Albert and me
In this
post I want to look at Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD and my
relationship with him and his creation and the role it has played in the
creation and support of my self-religion. Fascinating, because over the last
week I was often looking at the point and I was and am astounded how much this
person has resonated with me and/or how much he actually was a type of
guru for me – obviously I would not admit or even realize this. So, where to
begin?
The first
time I heard the name “Hofmann” as I was sitting with my cousin on a bench and
we where reading a document on “How to make LSD” – it was a specific document
with all the steps in the syntheses and I was quite impressed by the complexity
and the required equipment/material and that it was discovered in a official
legal lab with all the required apparatus and stuff. I/We had only a small
chemistry set …lol. This was when I was about 13-14 years old and besides some other
beings occasionally mentioning “Hofmänner” referring to acid-trips for the next
years this “point” was silent.
This
scientific approach and the recognition - and I nearly want to say fame - that he
received in public, made the whole point of LSD and “sacral drugs” like
acceptable and seem “serious” – when I look at it more closely it seems like he
has set a whole trend and shaped a “way of dealing with drug-experiences” with
the notes and the description of his first trips. Obviously not completely
alone as there where others like Huxley or Schultes busy on this field before,
but he added this “scientific charm” the perception that everything is in
control. This made the point “trustworthy” – lol, like DR. Hofmann says… and he
also had this white labor coat…then you MUST trust him it’s a Scientist – and I
mean the first “documents” that I have written about the experience of myself
were such “trip-reports” – besides love-letters which is on some level similar- and
how it has played out in the world is that you have various different
“drug-forums” and “psychedelic networks” where beings post their
“bicycle-rides” and describe meticulously their drug-experiments and
experiences.
I see this
that I have copied a lot of this and one driving factor within it was also the
point of creation. The believe that with this drug, with acid, he has created
something exponentially awesome and that this was “his creation” so within this
there was the hope/believe that one/I can/might find/discover/create something
that is even more awesome and would really, actually deliver bliss and in this
help humankind and obviously also myself. Its really interesting to see how I
have accepted to believe such… when it was a deluded point from the beginning:
In the title of the “LSD my problem child” is implied the believe that it was
really “his creation”, lol and right now I am looking at the cover of the book,
how he holds the molecule in his hand…he seems quite proud of “his problem
child” – My Creation!- lol and this is also the point that he will take with him in
his grave…
Interesting,
that when I put myself in the shoes of a “drug-designer” i would justify what I
am doing with such an believe that I am actually doing something good for
others in creation numerous compounds always searching for “the ONE” that will
enlighten myself and others.
Actually
the point is quite obvious when I read of “promising” properties, promising for
what? Medical value and promising for application in psychiatry…and as
Dr.Hofman was originally searching for a drug to support in the process of
birth. It’s also fascinating to see how this point has played out since then
where now it has come to the point where we have hundreds of “designer-drugs”
and with the internet a whole industry proliferates. The obvious motives: MONEY
and status.
The point
that I found so impressing and awesome/inconceivable was the small amount of
acid that will cause a very strong effect, however as I was reading through
quotes of A.Hofmann last week or so I found exactly this statement - which means
that I simply have copied and accepted this fact as something “unexplainable”
and “extraordinary”: I used this statement quite often when I wanted to explain
my “fascination” with drugs. What this point actually proves and shows is that
we are existing in and as a mind-system and that the mind is the directive
principle of us, when a minor amount of a chemical compound can change and
transform our whole perception and concept of reality and in this that this
“reality” of consciousness is not in fact real.
And this is also the point that is missed and that I missed myself: that also the drug-experience is not real but of the mind, a mind-experience.
And this is also the point that is missed and that I missed myself: that also the drug-experience is not real but of the mind, a mind-experience.
And here starts the trouble really, because instead of realizing that the whole consciousness is somehow not real but a illusion this “altered states of mind” are being seen as more real than physical reality.
From a
perspective these drug-experiences in a kind of “scientific way”,
meaning where one is taking notes, writing trip-reports, varying doses and
compounds, were/are a attempt to control the mind. Set and Setting is adjusted so that
hopefully a blissful experience is achieved that is than often called and seen
as “a transcendence”, however what is not considered is the starting-point for
the experiment which is of a desire and thus of the mind.
That is
like a program trying to change itself, not realizing that it is programmed to
desire to change itself. Or desire to change ones experience not realizing that
the one that desires –oneself- is programmed to do so, self-programmed with the
search for oneself who is already here. RE-search… lol...put in a drug and the concept of drug-research is born. Searching for oneself with-in and through a drug.
This is the
“dilemma of the scientist” that as a scientist one is looking only at what is
happening, what is the outflow of a certain set up situation, but not looking
at oneself and the own pre-programmed starting-point of self-interest: He
interprets in separation of himself.
I read “LSD
– Mein Sorgenkind” in school, while school and I see that this was a way to
separate myself from my reality, at this time I was like already heavy
searching and involved with drugs. One of the points was that he describes his
mystical experience as a child and this resonated “deeply” – that was what I
was searching for. It is very interesting because i see that such experiences
that I described in my the “Magical Mystery Mindfuck” were of the exact same
content of what he described and when I read this now, actually I have the same
reaction as a experience within myself, where “I know exactly what he is
talking about” and I can literally experience the picture he paints. Such points
are actually pre-programmed and of symbolic nature which means that similar
pattern resonate with each other as we all are programmed in and as symbols – a
point that is to a extend still knowledge and info for me. I have to watch the
reptilian-interviews again.
The Point that Hofmann was actually “my Guru”
starts making much sense now, where i have simply trusted him or rather what he
represented. What i can see within is how
“in the west” science has become a religion and the scientists its priests.
With
their own symbolism and rituals … a believe-system based on thought, words and
deeds. Thought to create theories/ideas, words to spread and fixate them and
deeds to prove them as “right”.
The white
labor/doctor coat being the “robe of a priest” in our economic system. The
theories about atoms and molecules with their pictured or manifested structures
presented as prove that Science apparently understanding what is here and what
“holds the world together” so to speak - the ultimate “success” being the
decoding of the DNA.
The "Guru" with all his famous "diciples"
Wow, how could i be so blind to not see this?
So, all in
all what I was actually trying to do in taking psychedelic drugs was to
recreate and relive childhood-memories of bliss, oneness and communion with
nature and the whole which was also the starting-point for Albert Hofmann to
relive the “wonders” of childhood through a “wonderdrug” and within this it
seems to me that when we are trying to find “drugs” that can “cure” “mental
illnesses” what we are really trying is to find a cure for yourself, for our
own disenchantment, for our separation.
The actual
questions, however is never asked: How come that I/we are completely “disenchanted”?
Is the world a place of “wonders” and “enchantment” for all? Or a lot suffering
and pain for most people, what are the reasons for this situation, and will
this stop with LSD?
The real
world that is here beyond the perception of our mind-bubble is hell for lots of
beings that are staving, being raped, being killed everyday. We destroy, devastate
and exploit the planet and abuse the animals and plants in various ways – So when
we are really here with all other beings as equals than this world is simply
not “wonderful” at all!
This and
more degrades any form of “psychedelic bliss” or any mystical experience of
wonder and enchantment to a self-interested desire that keeps one going – a carrot
on a stick- within just another religion of self.
Enchantment:
enchantment
[ɪnˈtʃɑːntmənt]
n
1. the act of enchanting or state of
being enchanted
2. a magic spell or act of witchcraft
3. great charm or fascination
We want to
be enchanted, when actually we are already under the magic spell of the mind
which we find very charming and fascinating when it whispers the most outrageous
stuff in the H-ear. Why? The word “enchantment” is charged positive, it´s not
seen or realized as just another mind-control-experience. A positive judgement/charge
on the word does not allow one to see clear. So enchantment is a temporary spell
of the mind as an experience that is judged as positive as a polarity-exception
to the usual mind-experience of self as “disenchanted” - Live
was “wonderful” as a child…
No “wonder-drug”
will “save the world” or even oneself because such an approach is always based
in separation as self-interest …lol where the drug becomes the saviour
LSD=Jesus=god. The only way that we can create a world that is best for all is
as ourselves. Where live is truly “wonderful” for all, not only for a minority
with the money. Such a world has to be based on a system that supports every
living being with what it needs to live a dignified live, where we do not allow
that abuse of life exists which is what the proposal of Equal Money is all
about. One step within this is to drop the hope and desire for a quick fix as a
drug and also the realisation that within this “psychedelic phase” of my live I
was in fact participating in a religion…shocking…”sacral drugs” lol.