“It’s Hormann’s firm belief that the psychedelic potential of this wonder drug could benefit all of us. In LSD-induces states of consciousness, its discoverer doesn’t see only psychotic delusions of a chemically manipulated mind, but windows to higher reality – true spiritual experiences during which a normally deeply buried potential of our mind, the divinity of creation, our unity with it reveals itself. For Hoffman it could help to heal deficits the western world chronically suffers from: "Materialism, estrangement from nature [...], lack of professional fulfillment in a mechanized, lifeless world of employment, boredom and aimlessness in a rich, saturated society, the missing of a sense-making philosophical way of life.”
Albert Hoffman, The Spirit of Basel, LSD Problem child and Wonder Drug, International Symposium on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Albert hoffman, 13 to 15 January 2006, Convention Center Basel, Switzerland www.LSD.info Presented by Gaia Media Foundation There were approximately 2000 people at this conference, and it made a major impression of me to see Albert Hoffman and hear him speak, as well as many other psychedelic experts.
