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January 10, 2007

Happy Birthday Albert Hofmann

Link for this Post: LSD the Beyond Within Google Video below

Today (January 11th, 2007) is the 101st. birthday of LSD's discover, Dr. Albert Hofmann. Last year a large International Conference was held in honor of his 100th birthday. I attended the conference and gave a talk, LSD & Aldous Huxley's Island: Setting Sail for a New Country (Video). I'm posting this great documentary LSD The Beyond Within, made by the BBC in the late 1980's. It details Hofmann's discovery:

Photograph of Albert Hofmann by Robert S. Forte, Basel Switzerland 1991

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