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billyrubin
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Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement?
#10688067 - 07/16/09 01:13 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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When I first began to read up on Psychedelics, I felt as if there was just as much to learn about it's figure heads as there was to learn about the substances themselves. Names like Hicks, Leary, McKenna etc came up so frequently on internet forums that I had to go and find out who they were.
So,I am curious, who is your hero of the Psychedelic world and why?
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: billyrubin]
#10688085 - 07/16/09 01:15 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Most definitely Bill Hicks.
I'd give my life so that this man could still be alive.
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: ManyAk]
#10688149 - 07/16/09 01:24 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Joseph Campbell - though I'm not sure he ever even took a psychedelic drug. His writings on myth, the hero, and the shared unconcious influenced everyone from the Grateful Dead to George Lucas. The Hero with a Thousand Faces is EPIC. Every one intereste
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the bizzle
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: Radar]
#10688166 - 07/16/09 01:28 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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heros and psychedelics are a contradiction
your only hero is yourself
but carry on, I get what you mean, "hero" doesn't have to be taken literally
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Edited by the bizzle (07/16/09 01:29 PM)
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: billyrubin]
#10688171 - 07/16/09 01:30 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hoffman.
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billyrubin
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: the bizzle]
#10688191 - 07/16/09 01:34 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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the bizzle said: heros and psychedelics are a contradiction
your only hero is yourself
but carry on, I get what you mean, "hero" doesn't have to be taken literally
A fair point, I use Hero in the sense of an individual you admire, someone you found inspirational etc.
I personaly most admire Huxley, simply for his mesmerizing summary of all that makes psychedelics important to me in "The Doors of Perception". That book set my mind alight.
Huxley is so soft spoken and well mannered, he offers his own opinion, but never shoves it down anyone's throat.
Musicians like the Beatles must also be thanked as the imagery in their music made me so curious to see what the psychedelic experience is like.
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#10688199 - 07/16/09 01:35 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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MisterMuscaria said: Hoffman.
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#10688201 - 07/16/09 01:35 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Psychedelic movement, It would be Ken Kesey. Psychedelic user, no doubt it would be HST.He was a genius.
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lovecheese
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: FrenchieWelli]
#10688216 - 07/16/09 01:40 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I find it amusing that people can't spell Hofmann correctly, yet are so influenced by his work.
I would have to go with H. S. Thompson on this one though.
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: lovecheese]
#10688227 - 07/16/09 01:42 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I may not remember how to spell his name but I am glad that amuses you.
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lovecheese
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#10688247 - 07/16/09 01:44 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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MisterMuscaria said: I may not remember how to spell his name but I am glad that amuses you.
Nothing against you or others that do it, it's just something that I find funny with my strange sense of humor. Lol.
His work on Earth was amazing to say the least.
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: lovecheese]
#10688257 - 07/16/09 01:46 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hicks, Hofmann, McKenna, Shulgin, Huxley, Owsley. I appreciate everybody that did something positive for the scene, however it seems these folks all contributed something so great to the scene that their names can't go without notice.
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: lovecheese]
#10688261 - 07/16/09 01:47 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I cant even remember how to spell Febuary or Wendsday.
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the bizzle
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: billyrubin]
#10688292 - 07/16/09 01:52 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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billyrubin said: Musicians like the Beatles must also be thanked as the imagery in their music made me so curious to see what the psychedelic experience is like.
yeah...that's exactly why I didn't intend to bash the thread
there are those that inspire you to discover something, but always remember not to place anybody on a pedestal above you, and that there is nothing greater than becoming your own hero
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: billyrubin]
#10688294 - 07/16/09 01:53 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Robert Anton Wilson.
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Mushouse
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: billyrubin]
#10688305 - 07/16/09 01:57 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Definitely Terence McKenna.
I know that a lot (most?) people here on the Shroomery consider him to be a nut, but that's what drew me to him initially. His ideas were so far out there; so true to the theme of psychedelics, in my opinion.
I love how he can just go on and on for hours without pause.
"McKenna had a brilliant mind that moved so fast it was hard to tell whether he was reaching escape velocity or just running in circles."
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: Mushouse]
#10688450 - 07/16/09 02:34 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Mushouse said: Definitely Terence McKenna. [/url]
I second the motion for the same reasons. He didn't just talk about psychedelics. He told stories. And some of them were pretty far out.
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: Intronaut]
#10688473 - 07/16/09 02:38 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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samuel taylor coleridge
just read kublai khan
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the bizzle
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: cosnik]
#10688509 - 07/16/09 02:45 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm gonna have to go with:
Albert Hofmann, and Timothy Leary
but please understand why: I really could care less what either of these people have to say about psychedelics and spirituality, but it is thanks to them, popularizing the knowledge that psychedelics exist, that I have heard music that has reached out to me and got me interested to begin with. It is not about them as people, but about the trickling effect of their actions
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Re: Who is Your Hero of the Psychedelic Movement? [Re: cosnik]
#10688524 - 07/16/09 02:47 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Huxley Tim Leary (like him as a person, although he ended up hurting the psychedelic movement more than help it) Stan Grof McKenna Hofmann
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