LSD

Beautiful, Judit.  Feeling the same...fortunate and grateful. 

Happy Bicycle Day.

It's greatly influenced my life...  those early trips were so revealing, and fortunately, our childhood acid came from Cal-tech (Pasadena)...  Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Flying Saucer blotters. 

Whether it be nature, concerts, or just the yard, it greatly magnified my appreciation of all things wild.  But it also allowed me to see beyond the math, beyond the beauty, to interesting places I can't explain, only experience.  Definitely made me a better player, as well as my understanding of the natural sciences i've pursued and studied my entire life.  It's also allowed for many cosmic experiences, many with wild animals, like being part of one energy, one life, one luv...

I don't think it's helped my social skills much, but that's ok,  I can still share love with folks as I scream for them to get off my lawn, lol

I prefer L 

^ I give credit to LSD for so much.

I give credit to God for everything in my life, including LSD

Can't imagine life without it.

It's like when Dorothy opened the door of her house after it landed in Oz and everything was suddenly in color.

Lol

< I am so lucky that I had nearly unlimited quantities of great clear clean LSD in my youth.>

any entertaining stories? boyfriend a chemist? (not being sexist but you never mentioned you had a science background), friends with a wizard, or just a cool hippie chick?

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hear, hear!

StrawBud - used to have a shirt with that guy on it!

It's given us all a leg up on social distancing.

Mmmm, Clowns and Goonies. Sheets and sheets of Clowns and Goonies.

God bless America!

I give credit to God for everything in my life, including LSD

i give credit to LSD for everything in my life, including god

I pretty much give my parents credit for being alive.  The rest is just projecting.

With LSD, I felt like there was a point of diminishing returns.  Like there really is an Acid Test.  You either get the insight and take a break, or you turn into an acid casualty.  I recall dosing at my first dozen or so GD shows, and then deciding I wanted to experience a show without being high.  It was a refreshing change.  I still liked the music and felt like I could tap into the collective mind gestalt, all the while being more aware of my surroundings in reality.  It was nice to get a good night's rest and be more energized the next day.

It has been equally eye-opening later in life to occasionally revisit LSD.  I feel like I've gotten a better handle on the right mindset and setting to be in compared to the more impulsive usage of my youth.  In these situations, it's been like revisiting an old friend.  
 

It's sort of like those lines in Dynamo Hum, "you gotta get into it to get yourself out of it and you gotta get out of it to get yourself into it".

I totally agree that there's a point of diminishing returns in terms of what it can show you, after that point it's a matter of integrating it into your life.  If you keep doing it believing that it will always provide the kind of insights that you get early on you will definitely be disappointed, and if you think that doing larger amounts will change that you do run the risk of being a casualty.

But I also believe in the occasional check-in as a healthy thing, life has a tendency to run us into a rut and cleaning out the tubes every once in a while helps to put things back in perspective.

"i give credit to LSD for everything in my life, including god"

Well put, I am certainly one of those who gained a greater appreciation for our spiritual nature from using it.  And I'm still trying to integrate that into my life.

After the first few years - 69 >>> - , I gave up the every couple of weeks schedule for the 4-6 times a year. After a few years of that went to the once a year. Since the end of the GD it's been more sporadic.

However, I'm starting to get that itch...

Cop thread?

Feeling better this weekend, needed something. Took 700 mics clean liquid and went kyaking and fishing on Bike day

Caught pompano, jacks, snook, tarpon and a nice bonefish.

Get it in ya

Good to hear you're on the rebound. Tim.  
Sounds like a good fishing trip.

Damn, Tim, you don't fuck around!

Now that's a good time, Tim!  On the kayak...ooh boy.  Fun.

got my intro to enlightenment at college in Ithaca, NY, 1972 

two words: Window Pane

took a long hiatus for most of the 1980s and 90s, then eased back into experimentation after 2000, out in nature and at shows, first with fungi and then gravitating pretty much exclusively to L

mostly microdosing in recent years, but every once in a great while it seems that I blow out the pipes pretty good... the last time that happened was in Feb. 2016

yessirree

Well, everybody's dancin' in a ring around the sun
Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat
Try on your wings and find out where it's at

glad you're feeling better T!

I'm experienced. 

I never saw Jerry.

I totally agree that there's a point of diminishing returns in terms of what it can show you,

io have had this experience as well, but IMO there is to much focus on insights and learning something from a psychedelic, and seeking insight has been fetishized to the point that many people look down on those who are simply using to "party".

there is a seldom discussed middle ground - the amplification of raw experience and data. i dont need to take something away from a trip or learn from a trip - its just a bonus when i do. the stated goal is to have an experience that is as intense as humanly possible - like a cross between going out to get shitfaced and fuck bitches, and deep religious ecstasy. there is no meaning or insight, just overwhelming amounts of data and raw experience - metaphysical nihilism and absurdity. 

< I give credit to God for everything in my life, including LSD

i give credit to LSD for everything in my life, including god

Fuck'n A right on man, that was perfectly said. 

I was raised Catholic, went to Catholic school,  church every Sunday - since I could remember. But I didn't know shit about God until one Orange Sunshine day in the woods in 1974 when I was 15. (I had done acid a few times before with friends but it was never life altering). But that day by myself was the day I bonded with all His creation. I was one with the grass the ants the trees the rocks the river the sky. That day all them bible readings melded with the HD Thoreau and RW  Emerson I was into at the time. And BAM, it all made perfect sense. Click, the switch now in the ON position. For me LSD was always a mind thing, never a body high thing (although laughing till your ribs ache was kinda fun). El Cid did it's job well, but not needed since. It came into my life in the 70's and that's where I left it. Ever since, schrooms is all I need. 

Silly Wabbits, Trips Are For Kids (bumper sticker on my car back in the day)

Inside The LSD Museum:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/02/inside-the-lsd-museum...

I could use some good doses right now. PM me. 

It both answers a whole lot of questions and opens up a whole new can of worms.  Not for everyone, but would certainly help a whole lot of folks who've never been exposed.

The single biggest thing it did was erase my fear of death that seems to come with the territory of the standard western mind.

Next, it made me appreciate the oblique, the chaotic, the indirect avenue and I've embraced that to the fullest with confidence.

"i dont need to take something away from a trip or learn from a trip - its just a bonus when i do."

Absolutely.  I'll admit that the vast majority of my trips at Dead shows were done to enhance the experience and allow me to focus on the music.  It also allowed me to minimize the negative and mazimize the positive.  If I had a revelation or epiphany along the way as well that was bonus points

But that was also a function of experience with the territory, knowing what to expect and how to handle it.  I always thought that trippers were like rock climbers; participating in an exercise that had some danger involved but that was made safer from experience and knowledge.  Familiarity with the landscape was a huge advantage.

>>>>Took 700 mics clean liquid and went kyaking and fishing on Bike day

Caught pompano, jacks, snook, tarpon and a nice bonefish.

Damn that's one helluva hallucination! lol

Familiarity with the landscape was a huge advantage.

exactly. i have drastically reduced the amount of new or inexperienced trippers i give drugs to or trip with - i fully believe that the way i use psychedelics, while safe for me, would be wildly ill advised for almost anyone - enormous doses in public spaces, uncontrolled and possibly upsetting settings, intentionally disturbing music or film, driving home after 6-8 hours, etc etc...these are all wildly dangerous things, and i got the experience needed to do those things safely by being an absolute idiot in my teen and early twenties.

and the judge's name was...Hofmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U99KKaiSuYk

Bill Kreutzmann, Ad-Rock, Adam Scott, Sarah Silverman and others featured in documentary film ‘Have A Good Trip: Adventures In Psychedelics’  available on Netflix May 11.

https://relix.com/news/detail/bill-kreutzmann-ad-rock-adam-scott-sarah-s...

Thanks Garyfish... I wonder if Netflix is the only outlet for that

 <enormous doses in public spaces, uncontrolled and possibly upsetting settings, intentionally disturbing music or film, driving home after 6-8 hours, etc etc...these are all wildly dangerous thing>

If I wasn't a married old fart I would want to go party with Larry for a weekend...doesn't sound like a boring time...I could drive him around, at least

a lifetime of enjoyment

>>metaphysical nihilism and absurdity

Isn't nearly enough of that anymore, when you think about it.

Best times I've ever had tripping at a show - Yes the Relayer tour, and every Yes tour in the 70's. Head gone for days.

After that, Zappa 1974,5,6,7 tours. Bizarre fun nanigans never to be equaled.

Dead shows sucked to trip at. The sheer numbers of fucking inmates on the loose (mostly my friends) meant you had to keep on your toes.

Dead shows sucked to trip at. The sheer numbers of fucking inmates on the loose (mostly my friends) meant you had to keep on your toes.

thats one of my fav parts of tripping at dead shows...finding the dark areas, feeling unsafe, watching the worst human impulses overtaking spun wooks, posting up around the nitrous crews waiting for heads to be split...again it comes back to raw intensity,human experience, data and emotion

>>>>>posting up around the nitrous crews waiting for heads to be split.

You are sick, bro.

Long time ago

1968 to around 1974 / 1975

Sunshine.  STP.  White blotters.  Purple dors.  Double red flats. Sunshine.  Some left over sandoz   sunshin . Mescaline. DMT. 

You are sick, bro.

woooooaaaaaah like totally sick duuuuude

I first dosed in 1968. Don't even remember what it was. But dosed pretty much at least once a week all through grades 9-12.

Like Gary, pretty much limited to microdosing these days.  It's a great energy boost.   

i'm a fan

((Judit))

((god))

Hmmmmmmm.....

I'm generally a lightweight and was kinda at the right time and in the right place 

butttttt

kudos and love to all that gained

or regained    Country garden in the wind and the rain

all he lost he shall regain

did he ever lose at all!?

When they were garbage cans of LSD Kool-Aid on the floor at that dead show at wintetland

I don't believe I chose to take a ship

but loved cosmic Charlie and driving home at 3-3:30 am on 101 watching all the cars slowing to 40 and then zooming up to 75 as a fleet

Sorry for repeating stories,  but, I am an old man.  Loved big time the elephant hash pipe belt buckle I had made on the hand stamped marijuana belt that I had made that I wore that night .... ahhh memories 

how do you do...

<<<>>>Dead shows sucked to trip at. The sheer numbers of fucking inmates on the loose (mostly my friends) meant you had to keep on your toes.

lol. figures. 

eating beautiful LSD never gets old -- i just want to eat more and more. the better the L, the more i take. 

official trailer for Have a Good Trip, to be released on Netflix on May 11

https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/bill-kreutzmann-sting-netflix-document...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=135&v=FmQygtqDLHs&feature=em...

A friend of mine lived in the mission in the late 90's and got to know his next door neighbor who was living with and taking care of his elderly mom in a pretty dilapidated house. He got invited over one day and noticed the house was mostly decorated with framed blotter sheets. So he asked the guy what the deal was. Apparently they were un-dipped sheets the feds found when they busted him and they had them framed for his trial. Not sure how he got them back but decided to display them in the house many years after he got out. 

Hopefully everyone who got busted on tour is out now. 

mark mccloud?

3466 20th St?

The moon is big and quirky tonight.  

A zoner* will understand. Hope you and yours are well.

Zoner*

Fuck man, so bright maybe a body could read the warning on a cigarette pack ' bright '.

I don't smoke.

Have a Good Trip debuts on Netflix today

https://relix.com/news/detail/my-cymbals-were-melting-bill-kreutzmann-jo...

^^^^^

Watched Have a Good Trip last night.   Nothing Earth shattering or particularly heavy, but an easy way to kill two hours with a collection of lighthearted stories from various celebrities about their most memorable LSD experiences.   Thought Beastie Boy Adam Horowitz' story was particularly funny.  Good number of GD references, but the soundtrack (done by Yo La Tengo) could have used some help. 

I watched Have a Good Trip last night. It was enjoyable, and I really liked Carrie Fisher's contributions ("If you’re doing drugs the right way, you can’t tell an orderly story”), but I'm thinking one viewing should be enough.

This thread is why I love this place.  

Y'all get it.

I'm a better person because of psychedelics.  And I have more fun!

Loved the old-school trippy animation in 'Have a Good Trip'. Was very entertained by most of the stories, some by whom I wouldn't have expected to have anything to say on the matter. Billy's segments were a bit short for someone who's had hundreds (thousands?) of acid trips, but enjoyable nonetheless.

It was fine didn't love it. I guess it's just one of those things that taking about always ends up sounding stupid. I did like the reference to Fear and Loathing movie getting tripping right unlike just about every other movie that tries to show it since that is what I thought when I saw it

Some further thoughts about Have a Good Trip. The focus of the film is on people who have had fairly successful lives, so it lives up to its title in a way. It also needs to be noted that the people profiled in the film are all entertainers (with the exception of Tim Leary's son, Zach), so it provides a really narrow view of the topic. While this makes the film much more marketable, I think it would have been more interesting if they had also included people who work in fields other than entertainment, and just regular folks whose lives have been enhanced and improved by psychedelics.