Trippy Pix & Other Souvenirs of LSD

"How often have you been there?
Often enough to know
What did you see when you were there?
Nothing that doesn't show"

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Tripping one sunny day, out for a stroll like a droll psychedelic flâneur, I came to a bridge (appropriately symbolic I thought). At my feet I found a loose page torn from a children's story book. On it was a picture of a bridge with a troll & the eldest billy-goat Gruff...strange co-incidence enough, n'est-ce pas, but it was the words that really amazed me:

"And he stamped his feet even louder; TRIP, TRAP, TRIP, TRAP, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!"

Was that some kind of cosmic message or what?! Probably not. Just those pesky pixies playing tricks again.

Mind-blowing? This was a mental tornado transporting me to some Land of Oz or other fantastical region of inner space...

LoSt top of heaD - image of me captured at onset of cleansing 'doors of perception'. On your right, the magic molecule responsible.

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Well, if it's good enough for Aldous Huxley & a long line of other distinguished, serious, sensitive, intelligent & compos mentis adventurers consciously to experiment with psycho-active compounds in exploration of inner realms & altered states...

Don't try this at home, folks, or then again 'Why Not?'(in the immortal & pertinent dying words of that incorrigible old trickster Timothy Leary)!

This Freedom/Human Right is being curtailed by hypocritical 'anti-drug' policies of Govts around the world. Are they afraid we might wake up & see their 'world'(official version, authorised reality, consensual mass hallucination) as it really is? The 'kingdom of Heaven' is for little children wide-eyed in wonder....but they soon knock it out of you!

"To adapt to this world the child abdicates its ecstacy. ('L'enfant abdique son extase': Mallarmé.)"

-from the chapter 'Transcendental Experience', in 'The Politics of Experience' by R.D.Laing

'To fathom hell or soar angelic,

Just take a pinch of psychedelic'

" LSD is known to induce psychosis, in those people who have never used it."

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Happy 100th Birthday

Dr Albert Hoffman

11 January 2006

Swiss Chemist

first synthesised LSD-25 in 1938

"LSD reveals the whatness of things, their quiddity, their essence. The wateriness of water is suddenly revealed to you, the carpetness of carpets, the woodness of wood, the yellowness of yellow, the fingernailness of fingernails, the allness of all, the nothingness of all, the allness of nothing."

(Stephen Fry, Moab is my Washpot)

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Cary Grant, who took LSD more than sixty times, said this about his treatment in 1959:

"All my life, I've been searching for peace of mind. I'd explored yoga and hypnotism and made several attempts at mysticism. Nothing really seemed to give me what I wanted until this treatment."

As if prophetically, in 1939, he appeared in a film called 'Topper takes a Trip'!

Hollywood heart-throb, Cary Grant took many trips. He was one of the pioneers.

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration — that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves... Here's Tom with the weather!"

Bill Hicks (Extract from Revelations, London, 1993)

'To fathom hell or soar angelic,

Just take a pinch of psychedelic'

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