Modern Bedfellows: LSD Inventor Wrote to Steve Jobs, Asked for Support
A Huffington Post article brings us the original letter and a little background on the relationship between drugs like LSD and successful computer scientists:
Psychedelic drugs… pushed the computer and Internet revolutions forward by showing folks that reality can be profoundly altered through unconventional, highly intuitive thinking. Douglas Engelbart is one example of a psychonaut who did just that: he helped invent the mouse. Apple’s Jobs has said that Microsoft’s Bill Gates, would “be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once.” In a 1994 interview with Playboy, however, Gates coyly didn’t deny having dosed as a young man.
Thinking differently—or learning to Think Different, as a Jobs slogan has it—is a hallmark of the acid experience. “When I’m on LSD and hearing something that’s pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I’ve stopped thinking and started knowing,” Kevin Herbert told Wired magazine at a symposium commemorating Hofmann’s one hundredth birthday. Herbert, an early employee of Cisco Systems who successfully banned drug testing of technologists at the company, reportedly “solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead.”
Far out, dude.
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- ras_menelik
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Never-Before-Published Letter From Albert Hofmann to Steve Jobs.
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Weird stuff ras....although I do feel I have been in a kinda intellectual slump myself lately. I wonder if it would help?!?
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- SHAWN_RITTIMAN
- 4 months ago
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This video drama is presented by MAPS - the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (www.maps.org). It provides four basic principles to help someone having a difficult psychedelic experiences:
1. Create a safe space
2. Sit, don't guide
3.Talk through, don't talk down
4. Difficult is not necessarily bad-
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- ras_menelik
- 4 months ago
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- ras_menelik
- 4 months ago
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if i remember correctly----LSD creates it's own cyberspace...hmm ......might be something to this
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I would in no way condone someone to risk their sanity by trying this, it's kinda like stepping off a cliff ; no turning back.
LSD , DMT (N-dimethyltryptamine )
Create some interesting ideas that deserve further attention... not that i would know ...wink
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great post.thanks for the read.very interesting. but kind of natural.ya think?
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Yep it sure does create its own cyberspace, from what I understand Hofmann wandered onto LSD while looking for a cure for the common headache. I must say that it does cure a headache for sure anyone on a good trip sure as hell won't have a headache!
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Think the art that has come from these experiences.
Salvador Dali
The Beatles
Pink FloydJust to name a few. These great works certainly didn't come from this dimension.
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If our government can mandate "Public Service" thru Americorp, then we should also have a mandatory psychadelic workshop the Summer between high school and college, any outdoor music festival will do just fine.
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what is the point of getting high on drugs??
really...
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- GodsnLiberals
- 4 months ago
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mushrooms are not a drug.
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- sickinjersey
- 4 months ago
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No but they are a blast......
God it's been a couple years since I have even been able to find any.-
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- Ihatethemall
- 4 months ago
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