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Here’s (sadly only a trailer for)\u00a0Ken Kesey\\’s Magic Bus<\/a> Here’s (sadly only a trailer for)\u00a0Ken Kesey\\’s Magic Bus a very interesting 1hr 20min video on the story of LSD in the 50s and 60s, with such characters as Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, and others talking about the drug, and the time. Back in the day, between 1982 and 1984, aged 19-21, I read … Continue reading “Mystical experiences on the cheap…?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na very interesting 1hr 20min video on the story of LSD in the 50s and
\n60s, with such characters as Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, and others
\ntalking about the drug, and the time. Back in the day, between 1982 and
\n1984, aged 19-21, I read Leary’s book “The Psychedelic Experience” and
\n“Be Here Now” by one his colleagues who took the name Baba Ram Dass, and
\nexperimented with the drug myself on a handful of occasions. This
\nprogramme does a good job of exploring all the issues, including giving
\nairtime to Roger Scruton – contemporary and detractor of Leary’s. I
\ncertainly don’t regret my experiments, and I would say gained a good
\ndeal from them. The consensus of Hofman – who first synthesised the
\ndrug – and others, that the mystical qualities of the experience are
\nbest (indeed perhaps only) brought to the fore under controlled
\nconditions, is something with which I would concur. ‘Sacred teacher
\nplants’ and other substances and activities (like starvation) used by
\npriests, shamans, and spiritual seekers the world over are always used
\nunder controlled conditions and with the oversight of trusted elders who
\ncan be relied upon to ensure the experience does not end in tears.
\nIt’s a good documentary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"