycle Day - the annual cerebralation* of Albert Hofmann's Serendipity.
Trring Trrring!
Satyr Barbarossa
- Forest of Eleusis, Earth
original writ: 2014, April 16
third edition: 2016, April 19
As always and (un)usual, between Now, Never and Forever:
click any highlighted text for additional, linked content.
- essential reading:
LSD - My Problem Child (Hofmann)
online available at MAPS or Erowid
and more relsdated literature at Erowid
- essential viewing, see below:
Hofmann's Potion (Littlefield)
The Substance (Witz)
* cerebralate:
a personal portmanteau
of celebrate and cerebrum
∞
.: serendipity awaits :.
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2014 / 2015 / 2016
April 16 ☉ Ludic Serendipity Day
2016, April 16 - Ludic Serendipity Day
1943, April 16 - Whilst quite a large part of the World tore its Self into smaller pieces - once again, for the sake of power, by the rule of greed - a fungus of certain infamy, felt the shunning of her offspring had lasted long enough after its birth in 1938. Therefore, she sent her child back to Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland, to communicate with the doctor responsible for its delivery, five years earlier, when and where her baby first saw light on Earth.
Their initial contact, then and there in the lab, left the doctor feeling confused to such a degree, that he could not focus on or continue with his work. He returned to his home and, after regaining a relaxed state of mind, became moderately hypnotized by the visual aspects of the lingering transmission, which mesmerized him for a couple of hours.
When his ego resumed consciousness control behind the dashboard of his mental processing unit, the doctor, who actually had a professional foreground in chemical sciences, thought he had actually enjoyed quite a pleasant experience, due to an unsolicited intoxication. In fact, at that time he gathered he had maintained a less-than-perfect level of sterility procedures at the lab; that he must have unwittingly ingested a minute amount of the substance he had felt to reinvestigate that day. It would take quite a while before both sides of the nondual nature of their first contact would dawn on him. Until that time, it would appear to him a serendipitous event had occurred.
From the human perspective of a materialist individual, this particular substance, the offspring of said infamous fungus, would soon become a renowned tool -the most powerful of its kind to date- to explore the inner realms of the Terran psyche. Some of us consider it a spiritual antiseptic, whereas others may even refer to it as an evolutionary counterweight to maintain the dynamic balance of Nature during the creation of a device of destruction, conceived in the same era, on the warfaring side of the globe. ... Such peculiar ways the Universe finds to equilibrate its Self.
In this historical play, Albert Hofmann performs the role of doctor; Claviceps Purpurea, also known as Mother of Rye, plays the part of zealous fungus. Their Sorgenkind bears the name LSD.
... continues on April 19. In the meanspacetime,
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Satyr Barbarossa
- Forest of Eleusis, Earth
original writ: 2014, April 16
third edition: 2016, April 16
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.: from sorgenkind to wunderkind :.
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War No More - VII
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WAR NO MORE - VII: Drop Acid, Not Bombs
EXPLICIT RE-IMPRINTING
If sharp sticks, knives, guns, bombs, drones and independently targeting particle beam phalanxes would solve problems, we would live in a world without problems as of yesterday, the latest. Modern derivatives of primitive behavior, repeated today, merely add to proven redundancy. Yet, it does not just take an acidophile to choose peace over war. And extended on another hand, a solid solution need not necessarily come in the form of dropping acid. Nevertheless, considering the following might provide some initial mental support:
choose peace or perish
it doesn't take a hippy
to share love and light
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More War No More to follow
for as long as we choose to become
divided, opposed and prodded like cattle.
link down to War No More - VI
link down to War No More - V
link down to War No More - IV
link down to War No More - III
link down to War No More - II
link down to War No More - I
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.: pace et luce :.
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A Serendipitous Eulogy
St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution
a painting by Alex Grey - alexgrey.com
mon cher, mon frère
merci beaucoup pour tout lumière
et bon voyage a vous
Albert Hofmann: January 11, 1906 - April 29, 2008
Albert Hofmann passed away at 9am
on Tuesday April 29, 2008
at the age of 102.
"Albert Hofmann was born in Baden, Switzerland in 1906. He graduated from the University of Zürich with a degree in chemistry in 1929 and went to work for Sandoz Pharmaceutical in Basel, Switzerland. With the laboratory goal of working towards isolation of the active principles of known medicinal plants, Hofmann worked with Mediterranean squill (Scilla maritima) for several years, before moving on to the study of Claviceps purpurea (ergot) and ergot alkaloids."
(as taken from this page)
Even though his 'problem child'
will always be playing amongst us,
he will be missed - with a tear, with a smile.
∞
.: soar angelic, rye alpine high :.
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