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"Oh man, how beautifully it all fits together. Dig, the first atomic fission occurred in December 1942.
The Van Allen belt is a thick blanket of electronic activity protecting this planet. What is the earth? A core of molten metals covered by a thin layer of soft, vulnerable, organic tissue. Life nibbling away, nibbling away at the rock beneath. All life on this plantet is a delicate network unified. Each living form feeding on the others, and being eaten. The Van Allen belt is the higher intelligence protecting earth from lethal solar radiation, and it's in touch with every form of living intellegence on the earth-vegetable, animal, human.
Now dig, the supreme intelligence sees that man has rediscovered atomic energy. Wow! We gotta stop those cats before they disrupt the whole living network. the only thing DNA fears is radiation. That's why the Van Allen belt is there.
Ok, now get this. Four months after the first fission, Hofmann accidentally, ha ha, rediscovers LSD, which is now psychoactive.
Hofmann first synthesized LSD in 1938, but it gave no hit. No turn-on. Now why is it that Hofmann handles LSD in 1938 and nothing happens and then in 1943, three months after atomic energy is released, he puts his finger on lysergic acid and gets flipped out? What happened? Did Hofmann suddenly get careless? Or had LSD suddenly been changed into a psychedelic chemical? Competent chemists just don't change thier handling of compounds. Hofmann's techniques are standard.
Now dig, The atomic fission in December 1942 changed the whole system of energy in this solar system. The higher intellegence decides to make a few simple changes in the electronic structure of some atoms and zap! We have LSD, and incredibly powerful substance that is the exact antidote to atomic energy. People take LSD, and flash! They get the message and start putting things back in harmoney with the great design. Stop war! Wear flowers! Conservation! Turning on people to LSD is the presise and only way to keep war from blowing up the whole system."

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Phluck said:

Where's the evidence that LSD has done anything to stop violence or war?

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One of the biggest reasons the psychedelic movement was shut down was because the anti-war movement was viewed as being fueled by LSD (rightfully so). Had LSD not been made illegal on October 6, 1966, and the DEA not been created in 1973 I'm confident that we would have seen peace on earth.

We threw away our last chance at salvation. Oh well, maybe in the next existence.

Phluck said:

But despite the fact that it was made illegal, it remained readily available to those who seek it out.

Even now it's not all that hard to find, sure it's a lot more scarce than it has been in the past, but with some effort, anyone can locate it.

I've met lots of people who have used LSD and still been violent people. You can even find examples of people who took it, and used it to justify horrifying violent ideas, like Charles Manson. It seems to me that it reinforces pre-existing beliefs more than it injects new, peaceful ones.

It's hard to find someone who would disagree that peace on earth sounds nice, therefore, most people who take acid will have thoughts that reinforce this idea. But when people come down, for the most part, they live their lives as they always have.

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Government resistance to the psychedelic movement was what stopped it from saving the world. They made the drugs illegal, harassed the leaders, released a constant flow of misinformation and propaganda, harassed hippies, created the DEA, etc. until the movement was poisoned. The momentum that the movement had was destroyed.

Yes, the drug is still slightly available, but the movement has been pushed so far underground and the message has been so muddied that everyone forgot what it was all about and gave up. They successfully thwarted world peace by taking away our focus and I don't think we'll ever get it back now. We're too far gone.

Oh well, is "American Gladiators" on?

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....The Van Allen belt is the higher intelligence protecting earth from lethal solar radiation, and it's in touch with every form of living intellegence on the earth-vegetable, animal, human.......

Hofmann first synthesized LSD in 1938, but it gave no hit. No turn-on. Now why is it that Hofmann handles LSD in 1938 and nothing happens and then in 1943, three months after atomic energy is released, he puts his finger on lysergic acid and gets flipped out? What happened? Did Hofmann suddenly get careless? Or had LSD suddenly been changed into a psychedelic chemical? Competent chemists just don't change thier handling of compounds. Hofmann's techniques are standard.
Now dig, The atomic fission in December 1942 changed the whole system of energy in this solar system....

The atomic fission in December 1942 changed the whole system of energy in this solar system. The higher intellegence decides to make a few simple changes in the electronic structure of some atoms and zap! We have LSD........

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Learyfan said:

Phluck said:

Where's the evidence that LSD has done anything to stop violence or war?

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One of the biggest reasons the psychedelic movement was shut down was because the anti-war movement was viewed as being fueled by LSD (rightfully so). Had LSD not been made illegal on October 6, 1966, and the DEA not been created in 1973 I'm confident that we would have seen peace on earth.

We threw away our last chance at salvation. Oh well, maybe in the next existence.

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Didn't LSD use increase after it was made illegal?
I don't think the context changed after that either. The whole hippie thing didn't really get going until 1967, the Summer of Love.

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What changed was that the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, ending the draft, which was probably the primary reason so many young people opposed it. Meanwhile, the hippies grew up, got jobs, and voted for Bush.

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For a short peroid of time, many people in the sixties had unbrainwashed themselves. The government then cracked down on the movement and rebrainwashed most of these people and the movement fell apart. Pulling out of Vietnam was certainly instrumental in the demise of the peace culture as well, no doubt. I think more and more pressure from the government was what slowly killed the flower people.

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Didn't LSD use increase after it was made illegal?
I don't think the context changed after that either. The whole hippie thing didn't really get going until 1967, the Summer of Love.

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Yes, for a short window in time, LSD was both illegal but widely used for spiritual purposes. This didn't last for long because the government began cracking down. Fighting a war on drugs was in the best interest of the government for two reasons: 1) To keep control of the public's consciousness and 2) To devert attention away from a failed war in Vietnam. Once the government got momentum going, it couldn't be stopped.

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What changed was that the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, ending the draft, which was probably the primary reason so many young people opposed it. Meanwhile, the hippies grew up, got jobs, and voted for Bush.

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For a short peroid of time, many people in the sixties had unbrainwashed themselves. The government then cracked down on the movement and rebrainwashed most of these people and the movement fell apart. Pulling out of Vietnam was certainly instrumental in the demise of the peace culture as well, no doubt. I think more and more pressure from the government was what slowly killed the flower people.

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Paradigm said:

How would making LSD illegal change the spiritual nature of its use?

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