Acid
SubGenius IGAZUM Cerebral Reformatter
Entitled 1 Hercules on Acid: A combination of interior-eyeball scanned, mental projection-powered “animation” and past-landscape footage obtained through a randomly traveling time “camera” allowed us to create a composite music-video-brainwash code that will act as a replacement for recreational drugs. We used these techniques in a total of six new short videos about JR “Bob” Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius. Animation and music is by Rev. Ivan Stang with noises and voices by LeMur, Norel Pref, many others. The original Bob Dobbs color painting that is warped to death in this is by St. Kenneth Huey.
The Top 50 Trips in Movies.
Obituary: Albert Hofmann, LSD Inventor
Albert hoffman has passed away .
“I believe that if people would learn to use LSD’s vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.” — Albert Hofmann (1906-2008)
For the Unrepentant Patriarch of LSD, Long, Strange Trip Winds Back to Bay Area
The small, barefoot man in black T-shirt and blue jeans barely rates a second glance from the other Starbucks patrons in downtown San Rafael, although he is one of the men who virtually made the 60s. Because Augustus Owsley Stanley III has spent his life avoiding photographs, few people would know what he looks like.
The name Owsley became a noun that appears in the Oxford dictionary as English street slang for good acid. It is the most famous brand name in LSD history. Probably the first private individual to manufacture the psychedelic, “Owsley” is a folk hero of the counterculture, celebrated in songs by the Grateful Dead and Steely Dan.
Link: For the unrepentant patriarch of LSD, long, strange trip winds back to Bay Area
Hallucinogenic Weapons: The Other Chemical Warfare
There were many acid tests happening in the 1950s and 1960s. Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters dosed sometimes-unsuspecting proto-hippies. The CIA was dosing unsuspecting mainstreamers. Leary dosed fully cognizant artists, therapists and students. But meanwhile, over at Army Chemical Center at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, psychiatrist James S. Ketchum was testing LSD, BZ and other psychedelic and deliriant compounds on fully informed volunteers for the U.S. military.
As an Army psychiatrist just out of residency, Dr. James E. Ketchum was assigned to Edgewoord Arsenal’s Medical Research Laboratories, first as a research psychiatrist in 1961. He became Chief of the Psychopharmacology Branch in 1963, and then became Acting Chief of Clinical Research in 1966. After a brief hiatus at Stanford University, he returned as Edgewoods’ Chief of Clinical Research in 1968, staying there until 1971. Dr. Ketchum and his team were looking, primarily, for non-lethal incapacitating agents, and he was central to many of the experiments with these compounds that took place during that time.
