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.
…and LSD and as we surveyed his library, we talked of the many other libraries that researchers like Wasson and Hoffman have gathered together over the years. This is a priceless informational research repository. One of one of the largest libraries…
…you lay down to go to sleep tonight, maybe you can send some of your love and light to Roberto's Widow, the brilliant artist Martina Hoffman, who I'm sure can use all of the light and love that we can send her. To be honest, I'm having to kind of…
…the way a drug works there has to be a receptor site. There's a receptor site for morphine and heroin. There's a Hoffman Laroche Receptor site. There's a poos receptor site. They're discovering dozens of new receptor sites every year for drugs which we…
…to notice now that I've become an environmentalist so we have to look for those new coalitions anyway. Fuck guilt, good old Abbie Hoffman, fuck guilt. I couldn't have said it better myself. And now I want to continue our little historical end of the year…
…people who took it, if everybody had been like them, that would have been true. You know, because Albus, Huxley and Hoffman and these people, they got it to thinkers, mystics, theologians, artists, poets, managers. If everybody were like the top 5% of…
…of the rise, and they're on the other side of the rise and cross circle that wasn't there. So apparently, you know, and Richard Hoffman talks about this, too. Don't get me started, okay? No, get me started. Bad works of art on a scale of miles are not…
…grows at the end of history? Is it the mushroom of Fermi and Oppenheimer and Teller? Or is it the mushroom of Wasson and Hoffman and Humphrey Osmond? Somehow I think the latter is safer. Well, it may not only be safer, it may open the way to escape…
…underworld and the restoration to her mother. And it was clearly a rite of hallucinogenic use of some sort. And Wassen Rack Hoffman argued that it was ergotized beer. I question this because I think that there would have been more problems at Eleusis if…
…spectrophotometry data before I knocked back a pint of ergotized beer. A small voice in opposition to this theory of wasp and Hoffman and ruck was the english poet and bon vivant, Robert Graves. He believed that it was simply mushrooms, that it was simply…
…so acid, in a way, is an anti survival thing, right? Except for the researchers. Except for in LSD, my problem child by Hoffman. I love that book. My favorite scene in there was where he's walking with some other german professor and they're walking in…
…who has ever graced this planet. Now let's have a few words of wisdom from our beloved Sasha meeting last. Year when Doctor Hoffman came and his opening sentence was, you expected a shame and you're going to get a chemist. When I was first asked by…
…April, Albert Hoffman consumed a measured amount of a compound which he had first synthesized some five years earlier. As Hoffman subsequently reported as a quotation, following 250 micrograms. After the crisis of confusion and despair, I began to enjoy the…
…for throughout a life of self discipline and self subjugation. That isn't it. It is our birthright. Each of us, Doctor Hoffman and his discoveries place this dimension within the reach of all of us. Doctor Hoffman and his discoveries place this dimension…
…is our birthright. Each of us, Doctor Hoffman and his discoveries place this dimension within the reach of all of us. Doctor Hoffman and his discoveries place this dimension on a social agenda that cannot be denied. That will not wait. If not now, when?…
…have the tools to advance it. They came to us out of ethnography and anthropology, out of the work of Wasson and Hoffman and earlier, Havelock, Ellis and Weir, Mitchell, Henri Michaud, all the people who worked with psychedelics. At first it was worked…
…out of the natural world. LSD occurs in morning glories and in asian families of woodrows like plants. But the LSD, which Hoffman discovered was isolated from a fungus, an ergot dwelling smuthen, which isn't, to put it down, it's just. That's what it's…
…it. Something was drunk and something happened. And there's been great argument about what was it and what happened. And Wasson and Hoffman and Ruck, who's a classicist at Cornell, all wanted to argue that it was an ergotized beer. In other words, that on…
…who has only taken sandoseilcybin, it's much less animated and interesting than organic psilocybin. Now, the counterexample to this is when Hoffman synthesized psilocybin for the first time. He gave some of it to Wassen, and Wasson took it back to Huatla in…
…own society. He really looked at it as this exotic, foreign kind of thing. These guys were cautious. This first generation Hoffman, Wassen Schultes. These guys are not stoners by any means. I mean, their approach is cautious. And the psychedelic experiences…
…deck with a cassidy behind the wheel. And what an interesting assortment of psychedelic explorers they have brought here to join us. Huxley, Hoffman, Ginsburg and Lenin to name just a few. I see filing off further and into our big top here. So it's going…
…the structure of organic nature too much that melathione is a phosphorylated compound. It was interesting. I noticed in Hoffman Osman's hallucinogens malathion is occasionally, there are known cases of human abuse of melathion causes severe dream disturbances.…
…lost since the fall of Minoan Crete, but suddenly restored. And then nobody knows what to make of it. And the CIA looks at it and Hoffman looks at it, and now it is found, I think, and I don't know if it comes too late or if the final irony is…
…parish records and got the evidence together, and it's pretty clear. It looks like it was an outbreak of ergotism. What Hoffman said to me was that he felt that there were potentially strains of ergot that elaborated water soluble psychedelic compounds and…
…grows at the end of history? Is it the mushroom of Fermi and Oppenheimer and teller? Or is it the mushroom of Wasson and Hoffman and Humphrey Osmond? Somehow I think the latter is safer. It may not only be safer, it may open the way to escape from…
…in ancient Greece around the time of Plato or Aristotle? Sure. You should read the road to Eleusis by Wassen and Hoffman that argues very persuasively that an LSD like alkaloid lay behind the eleusinian mysteries. That was the great mystery religion that…
…the United States. That's a 20 year window, and that was the longest window any of these things ever got. Psilocybin was characterized by Hoffman in 55, I believe by 67 it was illegal. DMT was discovered by the czech chemist Sara in 56. By 66 it was…
…2 in 2011. And in my opinion, it's a real classic. For example, during this telephone interview, Peter actually puts Doctor Hoffman on hold to take another call. And that incoming call happened to be from Laura Huxley. Fortunately, that whole exchange was…
…be from Laura Huxley. Fortunately, that whole exchange was recorded and is part of the podcast. My favorite part of Peters interview with Hoffman, however, is the part where the good Doctor gets Peter to pay him. Pay him a fee for the interview. I don't…
…actually were never studied. LSD was invented in 1938. They put it on the shelf for five years. Then the guy took it. Hoffman, he said it's a hallucinogen. But the war was raging. That was 1943. It didn't actually make its way into the journals until…
…was like a very warm and friendly flavor of LSD, but it didn't have the voice. Now, there's a famous story that when Hoffman isolated psilocybin, he then, to prove the isolation, he manufactured some. And then he and Wasson took it back with them to…
…the University of Notre Dame. As a little bit of trivia, back in the sixties when I was a student there, Doctor Hoffman taught chemistry in the same classroom that the famous football coach Newt Grockne once taught chemistry in as well. Hopefully the…
…Hopefully the university has moved the chemistry department into somewhat more modern quarters by now. And you should know that this Doctor Hoffman wasn't related at all to the famous and important Doctor Hoffman that we all know and love so well. On a…
…more modern quarters by now. And you should know that this Doctor Hoffman wasn't related at all to the famous and important Doctor Hoffman that we all know and love so well. On a happier note, I see that today marks the reopening of the us embassy…
…have the tools to advance it. They came to us out of ethnography and anthropology, out of the work of Wasson and Hoffman and earlier, Havelock, Ellis and Weir, Mitchell, Henri Michaud, all the people who worked with psychedelics. At first it was worked…
…consciousness research for a number of reasons. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first synthesis of LSD by Doctor Hoffman in 1938. It also marks the inauguration of the new Albert Hoffman foundation, which will be dedicated to preserving the…
…reason. Because just a few weeks ago LSD has been legalized in Switzerland for use in psychotherapy. This is something that Doctor Hoffman will be telling you more about himself later in the program when he gives his presentation. At this time I'd like to…
…issue will not die. This issue is not going to go away. And so it's wonderfully fitting, I think, that we bring Doctor Hoffman from his bastion in neutral Switzerland to the city of lost angels to celebrate what was one of the great seminal events in…
…the man who propounded and founded the feel of ethnobotany. People like Richard Evans Schultes, who is an advisor to the Hoffman library and the great ethnobotanist of the 20th century. And without doubt, people like Albert Hoffman, people who laboring in…
…the confines of their laboratories, have thrown open the doorway to new worlds of possibility for the human spirit. Tonight, as Doctor Hoffman was receiving the accolades of the crowd for the invention of LSD, I couldn't help but think to myself that he…
…the drug of choice for migraine because it constricts the vessel, the blood, arteries, going into the head. Anyway, Wassen and Hoffman argued that what they were doing at Eleusis is that they were brewing an Ergota beer. They were deliberately gathering…
…of high tech industrialism, there emerged. There emerged a mystery. The last thing you would expect, a true mystery. Now, Doctor Hoffman has been lauded here this evening for his invention of LSD. Certainly this is what he will be remembered for over…
…for throughout a life of self discipline and self subjugation. That isn't it. It is our birthright. Each of us, Doctor Hoffman and his discoveries place this dimension within the reach of all of us. Doctor Hoffman and his discoveries place this dimension…
…is our birthright. Each of us, Doctor Hoffman and his discoveries place this dimension within the reach of all of us. Doctor Hoffman and his discoveries place this dimension on a social agenda that cannot be denied, that will not wait. If not now, when?…
…dot appeared to have psychoactive properties with animals. But there was something puzzling and curious about LSD. 25 and in 1943, Hoffman investigated again. He accidentally absorbed some of it through his skin and had what he later called a dreamlike but…
…and had what he later called a dreamlike but not disagreeable experience. Albert always has the talent for understatement. Three days later, Hoffman arranged to take what he believed to be a very weak dose. He tried to take notes in his laboratory journal,…
…because no known substance in the world would have any effect at all in such a small dosage, one quarter of a milligram, Hoffman called a physician. But by the time the good doctor arrived, he had begun to enjoy the experience. The endless variety of…
…a confrontation with death and feeling that he had left the ordinary world forever. Fortunately for us, he came back. Hoffman became convinced that LSD could be important for psychotherapy, for treating maternally ill, for brain research, and as an adjunct…
…properties of the mexican mexican mushrooms used in sacred rituals before the arrival of the Europeans. By this time, Hoffman was director of research for the Sandoz pharmaceuticals department of natural Products. Chemical studies of the mushroom by french…
…Sandoz pharmaceuticals department of natural Products. Chemical studies of the mushroom by french and american firms have ended inconclusively so. Hoffman was eager to accept the challenge. And this and other stories come through in his book Plant of the…
…stories come through in his book Plant of the origins of hallucinogenic use, co authored with Richard Evans Shrutis. Well, Hoffman was later to note that the earlier investigations had used animals as subjects. But Hoffman, having learned that humans have…
…Richard Evans Shrutis. Well, Hoffman was later to note that the earlier investigations had used animals as subjects. But Hoffman, having learned that humans have a greater sensitivity to psychedelic substances, ate the mushrooms himself. See, this was very…
…last few years of her life and saw firsthand the setting in which some of the early explorers, like Wasen and Hoffman, had observed firsthand the workings of the sacred mushrooms. Well, Hoffman was later to synthesize the active ingredients of rye, ergot,…
…some of the early explorers, like Wasen and Hoffman, had observed firsthand the workings of the sacred mushrooms. Well, Hoffman was later to synthesize the active ingredients of rye, ergot, squill, psychoactive morning glory seeds, and rawlfia. These…
…Well, we can learn a lot from these native practitioners. I've certainly learned a lot in my day. Albert as well. Hoffman has contributed to the development of methodological advances in consciousness research. Obviously, he is a first rate chemist who has…
…in native settings. All of these research approaches are approaches that we endorse and use at Saybrook, and this is why Hoffman is such an important figure to our graduate students. Also, incidentally, a few weeks ago, some of us, including Andy Weil,…
…I can say for sure is that you'll find out in my next podcast. And also I think we'll be hearing directly from Doctor Hoffman himself. Now, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out something that you already know, but maybe you didn't think about when you…