…research repository. One of one of the largest libraries largest libraries devoted to this kind of material is material is the Fitzhugh Ludlow library, which currently is in storage in a youth store in Santa Rosa. Now this is no place for these kind…

…an extremely powerful psychedelic experience. I mean if you read the accounts of people like Theodore Gautier or Baudelaire or Fitzhugh Ludlow written in the mid 19th century they are describing experiences that obviously were for them as powerful as a 500…

…went to Huxley and read more carefully, saw that he was working from the early of Havelock, Ellis Weir, Mitchell, Fitzhugh, Ludlow. It turned out that this whole tradition, albeit an underground tradition in western intellectual or aesthetic, based around the…

…a marvelous account of eating hashish in Damascus in 1840. I mean, it's just a scream. And of course, the irreproachable Fitzhugh Ludlow, who ate hashish and attended Yale Teasden for young ladies as a freshman at Yale in 1853, and describes having to…

…been exploring totally new territory. You know, once you get Michael Faraday and Conrad Lorenz and Baron Lobachevsky and Fitzhugh Ludlow and all this, you know, in other words, non Euclidean geometry, electromagnetic field theory, psychedelic drug use, it all…

…And if you read the descriptions of those trips, it was as psychedelic as anything. I mean, if you read Fitzhugh Ludlow or Bayard Taylor's descriptions of hashish intoxication written in the 1850s, they are no less baroque and grandiose. And psychedelic…

…other things from today's talk that I'd like to point out. First of all, I had to smile when Terrence was speaking about Fitzhugh Ludlow as well as if he was this ancient sage. Because first of all, if you've ever read Ludlow's seminal work, the hashish…

…is as qualified to write about and speculate about our experiences in consciousness exploration as was the now famous and revered Fitzhugh Ludlow. And if you have ever visited the websites of some of our younger saloners, you'll see exactly what I mean.…

…that psilocybin or ayahuasca can deliver to you. You only have to read the descriptions of 19th century writers on cannabis. Fitzhugh, Ludlow, S. Weir, Mitchell. These people, their descriptions of their trips are as psychedelic and as out of control as any…