MichelleLSD and the Capture of Albert
April 22nd 2009 06:59
'Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialistic culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of God offers in the world of faith.'
Albert was captured by that first experience and captured in that moment for a long time.
The composition of chemicals he'd worked on previously for five years had turned and bitten him. What was once irrelevant to his work now became a doorway to another world, an entire realm of new possibilities. He rode home on his bike and once home, was forced to lie down and succumb to the hallucinations.
How extraordinary, this changing of life. Seemingly by accident, a dabbing of this with a touch of that and LSD is born.
Albert had grand plans for his 'problem child' of his; plans to open up the divine and connect people to the mysticism of their spirituality, plans to use the drug in the areas of psychiatry and to help people. It was a grand idea, a vision in its purest form and his desire to help people, to expand them and put them in touch with the things materialism and consumerism had stolen from them but something so powerful...perhaps we humans are unable to take anything in balance. We are creatures of greed and terminal neediness and when windows to the divine opens, perhaps it is in our natures to smash it open and to create doorways.
Albert was captured by that first experience and captured in that moment for a long time.
Father of LSD
The composition of chemicals he'd worked on previously for five years had turned and bitten him. What was once irrelevant to his work now became a doorway to another world, an entire realm of new possibilities. He rode home on his bike and once home, was forced to lie down and succumb to the hallucinations.
How extraordinary, this changing of life. Seemingly by accident, a dabbing of this with a touch of that and LSD is born.
Albert had grand plans for his 'problem child' of his; plans to open up the divine and connect people to the mysticism of their spirituality, plans to use the drug in the areas of psychiatry and to help people. It was a grand idea, a vision in its purest form and his desire to help people, to expand them and put them in touch with the things materialism and consumerism had stolen from them but something so powerful...perhaps we humans are unable to take anything in balance. We are creatures of greed and terminal neediness and when windows to the divine opens, perhaps it is in our natures to smash it open and to create doorways.
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Optomystic Opportunism
I have had plenty of LSD in my time, but that was the 1990s. I hear the biz was alot crazier before then, or should I say LSD was taken in stronger doses.
Its great to hear such stories around this place, thanx for sharing.
Opto