LSD and the Road to Eleusis

Albert Hofmann

PLAY
0:00:00 PLAY ↗
IDWSHOP
DRAG TO LOOK AROUND · SCROLL TO ZOOM · SERIES RUN LEFT → RIGHT · KEYS: SPACE PLAY · N NEXT · P PREVIOUS PART · J/K ∓15 S · [ ] SPEED · S SLEEP · / SEARCH · L LANGUAGE
HIC SVNT LEONES ET DRACONES

LSD and the Road to Eleusis

Albert Hofmann — 4 recordings in the archive.

The book: The Road to Eleusis by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Carl Ruck.

Precisely fifty years ago in 1938 i synthesized the certains which had an at a time unexpected influence on my life and it's like interest and changed life many others I mean digitizer because if I didn't I'd known as arrested 25 or just testing its preparation and the discovery of his astonishing effects on the psyche happy described and published already so many times that he not been a bit appeared and in addition your topic stream has your present interviews of our story this evening I'm often asked what has made the deepest impression upon me in my experiments under I have arrived at you understandings through these experiences of greatest significance to me as the things I attained as a fundamental standing from all my dentistry experiences such both bond commonly takes us feel reality by no means the differences in sex as something that is ambiguous such there is not only one that there are many their reality sees compromising a different consciousness of the author of the people one can arrived in sensitive scientific reflection soprano reality is and has been from time immemorial a central concern of philosophy there is however a fundamental distinction whether on approach is the problem of reality irrationally all people contribute certainties problem emotionally through an existential experience the first plan there is the experience was therefore so deeply moving under army because a materiality which had cannot be considered with only one reality disorders and unfamiliar evil experienced another unfamiliar reality another problem all appear exact concern in the most selfish instead unknown was able to record is external and internal transformations how good some strange changes in the exterior explain in the outer objective not he did not change during sand I was under the influence of energy therefore certain things ideas experiences subject must have been altered these reflections let me to conceive reality as a product of transmitter material exterior experiment and receive our consciousness the spiritual center of a human individual in order describes mechanism I wish there he comes into the close interaction of these two factors trans intimacy one can use the makeup of TV broadcasting in the post transmitter and receiver are produced TV picture if either of us is lacking 33-degree mainland and there will be no sound correspondingly if only the material exists with our conscious humans or vice…