RE: Re: Albert Hofmann RIP (OT?)
Adele Outland <outlanda60 <at> hotmail.com>
2008-05-01 16:52:56 GMT
Sorry, but Albert Hofmann and Abbie Hoffman are two different people. The first was a chemist, the other a
radical revolutionary. Abbie is still alive I believe. Glad you had a good time, though. 8-Dell It is
easier to try than to prove it can't be done. Moody Blues
To: tadream <at> yahoogroups.comFrom: tadream256 <at> yahoo.comDate: Thu, 1 May 2008 06:25:48 -0700Subject:
Re: [tadream] Re: Albert Hofmann RIP (OT?)
In honor of Abbie Hoffman, I did something I hadn't done in quite a while a bit after I put on TD's Rubycon album
(the SACD reissue, actually). After a bit, wonderful flashes and flushes of repeating hot and cold
flashed through my mind. Once my girlfriend's 10 foot head got out of my view, and after she saw that I was
doing fine, I saw my room like it was a completely different world. First thing I looked at the ceiling and it
appeared of wonderful dots of pastel green and pastel maroon on a white background. The dots were in
constant motion but mainly moving medium speed to slower speed while occasionally temporarily stopping
while becoming fuzzy then moving again (the effect of flowing syrup down a slope, then changing the slope
another direction). Occasionally the colored dots would chase each other, playing cat and mouse and on
that note I went into around a 5 minute visually mental trip of cats and mice chasing each other. After I came
back from the 'mental chase'trip I looked at the ceiling again, this time all the dots aligned themselves
into splendid designs looking exactly like the curly designs found on Indian and Arabian carpets. The
patterns were in constant motion but still symmetrical to the point of perfectly making an entire pattern
instead of a pile of random dots occasionally aligning up. What was real fun was standing up and getting
closer to the ceiling and watching the dots not scatter but remain in the same changing but symmetric
shape. Both tracks on the album brought to reality that this vintage TD album, especially when
concentrating on the mellotron, doesn't just knock your eyes out of whack or anything similar, but truly
does alter one's perception to the point of making real audibly, mentally, emotionally and visually
things that truly do not exist except in one's mind.Long live Abbie,TomAmbassador Nelaskon
<moc_liam <at> mail.com> wrote:>--- In tadream <at> yahoogroups.com, "Mike Livsey" <mlivsey2002 <at> ...>
wrote:>>>> In moderation, LSD's OK. It's never caused me any dain bramage.>> >> The best was at Grateful
Dead concerts where people would put >> fluorescent paper dots on their finger tips and flick their hands
in >> your face. Oh, the college days.> >LOL.> >Cyaron>>
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