Psychedelic Salon
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Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…off Norfolk island, which is an island off the west coast of Australia. In fact there's an amazing description of a trip in Hoffer and Osman's book halucinogens, this person. This happened in the early 60s they saw a monument to the first landing on the…
…got to the Saskatchewan. It was called the Saskatchewan group on Schizophrenia. That was the name of their project, and that was Hoffer and Osmandhenne. And then my brother in law Nick show Allison and his partner, Duncan Blewett. And I had my first…
…said about Duncan and Wood, because I'm not sure how the connection was made. But Al went to central Canada and met with Hoffer and Osman, and he'd heard about their approach, which really wasn't recognizing what LSD would do at all. But somehow he met…
…and Hawthorne, and he went in and looked at Blewitt and Bluetooth, just having the time of his life. So he went out to see Hoffer, and Osman said, you know, this guy Blewett is having a psychosis. Better come in and see if he can get him out of it.…
…this is a fairly hard book to obtain, but in a way it's never been surpassed. This book is called the Hallucinogens by Hoffer and Osmond, and there was never a revised edition after 1965. Discusses a lot about LSD and psychotherapy, and all of also has…
…restructuring of habit. Before LSD was made illegal back in the sixties, very respectable psychologists such as Humphrey Osmond and Hoffer were obtaining 40% cure rate of chronic alcoholism with one high dose exposure. Well, now, understand this doesn't mean…
…might actually be a reliable witness. If you read the literature of what psychedelic drugs do. Like if you read a book like Hoffer and Osman's book hallucinogens, classic in the field, you will get the idea that what these drugs do is they cause people…
…restructuring of habit. Before LSD was made illegal back in the sixties, very respectable psychologists such as Humphrey Osmond and Hoffer were obtaining 40% cure rate of chronic alcoholism with one high dose exposure. Well, now, understand this doesn't mean…
…to people is Michael Harner's anthology Shamanism and Hallucinogens, where he gathered a bunch of very good articles together there. Hoffer and Osman's old classic hallucinogens, even though it was last updated in 68, still on the major hallucinogens is the…