Social Seminar : Tom - LSD case study

A public domain gem! This is from a series of Social Seminar movies made for educational use. The original intent of this movie was to paint a cautionary picture of an LSD user. Instead, the editor, Howie Lester, made it into a fair and even sympathetic portrait of a young man living an alternate lifestyle.
They used to show this film every year in the drug awareness class we had to take with Mr. Blondin. Every year, people talked about how much fun it looked like to take acid, make pottery and live in Big Sur. Subversion at it's finest! NICE WORK, HOWIE!

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[hughGwilly]

he looks like jesus... i want to look like jesus!!! and i find it halarious that only non christians and hippies look like jesus. maybe christians lost one of their only good things in all the recent years. heaven would be nice, jesus looks badass, other than that, its too corrupt. rastafari is essentially christianity with the belief in Haile Selassie as jah incarnate and with better morals and ethics and the ability to live life knowing that their god made them to be happy, not to worship him!

[pureevilfnord]

@hughGwilly You say that, but the Rastafari religion often treats women shamefully with a weird fixation on their menstrual cycle.

[padrepio2]

were do you get peyote

[pureevilfnord]

from a cactus

[pleasetighten]

seriously this video is such an inspiration to me, to live the way I want to.

[Treath8]

This is a beautiful piece of film that says the truth about psychedelics.

5/5.

[Tengent]

"CHRISTMAS FORMAL!? It's a fucking sacrament!"

[hughGwilly]

@pureevilfnord that is only one subdevision (the bobo ashanti) and it was frowned apon by every other denomination. infact the hygene laws you are talking about are jewish laws which they follow. i think it is wrong and immoral. i cant speak for othersbut i can say is the bobo ashanti do not live in close proximity to jamaicans or other rastafarians. that particular "sect" also does odd things like carry brooms to symbolise cleanliness. you are right although it is only one group that does this.

[Tengent]

I love the way old films like this look. And sound. I'm writing music inspired by the imagery in this film. I have not taken any sort of psychedelic.

[1975buddhafish]

Good film, thnx 4 the post.

[SLRmusic]

Boards of Canada is full of win. I want to meet Tom and discuss philosophy LOL. I don't advocate drugs, especially anything stronger than pot but one good thing about it was that in the era it was in, it brought hippies (people with open minds and hearts) together. As an ambient prog house producer, I'm thinking of sampling this.

[lazyjoe99]

You know what I don't get is people that talk shit about people taking LSD or mushrooms or payote or something psychedelic and they drink and shit. It's the same shit except

Mescaline and payote is fuckin beautieful.