Oct 2006
Psychedelia
18/10/06 21:56
This makes me laugh
really, how LSD is attributed central to the
psychedelic experience, after all that happened in
popular culture.
Map of the Universe is going to be definitely the most psychedelic thing you have ever ever experienced, and it was created without a drop of any drug or stimulant. It's is a state of mind immersed in images that creates something what language fails to represent. That is the true definition of psychedelia. It's also no coincidence that surrealists are the ambassadors of this higher conscience of organised chaos at the expense of infinity. I am the ambassador of every bugger who has imagination tied
The Origins of Psychedelic Rock - a timeline
(Source: Kaleidoscope Eyes - Psychedelic Rock from the ‘60s to the ‘90s”
by Jim Derogatis)
1794 Mystic-poet William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence
1808 Physician John Steams publishes the first modern account of medicinal uses for ergot
1816 English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes the image-filled “Kubla Khan:
1816-1819 Romantic poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley cavort like rock stars
1821 Thomas de Quincey publishes “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”
1839 Opium enthusiast Edgar Allan Poe publishes “Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”
1844 Writer Theophile Gautier opens Le Club des Haschischins in Paris, attracting regulars Charles Baudelaire, Honore de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Gerard de Nerval, and Victor Hugo
1855 Von Bibra’s “Die Narkotischen Genusmittel unde der Mensch” identifies seventeen types of mind-altering plants
1857 Baudelaire publishes Les Fleurs du Mal
1865 English author Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
1871 Arthur Rimbaud frequents the absinthe bars of Paris with his lover Paul Verlaine and achieves synaesthesia through “a systematic derangement of all the senses”
1884 Sigmund Freud publishes “Uber Coca”, which advocates the medicinal uses of cocaine.
1894 Surrealist Alfred Jarry writes “The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race”
1896 Lewis Lewin and Arthur Heffter isolate the alkaloid mescaline from the Mexican cactus Lophophora williamsii, a.k.a. peyote
1918 Arthur Stoll isolates ergotamine -the first pure ergot alkaloid- at the Sandoz Company in Basel, Switzerland
1919 Ernst Spath produces the first synthetic mescaline in Germany
1924 The Bureau of Surrealist Enquiries opens on the Rue de Grenelle in Paris
1926 Ergot-contaminated rye causes the last great outbreak of St Anthony’s Fire in southern Russia
1928 Spanish painter Salvador Dali visits Paris and meets the French surrealists
1929 Chemists at the Rockefeller Institute in New York isolate the nucleus common to all ergot alkaloids and name it lysergic acid
1932 English novelist Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World
1935 Albert Hoffmann resumes the study of ergot alkaloids at Sandoz
1937 Harry Ainslinger, commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, signals the start of the war on drugs with a harrowing article entitled “Marijuana: Assassin of Youth”
1938 Hofmann produces his twenty-fifth synthesis, lysergic acid diethylamide.
1938 French poet Antonin Artaud travels to Mexico to participate in the peyote ritual with the Tarahumara Indians, the basis of his 1995 book “Peyote Dance”
1942 The U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) experiments with various truth drugs, hitting on a potent extract of marijuana
1943 Scientists achieve nuclear fission at the University of Chicago. Hofmann takes the first acid trip.
1944 Mayor Fiorella Laguardia asks the New York Academy of Medicine to study the pros and cons of marijuana. The academy contradicts almost all of Harry Ainslinger’s alarmist warnings
1947 Psychiatrist Werner Stoll publishes a study on LSD, and Sandoz issues a prospectus to researchers
1947 The U.S. Navy experiments with mescaline as a truth serum, drawing on the results of tests conducted by the Nazis on prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp
1951 The CIA, successor to the OSS, begins to experiment with LSD. OSS veteran Al Hubbard takes LSD and has a visionary experience
1952 Humphrey Osmond studies the effect of mescaline and LSD on alcoholics in Canada
1953 Under Osmond’s supervision, Huxley tries mescaline and writes “The Doors of Perception”
1955 Oscar Janiger gives LSD to the Hollywood elite, including Cary Grant
1955 Hofmann and his Sandoz colleagues isolate and synthesize the key compounds of psilocybin and psilocin from psychedelic mushrooms
1956 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg publishes his booklength poem “Howl”
1957 Jack Kerouac publishes “On the Road”
1957 R. Gordon Wasson writes a seventeen-page article on psychedelic mushrooms for “Life” magazine
1960 Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert begin researching psilocybin at Harvard University. Ginsberg
takes psilocybin at Leary’s house, calls Kerouac, and identifies himself as God. Kerouac hangs up. Ken Kesey is paid seventy-five dollars to take psilocybin at Stanford University
1962 Leary and Alpert drop acid with Michael Hollingshead and add LSD to their research
1963 Leary and Alpert are expelled from Harvard. On that day President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Huxley dies at age seventy after his wife grants his last request: an intravenous injection of LSD
1964 Kesey and his Merry Pranksters visit Leary and his researchers at Millbrook, New York
1964 Leary, Alpert, and Ralph Metzner publish “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead”, a guide for taking LSD
1965 Large batches of acid start to appear on big-city streets. Between March and December, psychiatrists at New York’s Bellevue Hospital treat sixty-five people admitted during bad acid trips. Kesey holds the first Acid Test
1966 Bill Graham opens the Fillmore in San Francisco. The city of San Francisco estimates that fifteen thousand “hippies” are living in the Haight. Sandoz terminates all research contracts and stops manufacturing LSD. A Texas court sentences Leary to thirty years and a $30,000 fine for possession of marijuana. Marshall McLuhan advises Leary to fight in the court of public opinion. Leary holds a press conference at the New York Advertising Club to announce the formation of the League for Spiriual Discovery (LSD). “Like every great religion of the past, we seek to find the divinity within and to express this revelation in a life of glorification and the worship of God,” he says. “These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present - turn on, tune in, drop out.” Leary continued preaching self-discovery through psychedelics into the mid-‘90s.
Map of the Universe is going to be definitely the most psychedelic thing you have ever ever experienced, and it was created without a drop of any drug or stimulant. It's is a state of mind immersed in images that creates something what language fails to represent. That is the true definition of psychedelia. It's also no coincidence that surrealists are the ambassadors of this higher conscience of organised chaos at the expense of infinity. I am the ambassador of every bugger who has imagination tied
The Origins of Psychedelic Rock - a timeline
(Source: Kaleidoscope Eyes - Psychedelic Rock from the ‘60s to the ‘90s”
by Jim Derogatis)
1794 Mystic-poet William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence
1808 Physician John Steams publishes the first modern account of medicinal uses for ergot
1816 English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes the image-filled “Kubla Khan:
1816-1819 Romantic poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley cavort like rock stars
1821 Thomas de Quincey publishes “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”
1839 Opium enthusiast Edgar Allan Poe publishes “Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”
1844 Writer Theophile Gautier opens Le Club des Haschischins in Paris, attracting regulars Charles Baudelaire, Honore de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Gerard de Nerval, and Victor Hugo
1855 Von Bibra’s “Die Narkotischen Genusmittel unde der Mensch” identifies seventeen types of mind-altering plants
1857 Baudelaire publishes Les Fleurs du Mal
1865 English author Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
1871 Arthur Rimbaud frequents the absinthe bars of Paris with his lover Paul Verlaine and achieves synaesthesia through “a systematic derangement of all the senses”
1884 Sigmund Freud publishes “Uber Coca”, which advocates the medicinal uses of cocaine.
1894 Surrealist Alfred Jarry writes “The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race”
1896 Lewis Lewin and Arthur Heffter isolate the alkaloid mescaline from the Mexican cactus Lophophora williamsii, a.k.a. peyote
1918 Arthur Stoll isolates ergotamine -the first pure ergot alkaloid- at the Sandoz Company in Basel, Switzerland
1919 Ernst Spath produces the first synthetic mescaline in Germany
1924 The Bureau of Surrealist Enquiries opens on the Rue de Grenelle in Paris
1926 Ergot-contaminated rye causes the last great outbreak of St Anthony’s Fire in southern Russia
1928 Spanish painter Salvador Dali visits Paris and meets the French surrealists
1929 Chemists at the Rockefeller Institute in New York isolate the nucleus common to all ergot alkaloids and name it lysergic acid
1932 English novelist Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World
1935 Albert Hoffmann resumes the study of ergot alkaloids at Sandoz
1937 Harry Ainslinger, commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, signals the start of the war on drugs with a harrowing article entitled “Marijuana: Assassin of Youth”
1938 Hofmann produces his twenty-fifth synthesis, lysergic acid diethylamide.
1938 French poet Antonin Artaud travels to Mexico to participate in the peyote ritual with the Tarahumara Indians, the basis of his 1995 book “Peyote Dance”
1942 The U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) experiments with various truth drugs, hitting on a potent extract of marijuana
1943 Scientists achieve nuclear fission at the University of Chicago. Hofmann takes the first acid trip.
1944 Mayor Fiorella Laguardia asks the New York Academy of Medicine to study the pros and cons of marijuana. The academy contradicts almost all of Harry Ainslinger’s alarmist warnings
1947 Psychiatrist Werner Stoll publishes a study on LSD, and Sandoz issues a prospectus to researchers
1947 The U.S. Navy experiments with mescaline as a truth serum, drawing on the results of tests conducted by the Nazis on prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp
1951 The CIA, successor to the OSS, begins to experiment with LSD. OSS veteran Al Hubbard takes LSD and has a visionary experience
1952 Humphrey Osmond studies the effect of mescaline and LSD on alcoholics in Canada
1953 Under Osmond’s supervision, Huxley tries mescaline and writes “The Doors of Perception”
1955 Oscar Janiger gives LSD to the Hollywood elite, including Cary Grant
1955 Hofmann and his Sandoz colleagues isolate and synthesize the key compounds of psilocybin and psilocin from psychedelic mushrooms
1956 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg publishes his booklength poem “Howl”
1957 Jack Kerouac publishes “On the Road”
1957 R. Gordon Wasson writes a seventeen-page article on psychedelic mushrooms for “Life” magazine
1960 Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert begin researching psilocybin at Harvard University. Ginsberg
takes psilocybin at Leary’s house, calls Kerouac, and identifies himself as God. Kerouac hangs up. Ken Kesey is paid seventy-five dollars to take psilocybin at Stanford University
1962 Leary and Alpert drop acid with Michael Hollingshead and add LSD to their research
1963 Leary and Alpert are expelled from Harvard. On that day President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Huxley dies at age seventy after his wife grants his last request: an intravenous injection of LSD
1964 Kesey and his Merry Pranksters visit Leary and his researchers at Millbrook, New York
1964 Leary, Alpert, and Ralph Metzner publish “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead”, a guide for taking LSD
1965 Large batches of acid start to appear on big-city streets. Between March and December, psychiatrists at New York’s Bellevue Hospital treat sixty-five people admitted during bad acid trips. Kesey holds the first Acid Test
1966 Bill Graham opens the Fillmore in San Francisco. The city of San Francisco estimates that fifteen thousand “hippies” are living in the Haight. Sandoz terminates all research contracts and stops manufacturing LSD. A Texas court sentences Leary to thirty years and a $30,000 fine for possession of marijuana. Marshall McLuhan advises Leary to fight in the court of public opinion. Leary holds a press conference at the New York Advertising Club to announce the formation of the League for Spiriual Discovery (LSD). “Like every great religion of the past, we seek to find the divinity within and to express this revelation in a life of glorification and the worship of God,” he says. “These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present - turn on, tune in, drop out.” Leary continued preaching self-discovery through psychedelics into the mid-‘90s.
18/10/06 06:59
all is and
was finally
a fragment.
Tiny heads of men,
cogwheeled to each other, are cycling infinity
in my eyelids
i see them everywhere
with distinct movement pacing fast in slow motion eclipse
mute with me.
systematising confusion everyone!
18/10/06 06:54
In order
to represent conscience, we are making unmaking of
films and albums. In the aftermath of all the failed
revolutions, it's once more very clear that the only
revolution is a revelation in the mind!
Kino
Kino