1950s Housewife Tries LSD

“There is no mind control conspiracy”  – It’s just that we heavily regulate which chemicals people can and can’t do, which is the easiest way to manipulate consciousness. Amazing how many people will make this argument.

I didn’t realize the discussion of narcotics equated advocating their use.

facts are. to choose to put negative spin concerning anything would be biased. see http://www.foxnews.com

I didnt realize LSD was a narcotic

Every time I hear people squawk about the “negative aspects” of this sort of exploration I want to vomit.

The nay-sayers will sit in front of their TVs swallowing the most poisonous bullshit and then complain about pyschonauts “who just use drugs to escape reality.” Really? The same way you escape reality by watching FOX “News,” or wasting your money in the mall, or going to Disneyland on “vacation?” 

I wish we could track down the woman in this video and see what she thinks of this experiment all these years later.

I must have done too much LDS back in the 60’s.

Watch FOX, CBS, NBC or any of the others and you’ll get your fix of negative drug story propaganda.

it feels weird. I live right next to LA VA hospital. lol..

It’s totally not a Star Trek reference.

100… they stated in the video, a tenth of a milligram.

It’s the feeling. THEE feeling. The feeling you know is there but you can’t put your finger on it. Because you can’t point at it we’ll spend our entire lives drawing circles around its infinite beauty in a feeble attempt to bring its beauty to the eyes of another by showing what it is not. By being shown what it is not others can discover the negative space left in the center of it all; in the center of a circle. It’s between every word, between every breath, between every thought, between every note of music in this compositional symphony the whole universe is performing. Some call it God, but to even try to cage such limitless energy with a word is a dilution of its reality. THIS reality. Forget what you know about God. What do you feel? I can say these words but what do they mean to you? Subscribe to no religion; I try my hardest and yet I know that no one has the ability explain what I attempt to uncover. True wisdom can never be learned from another, only discovered for yourself.

Do not try to see past the curtain as though some prize lay behind it. It IS the curtain. The mystery within mystery. The door to all marvels.

everyone here has got to be partially mentally retarded. For one none of you even understand the relatively simple drug you are taking… your all trying to bring about meaning and understanding from something which clearly distorts your point of view. I’m all for the use of the substance (done it a lot) but its people like you guys 
(modern hippies) who draw life lessons from this shit  and make bold life judgements not realising your just an idiot under the effects of a substance and any life changing epiphany u have come up with is probably pointless or easily come by in a sober situation

I had an epiphany a year after I tried lsd for the first time. I was completely sober, and yet, it was life-changing. I think lsd had something to do with this epiphany and I know my discoveries are real because I can find the same knowledge I learnt in the work of others, the work of people who never tried lsd because it wasn’t discovered yet.
I don’t militantly endorse the use of psychedelics because I know that lsd is only a way to reformulate what you already know, you finish your trip and the only think you get is a lesson, an example. But if you don’t have the will to see beyond, you won’t learn anything from the experience, any experience.

I guess television is something that people can use to feed their preconceived worldviews, where as a drug trip is not necessarily under anyone’s control.

I guess television is something that people can use to feed their preconceived worldviews, where as a drug trip is not necessarily under anyone’s control.

Looks like somöne doesn’t easily recognise sarcasm. . . 

he must have slow DSL

I have some points to make to refute your rather unnecessarily angry, testosterone-filled ramble:

1. LSD, like any other drug, is a subjective experience. If you think it can help you, it probably will. If you think it will hurt you, it probably will. The attitude you’re giving off reminds me something along the lines of, “I DON’T THINK LSD HAS MEANING SO THEREFORE I KNOW I’M RIGHT AND ANYONE WHO HAS AN OPINION DIFFERENT FROM ME IS A RETARD IDIOT”. That’s so incredibly arrogant, and it makes you sound just as unintelligent as the people who say “LSD IS GOD’S GIFT ANYONE WHO DISAGREES IS A SHELTERED MORON BLAH BLAH BLAH.” You remind me of people on “ub3rk0r” youtube videos who cyber-scream at each other in all caps and call each other faggots over whether Avenge Sevenfold or Bring Me to the Horizon is better. Insulting people based on their completely arbitrary subjective opinions is just the type of petty nitpicky bullshit I hate.

2. Apart from making the fatal error of taking your subjective opinion as literal fact, you are also ignorant about some very objective findings. [http://www.maps.org/research/psilo-lsd/] serotonergics are proven to be, in the right set and setting, profoundly helpful. If you take LSD at a party and expect to get “high”, well then hey, you will probably get really high and enjoy the social aspect, and not find any long-lasting value.
But as repeatedly shown by MAPS (a government-licensed organization that studies the therapeutic effects of psychedelics), if people are given LSD in a clinical, therapeutic setting, where medical experts are monitoring the environment to make sure it is properly controlled, then LSD will probably be pretty damn helpful in the long run.

3. You stereotype people who have that particular opinion about LSD (that it has long term psychological benefits). You think people who attribute a lifelong importance to lsd are “partially mentally retarded”, “hippie” “idiots”? *AHEM* allow me to read you a quote: “LSD is one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life” -Steve Jobs

And one more thing, the people in some of those psychedelic studied included terminal cancer patients without any history of recreational drug use. Many of them said the psychedelics administered to them helped them overcome fears of death, which in turns echoes what Larry Hagman (1950s actor, star of I Dream of Jeannie) said about his LSD use.

Oh and before you out me as just part of the retarded hippie bunch, this is all coming from someone who has never tried LSD once in their life.

I wonder what she cooked for dinner that night?

Drugs are simply a legal and cultural definition. Substances, by name, can be discussed by adults, and discerned for their individual merits, and that in itself is not advocacy.  LSD is one such substance that has a proportional interest of those whom consider themselves psychonauts and those whom consider themselves civil libertarians. This equates to a generally positive connotation in the subsequent discussion. If you are not able to divorce drugs=bad from a legitimate discussion of altered consciousness / body autonomy you are not adult enough to engage in the discussion in the first place.

This is my new favorite video. You can just see her mind being blown wide open, and it is wonderful.

“Luckily, people who attempt such encounters now are jailed.” That is pretty stubborn, don’t you think, Jacob Sloan? It is incredibly Ironic how you write about a mind-opening experience and drug in such a closed-minded way. But I must give credit when credit is do: Good find.

1000 micrograms (mcg) EQUALS 1 milligram (mg)

“drugs” have enough positive aspects that everyone should be able to legally choose to be “on dope or LSD” if they want to.

That is one of the points of this site: to contradict the wrongness of common wisdom.  Common wisdom says that all drugs are bad except those that are produced by pharmaceutical companies and sold to you by a pharmacist.  This is because the government acts in our best interests and restricts access to harmful substances.

That is a fallacy and it should be exposed and explored.

Disclosure: I have never tried an illegal drug and I frequently buy medication that is prescribed to me by a doctor to cure illnesses.  I don’t want to overthrow the system; I just want the system to be more enlightened.

I’m assuming that Mr. Sloan is being incredibly ironic. This video inspired me a bit more to try LSD myself. In fact, I have every intention to try it as soon as the setting is right and it’s in my possession.