I like this quote from George Harrison about getting turned off by the whole LSD thing:

"We went up to San Francisco in a Lear jet. Derek took us to visit a disc jockey, and we went straight from the airport to the radio station in a limo. The DJ gave us some concoction and then we went off to Haight-Ashbury. I went there expecting it to be a brilliant place, with groovy gypsy people making works of art and paintings and carvings in little workshops. But it was full of horrible spotty drop-out kids on drugs, and it turned me right off the whole scene. I could only describe it as being like the Bowery: a lot of bums and drop-outs; many of them very young kids who'd dropped acid and come from all over America to this mecca of LSD.

We walked down the street, and I was being treated like the Messiah. The Beatles were pretty big, and for one of them to be there was a big event. I became really afraid, because the concoction that the DJ had given me was having an effect. I could see all the spotty youths, but I was seeing them from a twisted angle. It was like the manifestation of a scene from an Hieronymus Bosch painting, getting bigger and bigger, fish with heads, faces like vacuum cleaners coming out of shop doorways... They were handing me things - like a big Indian pipe with feathers on it, and books and incense - and trying to give me drugs. I remember saying to one guy: 'No thanks, I don't want it.' And then I heard his whining voice saying, 'Hey, man - you put me down.' It was terrible. We walked quicker and quicker through the park and in the end we jumped in the limo, said, 'Let's get out of here,' and drove back to the airport.

It certainly showed me what was really happening in the drug culture. It wasn't what I'd thought - spiritual awakenings and being artistic - it was like alcoholism, like any addiction. The kids at Haight-Ashbury had left school and dossed out there, and instead of drinking alcohol they were on all kinds of drugs.

That was the turning-point for me - that's when I went right off the whole drug cult and stopped taking the dreaded lysergic acid. I had some in a little bottle (it was liquid). I put it under a microscope, and it looked like bits of old rope. I thought that I couldn't put that into my brain any more."

nice one sharke-pretty well sums up my experience except I wasn`t a Beatle!!
 
cheers

Like everything else, I found benefits when taken in moderation.  

I have no regrets about the hundreds of times I was experienced. I do feel sometime as if the "doors of perception" were left slightly ajar.. but that's OK.
There is absolutely NO way to explain anything that LSD does. How can you describe 360 degree vision and seeing into infinity, two infinite lines of anchs and peace signs coming from and going to infinity, in a curved line from and to each side... running right through your head, all covered with moving, multicolored paisleys and mandalas, in through the front and out the back and without looking you see it all, 360 degrees. I guess you had to be there.
Some of my friends drove old trucks, some drove mustangs or GTOS... I rode a Comet! Slept on Owsley's floor... no regrets, it was all HIGH adventure to me!
However, that was then and this is now. I had no fear at all back then, just anticipation.. these days, nah. Ithink it would be FREAK OUT time! Who Are The Brain Police.... da da da...
 
ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
If you can just get your mind together
Then come on across to me
We'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sunrise
From the bottom of the sea

But first, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have

I know, I know you probably scream and cry
That your little world won't let you go
But who in your measly little world
Are you trying to prove that
You're made out of gold and, eh, can't be sold

So, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have

Let me prove you...

Trumpets and violins I can hear in distance
I think they're calling our names
Maybe now you can't hear them, but you will
If you just take hold of my hand
 
Oh, but are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful...
 
 
 

craigb

Timothy Leary's dead.

No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.

Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
He'll fly his astral plane,
Takes you trips around the bay,
Brings you back the same day,
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.

Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
He'll fly his astral plane,
Takes you trips around the bay,
Brings you back the same day,
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.

Along the coast you'll hear them boast
About a light they say that shines so clear.
So raise your glass, we'll drink a toast
To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier.

He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
He'll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low,
He knows exactly which way he's gonna go.
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.

He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
He'll plant your feet back on the ground.
He'll fly so high, he'll swoop so low.
Timothy Leary.

He'll fly his astral plane.
He'll take you trips around the bay.
He'll bring you back the same day.
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
Timothy Leary.

They wrote that song after spending time at the Brotherhood of Eternal Love's Idyllwild commune when John Griggs was still alive. Leary and his family was living there at that time. They wrote To Our, Children's, Children's, Children next, thought to be influenced by all the kids running around and their experience there. Lots f acid and hash there... they brought in tons of Afghan hash and were behind Orange Sunshine. Am I caught in a loop?? Bubba??

I was thinking more about Leary last night. You know he was big into "ego death" on LSD. He and Alpert did a re-write of the Tibetan Book of the Dead as a manual of sorts for tripping. I think that is what they meant by Timothy Leary's dead... however. Leary had a HUGE ego, I guess he couldn't see it. His wife even said that later, after they outlived their welcome with the Black Panthers in Africa after the BEL, the Weathermen, and the Panthers came together to help him escape from prison. The BEL put up the money, Weathermen did the work, Panthers took him and his family in. Yeah, he ego for someone preaching "ego death".

I wore this to town yesterday and not one person even noticed... I think I am like Tom Petty in his quote, "I get uncomfortable if I start to look too good". I guess I like to keep them guessing.
I can't get the shirt picture to copy but it is on a blue tee. I even wore it to the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions. I was disappointed that no one noticed. I got a few "looks" at lunch but no one said anything. Oh well, I thought it was funny!
The place that sells them has literally hundreds if not thousands of designs, page after page.

OK I WANT TO KNOW WHERE THIS PLACE IS! I think Montana  .....This is not fair! 

bayoubill
OK I WANT TO KNOW WHERE THIS PLACE IS! I think Montana  .....This is not fair! 

You think it's Montana?