The Trip

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LSD itself certainly is not fatal, but for individual's temporary irrational and mind and spirit, it can be the propellant toward a swift demise, accidents and suicides have been reported, high on the drug in adolescence slashed his arm and blead to death in a field of lilies, even homicidal tendencies can emerge. The fortunate among those who become unhinged under LSD at less manage to stay alive. For a fourteen-year-old truant, it was difficult enough to finding one personality, her own, she was asked when she took LSD for the first time -The first time Right before my fourteenth birthday thirteen You're thirteen years old, wow And it brought a lot of things forward that I wasn't aware-quite ready for, and um I become a lot more aware, a little bit sharper, to you know taking LSD but I wasn't quite ready for it. It's put me in a very strange sort of mind ever since I've been taking psychiatric treatment because of my LSD trips When he dropped out of college, a Southern Californian named Brian found himself in a constant state of rebellion, he grew a stubbly, blonde goatee on his chin. Brian whose photograph can see on the jacket of this album, is a dedicated LSD user I've said, lately it's just been about, one every three weeks, I've been turning on, I know-I'm on a constant high all the time I groove in life and that's all I need to groove on, I love life He was asked whether he had any fears about such habitual uses of the chemical No I'm not worried about it, in my opinion the ones you hear the most about are all the bad kids with the bum trips there the ones you really read about, and inwardly I believe I am beautiful and there's only that curious thought, that I'm beautiful and everything around me is beautiful I have no worry about a bum trip what so ever You've never had a bum trip Never had a bum trip Brian's boast was premature. With a consent of his girlfriend, six microphones were concealed in a Los Angeles studio apartment to record the actual sounds of his thirty fourth trip. Eight people participated in the LSD party, which began at 8:30 on a Saturday night, and ended twelfth hours later. This remarkable sometimes incoherent transcript, illustrates a phantasmagoria of fear, terror, grief, exultation, and finally breakdown. Its highlights have been compressed on this recording to make their own disquieting points. Now the time is 9:30 PM, one hour after the participants have eaten sugar cubes saturated with LSD, we hear Brian and his fellow travelers observing their gradual transformation You're getting all red You're getting high And I'm getting high too *Woman laughing* It's greater than the [??] [?], look at your eyeballs it made me go like this you know big and small They go big and small I'm still kicking at it you know [????] look at mine Yes they go big and small Ok alright Woah Oh this is my first time This is my first time I'm with you Ok [?] my eyes are watering ah everyone's so quiet This is some big laughing gas that's all it is Yeah right Yeah but your [???] I said wait wait wait What Your just starting wait Your [??] Did you [???] Peaceful kind of fun, that's all it is Having your [?] I think your [??] That's it you know Did you bite that? That [?] to the camera where's the camera This man is filming it Where the camera He's got a, he's got one Come on Brian come on man, you know You're camera's up there Yeah, eat my records too what the hell Yeah Brian's been amusing his friends by chewing on some plastic flashbulbs No bro, the devil will be out of here man You guys seeing [?] on the [?] There's no reality Don't pressure him man Cause it's time and time is beautiful Brian's mood is gradually changing. He orders one of his friends into another room and closes the door. He sits alone on the wooden floor, visible only by the dim light shining from the bathroom. He talks to himself I do I have a lot of difference I don't want you damn world Oh man I blew you off so far out of my mind That's fine, you weren't apart of it *Laughing* Wow This is so, I think everything is so It's just so, you know wow What This is great, great Come in, come in, come in from the world Come into the world of, reality Come into the world of materialistic things Come in if you're ready to be beat up by society And if you're lucky, we can go out and get drunk tonight And be happy, and be gay Oops I don't think I'm that far enough *Laughing* I'm so happy right [?] in now [??] myself happy Can we get anyone else to be like this What am I a, a ballet dancer And I like ballet Cause they don't know What is happening, to my mind I like it even more Oh what a beautiful way to go Being here like a little kitty cat, go pitty pat Go kitty cat, little pitty pat Meow Meow, I'm lying here right now Oh, lady And I'm great Yeah At the snap of a finger I run down to reality I like how I only get to snap him once One little snap Oh right down here it says the lowest At the lowest I mean [??] the whole rest of the animals Now everyone's gonna, find everybody And see everybody And wanna take everybody And all you gotta do is snap a finger And I'll become one of them What if I don't snap a fingers, I don't get this I never snap these two fingers here The time is now 1 AM, Brian is unable to snap his fingers and terminate the trip, which continues Now you know you gotta snap these fingers Always gonna be happy Gonna be together I don't-no, very good before you get in a world where you gotta have you know Things like I don't even like this, I don't even like that, man I ain't [??] all day how you gonna do nothing You gonna [??] What's the [?] of the world there good man, yeah I'm in the world do you hear Here I am you understand [????] do ya Well why [????] I don't even know how I got myself [?] I must, I must be, who am I Who am I I don't know if I can't take a [?] He sobs, as his joy turns to fear What don't turn the lights on man, turn the lights off (No) Man turn the lights off Turn the lights off Turn the lights off [?] that's all I'm asking damn it!! (Ok) I like [?] here!! True I don't give ooh, everybody out right now I don't give a [?] out Out Everybody Man I'm in the scene I'm right here I'm right here right here in the middle I'm [?] I'm happy I'm enjoying life And you're [???] be here are ya Get off my back Wow Wow somebody's Somebody's gonna pay for this bum trip right This is a bum! Brian's rocky journey, ended twelve hours, after its so innocently had begun, he was shattered by it. Doctor Sydney Cohen evaluates its meaning This young man never had a bummer, in some thirty-three LSD trips, every one of them was a delight, everything under control, he needed only to snap his fingers, and down he came anytime, but on voyage thirty-four he finally met himself coming down an up staircase, and the encounter the crushing. Without the help to bail him out, he was caught up in a disorganized turmoil, in a hell of madness gone mad. This then, is the bum trip, the final face to face meeting, with oneself, with a whole choking mess of personal conflicts bursting faugh. Brian had successfully slipped around them on thirty-three journeys, and this one started out no different than the rest. But then he was hurled into a chaos that never seemed to end, and with no one to help him deal with it. Perhaps this was more than a bum trip from which one eventually recovers, little the worse for a ghastly day which was an eternity. For there has been a change, he remains shaken, unproductive, verging on something a little more ominous, Brian learned nothing from it, his friends, they went their merry way, his family, they don't count anyway. If he should breakdown completely, he becomes just other LSD casualty to be cared for, was this the last of his explorations, I wonder the strange childlike thinking of the acid sid goes something like this, if LSD got me into this buzzing confusion, then LSD might get me out The abuses symbolized by Brian's bum trip, worry those concerned with the untap potential of the drug, already there's promising evidence that LSD has relieved the anxiety and pain of terminal cancer patients, aided in the treatment of certain mental illnesses, advance the limited progress of some schizophrenic children, and helped to rehabilitate chronic alcoholics like Charles Diedrich, who after taking LSD, founded Synanon, a rehabilitation center for narcotic addicts. An amendment to the federal dangerous drug act recently made LSD manufacture, sale and transportation felonious, California Nevada statutes make mere possession a crime. The LSD cult predicably, views such regulation with rancor, Leary contends that, LSD is religious in nature and ban it would violate constitutional rights. Mrs. Laura Huxley, the widow of Aldous Huxley who visualized the acid era in his book, Island, vociferously opposes the suppression of LSD, at the same time she points out the advantages of its use When abused and misused it can become dangerous, but uh in that sense an automobile is also dangerous, yet we drive all the time. Freeways are dangerous, drinking is dangerous, smoking is dangerous some sports are dangerous, and falling in love is dangerous, but I mean being alive is a continuous risk. I am convinced however that the psychedelic experience is one of enormous importance and was reapproached with respect and love. For psychedelics are stimulators of ideas and feelings, but generally, these ideas and feelings would express themself constructively rather than violently or destructively, if it were possible during a riot, to spray small doses of LSD from a helicopter into the air, people would soon quiet and not be heard Where such a proposal may seem impractical, a group of recalcitrant teenagers in Amsterdam Holland recently did attempt to improvise their own version of Mrs. Huxley's theory. They threatened to disorient the local population by placing several ounces of LSD into the city's water supply. In the United States, authorities seriously lack the necessary fingers to shore up the LSD dike. Despite existing laws, the cascading LSD torrent is upon us, three-day binges are becoming stylish, dosages escalate. While authorities agree that LSD is not physically habit forming, it can become psychologically habituating, and not only for teenagers. [Continues]