…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…

…of vogue that it was to attain in the United States, largely due to the literary efforts of bayard taylor and Fitzhugh Ludlow. And in the readings we will hear, Fitzhugh Ludlow directly attributes his interest in hashish to the article by bayard taylor…

…United States, largely due to the literary efforts of bayard taylor and Fitzhugh Ludlow. And in the readings we will hear, Fitzhugh Ludlow directly attributes his interest in hashish to the article by bayard taylor which he had read a couple of years…

…of which hashish was a major player. The Victorian Literary style seems uniquely suited, especially in the case of Fitzhugh Ludlow, to conveying the confused, shifting, multileveled and imagistic tonality that is typical of the hashish experience. So it's a…

…motivation for this project is the difficulty of obtaining printed versions of this material. There hasn't been an edition of Fitzhugh Ludlow since 1975. The previous edition was in the mid 1800s. There hasn't been an edition of bayard taylor since the…

…published in 1855 and set the model for hashish reportage throughout the REST of the 19th century and was a major influence on Fitzhugh Ludlow. I'm going to read chapter 10, the visions of hashish, which is the portion of the book in which most of the…

…as a fire of Gaza Wood. This reading is from the hashish eater, or passages from the life of a Pythagorean, by Fitzhugh Ludlow, published in 1857 by harper and brothers, New York. This was the first of the American Hashish exposés and many feel the…

…Ah would that I had been satisfied. Yet history must go on. Terrence McKenna has read stories by bayard taylor and Fitzhugh Ludlow and Kathleen Harrison McKenna has read from Louisa may Alcott and the translations of sir Richard Burton. Victorian Tales of…

…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…

…wrote 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 Teas for young ladies as a freshman at Yale in 1853 and describes having to…

…the literature of the 19th century on Cannabis for instance the accounts of Baudelaire or the accounts of bayard taylor or Fitzhugh Ludlow you will see that eating four grams of fine Moroccan Hashish, washed down probably with a little absinthe is quite an…

This reading is from the hashish eater, or passages from the life of a Pythagorean by Fitzhugh Ludlow, published in 1857 by Harper and brothers, New York. This was the first of the American Hashish exposés and many feel the best and what I'm going to…

…the literature of the 19th century on Cannabis for instance the accounts of Baudelaire or the accounts of bayard taylor or Fitzhugh Ludlow you will see that eating four grams of fine Moroccan Hashish, washed down probably with a little absinthe is quite an…

…Cannabis was eaten and jellied forms of Cannabis that were eaten. Judging by the prose of people like Theodore Gautier, Baudelaire, Fitzhugh Ludlow and people like that it was as powerful as LSD. Without doubt I mean these people were being swept in tight…

…banana bread and you'll find out what a deal it is. So you know and if you read the 19th century accounts like Fitzhugh Ludlow, the hashish eater, people like that it's perfectly clear that it can reach LSD levels of intensity if you eat it. And the…

…Huxley and read more carefully, saw that he was working from the earlier work of hadlock Ellis, Weir Mitchell, Fitzhugh Ludlow. It turned out that there was this whole tradition, albeit an underground tradition, in western intellectual or aesthetic concerns…

…an extremely powerful psychedelic experience. I mean if you read the accounts of people like Theodore Gauthier 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…

…predict but sometimes they're as intense as anything can be. If you read 19th century descriptions of Cannabis use by people like Fitzhugh Ludlow and the club Du Hashashin and that crowd where they were eating the hashish, it's very clear that it was the…

…years. This is a priceless informational research repository. One of the largest libraries devoted to this kind of 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…

…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…

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

…Cannabis was eaten and jellied forms of Cannabis that were eaten, judging by the pros of people like Theodore Gautier, Baudelaire, Fitzhugh Ludlow and people like that it was as powerful as LSD without doubt I mean these people were being swept into…