MetaFilter posts tagged with LSD

Everyone's On LSD!

jonp72 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:51:56 -0800

Autistics on LSD Elephants on LSD British Troops on LSD Spiders on LSD Cats on LSD Argentinians on LSD Childhood Schizophrenics on LSD

"All durin' the game was a little mist."

solipsophistocracy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:50:59 -0800

Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden (SLYT). MetaFilter is no stranger to the late Dock Ellis and the legendary no-hitter he pitched under the influence of everyone's favorite indole phantasticant (previously: 2001, 2005, 2008), but this animation takes the story to a new level.

Chain reaction

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:53:18 -0800

A year before his passing at the age of 102, LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann pens a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs (who had remarked publicly about his own use of the hallucinogenic as a creative factor) asking for Jobs' support for further research into the use of LSD in psychotherapy. In the remainder of the article, Ryan Grim touches briefly on the use of LSD by scientists and computer programmers who have transformed the world through novel discoveries and inventions.

Operation Midnight Climax

homunculus — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:00:27 -0800

Operation Midnight Climax is a new web series about how the CIA used prostitutes to test LSD on unsuspecting American citizens. "Operation Midnight Climax was a CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950's. The project consisted of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco, Marin and New York. It was established in order to study the effects of LSD on unconsenting individuals. Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were given a wide range of substances, including LSD, and monitored behind two-way mirrors." [Via]

Be all that you can be

Joe Beese — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:52:11 -0800

The Department of Veterans Affairs has reported that military scientists tested hundreds of chemical and biological substances on them, including VX, tabun, soman, sarin, cyanide, LSD, PCP, and World War I-era blister agents like phosgene and mustard. The full scope of the tests, however, may never be known. As a CIA official explained to the GAO, referring to the agency's infamous MKULTRA mind-control experiments, "The names of those involved in the tests are not available because names were not recorded or the records were subsequently destroyed." Besides, said the official, some of the tests involving LSD and other psychochemical drugs "were administered to an undetermined number of people without their knowledge."

Illicit Air

CaptKyle — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:18:30 -0800

Go to Spain, breathe, get high Scientists have recently discovered that there is a small amount of cocaine and LSD in the air of the Spanish cities Madrid and Barcelona.

Field Trippin'

gman — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:46:55 -0800

A high school teacher's account of an LSD trip he didn't mean to take.

"[They] had no idea what LSD was other than what they seen on TV with the hippies"

Item — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:25:30 -0800

Dock Ellis, an American baseball pitcherprev, won more games for the champion 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates than anyone else that year. Of course, he was under the influence of the performance-enhancing drug known as LSD on at least one no-hit occasion. Ellis died yesterday at the age of 63. Here's a nice little NPR piece/interview from last spring about the event.

Higher State of Consciousness

gman — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:17:27 -0800

Drawing on drugs by Jeremy Eaton. All but one drawing can be enlarged. Previously.

Cocaine's a helluva drug.

gman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:42:54 -0800

The Mumbai terrorists took cocaine, acid, and other drugs to stay awake during the attacks. Not the first.

He's joined Lucy in the sky...

CitizenD — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:26:28 -0800

Albert Hofmann, the inventor/discoverer of LSD, has died at the age of 102. Wiki. The Albert Hofmann Foundation. Erowid entry on LSD. Hofmann's often-cited essay, "LSD, My Problem Child." Late in his life, he questioned his own invention. A conversation with Dr. Hoffman. "I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild." -- Albert Hofmann (1906-2008)

NOTHING ELSE CAN SAVE YOU. TRUST ENTHEOGENS TODAY!

homunculus — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:55:13 -0800

Chemical Salvation? The history of LSD as a Chick tract. [Via]

"Those darn neighbors need waking up, I can tell you, constable!”

Bookhouse — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:41:36 -0800

Cary Grant on LSD. Excerpted from his autobiography.

LSD Psychotherapy Artwork

homunculus — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:00:52 -0800

Visions From LSD Psychotherapy. Artwork created by patients undergoing LSD psychotherapy, from the book by Stanislav Grof. There are more resources on psychedelics at the Bibliographia Studiorum Psychedelicorum. [Via Mind Hacks.]

John C. Lilly, physician, pioneer, inventor, tripper

janetplanet — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:02:38 -0800

Dr. John C. Lilly introduced the world to dolphin intelligence (previous post), floatation tanks, early concepts of bioinformatics, and alas, during his later experiments with Ketamine ("Special K"), introduced us to an alleged group of extraterrestrials. To his dismay, Dr. Lilly's early discoveries in communications between humans and dolphins was co-opted by the military. His invention of the floatation tank moved him into studies of altered consciousness, and when combined with psychotropic drugs, led him to faraway places indeed.

As for his experiments with Ketamine, well perhaps this excerpt gives a good idea of where things went - "After three weeks of hourly K injections, Lilly decided that he would travel to the east coast to warn political leaders and members of the media of the threat posed by SSI . In New York, he phoned the White House to warn then President Gerald Ford about "a danger to the human race involving atomic energy and computers."

Along the way he inspired two movies. Here are a few more interesting John Lilly links:
Transcribed interview.
Audio lecture (with some trippy background music added).
Official website alphabetical index.

Finally, if all this is just too serious, perhaps you'll enjoy the Simpson's spin on the floatation tank experience....

Transitive Nightfall. Now with Extra Diamonds!

mmahaffie — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:16:19 -0800

Is there no humor in public relations? The public relations blog PRBlogNews included a post last week on PR and LSD (a long strange happy tradition). It appears to have been a joke, mixing a selection of early youth-on-acid videos with a vintage discourse about LSD by Dr. Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) re-imagined as a history of successful "tripvertising." It must have stirred some sort of trouble; there's been a follow-up, "LSD and PR don’t mix" post (Don’t eat the brown acid) which warns against mixing PR and LSD (and hot dogs).

Two Hundred Years of Psychedelic Cornucopias

Burhanistan — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:37:09 -0800

A celebratory and trippy US Bicentennial animation comissioned by the US Goverment. More from animator Vince Collins via

Turn on, tune in, get out

homunculus — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:42:40 -0800

Entheogens and Psychotherapy. A 2001 paper by Canadian psychotherapist Andrew Feldmar on the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelics and his own experience with LSD. Now, because of this paper, he is no longer allowed to enter the U.S. [Via Mind Hacks.]

Not so colorful site of a pretty colorful personality

daksya — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:13:56 -0800

The Bear's Pages - the 'Bear' being the legendary Augustus Owsley Stanley III, the 60s acid cook.

DNA, LSD, M-O-U-S-E

kyrademon — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:49:18 -0800

Francis Crick was high as a kite on LSD when he figured out the double helix structure of DNA. Later, his role in the drug legalization movement inspired biochemist Richard Kemp to supply Britain with massive amounts of cheap LSD, until he was stopped in one of the largest drug busts in history. When asked about his drug use, Crick replied, "Print a word of it and I'll sue."

Turn on, tune in, drop out

daksya — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:16:30 -0800

A landmark rigorous study, 36 years after Walter Pahnke's Good Friday study ocuments the ability of psilocybin - the chemical in "magic mushrooms" - to trigger mystical experiences. 16 of 24 participants, who had no history of psychedelic use, rated the drug episode (after 2 months) to be among the 5 most meaningful experiences in their lifetime. A longer 40-year follow-up by MAPS on those who took LSD under the supervision of psychiatrist Oscar Janiger in the 1950s, found qualitatively the same result.

The Bicycle Ride

fixedgear — Fri, 12 May 2006 03:54:07 -0800

The Bicycle Ride. This animated short, "The Bicycle Ride," is a fanciful depiction of Dr. Albert Hofmann's discovery of LSD. 3:47 video.

foxxy!

Paris Hilton — Thu, 04 May 2006 01:06:18 -0800

Fox pussies out. Recently a bill passed in mexico legalizing all drugs under certain specified quantities. The bill was promoted By Vincente Fox's party, and came from his offices. However he decided not to sign it under U.S. pressure.

There go my vacation plans.

But they have nothing on Hieronymus Bosch.

duende — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:04:58 -0800

The links between some neurological disorders and increased artistic abilities are well documented. Some with decreased abilities elsewhere, such as those with semantic dementia, use it as a coping mechanism, whereas those with synaesthesia combine multiple senses to enhance their works. While some drugs, specifically LSD, can artificially produce synesthesia, that probably isn't a good muse .

Acid Dreams

growabrain — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:53:39 -0800

For stoners who like to trip out, here is AJ Weberman’s unapologetic Virtual Acid Trip. Lots of basic mid-90’s midis in background, but if you are under the influence anyway, it will all make perfect sense. Many hallucinogenic links in the archives, including the German Buschman and others. Lock your door, Smoke N Toke & enjoy yourself. If you like it, you can donate some dough. (You are welcome.)