Albert Hofmann Updated The New York Times: Father of LSD, now 100, and his 'problem child'
Link: Father of LSD, now 100, and his problem child -by Craig S. Smith in the New York Times
Update: Some Albert Hofmann Links
LSD My Problem Child -- Psychedelic Library
In four days, I leave for Basel, Switzerland to join in the celebration of the life of a great man who I am proud to call my friend, Albert Hofmann. Here is a story about his 100th Birthday and his "problem child" that may comet be a "wonderchild." An excerpt from the Times piece as published in Europe's International Hereld Tribune:
BURG, Switzerland:Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days.
But outside there was only a white blanket of fog hanging just beyond the crest of the hill. He picked up a photograph of the view on his desk instead, left there perhaps to convince visitors of what really lies beyond the window. Hofmann turns 100 on Wednesday, a milestone to be marked by a symposium in nearby Basel on the chemical compound that he discovered and that famously altered consciousnesses around the world. As the years accumulate and his time left on the planet grows short, Hofmann's conversation turns ever more insistently around one theme: man's oneness with nature and the dangers of an increasing inattention to that fact.
"It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature," he said. "In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans," he said. "The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature." And, yes, LSD, which he calls his "problem child," could help reconnect people to the universe.
Read the rest at Europe - International Herald Tribune
Photograph by Robert S. Forte, Basel Switzerland 1991
