Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,
Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I’m interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you.
I’m writing now, shortly after my 101st birthday, to request that you support Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gasser’s proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. This will become the first LSD-assisted psychotherapy study in over 35 years.
I hope you will help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonder child.
Sincerely,
A. Hofmann
Hofmann’s enfant terrible was first born in a Swiss lab in November 1938. Its father, Albert Hoffman, was working on ergot (rye fungus) derivatives in search of a substance that could cure headaches and migraines.
Read more or see the film Hofmann's Potion by Connie Littlefield at NFB.ca blog
Hmmm.... Steve Jobs was famously irascible, and thoroughly not a nice guy to work for. Clever bloke, no doubt, but as for his personal spiritual quest? Other than creating the cult of the mac?
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Hey, that's my cult you're dissin' .
ReplyDeleteI'm not dissing the cult, I rely on it for some of my amusement.
ReplyDeleteAnd I really do like the styling of macs, I'd have one if it didn't come with such an unrealistic and unjustifiable mark-up.
Likewise the iphone.
never felt the need for an ipod though, nor an ipad.
Once I got a mac I never looked back. In my household are 2 mac laptops, a desktop, an iPad, 3 iPods and an iPhone. The iPad was a gift and I find it good for reading ebooks and looking at photos but not much else. The phone makes the iPods redundant. My MacBook has served me well for 7 years of constant use. I just replaced the original battery. When the time comes I'll replace it with a MacBook Air.
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