Here are armed British soldiers on LSD:
LSD documentary with information on Tim Leary and the LSD explosion.
LSD and Aldous Huxley's Island: Setting sail for a better country by Bruce Eisner in a 40 minute presentation
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Nine drawings
These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.
First drawing is done 20 minutes after the first dose (50ug)
An attending doctor observes - Patient chooses to start drawing with charcoal.
The subject of the experiment reports - 'Condition normal... no effect from the drug yet'.
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The newspapers, radio and TV were running LSD stories almost every day. Cary Grant, Groucho Mark, Jackie Gleason, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, everyone hip or square was either taking it or talking about it.
So after doing my research, I got a friend who had tripped before to sit with me ( which had to be agonizingly boring) and prepared. I had a pad of paper and pen, and dutifully noted the time I injested the sugar cube.
The first half hour was ok, but when I tried to write what I was feeling the words no longer fit between the lines of the notepad. I laughed and decided to put on music.
I was playing George Szell conducting Wagner Ring excerpts and was soaring with the music, floating between the instruments, standing on a mountain top. Went outside and looked around and didn't recognize my block! I stumbled back inside tasted a handful of grapes with their every nuance and texture. Tasted them like I had never had a grape before.
I looked in a mirror and wondered about aging and realized I was this voice I hear inside and that voice will always be there no matter how old my vessel and the Beatles came on the stereo and I sat down and started to tell my friend what I had just thought but the music took me away.
To lead a better life I need my love to be here...
Here, making each day of the year
Changing my life with a wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there
There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
Someone is speaking but she doesn't know he's there
I want her everywhere and if she's beside me
I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there
I want her everywhere and if she's beside me
I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there
To be there and everywhere
Here, there and everywhere
A woman! Wow! What would sex be like on this drug! My friend didn't know and said that was "too heavy" for him.
I couldn't wait......... and now that I knew what LSD was like, I knew I had to try pot. Beer. Cigarrettes.
I wondered what those were like....... I took out one of my comic books
and dug the story of the Silver Surfer finally cut on the TV and it was THE WASP WOMAN and my pal made a pizza which looked like it was breathing when it came out of the oven until I noticed it was just hot and bubbly and Bestoink Dooley was funny and it was too late to play music so we walked over to Piedmont Park which at night was beautiful and mysterious.
Watched the sun come up.
Decided I understood what Merlin meant about us being surrounded by the dragon and walked home and passed out dreaming of sleeping in the dragon's claw.
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