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Today in psychedelic history (09/03) 1
#18793140 - 09/03/13 04:40 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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- 1971: Albert Hofmann meets Timothy Leary for the first time
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Sep 3, 1971 Albert Hofmann meets Timothy Leary for the first time. The father of LSD, Albert Hofmann, and LSD's most vocal prophet, Timothy Leary, meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, while Leary was there in exile from the United States, where he was facing a possible ten years in prison for charges related to possession of a small amount of cannabis.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: Learyfan] 1
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: Learyfan]
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Edited by Learyfan (09/03/16 09:16 AM)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: Learyfan]
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#24600262 - 09/03/17 10:47 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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LR: Tell me about going with Timothy to visit Albert Hofmann in Basel.
MH: Tim and I took the train to Basel, where Albert picked us up in his car. You can see this in the movie. Albert drove, Tim sat in the passenger seat, and I sat in back, trying to manage an 8mm movie camera with one hand and a tape recorder with the other. [We are preparing the footage to upload in a future post.]
Albert told us that we were driving the route of his first LSD trip in 1943, when he bicycled home with his lab assistant after testing it on himself in his Sandoz lab.
LR: Oh! I thought he was alone on that epic ride.
MH: She was Susi Ramstein who accompanied him to make sure he got home safely. She later became the first woman to take LSD.
LR: How amazing for you, as a historian and archivist, to be with Timothy Leary and Albert Hofmann as Hofmann tells the story of his LSD bicycle trip!
MH: I almost lost myself in the psychedelic ambience. I wanted time to slow down, to be on acid. Tim cracked up when I asked Albert if he still had the bicycle. I knew it was gauche of me, but --
LR: You’re an archivist—you had to ask. Well, did he have the bicycle?
MH: Sadly, no. He really had no idea what became of it.
LR: Tell me more about the car ride.
MH: Well, for one thing, I sensed a little discomfort between Tim and Albert. But they got off talking about mutual friends--researchers and personalities they both knew, like the Huxleys and Gordon Wasson. I told them I’d visited Heim and seen the psilocybin pills from Albert’s first synthesis. Tim recalled how thrilled he and Ram Dass (then, Richard Alpert) and Ralph Metzner were when the first package from Sandoz arrived at the Harvard psychology department. But things became a bit contentious between them when the subject turned to the psychedelic scene today.
LR: Ah, yes. What Albert called his "Problem Child."
MH: Right. Hofmann and Leary had different ideas about who should be using LSD, older mature people or the under-30s. You can imagine which sides they were on. Hofmann was fifteen years older, and more traditional. Timothy believed young people in the 1960s had been exposed to much more than the previous generation, especially electronic technology, and so were more suited. Most of Tim’s academic-minded contemporaries probably agreed with Albert.
LR: How did the rest of the visit go?
MH: Awesome. Albert gave us a tour of the grounds which bordered France, then took us back to his house to show us his collection of mushroom stones and photographs from his Mexican expedition. A sheaf of ergot of rye preserved in Lucite. On a wall was a bas-relief of Demeter and Persephone from the Ancient Greek mystery rites that Tim likened to the ‘60s acid tests. Albert was meticulous, as one would expect a chemist to be. His lifelong mate Frau Hofmann served us tea and pastries.
Albert drove us back to the train station, stopping at the house where he was living when he discovered LSD in the middle of World War II. I captured a bit of their repartee on audio.
AH: That house is where we lived at the time. I never thought I would get home that day. My assistant who had ridden with me at my request asked permission to leave. I told her fine, but in fact I was in a panic. My wife and children were away. It was just me. I barely managed to crawl to my bed.
TL: It was the first bad trip, too. There was no precedent. You must have thought you’d poisoned yourself.
AH: But in the end it was good. In the morning it was fantastic.
TL: For me, the world changed forever. I would have remained a boring professional psychologist the rest of my life, making money and accomplishing nothing.
MH: Instead of being the most dangerous man in the world.
TL: Right.
MH: Someday there’ll be a plaque over the front door, like there is on Paracelsus’ house nearby. Albert asked for the movie camera to shoot Tim and me standing in front.
LR: Did you ever take LSD while you were in Switzerland?
MH: One day some of us dropped and took the mountain railway up the nearby ski mountain Rigi-Kuhn. It was mid-winter and we ascended into the snow. Bob and I hung out in the old lodge and soaked in the view and the vibes while Tim and our hosts skied.
LR: How long did you stay in Switzerland?
MH: About a week. We left with boxes of Tim’s archives and a trunk with stuff we picked up for our drug library. We’d scored an 1890s Vin Mariani coca wine bottle in Paris. Sandoz memorabilia in Basel. First editions of European psychedelic writers and papers of scientists. A great haul for the library.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: Learyfan]
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: Learyfan] 1
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#26166933 - 09/03/19 01:49 PM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just wanted to say I appreciate you posting and keeping up with/bumping these "today in psychedelic history" threads....
.....Lately I've been getting back into reading about, listening to audio from, and watching video clips of the "times" & "scenes" back around then. I enjoy reading these threads/posts.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: openmind]
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openmind said: Just wanted to say I appreciate you posting and keeping up with/bumping these "today in psychedelic history" threads....
.....Lately I've been getting back into reading about, listening to audio from, and watching video clips of the "times" & "scenes" back around then. I enjoy reading these threads/posts.
You're welcome, OM! Glad to hear that you like them! 
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: Learyfan]
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (09/03) [Re: Learyfan]
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