Culture - LSD Quotes

[pjbth]

I was listening to the song lsd-by infected mushroom and they play this quote at the beginning of the song.

"I believe with the advent of acid, we discovered new ways to think and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts of mind. Why is it that people are so afraid of it ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply? Because they are afraid that there is more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they are afraid to go in and they don't want us to go in there either because if we go in, there we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control"

does anyone know who wrote this?

I was searching around and found another interesting one.

"LSD hints to us that there is a, an area of the mind which could be called unsane, beyond sanity and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity, you go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity"

Anyone else know any good lsd quotes??

Reputation Comments on this post:

what an excellent thread

[raven3davis]

SWIm believes the first quote is by Ken Kesey, a famous writer. You may remember the movie/book 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' Kesney wrote that book along with many other great books.

Albert Hofmann: "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. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us."

Dan Rather: "I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas."

Noel Redding: " The LSD situation is only a catalyst to the brain, as the brain has all that stuff anyway, because it's the subconscious that comes out."

Tommy Rettig: "I went to a lecture by Dr Barbara Brown, who first coined the term biofeedback and she was doing a lot with psychedelics back then. I volunteered to be in one of her experiments with LSD. It was the most beautiful experience of my life."

Esther Williams: "LSD seemed like instant psychoanalysis. With my eyes closed, I felt my tension and resistance ease away as the hallucinogen swept through me."

Frank Zappa: "The sad think about the Sixties was the weak-mindedness of the so-called radicals and the way that they managed to get co-opted. I think one of the things that helped that happen was LSD. It's the only chemical known to mankind that will covert a hippy to a yuppie."

Jeremy S. Anderson: “There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.”

Tim Leary: (SWIM likes this one ) “There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.”

Tim Leary: this one is famous and does not mention lsd but surely persuaded thousands upon thousands to drop some L “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.”


Swim did a little searching on google and came up with those quotes. There were a few more but those were the most interesting.



SWIM does not know who wrote the second quote though anyone else have an idea?


Hope you like the quotes

Reputation Comments on this post:

A cornicopia of cool LSD sayings.

[Jatelka]

SWIJ believes that the second quote is also by Ken Kesey. In fact she's fairly sure it's from the same interview that the first quote comes from (just later on).

[CrookedEye]

no quote, but somethin I think everyone should know about LSD...

Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD
when he discovered the secret of life Copyright 2004 Associated Newspapers Ltd. Mail on Sunday (London)

August 8, 2004
BY ALUN REES


FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.

The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in
Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.

Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not
the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

Despite his Establishment image, Crick was a devotee of novelist Aldous Huxley, whose accounts of his experiments with LSD and another hallucinogen, mescaline, in the short stories The Doors Of Perception and Heaven And Hell became cult texts for the hippies of the Sixties and Seventies. In the late Sixties, Crick was a founder member of Soma, a legalise-cannabis group named after the drug in Huxley's novel Brave New World. He even put his name to a famous letter to The Times in 1967 calling for a reform in the drugs laws.

It was through his membership of Soma that Crick inadvertently became the inspiration for the biggest LSD manufacturing conspiracy-the world has ever seen the multimillion-pound drug factory in a remote
farmhouse in Wales that was smashed by the Operation Julie raids of the late Seventies.

Crick's involvement with the gang was fleeting but crucial. The revered scientist had been invited to the Cambridge home of freewheeling American writer David Solomon a friend of hippie LSD guru Timothy
Leary who had come to Britain in 1967 on a quest to discover a method for manufacturing pure THC, the active ingredient of cannabis.

It was Crick's presence in Solomon's social circle that attracted a brilliant young biochemist, Richard Kemp, who soon became a convert to the attractions of both cannabis and LSD. Kemp was recruited to the THC project in 1968, but soon afterwards devised the world's first foolproof method of producing cheap, pure LSD. Solomon and Kemp went into business, manufacturing acid in a succession of rented houses before setting up their laboratory in a cottage on a hillside near Tregaron, Carmarthenshire, in 1973. It is estimated that Kemp manufactured drugs worth Pounds 2.5 million an astonishing amount in the Seventies before police stormed the building in 1977 and seized enough pure LSD and its constituent chemicals to make two million LSD 'tabs'.

The arrest and conviction of Solomon, Kemp and a string of co-conspirators dominated the headlines for months. I was covering the case as a reporter at the time and it was then that I met Kemp's close friend, Garrod Harker, whose home had been raided by police but who had not been arrest ed. Harker told me that
Kemp and his girlfriend Christine Bott by then in jail were hippie idealists who were completely uninterested in the money they were making.

They gave away thousands to pet causes such as the Glastonbury pop festival and the drugs charity Release.
'They have a philosophy,' Harker told me at the time. 'They believe industrial society will collapse when the oil runs out and that the answer is to change people's mindsets using acid. They believe LSD can help people to see that a return to a natural society based on self-sufficiency is the only way to save themselves.

'Dick Kemp told me he met Francis Crick at Cambridge. Crick had told him that some Cambridge academics used LSD in tiny amounts as a thinking tool, to liberate them from preconceptions and let their genius wander freely to new ideas. Crick told him he had perceived the double-helix shape while on LSD.

'It was clear that Dick Kemp was highly impressed and probably bowled over by what Crick had told him. He told me that if a man like Crick, who had gone to the heart of human existence, had used LSD, then it
was worth using. Crick was certainly Dick Kemp's inspiration.' Shortly afterwards I visited Crick at his home, Golden Helix, in Cambridge.

He listened with rapt, amused attention to what I told him about the role of LSD in his Nobel Prize-winning discovery. He gave no intimation of surprise. When I had finished, he said: 'Print a word of it and I'll sue.'

[Silence_Inc]

yep - it's ken kessey - and it is taken from the documentary

LSD: The Beyond Within part 1

i got the documentary - you can downlaod it from psychedelic.be/files
the other quote you mentioned is also from that same documentary - only part 2 ... that one is also downlaodable form the same url i mentioned.

btw - the song LSD isn't by infected mushroom but by HALLUCINOGEN. (aka: simon posford, shpongle, younger brother)

my favorit quote

Bil Hicks + : How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just for once to hear a positive LSD story? "Today, a young man on acid, realised that all matter is meerly energy condensed to a slooOOoow vibration. That we are al one conciounssness experiencing itself sUUuubjectivly. There is no such thing as death. Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves......................................... .here is tom with the weather! (laughter )

[enquirewithin]

^Thanks for the source of the quote and the URL!

The song is certainly by Hallucinogen and remixed by many such as the Orb, Oakenfield and others. I have always wondered about who was speaking at the beginning.

There are also some other vocal clips mixed in later onin the track. One is taken from some anti-drug propaganda and starts with "You can feel the mind going...." but I've now forgotten the source. There is also a girl talking about how taking acid is a deeper experience tham readinig the bible six times.

Anyone know the source of these?

[raven3davis]

Originally Posted by enquirewithin

There is also a girl talking about how taking acid is a deeper experience tham readinig the bible six times.

Anyone know the source of these?

SWIM saw the LSD documentery that was mentioned and there was a little boy in there who was about 12 saying that taking lsd was more enlightening that reading the bible six times. That quote is from lsd the beyond within. SWIM watched the video and he thinks that the kid lived at Leary's New York House. This must be what you are referring to. Could it possibly have been a boy saying it? Maybe a girl just quoted the boy on the track.

[enquirewithin]

Yes-- that's it. I just found out from a web site called The Psychdelic Mind Expander that all the samples come from that documentary. LSD (World Sheet Of Closed String Mix) had the most samples:

"I believe with the advent of acid, we discovered new ways to think and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts of mind. Why is it that people are so afraid of it ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply? Because they are afraid that there is more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they are afraid to go in and they don't want us to go in there either because if we go in, there we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control"

"You're introduced to LSD... Unless you've taken some other drug, for instance marijuana or something then it's an altogether new thing! you can actually have, um, a religious experience, which can be more important than reading the bible six times, or becoming pope or something like that, you know?"

"LSD hints to us that there is a, an area of the mind which could be called unsane, beyond sanity and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity, you go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity"



From 'The Beyond Within: The Rise and Fall of LSD' (BBC documentary, 1987)

It was a boy not a girl!

[pjbth]

Those are some sweet quotes.

Sorry about the infected mushroom mix-up, i was just downloading a bunch of tracks (is that admitting to a crime these days?) and i downloaded it as an infected mushroom song, guess i'll have to check out more on these HALLUCINOGEN guys because that song is amazing.

Guess now that my friend is taking drugs more seriously rather than just a good mind-fuck he'll have to find and watch some of these books and documentaries you guys mention thanks a bunch.

[enquirewithin]

Originally Posted by pjbth

Those are some sweet quotes.

Sorry about the infected mushroom mix-up.

I've seen it mislabelled as by Infected Mushroom-- a somewhat similar psy trance/ Goa band-- too!

[Toltec]

"Don't eat the drown acid"