Orange Sunshine cult figure and world celebrated psychedelic chemist Nick Sand died peacefully in his sleep at 75 year old on Monday April 24th 2017. During his life, Nick made more than 250 million doses of lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD-25, also know as acid. He was also the first chemist to figure out that N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) freebase could be smoked. Before climate change denier Rupert Murdoch bought National Geographics, there was a fantastic interview with Nick that was shot in his home in Marin County. I use to say that it was my most favourite interview of all times, maybe because I love Nick so much and I actually lived in that house for a summer when I was living in the Bay Area. Unfortunately it got removed under Murdoch. Nick was unusually free spirited, a real genius and a visionary. Nick was a spiritual peace warrior. He dedicated his life to making LSD, in many ways to counterbalance the fact that his father worked on the atomic bomb. He was not only a brilliant chemist, he was highly knowledgeable about permaculture, super cool dude, wild, the funniest, sweetest, most diligent, determined, focused, courageous, respectful, and open minded person I have ever met. He is one of the individuals that has had the most influence on my life with his insatiable courage, wild nature, and sophisticated creative intelligence. He was such a sweetheart. I will never forget what Nick said to me when we first met in the Bay Area in 2003, this is because he made such a profound impression on me as a young adult. He said that in a past life we had been orphans together. As we roamed the streets togethers, we took care and looked after each other. I am so happy to say that after Nick attended the premiere of The Sunshine Makers, the new documentary film directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen, he never felt this loved. And loved, he is.
Losing someone you love dearly is one of the most difficult experiences of the human heart. Transmutation of the individual Soul into the Oversoul is a spiritual transformation and core attribute of our cosmic universe, in this ever changing infinite cosmos unfurls the vast expanse and extraordinary archetypal life cycles. In homage to the courage of my loved friend, I will be publishing my personal experiences with psychedelic substances, and more specifically LSD, DMT, 2CB, and MDMA during the next few weeks, throughout the summer, and as my schedule allows. I will also be selecting digital artwork to be printed on blotter paper special editions.
“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.
“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.
THANK YOU NICK SAND FOR YOUR ORANGE SUNSHINE! FOR SERVING HUMANITY WITH YOUR LSD SACRAMENT, FOR INSPIRING THE WORLD WITH THE TASTE OF FREEDOM, CREATIVITY, PEACE AND LOVE. WITHOUT A DOUBT YOU HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING SOULS IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANKIND. YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. YOU ARE A SPIRITUAL HERO. NICOLAS SAND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE DEEPLY LOVED.
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