Great interview of Nick Sand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxiK827_rX8
parting words: "If we can keep moving from truth to love to beauty to preciousness, everything around us becomes sacred"
Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
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#12Orange Sunshine (the recent documentary) was absolutely excellent. a++ http://www.orangesunshinemovie.com/
Glad to know it's actually worth watching. I really wanted a print of their movie poster, but for whatever reason they only made them in 11 x 17:
http://belhistory.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/0/7/19079917/158004...
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#13I'm pretty sure Nick Sand's arrest in 1996 was the cause of the sudden scarcity of LSD on the market 20 years ago. According to Erowid ( https://erowid.org/culture/characters/sand_nick/sand_nick_bi... ), the RCMP tested samples from his lab and found their purity to be >100%, suggesting that their reference samples had degraded.
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#14Speaking as a meditation enthusiast, he probably did more to expand human consciousness than a thousand meditation enthusiasts.
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#15Beautiful 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 adapt…
This is the best book to read on LSD. Only a little bit though otherwise your pupils will dilate too much to read. Obviously.
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#16I'm pretty sure Nick Sand's arrest in 1996 was the cause of the sudden scarcity of LSD on the market 20 years ago. According to Erowid ( https://erowid.org/culture/characters/sand_nick/sand_nick_bi... ), the RCMP tested samples from his lab and found their purity to be >100%, suggesting that their reference samples had degraded.
"According to court testimony, Pickard's lab produced up to a kilogram of LSD approximately every five weeks for short periods. Despite criticism for their methodology, the DEA contends that following their arrest there was a 95% drop in the availability of LSD in the US in the two years following the arrest.[1] Pickard himself has long denied these claims. In his 2007 paper "International LSD Prevalence — Factors Affecting Proliferation and Control", Pickard suggests that since the 1960s LSD production has always been de-centralized. As to a turn-of-the-century decline in availability due to his own arrest, Pickard highlights the fact that LSD availability had been on the decline since 1996, a fact which he correlates in part with the exponential growth of availability and demand for MDMA and other hallucinogenic drugs.[8] The actual quantity of LSD seized by the DEA remains unclear, with figures ranging from 198.9 grams to 41.3 kilograms."
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 adapt…
This is the best book to read on LSD. Only a little bit though otherwise your pupils will dilate too much to read. Obviously.
I already need readers, so putting on my visor magnifiers will probably do the trick!
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#18These people arguably changed the world. Early psychonauts and LSD use are tied to the beginnings of the electronic frontier foundation, and the concept of an open information space and an alternative reality for all of humanity to use freely. There is a documentary which shows in interviews that these ideals were at least partially inspired by LSD use.
I hope someday to conquer my anxiety to a degree sufficient to explore beneficial LSD use without fear of so called bad trips. Having tried a small dose, there is without question a power in LSD (and other psychedelics, e.g. shrooms) as a tool.
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#19These people arguably changed the world. Early psychonauts and LSD use are tied to the beginnings of the electronic frontier foundation, and the concept of an open information space and an alternative reality for all of humanity to use freely. There is a documentary which shows in interviews that these ideals were at least partially inspired by LSD use. I hope someday to conquer my anxiety to a degree sufficient to e…
Bad experiences give light to possibly unrecognized problems. As someone who likes using psychedelics, nothing has pushed me more into good experiences and away from bad ones than having a good understanding of the arising and ceasing of mental phenomena as taught in buddhist teachings of meditation.
Whats so scary about bad thoughts if you have a place where they arent there?
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#20These people arguably changed the world. Early psychonauts and LSD use are tied to the beginnings of the electronic frontier foundation, and the concept of an open information space and an alternative reality for all of humanity to use freely. There is a documentary which shows in interviews that these ideals were at least partially inspired by LSD use. I hope someday to conquer my anxiety to a degree sufficient to e…
Bad experiences give light to possibly unrecognized problems. As someone who likes using psychedelics, nothing has pushed me more into good experiences and away from bad ones than having a good understanding of the arising and ceasing of mental phenomena as taught in buddhist teachings of meditation. Whats so scary about bad thoughts if you have a place where they arent there?
I fear that a particularly difficult experience could leave me with a permanent worsening of some problems.
I recognize that this is an unlikely case, however during my light trip I experienced a seemingly inexplicable sudden anxiety attack which was difficult to control. I feel like LSD is a toss up between potential euphoria/enlightment and dysphoria/mental illness.
Granted, I did experience a substantial tranquility following the attack and in the days after the trip, and I believe that cubensis provided me with a substantial months long relief from existential depression, and helped me realize the depth of the hole into which I was already aware that I'd fallen. So I probably just have a few self imposed walls to break down.