…more excellent talks that may give you something new to think about. One is by Dr John Lilly and the other by Dr Albert Hoffman, and we have Renaissance man Gary Eisenberg to thanks for thanks for sending these talks to me to play for you today. As…

…know from my last podcast the talks we're about to hear were recorded at an event that event that was also titled Albert Hoffman in America and and it was to celebrate among celebrate among other things the 50th anniversary of the first synthesis of LSD…

…must say I want to tell you a story that story that I told this told this afternoon about afternoon about me and Albert Hoffman. I first met him in 1977 at the University of California Santa Cruz. He gave a night lecture and the students cheered…

…century, in the late 20th century, the heir to heir to Carl Jung the heir to Paracelsus, the heir to brother Klaus, Albert Hoffman, Alchemist, philosopher, chemist, human being, a man of whom it might be said, as was said of Giordano Bruno and Galileo in…

…man who made the 20th century that we all know can be a model for all future time here from Basel, Switzerland, Dr Albert Hoffman, the father of father of psilocybin and LSD. Thank you, I am deeply impressed by the warm reception which I received here…

…Allen Ginsberg Papers at Stanford where flat box 6, folder 2. Folder 2 allegedly holds a poster that's poster that's labeled Albert Hoffman in America, Poster 1988, October 2nd. So now we have yet another date October 2nd. We've had November 2nd November…

…slash media HTML. And I haven't had a chance to listen to any of them yet myself but their speakers include Albert Hoffman, Houston Smith, Joseph Campbell, Marilyn Ferguson, Terrence McKenna and a whole bunch more. It looks like a great resource and thank…

…of Mary Prankster fame, Timothy Leary, Laura Huxley, Martin lee, mark McLeod, Oscar Janiger, Terrence McKenna, Richard Evans Schultes and Dr Albert Hoffman, and I think there may even be one or two others. So you can tell that hector discovered a real…

…by some of the top folks. The title is entheogens and the future of religion. And some of the contributors are Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD and the synthesizer of psilocybin. Gordon Wasson, our own brother David Stendelrast who's lived and taught…

…back and with quite simple procedures, lo and behold out comes a crystalline white powder. And he, following the famous example of Albert Hoffman with LSD that you should start a hundred times smaller than you think is where the action is. He smoked 1…

…from dependency upon our dwindling fossil reserves had begun just the next year, at 04:20 p.m. on the 19 April, Albert Hoffman consumed a measured amount of a compound which he had first synthesized some five years earlier. As Hoffman subsequently reported…

…McKenna, and it was about six months before he made that impressive debut in the center ring at a conference featuring Albert Hoffman, Sacha Shulgin, Andrew Weil, and many other psychedelic luminaries as well. But at the moment in time when Paul Herbert…

…hundreds of graduate students into careers in ethnobotany and really has put the field on the map. And his co author is Albert Hoffman, who invented LSD. In terms of one book about psychoactive plants that is in print and readily available, I would go…

…the mushroom. And, you know, this question of, are the plant drugs animated? Not and is it just us? Was addressed by Albert Hoffman when we spent a weekend at a conference with him. He's, as you probably know, the inventor or discoverer of LSD. We…

…talked to more people, and also if you stay in a field like this, you eventually get to meet everybody. You get to meet Albert Hoffman and Sasha Shulgin and Leary and Lily and all these people, and you begin to have a view of how all these people…

…archaic options which will restore this balance. And to the good credit of people like Dick Schultes and Gordon Wasson and Albert Hoffman, we have in this century taken into our hands the tools, the information and the means to do this. But psychology,…

…so let me say something a little bit more about the morning glory complex, because it's very interesting. LSD, discovered by Albert Hoffman in 1937 and so forth, comes from ergot, comes from an organism called clavicle or cloviceps paspali, which is a smut…

…nature? Some plants, some fish, some something, and then you can form theories and judgments about evolutionary relationships. So Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD, was amazed when carrying out analytical work for Gordon Wasson on magic, morning glory…

…have just one book on Hallisenogens, this would probably be the one to go for. It's also by Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hoffman, who some of you may know as the discoverer of LSD and the man who first characterized and synthesized psilocybin from a…

…archaic options which will restore this balance. And to the good credit of people like Dick Schultz and Gordon Wasson and Albert Hoffman, we have in this century taken into our hands the tools, the information and the means to do this. But psychology…

…November of this year, which, if I'm not mistaken, is still 2011, and in addition to photographs of notables ranging from Doctor Albert Hoffman to Jerry Garcia, he'll also be exhibiting some of his work dealing with nature as a healer. You know, Mark has…

…lighter touch. What was also absent in the sixties was any awareness of tradition. People thought that LSD came from God via Albert Hoffman. They didn't realize that shamanism was about this. They didn't realize that a whole. That there was a huge body of…

…you'd had one shot, one mega dose shot, and then told that's it for you. I think. I don't understand. I talked to Albert Hoffman about this and my objection was surely if it was ergot it would have obtained a reputation of danger. There would have been…

…modern manifestation? Well, I talked yesterday about these naturally occurring forms of ergot hallucinogens. LSD was invented by Albert Hoffman, a swiss pharmaceutical chemist. He was trying to invent drugs like pitocin, drugs which induce labor because these…

…sheltered just surfing through these channels. I saw, you know, the great patron saint of the 20th century. Move over, Albert Hoffman. Move over, Albert Einstein. How about Joseph Goebbels as a candidate for somebody who shaped the 20th century by…

…described is big surprise. A voice. A voice. Everybody knows this. Who has to do with this stuff? Gordon was Richard Schultes, Albert Hoffman. The giants know that this stuff is animate. This is not a drug. It's something which is disguising itself as a…

…Havelock, Ellis and Clouver. All of these people. In the thirties, forties and fifties, the mushroom story slowly breaks. Albert Hoffman invents LSD. It doesn't really make itself known in the scientific literature until the late forties. A very interesting…

…Times magazine and someone who's been featured here in the salon, well, several times with his interviews of elders like Doctor Albert Hoffman. And by the way, if you haven't heard that interview, it's in podcast number 280, which I published on September…

…That's 500 micrograms. The only family of compounds known to be active in that range are LSD, and it was thought impossible. Albert Hoffman once said to me, he said, if you want to understand what getting a human being loaded on 500 grams of LSD…

…It occurs in several different forms. This is the botany and chemistry of hallucinogens by Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hoffman. Schultes was the Harvard botanist who basically single handedly created the field of ethnopharmacology. And early on, Schultes…

…And if you don't, into the bin with that one. Oss janager and I, who was a great old LSD researcher and runs the Albert Hoffman library in LA, when he and I first met, we were sort of testing each other. And he has a famous reputation for being…

…hundreds of graduate students into careers in ethnobotany and really has put the field on the map. And his co author is Albert Hoffman, who invented LSD. In terms of one book about psychoactive plants that is in print and readily available, I would go…

…really ought to add it. And it's LSD, my problem child reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism and science. Bye. Doctor Albert Hoffman. A book I mentioned a couple weeks ago is Nina Gerbois autobiography, 1ft in the future. Then there's Persephone's quest…

…of perception and heaven and hell by Aldous Huxley. And then Christian Rasch, with some help from Doctor Albert Hoffman, has prepared the Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants, ethnopharmacology and its applications. And finally, one that really shouldn't be…

…component, not under the control of the ego. And this is very curious, frightening to some people. When I was with Albert Hoffman at that entheogen conference in Santa Barbara, I asked him, you know, he discovered LSD and he characterized psilocybin and I…

…my friend Robert Forte edited, and it's chock full of great essays by such psychedelic luminaries as Robert Jesse, Dale Pendle, and Albert Hoffman. But it's Terence's essay that I've read and reread over and over. In fact, my copy is so marked up with…

…discuss the politics behind the making of this kind of a film. It's not a film about rave culture. It's not a film about Albert Hoffman. It's not a film about body piercing or any of these things that great films need to be done about and have been…

…talked to more people, and also if you stay in a field like this, you eventually get to meet everybody. You get to meet Albert Hoffman and Sasha Shulgin and to Leary and Lily and all these people, and you begin to have a view of how all these people…

…Anyway, here's what one person who attended the event had to say about it in a Usenet posting. I attended the Albert Hoffman in America celebrating 50 years of consciousness research event in Los Angeles, and I'm forwarding some of the information because…

…would want to hear it. The event featured lectures by Terrence McKenna, Stanley Krippner, Andrew Weil, John C. Lilly, and Albert Hoffman himself. Unfortunately, Laura Huxley could not attend. There was also live music. A staggering 2000 or so people filled…

…so people filled the hall at the Scottish Rite Temple in Los Angeles. It was also the inauguration of the Albert Hoffman foundation, an archive and information center dedicated to the scientific study of human consciousness. And now, thanks to fellow slauner…

…the recording begins with an introduction by Robert Zanger, who I think was the first president of the newly formed Albert Hoffman foundation. Sadly, although there have been many generous donors over the years. The Albert Hoffman foundation has now fallen…

…of the newly formed Albert Hoffman foundation. Sadly, although there have been many generous donors over the years. The Albert Hoffman foundation has now fallen fallow and exists primarily as an old text based website. However, if you're interested in…

…the two most important people to have lived during my lifetime. As you may guess, I think that one of those men was Doctor Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD. And the other man who I consider to hold such a lofty spot in human history is the man…

…usage, personalities, so forth and so on, and pharmacotherapy is a good one. Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard in collaboration with Albert Hoffman, who discovered LSD. Together they wrote a number of books, the most scientific and the best of which is the…

…As Thomas Pynchon says in gravity's rainbow, every school child knows the story of that bicycle ride through the streets of Basel that Albert Hoffman took that afternoon when he left work a little early with a case of the blahs, and in the course of the…

…years ago, there was a book written by the great mushroom enthusiast and discoverer. Gordon was the chemist who discovered LSD, Albert Hoffman and the classicist ruck, the three of them, and Jonathan Ott, I think, was also in there, wrote a book called…

…how could they get that many people loaded year in and year out and not get a bad rap on it? And then I talked to Albert Hoffman about this and he didn't seem to feel that it was such a problem. He said that what you could do is float hot oil on…

…millennia, until Valentina and Gordon Wassen went in the early 1950s and found these mushrooms and brought them out. And then Albert Hoffman, who had earlier discovered LSD, synthesized the compound and made it available. That was 55. Well, by 66, all human…