White and Wild by wilshire|oneHofmann's death forces the world to take another look at LSD
“Every human being lives inside the creations and interpretations of his mind, for we are only our thoughts. The way we conceive the world is our reality; it is unique to each individual because his perception of his environment and personal experiences are vastly different from everyone else’s – as the old saying goes: “No two minds are alike.”
I am no metaphysicist or psychologist, but I have pondered about what is actually reality and the power of our conscience, especially compared to the estimated five to 30 million species that exist on our planet. We seem to be the only species that seeks an altered state of mind, using and experimenting with all sorts of drugs, alcohol being the most common of them. Psychedelics are the type I’m most concerned about, for they warp your perception of reality the most, and yet are claimed to be less toxic than an aspirin.
Just last month the meritorious “Father of LSD,” Albert Hofmann, passed away at the age of 102, but he did not leave mankind empty-handed. Albert Hofmann was “the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known,” which he first synthesized in 1938, according to The New York Times.”
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