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In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation.
Albert Hofmann
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Albert Hofmann
Age: 102 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 11
Died: 2008
Died: April 29
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We can study various psychic functions and also the more primitive sensory functions, such as seeing, hearing, and so on, which constitute our image of our everyday world. They have a material side and the psychic side. And that is a gap which you cannot explain.
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Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.
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Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child.
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I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.
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It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.
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I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.
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It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
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We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.
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The truth will finally come out and the truth is: If LSD is used in the right way, it is a very important and very useful agent.
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Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.
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What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous - that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.
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I know LSD I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
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This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view.
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