If you could ask Albert Hofmann a question...

[Caduceus Mercurius]

...what would it be?

Tomorrow I'm going to the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, and will try to interview some of the scholars, therapists, artists, ethnobotanists and pharmacologists there, using two HD videocameras.

I'm not expecting to have the opportunity to ask Albert Hofmann a question, but there may be some people there who are willing to have a chat with the crew of the Psychonaut Channel. So, if you have questions you would like us to ask any of the following psychonauts, post them here. Thanks.


Rick Doblin, PhD (USA)
Founder and President of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)

Amanda Feilding (GB)
Consciousness Researcher, Founder and Director of The Beckley Foundation, working at the frontiers of scientific and policy research: currently conducting the first fully approved research into LSD with human subjects for over 30 years.

Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia (USA)
Joined the "Merry Pranksters" and toured on The Bus until 1967, shared life and music with her husband Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, member of various charitable and spiritual foundations

Peter Gasser, MD (CH)
Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, President of the Swiss Association for Psycholytic Therapy (SAEPT), LSD-assisted Psychotherapy in Switzerland in Subjects with Anxiety Associated with Life-threatening Illnesses

Alex Grey (USA)
Visionary Artist, Co-founder and Director of "Chapel of Sacred Mirrors"

Allyson Grey (USA)
Visionary Artist, Co-founder and Director of "Chapel of Sacred Mirrors"

Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD (USA)
Psychiatrist, Consciousness Researcher, Author, Co-founder of Transpersonal Psychology, Founder of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA), Laureate 2007 of the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation "Vize 97" Prize

Jon Hanna (USA)
Author, Publicist, Publisher of the Psychedelic Resource List, The Entheogen Review, Organizer of "Mind States"

John Harrison, PsyD cand (USA)
Principal Investigator for MAPS' Study of
Ibogaine in the Treatment of Opiate Addiction, Drug War Veteran, Mountaineer, Therapist

Kathleen Harrison (USA)
Ethnobotanist, Artist, Co-founder and Director of "Botanical Dimensions"

Dennis J. McKenna, PhD (USA)
Ethnopharmacologist

Sandra Karpetas (CA)
Co-Founder, Iboga Therapy Society and
Program Director, Iboga Therapy House

Michael Horowitz (USA)
Consultant, Ludlow Santo Domingo Library, Director of Flashback Books, Editor of Works by Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary

Jan Kounen (NL)
Director of Dobermann, Blueberry, Darshan, Other Worlds, 99 Francs, and other Feature Films, Documentaries, and TV Series

Ralph Metzner, PhD (USA)
Consciousness Researcher and Psychotherapist, Pioneer of Psychedelic Research at Harvard, Co-author (with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert) of The Psychedelic Experience

Jeremy Narby, PhD (CAN/CH)
Anthropologist, Author of The Cosmic Serpent, Shamans Through Time (with Francis Huxley), and Intelligence in Nature

Peter Oehen, MD (CH)
Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Head of MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Switzerland

Cynthia Palmer (USA)
Author, Photographer, Co-editor of Aldous Huxley's Moksha and Sisters of the Extreme: Women's Writing on the Drug Experience

Dale Pendell (USA)
Poet, Software Engineer, Ethnobotanist, Author of "Pharmako|Gnosis"

Daniel Pinchbeck (USA)
Author of Breaking Open the Head, Journalist, Editor of realitysandwich.com

Christian Rätsch, PhD (GER)
Anthropologist, Ethnopharmacologist, Author of the Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants

Thomas B. Roberts, PhD (USA)
Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology, Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations at Northern Illinois University, Author, Co-editor of Psychedelic Medicine: New Evidence for Hallucinogens as Treatments, Originator of "Bicycle Day"

Sylvia Thyssen (USA)
Managing Editor, Erowid.org

Kajuyali Tsamani (COL)
Shaman, initiated by Bernardo Moscote, Master Shaman of the Kogi Nation

Michael J. Winkelman, MPH, MD (USA)
Anthropologist, Co-editor of Psychedelic Medicine: New Evidence for Hallucinogens as Treatments

I shortened the actual list quite a bit. Go to http://www.psychedelic.info/ for the complete list.

 

[@syd]

I don't want to ask him a question. I just want you if you see him to thanks him in the name of mankind, for what he have done for us, human.

 

[Entheonaut]

I'd ask him: "If you could relive your life, and change your mistakes, would you have synthesised LSD-25 again? And would you let the world know about it being a powerfull psychedelic?"

Ah crap, thats 2 questions! :roll: :lol:

I have a feeling he would have synthesised it again, but he would have kept it a secret.

 

[Jahvisions]

Men I wish I could go to but it was a little to much money for me. I am curious if he kept using it and still does, or if he only did it a few times for experiment.

 

[Mycophile]

I have 2 blotters here. Do you want to join me?

 

[Mycophile]

I am curious if he kept using it and still does, or if he only did it a few times for experiment.

I've seen an interview with Albert Hofmann 2 years ago in Basel. He said that the last trip he had on LSD was when he was 97...

 

[yourownworld]

I'd ask if he likes bananas

 

[BrainEater]

tripping grandfathers are amazing!

 

[st.bot.32]

Yeah, crazy. I guess he's already pretty clear on how he feels about the substance.

What I appreciate the most about reading Hofmann's work is that it is a bastion of sanity and clear thinking in psychedelic "drug culture", objective and critical. Hence maybe I would ask him what he gets out of his experiences... does he use it to explore his senses, explore the human mind, personal insights, creativity, religious experience?

 

[Dantediv86]

can you send me a 5cl bottle of pure LSD-25?

 

[Brugmansia]

Ah c'mon, this is an informative conference to attend, not a community for a collective trip.

It wouldn't even cross my mind to ingest anything there, this is also fairly against Hofmann's wish, as well as many other participants, I'd estimate.

I think everything of Hofmann's thoughts on LSD are in this article: http://www.psychonaut.com/index.php?opt ... g=nl#73469

Last post.

 

[MindAstronaut]

I would ask him, if he secretly made any other substances besides lsd-25..

if yes, if he could miss some

 

[tryptonaut]

As far as I remember reading in an interview with Hofmann, he said he tripped about two dozen times on lsd in his life and that was it for him because he felt it was enough. It had opened the doors and he didn't feel the need to trip again constantly.

I think I'd ask him if he'd rather never had become famous at all.
I think he'd say no, rather not. But then again he couldn't have synthesized lsd-25 - and I think he would do that again.

 

[druglessdouglas]

if your going home early can i clean your lab?

 

[Guest]

Well he has gone home, yes...

But if there was a question I'd be able to ask Hofmann right now it would be:
How's death?