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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 27/02/2013 : 03:36:34
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Rare footage of 1950s housewife in LSD experiment
Far out...."I am one"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=iGf2loLAwVE&feature=endscreen
The artwork below is actually rather close visually (but nowhere near...if you know what I mean) to a TRIP. Fill your screen with it and stare into the center....
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on.
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 27/02/2013 03:43:48 |
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rocker
Old Love
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 27/02/2013 : 17:45:33
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| Had to turn this one off before too long.Hearing someone describe a trip as it was happening was almost stirring up flashbacks!!Hey LK,where did you find the trippy color pattern? |
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Fifth Love
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Posted - 27/02/2013 : 19:11:52
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Great clip, Scott; she's so "there" that past/present/future have clearly lost any and all meaning. This was obviously years, if not a full decade or more before some of us found ourselves easing down a very similar path from time to time. Pretty much a deja vu, been there, done that (and don't really need to do it again) response to viewing the clip, and as Tom Rush so eloquently put it, "No Regrets."
Love the screensaver, by the way; perfect accompaniment to the video.
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rocker
Old Love
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Posted - 28/02/2013 : 16:00:50
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I'm just thinking....Back in the days of peace and love, these "trips" were almost the "ticket" to bliss and understanding the universe. We're on from '56 but it's apparent LSD hasn't gone mainstream if you get the drift. Not sure if it's simply because it's against the law or as it's said that we may not want to go down that path again. I guess the 'doors of perception" sure can take you to places you may not want to go.... |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 28/02/2013 : 16:24:03
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| I still hold firm to the theory held by many that the psycho-tropic substance may be condusive to certain primal psychiatric treatments if administered professionally in proper institutional environments. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 28/02/2013 : 16:27:24
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It is interesting that her description is so right-on to our own experiences...which shows that a TRIP can bridge all generation gaps.
And watching her describe the visuals she experiences--just so true--she sounds just like a hippie ten years on. Impossible to fake and she had no template to imitate; like seeing a kid on a trip in a movie from 1967, or on Dragnet (Blue Boy 1968!) -
-hippie: a creature that wouldn't even exist for another 10 years.
Pretty amazing.
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captain america and billy
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Posted - 28/02/2013 : 16:35:19
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| The "Blue Boy" Dragnet was blatant farce.Of course,the entire series was designed to reflect only the values and often intrinsically benign perspectives of the established orders of the time.It was accurate only in illustrating the highly sketchy knowledge of the drug the American society maintained at the time.In other words,it was all just one side of the story. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 28/02/2013 : 16:57:00
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Originally posted by captain america and billy
The "Blue Boy" Dragnet was blatant farce.Of course,the entire series was designed to reflect only the values and often intrinsically benign perspectives of the established orders of the time.It was accurate only in illustrating the highly sketchy knowledge of the drug the American society maintained at the time.In other words,it was all just one side of the story.
Dragnet was fun to watch even then. It was a true illustration of one side of the coin from 1968 (not a farce, but rather a somewhat paranoid view of hippies that really did exist then)--and we freaks had fun watching it all, until it all got scary with Nam and the protests and finally Altimont. The Dragnet series showed the straights (short hair & suits)/"Nixon-era" side that saw things through a crooked lens.
We just smiled and took a little trip.
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rocker
Old Love
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Posted - 01/03/2013 : 16:12:52
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I still hold firm to the theory held by many that the psycho-tropic substance may be condusive to certain primal psychiatric treatments if administered professionally in proper institutional environments.
That's an interesting point and if I'm not mistaken I don't think those substances have been used to any great effect in the treatment of mental illness. I'm not a chemist but I can only think LSD is not the kind of drug that can be administered as effective treatment for mental pathology. It's "action" if you will mitigates against control. From the looks of it, drugs like that can't act in the way psychiatry wants it to . |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 01/03/2013 : 16:56:11
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LSD is by nature, uncontrollable.
We need only look at such rock icons that had bad trips and were forever changed. True the mental instability was already there, but the acid took them over the edge. You need a solid trip partner to bring you back from the edge if needed.
e.g. All described as sweet personalities- Skip Spence (Moby Grape), Syd Barrett, Shelagh McDonald...LSD was the trigger that took their lives on a bad trip.
I'm sure there are many more examples. I think only we as individuals can make the judgement--to drop or not to drop. But then if your innate judgement is already impaired...
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 01/03/2013 : 19:28:29
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| Even someone with as solid as John Lennon underwent seriously drastic and irrevocable changes in ego STRUCTURE.Compare photos of the "Ed Sullivan" Lennon with those of "Hippie Revolutionary" John.And,of course,the music became much more...intriguing... |
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rocker
Old Love
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Posted - 02/03/2013 : 00:08:01
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| You know I'd just be curious where those who have succeeded in the music biz put the use of drugs (if they did use them) to their success. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 02/03/2013 : 15:33:25
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BEATLES-Peppers? Mystery Tour? It's been said that cannabis was a large factor in the creative process.
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 02/03/2013 : 15:39:48
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NEIL Young wrote that he was truly afraid that his creative
muse would disappear when he gave up weed (and alcohol) in 2010.
He had never written or performed without a hit he contends.
His doc said quit. He did.
He laid out his plans & set up his equipment at Broken Arrow
Ranch; brought in Crazy Horse to live there for a while, and
crossed his fingers that his muse was NOT dependent on
weed & alcohol.
Neil really was in great doubt...
Then, Neil came up with his longest album to date
(and one of my favorites & that is saying A LOT!)-
-"Psychedelic Pill".
Love the album art & the mirror image treatment for "PILL".
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on.
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 02/03/2013 15:47:05 |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 02/03/2013 : 17:19:07
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| While it is true that LSD has provided creative impetus for several legitimate great works,it does NOT derive true primal creative inspiration.As well as Lennon,McCartney etc.,Neil Young posssessed significant natural artistic inclinations.Chemicals merely changed point of view.Perfect exapmle:"I Want To Hold Your Hand" in my mind is just as great as say "Lucy In The Sky" but of course the two exist on incongruous plains of persepective. |
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Rare 1956 film of LSD experience-psychedelic man!
