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patongpanda
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject: Dr. Albert Hoffman, passed away age 102. |
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Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 � April 29, 2008 was a Swiss scientist best known for synthesizing Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
Hofmann authored more than 100 scientific articles and wrote a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Obviously that stuff shortens your life.....
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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pugwall
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Will they auction off his bike? |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Absolutely fascinating substance |
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patongpanda
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| ED209 wrote: |
I'm sure Jimi Hendrix will be waiting to kiss that guy.
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He means "kiss this guy." |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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RIP Albert Hoffman. Your experiences with LSD will help you on your next journey.
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| Last Friday, April 16,1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away. |
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| The dizziness and sensation of fainting became so strong at times that I could no longer hold myself erect, and had to lie down on a sofa. My surroundings had now transformed themselves in more terrifying ways. Everything in the room spun around, and the familiar objects and pieces of furniture assumed grotesque, threatening forrns. They were in continuous motion, animated, as if driven by an inner restlessness. The lady next door, whom I scarcely recognized, brought me milk - in the course of the evening I drank more than two liters. She was no longer Mrs. R., but rather a malevolent, insidious witch with a colored mask. |
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| Even worse than these demonic transformations of the outer world, were the alterations that I perceived in myself, in my inner being. Every exertion of my will, every attempt to put an end to the disintegration of the outer world and the dissolution of my ego, seemed to be wasted effort. A demon had invaded me, had taken possession of my body, mind, and soul. I jumped up and screamed, trying to free myself from him, but then sank down again and lay helpless on the sofa. The substance, with which I had wanted to experiment, had vanquished me. It was the demon that scornfully triumphed over my will. I was seized by the dreadful fear of going insane. I was taken to another world, another place, another time. My body seemed to be without sensation, lifeless, strange. Was I dying? Was this the transition? At times I believed myself to be outside my body, and then perceived clearly, as an outside observer, the complete tragedy of my situation. I had not even taken leave of my family (my wife, with our three children had traveled that day to visit her parents, in Lucerne). Would they ever understand that I had not experimented thoughtlessly, irresponsibly, but rather with the utmost caution, an-d that such a result was in no way foreseeable? My fear and despair intensified, not only because a young family should lose its father, but also because I dreaded leaving my chemical research work, which meant so much to me, unfinished in the midst of fruitful, promising development. Another reflection took shape, an idea full of bitter irony: if I was now forced to leave this world prematurely, it was because of this Iysergic acid diethylamide that I myself had brought forth into the world. |
http://www.flashback.se/archive/my_problem_child/chapter1.html
How intense would that trip of been? Especially considering he didn't see that comming. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the good times, Al.  |
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