COL49 - Chap 1: Oedipa says no to drugs

[rich]

Amon Dull II--Sandoz in the Rain

http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=ad2-yeti

1970--quite a record.

funny, similar experiences w/ mescaline--this is mid 80s--lots of
giggling, moderate tripping; one time it felt like a morphine bath and
later heavier tripping; other times mindless star gazing before busted
by local Belle Terre (Long Island--think of places like Yorba Linda or
Shaker Heights--not the best place to be tripping yr brains out)
gendarmes (they were checking our ID--when I gave them my license it
started to expand to the width of the patrol car) in short, we never
knew what we were getting but it sure was interesting

will every form of enlightenment always end up becoming a commodity?
magic into ritual, ritual dumb science?

rich

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> The Sandoz patents for making LSD expired  in 1963 making way for lots of
> unhindered  illegal production.   Owsley started experimenting with
> production in Berkeley around 1963.  (And moved to LA between 1964 - 1965? -
> very interesting - IH? although I think IH takes place a bit later.) Anyway,
>  many doctors and scientists still had quite a lot of their old  Sandoz
> supply as it wasn't called in until 1966,  around the time of the Senate
> Hearings.   George Hunter White's SF based testing and distribution center
> closed that year, too.  (This was supposed to be testing for the military
> but White used it for his own stuff, too.)
>
> I understand that the acid on the streets is different today - mostly
> methamphetamine with only the slightest dash of LSD (if any).
>
> Bekah
>
>
>
> On May 10, 2009, at 12:16 AM, rich wrote:
>
>> i guess it comes down to what comes after some sort of enlightenment,
>> the Buddha's 50th day so to speak
>> that law of dependent origination (one of the few things I learned at
>> college that was worth remembering) is the first to go not long after
>> for most of us
>>
>> and then you're listening to endless descriptions of said acid trips
>> from beautiful strangers in too many bars to count in Boulder,
>> Portland, Montpeiler, Austin, Madison--kinda funny but a little sad
>>
>> the gates to something were open once...
>> rich
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I suggest TRP might be suggesting that the spreading fad of LSD is
>>> another inside-the-tower
>>> way of falsely thinking one is 'finding the bridge inward"..
>
>