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    #14196721 - 03/28/11 08:37 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

  • 1924:  John Beresford is born




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John Spencer Beresford

March 28, 1924 - September 2, 2007

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British-born John Beresford began his psychedelic research interests in 1961, and shortly thereafter he resigned his post as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College. In 1963 he founded the Agora Scientific Trust, the world's first research organization devoted to investigating the effects of LSD. In contrast to Leary's invitation to "tune in, turn on, and drop out", Beresford initially wanted to keep LSD as a tool of scientifically trained specialists. However, later in his life he adopted a viewpoint that was opposed to the medicalization of psychedelics.

He spent the next several decades working in psychiatry until 1991, when he resigned and founded the Committee on Unjust Sentencing, an advocacy group focused on the plight of people imprisoned on psychedelics-related charges. Beresford testified in front of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and spoke out on his passion in many forums. He collaborated with Karen Hoffman and Becky Stewart to create and publish The Tallahassee Project--a collection of testimonials and photographs of women incarcerated at the federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida. In his later years he lived in Canada and continued to correspond with psychedelic prisoners. Beresford acted as secretary of the Albert Hofmann Foundation, and archived a large collection of art and printed materials related to LSD. Though it never manifested, his dream was to create a museum open to the public, so that the historical evidence of the important impact of LSD would always be available and could never be forgotten or buried. In 1996, Beresford teamed up with Werner Pieper in Germany to host the First International Drug War Prisoners Conference, and a second similar conference was held in Canada in 1999. In 2006 at the international symposium on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Albert Hofmann in Basel, Switzerland, Beresford presented the talk "Psychedelic Agents and the Structure of Consciousness: Stages in a Session Using LSD and DMT".

Beresford was known for his outspokenness and persistence on many topics, and is fondly remembered for his tireless devotion to the causes he championed.


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John Beresford embodied many lives during this incarnation. He was a healer, a trailblazer, a gentle soul, a truth seeker, an activist, a messenger, a curator, and a warrior for justice.


Healer
– John earned his initial degree in medicine at London Hospital Medical College in 1952 and practiced in New York from 1953 to 1963 as a pediatrician. During the Vietnam War John refused to become a U.S. citizen and therefore was temporarily suspended from practicing medicine. Thus, John elected to work underground as a general practitioner in a walkin clinic in Harlem. In 1974, John moved to Canada and entered the field of psychiatry.

Trailblazer – John’s mission was to wake up the world. While working as Assistant Professor at New York Medical College, teaching pediatrics, John ordered a gram of pure LSD (lot# H-00047) from Sandoz Laboratories. Shortly afterwards, in 1963, John founded the Agora Scientific Trust: the world’s first research organization devoted to investigating LSD’s effects.

Gentle Soul – Although John was born into an affluent family, he shunned material possessions and spent his life giving to others. From 1990 to 1994 John lived in a small trailer, without the benefits of electricity or running water, among Buddhist monks at a monastery in Canada. This was a time of great introspection for John.

Truth Seeker – John was instrumental in jump-starting the spiritual and political revolution of the sixties. He generously shared his “magic gram” and opened the doors of perception to a large number of key people seeking answers to the mysteries of the mind/universe.

Activist – John founded the Committee on Unjust Sentencing in 1991, and in ’94 moved to Los Angeles to become more actively involved in this e¬ort to raise awareness of the draconian sentencing laws passed during the late ’80s. He collaborated with Karen Ho¬man and Becky Stewart to create and publish The Tallahassee Project—a collection of testimonials and photos of women incarcerated at the Federal Prison in Tallahassee, Florida.

Messenger – John regularly travelled to remote prisons on visiting days to see the many POWs he corresponded with, bringing hope and determination to the downtrodden. He arranged for John Humphrey to enter several prisons to video and interview POWs. John later testified before the U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington DC, sharing the footage and stories of those prisoners.

Curator – As secretary of the Albert Hofmann Foundation, John archived a huge collection of art and printed materials related to LSD, including all of the popular and scientific articles about LSD and psilocybin collected by Sandoz between 1943 and 1986. His dream was to eventually create a museum open to the public, so that the historical evidence of the important impact of LSD was always available and could never be forgotten or buried.

Warrior for Justice – John became a voice for drug POWs who were silenced behind bars. He insisted that the plight of prisoners be addressed at the Drug Policy Foundation Conference in Santa Monica in 1994. In 1996 he teamed up with Werner Pieper in Germany, to host the First International Drug War Prisoners Conference, where they debuted their “Heidelberg Declaration,” releasing the clarion call: Kein Knast für Drogen! A decade later at the 2006 International Symposium in Switzerland, John arranged for Karen Ho¬man to gift Albert Hofmann with a book of messages from U.S. drug POWs in honor of Albert’s 100th birthday.


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  • 1957:  New Scientist Magazine publishes article titled "Vision Or Illusion", about LSD-25




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  • 1960:  Time Magazine publishes an article titled "Medicine: The Psyche in 3-D"




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Medicine: The Psyche in 3-D
Monday, Mar. 28, 1960


In Hollywood, it was only natural that psychiatric patients undergoing analytic treatment should have visions in wide screen, full color, and observe themselves from cloud nine. What was remarkable was that these phenomena—experienced by (among others) such glossy public personalities as Gary Grant and his third exwife, Betsy Drake—were reported in the cold, grey scientific columns of the A.M.A.'s Archives of General Psychiatry.

Reason for the many-colored recall of events dating back to the first year of life, and the accelerated recovery of about half the patients, was the use, in combination with orthodox psychotherapy, of one of the most potent drugs known to man: lysergic acid diethylamide. Trade-named Delysid by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, it is usually known by its early lab designation, LSD-25 (TIME, June 28, 1954 et seq.).

LSD first won fame for its power, in microscopic doses, to induce hallucinations and a psychotic state—both temporary—roughly parallel to those of schizophrenia. But several psychiatrists on both sides of the Atlantic have sought to turn the drug to advantage in treating real mental illnesses. Now, from the Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills, Drs. Arthur L. Chandler and Mortimer A. Hartman report using LSD as a "facilitating agent" in treating 110 patients.

"Treat Thyself." Instead of the normal 50-minute hour on the couch, a patient being "facilitated" by LSD must go through an elaborate routine. First is a screening to exclude the severely depressed, including potential suicides, and those adjudged in danger of a severe emotional breakdown (psychosis). Then, after four foodless hours, the patients are ensconced on a couch in a comfortable, carpeted room with classical music piped in. After the tasteless shot of as little as a millionth of an ounce of LSD in water, they lie down and are fitted with blinders (a "sleep shield"). To make sure that they shut out external stimuli, some also wear wax and cotton earplugs.

The drug's effects begin to show within 15 minutes to two hours; a single LSD-psychotherapy session may last five to six hours. Half an hour before it ends, the doctors give an antagonist drug (usually secobarbital or chlorpromazine) to cut short LSD's lingering effects; they make sure that the patient does not drive home and they often prescribe sedatives for the next couple of days.

Even with all these safeguards, say Drs. Chandler and Hartman, LSD treatment can still be dangerous unless the psychiatrist has had plenty of it himself. It is not enough for him to have taken it once or twice "to see what it's like"; they insist that the psychiatrist should have had 20 to 40 sessions with it.

While the drug takes effect, they report, the patient may show a variety of physical reactions: twisting, trembling, posturing, wringing his hands, laughing, rying, or curling up in the fetal position. He may feel unnaturally hot or cold, unduly sensitive to sound, tingling or numb, sexually aroused—or in severe pain. The pain, they believe, is often associated with the repressed memory of some injurious childhood experience, so it is an important factor in the psychotherapy.

God & the Devil. As the drug's effect deepens,* the patient has illusions—not hallucinations, the doctors insist, because he does not believe in them. Instead of 'hearing voices," as in schizophrenia, he enjoys visions. These visions may be timeless and seemingly unrelated to past or present experience. But often they consist of incredibly vivid, colorful scenes from the recent past, or from a childhood remembered with superhuman accuracy: 'Some patients describe it by saying that it is as though a 3-D tape were being run off in the visual field." Long-forgotten childhood fantasies may be mixed with real memories, some going back (as patients testify that their parents have confirmed) to life's first year.

Family conflicts may be projected onto the LSD screen in puppet shows, acted out by Disney characters. Symbolic of emotional disturbance are dragons, witches, fairies and satyrs. There may be fantasies of seeing God and the Devil "locked in mortal cosmic combat."

Whatever the visions' content, most important is the fact that the patient seems able to stand aside and report vividly observed conflicts, dredged from his deepest unconscious and acted out before him. Somehow, his sharpened insight is able to function independently of his emotions. The more he "goes with the drug," the more he can stand aside and "see himself" as he has been, resisting reality and rationalizing his behavior. He learns that "in the world of psychic reality, a great many things . . . have no correspondence to facts in the objective world. [But] these psychic realities . . . may be the very ones which, when repressed, give him trouble in his dealings with the objective world."

Addicts' Insights. Who benefits from LSD plus psychotherapy? Drs. Chandler and Hartman had 44 neurotics, 25 cases of personality disorder (including schizoid, paranoid, and eight patients with extreme compulsiveness), and 17 who had been addicted to alcohol or narcotics or both. Most of the patients took LSD dozens of times in stepped-up doses. (There appears to be no danger of addiction.) No fewer than 50 of their patients, the doctors report, showed considerable to outstanding improvement, while 38 more showed at least some improvement. Only 22 were rated as having shown no benefit. Most gratifying was the success with victims of notoriously resistant types of illness—addicts and obsessive-compulsives.

LSD is still an investigational drug (not available for general prescription), its distribution closely controlled by law, and watchdogged by Sandoz. Like a score of other physicians doing research on LSD, Drs. Chandler and Hartman emphasize that by itself it cures nothing. Its apparent value lies in boosting—and accelerating—the benefits to be gained from orthodox psychiatry. One of their patients made a good recovery in less than a year, after six years of drugless couch work had failed.

In the East, Manhattan's Dr. Harold A. Abramson has pioneered with LSD in group experiments. In Saskatoon, Sask. and at New Westminster, B.C., Dr. Abram Hoffer has used it determinedly on alcoholics, has found that while it is no chemical cure, the heightened insight that it gives enables patients to see the emotional basis of their problem drinking. Whereas Alcoholics Anonymous usually claims success in only 50%-60% of run-of-the-still cases, Dr. Hoffer has dried out 50% of the 100-proof cases who had been failures in A.A.

In Hollywood, word of LSD's powers inevitably circulated with the martinis, led to a fad to try it. An osteopathic psychiatrist gave it experimentally to a number of the curious, including famed Novelist-Mystic Aldous (The Doors of Perception) Huxley. Among the Chandler-Hartman patients were several movie no tables, whom the doctors refused, because of professional ethics, to name. But some named themselves. One of these was dura ble Actor Grant, 56, who emerged from therapy to give a confused account of what had ailed him during a long and successful career, but he was convinced that he had at last found "a tough inner core of strength."

* Paradoxically , notes Boston's Dr. Max Rinkel, in mice (and presumably in man) LSD concentrates less in the brain than in any other major organ, and is far below its highest brain concentration when the psychological effects are greatest. So how it works is a mystery.


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  • 1962:  Aldous Huxley's final book Island is published




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Huxley novel

  Aldous Huxley's first novel since "The Genius and the Goddess" (1955) will be published by Harper on March 28 [1962], It is titled "Island." Book uncovers the "reverse side of the coin" of Huxley's celebrated novel, "Brave New World." In "Island," he transports the reader to a Pacific island where, for a hundred and twenty years, an ideal society has flourished.


(The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 18 Mar 1962, Sun, Page 74)




Island is the final book by English writer Aldous Huxley, published in 1962. It is the account of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who is shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala. Island is Huxley's utopian counterpart to his most famous work, the 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World. The ideas that would become Island can be seen in a foreword he wrote in 1946 to a new edition of Brave New World:

    If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative. Between the Utopian and primitive horns of his dilemma would lie the possibility of sanity... In this community economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque and co-operative. Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they had been made for man, not (as at present and still more so in the Brave New World) as though man were to be adapted and enslaved to them. Religion would be the conscious and intelligent pursuit of man's Final End, the unitive knowledge of immanent Tao or Logos, the transcendent Godhead or Brahman. And the prevailing philosophy of life would be a kind of Higher Utilitarianism, in which the Greatest Happiness principle would be secondary to the Final End principle – the first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: "How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?


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    #19758492 - 03/28/14 01:36 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

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    #21469485 - 03/28/15 08:41 AM (8 years, 9 months ago)

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    #23053899 - 03/28/16 06:49 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

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    #24198862 - 03/28/17 05:30 AM (6 years, 9 months ago)

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    #24198873 - 03/28/17 05:44 AM (6 years, 9 months ago)

And what has been learned..


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    #25096425 - 03/28/18 06:24 AM (5 years, 9 months ago)

What has been learned is that John Beresford played a major part in psychedelic history.  His purchase of Sandoz LSD gram (!) #H-00047 was shared with Michael Hollingshead, who in turn, gave Timothy Leary his first LSD trip.  The rest is history. 


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  Just after the election of John Kennedy to the presidency, a pediatrician of English extraction working in New York City wrote Sandoz on New York Hospital letterhead requesting a gram of LSD. A package came by return mail to Dr. John Beresford, with a bill for $285 (the approximate cost of manufacture at the time). Beresford had tried other psychedelics, was impressed by the mind/body questions they posed, and was eager to test = this new product. Results were clear. He therefore gave part of his gram—over time—to a few associates, including an acquaintance known as Michael Hollingshead.
  Hollingshead is important to this chronicle because he managed before long to give some of this gram to Donovan, Paul McCartney, Keith Richard, Paul Krassner, Frank Barron, Houston Smith, Paul Lee, Richard Katz, Pete La Roca, Charlie Mingus, Saul Steinberg, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner, Alan Watts and many others who contributed to the coming international awareness of LSD. "There is some possibility," wrote Hollingshead later, "that my friends and I have illuminated more people than anyone else in history." His memoir bears the publisher's title, The Man Who Turned On the World.
  With his part of gram "H-00047," Beresford, with Jean Houston and Michael Corner, opened an LSD foundation in Manhattan in 1962, the Agora Scientific Trust. The impressive, valuable work carried out there is described in Robert Masters and Jean Houston's book entitled The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience.
  That same year Myron Stolaroff and associates established another important LSD study center, the International Foundation for Advanced Study in Menlo Park. This institution was set up to examine the effects of LSD and mescaline upon carefully selected subjects. The results from several hundred administrations were significant, especially in regard to "learning-enhancement" and "creativity."
  By 1962, the number of people who knew about LSD had increased geometrically. Some were enthusiastic about trying the drug but had no access to LSD psychotherapists, the original "gate-keepers." In response to the demand for LSD, the first generation of "acid chemists" arose.
  A notable early effort was a batch of 62,000 tablets of questionable content synthesized in 1962 by Bernard Roseman and Bernard Copely. These tabs figured in the first "LSD bust," when Food and Drug Administration agents charged the two with "smuggling" (manufacturing of LSD was then perfectly legal).
  Owsley Stanley entered the trade after having been frustrated in his efforts to obtain pure LSD. His trademarks—"White Lightning," "Purple Haze"—and others such as "Batman," "Purple Double-Domes" and "Midnight Hour"—were associated with "tabs" of high quality. An enormous amount of this production was given away, yet Owsley became perhaps the first LSD millionaire. When he was captured in 1967, 200 fresh grams—a million substantial doses—were confiscated.
  The first big wave of popular interest was gathering momentum. In 1962, the Gamblers issued the first record including a song about LSD. Many folk musicians were getting "cerebrally electrified." Talk of LSD spread beyond Bohemian and university circles; even Henry Luce, publisher of Time and Life magazines, and his wife tried the drug. Luce, wandering out into his garden in Arizona, heard a symphony in his head that impressed him greatly because he had previously considered himself tone-deaf. He also acquired affectionate feelings for the cacti there. This may not sound like much, but he claimed it was important personally because he previously "had hated them."
  To centerstage came Dr. Timothy Leary.
  Already engaged in psilocybin research at Harvard, Leary was one of those who partook of "Lot No. H-00047." He took a tablespoon and a half from Hollingshead's mayonnaise jar of LSD cut with sugar-icing—and didn't talk for five days. Richard Alpert, his close associate, "told everybody not to touch the stuff—we had just lost Timothy." When Leary came back, Alpert remembers him as saying, "Wow!"
  Leary's LSD experience, coming after more than a hundred psilocybin trips, changed his life. "I have never recovered from that shattering ontological confrontation," he wrote later. "From the date of this session it was inevitable that we would leave Harvard . ." The break was not long in coming. "LSD is more important than Harvard," proclaimed Leary in 1962. Before Timothy Leary, the academics had never quite come clean about their experimenting with LSD. Leary alone emphasized publicly that the drug was "ecstatic," "sensual" and "fun." "It gives you levity and altitude," was his explanation once, "where you see the implausibilities and you see the incongruities and the ridiculousness of what you had taken so seriously before." He gave the media a clear and emotionally charged image to transmit. Before long Leary's name was tied inextricably to the compound now known simply as "LSD."


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    #25100939 - 03/29/18 10:42 PM (5 years, 9 months ago)

Bloody fascinating, love it.


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    #25100994 - 03/29/18 11:14 PM (5 years, 9 months ago)

I will be researching this mans work thanks to you putting this up , thank you


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The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern."


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I will be researching this mans work thanks to you putting this up , thank you




No problem, Ferrum.  Glad I could help.  And today would have been John Beresford's 95th birthday.

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    #26562647 - 03/28/20 07:39 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

60th anniversary of that Time Magazine article today.











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    #27711184 - 03/28/22 03:48 AM (1 year, 9 months ago)

60 years since Aldous Huxley published his last book Island. It was the utopian counterpart to his dystopian novel Brave New World. Many in the psychedelic community were inspired by it.



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The Palanese also circumspectly incorporated the use of "moksha medicine", a fictional entheogen taken ceremonially in rites of passage for mystical and cosmological insight. The moksha mushroom is described as "yellow" and not "those lovely red toadstools", e.g. the Amanita muscaria; this description of the moksha medicine is suggestive of Psilocybe mushrooms, a psychoactive that captivated Huxley during the latter half of his life. The recommended dosage of 400 mg, however, is in the dosage range of mescaline as opposed to psilocybin. Huxley had also been fascinated towards the end of his life by the potential benefit to humanity of substances such as mescaline and LSD. Brave New World and most of Huxley's other books were written before he first tried a psychedelic drug in 1953.


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