Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
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Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
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#2> The mother of his godson Aidan remarked, "Nick didn't care about the stupid politics shit, he'd just laugh at it." Jon Hanna said Nick "became a criminal as a matter of principle and as an act of civil disobedience."
[Note: that's actually him (Nick Sand) in the video clip above.]
Re: Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
#3Beautiful quote from him in the article:
When I began to navigate psychospace with LSD, I realized that before we were conscious, seemingly self-propelled human beings, many tapes and corridors had been created in our minds and reflexes which were not of our own making. These patterns and tapes laid down in our consciousness are walled off from each other. I see it as a vast labyrinth with high walls sealing off the many directives created by our personal history.
Many of these directives are contradictory. The coexistence of these contradictory programs is what we call inner conflict. This conflict causes us to constantly check ourselves while we are caught in the opposition of polarity. Another metaphor would be like a computer with many programs running simultaneously. The more programs that are running, the slower the computer functions. This is a problem then. With all the programs running that are demanded of our consciousness in this modern world, we have problems finding deep integration.
To complicate matters, the programs are reinforced by fear. Fear separates, love integrates. We find ourselves drawn to love and unity, but afraid to make the leap.
What I found to be the genius of LSD is that it really gets you high, higher than the programs, higher than the walls that mask and blind one to the energy destroying presence of many contradictory but hidden programs. When LSD is used intentionally it enables you to see all the tracks laid down, to explore each one intensely. It also allows you to see the many parallel and redundant programs as well as the contradictory ones.
It allows you to see the underlying unity of all opposites in the magic play of existence. This allows you to edit these programs and recreate superior programs that give you the insight to shake loose the restrictions and conflicts programmed into each one of us by our parents, our religion, our early education, and by society as a whole.
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Very much in line with what recent neuroscience results are finding:
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46421
http://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-reveal-how-lsd-affect...
Re: Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
#4> The mother of his godson Aidan remarked, "Nick didn't care about the stupid politics shit, he'd just laugh at it." Jon Hanna said Nick "became a criminal as a matter of principle and as an act of civil disobedience." https://youtu.be/_Wy0k3j_a7E [Note: that's actually him (Nick Sand) in the video clip above.]
“We got the whole prison stoned, this is what freedom is really about. It’s not about not being in chains, it’s about not having your mind enslaved,” Nick declared.
Re: Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
#5There's a recent documentary about his... entrepreneurship called The Sunshine Makers. I'd recommend it. It's on US Netflix.
Re: Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
#6Beautiful quote from him in the article: When I began to navigate psychospace with LSD, I realized that before we were conscious, seemingly self-propelled human beings, many tapes and corridors had been created in our minds and reflexes which were not of our own making. These patterns and tapes laid down in our consciousness are walled off from each other. I see it as a vast labyrinth with high walls sealing off the…
Surprisingly similar to what Lilly wrote in 1968: "PROGRAMMING AND METAPROGAMMING IN THE HUMAN BIOCOMPUTER" [0]
A very good book, even though you should not take it literally, quote from the preface:
Eventually the cerebral cortex appeared as an expanding new highlevel computer controlling the structurally lower levels of the nervous system, the lower builtin programs. For the first time learning and its faster adaptation to a rapidly changing environment began to appear. Further, as this new cortex expanded over several millions of years, a critical size cortex was reached. At this level of structure, a new capability emerged: learning to learn.
[0]: http://nekhbet.leary.csoft.net/biocomputer.pdf
Edit (further context):
To avoid the necessity of repeating learning to learn, symbols, metaphors, models each time, I symbolize the under- lying idea in these operations as metaprogramming. Metaprogramming appears at a critical cortical size-the cerebral computer must have a large enough number of interconnected circuits of sufficient quality for the operations of meta- programming to exist in that biocomputer. Essentially, metaprogramming is an operation in which a central control system controls hundreds of thousands of programs operating in parallel simultaneously.
Re: Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
#7There's a recent documentary about his... entrepreneurship called The Sunshine Makers. I'd recommend it. It's on US Netflix.
There's another one called Orange Sunshine also that just came out. I haven't seen either, but they both get 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Re: Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
#8Beautiful quote from him in the article: When I began to navigate psychospace with LSD, I realized that before we were conscious, seemingly self-propelled human beings, many tapes and corridors had been created in our minds and reflexes which were not of our own making. These patterns and tapes laid down in our consciousness are walled off from each other. I see it as a vast labyrinth with high walls sealing off the…
The Psychedelic Salon podcast has a few of his talks. He was insanely smart and well-spoken:
https://psychedelicsalon.com/category/people/nick-sand/
Especially interesting is episode 054, where IIRC he talks about how all the high-level LSD producers and distributors he was in prison with were the children of the folks who worked on the Manhattan project.
Re: Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
#9> The mother of his godson Aidan remarked, "Nick didn't care about the stupid politics shit, he'd just laugh at it." Jon Hanna said Nick "became a criminal as a matter of principle and as an act of civil disobedience." https://youtu.be/_Wy0k3j_a7E [Note: that's actually him (Nick Sand) in the video clip above.]
I like how the narrator emphasizes billion like he didn't just say "1/4 billion". I guess "250 million" doesn't have the same level of shock value.
Re: Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
#10Orange Sunshine (the recent documentary) was absolutely excellent. a++ http://www.orangesunshinemovie.com/