Podcast 280 – “Albert Hofmann is Interviewed by Peter Gorman”
Psychedelic Salon
English - September 02, 2011 23:01 - 1 hour - 37.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 496 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Science Natural Sciences interview health entrepreneurship business politics news comedy leadership science entrepreneur Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Guest speakers: Dr. Albert Hofmann and Peter Gorman
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Albert Hofmann.]
“I reported about this bicycle ride because I had the feeling that time would stand still. It was a very strange feeling that I had never had before, this change in the experience of time.”
“It [my first LSD experience] became such a strange experience that I feared to have become insane.”
“At the climax I had the feeling to be already out of my body.”
“It [LSD] works on the very center of our psychic existence.”
“Nobody has died from toxic doses of LSD, not one case. All of the fatal cases were by accidents due to the disturbances of the consciousness of the senses.”
“They did not see any special effect on animals, because LSD works only on very high spiritual centers, on consciousness, which animals don't have.”
“[Research with morning glory seeds] shows us that LSD is not just a laboratory product. It is closely related chemically, and pharmalogically, psychologically with [morning glory seeds], with this old Indian magic drug. That means that LSD belongs, pharmalogically chemically, with a group of the sacred magic plants of Mexico. That's a very important finding.”
“I never believed it [LSD] would become a pleasure drug on the streets.”
“I think, of course, the story of LSD is not yet finished at all. If we learn to use it with respect and under the right conditions I am sure the beneficial effects are enormous.”
“In antiquity they had institutions where people who liked to have a [psychedelic initiation] could go and have a very well elaborated condition to have a beneficial effect. But we have not this. We have not. Doesn't exist.”
“I think the next thing that can be reasonably asked is that LSD and the psychedelics should be legally available in psychiatry. As doctors have access to morphine, they have access to cocaine, they have no access to LSD. This must be changed. This should be changed.”
“That is also important, that LSD produces no addiction.”
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