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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 17, 2010 - 08:09pm PT
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Post up. I'll share my stories if you share yours. Mushrooms and other psychedelics qualify too!!!!
I haven't done TONS of acid, thank God. Just enough to come close to seeing God on several occasions.
(I did briefly look for an existing thread but drew blanks...)
I have no regrets about doing the deeds. Mind expanding stuff!!!!
Mmwwwaaahhhh!!!!!!
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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Mar 17, 2010 - 08:19pm PT
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What do mormons have to do with psychotropics? :)
JK, I've got tons of stories, just need to figure out which ones I can tell...
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Mar 17, 2010 - 08:20pm PT
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LSD - Long Slow Distance, highly recommended training mode for nordic racers, just about to head out for one after a week of being sick, little heat wave right now at Donner Summit, 55 degrees will make for mushy skating, probably go for MSD medium instead of long...
Peter
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squatch
Boulder climber
santa cruz, CA
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Mar 17, 2010 - 08:22pm PT
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give me about two months and i'll get back to you
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2010 - 08:30pm PT
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I got into psychedelics in the early 90's, the acid was crap for the most part. Laden with too much crap, it was speedy and conducive to weird trips. I decided that mushrooms was the more 'organic' way to go and, yeah, I was much more liberal back then. More concerned about 'chemical damage', so shrooms was it!
We gathered about 6 people together in my college apartment and we brewed the shrooms into tea and drank the nasty brew. Yeah, just eat 'em!
Well, this was when I was dating my ex-wife. We sat around watching a WW2 movie in the snow-covered forests in Holland. DO NOT WATCH TV ON ONE OF YOUR FIRST TRIPS!!! Ho, man. The commercials seemed like propaganda. It's weird because when you're tripping you can see through BS. Kinda hard to explain, but the marketing factors become apparent.
Anyway, I can't remember the flick, but I knew I was tripping when a soldier was diving in and out of the snow like a gopher, coming up and staring at us and laughing from the movie. Weird. "Dude, did you see that!!!"
Then it went bad.
My ex made the brutal mistake of going into the bathroom and looking at herself in the mirror while in full trip mode. She f*#king lost it!!!
She thought she saw a skeleton in her place. Due to the power of suggestion, everyone who went to verify this saw the same, A skeletal structure underneath their bodies, and it was EVIL LOOKING.
Needless to say she had a panic attack and had to be put into a room on a bed to relax. Our 'trips' were quickly declining. We were startled into sobriety.
Since that day I swore never to drop in an urban environment. Only in a wilderness setting. And that's when I started to have unbelievably mind-blowing trips...in a good way. More later....
EDIT: Maysho, sorry if I misrepresented. But c'mon.....
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2010 - 08:53pm PT
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Then after me and my fishing buddy (prior to climbing) decided that we were going to seek out some good acid. The shrooms were good but we wanted some good acid for an upcoming annual trip-trip where fishing was the excuse to get away from our gals. They knew.
Where in Cali do you find the best acid? Yep, Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley. Off we went. We walked around with several potheads offering their goods. "No, we have bud, we're looking for some acid", we kept insisting. Finally one dude obliged. "Gimme money and stay here, I'll be back. This is why dealing with drug dealers is BAD.
He came back. He had A SHEET OF ACID ON MUSIC PAPER!!!! "What is this?", we ask." "It's a sheet, dude", he replies. Alright. We were sure we were scammed.
We drove to the Haight in SF to get more! We were screwed! I dropped a small (2hits) corner of it to 'test' it on the way. I stayed in the car while my buddy combed the gays for acid in the Haight. That's smart.
He got back to the car with like 4 hits of acid and I was giggling like a small girl. The Berkeley sh#t kicked in!!!!!
Turns out the Berkeley stuff was ultra-clean White Blotter. Kick ass!!!!
I think to this day he still has some of that in his freezer.
More to come....
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climbinginchico
Trad climber
Modesto, CA
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Mar 17, 2010 - 08:56pm PT
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And here I was going to post about the Limited Slip Differential on my truck.
Sorry, no experience with drugs to speak of.
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Mar 17, 2010 - 09:05pm PT
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Had quite a few mind altering experiences as well BITD!!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2010 - 09:15pm PT
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Brenda, why are you obsessed with sex? You are a troll. Post a pic or TR or lose my 'widely dignified' respect.
You're a troll.
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salad
climber
Escondido
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Mar 17, 2010 - 09:19pm PT
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yeah please brenda. post that boldering pic again. i might just book a flight CO.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2010 - 09:27pm PT
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t*r, it kinda like being being a doctor. You should only do that sh#t unless you're with a trained specialist w/ experience, and that ain't a doc.
If not, you're on a learning curve that could get you killed. Ya wanna be around someone who's tripped before and knows his sh#t. Kinda like doing your first lead w/o a helmet.
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Mar 17, 2010 - 09:59pm PT
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Jeez bluering, according to the internet you're the worst thing on the planet.
How on earth could you possibly post something like this?
As far as I can tell, you are responsible for the economic down turn, the impending 2012 end of life as we know it, and 911.
Wow, you got some balls...
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Mar 17, 2010 - 10:27pm PT
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Did You Know?: That Bill W. and Dr. Bob got into not only the Kaballah, but did, in fact, drop acid? WITH Timothy Leary? True statement, and common knowledge in back-of-the-rooms AA.
They had gotten into mysticism, and also acid(which was the case for many people BITD). The acid produced "a spiritual awakening," and for a while, they actually considered this to have the potential for breakthrough science/medicine in the recovery process for alcoholics. Instant spiritual awakening....
Probably there are others who can provide more detail on this phase of the program. I'm not best for details; I tend to just keep more of the "essence" of things I learn. But I guess Leary was...sort of weird. I don't know what the deal was, but there was a parting of the ways and eventually the potential for acid was dropped(pun) from the program.
I never did acid, except once I think someone laced my drink at a house party. This was in the UP, around 1984. Acid then, was speed or some mix of garbage, and not much more. I was pretty out of it - way too out of it for the amount of pot and beer I had consumed. But had no "trip,"per se.
The next morning, one of the guys who'd stayed over, and whom had a crush on each other, kissed me, and I fainted - swooned like back in the olden days of talking pictures... hahahah. The kiss wasn't THAT good, so it must have been whatever I had been dosed with the night before.
My brother once did mushrooms, and vomited from the awfulness of eating them. Being expensive.....he scooped the barf up, put in on bread, and forced himself to try over. That. Was. THE. Singular most disgusting drug-related thing I have ever witnessed. (I never hung out with heroin junkies, obviously).
Years earlier - in the mid 70's - my older brothers and their friends were doing acid on occasion at our home. Their friends, Steve and Andy(brothers), had come from Madison, and they still had connections to some pretty good stuff, I guess. Steve and Andy introduced us to Zappa music, as well. This was a life-altering experience, so far as musical tastes go. But I digress....
So, Oney and Dan are dropping acid, and I am none the wiser, really. Except that night, I wake up around 2am and hear someone talking outside of my bedroom. The thing is - it was the dead of summer and hot, so I had a fan going full blast. I also had my door closed. The voice was not loud, just a regular level, and so I really shouldn't have been able to hear them. But I did. Clearly. But that's not the strange part....
The strange part was that the person was speaking in Spanish. Fluent Spanish. And it sounded very much like the voice of one of my younger brothers, John. So - I got out of bed, went to my desk, got a pen and paper and wrote "John spoke fluent Spanish" so the next morning I wouldn't think it was just a dream.
I woke up, and there was the note. It was bizarre....
Later in the day, I mentioned this incident and Oney and Dan's jaws both dropped, and they looked at each other.
"Whaaaat?" I asked.
They both said "That was Senor (can't recall the name)."
"Whattttt? Who???"
They told me that they had been tripping the day/night before and discovered that this Spanish Senor So and So lived within the walls of our house.....
Yes they did say that. And more, but again...I only remember the essence, not the details.
I was too afraid to do acid myself. I just knew that, with the stuff that I had in my background, it would not be a good thing to do. Not that I really believed a person turned into an orange on acid and never came back(popular 1970's anti-drug propaganda) - but I thought "If it "could" happen, I would be the type that it would happen to. I don't regret having never dropped acid.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2010 - 10:44pm PT
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Hey RIF,
Bluey's honest.
After all, why be half an as#@&%e ?
I think I was just insulted and yet I don;t know why.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2010 - 10:59pm PT
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Happie, that's a classic acid trip about your bros!!!!
What's weird and dangerous about acid is it it very real!
LET ME BE CLEAR HERE!!! I DO NOT CONDONE THE USE OF LSD OR ANY DRUGS!!!
What you have to do when you drop acid is convince yourself that you're going on a ride. This is why the first time sucks....But you have to go into the trip with one hand on reality. Then you can really let go. Seems contradictory, but it worked for me. You have to always remember it's just a drug, a trip. It isn't reality, what you're seeing. It's a distortion.
Once I learned that, I had nothing but good rides!!!!
And it ain't for everybody, either. Some people go crazy, some kill, some never come back....
It's a bizarre substance that opens the mind to f*#king weird stuff.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Mar 17, 2010 - 11:06pm PT
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Blue - I think a couple of more hits are in order as whatever you took before obviously didn't work well enough. It got the long-hair doper part right, but all that conservative stuff under the hood clearly needs another couple of sessions to work out.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2010 - 11:09pm PT
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That stuff and giggly trips is probably more for young persons lacking
of any major responsibilities in life. Add responsibility with older age
and it's probably always a bad trip
Yeah, no sh#t, dude!
We're reflecting here. PAST TENSE!!!! WHAT WE USED TO DO!@!!!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2010 - 11:12pm PT
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I knew Pate was a head....
just sayin'!
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
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Mar 17, 2010 - 11:22pm PT
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Pate- I've heard it said that if you can remember the shows, then you probably weren't there...
Edit- probably should've put a smiley emoticon at the end of the sentence. Just messin' with you. ; )
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 17, 2010 - 11:25pm PT
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I would also preface any of my acid stories with a disclaimer similar to that of Bluey.
One of my favorite things to do was first, find some good clean acid. It makes all the difference in the world. Deadheads usually had the cleanest stuff. Then, on a moonless night, I would drive solo up to Castle Rock. In those days the park was closed at night but you could still park legally at the gate south of the main parking lot. The pitch blackness was awesome when tripping, and I knew of several caves that would resonate with the human voice, but that's not the real fun. Sooner or later, the rangers would see my vehicle and go up to Castle to check it out. I would grab a handful of rocks and climb up to the top and wait. The rangers would come up with lights and bullhorns looking for someone. At the top of Castle, if you lay down they can't see you from the bottom. Very quietly I would toss off the pebbles to various locations around the rock and sit and try not to laugh too hard. I did that about three times before all the signage for illegal overnight parking went up. Good times.
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Bowser
Trad climber
Red River NM
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Mar 17, 2010 - 11:26pm PT
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My wife and I schroomed hard at the Pimps and Hoes party at Taos Ski Valley back in 2003 or so. We just stood there amongst all the partiers tripping on the music, costumes, pictures on the walls.... There were two identical pictures on opposite corners of the room of a man in a derby hat holding a gun. Anywhere I was in the room the guy was pointing his gun at me......
Man, those things taste awefull!
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jstan
climber
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Mar 17, 2010 - 11:36pm PT
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I have never used any enhancers because I find the world wonderfully interesting as it is. Every moment is an adventure. I want to be there to see it.
In the 60's and 70's to my knowledge none of my climbing friends were into it either. Definitely not seriously. One climber who was just really enjoyable to be around had tried acid for a time but had quit cold. He said the stuff is bad. He said using it started to do damage.
I have not followed this field over the years. But it increasingly appears he may have been right.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Mar 17, 2010 - 11:37pm PT
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Bluering were you tripping when you wrote this?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Mar 17, 2010 - 11:42pm PT
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Was given mushrooms before a ski marathon...i thought they were rancid dried pineapples and devoured them trying to get a quick snack before the race....had a 101 body temp....part way thru the race i began laughing uncontrolably and couldn't continue....I stopped next to this guy named Dennis Miller whom i was suddenly on the same wavelength with....the next day i was healed and went bouldering and was trying to make the last move to the top of a moderate problem and every time i'd start to step up , a raven would dive bomb me....the bird finally landed nearby and watched me as i quickly escaped...never again.....! rj
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Mar 17, 2010 - 11:52pm PT
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Back in '78 or so, my brother and I dropped some purple microdot. We had started playing backgammon that year pretty seriously with some other loser friends. I was checking out backgammon books from the city library that had not been checked out since the '30s. We were into our backgammon.
We were playing as the acid took effect. One of us rolled the dice, the game being close to ending. We looked at the roll.
"Hey, if I play this move, I win. If I play this move, the game changes against me."
And so the game went the other way, all the men scurried around to the other side. One of us was about to win and rolled. We looked at the dice.
"Hey, if I play this move, I win. If I play this move, the game changes against me."
And so the game went the other way, all the men scurried around to the other side. One of us was about to win and rolled. We looked at the dice.
So, you all know where this is going? We played one game all night, the men flowing back and forth, back and forth. And we had total control.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:06am PT
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Effin eh, Pate, that is shweet. Only 7.5K? I work with a gal whose father is good buds with S. Clay Wilson. She has several signed originals of "Checkered Demon" and "Captain Pissgums". She has no clue of their value or why.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
mun jae upso yo
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:08am PT
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Pffft.
We mostly tripped in the open sea.....When you know you're 6000 miles from shore.
You're sailin' around. A slight distraction? Sure.....Count me in.
I do like the shrooms better, though.
Just another flava.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:16am PT
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Shrooms eh? Anyone ever try the fabled Amanita Muscaria? I found and did them in Tuolumne Meadows once. Talk about a mystical journey... Whew. The next day I went looking for more and found a bunch, but somehow I never got the courage to do them again. Nothing like LSD or psylocybin.
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:39am PT
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"I haven't done TONS of acid thank God, just enough to come close to seeing God on several occasions."
More like you came close to seeing Satan.
God/Jesus, does not use mind altering substances to bring you closer to Him.
You are deceiving yourself and others Bluey, you are fortunate to have not had a bad result(as in really bad result).
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:39am PT
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I dosed in 8th grade and had a way~too~heavy trip to th B side of Combat Rock.
Swore I'd never do it again.
Way to redeem yourself Bluerring!
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arsenalcrater
Trad climber
Vista, CA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:59am PT
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I will never touch the sh#t again, but I had a blast while I could hang. The last time I took acid, I took four blotters of somewhat decent sh#t, but I crashed hard, and my girlfriend of the day was ready to call the paramedics; I slept for almost 48 hours straight afterwards. Anyways...
...the first time was in 1984 while living in San Francisco. We were going to go see Metallica at the Mabuahy Gardens (anyone remember the Mab, Rock on Broadway, The Stone? Those were the days!). Anyways, we had the inside that "The Four Horsemen" were Metallica, and there was no way we were going to miss the show. The only question was, what to do.
One of the gang got a hold of some acid. Anyways, it was four-way window pane, and I took four (sixteen total, but you know...) hits as my first trip. Well, sixteen hits of some pretty clean sh#t along with intense underground thrash metal led to a very powerful experience. It would be extremely intense to be able to pass along this trip on to someone else, and I wish I could have bottled it.
I imagine many of you very fine folks had great experiences during your hippie regime and your summer of love. Imagine that you were a teenager during the trash metal revolution of the 80's living in San Francisco and experiencing the Bay Area Trash revolution of the time while on tripping on LSD. It was not as well know or widespread, but it was insane nontheless.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:14am PT
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i used to deal shrooms for a while, eat em every day.
acid and shrooms and the electric guitar, maybe a keg of beer,
got chased by the cops on acid, which is the worst trip in the world.
got away by running like hell, thank you cross country training.
Mr Garnel, a bald hi school chem teacher, his face started melting one time.
bad sh#t to get attacked by a mtn lion while your on acid,
hey ring, i torched my shoulder last weekend, so could not climb.
think it is coming back for the shindig, almost canceled out,
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:20am PT
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I knew plenty of climbers who took psychedelics back in the '60's and 70's, including peyote, which no one has yet mentioned. In fact many of these climbers and myself as well, did our experiments before psychedelics were made illegal in 1966.
Some got interested in spiritual disciplines as a result, and some of us discovered that intense meditation can produce the same colorful perceptions with out the bad trips. God is not LSD or serotonin, but those chemicals and others, do give one a glimpse into something so intense and beautiful, they have the potential to shake one's world view forever and provide the impetus to work on a part of our mind that our materialist society knows almost nothing about. Working on the unconscious is called purifying the soul in older traditions and done in order to make space for the truly spiritual.
Tripping for the fun of it, will show you the nature of your unconscious which is not always fun, but not lead to any lasting positive changes.
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:22am PT
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Rokjoc- "777 try reading the research on the subject."
When i was at San Jose State U.(92-95)I did a paper for my undergrad degree in Occupational Therapy on LSD and used Post-Doctorate work by several noted Prof's from SFSU and Berkley. Also by Dr. David Smith(founder of the HA Free Clinic). All I can say is that i was fully submersed in their work and findings, along with T. Leary et al.
I was a part of that decade(60's)having graduated from highschool in 1968 in So. California.
Rokjok- "What makes YOU think you know how God does His work?
I was assuming bluering worships the same God that I came to know as an 8 yr. old(R. Catholic)! His name is JESUS!!
You can read about Him in the Holy Bible!
I don't consider myself arrogant, just acquainted with the subject of God the Holy Spirit through reading about Him as He commands us to do.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:23am PT
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it the exteriorization you are after.
but not too much! controled exteriorization, which leads to enlightenment.
they had an Altered States of Conciousness class at UC Davis back in 73.
unfortunately, there was no Lab with that class.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:31am PT
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Q What did the Deadhead say when the acid stopped working?
A Man, that music is bad.
Never tried the stuff myself, though I've had some interesting effects from anaesthetics and painkillers when in hospital.
Somewhere I read that many of the effects from LSD are visual in nature. They (not sure who "they" is) gave some test subjects LSD and a placebo, and then into isolation chambers. Presumably with some sort of hidden observation, in case something went wrong. Those who'd received LSD, in utter darkness and stillness, experienced relatively little. Apart presumably from the brain rewiring part - the drug must still do that part.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 18, 2010 - 02:18am PT
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I wasn't criticizing, merely teasing a bit by repeating an old joke. And commenting (briefly) about the effects of LSD. Assuming that use of LSD is a prerequisite to 'understanding' it, I wouldn't (and didn't) claim to understand it. But that doesn't seem a reason not to add a bit to the discussion.
Please check http://supertopo.com/climbers-forum/585940/Albert_Hofmann_RIP
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 02:40am PT
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Colonel Doug was a regular at the the restaurant I work at for years. He died recently after a long and interesting life. He was an Officer in WWII, Korea and in the states during Nam. He was a man of honor and character that one would never forget. He told me the story one night of how he took part in early army LSD experiments. What I remember is that Doug said it sure was strange and got through it o.k. but a few others in the program didn't fare as well.
I guess some folks just aren't wrapped tight enough to deal with what the drug can do to you. Personally, I have seen more people "lose it" on other drugs more than I have seen on acid. Shrooms is probably number one in my experience. The scariest trip I have had was on shrooms. I was tripping too heavy and heard a gram of Niacin would bring you down. I didn't hear about the flushing from niacin. It scared the crap out of me. Young fool I was.
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Mar 18, 2010 - 03:49am PT
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Rokjox- "Or does God REALLY consult you in how He does His work?"
Yes He "REALLY does consult not only me, but anyone who desires to know Him. How, YOU may ask? Through His Holy Word, the Bible.
BTW, my origional post was to bluey, in regards to his proclaiming to be a Christian, and God does ask us Christians to rebuke or exhort our fellow believers in Christ. So I felt compelled to do so.
Rokjox- "Meant to be studied and used."
Studied and used by MD.'s(such as morphine)KNOTT ABUSED!!
I go by the Word of God. And I assumed bluey did also.
What you go by is your choice Rok!
BTW, there are poison mushrooms out there(always sad to here about poor migrant workers who come up to the US to make a better life for their family's and find a bunch of mushrooms up in Northern Cali or somewhere and cook up a bunch and die). Why? I don't know why! We live in a fallen world, and there is another very powerful spirtual charecter that you mentioned that hates the human race. He is the Destroyer and does this through desception, makes bad look good.
One thing I am certain of is that Satan deceives with drugs by getting people to think that this is as good as it gets. Or that they are experiencing some higher spiritual plane/heaven on earth. It is a lie.
But this is what the Judeo/Christian Bible say's, and you evidently go by some other source/belief system.
And have already made up your mind...so be it. I was just responding to bluey anyway.
Edit: Like I said, I was just responding to bluey's opening statement about getting closer to God/Jesus(you do believe Jesus is God, right bluey??) through acid...Really bluey!!
BTW, acid was fifty(50)times stronger back in the 60's compared to today, according to all the studies that were being conducted by the aforementioned practitioners(up-thread). The 60's were an experience alright, even if you went to a concert comparatively sober. Guy's and gals runinig around barking like dogs etc. I was there...were you???
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 03:54am PT
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simmer down...
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Mar 18, 2010 - 04:06am PT
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There are plenty of jesus threads and damn few acid ones, let's not go mucking it up now...
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Mar 18, 2010 - 04:15am PT
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I'll check back in after summer tour.
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tradchick
Trad climber
Vermont
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Mar 18, 2010 - 07:34am PT
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I took anything I could get my hands on for a few years when I was in high school in the mid 70's. Mostly acid, supplemented with mushrooms, peyote, mescaline....at least 2 or 3 times a week.
We'd go out and just walk around and watch buildings melt etc.
Used to sit in 3rd year french lab, mesmerized by the woodgrain in the desk.
Remember trying to sit down with the fam for dinner and my food crawling off my plate. My parents were clueless.
Had 1 bad trip when I was 17, saw hideous things, never touched the stuff again.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Mar 18, 2010 - 08:55am PT
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i have a piece of shite ol truck that i adore and roll proudly.
i've used it for scaffolding, bike jumps, heavy equipment, a crane, and other burdensome activities.
she shows wear for the better.
a some point the hood got caved in and crinkled from scampering feet.
the funniest thing now happens, though.
when i arrive at my destination, and turn off the engine,
within 30 seconds, my hood reacts to the differential change in heat above and below it, and in doing so issues this most serene 'gong' type sound. every time i kill the engine.
i swear that all the dents around the hood tuned this special noise to perfection.
once i showed up to a party, and all the hoooligans were milling about a fire, in silence beneath the stars. i pulled into the vicinity, turned off the engine, and waited for her song.
the next moments, supertopo, you'll have to author for me.
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Prod
Trad climber
Dodge Sprinter Dreaming
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Mar 18, 2010 - 10:00am PT
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I saw 372 Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band shows between '85 and '95.
I held you in higher regard. When we meet, please don't ever schubby in my presence.
Prod.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Green Cove slabbage BITD!
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:13am PT
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Dock Ellis is the MAN!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:14am PT
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"I haven't done TONS of acid thank God, just enough to come close to seeing God on several occasions."
More like you came close to seeing Satan.
Have seen both,
and know the difference.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:58am PT
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"Those who'd received LSD, in utter darkness and stillness, experienced relatively little."
John Lilly, in his book "Center of the Cyclone: Looking Into Inner Space" describes his consciousness research using LSD in isolation tanks, and a LOT happened. Fascinating read.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:46pm PT
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In the 60's and 70's to my knowledge none of my climbing friends were into it either. Definitely not seriously. One climber who was just really enjoyable to be around had tried acid for a time but had quit cold. He said the stuff is bad. He said using it started to do damage.
I have not followed this field over the years. But it increasingly appears he may have been right.
I'm sure you would be more circumspect in your offerings on a subject less taboo or where you were aware of what you don't know.
The inventor of LSD recently died, after hundreds of trips, at over 100 years old. His son had died long earlier in his early 50s from alcoholism. There is no fatal known dose of LSD. It is not physiologically addictive and not known to be psychologically addictive either. Studies showing it could be a miracle treatment for certain psychological challenges like alcoholism were shut down by the government.
If you research the proven physiological/neurological damage caused by LSD, you'll find almost nothing...nothing! Most the pills in your medicine chest are worse.
Problem is, LSD opens the doors inside that our twisted psyches are afraid to peer within. That can spook you and our weak minds misinterpret what we find. It's one of the most powerful drugs ever discovered and yet people think to experiment at a party or something. You can drink a glass of wine in church or a bottle in the gutter.
It's not for that. It's a tool for knowing what is inside you and dissecting your illusions. (not creating new ones)
Peace
Karl
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Robb
Social climber
The Greeley Triangle
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:06pm PT
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Not to drift too much, but since we're on the vitamin L topic I am curious about the following:
How many trips have you taken?
What was your favorite type; blotter, barrel, window pane,etc?
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Outside
Trad climber
Truckee
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:12pm PT
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Karl Said:
"If you research the proven physiological/neurological damage caused by LSD, you'll find almost nothing...nothing! Most the pills in your medicine chest are worse"
Haha....what a bunch of BS....no offense Karl...this is absurd!
It's all about the dose not the drug.
Ask any of the Deadheads like me who have numerous friends that are permanently messed up from too much LSD...too many shrooms...
Toxicology is all about the "Dose" no pun intended...
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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:17pm PT
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I just lead the Acid Crack on preplaced gear in Joshua Tree last Sunday. Bitchin line with some truly amazing movement. Now I need to clean it up and do it while placing gear. That's the closest to Acid I've ever come.
Josh
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:39pm PT
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The first time I saw, "A Clockwork Orange," I was dosing. Hoh Man! The first time I saw, "Star Wars," ditto. As I was coming out of the the theater, my buddy tossed a frisbee up in the air and it was coming down right for my head. I didn't see it and at the last second after he yelled, I turned and caught it inches from my face and calmly said, "Use the force, Luke." We laughed for what seems an hour, but probably at least a solid five minutes or two.
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Outside
Trad climber
Truckee
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:57pm PT
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"Were your "Friends" ONLY taking LSD during those concerts???...
Or were OTHER drugs or ETOH involved???...
Also...
Karl was speaking SPECIFICALLY about LSD...
I NOTICE in the ABOVE that you also include "SHROOMS"...
Sort of makes YOUR FRIENDS "Experiments" NOT VALID..."
Both.....One friend was just on mushies for an extended period of time...he's gone....never will recover..
2 or 3 other people I know just LSD.....they are also messed up mentally and they will tell you that it sucks because they can't think right anymore...
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:59pm PT
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Haoma, ergot, wine, acid, peyote, mushrooms, sensory deprivation even fasting, religious experience seems to tease psychosis in its effort to find "god."
It's an interesting relationship.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Mar 18, 2010 - 02:01pm PT
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"If you research the proven physiological/neurological damage caused by LSD, you'll find almost nothing...nothing! Most the pills in your medicine chest are worse"
Haha....what a bunch of BS....no offense Karl...this is absurd!
It's all about the dose not the drug.
Ask any of the Deadheads like me who have numerous friends that are permanently messed up from too much LSD...too many shrooms...
Toxicology is all about the "Dose" no pun intended...
You can say "absurd" or "BS" all you like but give me a credible link that points to any significant physiological or neurological damage seriously linked to LSD. Should be easy. The CIA and the military studied it and people have been using it for many years.
There are plenty of messed up people who have tried and not tried everything. Most of us are messed up and don't know. Some took LSD and now they know! That's another matter, much like not letting 11 year olds get married or have sex. It's not for everyone.
Peace
Karl
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 02:07pm PT
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You want to talk scary, then mention Jimsonweed or Datura. I met a guy years ago that told me he and two friends tried it. One died, the other was institutionalized for years and this dude probably should have been also.
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Quasimodo
Trad climber
CA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 03:51pm PT
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I used LSD about twenty times in the late 70s. I thought LSD would answer many nagging questions; Who I am I? What is my purpose in life? What is true spirituality? What is reality?
Finally, one fine day I took about 6 times the normal dose. I had an out-of-body experience that seemed to mimic the death experince. I was surprised that the feeling was "warm" and appealing.
I quit after that experience realizing it was a complete dead end. I found that looking inward created isolation. I felt alone and miserable doing drugs.
For me connecting with people makes life fulfilling. Looking inward just creates despair.
John Lilly did some studies that showed the same LSD effects in an isolation tank. The isolation tank experince does not require two days to feel normal again.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Mar 18, 2010 - 04:17pm PT
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In Joshua Tree a few years ago, someone told me that BITD people would be tripping on stuff, and this was also the time of the Carlos Castenada book popularity(I tried to read it; couldn't keep interested. Same with the Trilogy of the Rings). But I did read the Lilly book mentioned above - I was fascinated with the sensory deprivation tanks. Would love to try it out someday(without acid).
Anyway - so this guy tells me that BITD, there was some bit in the Castenada story about being able to run at superfast speed and actually go "through" solid objects, and that the Stoners would be tripping and decide to try this running. So they'd take off as fast as possible, running through HV and all would be great for a bit and then....SMACK! Harpooned by a Yucca. hahahahah
This story was told to me as we were headed back from my first(and so far only) Chasm of Doom voyage. We got back to HVCG and stopped at one of the campsites to continue talking and partying, but after a while I was over that, since I don't drink and everyone else was definitely do so.
So, I headed back to my own campsite by myself. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a flash of energy. I am NOT lying! Someone was running through the middle of the big loop of HVCG at warp speed. Just like the story I had just been told.
And they didn't hit a yucca.
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jstan
climber
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Mar 18, 2010 - 04:36pm PT
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Despite various assurances that persons without medical training may safely dose themselves with these various substances, I remain unpersuaded. Just consider all of the side effects now being found for many of the widely used and FDA approved drugs. After many millions of doses. And as for drug interactions, we are only just beginning to catalog those, much less understand them.
There are alternative explanations for the phenomenon of finding "new realities" via psychedelic drugs. These questions may begin to receive systematic study probably only after the drugs have become commercially exploited - if then.
I believe it was Jan who suggested new states can be reached without the use of drugs. It clearly is more difficult but possible. The logic for staying organic till you know what you are doing with good statistical significance seems clear to this observer.
Others, of course, are free to do as they choose.
It would be helpful if such experiments were certain not subsequently to burden the taxpayer. I hate to sound like a conservative but there it is.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Mar 18, 2010 - 07:36pm PT
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I did dose again, after the heavy trip as a too~youngster, figuring if LSD could take me to such scary places, it surely could transport me someplace beautiful as well. It did, many times., and was the catalyst for positive changes in my life.
Then, after not doing it for years and years, figuring I was done~ that I'd seen the highest highs and lowest lows, I dosed again and went surfing on a perfect day. Best...thing...ever.
As we mature, so do our minds. If you think you've experienced it all, think again. You are a far different person than you were when you took it in the past., so the trip will also be very different.
Now, I am a proponent for
"cleaning the slate".
You never know...
I hate to enter the controversy fray, but...
As far as "seeing god" goes,
I read about the original founder of the Calvary Chapel (born again megachurch). He was a "Jesus freak" involved in tha Laguna Beach scene BITD. After an LSD experience reinforced his faith, he began performing baptisms in the ocean at Corona Del Mar and was known for having a powerful presence that really attracted other freaks. He later came out as a homosexual, and much later died of AIDS.
This dude has totally been written out of the history of Calvary Chapel. Sad and lame, but hen again would the CC be as powerful if all he followers knew that history?
Instead of "seeing god",
I think "religious experience" sums it up better. Something so transformational and ineffable...
101 Grateful Dead shows later...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 18, 2010 - 08:44pm PT
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The 'seeing God' reference was just a play on words. I hate having to spell sh#t out for y'all....
Yeah, I've only 'tripped' about 10-12 times. I think it's the kind of substance to be used sparingly. Once a year, as me and my buddy used to do. It should also only be done with people you know well, or are very comfortable with. I almost always dosed with the same guy. We would have annual (sometimes bi-annual) fishing trips where the goal was tripping one night.
We had both come to conclusions that dropping was most pleasant in an isolated surrounding where 'the law' wasn't around and where you had almost non-existent contact with others.
So one of my most memorable trips, after we had the sh#t dialed in, was to take my buddy's boat out to Don Pedro Reservoir. We launched the boat, parked his rig, and dropped on our way out to an obscure cove of the lake.
When we found a sweet spot we baited up the poles, tossed 'em out, and it kicked it. He had the seats that extend out so you can lay down horizontally comfortably. So we just lay there staring up, watching the star-filled sky.
Occasionally I'd try to watch my line on my pole for activity, but eveytime I looked at it, it was a spider-web of lines (traces).
We'd arrived at about midnight. We stayed up tripping hard on the Berkeley sh#t we scored all night.
What was fascinating, was I could actually see the motion of the galaxy around us. I could watch constellation move over time. I could see the movement of our orbit. It was fascinating. It seemed like 2 hours but was more like 6. And watching dawn come was weird too.
We caught no fish that day. But that was probably the best trip I'd ever had. Just too hard to explain acid-trips in words....
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 18, 2010 - 10:25pm PT
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One constant in the various Hindu and Buddhist retreats I have gone to over the years among people who grew up in the '60's and 70's, is that the people there got interested in the spiritual life as a result of taking psychedelics.
Another constant over the years, is that the leaders of these organizations require their serious followers to give up psychedelics, channeling, and hypnotism when they are initiated to the higher levels so that they will be able to distinguish between their own minds and the effects of those outside themselves.
Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary's collaborator at Harvard, later known as Ram Das, describes his guru in India telling him that the mind can control even powerful drugs like LSD (after Richard badgered him to take the drug to see how wonderful it was and if it related to what the guru was describing meditation could produce).The guru took a huge hit of pure stuff and according to Richard, showed no signs of being affected at all.
This seems to back up what has been said earlier, that either psychedelics taken properly or meditation, can help a person clear out their unconscious. It may also indicate that in the process of living improperly (accumulating bad karma, having bad karma done to us), we impede the flow of our own natural brain chemistry and that the drugs and meditation flush it out and leave us at best, in our own natural God/evolution intended state. The Tibetan system of meditation is called Vajrayana, meaning it is a hard and brilliant (vajra means lightning bolt) but also a dangerous path requiring a spiritual director who has been through it before.
Then there is the Zen saying, "When I began to meditate, mountains were mountains and rivers were rivers. After I had meditated awhile, nothing was as it seemed. After I had meditated a long time, mountains were again mountains, and rivers rivers".
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Mar 18, 2010 - 10:29pm PT
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Two well known climbers back in the 60s did two El Cap routes in one week. After the second climb, on the summit, they each took 500 ug (a lot) and hardly felt it.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 18, 2010 - 10:41pm PT
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Two well known climbers back in the 60s did two El Cap routes in one week. After the second climb, on the summit, they each took 500 ug (a lot) and hardly felt it.
This would seem to verify the body-mind connection spoken of in meditation circles and also validate from the evolutionary point of view, that most of modern man's ills come from not living the life our evolution intended, with lots of exercise and mental challenge.
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drunkenmaster
Social climber
santa rosa
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Mar 18, 2010 - 10:58pm PT
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my friend marcos (the first person i ever climbed with) and i back in high school (before we ever climbed) had heard that taking 1 hit of acid on 30 different occasions (or something like that, its been awhile) would make you certifiably insane - - so we tried it! the first 30 days (or so) of high school were spent TriPpiN!! so am i insane? or was i already to even try!? i do think it and shrooms open your mind and body and heart to strong emotions and ideas and that is priceless. but like anything too much or the wrong dose at the wrong time could take you in the wrong direction and give you a bad trip - bad trip = no fun. weed is good for me now. and of course booze but look out for that, its a cheap dirty high.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 18, 2010 - 10:59pm PT
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What strikes me about the spider web photos Eric posted is that the normal drug free spider, the one on hash, and the one on LSD all produced similar webs compared to the spiders on mescaline and caffeine. The differences between the three similar ones are perhaps, a metaphor for both drugs and life.
The normal spider spun an intricate web with numerous cross hatches - a very bourgoise and ordered thread, with everything linked and bound to everything else.
The thread on hash was very similar, only not as tightly bound to all its elements, and the job was not as complete.
The web spun by the spider on LSD went straight to the center, with no clinging or attachments along the way.
All three of these webs had a dense center and looked, especially the LSD web, like a kind of mandala, whereas the mescaline and especially the caffeine influenced thread, were spun at random with no center.The caffeine induced web in particular seemed to reflect modern life - energetic, distracted, randomly helter skelter, and no unifying center at all.
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kingpin
climber
methdeathsto ca
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:08pm PT
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I took some acid with some friends years ago, not the first time. We hung out for a while and the effects seemed very mild. I chocked it up to our doses being weak and went home (parents house) after enjoying the very mild trip with my friends. After getting out of my truck, driving on acid is dumb I know, I noticed something laying in the road. Upon closer inspection I determined it was a severed human thumb. Being unable to resist the urge to touch it I reached out. Just before I made contact, it jumped away. After nearly collapsing, I looked again only to discover that it was actually a toad!
Acid is a hell of a drug.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:12pm PT
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Very insightful Jan.
And squares with experience.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:17pm PT
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Spider webs as mandalas and spider webs as psychological profiles - do I detect a unified field theory?
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:19pm PT
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Well,
You may detect anthropomorphism.
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:31pm PT
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drljefe- "I read the origional founder..."
I "hate entering the fray" as a matter of fact, as of late I disdain it, but when false allegations etc are constantly springing up on this forum I try and correct them.
Chuck Smith started Calvary Chapel(1965)and is still alive and well. A married couple joined Calvary Chapel early on(after it had been in existence for several years)by the name of Lonnie Frisbee and I don't recall his wife's name. He was simply another member of the church that grew into what it is today.
He was a closet homosexual, and eventually died of aids around 1990. He left the church in the late seventies/early eighties.
There is no big cover-up/scandal, never was. And once again he was not an origional founder! GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT! He was simply one of the early members of the church. He used acid once before he became a Christian, so what.
Chuck Smith still is the head pastor of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa. There are Calvary Chapel churches all over the world know.
Baptisms in the rivers and oceans have been going on for thousands of years, Jesus was baptised in the Jordan River.
Do a little research next time...eh. Althogh it is pretty typical of the world/media, no big surprise.
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:36pm PT
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I'm sure those web studies were carefully designed and controlled, not a result of some anti-drug agenda. Furthermore, it is impossible to correlate these types of animal studies with potential effects on humans. We can never have any idea what any drug does to the animal mind, especially when comparing insects to mammals.
Too much propaganda, not enough controlled science in this area.
Humans will always find some way to change their perception. It's just the curious nature of the beast. Read "Storming Heaven" by Jay Stevens for a brilliant synopsis of the history of psychedelics.
Also, LSD hasn't been available outside of research labs since The Bear got shut down. It is a very difficult synthesis and too many places to create mistakes that lead to what most people have been taking since the early 70s. It's not that it's laced with speed or strychnine or anything else, it's just poorly made. Go natural if you want the real thing.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:39pm PT
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Go natural if you want the real thing.
Heavenly Blue?
or
Pearly Gates?
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:51pm PT
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bluering- "The 'seeing God' reference was just a play on words. I hate to have to spell sh#t out for y'all."
And then you wonder why people call/single you out as a this and that. I guess they are having dificulty taking you seriously.
I think you just gave another lame excuse for your lack of credibility.
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Mar 19, 2010 - 12:10am PT
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eric beck- "two climbers took..."
I was just thinking about the rumor in regards to Jim M. and that he had taken a hit of acid, or perhaps mescaline before his tragic end. Back in the 70's(early)this was the rumor circulating C4 back then.
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MisterE
Social climber
Across Town From Easy Street
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Mar 19, 2010 - 12:16am PT
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I did a quarter of a hit of 4-way windowpane, made by a family-friend chemist when I was 8 years old, I remember the exacto-blade cutting the crystal pyramid, cupping so the shards didn't pop away, the subsequent bobbing maple leaves that looked like chinese men as we sat on a hill overlooking the south fork of the Nooksack river. I remember being happy when I was scared that I was with people I loved and trusted.
I have celebrated this awakening, I have ranted about the indecency.
It remains.
Sorry Bluey, for getting pissed and re-hashing old crap. I guess the fact that you bug me shows I care.
Funny you should start this thread just after...
Peace, Erik
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MisterE
Social climber
Across Town From Easy Street
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Mar 19, 2010 - 12:21am PT
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Oh, and Ricky D was right! This picture belongs here!
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Mar 19, 2010 - 12:56am PT
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My sister Cecelia worked the "Pillow Room" (Bad Trip room)at the Haight Free Clinic. She's probably got the goods on half you guys.
Best one-ledges above C4
Worst one- bathroom mirror.
Long ago...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 19, 2010 - 01:30am PT
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I haven't done TONS of acid, thank God. Just enough to come close to seeing God on several occasions.
Tripl7, read above. It was a play on words, dude. I wasn't implying that it was LITERALLY a way to see God, just a way to see things we normally cannot see, or choose not to see.
Lighten up, dude. F*#k, you people are rough. lately. Talk about cabin fever!
EDIT: Yeah, Joey, STAY AWAY FROM THE MIRRORS!!!! Wow! Not good!
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Mar 19, 2010 - 01:51am PT
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Bluey- "It was a play on words."
OK dude, I understand that aspect of it.
blue- "you people are rough lately"
Well, just maybe, some of them "people" care about ya!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 19, 2010 - 02:12am PT
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Erik, I'm not sure if I understand your point. Elaborate.
Tripl7, it's cool. I just wanted clear things up.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 19, 2010 - 02:28am PT
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Some mirrors can be gateways, if your ready. If not, use them to shave.
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KitKat
Trad climber
South Lake Tahoe
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Mar 19, 2010 - 05:23am PT
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Hey Pate,
Remember New Orleans 89? SICK....
Did you make it to any of the Grateful Dawg shows? SICK...
Glad to see some fellow heads on here!
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Mar 19, 2010 - 10:44am PT
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Trip7~
Sorry if I offened you. What I read about Lonnie Frisbee was presented as an "expose" in an OC paper years ago. I thought the story was fascinating but can see where members of CC would be bummed and dispute and want to dispute it. You obviously know way more about bornagain megachurch stuff, and I'm OK with that. I was not knocking you or your faith even though I still believe what I read about Frisbee.
One question, how is it being the "neighbor of the beast". THAT was a joke, see, smiley face ;~) !!!
Laguna Beach was, from what I've read and from old timers I know, was kind of the epicenter. The Brotherhood, the Hippie Mafia, Rainbow Bridge....
And Bluering, I only mentioned "seeing god" cuz others had honed in on it. No need to spell it out, for me at least.
It's all good!
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Mar 19, 2010 - 11:10pm PT
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Road trips
and
paper strips!
BUMP
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Redlands
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Mar 19, 2010 - 11:18pm PT
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Jefe: 110+ Panic, 80+ Dead, 50+ Phish, and double digit MMW, Grisman Quintet, Moe shows from 90 to 98. Hmm, some Blues Traveler shows, a dozen Allman Bros shows.You tell me.
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brotherbbock
Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Mar 19, 2010 - 11:32pm PT
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Went to that place inside my head for stretches of unknown time......only to snap out to a reality that was equally confusing and nonsensical.
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pyrosis
Trad climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Mar 20, 2010 - 07:01am PT
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Word, Rox. Good post. :)
And to whoever said there wasn't any real stuff since Owsley.. Well, I guess they didn't know the Rainbow Family.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 20, 2010 - 07:45am PT
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IT'S A DRUG ! Stop thinking your hallucinations were more than what reality offers.
I would argue the reverse since these same states can be reached naturally through meditation. All the drugs do is open up something that was already there, which is suppressed by the exigencies of thousands of years of recent survival and social normality.
Extraordinary sensations and perceptions are our evolutionary birthright. If they exist within our brain, they are real at least within the confines of our brain and maybe also on a more subtle plane that the drugs gives us access to. When they become great pieces of art, music, or poetry, they manefest in the outside physical world.
Labeling new sensations and thoughts as too far out to be real, is the true hallucination, the true opiate of the masses.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Mar 20, 2010 - 01:05pm PT
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LSD is like Supertopo. You aren't seeing anything that's not really there, but you don't know if you can trust your feelings about what you do see. Each becomes food for thought and considering an alternate view
Unlike LSD, Supertopo allows you to do it everyday for long periods. There should be a law against this place!
Peace
Karl
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2010 - 01:30pm PT
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I never hallucinated.
I wanted hallucinations. I wanted to see the dragon. Any dragon. Instead I saw that the woman next to me inhaled life, and exhaled perfume.
I agree Rocky, somewhat. You usually only hallucinate the first couple of times because it's so new and unexpected. This is a danger too and why I said earlier you should do your first trips with 'experienced' people (Have you ever been...experienced?---> Jimi).
Once you learn to understand and harness the DRUG, it is way more easy to control. You can almost control the voyage, take it places you want to go, as opposed to being sent on an unguided mission to who knows where.
That can be very dangerous. It is a super-powerful substance that really shouldn't be 'played' with, despite what we all did to initially experiment with it.
Before I gave it up I was quite proficient with controlling it. Of course I was doing it in controlled environments that I selected (isolated camping with a veteran/trusted tripping partner) and I knew what to expect, I knew where I wanted to go.
Amazing substance. I always found shrooms a little bit harder to control, maybe because of the inherent organic differences between batches, sources. It was a bit more hallucinogenic than LSD.
Of course almost all my LSD trips were off that white-blotter sheet we bought in Berkeley. I think, to this day, my buddy still has some doses in his freezer. It's kinda cool to be able to keep dosing the same batch. Results are always the same.
It was pretty good stuff. 3 or 4 hits sent you flyin'!!!! Very clean too. Prolly made by some under-grad chemist.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
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Mar 20, 2010 - 02:07pm PT
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I'll never forget the first time i did it. Two hits of really good liquid, raging house party, thirteen years old. I could see the vibrations coming out of the DJ's speakers. they were green. Or the 80 plus times after that. I once ate 13 hits through out the night. Everything turned to fractals. Or the time jumping off a bridge into a river at 7 in the AM. or finding a piece of road pavement in a river (same river, different time) at 6 in the am, being bummed out about human pollution, then turning it over to find a plant growing out of it. I think we realized that Mother Earth would take back over...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2010 - 02:23pm PT
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being bummed out about human pollution, then turning it over to find a plant growing out of it. I think we realized that Mother Earth would take back over...
Doesn't that say it all.....
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2010 - 04:05pm PT
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So bluey, you think the proper approach to environmental policy can be summed up by a "realization" someone had while on LSD? Sounds like you put a lot of "thought" into understanding the complexities of how nature works.
No.
As usual, you're extrapolating from what I said. Nothing should be taken seriously from a doser. It's all relative, man. It;s not science at all. It's a personal experience with no basis in fact.
It's a trip, riding a drug. It has to be interpreted carefully.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
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Mar 20, 2010 - 04:18pm PT
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Bluey, well said about it all being relative. I think that time we found the pavement, we were 4 hits into a a heavy trip and walking up a river we spent our childhood swimming and playing in. Few years later and we were crawling up it like mud monsters, spun out of our gourds.
But finding the pavement and the realization that came with it: that is a typical example of the way your are able to interpret the world when your mind has been split open by heavy doses. i wouldn't say ingesting the actual chemical is healthy, but the thoughts and ideas that come with it can be amazing, even after the high is gone. i wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for all the LSD and mushrooms.
Like the Greatful Dead said..."wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world..."
on that note, I haven't tripped out in years, I feel that I got what I need from it. When I was in high school, I had no worries, no pressing issues wighing heavy on the back of my mind. These days, it all comes out, and I find that I am not able to relax and let go, dive into it. The last time was perfect, we drank some tea and bouldered till 3 in the am. I remember dancing on the top of a boulder to Frank Zappa singing "My guitar wants to kill you mamma"
and now, I think, I am finished.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 20, 2010 - 06:23pm PT
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Psychedelics enabled a whole generation of suburbanites to experience what shamans and whole tribes have experienced since the beginning of time. Few would condemn Native Americans who ingest psychedeics as part of their religion, so why the double standard in regard to the children of the routinized, mechanistic society the rest of us live in, for doing the same?
There were a few tragedies along the way. On the other hand, six kids I went to school with (my graduating class was 50) were killed in car accidents by the age of 18, due to teenage drinking and driving. I'm quite sure the trippers got more that was valuable for life out of their drug than the drinkers ever did.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2010 - 07:34pm PT
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i wouldn't say ingesting the actual chemical is healthy, but the thoughts and ideas that come with it can be amazing, even after the high is gone. i wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for all the LSD and mushrooms.
Like the Greatful Dead said..."wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world..."
on that note, I haven't tripped out in years, I feel that I got what I need from it. When I was in high school, I had no worries, no pressing issues wighing heavy on the back of my mind. These days, it all comes out, and I find that I am not able to relax and let go, dive into it. The last time was perfect, we drank some tea and bouldered till 3 in the am. I remember dancing on the top of a boulder to Frank Zappa singing "My guitar wants to kill you mamma"
and now, I think, I am finished.
Badda-bing!!!! i agree....
Glad I took the rides, don't need it now. I've seen it.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 20, 2010 - 08:05pm PT
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I took peyote once, acid twice and it changed my world view forever.
After that I lived with Tibetans and Sherpas and saw amazing things I would not have been open to without it. The next step was to meditate as they did and get to the same places without the drugs.
The next stage seems to be trying to see the world with fresh eyes, original insights, and few to no preconceptions everyday, without either drugs or meditation. Not there yet.
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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Mar 21, 2010 - 04:05pm PT
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Well... it's not for everyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yWZcsgwF8&NR=1
I had many [bad trips]. Jesus Christ. I stopped taking it cause of that. I mean I just…couldn’t stand it. I dropped it for I don’t know how long. Then I started taking it just before I met Yoko. I got a message that you should destroy your ego, and I did. I was reading that stupid book of Leary’s and all that stupid sh#t. We were going through the whole game that everybody went through. And I destroyed meself.
John Lennon, 1970 Rolling Stone interview
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Mar 21, 2010 - 04:08pm PT
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it's is completely cool to turn reality on it's lid,
and shake all of the change out of its pockets.
as long as you wisely invest the loose sense that you see wrolling down the sidewalk.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Green Cove slabbage BITD!
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Mar 21, 2010 - 04:32pm PT
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Ya know, wes, the theory of the guy in your video link is that people may be innately hardwired through our genes to appreciate the psychedelic experience.
This does not jibe with your dismissal of homo suburbanus' ability to find true meaning therein.
So, which is it?
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Mar 21, 2010 - 04:36pm PT
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weschrist, im beneath the government's blanket and it is not cozy under here.
all the songs of meaning are muffled.
i cant breath. the light is gone.
fears flourish. insecurity screams its lies.
who am i?
thus, unhearalded discipline.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 21, 2010 - 04:36pm PT
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If I were to drop acid (not at all likely), would I see this?
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Mar 21, 2010 - 04:38pm PT
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no mister mighty,
you wouldn't see. and that is the beauty.
in what lies behind the scene.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Green Cove slabbage BITD!
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Mar 21, 2010 - 05:02pm PT
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You use that line a lot?
We're all doing the best we can...lots of folks encounter drugs before they run into ancient cultures or 'yaqui wisdom' or rosary beads or what have ya. You can't fault people for trying.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Green Cove slabbage BITD!
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Mar 21, 2010 - 05:05pm PT
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um, the sex one. Forget it.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 21, 2010 - 07:05pm PT
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The entheogenic orgy of the late 60's and 70's was as much a legitimate spiritual experience as retrobolting El Cap into a sport crag is a legitimate climbing experience.
I do agree with this and I think you will find if you go to spiritual retreats where people got interested in more traditional forms of spirituality first through their use of psychedelics, that they only took it a few times and then moved on.
One of the big disappointments was how few people of all those who experimented used it for anything other than recreation. The dream of instant Nirvana was sold out to capitalism which laced acid with all that other stuff but also to the ancient desire of humans to have something for nothing.
At least with peyote you knew what you were getting and you suffered physically in order to enjoy (you will never know nausea until you ingest peyote) - a much more realistic experience with a lesson for life.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 21, 2010 - 08:03pm PT
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I remember when this LSD first hit the Bay Area big time in the 60's.
The "hippy" said I will take this "LSD" and become god.
He "took".....
He then stood on the peninsula commuter train tracks and said; "I am now god almighty and will stop the train!"
He did stop the train, after it ran him over ...........
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 21, 2010 - 08:13pm PT
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It's true it really happened.
If you go to the microfilm of the "San Francisco Chronicle" way back in those days you'll see all kinds of crazy sh'it that happened.
Another hippy fell down an elevator shaft on cid in Frisco and lived with minor injuries they said.
The hippy said it was a wonderful trip floating down .........
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Green Cove slabbage BITD!
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Mar 21, 2010 - 08:46pm PT
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I personally do not feel that I myself am in any position to tell another human being what did or did not constitute their 'legitimate' spiritual experience.
That's what popes are for.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 22, 2010 - 12:51am PT
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Pate-
What in the world is Lawassa?
Sounds like it could be the root they chew and spit out
and then drink again in parts of Polynesia?
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Mar 22, 2010 - 01:14am PT
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Rokjox-
I'm sitting here scratching my head as to how you think I agree with Weschrist? It seems like he and I are on opposite sides of the fence on almost every thread that has anything to do with religion, spirituality, or counter culture?
And I agree with your assessment of the hippies. I never was one but I participated in plenty of peace marches and other political acts to stop that horrible war and to bring about civil rights for all.
Heck, I even think it was dumb to introduce Canadian wolves to the lower 48.
So how is it you and I are on opposite sides and Weschrist and I are going over the edge together?
Help, somebody here must be hallucinating!
Is it me?
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enjoimx
Big Wall climber
SLO Cal
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Breaking Open The Head was written by Daniel Pinchbeck. I saw him speak at a music festival once. Great book. I like the parts about Burning Man, as I can personally relate to what he is saying.
Another great book on the subject, one of the best actually, is called "DMT: The Spirit Molecule"
DMT, a much more potent and serious psychedelic than acid, is actually also created by our own body, and is thought to be released upon death.
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kbstuffnpuff
Sport climber
State of Confusion
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I'm so completely wasted.
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Well, you are on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean!
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Sh#t, Dude
We never did acid what the f*#k are you talking about? Those route names in the valley were just made up to sound cool at the time.
FLOL.
Dogtown.
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dr. juicer kaniglio
Trad climber
san diego, ca
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What this thread is doing on Supertopo, I dont know.
I grew up in SLC Utah, and for whatever reason LSD was abundant, cheap, and very clean. I had'nt experienced it in about 12 years. I started taking whopping doses about age 14. By age 19 I had had enough.
For pure experimental purposes I took a fairly large dose about 3 weeks ago. It reminded me why I dont do that anymore. I dont regret the experience, but I kinda felt like I suffered through the experience. It was not inherently negative. Parts of it were amazing. For the most part I felt confused and yearned for sobriety.
As a kid I would take a large dose and just go through it, experience it, sober up, and do it again a few days later. In my opinion there are certainly lessons to be learned. I would not ever take psychedelics for recreation now because I dont find the experience "fun", like I used to for whatever reason. There are much better vehicles for psychedelic exploration around, like DMT, Sassafras, Molly, and Psylocybes. LSD, upon doing it again seemed trivial and pointless, though the hallucinations were very clean and amazing. I just don't think there is much to be gained from the LSD experience. Where as the other substances I mentioned, for me anyways, offer an experience I can learn from, and better myself from......Peace
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Wow...This is back to the front page...Most of my art was definitely influenced by the stuff...:)
I call this one..."Hypnotica"
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dr. juicer kaniglio
Trad climber
san diego, ca
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As I kinda mentioned in my previous post, the individual "trip" or experience which is usually hard to describe and usually ends up just sounding silly, is kind of irrelevant. What is the bigger picture? Why do we ingest this drug? What has it taught you? How does it affect humanity as a whole?
Fractal patterns are fun, but not much more IMO. Can this drug help our spiritual evolution?? Who cares about you describing your own silly trip about how f'ed up you were? Not me.
What can humanity as a whole learn from this drug??? If people can start answering these questions, I'll jump and and voice my opinion. Then another can voice theirs... and another. Then we can learn from each other. And ultimately work towards making this world a better place. A place where universal truths are understood, and the unnecesary seperation we all deal with everyday can be abolished.
We are truly all one. Seperation is an illusion. Lets start talking about "real stuff", and important things like this, and this website will be worth something. Something that can better humanity. Instead of just useless BS, thats mostly about entertainment, and pumping the ego up. THINK ABOUT IT... THE INTERNET IS AN AMAZINGLY POWERFUL VEHICLE FOR HUMAN EVOLUTION. Lets stop wasting time "shooting the shit", and get down to some real topics.......... Peace
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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Are you trippin?
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krutley
climber
here, now
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2 things. when i lived in idyllwild late 70's', there was this guy (rotten-toothed Roy), who'd eat acid if he thought he was catchin a cold. I don't think i ever knew when he was trippin or not. I think it was just a distraction, like comics, no intention behind it, conditioning. My take.
One day my buddy John E and I dosed at the bottom of some 3 pitch bolted face on Suicide Rock, by the 3rd pitch, which he led, i was breathing funny, amazed at how tiny 1/4" bolt is, sticking halfway out, rock melting, etc. I think even at the time i was more concerned about bragging up the experience than the experience itself. Another lesson lost.
For me, acid and 12-step just provide tools. then you move on. done.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Shrooms go well with sking. Acid goes well with outdoor nature walks. haven't done any of that stuff in decades. last acid experience 1980...
Climbing itself is the high for me and it does not inmop mix well with any druggs or booze. I used to love the post climbing beers but never liked to be messed up while actually climbing.
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jstan
climber
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Jul 28, 2010 - 12:48pm PT
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" And ultimately work towards making this world a better place. A place where universal truths are understood, and the unnecesary seperation we all deal with everyday can be abolished.
We are truly all one. Seperation is an illusion."
During the past sixty years, in reaction to the kind of interdependence we experienced in WWII, we have spent our nation's resources to make this separation possible.
"I don't need anybody and may throw pooh in any direction I choose."
Our resources grow increasingly thin. Realities press in upon us. Think about what existed before the "separateness."
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scotte
Trad climber
nathrop, colorado
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Jul 29, 2010 - 08:14pm PT
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Fun stuff BITD
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 29, 2010 - 08:55pm PT
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Canadian wolves Jan? They may have come from Canada but they are no different from "Minnesota" wolves or "Montana" wolves. I would rather see wolves keep the Elk population in control in a natural way than overweight, sometimes inebriated, white males. Good old right of center doublespeak.
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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Jul 29, 2010 - 09:07pm PT
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I saw Alex Grey stuff for the first time at a gallery of his art on the Playa in '05.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jul 29, 2010 - 09:49pm PT
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Bump, for the cool Albert Hofmann article!
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jul 31, 2010 - 05:14pm PT
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Had to get my scanner going for this one!
I saved a very interesting article from back when I was in High School (hey, I didn't name it that!). Read the authorization by Dr. Hofmann on the first page of the interview. Very interesting read, for those interested in this thread... Enjoy.
[Click on the images to view a readable version.]
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Jul 31, 2010 - 05:25pm PT
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Stuff gives me a headache! Yabo and I took it once in the Valley. Then, John Dill nabbed Yabo to go on a rescue and do a body carry. 6-week old corpse. Yabo did it! I went to Sentinel Rocks to boulder and saw images of Egyptian Gods ascending and descending out of the boulders and up into the sky. What did Yabo see as he carried the corpse down the talus that hot afternoon? No one knows & he never told anyone. Secrets that went to the grave with him.
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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I haven't read this whole thread but am curious if any of you guys have been doing much L lately, and what your impression of the current liquid quality is overall.
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bluering
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2010 - 01:21am PT
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I haven't read this whole thread but am curious if any of you guys have been doing much L lately, and what your impression of the current liquid quality is overall.
Haven't touched it in years, but the last batch I sampled (10 years ago) was good. White blotter.
It's a lost science with all the boner pills, ecstacy, and what have you. The world sucks now....
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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been sampling a little since phish's return.
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xtrmecat
Big Wall climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Aug 11, 2010 - 12:22pm PT
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Everything I have done, make me what I am now.
That said, I like many did have a few of the earlier trips hard to do without guidance from someone who had "experience". Then I had no problems doing social evenings with freinds and even wild outings in public. I am sure many knew something was up, I just didn't care, and for the most part was totally harmless to myself and the public.
Best trip was nakedness, music, swimming, long conversations with someone I am still aquainted with that was sober. Worst case was laying in a yard in the sun, unable to move far, baking, watching the grass grow, drooling on myself,took a trip into town to change the scenery, but had to lay on the van floor as it was all going tooooooooooooooo fast.
I have 25 years sober behind me now, so that will give away the era, no real regrets about the consumption of anything. In fact, when asked to list all the substances I have taken by an institution I was attending, I needed a PDR to jog my memory, and I and the professional took a several hour tour down memory lane. I find it hard to believe vitamin "A" is non addictive, but anything pleasurable to me seems to form a habit, climbing included.
I normally don't post off topic, but this topic seems to cover something I have mileage in, not interest in, just mileage. It has made no real significant attributes to my being, spiritual or otherwise, but in the same respect I wouldn't be who I am without traveling the routes I did. What a ride it's been too!
Burly Bob
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Nov 12, 2010 - 11:34pm PT
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Interesting story about an LSD art collection (in SF of course :)
http://missionlocal.org/2010/11/lsd-museum-or-institute-of-illegal-images/
“It’s an archival museum of psychedelic art. Our friend here is the curator,” proffered Arthur Round, an older man cross-legged in a wicker chair. The parlor is plastered with approximately 350 pieces of framed blotter art and guarded from prying eyes by heavy black curtains, making the space feel like a vault or secret subterranean headquarters.
Dubbed the “LSD Museum” by some of his fans, McCloud’s collection includes more than 33,000 sheets and individual tabs of blotter paper imprinted with pop culture images and used to transmit doses of LSD. He calls it the “Institute of Illegal Images.”.
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go-B
climber
Matthew 25:40
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Nov 13, 2010 - 12:06am PT
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That's some TR...
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Nov 13, 2010 - 12:26am PT
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Well I am going to disagree with Hunter Thompson (gasp!).
My experience with psychedelics (last used in the 1960's) began a life long quest into the nature of reality and whether it exists only in one's head or there are other dimensions beyond the physical universe.
I've spent four decades since then practicing meditation and having, just as the eastern gurus predicted, similar experiences as I had on acid and peyote, but created either in my brain myself or in my brain with the help of an outside force. I've had many other experiences as well, created by effects much more subtle than psychedelics. I've understood much of the world's great mystical religious literature in the process and developed my own world view which works for me. Because I do believe there is consciousness in other dimensions than the physical, I strive to be a better person.
Psychedelics weren't wrong, but the philosophy Leary preached, of leading a hedonistic, irresponsible life style was. In the meantime millions of people were opened up to a more beautiful reality than our ordinary world and retreat centers of several different religions are run by people who became interested in human potential after using psychedelics. Many artists and writers, and probably even some mathematicians and scientists owe their initial inspiration to these experiences as well.
I believe that the people whose lives were screwed up with drugs, would have become alcoholics instead, if the 1950's had continued on.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Nov 13, 2010 - 12:29am PT
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hofman lectured at my college -- "lsd, my problem child."
oh HELL YEAH.
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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Nov 13, 2010 - 01:42am PT
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the liquid going around sf for the last year is top notch
lazy summer days like some decrepit land shark dog lead secluded
dont let stupid delusions lessen super duty labor student dragnet lifer solutions
daddy loved sloppy dimensions like son daughter links such determinated levels successfully dishelveled late show dave letterman sh#tty diner lip slide dutch low self discipline leader seeks deadlam self destruct life sucks dickhead liturgy soaked depicts lowly spectacular delight- why what kind of lsd you like?
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 13, 2010 - 02:25am PT
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Nice post, Jan. I'm probably a couple of years younger, but I can really relate to what you say. I can remember tripping in the seventies and wondering why most of my co-trippers weren't getting it. I still wonder why people don't get it. Get what? That's the catch.
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joebuzz
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA.
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Nov 13, 2010 - 01:54pm PT
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I have two kitties at home... Ellis & Dee. Coincidence or No?
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gonamok
climber
aging malcontent
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Nov 13, 2010 - 07:28pm PT
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Ive done lot of LSD. If its not too strong you can get into a zone where you are intensely focused, infinitely capable, and pain, fatigue and fear dont exist. A remoreseless bouldering machine.
When its too strong, LSD has the opposite effect on climbing. I tried Leave it to beaver frying on LSD and almost had a heart attack when i came flying off the thing. It didnt help that my belayer, Alan Nelson, dirted me, catching me about 6' off the deck.
Mushrooms can improve climbing ability too, but mostly just make it more fun. One of the funnest things Ive ever done was free solo tahquitz on mushrooms. Like LSD, too much is not a good thing however.
Like a good breakfast, drugs make for a better and more satisfying climbing experience ad should be a part of everyones climbing regimen.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Nov 13, 2010 - 07:43pm PT
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Psychodelics allow me to tap into the animal psyche...especially with sheep and chickens...rj
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Nov 13, 2010 - 08:28pm PT
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rj, you might want to add some penicillin to your mix...
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Nov 13, 2010 - 09:03pm PT
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I just ate a buncha mushrooms. You like apples?
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gonamok
climber
aging malcontent
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Nov 14, 2010 - 03:39am PT
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Lambone - I havent done any acid in awhile, doubt if i ever will again, but what they cqall LSD today wouldnt have even qualified as kool aid acid BITD. Clean but very, very weak. If you havent taken LSD before 1990, you havent taken LSD.
I dropped acid for the first time in 1968, when the real deal was on the street. 1/2 hit of orange mini barrel had me hallucinating wildly and on the edge of reality for most of a day. The early stuff I saw was on tiny tabs and blotters. Quality and potency declined in the 70s, and it was on larger tabs or in powder form, which was sometimes cut with strychnine. You could still get the real stuff like window pane, which came on tiny clear squares, or sandoz blotter, but you had to know the right people. I tripped alot back then, but only totally left reality twice. Once when I took 3 hits of window pane and spent 48 hours sitting on a mound of dirt in a field while my mind blazed with indescribable scenarios. I lived lives, saw the birth and death of entire galaxies and romped with bizarre but friendly cartoon friends as my body sat motionless. When I finally came to I was starving, freezing, thirsty as hell and my entire body ached, but the experience was worth it.
The other out of reality experience resulted from eating a full hit of sandoz blotter acid. I pulled my car over and went bye bye for around 12 hours. The hallucinations were viciously intense, including the wildest audio and body hallucinations Ive ever experienced. I came to my senses to find my mouth had been wide open the whole time. It was dry as a bone and my jaws were almost stuck. That one wasnt as magical as the first. I only did LSD occasionally after that.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Jun 16, 2013 - 04:08pm PT
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Bump for bumps sake
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Jun 16, 2013 - 04:12pm PT
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there are eleven year olds here
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hotlum
climber
Oregon
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Jun 16, 2013 - 05:15pm PT
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Had wonderful times on shrooms a while back. First time was in a maple grove in New Hampshire in the fall. Most intense time was on the summit of Middle Sister in Oregon. Wouldn't trade those times for anything, but wouldn't touch the stuff at this point in the game.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jun 16, 2013 - 08:27pm PT
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So I was in grade 10 back in 1972. One Friday noon I dropped a tab then went to Sociology class. I walk in and see 2 cops and a big blue box that opens up in 2 sections.
Oh Boy we are getting the DRUG LECTURE!
The box is full of samples of lots of stuff. Of course everybody wonders if it is real. I have a great class while tripping.
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EP
Trad climber
Way Out There
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Jun 16, 2013 - 10:38pm PT
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Summer of '69. Coming back to Santa Cruz from Oregon up the Rogue River. I was given a tab of Pink Harvard, which I was told came from Harvard. I was 13, just a month shy of 14. I laughed all day long on half. Later that night in Arcata, I was tired of tripping and just wanted to sleep.
4 months later I took what was called Pink Mescaline. Now I think it was about 500 micrograms of chopped up LSD. My world disassembled. People were missing arms, legs, tops, bottoms, and the Earth was in pieces. At one point, I was on the floor looking up through backwards binoculars with fisheye lenses unable to recognize my friends anymore. It was a long, long day and the strongest trip I ever took.
I picked up a hitchhiker on the way to see the Dead at the Cow Palace one New Years. He paid me with 30 peyote buttons. He had about 2000 in his back pack.
Didn't eat shrooms until High Sierra Music Festival a few years back. I fell in love with a tall tree and her beautiful fractals.
Last weekend of March this year I was given Dilaudid in the hospital. Talk about hallucinations!
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Jun 16, 2013 - 10:52pm PT
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Used to hang with the hippies who lived in the Victorian houses on Poli Street in Ventura back in the day. Pure, clean, real Owsley now and then - very T. Leary - all about "set and setting". Lot of Indian print bedspreads from Pier I and Boston ferns in macrame hangers.
Weirdest dare was dropping blotter after being told that our company was shutting down. We made low-cost crappy sound mixers for garage bands and the owner's wife skipped town with the checkbook and one of our engineers. To get home, I had to drive down the Conejo Grade at rush hour on a early sundown winter's night - still remember the pulsing taillights samba rhythm to this day.
Now shrooms are a class all their own - used to room with a bunch of surfers in the Valley and one of the guys ran a full clean room nursery in the garage - pressure cookers, brown rice, sterilizers and a sh#t ton of Mason jars. Spores Galore I tells ya!
The wife and I mixed up some shroomy tea and spent one Christmas Eve laying buck-nekkid on a sheep skin rug under a 14 foot tree covered with strobing mini-lights, wearing 3d glasses from some theater showing and giggling for hours.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Jun 16, 2013 - 10:54pm PT
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What a great thread. I've done my share but didn't start till I was about 29 and that was mushrooms - about 1980. Last acid may have been about 1995. Never did all that much - it was more experimental than recreational - fascinating stuff it is! More than anything it cleared my head. That was the 'feeling' - of clearness, no vibrations, or something. Anyway, I quit wearing glasses after acid. I used to not be able to read freeway exit signs in time to get off the freeway, especially at night, without glasses. I stomped my glasses into the ground one day around 1983. One of my biggest fears for years was maybe losing what I gained in eyesight somehow. I still don't wear glasses or use contacts. I am still amazed at how clear those exit signs are! Essentially what seeing is is done by the brain and you have to get all your sh#t out of the way. The eyes simply focus attention and you let the brain soak it up. I suppose the brain and eyes have to be relaxed at the same time. You have to be able to chew gum and walk at the same time. If I'm uptight and not seeing well, I go in there (inside my brain) and relax it - just let it go, my brain goes snap, crackle, and pop, and I can see again. It's as simple as that. Yeah, I liked Rice Crispies too.
Here's an experiment for those that have done the goods. I enjoy looking at those 3D stereogram posters. I wonder if people that have done psychedelics find them easier to do than people that have not done LSD etc. In fact, the Magic Eye 3D company has a book on improving vision. I find that looking at the images brings my mind to a relaxed state if it is not already there. Here is a link to one image. I don't really have to try to see them - they happen as soon as they hit the screen pretty much - after I'm warmed up. There are plenty of others out there;
http://www.ied.edu.hk/has/vrdemo/rds/donut.gif
I can certainly say much more about my psychedelic experiences! One of the big things was seeing how what we call time is not linear. It's very difficult to describe and many times I'm happy just to remember that I experienced it. One way to see it is in realizing that everything that happens in the world happens at the exact same moment and the moment is something else again! Geez, I sound high, but that's the reality of this thread. Doing LSD was one of the most important things I ever did. If I did it when I was younger I may have never climbed El Cap and I may have spent more time in school, but whatever, Reality is one very Grandiose thing! Viva the Universe!
I don't follow the research but it gives me hope just to see that it's happening. These drugs saved our world and generation. Here's something I grabbed off the net;
http://www.maps.org/research/
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Mar 20, 2017 - 04:09pm PT
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We are currently setting up a new digital press but in the meantime at www.patentwear.com you can check out this shirt.
We had about 10 dozen in stock but Donini cleaned us out!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Mar 20, 2017 - 05:15pm PT
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I am wondering if this is something I would want to try. I was deprived: people never offered drugs to me. I have tried smoking one type of vegetation and have ingested one type of mushroom. I am fascinated by the descriptions of consciousness, intentional exploration of the mind, and delightful adventures people seem to be experiencing. This is a most interesting discussion. Thank you.
I got off crutches today from the broken tibia from the Tundra.
Life is good. We are expecting snow.
ff
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 20, 2017 - 05:26pm PT
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If you do LSD you won't stay LDS.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Mar 20, 2017 - 06:01pm PT
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LOL, Donini
So . . .
Do you mean some LSD might cause them to convert?
ff
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skitch
Gym climber
Bend Or
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Mar 20, 2017 - 06:07pm PT
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I've wanted to try mushrooms for a while now, but I don't even know how to source them. I've seen kits online where you can buy the growing media, and order the spores in a syringe from somewhere else, but I'm worried about legal issues.
I've always felt like an outsider to this world with no feelings of being connected to humanity, but I've read that a lot of people get a strong, lasting feeling of being part of this world when they trip on shrooms. I am skeptical that my brain could ever have the "switch flipped" so that I feel more connected to other humans, but I'd like to give it a go. I spend a lot of time watching how people interact with each other and try to figure out what makes people friends with each other, but when I try to duplicate those type of interactions I come across as fake and needy. When I act like myself around people I just offend them. Maybe the problem is that I don't view myself in the same way that others view me.
Do any of you know of anyone that radically changed (positively or otherwise) from a trip?
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Mar 20, 2017 - 06:16pm PT
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Maybe you just need to take a class in social graces? Just a thought.
Or you could do some research. There are excellent sources of information in many publications on harvesting, identifying, and storing mushrooms of all types.
Best Wishes with your wishes.
ff
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Mar 20, 2017 - 06:25pm PT
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The first time that a square is told what it's really all about.
"How do you feel inside?"
"Inside? I don't have any inside."
"Is it all one?"
"It would be all one if...if you weren't here.. and if...if nobody else... Yes everything is one, you have nothing to do with it. I am one with what I am."
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 20, 2017 - 08:22pm PT
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 20, 2017 - 09:17pm PT
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I did acid four or five times in the 70's, nothing since. Kind of fun, no bad trips but it sure killed the day for anything else.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 21, 2017 - 08:37am PT
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Mar 21, 2017 - 08:50am PT
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Sure, lots. I lived in a house in Madison with 4 other people in the early 70s, and we’d have parties where we’d drop 2 or three times during the night. A friend of mine and I would do meditation (sitting), and other times a bottle or two of champagne.
I liked LSD because it was unpredictable, and I was into the challenge of learning how to jump into an abyss. The ramp up to the peak was what I looked forward to: the only way to deal with any apprehension was to let go, IMO. Once peaked, the experience became normal to me. I was an experience junkie, and I think that’s what also attracted me to so many oddities in my life (combat, later living and working on the wrong side of the tracks with low-lifes and people of the night, climbing, changing careers many times, and finally the initial exploration into spirituality).
I met friends in Seattle who know how to spot the magic mushrooms growing wild in the Northwest. They are lots all over the place. They’re into micro dosing, and I’ve learned that some mainline professionals (mathematicians, scientists, professionals) have claimed that micro-dosing is useful to unleash creativity in their work. I was asked to try it, and did about 2 years ago. I guess it was interesting, sort of like walking to an edge of a big cliff. I felt an expansiveness, but I didn’t feel high. Expansiveness is available to me at any time that I want it these days, so I don’t have needs in that respect.
With respect to all here, I think people (and well beyond simply climbers) are rather addicted to experiences. After a while, one starts to look at experience *as* experience. (But that probably belongs in another thread.)
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 21, 2017 - 09:33am PT
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hahaha! Lockers vid is like Camp 4 in the 80's!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 21, 2017 - 10:28am PT
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Nice post Base.
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Psilocyborg
climber
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Mar 21, 2017 - 12:34pm PT
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Some misinformation in this thread. There was and still is plenty of LSD more pure than Sandoz. Techniques and technology have made this a reality.
LSD impurities are not active in amounts that can fit on blotter. However there is enough anecdotal evidence to suggest there is something else at work.
Sometime in the mid-2000's at an LSD symposium, someone brought an unopened vial of Sandoz LSD. It was ingested and participants said it was indistinguishable from normal street LSD.
I personally had many many LSD trips. I have shared some stories here in the past and I haven't had a full experience since 1999. I still think about what I experienced with LSD almost daily.
The way LSD interacts with the brain, there could be lots of factors involved with individual brain chemistry on any given day to produce different effects.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 21, 2017 - 03:11pm PT
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Mad69Dog
Ice climber
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Mar 21, 2017 - 06:00pm PT
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"Not that I would know, of course..."
Another post that makes this one of my fave Taco threads.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Mar 21, 2017 - 08:28pm PT
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It was certainly not the first winter ascent of 10,891 Ft. Boulder Peak, just north of Ketchum, Idaho. However, it may have been the first high on LSD, night-time winter ascent?
Stein Sitzmark & I discussed our memories of our March 1972 climb this week (2012). We agree that we left Ketchum after the bars closed at 1:00 A.M. and we arrived on the summit at sun-rise.
So----we closed out Whiskey-Jaques in Ketchum at 1:00 A.M. then drove about 12 miles north to a plowed parking spot at the mouth of Boulder Creek at around 6,600 ft. I recall that we ate LSD as we left our car & were putting on our skis, with the 1970 state of the art Silvretta Alpine Touring bindings, which were a long way removed from today’s AT bindings.
Yes! We were “very-high” even before we reached altitude, but it was a great ski-in on firm snow on a Full-Moon night in mid-March.
Stein brought along the “awesome” R T, who had been weaned on Cascade mountaineering. It is likely she could have thrown us each over a shoulder and made the summit while carrying our skinny-hippie selves.
It had been a low-snow winter, and March was warm. The snow was firm, and Stein & I wore crampons for much of the climb. My photo reveals R T did not have crampons, and with her experience: it is likely she did not need them for this route.
We were on the summit for sun-rise, and got down without incident. I do remember being very impressed by Stein skating with Alpine skis on the firm snow back to our vehicle. I next saw skiers skating in 1982.
We were back in Ketchum, mid-morning, but my reward for the “big-night” was a nose-cold as punishment for having too-much fun.
Ah! The excesses of youth well-spent.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mar 21, 2017 - 08:37pm PT
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Skitch-
If your post was sincere, man...it seems like you're ripe for some personal development!
Awesome!
Have you traveled by yourself? To a foreign country?
It has a way of forcing you outside of yourself, which can be a very good thing.
Well, I think psychedelics have a way of forcing you inside yourself...confronting shˇt and examining inner wiring that maybe you couldn't access before.
It can be scary but also an amazing catalyst for change.
I highly recommend it!
Have a great trip.
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Mar 21, 2017 - 08:55pm PT
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Yeah, acid and the seventies seemed to go together.
One of the more memorable days was in 1980. We were cooking breakfast at the Tuolumne gas station/store parking lot and fed a few visitors including Bachar. Afterwards he was kind enough to give us 4 purple microdot, if memory serves mne correctly. Anyway about noon, my friend Bill Irving (a non climber now deceased) and I, getting higher by the minute, departed on a tour of the moderate classics. First West Crack, then down the road to South Crack where Bill yelled up "where's the holds while part way up the run out face pitch". I replied, "just use your imagination", and he seemed fine with this following the remainder in short order. Finally at a little past 5pm we had just dispatched the second pitch of Fairview regular route when a good friend, Jeff Altenburg, wandered out of the woods and yelled up "Rick is that you, come down and have a cold beer". Well that broke the spell of moderate romping and we promptly rapped down. Good day, good high, thanks again JB, and thanks Jeff for the cold ones.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 21, 2017 - 08:58pm PT
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Americans all high on drugs.
No wonder America is falling apart ........
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Mar 21, 2017 - 10:42pm PT
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No shet Werner.
And those same people, from our generation, now running the world. What a nightmare.
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ecdh
climber
the east
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Mar 22, 2017 - 04:50am PT
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Ehhhh....acids just random brain junk strung together with awe and fear. Useful to shake the cogs loose but ultimately just stuck between channels, too much static, nowhere to go.
Till youve done mescaline in tokyo you havent lived.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Mar 22, 2017 - 06:28am PT
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Americans all high on drugs.
Ah, I think I've spotted the source of the problem...
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 22, 2017 - 09:13am PT
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skitch
Gym climber
Bend Or
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Mar 22, 2017 - 12:32pm PT
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Rick, yeah I'm being earnest, that's how I get after I smoke a bowl.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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#ThreeDayPlan
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F
climber
away from the ground
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#microdosedaily
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Ducks on acid - what could possibly go wrong?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The Captain is acting strangely.
Boot Flake is now on the other foot.
Mexico is now on the east coast of North America.
Mescalito is pulsing.
Shouldn't we call the Rescue Duck?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Do what gnomes did;
Find the chemist
Alot that three day plan
That last 12 hours is key to get sleep
I'm no fan of the Caylor demarcation point!
So never in the eye,
Ear lobes?
But the wrist has a Reservoir
Stay with likewise , if you can
That's Likwid for the 'new' fan
Take it easy - complete a task
I've known narcs to go to sleep
Keep an eye out for that Shiite!
The right light duty till the blast-off
Why we lived a hung off slings as things began to give
The walls got small our minds got big
You all don't
Know but
I dig!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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#waltstheman
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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#northdomewaterfall
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