Albert Hofmann on consciousness

[RoyalOui]

Dr. Hofmann: "Natural science has disclosed innumerable examples of such tricks which prove that the Creation is designed to make mankind happy. In a meditative state of mind we become conscious of this grace...." read here from Dr. Hofmann's letter to participants in the Mind States II Conference, Berkeley, California, May 2001 and read at the conference by Myron Stolaroff. (Simply Google the quote for the full letter.) May all sentient beings find true enduring happiness....

[slutypet]

Hoofman should have been president (after descovering lsd, of course)

[miganders]

my god

102!? he looks so.. alive.

and they say acid is bad for you..

[dlg725]

i need to drop acid

[MiSha400]

This man was awesome!

[Kanata343]

that nigga is a BOSS

[lamalovepua]

mail to me bout the help i asked for plz...

[lamalovepua]

which type of acid is better..california sunshine or hoffman..which one should i order..plz help..hav to order 25 drops..

[noooskill]

@computergeek22

your nickname says everything.

[seshes42o]

this shows how much you know....

[rkersch2]

haha and evidently you do? this guy manufactured consciousness you ignoramous

[VodkaRumyBrandy]

Old farmer? Your not a computer geek, you're a stupid cunt

[585788]

@ComputerGeek22 Yurrr fuuuunny

[Braindestructor]

He's the creator of lsd ffs!

[PolloWingWing]

My best friend developed schizophrenia and killed himself on my birthday_ oct 31 06 .. Ive takin acid numerous times since then, and when I do, I feel his presence is near. This connection will possibly keep me on the acid train until I myself develope the same disorder. Why do you take acid?

[atraldreams]

obviously lsd ain't for you

[8cthulhu8]

Yeap, that's obvious.

''As an unmuddied lake, sir. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer'' :-)

[jackiehorror666]

Schizophrenia is something genetic, you got to have it latent in you to develop it.. It's not something you can create on your own, it's a kind of disease.. So do you have any relative who got schizophrenia?

[shinken101]

scizophrenia is a description. 'schizophrenics' are not mentally unstable in any way, they are creative geniuses discarded by all others that do not agree with their FEELINGS. all you need to do is believe in love - not descriptions and ill-fated control. hasnt the human mind destroyed the earth for long enough? look through the history of the earth since the beginning of time, and you will only see it is only people that destroy themselves, their lives and their ultimate hapiness.

[itzahazylife]

@shinken101

i partially agree with u..schizophrenics are creative, essentric people, but, that doesn't mean they are in touch with reality..there's a reason why many of them think there are people after them who aren't actually after them. their creativity and imagination bleed into the real world and get intangled with reality. this very thing makes them mentally unstable..if one cannot keep imagination seperate from reality, they are mentally unstable..

[lulzlaby]

@itzahazylife reality is just as real and fake as imagination. in fact id argue with you that imagination is more important/real than this place of being we call reality. its objective for a reason

[itzahazylife]

@lulzlaby

i don't really agree with that..if i imagine a scenario for tomorrow, where the sun won't rise, and an asteroid will hit the earth, will my imagination have any bearing on the objective reality that tomorrow the sun will rise, and an asteroid won't hit the earth?..no matter how much a schizophrenic imagines that the government is after him, that imagination won't have any bearing on the reality that the government isn't chasing him..

[itzahazylife]

@lulzlaby

now i do agree with u that imagination is important..without imagining the possibilities, we'd never be able to make certain things possible..everything starts with imagination..but, sometimes no matter how much u imagine something, it'll never be true.

[zenflowrappings]

@itzahazylife according to Agrippa there are four inner senses (he quotes Ibn Rushd/Averroes): common sense-imagination-phantasy-mem­ory.

These terms represent notions which differ considerably from how we conceive of them today.

[zenflowrappings]

@zenflowrappings Quote from 3 Books of Occult Phlosophy: ,..whereof the first is called common sense, because it does 1st collect, and perfect all the representations which are drawn in by the outward senses. 2nd is imaginative power, whose office is, seeing it represents NOTHING, to retain those representations which are received by the former senses, and to preent them...to the phantasy, or power of judging, whose work is also to perceive, and judge by the rperesentaions received cont.

[zenflowrappings]

@zenflowrappings , what or what kind of thing that is of which the represantations are, and to committhose things which are thus discerened, and adjudged, to the memory to be kept." Everything is true. It depends how you tune yourself or allow youself to be tuned. It is a hazy life, is it not?

[dieselheart001]

@zenflowrappings Exactly! Because LSD allows temporary suspension of the tangible rules of our "operating system", as it were, the exit from delineated, defined thought construct into open experiential consciousness is quite hazy. The "tuning" process is quite literally "seat of the pants" navigation. Depending on the entry point of focus (read here "tuning") or lack thereof, the same consequences as entry and exit from hyperspace travel apply- disaster or success- awe or terror, await.

[dieselheart001]

@zenflowrappings For me, entry out of thought into open consciousness was easy to do if I had a fixed point, much like the mariner's North Star, to lock on and guide from. This is where my thought processes actually steered, compensating through the transition, negotiating my transfer baud rates to allow a fluid entry into open consciousness without distortion. Interestingly, this "haziness" is evidence of another operating principle of the human mind- that which we call "fuzzy logic".

[KnightFoxProd]

@shinken101 : Nice, well put

[ElTemploDeTacitus]

Why does he look/sound like he is reading something he has never read before?

[NemoInLandOfWonder]

Why?! Seriously- you are one dumb human

Ahm, THERE he is 90 years old- maybe thats why...... see you around :)

[tdobbin]

Brilliant man

[nightmarecinema33]

LSD is often described as a "life changing experience" because it is, and that may turn some people off of it, fearing that the lives they are accustomed to may be sent spiralling off into unplanned frontiers by this chemical. But that is truly not the case. The perception of life in the long term is altered just ever so subtly by psychedelics; elucidating in the same sense that traveling to another country opens the eyes to things before unimagined.

[ThatEricMan]

Nightmare, what you just spoke was absouletly amazing, I think the best way to possibly explain it is a sence of traveling to a new country opens your eyes to things before unimagined. That is briliant, however i have yet to try lsd, im pretty young - 15 and dont know anyone who has lsd

[MightySunTzu]

@ThatEricMan find someone that sells pot. ask them to ask their dealer, or to ask others... not sure how else to find lsd. i suggest starting with mushrooms before trying lsd, make sure you can at least handle mushrooms.

[AttunedFlux]

personally man, i would wait until you are a little older..at least out of HS. hallucinogens can hit you pretty hard and can potentially have un-forseen negative consequences in the future. unless you have a supportive community and/or parents or family that are willing to help and can understand what you are going through.

[XanatharEye]

@nightmarecinema33 ............How profound.

[dieselheart001]

@nightmarecinema33 Yours is the best explanation of LSD I have seen so far.

Using it has been for me a "life-changing experience" but I also can understand

how it would not be for some. It afforded for me the ability to suspend temporarily

the tangible rules of thought that we, whether subconsciously or not, weave into

our mental infrastructure, much like an "operating system" of a computer. To just

be still, and be aware clearly of all of Life around me, is indescribable. Thank you.

DZL<3

[wabashalwaysfights5]

@nightmarecinema33 Exactly. Now it's time for some DMT.

[merrsshee]

RIP Albert Hofmann

[AvionDream]

Yeah, thanks for your little 'accident' it took 50 years before it made it into my bloodstream from the day you discovered it, but well worth the wait ; )

First took it in 1993 when I was 19. BANG! SWISH!

DONK! Game over : )

[kazchen999]

I can relate heavily to that as well!

I took it when I was 20 and it has expanded my mind and spirit ever since.

[phuckfacedan]

16 my 1st time

havnt stoped since

[joaocardoso123]

It really is an unexpected experience:)

[AvionDream]

When, as a young teenager I first heard the slang-word "Trip" to describe LSD, I immediately thought "trip to where"? My intrigue was ignited, and I once saw a TV documentary on various drugs, they showed LSD tabs with various cartoon pics etc. But in the end it was all much deeper than that, it became obvious I was always destined to gravitate towards hallucinogenics, I will go so far as to say I have taken them in lifetimes past, who knows how far to go back with this in mind -

[AvionDream]

Caveman taking Datura? Which I also took when I was 18. Entheogenic "drugs" were the Earths first religion and is what all religion is based on, but a distinction must be made, and that is that the Entheogens themselves are not the point, but rather what they allude to - Reality Itself, which is both senior and PRIOR to the entire context of the space-time situation in which we find ourselves with bodies and questioning minds.

[AvionDream]

Our bodily situation in space-time is what motivates us to seek the Truth. That Truth properly investigated and understood will leave you knowing you are not merely this limited body-mind you are currently presuming, rather you are the Infinite Being prior to all of these fragmented appearances. It is a great paradox that Entheogens Enlighten you to see beyond their use, at some point they must be transcended and the real process of self-transcendence of the presumed limited body-mind must begin

[jw22345]

we are not human beings living spiritual lives; we are spiritual beings living HUMAN lives.

[noobguitarplayr]

t. R.I.P

[russianpeanut]

what a cool cat

[Toro76aus]

meaning of life- to be happy and experiance love. that is all.

u rock Albert Hofmann

peace be with u

[PatrickAndHisLSD]

the world would be very different if dr hoffman didnt come and go.. one of the greatest men who had ever lived. rest in peace

[JRR951]

didn't come and go? he lived to 102. what do you mean?

[mastershan87]

RIP... I hope I can trip with him in another reality...

[ajl227]

R.I.P. great founder of self discovery.

[minztee23]

I've read his book "LSD mein Sorgenkind" (in German) and I adore Albert Hofmann greatly! I didn't know that he died. Sorry to hear that. He was a true psychedelic pioneer for all humankind.

[kazchen999]

He truly was, although albert hoffmann isnt really "dead."

[Passenger87]

We're already dead :)