…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…upon our dwindling fossil reserves had begun just the next year. At 4: 20 p m on the 19th of April, Albert Hoffman consumed a measured amount of a compound which he had first synthesized some five years earlier, as Hoffman Subsequently reported as…

…have just one book on halicinogens, 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…

…well 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 claviceps or claviceps posphali which is a…

…plants some fish some something and then they you know 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 seeds…

…krapellin and havelock Ellis and clouvert all of these people in the 30s 40s and 50s. The mushroom story slowly breaks. Albert Hoffman invents LSD. It doesn't really make itself known in the scientific literature until the late 40s. A very interesting thing…

…in there. So then Gordon Wasson, who was a personal friend of Robert Graves, took up this clue and got with Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD, and they said: no mushroom quite fits the bill here there's something more complicated going on and…

…So I am still of two minds about this. I think a mushroom would serve the bill better than ergot. Now I talked to Albert Hoffman about this and he said that you can fractionate the ergot in water, that if you macerate the ergot in water the bad stuff…

…20s. LSD was invented in 1937 though it didn't really make its way into the world until the early 50s. Psilocybin was isolated by Albert Hoffman in 53. DMT was first synthesized and smoked by a human being in 56. My point is in the last 100 years and…

…academic understanding of the role of hallucinogens in European History is the Ellison Ian Mysteries and probably you're familiar with. Albert Hoffman Karl Ruck and Gordon Watson wrote a book called the road to elusives in which they argue very very…

…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…

…just described is big Surprise a voice a everybody knows this who has to do with this stuff? Gordon Watson Richard Schulte's Albert Hoffman the giants know that this stuff is animate. This is not a drug it's something which is disguising itself as a drug…

…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…

…in academic understanding of the role of hallucinogens in European History is the eleusinian mysteries and probably you're familiar with Albert Hoffman Karl Ruck and Gordon Watson wrote a book called the road to elusives in which they argue very very…

…We all know what happened along the banks of the Rhine river in Basel Switzerland, a round of applause, please for Albert Hoffman. I welcome my Swiss friends in Basel and Zurich and Bern Sergius Goldwyn the great magician, Thomas Pynchon, the wonderful…

…if you'd had one shot, one megadose shot and then told that's it for you. I think I don't understand. I've 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…

…have just one book on halicinogens 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…

…well 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 claviceps or claviceps pospali which is a smut…

…plants some fish some something and then they you know 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 seeds…

…thank John, Who's Responsible for the ambient background, if there is one, and dean chamberlain, who took the amazing photographs of Albert Hoffman and Tim Leary and myself other people be sure and check out his photographs the guy is a major talent. Okay,…

…all kinds of drugs, vegetables and otherwise and this quality of minded intent and animate engagement is freaky. I talked to Albert Hoffman about this, the guy who invented LSD and determined the structure of psilocybin, and I said what do you think of…

…a psychotherapist who has also started moving more in organizational and political spheres. He's with Oscar Janeker founded the Albert Hoffman Foundation, which is in los angeles which is attempting to gather the repository of scientific data that's been…

…the rainforest or the wisdom of the medicine man from other cultures as something that's at risk for disappearing. But what the Albert Hoffman Foundation has realized is that from our own culture, from our own background, we're at risk of losing a lot of…

…own background, we're at risk of losing a lot of this data, and so that's what he's been working on with the Albert Hoffman Foundation. Robert Metzner was one of the pioneers of psychedelic research also at Harvard where he was a graduate student when a…

…millennia until Valentina and Gordon Wasson 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…

…early 70s when there was quite a wave of psychedelic drug use. Yes that's right. Following upon the discovery of LSD by Albert Hoffman in the late 30s and then the writing on the subject of the psychedelic experience that was done by Aldous Huxley,…

…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 with…

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

…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 one…

…and the guy said: well who told you it doesn't cause brain damage? Your daddy, no not my daddy he said: well Albert Hoffman told me it doesn't cause brain damage. End of discussion. I know that children are very interconnected with their parents so when…

…are a few individual scientists who are true scientists they are the true like alchemists they are lovers of nature, like Albert Hoffman is a lover of nature and he who loves nature and approaches nature with love and loving understanding is given nature's…

…is creating confusion possibly and that you should at least take into consideration that it is developed by a Swiss Company and even Albert Hoffman, who I really appreciate as a wise, nice old man, is a man still and it is done in the whole context of…

…in the dynamics of the psyche. Most psychotherapy as it's currently practiced is, I think, just well as I said at the Albert Hoffman thing, psychotherapy without psychedelics is pissing into the wind and has done a lot more harm than good. And what is…

…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…

My name is Robert Zanger and I'm president of the New Albert Hoffman Foundation. This is indeed a historic occasion for modern consciousness research for a number of reasons. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first synthesis of LSD by Dr Hoffman…

…50th anniversary of the first synthesis of LSD by Dr Hoffman in 1938. It also marks the inauguration of the New Albert Hoffman Foundation, which will be dedicated to preserving the psychedelic research that's been done over the last 50 years. And for a…

…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…

…better vaginal constrictor would carry him so far. So I'm going to keep my remarks brief this evening. I think a visit by Albert Hoffman to America, the foundation of a library that bears his name that will serve as an archive for the research that has…

…new look. At the human enterprise than by availing yourself of the tools and the compounds which men like John Lilly, Albert Hoffman, Richard Schultes, Gordon Wasson, Oscar Janager have placed before us. Don't let anyone tell you that we're not living in…

…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…

…years ago there was a book written by the great mushroom enthusiast and discoverer Gordon Wasson and 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…

…here through the earth trust brochure? If you can just raise your hand, that's great. How many people came here through the Albert Hoffman Foundation mailing? Yeah the postcard the second green acid green? Yeah, ok, what about the l a weekly AD did anyone…

…but I was sheltered just surfing through these channels. I saw 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 understanding…

…strong vasoconstrictor ergot may have had a history of usage as a hallucinogen because Gordon Wass and Carl Rook and Albert Hoffman argued fairly persuasively that ergot, ergotized beer lay behind the hallucinian mysteries. As you probably know, Eleusis was a…

…the sermon on the mount. But as it is, I think we turned the bend sometime in the 20th century either when Albert Hoffman invented LSD, or Gordon Wasson found the mushrooms of Oaxaca, or Richard Schultes brought back news of ayahuasca from the Amazon…

…shot 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 l a when he and I first met we were sort of testing each other and he has a famous reputation for being…

…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…

…lighter touch. What was also absent in the 60s 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 there was a huge body of evidence that they…

…psychedelics held at uc Santa Barbara in may 1983 that featured a number of established and emerging luminaries, including Albert Hoffman, Sasha Shulgin, Andrew Weil, Ralph Metzner, Karl Ruck, Walter Houston Clark and others. Terence's Edgy talk was titled…