And now for something completely different...

[matthew cissell]

The Shaman takes a big dose to voyage in the spirit world, with the danger
that his soul may not return; the concotion that he gave to the rest of the
tribe had to have a lower level so that there was a group-be-in and not a
group of people freaking out. Those girls seem pretty smart to me.

   Wasn't it in one of the Austin letters where TP writes inquiring whether
the recipient had not ever "found himself on the ground chewing on the
carpet", or something like that? Sounds like something written by one who
has been on the carpet, chewing. I can relate.

That shift in the 80's is correct, but it has so many complex variables
going into it (Reagan's war on drugs, coke/crack explosion, musical
developments - this would arch from Berlin to Detroit, crossing over the UK
and its Manchester scene - as well as technological advances and the
changing mode of music consumption (MTV)...). A period well worth study.
Perhaps one of the most important factors is that MDMA appeared much later
than Hoffman's little chemical. (It was first found on the streets in 1970,
and LSD had already been around since the late 50's.)

I'm from rural Illinois so it took longer for the Rave scene to hit where i
was growing up. However, there was a superabundance of that other
hedonistic slave drug: cocaine. In the Reagan 80's of Studio 54 and all the
rest there was not much introspection or expanding of consciousness, just
feel good consumption. usa. usa. usa...

By the way, have you read much from Helmut Kuzmics? I have just come across
him but haven't had a chance to look at his work.

ciao
mc



On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> This reminds me of two girls I knew in the late 1980s. By that time there
> were excellent blotters around --- they had a golden five pointed star on
> an aquamarine ground - which were sold in two different forms: With 125 and
> with 250 micrograms LSD. While some people took the opportunity to really
> go for the full sized Acid Test by taking two or three of the high volume
> dosages, those girls did it the other way round: They always shared just
> one of the blotters with the small dosage and then sat for hours and hours
> in the kitchen. Giggling, talking, giggling. When I asked them why they
> never joined the magical quest they uttered that they didn't like the heavy
> hallucinations and the fear that often goes along with it. "A tiny dosage
> is so much better, all things are extraordinarily funny and I can feel and
> use the whole capacity of my brain," is what the girl named Jana said.
> Well, I think this attitude is not just a personal thing but characteristic
> for a time where substances like MDMA are the more merchantable ones. The
> 1980s were the decade where this shift took place. What does it say about
> our culture?
>
>
> On 09.12.2015 20:46, Keith Davis wrote:
>
> Thought you might find this interesting...
>
>
> http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/how-lsd-microdosing-became-the-hot-new-business-trip-20151120
>
> --
> www.innergroovemusic.com
>
>
>
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