Harvard Psychedelic Club: 1956 Footage Of Housewife's Acid Trip

[slimvictor]

Posted: January 16, 2011 12:35 AM

Here's some rare footage of an experimental LSD session that I came across doing research for my next book, a group biography of British writer Aldous Huxley, philosopher Gerald Heard, and Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. It's from a television program, circa 1956, about mental health issues.

The researcher, Dr. Sidney Cohen, was dosing volunteers at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Los Angeles. Aldous Huxley, who first tried mescaline in 1953 and wrote about it in his seminal book, The Doors of Perception, got Gerald Heard interested in the spiritual potential of psychedelic drugs.

watch the video at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/don-lattin/harvard-psychedelic-club-1950s_b_809392.html

 

[villian]

great video

lsd is such a wonderful chemical

 

[UnSquare]

"I can't tell you about it,
if you can't see it,
you'll never know.

I feel sorry for you."

 

[Psyke]

"it passed right through me"



It's almost as if lsd is some sort of religious breakthrough or something (*wink wink)

 

[Sega420]

love this comment on the video on youtube-

You see the reason she can "see everything in color" is not because this video is shot in black and white but because the world WAS in black and white back in the day and everyone's mom took LSD and now we live in a rich, vibrant world. WE ARE TRIPPING RIGHT NOW.

Thumbs up if your mind is fucking blown, man.

 

[In_A_Transit]

She took 100 micro grams?

 

[Sega420]

yes. then again consider it would have most likely been very clean, pure, fresh, high quality lsd that they used. gamma is another name for microgram.
same size of measurement.

 

[slimvictor]

For someone who has likely never tripped before or even smoked weed, 100 mics could be a very strong experience.

 

[jack-special-k]

fair she took 100mg tho? hmm

 

[Sega420]

no. not milligrams. micrograms. mg is milligrams. ug is micrograms. HUGE different.