> Paisely Sky wrote:

>>
>> "Mowe Z. Slowley" wrote:
>>

>>> Paisely Sky wrote:

>>>> "Mowe Z. Slowley" wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> Paisely Sky wrote:

>>>>>> Flashbacks Excerpt 2---Michael Hollingshead
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is the second of what I hope will be more excerpts from Flashbacks,
>>>>>> one of Timothy LearyÂ’s autobiographical accounts (the most complete
>>>>>> one).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This excerpt describes how Leary met Michael Hollingshead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [Word count: 361-Reading time 2-3 minutes]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Spring 1962 Harvard University
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There now arrived on the scene a most enigmatic agent who was to change
>>>>>> the lives of all of our crew, Michael Hollingshead.
>>>>>> Sporting an Oxford professorial accent he phoned me with greetings
>>>>>> from his alleged mentor, the distinguished British philosopher G. E.
>>>>>> Moore. I took the bait and invited Hollingshead to the Faculty Club for
>>>>>> lunch. He was in his mid-thirties, medium height, balding, and he had a
>>>>>> whimsical style, spinning witty multi-reality tales. On the basis of his
>>>>>> claim to have ingested more LSD than anyone in the world I invited him
>>>>>> to stay at our house and act as a project consultant.
>>>>>> Apparently he and a New York doctor had obtained 10,000 doses of
>>>>>> lysergic acid from Sandoz to study the effects on the web-spinning of
>>>>>> spiders. They mixed the stuff with moist powdered sugar, which they
>>>>>> shoveled into a laboratory flask on the theory that spiders would go for
>>>>>> the sweets. Just as an afterthought they licked the spoon. Since they
>>>>>> knew nothing about human dosage, they were unaware of the fact that they
>>>>>> had absorbed about a hundred times more than anyone in the recorded
>>>>>> history of pharmacology.
>>>>>> According to Hollingshead the two diligent scientists sat
>>>>>> immobilized in the laboratory for hours, transfixed by what was
>>>>>> happening inside their brains. They became Mystics on the spot,
>>>>>> dedicated crusaders for the cause of altered states. Hollingshead packed
>>>>>> half of the sugar paste into a mayonnaise bottle, said goodbye to the
>>>>>> spiders, and set out to turn on the world. His first stop on the mission
>>>>>> was our project.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michael bounded around my house with his Venusian expression, jar
>>>>>> in hand, offering anyone and everyone the inter-galactic trip. Initially
>>>>>> there were no takers since we had decided to restrict our research to
>>>>>> psilosybin. I had imposed a prohibition against even harmless little
>>>>>> marijuana, wishing to keep our project free of any connection to
>>>>>> notorious drugs. Because it had been used in chemical warfare research
>>>>>> and by psychiatrists trying to induce psychosis, LSD had a dubious
>>>>>> reputation.
>>>>>> Hollingshead tried our cozy know-thyself psilocybin and scornfully
>>>>>> dismissed it as just pretty colors compared to the philosophic
>>>>>> detonations of lysergic acid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>

>>>>> Now there's a phreakyn Acid-Head.

>>>> The prototypical "accidental tourist" of LSD (like Albert Hoffman).
>>>>
>>>> :-D
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>> "The Lovin' Spoonful" was a teaspoon of his icing sugar!
>>>>>
>>>>> LSD was serious stuff. Electric as opposed to water. Galactic as opposed
>>>>> to interplanetary. Always the extreme of psychedelia. No foolin around
>>>>> with acid. And mushrooms always bothered my tummy, anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peyote turned out to be the bridge between acid and psilocybin.

>>>> I have prefered peyote to any other psychedlic for a long time. I have tripped
>>>> on fresh peyote (not dried) at least 10 or 12 times. Maybe more. Yes. It is
>>>> certainly mellow at the same time it is strong. I think that's because of some
>>>> of the other psychoactive alkaloids in it.
>>>>
>>>> My friends and I had access to fresh peyote for about three years. To a man,
>>>> everyone liked it better than the much of the acid that was going around at
>>>> the time (circa '72 - 75). We all agreed on that.
>>>>
>>>> I really liked the first acid I did back in late '68 through somewhere around
>>>> '70. I am convinced it was Owsley acid, or, at least made by someone who he
>>>> had trained to make it. Of course, I may have liked it more because it was my
>>>> first few experiences. Nevertheless, it was good quality.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>> Peyote
>>>>> and mescaline didn't make me feel like I was trapped in a 50 megawatt
>>>>> generator under the Hoover Dam.

>>>> I did some chocolate mescaline back in '69. It was extremely good. Extremely
>>>> visual. It had an excellent reputation at that time and is notorious to this
>>>> day. I always wondered if it wasn't actually Owsley acid, though, pakaged in
>>>> capsules.
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>> Pure mescaline *did* send me on one of
>>>>> the most powerful and long-lived trips I ever did, but it wasn't scary
>>>>> in its raw intensity. I was screaming through the universe at light
>>>>> speed for two days on my silver surfboard; but it never made me feel
>>>>> like I was reliving the moment of the creation Big Bang for hours at a
>>>>> time.

>>> We had no idea of the dosage. We bought it real cheap in bulk and made a
>>> bad guess. I wouldn't voluntarily repeat that experience. It tasted like
>>> badly burnt toast and was a dark beige in color. Toronto. '72. Rochdale.
>>>

>>>> I'm not certain I ever did mescaline except when I ate peyote. I also did some
>>>> powder one time that was supposed to be psilocybin. It was very good, whatever
>>>> it was. Very visual. I wondered at the time if it wasn't just good acid.
>>>>

>>> I only did pure synthetic psilocybin once, in the Mojave desert with my
>>> Yaqui handlers, summer '71.

>>
>> Yaqui handlers? Are you an Indian?
>>

>
> My father was Yiddish, 2rd generation North American
> My mother was Scottish, 7th generation North American
>
> I was chosen because of my unusual energy signature.

>
>
> They found me at Rochdale, in T.O. Apparently their whole purpose in
> coming to T.O. was to locate someone... but that wasn't apparent to me
> until at the time.
>

>> A friend of mine once was fortunate enough to particpate in a Native American peyote
>> ritual.
>>
>>
>>

>>> It was the most beautiful trip I ever took.
>>> No mistaking that for LSD, no matter the purity.
>>>

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