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Der Bruchteil eines Milligramms. Und alles ist anders. Ein Molekül, das unsere Wahrnehmung verändert.

Wer es einmal erlebt hat, wird es nicht mehr vergessen.

Der Bruchteil eines Milligramms. Und alles ist anders. Ein Molekül, das unsere Wahrnehmung verändert.

Der Bruchteil eines Milligramms. Und alles ist anders. Ein Molekül, das unsere Wahrnehmung verändert.

Der Bruchteil eines Milligramms. Und alles ist anders. Ein Molekül, das unsere Wahrnehmung verändert.

Der Bruchteil eines Milligramms. Und alles ist anders. Ein Molekül. Und alles ist anders.

Ich hatte dann ein wunderbares Erlebnis. Aber ich wusste nicht, woher das kam.

Der Bruchteil eines Milligramms. Und das Beglückende.

Es begann am 16. April des Jahres 1943 in der Schweiz.

Unbehelligt vom Terror des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist der Chemiker Albert Hoffmann auf der Suche nach einem Medikament für den Blutkreislauf.

Der junge Familienvater hat bei der Basler Firma Sondo die Stelle seines Lebens gefunden.

Aber an jenem Tag im April muss er mit einer unbekannten Substanz in Berührung gekommen sein.

Drei Tage später entschließt sich Albert Hoffmann zu einem Selbstversuch.

Als vorsichtiger Wissenschaftler wählt er eine sehr schwache Dosierung.

Doch die Substanz, die er einnimmt, wirkt viel stärker als alles, was davor schon bisher bekannt war.

Sein erster Selbstversuch, ein Trip ins Ungewisse.

Und das war dann ein furchtbares Erlebnis.

Also furchtbar, weil ich das Gefühl hatte, ich sei schon in einer anderen Welt.

Und ich wusste, ich habe eine junge Familie.

Und jetzt musst du gehen und bist schon weg aus dieser schönen Welt.

Also ein furchtbar, quälendes Erleben.

Angst, das Gefühl, ja, ich bin in einer anderen Welt.

Ich bin ja nicht, wahrscheinlich ist das das Ende.

Ich bin schon drüben, ja.

Meine Frau kam heim, Mitternacht.

Und da war ich schon wieder in der positiven Phase.

Da kam ich zurück und war dann, gerade den Tag darauf,

wieder das Gefühl, als ich ihn morgen erwachte, in ein neues Leben.

Ich bin neugeboren, ich bin sozusagen schon auf der anderen Seite gewesen.

Bewusstseinsmechanismen ist schon fast tot.

Ich glaube, dass jeder gesundheitliche Person sollte es versuchen.

Was passiert bei dir, wenn du eine Dose von der strange, neue Drogen genutzt hast, NSD?

In zwei Stunden, NSD will reach its plan.

Jetzt, als ein Volunteer Test Subjekt, seine Training ist wertvoll.

Dann, als ein paar Jahre lang, kann ich dir, wenn du einen Teil einschlafen hast,

Albert Hoffmann arbeitet in seinem Naturstofflabor mit dem Mutterkorn.

Ein schwarzer Pilz, der hauptsächlich auf dem Roggen lebt.

In der Naturmedizin ist er schon seit dem Mittelalter bekannt.

Aber eine der neuen Substanzen, die er isoliert, wirkt nicht wie erwartet auf den Kreislauf, sondern auf die menschliche Psyche.

Das Lyserg-Säure-Diathilamid, LSD.

Und sofort hat man das realisiert, ich selbst auch.

Das ist eine außerordentlich interessante Substanz für die Psychiatrie.

Die Psyche wird verändert, das Bewusstsein wird verändert.

Man hat ein neues Instrument in der psychiatrischen Forschung.

Nach ersten klinischen Tests in der Schweiz beschließt die Firma Sondo LSD zur Produktion freizugeben.

Das neuartige Medikament stößt bei Psychiatern in aller Welt auf enormes Interesse.

Sandoz sah die Möglichkeit, die Psychiatrie und Psychologischen Zirkels zu offeren.

So, sie waren tatsächlich senden samples von LSD zu Universitäten, Forschungsinstituten, individuellen Therapisten.

Und sie waren gefragt, ob sie mit ihnen arbeiten können, ob sie uns Feedback gibt, ob es eine legitime benutzt ist für diese Substanz.

So, sie kamen zur Psychiatrie-Klinik in Prag.

Mein erstes LSD-Klinik in Prag war sehr stark.

Es hat wirklich komplett verändert meine Leben, professionell und auch persönlich.

Und ich dachte, das ist, bei weitem die wichtigste Sache, wenn man eine Psychiatrie-Klinik kann.

Man kann diese nicht-ordinary-Klinik-Klinik studieren.

So, das ist was passiert in den letzten 50, über 50 Jahren.

Was ich professionellisch gemacht habe, in einer Art oder Art, war related zu diesen nicht-ordinary-Staten.

So, ich war in der Saison, mit Artisten, mit Professionellen und schreibt, die Report.

Lätk starten bis auf eine bestimmte Zeit.

Wir machen uns den Körper-Klinik vor dem Versuch.

Ready?

Wir können anfangen.

In the early years of the experimentation, we thought about the LSD session as experimental

psychosis. That somehow, pharmacologically, we create some kind of phantasmagoria that

happens to be similar to what psychotic patients experience. So that was a model of psychosis.

And if we can somehow identify what's happening there, we'll be able also to find a substance

that would neutralize it. So that we would have a test tube solution for the most important

problem in psychiatry, you know, schizophrenia and other psychosis, which would be like a

holy grail in psychiatry.

It was the last 10 years of the Wunderdroge. It was such a important tool in psychiatry for

patients. And I was always convinced that the LSD was a very important tool for the patient's

treatment. And I was always convinced that the LSD was a very important tool for the patient's

first 10 years of the Wunderdroge. It was such an important tool in psychiatry for patients.

Three drops of this colorless, odorless, tasteless liquid would put you out of your mind for hours.

If you haven't heard of LSD, you will. Impregnating sugar cubes is a common black market form.

Sometimes a dose for a dozen is carried invisibly in a piece of blotting paper. An effective dose is incredibly small.

Three drops of this colorless, odorless, tasteless liquid would put you out of your mind for hours.

If you haven't heard of LSD, you will. Impregnating sugar cubes is a common black market form.

Sometimes a dose for a dozen is carried invisibly in a piece of blotting paper. An effective dose is incredibly small.

These cubes contain only 150 micrograms. Why are you taking it?

To get high. What do you mean by that?

Expanded consciousness, more awareness. How does it compare with getting high on alcohol?

I've never been high on alcohol. It's the opposite. It just seems to block you.

And this does what? Opens you up. You get more aware of things.

What kind of things? Everything.

Are these people getting revelations from outside themselves? Or are they wallowing in delusions brought about by the drug's distortion of normal brain paths and processes?

How permanent is it? And is it reflected in behavior?

Color. Just color. Just color?

Just color? You're going through? Is it moving colors? Yes.

It's patterns? No, it's not patterns.

Not patterns. What kind of color are you seeing at the moment?

Green, orange. Everything's centered around orange.

And are they moving fast? No.

When I moved into clinical work, our approach was called psycholytic therapy.

Which was basically use of medium-smaller or medium dosages, but a whole series of sessions.

And the process was more like a sort of gradual penetrating, like a kind of chemo-archaeology in the psyche, layer after layer.

Then I found out that there was tremendous variability of the sessions.

Not just inter-individual, but if you take it repeatedly, each session will be significantly different.

And there was a progression.

So I started thinking about something like LSD as a catalyst.

See, that doesn't create these experiences, but it makes them accessible.

With this kind of understanding, LSD becomes comparable to what the microscope is for biology or medicine,

or what the telescope is for astronomy.

You know, we don't think that the microscope creates worlds that are not there.

Something is already there, but we cannot study it without the tool.

The same thing, the telescope will not create all the billions of galaxies.

Obviously, they have been there, they are there, but we need the telescope to study them.

...goerning the top of our side of the globe,

The top of our side of the globe, coordinated between the United States and Canadian governments,

the combined radar warning screens, which can warn of an approaching enemy.

It spells not only the security of the United States, but the security of the whole three worlds.

Im Kalten Krieg beginnen sich plötzlich auch andere Kreise für die neue Wunderdroge zu interessieren.

LSD gerät ins Visier der internationalen Geheimdienste.

An vorderster Front der amerikanische CIA.

The Central Intelligence Agency was interested in LSD because it sought to develop a truth serum,

an interrogation weapon for questioning enemy spies, suspected disloyal people within the CIA,

any occasion that might require soliciting information from people against their will

in order to gain an advantage, to loosen their tongue, to pry into their mind.

This was the idea that the CIA had.

They knew it was very powerful. They suspected it could be very helpful.

But they didn't know much about it.

So they turned to outside institutions, outside experts, to conduct research.

Some of this research turned out to be pretty nasty.

There was a special case up in Canada, at the Alain Memorial Institute in Montreal,

where people were essentially used as guinea pigs for a terrible experiment.

The idea was, you break a person's mental patterns down by giving them high doses of LSD.

When that phase was over, they would put them to sleep for a long time using a sedative,

and then engage in a process called psychic driving,

where they'd have the same message piped in over and over again, thousands of times,

to see if they could instill this idea in terms of creating a new personality.

It was classic brainwashing.

The CIA wanted always a certain result.

They wanted to be able to predict what would happen,

and then do something to make that prediction come true.

LSD didn't always work that way,

and they found they ran into problems because it was an unpredictable drug.

The U.S. Army had more grandiose ideas about what they could do with LSD.

In essence, the U.S. Army wanted to develop LSD as a weapon of war

as a psychochemical weapon that they could spray over a city.

It would make everybody crazy for a temporary period,

and the enemy soldiers were helpless to resist

because they were under the influence of LSD.

War without death.

LSD warfare was the idea.

Here is a group of normal soldiers responding correctly

to a series of routine drill commands.

After receiving a small dose of LSD,

they're confused and undisciplined.

The idea of being able to subdue, you might say, the enemy

without harming him or killing him was very appealing.

LSD was of interest because it was the most powerful drug available at that time

to treat people with,

with the psychedelic effects and so on,

or to alter their behavior,

which the CIA was interested in doing.

And we weren't interested in either of those things.

We were interested in finding something

that would impair performance in the battlefield.

Wow.

Because LSD made some volunteers uncooperative,

we wanted to have a small contained space

where we could have the individual sit

and we could televise him

as well as the psychiatrist asking him questions.

Do you find the sensation unpleasant?

No. Great.

You like it?

Very much.

I see. Okay.

When you see things,

where do you see things most clearly?

In the central part of your vision?

Almost definitely.

In the outs, around the ends of my peripheral vision,

though.

It's not going to be crazy.

Say that again?

A lot of things going on for work.

On your peripheral vision?

Yeah.

Way in the outer corner.

I see.

But the central vision is okay.

Oh, fine.

Take seven from 92.

Seven from 92?

Mm-hmm.

John.

Individuals react to the stress of LSD

in various ways.

Here is a subject

who succumbs to what has been called

cosmic laughter

as he realizes his predicament.

Let's get going now.

I guess it's here, right?

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Yeah, come on.

Seriously.

All right, now.

We didn't think that was the kind of result

we wanted to produce in a battlefield situation.

It would probably be dangerous for us.

We might end up on the receiving end

of a ill-advised bomb or heavy-duty weapon,

and we were not interested in provoking that.

This is Delta-1, over.

Delta-1, this is Alpha-1.

It is now one, two, three, two hours.

Set your altitude forward.

And you moves straight from them.

Unfortunately, national, you are inside the chance

of doing valuable things in the developing civil

people that have the same drinking

that they can use to cover and signal

for the most part.

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That 911.

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How does our consciousness come into account?

It comes into account by what comes into our senses.

Every moment, what comes into our senses,

does our consciousness come into account.

It goes through our senses.

And what the LSD does,

the whole mechanics,

is that our senses are greatly strengthened.

Then we will see the world differently.

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Well, an important thing about psychedelic experiences is that they take you way beyond

anywhere that psychoanalysis or some related schools can actually reach.

And that's where most of the emotional psychosomatic problems are coming from, and there are also

mechanisms of healing and transformation that are much more powerful than anything you can

do on the level of biographical material. And we have also talked to a number of people

who just, you know, had years of psychoanalysis and they say they didn't even come close to

where they were the first psychedelic session took them.

Ende der 50er Jahre hat LSD in der Psychiatrie seinen Platz gefunden. In vielen Kliniken Europas

und Nordamerikas wird es regelmäßig eingesetzt.

Weil man vermutet, dass LSD auch die Kreativität steigert, interessieren sich immer mehr Künstler

und Intellektuelle für die Substanz.

I'm going to give you this cup that contains lysergic acid 100 microgram. Will you drink it?

I would like to ask you to describe me your profession.

I'm an artist.

A painter?

That's true.

Yes.

1217.

This is purple, isn't it?

No, it happens to be black.

You see it purple?

Yes.

Well, this is just the charcoal. Look at it.

See.

Why do you do that now?

Well, the square is the ordinary rectangle, you see. It's one of the perfect means.

I know, but are you trying to reassure yourself that you're capable of drawing it?

Yes.

I think that's what I would like to do. I'd like to find out what reality I'm in.

Two o'clock.

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Oh, what I would like you to do now is to draw another picture of Paul.

Do you still have that pleasant feeling that you described before?

Yes.

I still have it.

I'll never get over it.

This is a general feeling when you look around yourself.

Is that correct?

Oh.

Yeah.

Now you're getting emotional again.

Now look at the picture now.

Look at the picture.

Oh, come on now, concentrate on it.

Well, just about right.

Bill, suppose you take a look at these two pictures

and compare them,

and let's see if you have any comments.

Do you see any big difference?

Not really.

The eyes, for example, are the same to me,

and the line of the nose is the same,

and the mouth is still a sweet mouth.

248. He's now flying high.

I feel these lovely colors vibrating all over me.

Oh, it's lovely.

Any lines?

Oh.

Any forms?

Just like the shimmering of water, you know.

Do you feel happy?

Yes.

Well, you must be because you have tears in your eyes.

Is that a beautiful experience, would you say?

I would say yes.

Discard it again.

Oh, I don't know.

Hmm?

It's just giving, you know.

You're doing fine.

Just try to describe it.

Oh, you just...

You don't know.

You...

You want...

You want to give yourself...

You want to give yourself to Jake.

You just read?

Okay.

Let me not forget about the

Do not know who you are

this year?

Yeah!

LSD or Psilocybin are strukturell chemically connected to their own body of the brain

and greifen in one part of the brain, which is the other part of the brain, which is in the connection.

So LSD can be very effective in small doses.

We can find out, where such substances in the brain greifen.

We can localize the psychological changes.

We can see, what for networks are active.

The emotional areas, which are responsible for the fear, are sometimes regulated.

Others, which allow a happiness, are regulated.

And the visual areas are filled from inside.

The inner life is increased.

A good trip is actually a I-I-Auflösung, which goes constantly forward.

The human body is filled with the body,

the human body gets flooded,

the human body gets controlled,

but the human body can enjoy it.

The human body feels filled with the emotions.

The human body feels filled with the experience.

And in the other words,

the human body feels good.

The space and time are revealed.

The personal attention is filled with the experience.

with the experience,

the experience itself,

this oceanic self-defense.

In the 1950s,

the New Yorker researcher Gordon Watson

is a secret discovery.

It's an unscheinbarer Pilz,

who is in religious rituals

as a sacrament,

um with the world of Götter

in contact with the world of Götter.

Gordon Watson

takes a few experiments

from the mystic Pilz.

In the past,

these plants were then chemically

discovered,

first in America,

then in Europe,

in Paris.

And then they thought,

in Basel,

there is a type of LSD

that has the same effects.

And they asked us

if we would have

interested in these plants.

And so

the LSD brought these plants

in my laboratory.

the natural science

that shows what

there is.

The natural science

shows what there is.

The natural science

shows what there is.

The natural science is

objective for everyone.

But you have to see

and think about it.

The natural science

sees the obvious

secrets.

And I think

a chemist,

who is not a mystic

who is not a chemist,

who is not a chemist,

who is not a chemist.

By the analysis

of the mexicanx

the Zauberpilz

wagt sich Albert Hoffmann

again

on the method

of the self-serve.

And so

it helps him

and his colleagues

to isolate the

work.

Psilocybin.

Chemisch eng

verwandt

with LSD.

The Herr Wossen

was very

happy

and so

he said

he would like

to take us

to Mexico

and this

wonder world

to show us.

And so

we went

to this expedition

in Mazatecan

in Mazatecan

in the south.

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wir hätten nun

den Geist

des Pilzes

isoliert.

Sie können jetzt

auch

mit diesen Pillen

eine Zeremonie machen.

nach.

Dann hat sie also eine

Sitzung organisiert

und als dann diese Pillen

verteilt worden waren,

gab es eine wunderbare

Zeremonie, die bis in den

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And in these holy drugs I found LSD, practically LSD,

which gives LSD its meaning.

LSD belongs not only to the effect,

but also to the chemical structure of these drugs.

For thousands of years,

from the end of the world,

there is something that is healing.

But that is also very important.

They were always used in the sacred form.

Today, the Indians have to prepare,

you have to pray, you have to pray,

and then you come to a different world.

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Milbrook, an der amerikanischen Ostküste.

Im leer stehenden Landsitz eines reichen Gönners hat der ehemalige Horvath-Dozent Timothy Leary eine psychedelische Kommune gegründet.

Well, the first experience I had was with seven little mushrooms in Mexico.

For the five hours after I ate these mushrooms, I learned more about psychology than I had in the preceding 16 years as a psychologist.

And since that time, I've done almost nothing but attempt to study, to learn more about how these experiences are produced and how they can be used for man's benefit.

In Harvard hatte Leary das Studium halluzinogener Drogen auf den Lehrplan gesetzt.

An der Elite-Universität war das für den ehrgeizigen Professor und seine Mitarbeiter der Anfang vom Ende.

The one thing that had differed from the accepted social paradigm is that we took the drug ourself.

Because Leary, now it would be like in behaviorist paradigms, you wouldn't do that.

And the chairman of the department was pissed off at us for doing that, you know, and thought that was unscientific.

And they said, you know, if you do these studies quietly, it's going to be okay, you know, like that.

But that was not Leary's vision, you see.

He had the vision.

It was a democratic vision, egalitarian.

You know, this is too good not to share with everybody.

Who are we to say?

Tim Leary wird in Harvard mitsamt seinem Team schließlich gefeuert.

Sein neues Hauptquartier, Millbrook.

Ein Ort der Einkehr und des Aufbruchs zugleich.

Well, I had a great time at Millbrook.

I mean, it was a place to introduce people to the psychedelic experience in the most beautiful way possible.

It was a center for people to come from every walk of life, from the highest aristocrat and noble and royal person, down to the dirtiest hippie.

Everybody came there.

It was a mecca for psychedelics.

LSD was a tremendous leveler.

No matter what level of society you came from, when you turned on with someone from another member of society, that class division did not cloud your vision.

You could see that person clearly.

And you could see them as a friend.

Any moment, somebody has an inclination.

So the place was beautiful.

It was 2,600 acres of northern New York scenery.

And you just walk out there, high, and no one was going to bother you.

You were miles from the main gate.

My experience at Millbrook was not about curing ill people, but making well people weller.

About moving into the cosmic understanding of our existence here on life.

We're not just dumb beasts brought to walk in one path all of our lives.

We are here to fly.

We are here to fly.

Dr. Leary, what are you up to here?

We teach the science and art of ecstasy.

We teach people how to turn on or how to go out of their minds.

By turn on, we mean tune in, to get beyond your routine ways of thinking and acting and experiencing.

And we often say that we're teaching people how to use their head.

And the point is that in order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

And you have to go out of all of the static, symbolic ways in which you think.

And then you have to go out of your mind.

And then he made a purchase of the company, I don't know, 200 grams or 1,5 kg Pilociben and so.

And then he invited me to come in and he would make big events, big congresses and so on.

And then he wrote, that I wouldn't do that. It's all in the search of why they are doing this propaganda.

Liri was a provocateur, yes, he liked being provocative.

He liked saying things in a little way that got people a little, ah.

And he didn't care if they misunderstood. He said, think for yourself.

America today is an insane asylum. The American people are completely hung up on material acquisition, on power, on war making.

It's an insane asylum over here. And it's our goal to lift the spiritual level of the American people.

We're going to try to bring about a religious renaissance and a spiritual revolution.

In the next 5 or 10 years we expect that between 20 and 30 million Americans will be using LSD regularly in their spiritual development and in their psychological growth.

In Kalifornien gewinnt die psychedelische Bewegung rasch an Boden.

Die Haight Ashbury, ein heruntergekommener Stadtteil von San Francisco, erlebt einen zweiten Frühling.

It was sort of a very exciting time in the Haight Ashbury. It was lovely. There was a very good community spirit.

Little stores were opening down on Haight Street. People were very friendly with each other.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. And they would come up with wonderful ideas.

Like, let's have a party in some corner of the park. And so the band would come out and bring their instruments.

The band called the Grateful Dead have announced they will make music in the park.

And the crowd moves along, provided with a place to go, something to do.

In the 60s, LSD was important because it reinforced a sense that change was possible.

Because if you can be one way, one minute, take a tiny little chemical called LSD,

and then an hour be in another dimension of universe of seeing fantastic things,

feeling things you didn't even know you could feel, hearing things you didn't know could be heard that way.

If you can do that to your mind with this tiny little pill, wow, anything's possible.

We tell young people today, drop out of school, because schools, education today, is the worst narcotic drug of all.

Don't politic. Don't vote. These are old men's games.

Impotent and senile old men that want to put you onto their old chess games of war and power.

Drop out. Tune in with natural things. Take off your shoes. Get back in tune with God's harmony. Surround yourself with beauty and sacred objects.

You can't get caught in the conforming, rote, lockstep, which we call American society.

And I made him a proposal that he brings to young people to LSD.

LSD needs preparation, needs a certain degree.

So then, at Millbrook, when our supplies were cut off, Timothy said, we're all psychologists here.

Nick's the only one with a chemical background. Why don't you start making, you know, the sacraments?

I said, okay, I'll give it a try.

My training was anthropology, but I had been involved growing up in the laboratory my whole life, because my father was a chemist.

So all of this was familiar and easy for me.

I studied it. I became a chemist.

We gathered the equipment and the materials before we actually could work.

I mean, basically it broke down into making an underground laboratory.

So where am I going to do this?

Well, I started out working in my mother's attic.

And then I moved down to the basement.

Then I rented a small industrial place.

Then I rented a larger industrial place.

And then I moved to California.

And so we rented another industrial property in San Francisco, a 4,000-square-foot warehouse.

There are syntheses of LSD that take seven seconds.

And it's done.

Boom.

You get everything ready.

It takes a few hours.

Put it all together.

You add it together.

You stir it for an hour.

It's done.

You have your LSD.

Now the question is, how do you get it out with the starting materials that have been left

over with the isomers and byproducts?

And how do you get that all out so that you will have only like 99.9% LSD?

So that means you have to recycle that material again.

And so you recycle and recycle and recycle.

And the process of making very pure LSD is extremely tedious.

And we were making large amounts.

And we were able to purify in large amounts to 100 Gramm crystallization.

That's a million doses.

Auf der Straße wird Acid, LSD, von der Polizei vorerst geduldet.

Noch ist der Konsum der neuen Modedroge nicht verboten.

San Francisco is where LSD was first marketed, where it is most readily and cheaply available.

In the park of a bright afternoon, there is a hippie wedding.

The preacher is a man called Teddy Bear.

He is a dope dealer.

LSD, washed down with wine, is the only sacrament.

There are no vows.

She will be his woman for as long as they feel like it.

Can I take care of you to be a woman?

Yes.

For your wife?

Yes.

Married before God, before the people.

Woo-hoo!

Woo-hoo!

What obviously was happening in people who were taking psychedelics, particularly the young generation,

is that they could not agree anymore with the standards of the society that was around them.

They developed a whole different system of values, a different life strategy and so on.

And part of it certainly was very strong anti-war feelings because when you have what I call transpersonal experiences,

where you feel essential oneness with other people and even with animal species, with nature and so on,

it has very significant implications for how you feel about war, people killing each other.

So psychedelics became, you know, very, very important instrument of transformation,

a change of a world view in a way that was really challenging the old conservative values.

to understand specifically about what

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I don't know.

I was just doing this from my heart, out of faith, that this was the right thing to do.

And everywhere I went, I gave it away, and I saw what it did to people, and I said, this is good.

I mean, you know, 5,000 doses of the orange sunshine was a little teeny bag like that.

You know, that's a whole division of soldiers.

We sent hundreds of thousands of tablets to Vietnam for free.

We were supporting all the war protesters.

So why not support our brothers and sisters, same age, but had been drafted and dragged, you know, almost in chains to be killed in Vietnam?

Why not give them the same medicine that was causing the movement?

A companion peace demonstration brings out 50,000 marchers in downtown San Francisco, pacifists and hippies together.

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The rebellion in the 1960s, I think psychedelics were part of it, very significant part, but I don't think they were the cause of what was happening.

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LSD became a symbol of all that was going on that was frightening, of all that seemed to be wrong.

It was an easy scapegoat, easy target for people who wanted to denounce the youth rebellion, denounce the anti-war movement, very easy to denounce the drug or the drugs that were associated with those movements.

The things that were said about LSD in the 1960s were in many ways ridiculous.

It's not always easy to undo what I've done.

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But as a parent and as a citizen, and certainly now in this position, I am greatly concerned.

There is nothing smart, there is nothing grown up or sophisticated in taking an LSD trip at all.

They are just being complete fools. Anyone that would engage in this or indulge in this, is just a plain fool.

Nach immer schärferen öffentlichen Debatten über die Gefahren des LSD hat der Staat Kalifornien im Oktober 1966 schließlich reagiert.

Die Substanz wird verboten.

The one who was a serious felon.

I mean, I've been convicted many times. I've spent time in 14 different prisons.

All of this has happened to me as a result of my devotion to psychedelics.

So, am I a criminal? Of course I'm a criminal.

Kurze Zeit nach dem LSD-Verbot kommen im Golden Gate Park von San Francisco über 20.000 Menschen zusammen.

Die Hippies, die oppositionellen Studenten, die verschiedensten Strömungen innerhalb der Protestbewegung versammeln sich zu einer riesigen gemeinsamen Demonstration.

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Die Hymnen der Jugendbewegung erobern die großen Fernsehstudios.

Das neue Massenmedium verbreitet die Botschaft der Hippies über den ganzen Planeten.

All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

All you need is love.

The city of San Francisco has been warned of a hippie invasion come summer in numbers almost too staggering to comprehend.

Some estimates run as high as 200,000 young people from all parts of the country can be expected to invade the city,

and the influx will affect primarily the Haight-Ashbury.

The media put in a big story about the Haight-Ashbury, and it was this lovely place to go,

and you might see John Lennon or, you know, perhaps, you know, anyway, they created a monster for us.

And within a few weeks, it changed.

People came from all over America by the hundreds, and then the thousands.

And by early summer, there must have been 10,000 people sleeping on the sidewalks and in the park and in every alley,

and, you know, and trying to, hungry and homeless, and it was crazy.

Here in San Francisco, Haight Street, on one of the dance floors, and, you know, you had 2,000 people all taking 500 micrograms of LSD.

I thought this was going to be madness.

I thought this would have been madness in our context.

You know, I couldn't see how that could work.

You know, how would you handle bad trips?

The summer 1967, the psychedelic movement in fuller Blüte.

Summer of Love.

We're going to do the English and American combined anthem together, okay?

Summer of Love.

I know.

We're going to do the English and American.

We're going to do the English and Asian in the90s.

And видите, the English and American combined anthem of previous sections of LSD.

We're going to do the English and American combined bytes that are filtered in a neutral way.

We're going to stay kept in touch with me.

Oh, sing it with me.

Oh, sing it with me.

Oh, sing it with me.

Oh, sing it with me.

Oh, sing it with me.

Oh, sing it with me.

There is a steady flow into San Francisco hospitals of young people who have freaked

out and been picked up by the police in a state of desperate terror.

Where are you taking me?

Where are my friends?

Do my friends know I'm here?

Where am I?

Where are we?

Where am I?

You're in the hospital here.

Come on.

Who are you?

I'm Dr. McClendon.

The bad trip is a frightening thing to witness.

It must be far more terrifying to experience.

Where are you taking me?

Where are you taking me?

Where am I?

I'm going right around here to death.

You're in the hospital.

Hello.

I'm a nurse.

What's your name?

Your hands are cold.

What's your name?

Joan.

Joan.

I'm a nurse.

Guys?

I don't want to be here.

Where am I?

My friend, it's all right.

It's all right.

It's all right.

It's all right.

It's all right.

It's all right.

I understand.

Nach meinen eigenen Erfahrungen hätte ich nie gedacht,

dass ein Stoff mit dieser Wirkung jemals auf die Strasse kommen könnte.

Ja, der Missbrauch.

Ein Stoff, wenn er mal in der Welt ist, wenn er mal existiert,

dann hat man das nicht mehr in der Hand.

The greatest pushers in this country today are the missionaries

who make and distribute LSD

because they are convinced that it's a wonderful way.

Timothy Leary wird von Präsident Nixon

öffentlich zum gefährlichsten Mann Amerikas erklärt

und kurze Zeit später wegen Besitz von zwei Joins

zu einer drakonischen Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt.

Albert Hoffmanns Wunderdroge ist zu seinem Sorgenkind geworden.

LSD wird dorthin zurückgedrängt, wo es hergekommen ist.

In die Psychiatrie, wo es in einzelnen Kliniken noch geduldet wird.

When I came to the United States and I joined the team at Spring Grove,

we were using an approach that is now known as psychedelic,

where a dose is significant.

It's between 300 and 500, 600 micrograms.

We asked the patients to keep their eyes closed,

so we actually were using eye shades,

we were using headphones, hi-fi, music,

and the talking was done before and after.

That was a much more effective approach

in terms of therapy, in terms of personal transformation.

Dean Caldwell is arriving for his third LSD session.

Cancer of the bowel gave him almost constant pain,

but this was controlled for over six months

as a result of his previous session.

As well as that, the drug has helped him

come to terms with his condition

and even enjoy the life he knows will end soon.

When we were doing the work with cancer patients,

the basic assumption was that they would somehow

very radically change their concept of death.

Did you get the last one?

Every drop.

These were people who knew that they could die

in a matter of weeks or months,

and they were able to be reconciled,

and their way of being, actually,

in the world from day to day changed dramatically.

It was a very, very successful study,

besides being a very moving study, as you can imagine.

People come first programmed by our culture

that we are basically our body.

And suddenly comes an experience

that shows you that you are something much larger,

that you are not really just your body.

And so you start looking at death

as something that's death of the body,

and you get a sense that there is a...

that death is a kind of an adventure in consciousness,

and there is a sort of a large dimension there

that you actually knew nothing about.

That you are not.

That you are not.

It is a kind of a...

It was difficult, but we got approved.

People who are eligible for our trial are people who have anxiety and or depression secondary

to their cancer diagnosis.

And they are struggling with these existential questions of life and death and their own

psychological discomfort.

They go through two days of screening in which they receive a physical exam, extensive psychiatric

and psychological testing.

So after preparation, the volunteers schedule for their psilocybin sessions.

What we would want and hope for them is that they have an experience that's uplifting and

alters their perceptual set in a way that makes the remainder of their life and their struggle

with their disease process something that's really quite manageable for them.

The prognosis was very poor.

There were so many treatments, and since I have a scientific background, I got very preoccupied

with researching everything, you know, micromanaging, and so my life just kind of got narrower

and narrower.

I got more exclusively focused on the cancer.

And I became more withdrawn.

Finally, my daughter and friends sort of told me that I needed to do something.

But I had no previous experience with psychedelics, so I didn't know what to expect exactly.

It looks like this is for you.

A high proportion of volunteers have what's called a primary mystical type experience.

And they're absolutely sure that this experience is more real than everyday waking reality.

And it's that element, I believe, that imprints this experience into people's consciousness

in a way that has huge value going forward.

The beginning of the effects start in about ten minutes.

And it's like your brain is going offline, you know, one part at a time.

And I tell people the story to make it a little clearer, since I do a lot of sailing, if you're

out in the open ocean and you were to fall off your boat, you turn around and the boat's

gone, and then pretty soon the water's gone, and then you're gone.

You don't have any sense of self anymore.

Okay.

Okay.

Is that comfortable?

That's good.

Okay.

I'll put some headphones on you.

Okay.

Okay.

And remember to let us know how the volume is, if you want it higher or lower.

Okay.

And, um...

For the first hour and a half, it was pretty frightening because I was fighting it.

I was resisting.

I wanted to open my eyes and make things snap back into place.

If I didn't have the help of the people there, I would have left the room and tried to walk

around and get things to focus back in again, you know, to look familiar again.

So the supervision, I think, is very important.

Just the music.

Just enjoy it.

Yeah.

After about an hour and a half, I calmed down.

At one point, I thought I might be in a cathedral.

And, uh, I thought that it might be a good chance to talk with God.

So I, you know, just in my mind, I said, well, you know, if there was ever a good time, this

is it.

So, you know, talk to me.

And nothing happened.

I did it again and nothing happened.

There was just an experience of familiarity or tranquility.

And, uh, during that time, I could pull up past relationships or current relationships

and look at them in great detail.

And, um, um, it was as if I was, um, sorry.

You never know what to do.

You друг over, like me.

You're weying you hang up a tree and you have to sit down in a vlog.

I, you, I'm a guy ready, and you.

You're Bur vit r rock.

You're not sure.

You're not sure.

You are forever forever.

The depression itself lifted.

I might fall into a depression,

but I can pull myself out of it pretty easily.

It fundamentally changes the way you approach the world,

so you're opening out instead of narrowing down into a negative spiral.

It's almost unbelievable that after one day,

and not any follow-up medications or anything,

that this could happen.

I have had in my psychedelic sessions, you know,

quite a few experiences where I actually felt that I've already died,

that I was in the realm sort of beyond death.

It was very, very convincing,

and I was very surprised when I actually returned to the situation

where I took the substance.

So I consider it very plausible that there is an experiential world

that we go into after the body dies.

But, of course, you know, you will never know until you get there,

but it's like a very, very interesting journey.

It's like a very deepening journey.

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