c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…you'd mentioned about the hospital setting in the 50s I remember we were fortunate to get to meet Duncan Blewett who worked with Humphrey Osmond Up in Canada, and since then I've seen some of the videos on YouTube of this very sterile and the doctors in…
…distortions of perception, altered states of awareness and occasionally states resembling psychosis. That is so far from what Humphrey Osmond came up with when he said psychedelic means mind manifesting. And that's all it means is manifesting our…
…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 from the.…
…only in podcast number 235 that we actually get to hear him speak. And that recording was made on the day after Al, Humphrey Osmond and Myron Stolaroff had taken LSD together. And this was their decompression talk. But what I would like to play for you…
…and allow a 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…
…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 the former.…
…and allow a 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…
…sixties in the name of repressing psychedelics, alcoholic drugs. I mean, there was work going on at Saskatoon in Canada with Humphrey Osmond, and in other places they were curing serious lifelong alcoholism with one, a single dose of 500 gamma of LSD in…