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Headlines : MiscellaneousAlbert Hofmann, the Father of LSD, Dies at 102
Dr. Hofmann became an impassioned advocate for the environment and argued that LSD, besides being a valuable tool for psychiatry, could be used to awaken a deeper awareness of mankind’s place in nature and help curb society’s ultimately self-destructive degradation of the natural world.
[Posted By dikweed]Republished from New York Times
Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.
The cause was a heart attack, said Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a California-based group that in 2005 republished Dr. Hofmann’s 1979 book “LSD: My Problem Child.”
Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid.
He then took LSD hundreds of times, but regarded it as a powerful and potentially dangerous psychotropic drug that demanded respect. More important to him than the pleasures of the psychedelic experience was the drug’s value as a revelatory aid for contemplating and understanding what he saw as humanity’s oneness with nature. That perception, of union, which came to Dr. Hofmann as almost a religious epiphany while still a child, directed much of his personal and professional life.
Dr. Hofmann was born in Baden, a spa town in northern Switzerland, on Jan. 11, 1906, the eldest of four children.
Posted by dikweed
Objectivity is for people without any history. . . Okay, I'll give it a try.
Hear what I mean, not what I say.
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rage on bicycle man
the trip continues
“Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom,” Dr. Hofmann told the psychiatrist Stanislav Grof during an interview in 1984. “I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us .”
Dr. Hofmann became an impassioned advocate for the environment and argued that LSD, besides being a valuable tool for psychiatry, could be used to awaken a deeper awareness of mankind’s place in nature and help curb society’s ultimately self-destructive degradation of the natural world .
agreed
swiss capricorn mountain born wizard
was somebody’s greatgrandfather!
I have this cat to thank for some of the best times i ever had as a teenager.
Kudos to you, dead man…
Thanks for the lack of memories Albert…
Thanks for the lack of memories Albert… originally said:
This is where Shogo or Areola would call you all idiots for thinking that drugs can cause enlightenment. posted by desultory01 @ 04/30/08 18:58:57
Nice try, but google pwned you!
I hope you don’t try to play games like that again. The turnip truck never fell on me.