Friday, May 25, 2007
Acid Information
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Well, if you concluded from the end of last friday's posts that the music was Beethoven's symphony #6, you are correct. Something about that music in the presence of inebriants seems to turn my mind back to those astonishing days. Tonight's music is Beethoven again: piano concerto #5. This is the one we would play when we smoked pot, then tried to put a giant puzzle together. There were five of us (me, Kootch, Kathy, Jenny, Mark) and I was in charge of the music. What hilarious fun that was! I suppose that those kids remember Beethoven's symphony #6 as, 'trip music,' and Beethoven's piano concerto #5 as, 'pot music,' and could not tell you the actual names of the pieces. I heard it on KVOD today.
Regarding the two phrases 'Acid Myth' and 'Acid Barrier,' a myth is a myth. I 'created' this myth as a fun way to interpret the mystical effects of Acid and related hallucinogens. The 'Acid Barrier' is an actual psychological phenomenon related to brain function during tripping. Most of the Acid Trip is not remembered because the Acid 'processes' disable memory. Yet some memory is formed, because the 'Yes! Now I remember!' experience was observed over and over, trip after trip. It somewhat resembles the situation I face every week when I read what I wrote the previous friday night, drunk as a skunk.
This may be a good time to caution you to be very careful about 'set and setting' before doing Acid. 'Set' means your internal psychology. 'Setting' means your immediate surroundings. When we did Acid the 'set and the setting' was perfect: we were a close family group in excellent mental health, at home. We had no 'acid expectations.' We knew only that Acid would make us higher than anything we had done previously. (But I had researched Acid to some extent in books and had decided that it was not as dangerous as the media had represented it to be. Same with Marijuana.)
You do not want to do Acid alone. Nor do you want to do Acid in any kind of 'experimental context' - certainly not as a CIA or medical 'subject.' You need familiar surroundings and loving friends or family. Nor should you have 'Acid expectations.' The Acid Experience will not conform to your expectations. You need to be open and prepared for whatever happens, ready to be surprised. And you will be surprised. Very surprised.
Furthermore you need to devote at least 24 hours to the experience, which will go on and on for about 12 hours. You will need at least another 12 hours to recover. Better 48 hours.
Generally speaking, the Acid Trip is an up and down trip. You go up and then you come down. The upside is all buzz and beauty. The downside is all relief and reassembly. There may or may not be a middle phase of total chaos, depending on how many micrograms of LSD you have imbibed. Do not take too little Acid. An overdose is much better than an underdose. I have experienced as much as 2.5 doses and as little as .5 doses. My personal preference is about 1.75 doses - a bit too much. The perfect trip may be 1.5 doses.
Well, if you concluded from the end of last friday's posts that the music was Beethoven's symphony #6, you are correct. Something about that music in the presence of inebriants seems to turn my mind back to those astonishing days. Tonight's music is Beethoven again: piano concerto #5. This is the one we would play when we smoked pot, then tried to put a giant puzzle together. There were five of us (me, Kootch, Kathy, Jenny, Mark) and I was in charge of the music. What hilarious fun that was! I suppose that those kids remember Beethoven's symphony #6 as, 'trip music,' and Beethoven's piano concerto #5 as, 'pot music,' and could not tell you the actual names of the pieces. I heard it on KVOD today.
Regarding the two phrases 'Acid Myth' and 'Acid Barrier,' a myth is a myth. I 'created' this myth as a fun way to interpret the mystical effects of Acid and related hallucinogens. The 'Acid Barrier' is an actual psychological phenomenon related to brain function during tripping. Most of the Acid Trip is not remembered because the Acid 'processes' disable memory. Yet some memory is formed, because the 'Yes! Now I remember!' experience was observed over and over, trip after trip. It somewhat resembles the situation I face every week when I read what I wrote the previous friday night, drunk as a skunk.
This may be a good time to caution you to be very careful about 'set and setting' before doing Acid. 'Set' means your internal psychology. 'Setting' means your immediate surroundings. When we did Acid the 'set and the setting' was perfect: we were a close family group in excellent mental health, at home. We had no 'acid expectations.' We knew only that Acid would make us higher than anything we had done previously. (But I had researched Acid to some extent in books and had decided that it was not as dangerous as the media had represented it to be. Same with Marijuana.)
You do not want to do Acid alone. Nor do you want to do Acid in any kind of 'experimental context' - certainly not as a CIA or medical 'subject.' You need familiar surroundings and loving friends or family. Nor should you have 'Acid expectations.' The Acid Experience will not conform to your expectations. You need to be open and prepared for whatever happens, ready to be surprised. And you will be surprised. Very surprised.
Furthermore you need to devote at least 24 hours to the experience, which will go on and on for about 12 hours. You will need at least another 12 hours to recover. Better 48 hours.
Generally speaking, the Acid Trip is an up and down trip. You go up and then you come down. The upside is all buzz and beauty. The downside is all relief and reassembly. There may or may not be a middle phase of total chaos, depending on how many micrograms of LSD you have imbibed. Do not take too little Acid. An overdose is much better than an underdose. I have experienced as much as 2.5 doses and as little as .5 doses. My personal preference is about 1.75 doses - a bit too much. The perfect trip may be 1.5 doses.
