As I announced in my previous post about the late doctor Albert Hofmann ( R.I.P. Dear Doctor, posted April 4 ) I give my personal tribute to this great chemist and seminal figure of the modern entheogenic culture posting further things about him.
"My wish is a change of consciousness in every human being as a pre-condition for a better worl"
(Albert Hfmann)
These are some of the obituaries in honor of Albert:
This is the memorial published by Gaia Media Foundation
and this by the AlbertHofmannOrg
ALBERT HOFMANN'S BIBLIOGRAPHY (main works):
"Botany & Chemistry of Hallucinogens" (with R.E. Schulte), 1973
"Road to Eleusis" (with R. Gordon Wasson and C. Ruck), 1978
"Plants of the Gods: their sacred, healing & hallucinogenic powers (with R.E. Schultes), 1979/1992
"LSD: my problem child. Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism & Science", 1980
VIDEO:
"HOFMANN'S POTION: the Early Years of LSD"
"PSYCHEDELIC PIONEER" (A tribute to the great scientist by a Canadian channel TV, with images of the psychedelic sixties and interviews with - among others - Rick Doblin, founder of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), Stanislav Grof, therapist and consciousness researcher and Connie Littlefield, producer of "Hofmann's Potion" movie. You can see the video here
( in the photo: the visionary artist Alex Grey and Hofmann posing with the picture that Grey donated to him during the 2006 LSD Symposium in Basel; the picture of Hofmann posted above is by Brummbaer )
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