Ninhursag

LSD ganz persönlich
Dr. Albert Hofmann

The typewriter transcript (in german language) represented here was corrected with handwritten notes by its author, the plantchemist and LSD discoverer Dr. Albert Hofmann while on his train-ride from swisse Basel to Heidelberg.

In ‚LSD, completely personal‘ the pioneer oc conscious-research looks back and tells us about his childhood and the possibly fateful predestination of his discovery of LSD aka  Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. He reads from his friendly correspondence with the british author Aldous Huxley, who called Albert Hofmann „the true inventor of the Moksha-medicine“ of his book ‚Island‘. He discribes his LSD-test in the year 1951 with pharmacologist Heribert Konzett, drug-researcher Rudolf Gelpke and the friendly writer Ernst Jünger, who’s letters he also quotes. With his clear and scientific viewpoint the explorer who became a natural philosopher finally explains his expertise on the phenomen of ‚reality‘ or ‚consciousness‘ – based on the transceiver principle – which neuroscience soon adopted as a model.

Dr. Hofmann presented this lecture only once during the second international congress of the ‚European Collegium for Consciousness Studies‘ (ECBS), in Heidelberg’s city hall, and handed the transcript to ECBS-member and colleague Boris Hiesserer who after the event escorted his vice president and mentor to a taxi-cab.