Monday, May 20, 2013
A Bad Trip.
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Sipping on beer #7 at 1830. Sip. Ha! I just looked over at Daruma. Fun. And I also just looked up Bodhidharma. One is simple; the other is complex.
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But back now to (6) below. The book, The Private Sea (LSD and the Search for God) was interesting but way too 'philosophical.' And as I thumbed through it again this week I reread the author's account of his very own 'psychedelic trip.'
Apparently, having written a book on the subject of LSD and the surrounding psychology and philosophy, he felt obligated to actually do such a 'trip.' Eheh! Admirable! So he contacted a couple of Jewish (aren't they always Jewish?) psychologists at Ridgway Psychiatric Hospital in Chicago. He told them that he felt obligated to 'do a trip' before he published his book. Eheh.
LSD was not available, but a psychedelic substite was available: Mescaline. They informed him that he had been granted immediate entry into a new and important study using Mescaline, a related 'psychedelic.' Eheh. How convenient!
Braden made some attempt to describe his particular 'set' before describing the clinical 'setting.'
They imbibed him with 490 miligrams of Mescaline. Nothing much happened at first. And the author mentions that 'the atmosphere of a psychiatric hospital was far from ideal given the nature of the 'experiment.' Right!
Indeed, a 'psychiatric hospital is just about the very last place I would think about as I was considering location in that regard! Fuck!
It turned out to be a Bad Trip, and The Jews eventually rescued him with Thorazine.
Sipping on beer #7 at 1830. Sip. Ha! I just looked over at Daruma. Fun. And I also just looked up Bodhidharma. One is simple; the other is complex.
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But back now to (6) below. The book, The Private Sea (LSD and the Search for God) was interesting but way too 'philosophical.' And as I thumbed through it again this week I reread the author's account of his very own 'psychedelic trip.'
Apparently, having written a book on the subject of LSD and the surrounding psychology and philosophy, he felt obligated to actually do such a 'trip.' Eheh! Admirable! So he contacted a couple of Jewish (aren't they always Jewish?) psychologists at Ridgway Psychiatric Hospital in Chicago. He told them that he felt obligated to 'do a trip' before he published his book. Eheh.
LSD was not available, but a psychedelic substite was available: Mescaline. They informed him that he had been granted immediate entry into a new and important study using Mescaline, a related 'psychedelic.' Eheh. How convenient!
Braden made some attempt to describe his particular 'set' before describing the clinical 'setting.'
They imbibed him with 490 miligrams of Mescaline. Nothing much happened at first. And the author mentions that 'the atmosphere of a psychiatric hospital was far from ideal given the nature of the 'experiment.' Right!
Indeed, a 'psychiatric hospital is just about the very last place I would think about as I was considering location in that regard! Fuck!
It turned out to be a Bad Trip, and The Jews eventually rescued him with Thorazine.
