One of the great things about taking LSD is telling your mentor/role model in the early days (Sixties) that you didn't take LSD until he and his pal Tim Leary said it was ok. I remember being in high school and hearing about rock stars (Beatles, Stones, Doors) taking it and thinking "come on -- what do they know?"
But when Prof. Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) of Harvard went with it, so did I. You should have seen the beatific smile on his face when I told him, forty years later, that he helped me change my life.
I can't imagine taking it on anyone else's terms. Ken Kesey (Sometimes A Great Notion, One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest), who was part of a government study of the effect of LSD, perhaps would have been better off personally and artistically without the experience.
For some reason I think that Castro would be -- pardon the expression -- a trip on acid. I would take remedial Spanish just to understand what he says under the influence.
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Date: 2008-06-14 06:15 am (UTC)But when Prof. Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) of Harvard went with it, so did I. You should have seen the beatific smile on his face when I told him, forty years later, that he helped me change my life.
I can't imagine taking it on anyone else's terms. Ken Kesey (Sometimes A Great Notion, One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest), who was part of a government study of the effect of LSD, perhaps would have been better off personally and artistically without the experience.
For some reason I think that Castro would be -- pardon the expression -- a trip on acid. I would take remedial Spanish just to understand what he says under the influence.