…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…time indeed. He went down there expecting to find an Amanita muscaria cult and found these other mushrooms, got them to Hoffman at sandoz and the alkaloid was characterized a couple of years later. And psilocybin has not been readily available to people.…

…own society he really looked at it as this exotic foreign kind of thing these guys were cautious, this first generation Hoffman, Wasson, Schultes these guys are not stoners by any means I mean their approach is cautious and the psychedelic experiences can…

…of it something was drunk and something happened and there's been great argument about what was it and what happened and Watson 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…

…has only taken sandos psilocybin, it's much less animated and interesting than organic psilocybin. Now the counterexample to this is when Hoffman synthesized psilocybin for. The first time they he gave some of it to Wasson and Wasson took it back to watla…

…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 Zara in 56. By 66 it was…

…roots. Is it extractable? Is it extractable by methods accessible to greeks of the time of the orphic cult not known? You know Hoffman and Wasson wanted to say that the cult at Eleusis I mentioned this earlier was based on ergotized grain. A lot of…

…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…

…own society. He really looked at it as this exotic, foreign kind of thing. These guys were cautious this first generation Hoffman, Wasson, Schultes these guys are not stoners by any means, their approach is cautious and the psychedelic experiences can be…

…of 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 was a classicist at Cornell, all wanted to argue that it was an ergotized beer, in other words that…

…in Germany there was a little bit of work with the beta carbolines. Then that was all closed down by world war Ii. Hoffman discovered LSD the same weekend as the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, but it had no impact on science or psychiatry until the early 50s.…

…Kuwait. This is the only original idea that I have ever come up with. The REST is just telling you what Schultes and Hoffman and everybody knows and what you could find out by spending time in a good medical library. This is original and my notion…

…the lucis were completely forgotten. What was the really inherent, the sacred potion that was involved in it was forgotten until Hoffman rediscovered it and another way that these things become inaccessible is by being made illegal. So if there are people…

…reason for the book, just to get it all recorded into a documented form. But it always puzzles me I mean I think Hoffman and Wasson and certainly to some degree Schultes, to some degree you everybody says, well I'm just a humble botanist or I'm just…

…a larger time scale this kind of relationship has been extended to all of nature. Now, because of the work of people like Hoffman and Wasson and Metzner and Leary and earlier people, Lewin and others, the 20th century has come full circle. We have dug…

…and now through cultivation techniques and the propagation of ethnographic literature and the work of people like Metzner and Hoffman and Wasson and Schultes, shoved directly in the path of the careening cultural juggernaut of western civilization. This is…

…lost since the fall of minoan Crete. That's 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…

…on the other side of the rise is the crop circle that wasn't there when they started setting up. So apparently you know Richard Hoffman talks about this too isn't it a little weird? I mean first of all let me say I'm open minded about the crop circles…

…chloroform. Have any of you read the road to Eleusis? Oh yeah, that's about the eleusinian mysteries and it's by Wasson and Hoffman and ruck and argues that the mystery at Eleusis was a kind of ergotized beer, that they were gathering ergot off pospalum…

…that 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, you know I think the latter is safer. Well it may not only be safer, it may open the way to…

…the word drug is not a good word to use period I try to use it less and less and less and even Hoffman said this years ago in relationship to psychedelics. If you're talking about plants, visionary plants, sacred plants that have a long, long cultural…

…Deliberately. The ergot was as the vision inducing beverage that was the heart of the eleusinian mysteries, if Lawson and Hoffman and Schultes are correct in their theory about this and there have been newspaper reports from England of pharmacologists and…

…the word drug is not a good word to use period I try to use it less and less and less and even Hoffman said this years ago in relationship to psychedelics: if you're talking about plants, visionary plants, sacred plants that have a long, long cultural…

…Deliberately. The ergot was as the vision inducing beverage that was the heart of the eleusinian mysteries if Wasson and Hoffman and Schultes are correct in their theory about this. And there have been newspaper reports from England of pharmacologists and…

…the man who propounded and founded the field 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…

…not appear to have psychoactive properties of animals. But there was something puzzling and curious about LSD 25. In the 1943 Hoffman investigated again. He excellently absorbed some of it through his skin and had what he later called a dreamlike but not…

…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…

…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…

…around very long. It's kind of identified as cannibalism. It's albino RNA, brand new thing, remarkably potent. This is a case where Hoffman took back the material to. Analyze because he was looking for alkaloids he threw out the fraction that had the stuff…

…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 watla…

…anyway it's the drug of choice for migraine because it constricts the blood arteries going into the head. Anyway, Wasson and Hoffman argued that what they were doing at Eleusis is that they were brewing an ergot beer. They were deliberately gathering barley…

…underworld and the restoration to her mother. It was clearly a right of hallucinogenic use of some sort and Wass and rook 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 Wass and Hoffman and rook was the English poet and bon Vivant Robert Graves. He believed that it was simply mushrooms, that it was simply…

…to simply broaden the palette of Europe is given credit for the redefining of Post Medieval Civilization. Very strange: Hoffman and ruck and Wasson showed that the eleusinian mysteries, which were the philosophical and experiential linchpin of the ancient…

…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…

…occurs in several different forms this is the botany and chemistry of hallucinogens by Richard Evans Schultes and Alfred Hoffman. Schultes was the Harvard Botanist who basically single handedly created the field of ethnopharmacology and early on Schultes…