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Soulwax - E-talking

Belgian band Soulwax teach you A to Z (via E)

Czechoslovak Soldiers on LSD

In a top secret military test the Czechoslovak Peoples Army tests the effects of LSD on soldiers

Paper dissolving slowly into mush

It was about four-thirty in the day of my life. That is, it was if a day were to last the seventy-five years they said it would. I should have been sleeping and building up my reserves for the day ahead. In other words, educating myself for when I actually woke up and could use it all. But it was a restless sleep, filled with dreams of the day that I couldn’t wait to start. So I got up early. Only people who have something to do get up that early. What I had to do was exciting, something that couldn’t wait.

Losing the plot in London

One New Years Eve my life got a little bit messy, a good friend whom I was fully engaged with in a drug fuelled bromance at the time planned a big night out on ecstasy to mark the turn of the year. Some friends of ours who were really skint were running a cloakroom at a rave in a film studio in Vauxhall, it was to be our final destination and we wanted to be there before midnight but before then we had a whole evening to spend running around the city.

John Lennon describes his first acid trip

John Lennon describes his first acid trip with the rest of the Beatles. It was slipped to them by John's dentist. The 2nd time they took it (willingly) was in Los Angeles CA.

John had over 1000 trips. Brilliant interview.

LSD Testing (British Troops)

1950's. A crew of British military men were each given LSD while in the field.

The last line of voice over is "One hour and 10 minutes after taking the drug, with one soldier climbing a tree to feed the birds, the troop gave up, admitting that he could no longer control himself or his men. He himself then lapsed into laughter."

man on acid at barking rave

The man is this film looks like he is having a horrible time. Lots of people have a horrible time when they take drugs. Despite this lots people have loads of fun taking drugs.

It is good at a festival when there are people who look after the kids that get messed up. People aren't going to stop taking drugs. If we want to stop some of the damage, we have got to look after the mess ups.

Albert Hoffman and impact of LSD on Collective Consciousness

Stan Grof, Marilyn Schlitz, Ralph Metzner, Alex Grey, Terrence McKenna, John Markoff, Daniel Pinchbeck, and Kat Harrison among others, postulate how the disenchantment of the modern world may be remedied by summoning the courage to take the next leap in the evolution of planetary consciousness.

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