Recorded on January 19th, 2015
This is Entheogen: three human beings discussing generating the divine within while still being human beings. In this show we discuss tangle benefits of psychedelic use. We open with one our favorite Bill Hicks bits.
Topics:
Francis Crick, Cricked
- Francis Crick, Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, deduced the double-helix structure of DNA: may have been influenced by LSD.
- Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR, a scientific breakthrough that accelerated the sequencing of the human genome: "I found it to be a mind-opening experience. It was certainly much more important than any courses I ever took. [...] What if I had not taken LSD ever; would I have still invented PCR? I don't know. I doubt it. I seriously doubt it."
- Steve Jobs: “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
“When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.” - Steve Jobs
Also: "Here's to the Crazy Ones"
Douglas Engelbart, early computer scientist, presenter of the Mother of All Demos, had "two LSD experiences."
- Kevin Herbert, early Cisco engineer: "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing. It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain."
References:
Interview with Patrick Lundborg: 60’s psych & garage guru, psychedelic culture scholar and author of brilliant „Psychedelia” and „Acid Archives” books, discussed in Entheogen #003
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer by John Markoff
"Shaking one's snow globe" with LSD: Entheogen 002: Psychedelic Research Renaissance, Part 2