Albert Hofmann on consciousness

LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann, who died at 102 on April 29, 2008, talks about what really interest him, consciousness at his Rittimatte Home in 1996

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[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.

[merrsshee]

RIP Albert Hofmann

[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....

[wabashalwaysfights5]

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

[slutypet]

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

[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".

[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]

@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

[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!