Hofmann's Potion - Albert Hofmann LSD Documentary

By the mid-1950s, LSD-research was being published in medical and academic journals all over the world. It showed potential benefits in the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other mental illnesses. This film explores those potential benefits, and the researchers who explored them.

QUOTES:

Myron Stolaroff: In a good LSD experience you resolve your inner conflicts, and the loads and the barriers that have developed. You begin to reach down into the depth of your own being. You see more and more levels of being. More and more levels of understanding. Often we like to blame our feelings on other people. And what they are doing to us. But if I feel that it's my feeling and I've produced it, then I'm the only one who can resolve it. And fortunately, these substances allow you see and recognize this. And resolve it.

Ram Dass: I wasn't born as Richard Albert. I was just born as a human being. And then I learned this whole business of who I am, and whether I'm good or bad, or achieving or not. All that's learned along the way. You see all those learned things separate. You become is a point of awareness. That's all that is left. I remember the first time this happened to me, as professor went, and middle class boy went, and pilot went, and all of my games were going off into the distance. I got this terrible panic, because, indeed, I was going to cease to exist. And I got the panic, which is the panic that precedes psychological death. Because indeed Richard Albert was dying.

Ralph Metzner: We all want to expand our consciousness, we alter our consciousness all the time. We cycle through waking and dreaming and sleeping. It's natural-- consciousness naturally varies. I mean, I took a consciousness expanding drug this morning: I had a cup of coffee. That was a psychoactive, it got my brain going. Probably most people do that.
We interact with psychoactive substances and plants all the time. And the point is to do it in a conscious way, a discriminating way, a purposive way, to choose it.

Albert Hofmann: It is very important that one is *prepared* for the use of psychedelics. It is not just fun; it is a very serious experiment.

Duncan Blewett: There are still people who are violently opposed to psychedelics. Very few of them have ever tried psychedelics; and 99% of the opposition to them comes from people who are completely ignorant of their effects.

Timothy Leary: The effect is somewhat like looking through a microscope. Suddenly when you look through a microscope you discover that there is an invisible world around you that you hadn't known about. The same is true about the psychedelic drug. You are aware of processes that going on inside your own brain. You are aware of the exchange of energy going on between your sense organs and the ones around them that you weren't aware of before.

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[Julian Washington]

~Free Your Mind~

[TurboSwami]

...and your ass will follow.

[Ryan Hancock]

keep ur fucking mouth shut lmfao

[TurboSwami]

They are George Clinton lyrics. "Free your mind and your ass will follow!" Funkadelic: mothafuckin Mothership Connection, foo! You people should learn your psychedelic music history!

[sealteamz6]

I find it funny how youve never taken drugs but you seem like the craziest person here. lol

[jayrichey71]

I no i guy true story he took 15 hits of orenge sunshine and he thinks he is an orenge they had to put him in a mental instution

[honey badger]

my enlightenment is of the natural sort......hardships and pain and me turning to the word of god for help.......the good lord jesus is my enlightenment...taking shortcuts with some fungus on a rock does not seem like a good way to go to me

[TheCloudburster]

You sound scared and ill informed. If you can muster up the courage to take the leap towards true spiritual enlightenment, we encourage about an eight of psilocybin mushrooms or 250 micro grams of LSD. Mescaline, ayahuasca and DMT are highly recommended as well. (meditation is a great all natural tool!) I can tell you, and I speak the ultimate truth, I have had the most spiritual experience of my life on mushrooms. Traditional western religion/church did not enhance my spiritual journey at all

[TheCloudburster]

religion is based on shamanic/psychedelic experiences. Without hallucinogenics you would not have a religion to believe in. All of those things you mentioned have not been cured by god or religion so what are you proposing we do? LSD has cured alcoholism in many people and the guy that discovered DNA, Dr. Crick, he was on acid when he made that monumental discovery.

[Kim H]

hey now lol, iv never officially freaked out on any of my psychedelic experiences, cant judge one bad female trip buddy on the female trippers as a whole,,

[Ming Lin]

I can barely understand this guy.  No offense just I really can't and wasn't a good documentary to me.:(

[Ming Lin]

Force it. You only need a drop. Lol

[Ming Lin]

Steve Jobs said,"Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life." He also said it motivated him to create things instead of just making money. But in the end he did both. lmao

[Psychedelic Kid]

It was a distinct hallucination.

[TheRicanLover]

I dont doubt LSD allowed him to experience a higher state of awareness. I highly doubt it was the driving force behind creating Apple. LSD also works wonders for the ego and pretentiousness, so maybe you should try a higher dose. I'm surprised a man of your intelligence would dignify my false assumptions with a response via YouTube comments . Since you knew Steve Jobs personally, and through your thorough research on this topic, could you enlighten us all about his motives for creating Apple?