Michele Pasin / Quotes

A mescaline trip filmed by the BBC

During the mid-1950s Christopher Mayhew, former journalist and author (and at the time a member of Parliament), took mescaline under the supervision of Humphry Osmond, the same Osmond who had been responsible for Aldous Huxley’s first trip. The entire session was filmed by a BBC film crew for television. Those were the days.

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#psychedelics #television #history

Seeing TV for what it really was

Someone turned on the TV. The colors were brilliant, images seemingly jumped off the screen, and there was a fuzzy 3-D quality to the newscaster. I instantly…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #television #ideology #perception

Bicycle Day and the origin of the trip

Soon after he ingested the drug, his entire world began to transform—the colors, the forms—and he felt his ego begin to dissolve. Hofmann grew afraid he had…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #time #ego #history

LSD and the Summer of Love

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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #counterculture #Timothy-Leary #history

Cameron's list of British virtues

Resilient. Realistic. Intelligent. Curious. Enterprising. Inventive. Unswerving. It's the spirit that has made our universities among the best in the world…

David Cameron's New Year Message #music #television #spirit

Children's screen time linked to cognition

Children aged eight to 11 who used screens for fun for less than two hours a day performed better in tests of mental ability, a study found. Combining this…

Limiting Children's Screen Time Linked To Better Cognition - Bbc News #screen-time #social-media #television #fun

Fertilizers and toxins for a smart baby

Regardless of their genes, you can help your children mobilize their intelligence as fully as Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, or the most successful…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #babies #intelligence #play #television #learning