Smartie's Bar & Grill #68

Well, you can't always get what you want ... .

 

I think he was doing psychiatric research. He became convinced of the mind-expanding capabilities of LSD and started promoting its use - turn on, tune in, and drop out.

I had a friend whose step father got LSD from Leary at a concert. People with spray bottles would also go around spraying people with LSD water.

Another friend of mine met Leary not long before he died. He said Leary was in bad shape and actually drooling at times.

 

Late adder above.

One of the more interesting stories about LSD that comes to mind is that of Kay Mullis, who was a professor at Berkeley. He shared a Nobel prize for discovering the polymerase chain reaction, which is what made gene splicing and most of genetic engineering possible. One year in the Berkeley Journal he told his story. He came up with the idea while driving down HWY 101 in California and frying on acid [LSD]. He saw a road sign showing an interchange coming up. Something about the pattern triggered his mind. He stopped and stared at the sign for a long time. Then, in an instant, he saw the polymerase chain reaction in his mind. And he was right! And the field of genetic engineering was invented.

On the down side, years after that he believed he would often encounter a glowing green raccoon in the woods. This raccoon was channeling an alien from another planet and giving him instructions.

 

And in the wonderful world of corporate three card monte, Monsanto is going to be dropping their name as the merger with Bayer takes place, so maybe people won't recall what damage they've done to this planet and the humans on it. Just sayin'.....

 

I'm not seeing a problem with that....

 

Anyone here have any experience with a social platform called MeWe? I'm about done with FB, The stupidity on both sides of the fence has gotten under my skin.

 

So, "Merry Go Round Up" will be coming soon from Bayer.

 

No, but FB needs competition.

 

Had LSD one time, due to a misunderstanding (I thought it was mescaline). Kinda appropriate to the conversation; it was at a Stones concert at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Maybe in 1978. People were throwing stuff at Jagger, because he was doing a gay-ish prance across the stage.

The details are somewhat hazy...

I remember thinking that I was getting messages from the car door, and asking if any in the police station were Chinese.

Three(?) months in the hospital's mental wing, and buckets of thorazine later, I rejoined y'all in normal society.

 

Quoth the car door never more?

 

LOL.

No.

The messages were more like what you would hear from Art Bell.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

I don't really remember the specifics. I do think that there was some wisdom in the car door, and some absolutely nutty musings.

 

WOW!!! That is some serious stuff!!!

I think it was 77 and I saw them at Anaheim Stadium on the same tour! It was insane! But no LSD for me.

I think I still have my ticket stub...

 

When I was in HS, our sociology class was allowed to visit Napa Mental Hospital, which is where Manson was being held at the time. It's funny because they would NEVER allow this now. But we visited 4 different wards, where the patients in each were more severe than the last. The last ward, the most severe, had catatonic schizophrenics, psychotics, the works. None were dangerous but they were way out there. One guy thought he was a chicken. Another thought he was in some kind of race - he kept declaring "I'm a long distance runner!". There was a woman sitting on the floor in the corner just rocking and staring... But there was one guy who was sitting on a bench and looked fairly normal. So I went over, sat next to him, and we started talking. He seemed completely normal. So I asked how he ended up in here. He said he wasn't sure. He remembered sitting in a park and taking about 40 hits of acid... and then he woke up here.

Interestingly, the doctors got stranger with each ward as well. By the time we got to the 4th ward, the doctors seemed as odd as the patients in the 1st ward. We even talked about in class the next day. It was really obvious.

 

And the good thing is you recovered.

 

Nope never heard of it, go try it out and let us know what you think.

 

Thank goodness for that. Cause sometimes what you get is not what you wanted even though you thought it was what you wanted.

 

But "Is this a dream or is it real life?"
Is one world better than another?

I've always lived under the philosophy that one may as he wishes, so long as another is not hurt.

That kinda excused me to not be all I might otherwise be.

 

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”

― Zhuangzi

 

There was a time, during my "stay", where I was extremely competent. It was as if the rest of the world had slowed down. I think it was like being what athletes call: in the zone. I wish I could've stayed at that mental place

 

Aye, and that's a lovely tune.

 

The photo at 1:41 is striking. He's old and holding a clock showing 3 minutes until midnight [presumably]

 

You were right - 1978
Jul 23 1978
The Rolling Stones Setlist at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA, USA
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7. Lies
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16. Sweet Little Sixteen
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17. Brown Sugar
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18. Jumpin' Jack Flash

 

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”

― Steve Jobs

 

Bill Gates, a notoriously private and straight-edged billionaire, is also among the godfathers of tech who dabbled in psychedelics.

In 1994, Gates gave an interview to Playboy Magazine, in which the computer mogul opened up — a little — about his LSD use in his "errant youth." While he never expressly admits to dropping acid in his 20s, Gates implies as much in the interview.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-lsd-psychedelics-2017-2

Gates, Jobs and others are interesting. But to me, Mullis has the most striking story because he literally changed the world while on acid.

While I don't think people are better off taking LSD, the notion that it could change the world by expanding people's minds may be true. Leary might have been right about that. He said it would change the world and it seems that it did.