Dr. Albert Hofmann Merges With The Infinite; or Let Your Freak Flag Fly

Doctor Hofmann... "was also disturbed by the cavalier use of LSD as a drug for entertainment, arguing that it should be treated in the way that primitive societies treat psychoactive sacred plants, which are ingested with care and spiritual intent." NYT, buried in Europe Section

Albert Hofmann, Rest In Peace, and let your Freak Flag, (gotten when I used to work at the Stanford Human Genome Center in Palo Alto from the abandoned items left by the lab’s previous tenant), Fly.

Though while LSD may have given us Sgt. Pepper’s, and all, but if there’s a psychedelic that can be considered landmark in human evolution, then I’d put Ibogaine, from the West African coast country of Gabon, where it has been used for *centuries* as part of the Bwiti Tribe’s coming of age rituals, slightly ahead of LSD.

That’s because in the last 45 years it has been found and documented, to have properties, that with *a one time* use effectively interrupt substance addictions, be they heroin, methadone cocaine, speed, alcohol, et al, in no less than 50% of all people that use it with no relapses, no need for to sit in perpetual meetings, etc, etc.

LSD is fun, but after it wears off, while it may have been a SENSATIONAL experience, it’s not the life-changer that Ibogaine has been for tens of thousands of people.

Considering the fraud that is Drug Rehab in the US that has *a 90% FAIL* rate, Ibogaine should get anybody that has, or knows someone that has a problem with addiction, or alcoholism, their complete, and undivided, attention.

Since this effectively solves one of the greatest scourges and afflictions that mankind has faced since we crawled out of the ooze and started walking upright the guys that figured this out should be on the short list for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Background here, and here.

The Bwiti

~Nyc

PS: This is only a rumor, but word on the street is that Rush Limpballs took the Ibogaine cure for his opiate addiction, (the one thing I hold him blameless for, because nobody plans to get sick and then addicted), and considering the sheer depth of his daily habit, and the fact that he didn’t relapse, it seems not only likely but possible and probable that this is the route he took.

If this is the case, then it’s a crime he didn’t share this with millions of suffering people.

PS: Dr. Hofmann was 102 when he died, just imagine how long he would have lived if he never did drugs.

Comments

[Not My President]

In the late '70s I went to New York City for a conference called "Evolution and Lateralization of the Brain" and saw Dr. Hoffman speak. He talked about provocative experiments done on animals and I asked him afterward if similar ones had been tried on humans. He said yes but on prisoners and that they had also experimented alot on themselves.

As for myself, I was a senior in high school and a guy I'd met only once at the state fair sent me an envelope with a glassine envelope such as you'd find an old-fashioned razor blade in - full of light purple powder. The enclosed note said "This is 700 micrograms of very good purple double-dome acid. Enjoy!" The postmark was from Vermillion, SD, where I ended up at the Art Department.

Many more stories available.

[Not My President]

But didn't Leary and McKenna die of brain cancer?
(just a question)

[Psychodelic biker]

A young person leaned in a high school class that doing acid ruined person's brain and thus their life. When he found out that I, who had straight A grades at a major state university had done acid more than 100 times, he made a report back to his class. Imagine what I might have been had I not done acid.

A heroin addict?

[psylocinprophet]

"The Bwiti", you are an idiot. Rush Limbaugh is a fascist pig and a hypocrite. He looks down on drug users and calls us a scourge when he was taking high amounts of Oxycontin, a drug that is chemically identical to Heroin. Now you claim he cleaned up and didn't relapse, where's the proof? That he said he hasn't relapsed, I've heard that song from many drug addicts.
Also, on your comment about Dr. Albert Hoffman, you've again showed us your ignorance. Dr. Hoffman was by no means a druggie, he only experimented with a few psychoactive chemicals he had created or worked with in his lab. These chemicals, no matter what someone like you may think, are consciousness expanding and mind opening. Not to mention the spiritual benefits of using psychoactive drugs. I can say with absolute certainty that Dr. Hoffman NEVER would have lived to 102 if it was't for his use of psychoactive chemicals.