HAVE A GOOD TRIP [2020/ V.O.S.E.]

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00:00:00I'm Dr. Walt Miner.

00:00:26I'm here to talk about LSD.

00:00:30We have never given LSD to a living creature that it hasn't affected.

00:00:38It affects fish, it affects spiders, it affects rabbits and dogs and cats, and perhaps most

00:00:44interesting of all, for one reason or another, LSD was given to an elephant once.

00:00:51And lo and behold, it killed the elephant.

00:00:53Some people have a bad experience the first time they take the drug.

00:00:57Others take it 30, 60, or even 100 times before their bad trip.

00:01:02And the bad trip, instant insanity.

00:01:05Often a never-never land of no return.

00:01:08There's nothing grown up or sophisticated in taking an LSD trip at all.

00:01:13They're just being complete fools.

00:01:16It is playing Russian luck.

00:01:28Drug use in educational films has always been portrayed in a somewhat exaggerated and hysterical

00:01:33way.

00:01:34Parents panicking, children having freak-outs, and people jumping out of windows.

00:01:40Don't get me wrong, drugs can be dangerous, but they can also be hilarious.

00:01:53Now, what kind of person would put themselves through something dangerous and hilarious?

00:01:58If nothing else, my hope is that tonight's film will answer that question.

00:02:04Enjoy.

00:02:05I don't think psychedelics are the answer to the world's problems, but they could be a

00:02:12start.

00:02:13I just did it.

00:02:14Einstein.

00:02:15Steve Jobs.

00:02:16Jimi Hendrix.

00:02:17ASAP.

00:02:18Fucking rocket.

00:02:19And I just always had this question.

00:02:20There's gotta be more.

00:02:21There's gotta be more.

00:02:22And then when I took acid, I'm like, oh, you were right.

00:02:25There's a lot more.

00:02:26My point of view changed on drugs.

00:02:29We gained a lot of insight about the way I view reality.

00:02:33I've easily done over 100 hits.

00:02:36Easily.

00:02:37And probably closer to two.

00:02:39Doesn't eight make you legally insane?

00:02:41They say that.

00:02:42I think I've done mushrooms like 12 times.

00:02:46I probably did mushrooms 12 times.

00:02:49Literally 50 times.

00:02:50I took a lot of acid.

00:02:52A lot of acid.

00:02:53I took a lot of acid.

00:02:54I must have taken around 500 trips.

00:02:56I took acid once.

00:02:58Maybe even didn't need to actually take it.

00:03:04Probably could've just watched this documentary.

00:03:06Is everybody in?

00:03:08The movie is about to begin.

00:03:28It H trains a set of

00:03:36Ooh

00:03:37There'll be some happy endings

00:03:39There'll be dreams that don't come true

00:03:45In the times ahead

00:03:51There's love and hate and over the head

00:03:53Afin' bread comes in

00:03:55Bum and all

00:03:57It makes it that much part of you, yeah

00:04:02I'm no more worried

00:04:05I want it too

00:04:11But if you're ready

00:04:17I'm here to fall from you

00:04:23What else is there for us to do?

00:04:48Psychotropic drugs fall under a huge, broad category

00:04:52What I experimented with were hallucinogens

00:04:56And they put you in a state of consciousness

00:05:00Which is very altered

00:05:03Where your perception, your cognition

00:05:06Your knowing is very different

00:05:10Initially it feels like it's not real

00:05:15But then when you come out of it

00:05:17You wonder what is real

00:05:19I wouldn't like this to be an exercise

00:05:22In a sort of just say no campaign

00:05:25Putting people off this experience

00:05:27Because I think it's a valuable experience

00:05:31And whenever I've had a bad trip

00:05:34And I've had many

00:05:36I always realized that it was what I needed

00:05:41Sometimes it kicks your ass

00:05:45And sometimes you need to have your ego

00:05:48Taken down a notch or two

00:05:50On the other hand

00:05:51You can get immensely rewarding experiences

00:05:55Full of love and support

00:05:58And a sense of buoyancy

00:06:00And a sense of a religious sense

00:06:02Of connection to the planet

00:06:04So my feeling is

00:06:07It's, um, it balances out

00:06:09I remember one day

00:06:20A friend of mine gave me some dried peyote

00:06:23Which I'd never taken before

00:06:26I live on a farm down in England

00:06:29I took it at 11am

00:06:31On the way back to that lane house

00:06:33Um, I started to get this feeling

00:06:37And everything was coming alive

00:06:39The grass starts talking to me

00:06:42And very quickly

00:06:47I entered this psychedelic realm

00:06:49The trees are waving kind of musically at me

00:06:52And I go past the farm

00:06:56And I have a guy who runs my farm called John

00:06:59Who hails me over very urgently

00:07:02Come on, I need your help

00:07:04I said, John, I'm, uh, I'm actually busy

00:07:07He says, no, no, you've got to help me

00:07:10I said, well, what is it?

00:07:11He said, well, um, one of the cows

00:07:13Is having a problem birthing

00:07:15And I need your help

00:07:17Because without your help, she'll die

00:07:19She's in a, you know, a bad way

00:07:21And as he's speaking

00:07:22I'm getting more and more high

00:07:24And, uh, disconcerted

00:07:26So I go over to him

00:07:28And she's in distress

00:07:30She's, she's crying

00:07:31She's a great deal of pain

00:07:33What the experience does

00:07:36Is it very clearly presents you

00:07:39With the idea of mortality

00:07:40Right here

00:07:41And you cannot, you can't dodge it

00:07:43It's your own mortality

00:07:45The mortality of this planet

00:07:47The mortality of this little steer

00:07:48Who's being born and its mother

00:07:50So you cannot get around that

00:07:52That is the central issue of consciousness

00:07:55One day, we will not exist

00:07:58How do we, how do we deal with it?

00:08:00So we wrap some rope around the steer's forelegs and snout

00:08:06And I, my job is to pull

00:08:07While he navigates the operation

00:08:10And we're getting covered in all kinds of amniotic fluid and stuff

00:08:14This operation takes about 20 minutes of food

00:08:17It's like pulling in a whale on a fishing boat

00:08:21But I'm getting higher

00:08:23And we eventually get the steer out

00:08:30His mother breathes a sigh of relief

00:08:32And for me, the entire universe is cracked open

00:08:36It was like the meaning of life

00:08:38You know, I think what the psychedelic experience does

00:08:42Is it takes

00:08:44The it out of me and it

00:08:48It becomes me and thou

00:08:52Everything

00:08:53You know, whether it's a tree

00:08:55Or it's a river

00:08:56Or it's a piece of rock

00:08:58You realize that you are connected

00:09:01You know, you're made up of the same matter

00:09:04I think when you treat the world as just an object

00:09:07You tend to treat it badly

00:09:08If you see the world as part of you

00:09:12Then you will treat it better

00:09:14You know, it's not something you want to do every day

00:09:17You have to prepare

00:09:18You need an intention

00:09:20You can say, okay, I'm going to have this experience

00:09:23And I'm hoping with this experience

00:09:27I will be able to write a song

00:09:28Or I will write my novel

00:09:31Or I will make love

00:09:33Or I will treat my family better

00:09:35I'll be a better citizen

00:09:36So if you have an objective

00:09:38And then you have the experience

00:09:40Then you'll be rewarded

00:09:41If your objective is to just get fucked up

00:09:44Then you will get fucked up

00:09:45So my advice is don't do that

00:09:48I'll be honest

00:09:49I don't remember having a conversation about it

00:09:52I don't remember anything other than he handed it to us

00:09:55And we just went, boop

00:09:56Put it right in our mouth

00:09:57Didn't think

00:09:58One thought about it

00:10:01No thought went into it

00:10:04Could have been a big life decision

00:10:06I was a young comedian

00:10:18In New York City

00:10:20We used to hang out at the end of the night

00:10:24All the comics would hang out at this restaurant

00:10:26This old hippie-looking white guy walked in

00:10:30He had these, like, pretty substantial, like, white pieces of paper

00:10:35Boop, boop

00:10:3745 minutes later

00:10:38What was that?

00:10:39Was that acid we took?

00:10:40I don't feel anything

00:10:42And it's always when you say

00:10:43I don't feel anything

00:10:44It's usually kind of the tipping point

00:10:47Do I feel anything?

00:10:51What is feeling?

00:10:55What is feeling?

00:10:57What is feeling anything?

00:10:58Oh, this is what tripping on acid is like

00:11:02And the hot chocolate came

00:11:04And the foam or the whipped cream was, like, breathing

00:11:07And it was too alive to drink

00:11:09We floated to Washington Square Park

00:11:12With a gaggle of people we had never met before

00:11:15Semi-homeless, maybe-ish people

00:11:17And we found ourselves feeling each other's faces

00:11:22And laughing

00:11:24And crying

00:11:25And realizing huge things

00:11:28I remember saying, let's go back to my apartment

00:11:31So we just ran

00:11:36So we get in his car

00:11:41And he pulls out

00:11:42And we get to the red light

00:11:44And the red light turns green

00:11:46And then yellow

00:11:47And then red

00:11:48And then green

00:11:49And then yellow

00:11:50And then red

00:11:51And then green

00:11:51And yellow

00:11:52And red

00:11:53He has forgotten how to drive

00:11:55For the life of him

00:11:56He doesn't know how he even pulled out

00:11:58It was just muscle memory

00:11:59And then he doesn't know what he's doing

00:12:02How cars work

00:12:03How does a car work?

00:12:04We know how cars work?

00:12:06Let's don't drive

00:12:07Let's let, uh, let's have a sober buddy

00:12:09No driving, that's insane

00:12:11You want to be in the passenger seat

00:12:13You don't want to be the driver

00:12:15I want to be driving

00:12:16I don't want to sit there

00:12:18And think, that person is seeing all the things I'm seeing

00:12:21I think I better drive

00:12:23You know when you see those white lines

00:12:25If you look way in the distance

00:12:26They almost look like they're going up

00:12:28And I remember sitting there driving the car

00:12:30And my hands were just doing this by themselves

00:12:32It's almost like I could just sit

00:12:33And look out the window or whatever

00:12:35Because my body was driving the car

00:12:36I eventually stopped

00:12:38I just completely stopped

00:12:39Because it's so steep

00:12:40But I'm not falling back

00:12:43And I don't know how that's possible

00:12:45And then I realize

00:12:46I don't have my foot on the gas

00:12:49I've just coasted to a stop

00:12:52On the Hollywood freeway

00:12:53The road went

00:12:54And disappeared

00:12:57And I saw nothing but total blackness

00:13:01And then there was this tiny little skull

00:13:03At the end of it

00:13:05And it came forward

00:13:07And in the skull was the road

00:13:10And the mouth opened

00:13:11And I got swallowed

00:13:13Don't drive on acid

00:13:16Hi, I'm Tommy Rowe

00:13:28By now it must be obvious to you

00:13:30As it is to me

00:13:31That LSD is very powerful stuff

00:13:34And that's just what it is

00:13:35Stuff

00:13:36Acid and mushrooms are the coke and pepsi of hallucinogens

00:13:46But there are lots of things that can make you trip

00:13:49Ayahuasca

00:13:50DMT

00:13:52Mescaline

00:13:53But these are just the beginning of a list of compounds

00:13:56That can cause the human brain to experience

00:13:59Altered states of reality and hallucinations

00:14:02I decided I would be initiated properly into peyote

00:14:10So I took a plane down to Mexico City

00:14:12And then we went out in a van to the mountains

00:14:16And we met these people

00:14:16Who would initiate me into this peyote cult

00:14:19First of all

00:14:19They cram massive amounts of peyote into your mouth

00:14:22I mean huge amounts

00:14:23With strickening

00:14:25And you look at this thing

00:14:27And you think

00:14:27This is poison

00:14:28You know

00:14:29They keep stuffing it in

00:14:31And very quickly

00:14:33I'm very high

00:14:35And you know

00:14:36I mean the desert already is a surreal

00:14:38Psychedelic experience

00:14:40You know

00:14:40You just have to look at one of these gigantic cacti

00:14:43You're in this primal alien world

00:14:45And then they blindfolded me

00:14:52With three other initiates

00:14:54When you have your eyes closed

00:14:56You're in this three-dimensional cartoon world

00:14:59You're in this kind of space movie

00:15:02And we were forced to climb the sacred mountain

00:15:05I've forgotten the name of the sacred mountain

00:15:07Blindfolded high on peyote

00:15:10In the midday sun

00:15:11So we're stumbling up this mountain

00:15:15And it's quite a hike

00:15:16Anyway, eventually we get to the top in the early evening

00:15:20And I feel this kind of sprinkling

00:15:21On my head

00:15:23And I'm like, oh god

00:15:23They're giving me a shower

00:15:25Because I'm filthy dirty

00:15:26And I open my eyes

00:15:27And it's blood

00:15:28I said, what is this?

00:15:31Oh, it's deer's blood

00:15:32It's part of it

00:15:33I think deer's blood poured on top

00:15:35And it was during the time

00:15:40Of Halley's Comet

00:15:41And Halley's Comet

00:15:42Is quite something

00:15:43Especially when you're on peyote

00:15:45Because it looks

00:15:46Like a fiery dragon

00:15:47Quite fearsome

00:15:51And threatening

00:15:52But it didn't frighten me

00:15:53As much as this concept of mortality

00:15:57Which is a constant with me

00:15:59This was something

00:16:00Difficult

00:16:02And I think meaningful

00:16:05I think meaningful

00:16:17Drugs are great

00:16:22Psychedelics are so cool

00:16:25I love hallucinogens

00:16:27Give me some

00:16:28Now

00:16:29These are just some of the things

00:16:31You'll hear on a typical playground these days

00:16:34Does that scare you?

00:16:36It should

00:16:36Because today's kids are increasingly

00:16:39Turning on, tuning in

00:16:41And dropping out

00:16:42Now how do us squares

00:16:44Wrap our heads around this terrifying trend?

00:16:47Well, we watch videos

00:16:49Like this one

00:16:50About one little girl

00:16:51Let's call her Emily

00:16:53Because that is her name

00:16:55And her

00:16:56Bad trip

00:16:58Hey guys, what's up?

00:17:09So Emily, I'm throwing a party tonight

00:17:11And it'd be pretty rad if you came by

00:17:14No, remember we were gonna go have fun

00:17:16At your place doing safe stuff

00:17:18Under your mom's supervision

00:17:19Parents get a bad rap

00:17:20But they're not so bad

00:17:22To hang around with

00:17:23Come on, Emily

00:17:25It'll be fun

00:17:26There'll be tons of hard drugs there

00:17:27Okay, maybe I'll see you there

00:17:30I mean, how bad could it be?

00:17:33I was ready for some hard drugs

00:17:44Got some LSD, some mushrooms

00:17:47Acid, some blue heaven

00:17:49Purple haze

00:17:50I got blue sky on Mars

00:17:53I got grandma's dentures

00:17:55I got Pac-Man

00:17:56We got Super Mario's

00:17:58We got Luigi's

00:17:59We got Reagan's

00:18:01And some orange sunshine

00:18:02Oh, I'm in

00:18:05Orange sunshine doesn't sound too bad

00:18:13It has lots of names, Emily

00:18:15But it doesn't take being a math nerd like Maya

00:18:18To know what it equals

00:18:19A bad trip

00:18:22Come on, Emily, just try one

00:18:28Maybe just one

00:18:29Don't do it, Emily

00:18:31Think about your future, Emily

00:18:32I think I'm tripping

00:18:38Weird

00:18:41That's every acid trip in a movie

00:18:45They have never, ever nailed it

00:18:47They always, in movies, will use, like, a fisheye lens

00:18:51They always pitch the person's voice way down

00:18:55So everything just looks distorted, you know

00:18:58And the person's like

00:18:59Hey, man, I'm on acid

00:19:01Oh, my God, I can feel my soul

00:19:05The one thing I've seen in a movie that was pretty close was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

00:19:10There's a scene where Johnny Depp is in the casino

00:19:13And the floor is, like, kind of moving around and stuff

00:19:18Like, when I saw that, I was like, yes

00:19:21That, that's acid

00:19:23I don't know how much acid you've taken

00:19:25But one of the constants in most of my trips during that period

00:19:28Is things would always happen while high on acid

00:19:31That under no ordinary circumstances would happen

00:19:35Strange, and in this case, terrible things

00:19:37Hi, my name's Anthony Bourdain

00:19:49I liked LSD a lot

00:19:53You know, I became a teenager just as the 60s were ending

00:19:57And, you know, I was cruelly disappointed that I'd sort of missed out on the entire hippie era

00:20:03You know, I'd read about them in Life magazine, you know, when I was 9 and 10 years old

00:20:08And that looked really good

00:20:09I thought, you know, I can't wait till I'm old enough to go to San Francisco and, and, and take acid

00:20:14You know, the people are jumping out windows and stuff

00:20:16It must be interesting

00:20:17And, you know, my parents were horrified by it

00:20:20So that was something of an endorsement

00:20:22I know I was fully in the thrall of the works of Hunter S. Thompson

00:20:27And by fully in the thrall, I mean

00:20:30We thought Hunter Thompson was the coolest thing ever

00:20:34And we wanted to be just like him

00:20:36You know, there's that Thompson image of, you know, you know, you're having a bad trip

00:20:40I think when you look down, you see your dead grandmother with a knife in her teeth crawling up your leg

00:20:45That was funny to us

00:20:46And we kind of, we wanted to, if not experience that, to survive that

00:20:50For this weekend, we prepared ourselves for an early version of the road trip

00:20:55I told my parents that I was staying over at my friend's house for a sleepover weekend

00:20:59He had used the car and, I think, a learner's permit

00:21:03This was the basic framework around which our master plan coalesced

00:21:08First, we acquired some drugs

00:21:10A lot of acid, some weed, some Lebanese hash, Gordon's gin

00:21:14Two cases of Maximus Super Beer

00:21:16I don't know why we chose that brand

00:21:18Also, and this is important

00:21:20Some Quaaludes

00:21:21And proceeded to take a lot of the drugs, including the LSD

00:21:25We sent out for Dark Heart of the Catskills

00:21:34So we're driving along, getting off on the acid

00:21:37And we encounter two hitchhikers

00:21:40Attractive-looking young women

00:21:41They were exotic dancers

00:21:43One of them identified herself by the name Panama Red

00:21:47Experienced young women of the world in search of a ride

00:21:50We immediately let it slip as well

00:21:52And we were fully loaded with a pretty dizzying array of controlled substances

00:21:57Unsurprisingly enough, this interested these two young, delicate flowers

00:22:00We went back to her room

00:22:04And we smoked some weed

00:22:06We smoked some hash

00:22:07Uh-oh, careful

00:22:10He's gonna attack

00:22:11Then she reminded us that we had mentioned Quaaludes

00:22:20And I gave her one

00:22:23And she seemed to indicate that this was unsatisfactory

00:22:26That she would like two

00:22:27Two Power S 400s

00:22:28Now these motherfuckers were industrial strength

00:22:30Powerful fucking Methacoylum

00:22:33Panama starts, with the help of all that liquor

00:22:35Starts getting pretty high on that Quaalude as it's hitting in

00:22:38We are by this point, huh, we're peaking, okay

00:22:41Bad part, things started to go wrong

00:22:45Well, things went wrong very quickly

00:22:49And Panama starts modeling her outfits from her earlier years in Vegas

00:22:54Suddenly, Panama, mid-stride, her eyes roll up in her head

00:23:02And she keels over, stone dead, on the fucking floor

00:23:06She's OD'd, she's dead

00:23:21And we've given her the drugs that have killed her

00:23:23Already in my mind, the police helicopters with their searchlights

00:23:26Swooping over the motel at any minute

00:23:29There will be, you know, special units with battering rams

00:23:33Coming in the windows and the doors

00:23:35What do we do now?

00:23:38You know, my parents think I'm sleeping at your house

00:23:40And we're high, we're really, really high

00:23:43On the way over here, you know, the sky is filled with

00:23:46Colors and concentric circles

00:23:48And strange and, you know, wonderful things

00:23:51Now it's ugly and paranoid

00:23:53Reality has intruded in a seriously ugly way

00:23:57Before we came close to figuring out what happened

00:24:01She stirred and roused herself

00:24:04As if nothing had happened, frankly

00:24:06Just stood up as if she collapses to the floor all the time

00:24:09We drank a lot of gin and distorted coke off the Gideon's Bible

00:24:17I remember at one point excusing myself to go to the bathroom

00:24:19And looking in the mirror and seeing, you know, an Indian chief in full war paint

00:24:25In the mirror, you know, looking up

00:24:27And looking in a mirror is never a good idea on acid

00:24:30But in this case it was a really bad idea

00:24:33Don't look in the mirror

00:24:34Don't look in the mirror

00:24:35Cover the mirrors

00:24:36It's not a great idea to look in a mirror

00:24:38Oh, my God, looking in the mirror is, like, the worst

00:24:41Like, looking in the mirror, like, who am I?

00:24:43Who do I see?

00:24:44You can see through your skin

00:24:45Your skin is apparently more translucent

00:24:47When you're tripping

00:24:49You can see, like, the blood rushing through your vessels and the veins

00:24:54Especially if you have any self-esteem issues, you know, it's just like

00:24:57I mean, I've had, like, my face turned into, like, a goat

00:25:00Doesn't matter what you look like

00:25:02Cover the mirrors

00:25:06Don't look in the mirror

00:25:10I'm Dr. Charles Grobe, spelled G-R-O-B

00:25:13I'm a psychiatrist

00:25:15I'm a researcher investigating the potential for a hallucinogen treatment model to heal psychiatric illness

00:25:25Or heal addiction

00:25:26I've also conducted an FDA-approved study where we had permission to use the alkaloid of hallucinogenic mushrooms, psilocybin, in a treatment model for individuals with advanced stage cancer who had reactive anxiety

00:25:41Overall, their quality of life improved noticeably

00:25:46No one had a bad trip

00:25:47No one had a serious physiological reaction

00:25:50So, um, we found that, you know, at the very least there was good potential in this treatment model and worthy of further controlled investigation

00:26:00Let's hear from young people who have had their reasons for being down on LSD

00:26:05Let's also hear from doctors, psychologists, and other experts who have tried LSD themselves

00:26:10The only time I think I've ever been able to understand myself was on an acid trip

00:26:16Then things were really clear

00:26:18You know, I didn't have any one small bad trip

00:26:21I had one long, pretty good one

00:26:24I had outfits that went with acid

00:26:28I had the music that went with acid

00:26:30Makeup that went with acid

00:26:34To me, it was a, um, a ritual drug

00:26:37You want to look at my house?

00:26:39Okay, my house is the acid house

00:26:42It affected everything

00:26:55To me, it's so hilarious to have, like, drug anecdotes

00:27:09The very nature of what you're asking

00:27:12If you're doing drugs the right way, you can't tell an orderly story

00:27:17Hi, I'm Carrie Fisher

00:27:19And I took a lot of LSD

00:27:23I think I'd heard about acid from maybe from John Belushi

00:27:27But I did not have a problem with

00:27:29At that point, I didn't have a problem with drugs

00:27:31I had not gotten into the drug zone

00:27:33That would ultimately prove to be my downfall

00:27:38Which would be opiates

00:27:39You know, it would be hard to get

00:27:41What, are you going to get addicted to acid?

00:27:43You know, no

00:27:44And it's a very hard drug to take

00:27:46So I would organize trips around to places in the world

00:27:51Simply to take acid there

00:27:52I would do these things and forget that

00:27:56I looked like someone named Princess Leia

00:28:01Or whatever I was for people

00:28:03And so it's not a brilliant idea to then, you know, take acid and go running around

00:28:09So yeah, I went to the Seychelles

00:28:11And we took acid and oh my god

00:28:17I was on the beach

00:28:20And there was no one else on the beach

00:28:23And so I'm with my Super 8 movie camera

00:28:30That's when this was

00:28:31And I'm filming my friend

00:28:33And as this is going along

00:28:35Suddenly

00:28:36I sensed that there's been a disturbance in the force

00:28:42Don't put that in

00:28:46Anyway, and I turn around

00:28:48And by the way, I'm

00:28:49I can't imagine that I'm nude

00:28:52But certainly I'm topless

00:28:54And we turn around

00:28:56And there are a busload of Japanese folk that have just arrived

00:29:01And it turns out where we are

00:29:03It's where they bring the tourists to have lunch from all the hotels

00:29:07I am at that time, I believe, Princess Leia

00:29:11In a profound way

00:29:13And not clothed

00:29:16I took acid and went

00:29:18Oh, I see

00:29:20This makes sense

00:29:22And in fact, when I was first told I was bipolar

00:29:26Well, I went in to see a doctor and I said

00:29:29Well, I felt normal on acid

00:29:34Well, why she might feel normal when taking LSD

00:29:38During the height of her fame

00:29:40It may have something to do with how unnatural it felt

00:29:43Being a public persona

00:29:45How disconnected she may have been from herself

00:29:49And how the LSD experience may have allowed her

00:29:53To have accessed some core element

00:29:56Her core self

00:29:58Allow her to feel more genuine in that regard

00:30:00Anyway, what happened was

00:30:02We took this Owsley acid

00:30:05We got really high

00:30:07We're in Central Park

00:30:09I'm holding onto the ground

00:30:12Because it was hard to stay on the planet

00:30:17And I'm watching an acorn

00:30:22And it's moving a lot

00:30:25I never saw anything that wasn't there

00:30:29I just saw things that were there misbehave

00:30:32Holy shit

00:30:39You're Carrie Fisher

00:30:40You're fucking Princess Leia

00:30:43Oh my god, I'm such a huge fan of yours

00:30:46And it's misbehaving

00:30:48Look at this

00:30:49I got it at a garage sale, huh?

00:30:51Whoa, whoa, whoa

00:30:53And misbehaving

00:30:54I'm talking to you

00:30:55Because you're tripping your fucking balls off

00:30:58No, just

00:30:59Ah, no, no, no

00:31:01So I had to watch this acorn

00:31:04You know, basically choreograph itself

00:31:08You're in show business

00:31:09Can I run something by you?

00:31:10Tell me what you think, okay?

00:31:12I'm a nut

00:31:13I'm a nut

00:31:15I'm a nut

00:31:17Nut, nut, nut, nut, nut, nut, nut

00:31:19I'm nuts

00:31:19I'm a nut

00:31:20What do you think?

00:31:22I'm still, you know

00:31:22Shut up!

00:31:24Oh

00:31:24You don't like it

00:31:26So at that point

00:31:28The acorn was almost back to being itself

00:31:31Don't tell anybody what you saw here

00:31:34Shh

00:31:35Shh

00:31:38Don't say nothing

00:31:40As a psychologist

00:31:45I have to tell you that the understanding you think you have gained

00:31:48Just doesn't fit in with the facts

00:31:50The only real understanding you could gain

00:31:52Would come from having a bummer and then analyzing it

00:31:55Which would mean you'd have to want to try to have bummers

00:31:58And then attempt to understand them the way that psychologists analyze dreams

00:32:02Which, unless you are properly trained, you cannot do by yourself

00:32:07Drugs change your state of consciousness very dramatically

00:32:13So you run the risk of psychosis or what's called a bad trip

00:32:19A bad trip is minimized the more you control your set and setting

00:32:24A set is who's the person having this experience, their mindset, their vulnerabilities, their intention

00:32:30Setting is where you're doing it, how safe is the setting

00:32:34Don't take acid with strangers or people who pretend to be your friends or friends of friends

00:32:41Pick your company well

00:32:43Do not ever take LSD with assholes

00:32:45You know, you don't want somebody doing that, freaking out

00:32:48Oh, you feel it?

00:32:49Oh, you feel your mind cracking?

00:32:51Ha, ha, ha, that is so crazy

00:32:54Do you see pink elephants, man? Do you see pink elephants?

00:32:57If you've got a deep sadness or a problem, that can often be dangerously enhanced

00:33:02You don't want a bunch of crazy stuff going on in your head

00:33:06Like bad stuff that, you know, you're dealing with

00:33:08Like, oh, I just broke up with somebody

00:33:09Or I got caught masturbating in the coffee machine

00:33:12Because that sort of guilt and shame, you know, just becomes bigger

00:33:17So you want to make sure you're strong mentally

00:33:19It's a journey that everyone must take on their own

00:33:22With friends

00:33:23Hang out with a couple of good friends in an enclosed space

00:33:26Not enclosed, with some outdoors

00:33:28Enjoy the outdoors

00:33:29I'd suggest the woods, that's it

00:33:31The woods, water nearby, flowing river, fucking trees, some beauty

00:33:36People always say that you should trip in a meadow or somewhere natural

00:33:41And that's probably great, but I've never done that

00:33:43I've always been in New York City

00:33:44The first time I went to New York and just got high, I thought the taxis were out to kill me

00:33:50Stay away from cities

00:33:51And now back to Bad Trip

00:34:03Everyone will tell you that taking a trip will be fine as long as you control your set and setting

00:34:09But the only thing that is sure is you are set on setting out on a bad trip

00:34:16Orange you glad we're friends

00:34:26I don't know, orange you

00:34:30You guys are acting really weird

00:34:34Yeah guys, knock it off, it's not funny anymore

00:34:37Well you know what would be funny?

00:34:38If I jumped out of a window

00:34:39That sounds like a great idea

00:34:42Yeah, do it

00:34:43Okay

00:34:43What?

00:34:45No!

00:34:47Not the window!

00:34:48Not the window!

00:34:53Oh, drugs are a laugh riot

00:35:03Until they're not

00:35:04Hi, my name is Nick Kroll

00:35:13And I have a cautionary tale to tell about tripping

00:35:16Um, you know, it was super fun

00:35:19I just want to caution people about that

00:35:20A couple years ago

00:35:32Uh, my friend's bachelor party

00:35:34Rented a house up in Malibu

00:35:36And I procured a bunch of mushrooms for it

00:35:39Because, you know, dudes in their mid to late 30s

00:35:43Are just looking to, you know, fucking escape

00:35:47People were, uh, smoking salvia

00:35:50So you knew it was a classy affair

00:35:52We're on some private beach in Malibu

00:35:57We all take mushrooms

00:35:58I take a few more just to be like

00:36:00Yeah, this is cool

00:36:00These are good

00:36:01This is fun

00:36:01Oh, I love my friends

00:36:05So we're all having a good time

00:36:07I'm thinking

00:36:08I'm in the water

00:36:09I'm tripping

00:36:09There's a 90% chance I'm gonna drown

00:36:12But it's feeling good to be one with the earth

00:36:16We get out of the water

00:36:17Now I'm on the beach

00:36:19I'm starting to really roll

00:36:20And, uh, I sit down

00:36:22And I have eaten more mushrooms than everybody else

00:36:24I see my buddies

00:36:25And they are starting to gather a bunch of sea kelp

00:36:29I see this

00:36:30And I'm like

00:36:30I understand what's gonna happen now

00:36:32Okay

00:36:33They've come out of the water

00:36:35They are emerging

00:36:36With about 40 to 50 pounds

00:36:38And I just see them lifted

00:36:40And just put all of the sea kelp on my body

00:36:43And I was thrilled

00:36:48And the sea kelp starts to move on me

00:36:52And I'm like

00:36:52I am the kelp monster

00:36:53I am the kelp monster

00:36:55I couldn't even fathom wanting to remove

00:37:05This fucking detritus from the sea

00:37:09Kelp monster

00:37:10Uh, the next day I woke up

00:37:13Uh, covered in, uh, red welts

00:37:15Um, because I had, uh, uh, been covered in sea fucking kelp

00:37:22For 45 minutes

00:37:24I don't really dig dropping pills

00:37:27But you get the wildest trip on acid

00:37:29Yeah, but you can also get the wildest bummers

00:37:31You know when there's, like, four corners or whatever

00:37:34And you kind of get trained by stoplights

00:37:38Or by, like, the walk sign and the don't walk sign or whatever

00:37:41And I remember all of a sudden being like

00:37:42Oh, I want to get over there

00:37:46And instead of going from here

00:37:48From point A to point B to point C

00:37:50I was like

00:37:50I could just go from point A to point C

00:37:53And, like, that was some

00:37:56It sounds really stupid

00:37:57But it's something acid gave me

00:37:59And then in my life

00:38:00I use it all the time

00:38:01Where I'm like

00:38:01If no one's looking

00:38:03I can just head straight to point C

00:38:05Without doing this point B bullshit

00:38:08So I'm Kathleen

00:38:20And this is Adam

00:38:21We're married

00:38:21We're both musicians

00:38:22To the others

00:38:24My story that I wanted to tell

00:38:26Isn't, isn't, uh

00:38:28I've never had a bad

00:38:29Like a bad acid trip

00:38:31Or a bad mushroom trip

00:38:32Like a freakout

00:38:34Late 80s

00:38:34I was, uh, with three friends

00:38:36We were driving to

00:38:37My friend, uh, Monty Mark

00:38:38Said, you gotta go to this place in Baja

00:38:40It's me and three women

00:38:41And we're just, like, in the middle of nowhere

00:38:43In Mexico

00:38:44My friend was like

00:38:46Oh, I've got two hits of acid

00:38:47We should take them

00:38:48So, uh, we put them in a Snapple bottle

00:38:51And we all drank it

00:38:51And a tire blows

00:39:02It's me and three women

00:39:03And we're just, like, in the middle of nowhere

00:39:05I don't know how to change a tire

00:39:07I don't even know if there was a tire

00:39:08You know, now that

00:39:09As I'm saying it

00:39:10I don't even know

00:39:10I can't believe you didn't know

00:39:11How to drive a

00:39:12Change a tire

00:39:13I don't even know if we looked

00:39:14To see if there was another tire

00:39:15As we're like

00:39:19This is really grim

00:39:21A white owl flies right above us

00:39:25And we're like

00:39:26It's a sign

00:39:27Something great's about to happen

00:39:29These two vans

00:39:31Filled with dudes

00:39:32Like grown men

00:39:34Pull up

00:39:34And we're like

00:39:35Oh, this is great

00:39:36Oh, shit, this is a little weird

00:39:37All these guys come out

00:39:39And they're kind of walking around the car

00:39:40Checking us out

00:39:41There's, like, three hot girls in the car

00:39:43If I go with them

00:39:44They'll take me to a place

00:39:45To a guy who has tires

00:39:47And so I'm like

00:39:48Look, um

00:39:48I don't know if I'm coming back

00:39:50You guys

00:39:51And so we do the four-way hug

00:39:52And we're like

00:39:53You know, good luck

00:39:54And so we drive

00:39:56And we drive

00:39:57And we take a turn

00:39:58Further into the mountains

00:39:59And it's like

00:40:00It's right out of a movie

00:40:01And there's all these old dudes

00:40:02Sitting around by a fire

00:40:03A campfire

00:40:04And there's these two cinderblock shacks

00:40:07And I'm like

00:40:09Over there

00:40:10Out of the shack

00:40:13Comes the biggest person

00:40:15You've ever

00:40:16Ever seen

00:40:17Overalls

00:40:18No shirt

00:40:19He's backlit

00:40:20With the biggest fucking hammer

00:40:22You've ever seen in your life

00:40:23The more I was freaking out

00:40:25The more they were laughing at me

00:40:26And he turns over

00:40:27And then he starts

00:40:28Banging on the door

00:40:29He opens the door

00:40:33I'm like

00:40:33Alright, this is it

00:40:35I try to fight everybody here

00:40:38To get out

00:40:39Or I see what's in the room

00:40:40Turns the light on

00:40:44And it's filled with fucking tires

00:40:45It's filled with tires

00:40:47It's a church group

00:40:48The two vans

00:40:50Are from a church group

00:40:51And they led us on their way

00:40:52They told us

00:40:53Go back down this way

00:40:54And wow

00:40:55It all worked out fine

00:40:56It was the owl

00:40:57This is your brain

00:41:05This is your brain

00:41:07This is your brain

00:41:08This is your brain

00:41:10This is your brain on drugs

00:41:13And this is your brain on my sandwich

00:41:22Delicious

00:41:27Always that same LSD story

00:41:30You've all seen it

00:41:31Young man on acid

00:41:32Thought he could fly

00:41:33Jumped out of a building

00:41:34What a tragedy

00:41:35What a dick

00:41:37Fuck him

00:41:38He's an idiot

00:41:39If he thought he could fly

00:41:40Why didn't he take off

00:41:41On the ground first

00:41:42There isn't a lot of stories

00:41:45Of people leaping

00:41:47You know

00:41:47That was the thing

00:41:48There was a lot of shit

00:41:49That was coming down the pike

00:41:50When we were originally taking it

00:41:53You know

00:41:53To kind of scare us off

00:41:54Both my parents

00:41:55Were therapists

00:41:56And they worked

00:41:57In this psychiatric hospital

00:41:59And I guess

00:42:01The way my parents

00:42:01Telling me not to do drugs

00:42:03Was by coming home

00:42:04And telling me

00:42:05How messed up the kids were

00:42:07At the hospital

00:42:08Who did drugs only once

00:42:09My mom would be like

00:42:10This kid smoked marijuana

00:42:12And it was laced with PCP

00:42:14And now he's insane

00:42:15He doesn't know what to do

00:42:16He puts a fist up his butt

00:42:18That's all he does

00:42:19That was literally a story

00:42:20My mom told me

00:42:22So I had the fear of God in me

00:42:24About doing any sort of drugs

00:42:26Whatsoever

00:42:27I never did it

00:42:28That is until

00:42:29I went to Amsterdam

00:42:30Hey I'm Paul Scheer

00:42:41And this is my story

00:42:43About getting

00:42:44Ridiculously high

00:42:46I went to Amsterdam

00:42:47With a bunch of my comedy friends

00:42:48To do some shows

00:42:49And it was like

00:42:51Wow Amsterdam

00:42:51Like marijuana's legal

00:42:53Oh wow

00:42:53You could even do mushrooms

00:42:54This is gonna be amazing

00:42:55Alright

00:42:55We have to have

00:42:57A mushroom day

00:42:58And we finally went to a shop

00:42:59And you know

00:43:00They kind of bring them out

00:43:02Like you would bring out

00:43:02Diamonds at Tiffany's

00:43:04You know

00:43:04They have like

00:43:05Different types of mushrooms

00:43:06And we picked them

00:43:08I remember I picked something

00:43:09That was like

00:43:09Hawaiian something

00:43:11I was like

00:43:11Hawaii that's cool

00:43:12Yeah like surfing

00:43:13That's the kind of trip I want

00:43:14So we decided

00:43:15Where's the best place to do it

00:43:17And it would have to be

00:43:18The Van Gogh Museum

00:43:20So we go into the Van Gogh Museum

00:43:22And you know

00:43:23We're just eating these mushrooms

00:43:25They say don't eat the whole thing

00:43:26All at once

00:43:26We're like alright fine

00:43:27So I'm eating these mushrooms

00:43:29And it's about five minutes past

00:43:31I'm like

00:43:31I don't feel anything

00:43:33These mushrooms don't work at all

00:43:35Well

00:43:40I'm Paul Sheeran Amsterdam

00:43:43And I guess these mushrooms

00:43:45Aren't kicking in

00:43:46And so I just eat more of them

00:43:48And then more of them

00:43:49Well I guess I'll just enjoy the art

00:43:52I'm Paul Sheeran Amsterdam

00:43:53I look up at one of the paintings

00:43:56Which is

00:43:56The Crows Over the Cornfield

00:43:58And it really like grabs me for some reason

00:44:01Wow this is really interesting

00:44:03And I go oh look at that

00:44:04I can see under the crows

00:44:06I start to turn

00:44:07Because I'm convincing myself

00:44:08That if I turn

00:44:09I'm seeing parts of the painting

00:44:11That don't really exist

00:44:13Holy shit

00:44:15Look at all this corn

00:44:17All of a sudden

00:44:18I feel like these birds

00:44:20Are coming out at me

00:44:21And I'm in the middle of this cornfield

00:44:22Whoa

00:44:23What the fuck

00:44:25Now this is a popular museum family

00:44:27People are all there

00:44:29And I'm standing maybe

00:44:30Four inches away from the painting

00:44:33Almost upside down

00:44:35Like this

00:44:36Like yes

00:44:37Yes

00:44:38Yes

00:44:38And it's morphing and moving

00:44:42I'm like

00:44:42Van Gogh

00:44:43Genius

00:44:44I get Van Gogh

00:44:46I get Van Gogh

00:44:48Now I'm feeling a little bit too hot

00:44:50I'm like oh

00:44:50It's hot in here

00:44:51I'm sweating

00:44:51I'm like

00:44:52I gotta leave this museum

00:44:53I arrive back

00:44:54At the house that we're staying

00:44:55And I go

00:44:56Guys

00:44:57We need to get

00:44:58McDonald's

00:45:00And everyone's like

00:45:01Yes

00:45:01And I think my plan

00:45:02Stemmed from the fact

00:45:03That we were in a foreign country

00:45:04And we needed to ground ourselves

00:45:06With something American

00:45:07So McDonald's was the way to go

00:45:09And I go to McDonald's

00:45:10They fill up a sack of burgers for me

00:45:12I take it back to our house

00:45:14And I toss them out to everybody

00:45:16Everyone starts eating the burgers

00:45:17And just like in Alice in Wonderland

00:45:19When she eats the pill

00:45:20We all finish our burgers

00:45:22And it just wears off

00:45:24We're back to normal

00:45:25And it's like

00:45:26Thank you McDonald's

00:45:27You saved us

00:45:28Never had experience in McDonald's

00:45:30Because I'm not a fucking idiot

00:45:31If there's anything antithetical

00:45:33To a trip on LSD

00:45:35It's a McDonald's

00:45:36Talk about yin and fuck yang

00:45:38You walk in there

00:45:39And you realize

00:45:40I'm in the belly of the fucking beast

00:45:42I have a soul

00:45:43And I'm in a soulless cage

00:45:46Hi

00:45:56I'm Rob Corddry

00:45:58A psychonaut

00:46:00Screen Actors Guild

00:46:02Once we were on Mushrooms

00:46:04And I sat in front of the mirror

00:46:05Tripping my balls off

00:46:07High as a kite

00:46:08Just like staring at myself in the mirror

00:46:10I had my shirt off

00:46:14Which is usually something that bugs me

00:46:17But at this point

00:46:18Like you don't have any body dysmorphia

00:46:21You see things for the way they really are

00:46:24No matter how much they sort of like shimmer and breathe

00:46:27And your body's breathing anyway

00:46:28And I'm like looking at it

00:46:30For my body and my face

00:46:32For what it really, really, truly is

00:46:35You know, my face looked completely different

00:46:38My body

00:46:38I understood it was a shell

00:46:40And I felt inside me

00:46:42The real me

00:46:43Not in the mirror

00:46:43I felt bigger than my body

00:46:45And I felt wider

00:46:46And I felt like

00:46:47Oh, this is it

00:46:48Like we're part of everything

00:46:50Everything is connected

00:46:51And then I would look in the mirror

00:46:52And I'd be like

00:46:53I could see

00:46:55It seemed

00:46:56Like

00:46:57The whole

00:46:59World was me

00:47:01I could see everything

00:47:02Everything was connected

00:47:03All good

00:47:04You know, people always say

00:47:05Don't look at a mirror

00:47:06When you're high

00:47:07But I'm like

00:47:07Don't ever leave a mirror

00:47:09Do look in the mirror

00:47:16I remember looking in the mirror

00:47:18And my face turned into a gargoyle

00:47:21That shit was trippy

00:47:22I was like

00:47:23Oh, shit

00:47:23Growing up in an urban community

00:47:33Like the hood

00:47:34Or some shit like that

00:47:35We look at acid

00:47:36Like, man

00:47:37That's like crack

00:47:38Or like PCP

00:47:40Like some meth

00:47:41Or some shit like that

00:47:42The fucking acid

00:47:44And then as you get older

00:47:46You know, you start

00:47:47You know, doing mushrooms

00:47:48And shit like that

00:47:49And you realize that

00:47:50All it is

00:47:51Is just like

00:47:51Fungus and mold

00:47:52And you know

00:47:53This is just like

00:47:54Some chill shit

00:47:56Yeah, I remember

00:48:07The first time I did acid

00:48:08It was

00:48:09A couple years back

00:48:11I felt I was ready

00:48:12Ready to become one

00:48:14With the planet

00:48:15The universe

00:48:16It was crazy

00:48:17It was with a beautiful female

00:48:19She's the one

00:48:20Who introduced me to it

00:48:22All I remember is

00:48:23She had it on like

00:48:24Crackers already

00:48:25Unfortunately, by the time

00:48:28I got with her

00:48:29Is exactly when the acid

00:48:31Just started kicking in

00:48:32And you know

00:48:33We getting jiggy

00:48:35And whatnot, right?

00:48:36It feels so good

00:48:37Like it's

00:48:38Everything feels intensified

00:48:40I'm seeing all type of shit

00:48:42I'm feeling all type of shit

00:48:44Colors are moving

00:48:45I hear colors

00:48:46I can taste the colors

00:48:47Like what the fuck

00:48:49Does a color taste like?

00:48:50You know what I'm saying?

00:48:52And for some reason

00:48:53Everything she did to me

00:48:55Just felt amazing

00:48:57Like Tom's suit

00:48:58Out of the ordinary

00:49:00And it's a big graphic

00:49:02It's a bit vulgar

00:49:06It's a bit raunchy

00:49:07You feel me?

00:49:08You feel me?

00:49:09But what can I say?

00:49:10It's like

00:49:11No lie

00:49:12A rainbow shot out of my dick

00:49:15And it had a sound with it

00:49:17Like

00:49:17Like a piano

00:49:19Or some shit like that

00:49:20I had no idea

00:49:23Why there was a rainbow

00:49:24Coming out of my penis

00:49:26I don't even like rainbow

00:49:28And I woke up

00:49:30And the next day

00:49:32And I told

00:49:32I told the homie Hams

00:49:35I said

00:49:36Yo

00:49:36I know what the answer

00:49:38To life is

00:49:39And I said

00:49:42It's to love each other

00:49:44He was like

00:49:45Word

00:49:47That was my first time

00:49:51Doing action

00:49:52But to each his own

00:49:54Because

00:49:55I'm not a

00:49:56Psychedelic advocate

00:49:57Like

00:49:58You know

00:49:59I have a good time with it

00:50:00It's not for everybody

00:50:01Let me say that

00:50:02You know

00:50:03I'm artiste

00:50:05It's my lifestyle

00:50:06I'm more in a like

00:50:08Psychedelic

00:50:08Like

00:50:091960s rock

00:50:11Like

00:50:12You know

00:50:12Like

00:50:13The

00:50:13The castaways

00:50:15Jefferson Airplane

00:50:17Rolling Stones

00:50:18Had some shit

00:50:18Fucking Beatles

00:50:19Of course

00:50:20Jimmy

00:50:21Who sings the

00:50:22Hurdy-gurdy man

00:50:23Is that Donovan?

00:50:25A truly

00:50:251960s experience

00:50:28Was

00:50:29Is there an answer

00:50:31To the suffering

00:50:32Of the world

00:50:33Because until

00:50:341966 in October

00:50:36LSD was actually

00:50:39Illegal

00:50:39And was used in

00:50:41Extraordinary

00:50:42Beneficial ways

00:50:43As we all know

00:50:44We know now

00:50:45From documentation

00:50:46How it helped so many people

00:50:48Anxiety drops

00:50:50People are about to die

00:50:52Who get DMT

00:50:53You know the story

00:50:54They're given

00:50:56Some psilocybin

00:50:57And suddenly

00:50:59Anxiety disappears

00:51:00Because they now feel

00:51:01This is natural

00:51:03Never did ayahuasca

00:51:05Or DMT

00:51:06I'm too scared

00:51:07Man

00:51:07You know

00:51:08I'm gonna admit it

00:51:09But maybe I'll get to the point

00:51:10One day when I feel brave enough

00:51:12To do it

00:51:12DMT is like

00:51:13You know

00:51:14That is the express ticket

00:51:15To you know

00:51:16The primordial ooze

00:51:18If you want to see

00:51:18What it is like

00:51:19To be just an organic being

00:51:21Absolutely watch your ego

00:51:22Dissipate into nothingness

00:51:24Smoke some DMT

00:51:25And you will

00:51:26You'll get there

00:51:27You'll get there right away

00:51:28And you'll have

00:51:29Direct contact

00:51:30With aliens

00:51:31And colours

00:51:32And ancient patterns

00:51:34And sacred geometry

00:51:36And it's amazing

00:51:38My name is Zach Leary

00:51:39And I grew up

00:51:42With Timothy Leary

00:51:43He was

00:51:44An American philosopher

00:51:46And psychologist

00:51:47Of the late 20th century

00:51:49The first time that my dad

00:51:51Did psilocybin in Mexico

00:51:53You know

00:51:53His famous quote

00:51:54From the experience

00:51:55Was

00:51:55I learned more

00:51:56On my four hours

00:51:57On mushrooms

00:51:57Than I did

00:51:58In my previous

00:51:5920 years of psychology

00:52:00Naturally the psychologist

00:52:02And psychiatrist

00:52:03Want to use LSD

00:52:04In treating mental illness

00:52:05I think that LSD

00:52:07Will be

00:52:07The number one

00:52:09Cure for mental illness

00:52:11When the psychologist

00:52:13Know how to use it

00:52:14And in 1963

00:52:15He was

00:52:16Fired quite ceremoniously

00:52:19From Harvard University

00:52:21For conducting

00:52:22Secularic experiments

00:52:24With grad students

00:52:25Timothy Leary

00:52:26And Ram Dass

00:52:27And you know

00:52:28Terrence McKenna

00:52:30And all these people

00:52:31Who have spent their lives

00:52:34Exploring those realms

00:52:35And then

00:52:36They had the

00:52:37Also the knowledge

00:52:38And the genius

00:52:39To be able to study them

00:52:40Were just shut down

00:52:41And so

00:52:42We fucking blew it

00:52:44Well I think it was a shame

00:52:46That the

00:52:46The prior

00:52:48Generation of psychedelic

00:52:50Investigators

00:52:51Were abruptly

00:52:53Stopped in their tracks

00:52:54Because they were

00:52:55On to some

00:52:56Very important

00:52:58Discoveries

00:52:59And they were developing

00:53:01New treatment models

00:53:02Which we feel today

00:53:04Should still be explored

00:53:05Because they might offer

00:53:07A great deal of promise

00:53:10And hope for people

00:53:12Who have suffered from conditions

00:53:14For which mainstream psychiatry

00:53:17May not have much to offer

00:53:18There are many basic questions

00:53:20About LSD

00:53:21Which remain unanswered

00:53:23As much work to be done

00:53:24A good deal of important

00:53:26Research lies in the future

00:53:28Hopefully someday

00:53:30We'll have the answers

00:53:31People always ask

00:53:33What my best experiences

00:53:35Were taking psychedelics

00:53:37With my dad

00:53:38You know I mean

00:53:39We had some good ones

00:53:40Like Grateful Dead concerts

00:53:41Yeah the visuals

00:53:42Were really like

00:53:42Gosh I remember

00:53:43Jerry Garcia's head

00:53:45Sort of swelling

00:53:46To ten times the size

00:53:48Going to a Grateful Dead show

00:53:49Without drugs

00:53:50Was okay

00:53:51But with drugs

00:53:55It was pretty good

00:53:57Grateful Dead shows

00:54:01The greatest place

00:54:02To trip

00:54:03Because it was very safe

00:54:05There are

00:54:06Facilities

00:54:07And kind of

00:54:09Makeshift areas

00:54:10Just for people

00:54:12Who are tripping

00:54:12As much as I didn't

00:54:14Care for the music

00:54:14I've probably

00:54:15Seen the dead

00:54:16I mean

00:54:17Yeah I gotta say

00:54:18Like 11, 12 times

00:54:19I like Jerry Garcia

00:54:21I can admit that publicly

00:54:22I'm not ashamed of that

00:54:23I appreciate

00:54:24The Grateful Dead

00:54:25I mean I went to college

00:54:26I'm white

00:54:26I went on stage

00:54:29With the Grateful Dead

00:54:30And fell asleep

00:54:32In front of

00:54:33One of the speakers

00:54:34This is how you spot

00:54:39A guy at a concert

00:54:40Having a good trip

00:54:41This is how they walk

00:54:42Because they're leading

00:54:43With their head

00:54:44They're like

00:54:44Meet in life

00:54:46Head on

00:54:46They're like

00:54:47But then this is how

00:54:50You spot a guy

00:54:51Tripping

00:54:52That's having a bad trip

00:54:53He's leading

00:54:54With his knees

00:54:55He's like

00:54:55He wants the knees

00:54:59He wants everything

00:54:59But the head

00:55:00To meet the bad

00:55:01Bad shit head on

00:55:03One time

00:55:03I had figured

00:55:05The wrong amount

00:55:05And I had taken so much

00:55:08That I

00:55:08I looked over at Mickey

00:55:09And I said

00:55:10I can't finish the set

00:55:11I gotta go to the dressing room

00:55:12My symbols were melting

00:55:13And you know

00:55:15You can take too much

00:55:16And that's a mistake

00:55:17I came home

00:55:18And I was still real high

00:55:19And you know

00:55:20Come down instantly

00:55:21Of course

00:55:21And I sat down politely

00:55:23At my parents

00:55:25Dining room table

00:55:26And mom was

00:55:27It was breakfast

00:55:28Son had just come up

00:55:29And she was serving breakfast

00:55:30Of course

00:55:30And served me

00:55:31A plate of eggs

00:55:33That looked like

00:55:33They were doing

00:55:34Some kind of new

00:55:34Modern dance

00:55:35On the stage

00:55:36You know

00:55:36Some of this new

00:55:37Gyration stuff going on

00:55:38Everything was moving around

00:55:40The sausages were dancing

00:55:41You know

00:55:41Making little buildings

00:55:43And things

00:55:43How's breakfast

00:55:44Billy

00:55:44Fine

00:55:45Oh

00:55:46You're gonna eat it

00:55:48And now

00:55:50Back to

00:55:51Bad Trip

00:55:52Do you like

00:55:55Things happening to you

00:55:56That you wouldn't like

00:55:58Happening to you

00:55:59Of course you don't

00:56:00Well that's exactly

00:56:02What will happen

00:56:02When you go

00:56:03To a drug party

00:56:04Because at every

00:56:06Drug party

00:56:07There's a prankster

00:56:08His mission

00:56:09To get you high

00:56:11Whether you want to be

00:56:12Or not

00:56:13His scheme

00:56:14The dose

00:56:16Guys

00:56:25Come on

00:56:26Orange soda

00:56:26Take a sip

00:56:27Drink it

00:56:28Take a sip

00:56:29Drink it

00:56:29Take a sip

00:56:30Well

00:56:31If they're not

00:56:32Gonna enjoy

00:56:33These fresh sodas

00:56:34I am

00:56:34Yeah

00:56:35Me too

00:56:36Whoa

00:56:44Why is everything

00:56:45Like an electric

00:56:46Rainbow

00:56:47Yeah

00:56:48I can see the whole universe

00:56:50It sounds like

00:56:51It sounds like you guys

00:56:52Are tripping

00:56:52No

00:56:53We didn't take

00:56:54Any drugs

00:56:55That's not something

00:56:56I would ever do

00:56:57Did you see that dragon

00:56:59Are you sure

00:57:00You're not tripping

00:57:02I'm sure they are tripping

00:57:04Because they've been dosed

00:57:05I put ten tabs of LSD

00:57:07In their sodas

00:57:08I never wanted this

00:57:12I'll never be the same

00:57:14I feel it's really wrong to dose anybody

00:57:23Because you're taking over their psychology

00:57:26You're responsible for how they're gonna be for 12 hours

00:57:30And if they haven't taken acid before

00:57:31You don't really have a right to do that

00:57:33When we took the notorious wonder drug LSD

00:57:37We were having dinner with our dentist

00:57:41And he put it in our coffee and never told us

00:57:45And we'd never heard of it

00:57:47I mean it's a good job we hadn't heard of it

00:57:49Because there's been so much paranoia

00:57:51Created around the drug

00:57:54The people now if they take it

00:57:55They're already on a bad trip before they start

00:57:57When the realization came that I was on acid

00:58:00Bad trip

00:58:02Like a dark tunnel

00:58:03I just shot down

00:58:04Hi I'm Rosie Perez

00:58:16A.K.A. Puerto Rican icon

00:58:18Holla

00:58:19It was New Year's Eve

00:58:20In the late 80s

00:58:22One of my sisters and I

00:58:24We were going to an after hours club

00:58:26In Alphabet City

00:58:28They never sold alcohol

00:58:30Or anything at this club

00:58:32It was all like

00:58:33You know we're all into the music and dance

00:58:36And we're into our bodies and health and whatever

00:58:38So they would only have punch there or fruit

00:58:41So we get to the ball

00:58:42We see the bartender

00:58:43And he's like

00:58:44Oh what's up girls

00:58:46You want to get hooked up?

00:58:47We're like yeah sure

00:58:47And he goes yeah

00:58:49I was like yeah all right

00:58:50So he gives us this punch

00:58:53And we drink it down

00:58:54And we start dancing

00:58:55Sweating

00:58:56Go back

00:58:57Can we have another punch?

00:58:59He's like for real?

00:59:01And I said yeah it's really good

00:59:02He goes all right

00:59:03We drink another glass

00:59:05All of a sudden

00:59:06The entire nightclub

00:59:08Started to expand

00:59:10The floorboards

00:59:11The wooden floorboards

00:59:12Were waving

00:59:14As if they were water

00:59:15On the high seas

00:59:17And I'm looking at it

00:59:18Going this is beautiful

00:59:20Oh my gosh

00:59:22So I went on my back

00:59:24And I started doing the backstroke

00:59:25On the floorboards

00:59:26Because they were waves

00:59:27Of course

00:59:28Right?

00:59:29And I think this is beautiful

00:59:30And everybody's watching me

00:59:32And I'm just like

00:59:32In my glory

00:59:33And then all of a sudden

00:59:34My sister Sally

00:59:35Walks over and goes

00:59:36Your tits are out

00:59:36And I went

00:59:37Oh

00:59:37And I looked down

00:59:40And I was like

00:59:41Oh my god

00:59:42They look gorgeous

00:59:43And they looked beautiful

00:59:46And I was like

00:59:47In awe of their beauty

00:59:49And their size

00:59:50But then I started

00:59:51Looking around

00:59:52And I thought

00:59:53Everybody was looking at me

00:59:54Right?

00:59:55And I got real paranoid

00:59:56So I kept trying to

00:59:57Cover them up

00:59:58Because I couldn't find my top

01:00:00Because my top

01:00:00Was floating in the wood

01:00:01Of water

01:00:02Right?

01:00:02So I'm covering

01:00:03My breasts like this

01:00:04And my titty fat

01:00:05Kept squeezing

01:00:06Between my fingers

01:00:08Right?

01:00:09And so it was like

01:00:10My sister comes over

01:00:15And she starts cracking up

01:00:16She goes

01:00:16Come on

01:00:17We gotta get out of here

01:00:18Get to the house

01:00:19Get upstairs

01:00:20And when I laid into the bed

01:00:22I became the bed

01:00:23My body was the bed

01:00:25And I'm trying to

01:00:26Flip myself over

01:00:27Like my body

01:00:28That's the mattress

01:00:29And I'm waddling

01:00:30Down the hallway

01:00:31Still didn't occur to me

01:00:33That I was high on acid

01:00:34And I slid

01:00:37And I'm thinking

01:00:38That the hallway

01:00:38Has now become a slide

01:00:40And I'm sliding down

01:00:41The hallway

01:00:42All the way down

01:00:43I went on my bed

01:00:45And I slid

01:00:48And I busted my ankle

01:00:52On the porcelain bathtub

01:00:53Then I thought my foot

01:00:55Was this humongous thing

01:00:56And it just kept growing

01:00:57And growing and growing

01:00:58And growing

01:00:58I look up

01:00:59And my boyfriend

01:01:00He tells me

01:01:01You're high on acid

01:01:03My first thought

01:01:07Wasn't

01:01:07Oh my god

01:01:09I'm high on acid

01:01:10My first thought was

01:01:11Oh my god

01:01:12I hope god doesn't punish me

01:01:14Because I'm high on acid

01:01:15Because I just thought

01:01:17You know

01:01:18He has

01:01:18I'm going to hell

01:01:19I'm going straight to hell

01:01:20Prior to this

01:01:22I didn't drink

01:01:24I didn't smoke weed

01:01:25I didn't smoke cigarettes

01:01:27I did nothing

01:01:28My high was dancing

01:01:29When you go to a nightclub

01:01:34And someone offers you

01:01:35A free drink

01:01:35Ask what the fuck is in it

01:01:37Yeah

01:01:40The other part of it

01:01:41That I got from it

01:01:43Is that I really

01:01:44Really needed

01:01:45To seek therapy

01:01:46In regards to my

01:01:47Catholic upbringing

01:01:49God forbid

01:01:50I never want to be

01:01:51Burdened with that much guilt

01:01:53Ever again in my life

01:01:55So you know what

01:01:56I guess being on acid

01:01:57Did kind of do me good

01:01:59The mental effects

01:02:00Of this material

01:02:01Are tremendously variable

01:02:04They are completely

01:02:05Unpredictable

01:02:06You cannot tell

01:02:08For any given individual

01:02:10If he's going to have

01:02:11A good trip

01:02:12Or a bad trip

01:02:13I don't think

01:02:15They've been able

01:02:15To identify

01:02:16The foci in the brain

01:02:17That might be responsible

01:02:18For a bad trip

01:02:19But internally

01:02:20What's going on

01:02:21Is a sense of

01:02:23Disorientation

01:02:24Confusion

01:02:25A sense of being

01:02:26Overwhelmed

01:02:27By stimuli

01:02:28High levels of anxiety

01:02:30Even bordering

01:02:31Or going into paranoia

01:02:33I've done a lot of acid

01:02:34I've done shrooms

01:02:35I've done speed

01:02:36I don't know

01:02:37What this was

01:02:38It was very speedy

01:02:39Very speedy

01:02:40Oh yeah

01:02:41But you also

01:02:42Hallucinated

01:02:43It turned the world

01:02:45Around you

01:02:45Yeah

01:02:46Into an opera

01:02:47Of your nightmares

01:02:49Yeah

01:02:49Everything in my brain

01:02:50Just switched

01:02:51And everything went

01:02:53Drastically downhill

01:02:54Like

01:02:54At an incredible rate

01:02:56Things would turn

01:02:57Into glass and crystal

01:02:58And then they would break

01:02:59And then they would form

01:03:00Back up in front of your eyes

01:03:01And then they would break again

01:03:02My legs started to go numb

01:03:04I started to feel my heartbeat

01:03:06In my chest really quickly

01:03:08And it felt like

01:03:09It was going to pound

01:03:10Through my rib cage

01:03:11I

01:03:12Didn't want to say anything

01:03:14To my wife

01:03:15Because I didn't want her

01:03:16To affirm

01:03:18How strong this was

01:03:20And then my paranoia

01:03:21Would increase even more

01:03:22Making the nightmare

01:03:23That much more intense

01:03:25I saw violence

01:03:26I saw bloodshed

01:03:27I saw warfare

01:03:29I saw terrorism

01:03:30I saw beheadings

01:03:32I saw hell

01:03:34At one point

01:03:35I remember looking

01:03:36Out the window of the car

01:03:37And there was

01:03:37A little girl

01:03:38In the backseat of the car

01:03:39Next to us

01:03:40Like looking at me

01:03:41Like really intensely

01:03:42This little girl

01:03:43Can save me

01:03:44This little girl

01:03:45Can get help

01:03:46She can get me

01:03:47Out of this situation

01:03:48She was a child

01:03:49She was innocent

01:03:50I remember trying

01:03:51To communicate to her

01:03:52With my eyes

01:03:53Like I was a hostage

01:03:55And like

01:03:56Get me, honey

01:03:57Like I didn't want to talk

01:03:59Because I didn't want

01:03:59My friend to hear me

01:04:01And kill me

01:04:01And so I was like

01:04:03I can see

01:04:04I can see there's

01:04:04A glimmer of hope

01:04:05Finally the little girl

01:04:07Like flips me off

01:04:08And in my head

01:04:10I'm like

01:04:10I think everybody

01:04:11Is in on this

01:04:12Everybody is trying

01:04:13To kill me

01:04:14Some people

01:04:15Will reach the peak

01:04:18Of these mental effects

01:04:19Right here

01:04:20And they will stay there

01:04:21From here on out

01:04:25These people are insane

01:04:26I'm Louis Black

01:04:29And I'm Louis

01:04:31Still Louis Black

01:04:32That's all I need to say

01:04:33Is I'm Louis Black

01:04:34Right

01:04:35I did acid

01:04:46When I was about 20

01:04:47I took it in an apartment

01:04:49In a place called

01:04:50Hyattsville, Maryland

01:04:51When you reach this point

01:04:53You're gone

01:04:55And the point I got to

01:04:56Is I couldn't remember my name

01:04:58And it's

01:05:00I can't remember my name

01:05:03At all

01:05:04One of the things

01:05:06That is a linchpin

01:05:07Between you

01:05:08And those around you

01:05:09Is your fucking name

01:05:10It's kind of really important

01:05:12The shortest distance

01:05:13Between two points

01:05:14Is for me to just turn

01:05:16To one of them

01:05:16And say

01:05:17What's my name

01:05:17But you can't

01:05:18In the middle

01:05:19Of an acid trip

01:05:20Turn to your friends

01:05:22And ask them

01:05:23What your name is

01:05:24Now I don't know

01:05:25What acid etiquette is

01:05:26But I just thought

01:05:27You don't

01:05:28You know

01:05:29They're having fun

01:05:30There's no reason

01:05:30That I should destroy

01:05:31Their fun

01:05:32Nor should I bring up

01:05:34Something that

01:05:34Would show as if

01:05:35I'm in trouble

01:05:36So that they would feel

01:05:37Like they had to

01:05:38Take care of me

01:05:38Which might even be worse

01:05:40So now I sat

01:05:41With a dictionary

01:05:42Looking for hints

01:05:44Of what my name

01:05:45Might be

01:05:47This goes on

01:05:51For a half an hour

01:05:52Which in LSD time

01:05:55Is probably 26 years

01:05:56I reached into my pocket

01:05:59Because I realized

01:06:00That I had a wallet

01:06:01And that I could find my name

01:06:04And truly my next thought

01:06:06Was I was afraid

01:06:08To open my wallet

01:06:09Because I thought

01:06:10What if there's nothing

01:06:11In there but Monopoly cards

01:06:12First it terrified me

01:06:22And then I couldn't

01:06:23Stop laughing

01:06:24And then I found

01:06:25My name again

01:06:26And then things

01:06:29Kind of got back on track

01:06:30Guys

01:06:32My name is Louis Black

01:06:34I've seen people bug out

01:06:41So that's the only reason

01:06:42Why I don't recommend it

01:06:43For everybody

01:06:43I'll be lying

01:06:44If I said it's for everybody

01:06:45It's not

01:06:45Give it to me

01:06:46Yeah I'm ready

01:06:47Let's go

01:06:48I was so not ready

01:06:49To take acid

01:06:50It was a huge mistake

01:06:51In retrospect

01:07:04I didn't realize

01:07:05How much was going

01:07:05To change my life

01:07:06Because it really

01:07:07Changed my life

01:07:07For a long time

01:07:08I just thought

01:07:10Alright

01:07:10Here we go

01:07:11This is going to be great

01:07:12I think we had seen

01:07:13Hair recently

01:07:14Which was a big influence

01:07:16Well I was hoping

01:07:27For some sort of

01:07:28Psychedelic revelation

01:07:30Kind of hair like

01:07:32You know

01:07:33With just amazing

01:07:34Sort of imagery

01:07:36And just you know

01:07:38Just sort of

01:07:39Some sort of opening

01:07:41Into some sort of

01:07:42Other form of consciousness

01:07:43And it just

01:07:44It was not that at all

01:07:46It was

01:07:47It was just

01:07:48Fear and anxiety

01:07:50Being

01:07:52Just being amplified

01:07:54Which is not

01:07:56You know

01:07:56Like who needs that

01:07:57Who needs to take a drug

01:07:58To have that happen

01:07:59So I took one

01:08:02Half an hour goes by

01:08:0345 minutes go by

01:08:05An hour goes by

01:08:06We're hanging out

01:08:07And of course

01:08:08Nothing's happening

01:08:08Like another half hour

01:08:10Goes by

01:08:11And now

01:08:11It's like an hour and a half

01:08:12And nothing's happening

01:08:13So of course

01:08:15I said to him

01:08:16We got to take another

01:08:17So we took another

01:08:18And then something happened

01:08:20Immediately I started

01:08:21To freak out

01:08:22And get really scared

01:08:23I started looking at my hand

01:08:24Doing the cliche thing

01:08:25Of like pondering

01:08:26What my hand was

01:08:27Isn't there always

01:08:28That thing of just like

01:08:29Kind of staring at your hand

01:08:30Or like your thumb

01:08:32And like just seeing

01:08:33The whole universe

01:08:34And your thumb

01:08:35That kind of thing

01:08:37What is going on

01:08:38What is going on in your brain

01:08:39When you are tripping

01:08:40Well roughly 10% of your brain

01:08:43Is consumed by sound and color

01:08:45Another 10%

01:08:47By the concept of time

01:08:48Which has been known

01:08:50To speed up

01:08:50And or slow down

01:08:52And the other 80%

01:08:54Staring at your hand

01:08:56Whoa that's cool

01:09:00I'm freaking out

01:09:02I said let's just go to my house

01:09:03And we were walking

01:09:04Towards where they blow up

01:09:05The balloon animals

01:09:06For the Thanksgiving Day Parade

01:09:08And I started to trip out

01:09:10On that idea

01:09:11Evil giant inflated characters

01:09:13Were flipping up

01:09:15And coming out

01:09:16Of 77th Street

01:09:17I was a big Ghostbusters fan

01:09:19So the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

01:09:21Image of him

01:09:23Coming down to Central Park West

01:09:24Was sort of in my mind

01:09:26And then very quickly

01:09:28Realizing that I had no idea

01:09:30Where I was

01:09:31Who I was

01:09:32Or what this whole

01:09:33The whole context of life was

01:09:35I decided that I needed

01:09:37To talk to my parents

01:09:38To tell them

01:09:39What was happening to me

01:09:40And my parents were out of town

01:09:42Filming a Love Boat episode

01:09:43I called

01:09:50Jerry Stiller

01:09:52And Ann Mira

01:09:53Up on the phone

01:09:54And I said

01:09:56Dad

01:09:56I took some acid

01:09:57And he said

01:09:58What?

01:09:59What?

01:09:59Is acid?

01:10:01I think he might have thought

01:10:01I drank some

01:10:02Battery acid or something

01:10:04It wasn't like

01:10:05My dad was Jerry Garcia

01:10:07It was Jerry Stiller

01:10:08And I said

01:10:09LSD

01:10:10And he's like

01:10:10LSD

01:10:11And I could hear him

01:10:13Processing it

01:10:14I think the immediate thought

01:10:15Was like

01:10:16I think he was thinking

01:10:16He'd failed as a parent

01:10:18I think that was

01:10:18What was probably

01:10:19Going through his mind

01:10:20And then my dad said

01:10:22I understand

01:10:23What you're going through

01:10:24When I was 10 years old

01:10:26I smoked a pell-mell cigarette

01:10:28And I was sick for two days

01:10:30And I said

01:10:31No dad

01:10:32That's not what I'm going through

01:10:33This is a whole

01:10:34Different experience

01:10:35I tried to explain to him

01:10:36What it was

01:10:37And he basically said

01:10:38He just said

01:10:39It's going to be okay

01:10:40Which actually was really

01:10:41Sweet

01:10:42When someone

01:10:44Consumes a drug

01:10:45And they feel

01:10:46They're going crazy

01:10:47The biggest fear is

01:10:48Oh my god

01:10:49I'm never going to

01:10:51Return to being myself again

01:10:53I'm always going to be crazy

01:10:54My brain

01:10:55Is broken

01:10:56And I'm never

01:10:57Ever coming back

01:10:58Maybe this is just

01:10:59My brain now

01:11:00And this is now

01:11:01How the world actually is

01:11:02And that's

01:11:03That can be scary

01:11:04You know

01:11:04This isn't going well

01:11:05I want this to end

01:11:07How do we make this end

01:11:08Oh my god

01:11:09This is never going to end

01:11:11I'm going to go

01:11:12Into a mental institution

01:11:13And then I would see

01:11:15My mother's face

01:11:16In the window

01:11:17Of the padded cell

01:11:18Balling her eyes out

01:11:19You cannot coax a person

01:11:21Out of their bad trip

01:11:22And once it's in their system

01:11:24It takes its own time

01:11:26Most important intervention

01:11:27You can make

01:11:28Is just to reassure them

01:11:29That they're experiencing

01:11:30This altered state

01:11:32As frightening as it is

01:11:33But they're experiencing it

01:11:34Because they ingested a compound

01:11:36The bad news is

01:11:37They're in a scary place

01:11:38But the good news is

01:11:39It's going to be time limited

01:11:40I think the first time

01:11:41I had such an experience

01:11:43I had those kind of naive feelings

01:11:46You know

01:11:46Maybe I won't

01:11:47I won't be normal again

01:11:48You know

01:11:49But I've had enough experiences

01:11:50To realize that that's not true

01:11:52When in doubt

01:11:52Zoom out

01:11:53If you're fearful of something

01:11:56You just need to zoom away from it

01:11:58So you can see the larger context

01:11:59And go

01:11:59Oh okay

01:12:00That's not a big deal

01:12:01Things get scary

01:12:02But that's why it's important

01:12:04To remember

01:12:05You're high

01:12:05It's not reality

01:12:07I'm literally just falling in my mind

01:12:09And I'm like

01:12:09I've got to go to the emergency room

01:12:11I can't handle this anymore

01:12:12There's one of those dudes

01:12:13Sitting in front of me

01:12:14Who's like

01:12:15You used to see him at dead shows

01:12:17They've clearly been on too many trips

01:12:19They sort of move at a different frequency

01:12:21Than other people

01:12:22They're like

01:12:22Hey man

01:12:23You know

01:12:23They've got this weird

01:12:24You know

01:12:24They can

01:12:25Yeah

01:12:25So I just have him on the shoulder

01:12:27And I look at him

01:12:28I go

01:12:28You know

01:12:29Pretty soon

01:12:30Jerry's going to come out

01:12:31And him and his guitar

01:12:33Are going to be like one thing

01:12:35And this guy just looks at me

01:12:36And he goes

01:12:37Just hang on man

01:12:40He turns back around

01:12:42And I was like

01:12:43Okay

01:12:44And that was like

01:12:45The best advice I ever got

01:12:46And I use it to this day

01:12:47Just hang on man

01:12:53Thanks Fred

01:12:54And now for the horrifying conclusion

01:12:58Of Bad Trip

01:13:00Knock knock knock

01:13:01Who is it?

01:13:03It's a deranged drifter

01:13:05Who wants to torture you

01:13:06For the next 12 hours

01:13:07By slowly peeling your skin

01:13:09Off your body

01:13:10Then plucking out

01:13:11Your horror filled eyeballs

01:13:13And feeding them to you

01:13:14On a soft pretzel roll

01:13:16Made of your own epidermis

01:13:18Oh sure

01:13:18Great

01:13:19Come on in

01:13:20Sounds crazy, right?

01:13:22Well

01:13:22That's exactly what you're doing

01:13:24When you open your brain

01:13:25The door

01:13:26To hallucinogenics

01:13:27The deranged drifter

01:13:29Let's check in with Emily

01:13:31And her friends

01:13:32Now that they have

01:13:32Willingly agreed

01:13:33To have their brains

01:13:34Dissected

01:13:35Metaphorically

01:13:36By the deranged psycho

01:13:38Of psychedelics

01:13:39We definitely made the right choice

01:13:46Getting out of that party

01:13:47Well they wouldn't let us back in

01:13:49After we broke all those windows

01:13:50Oh no

01:13:53Oh my god

01:13:55Oh no

01:13:56Oh no

01:14:08Well, you've seen two sides of the LSD psychedelic question, but if you really think of it, there have been about 20 sides to the question. While it's possible that some things were left out, we did hear from the most important and most strongly felt opinions about LSD. Now it's your turn. You decide.

01:14:28You know, what we call everyday reality is a projection of consciousness. In reality, there's no such thing as colors or sounds or textures or tastes or smells in the so-called real world. The real world is a radically ambiguous and ceaselessly flowing quantum soup. It's a fluctuation of energy and information in an infinite void. The sky that an insect sees is not the sky you and I see.

01:14:55A honeybee experiences ultraviolet radiation. I have no idea what that looks like, you know? So when a honeybee looks at a flower, it doesn't see a flower the way you and I see, although it can sense honey from a distance. A snake experiences infrared radiation. A bat experiences the echo of ultrasound. A chameleon's eyeball swiveled on two different axes. You can't even remotely imagine what this would look like to a chameleon.

01:15:23So what's reality? And the answer is, there's no such thing.

01:15:27These compounds are utilized under optimal conditions seem to have a rather remarkable facility for catalyzing spiritual level experiences, which by their very nature may be, may have the potential to be transformative.

01:15:42I've enhanced my ability to navigate the world, to be in a family, to relate to my children, to relate to my wife, to my colleagues.

01:15:54It teaches me about community and it teaches me that, you know, the core of all religious thought ought to be, let me treat others the way I want to be treated myself.

01:16:06Whenever it was a good trip, I would think, oh my God, we're all one. Death is not something to fear. Life and death are really walking hand in hand with each other and it's cool.

01:16:18The first time, or the first couple times I tripped, I really did believe, like, every single person, the planet would be a better planet if everybody took acid once.

01:16:30Did it make me smarter? Did I become enlightened? I don't know.

01:16:34But I think it enabled me early on to imagine another point of view, another perspective.

01:16:43I think it made me a better person, both creatively and in every other way.

01:16:48I'd rather be a person who's had that in his past than somebody who missed it.

01:16:53Even now in my adult life, I continue to experience it as a very psychedelic adventure.

01:16:57That is like a, you know, a baffling, nonsensical riddle. Let's face it, we're all going to die.

01:17:02So, you know.

01:17:04It was kind of like jumping out of an airplane. About a second and a half into it, I realized, oh, I never need to do this again ever in my life.

01:17:11I don't ever want to do this. That was sort of my experience with acid.

01:17:15A few minutes into it, only it lasted for another six hours. That was the problem.

01:17:20I think what I'd say to anyone tripping for the first time is be moderate.

01:17:25It's the haircut theory. You can always cut more off.

01:17:28But once you cut too much, once you've taken too much, there's no turning back.

01:17:33I thought I'll never do that again. But I did. A few more times.

01:17:38You should not take it cavalierly. I don't know if you should take it.

01:17:41In the sky, I see a giant zipper.

01:17:44And the zipper starts to open.

01:17:49Now, if you go with the flow, you let the zipper open.

01:17:54And you just fucking deal.

01:17:55If they're bats, if it's God's penis, whatever.

01:17:58You just do it, okay?

01:18:00If you have any fucking sense when it comes to drugs.

01:18:03Don't stop the zipper.

01:18:05I'm always looking to evolve as a human being.

01:18:10I think we do that by thinking out of the box.

01:18:13We have to accept that the box is just a construct.

01:18:15It's something that we've been conditioned to accept.

01:18:18But it's not particularly useful.

01:18:20Everything is in crisis.

01:18:21How are we going to survive the crisis?

01:18:23How do we get over the other side of the wall?

01:18:25And so we need to use whatever tools it takes to get over the other side.

01:18:30It's like a stepladder to look over a brick wall that's a little bit too tall for you.

01:18:35You use a stepladder, you get to see this crazy landscape.

01:18:38You kind of had an inkling about every time you walked by this wall.

01:18:42And then some people can sit in front of the wall and meditate.

01:18:47And then the wall becomes transparent and they see beyond it.

01:18:50So there are many pathways to arrive at the same realization.

01:18:54It's a tremendous asset.

01:18:56We would learn about it and not have our government stop us from learning things

01:19:00that could really be the same with marijuana.

01:19:02I mean, they'd take away all the possible discovery of all the medicine it could be.

01:19:07What I would envision really would be certified retreat centers,

01:19:12you know, preferably close to nature,

01:19:15where individuals can go and have a treatment

01:19:18and have expert facilitators help guide them through the experience

01:19:23and afterwards help them integrate that experience into their lives.

01:19:27If I may say so, the whole consciousness revolution that started in the 60s,

01:19:33which led to other movements, the feminist movement, the ecology movement,

01:19:37the peace movement, Greenpeace, all of that,

01:19:41began with the use of hallucinogenic drugs.

01:19:47Many people think that it peaked and it went away.

01:19:49I'm sorry to inform you, the awakening is still going on.

01:19:55We're on a trip all the time.

01:19:57Right now we're on a trip, right?

01:19:58Life is a trip.

01:19:59We're on a trip.

01:20:08Bye-bye.

01:20:11Bye-bye.

01:20:20Bye-bye.

01:20:22Bye-bye.

01:20:24Bye-bye.

01:20:28Lots of people drink coffee before they go to work.

01:20:33Of course, others, believe it or not, drop acid.

01:20:36Now, why some psychiatrists and researchers are giving psychedelic drugs a second look

01:20:42as a possible way of treating depression and some mental illnesses.

01:20:46They're being used to treat depression, anxiety, and addiction.

01:20:50The early results are impressive.

01:20:52They're relatively non-toxic, less toxic than alcohol.

01:20:55They're non-addictive.

01:20:56The DEA says it's granted permission to more than 50 researchers to study the therapeutic

01:21:01effects of LSD.

01:21:03Denver has become the first city in America to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.

01:21:08The city of Oakland is now the second city in the U.S. to decriminalize the adult use

01:21:13and possession of magic mushrooms.

01:21:16The Santa Cruz City Council unanimously approved the resolution.

01:21:19This decriminalizes the use, possession, and cultivation of psychoactive plants.

01:21:25If you could use a drug, and this has been done now, that could stop you smoking cigarettes,

01:21:29or being an alcoholic, you know, working maybe 80% of the time, at least initially...

01:21:34Yeah.

01:21:35We ought to explore how that's possible.

01:21:37Let's you and I do some mushrooms.

01:21:38All right.

01:21:39Let's do it.

01:21:44Good luck.

01:22:11Whether you want from me.

01:22:13Whether you want, I'll do.

01:22:17Try to squeeze a drop of blood from a sugar view.

01:22:24I'm trying to be more assured

01:22:38I'm trying to be more right there

01:22:41I'm trying to be less uptight

01:22:44I'm trying to be more aware

01:22:47Whatever you want from me

01:22:50It's what I want to do for you

01:22:54Just give it a drop of blood

01:22:57I'm a sugar few

01:23:20You know I like to act a part of each other

01:23:24You know I like to act a part of each other

01:23:36I crumble like a sugar few

01:23:39You know I like to act a part of each other

01:23:48I crumble like a sugar few

01:23:54For you

01:23:57Whatever you want from me

01:24:20Whatever you want I'll do

01:24:23And I will try

01:24:25Whatever you want from me

01:24:32Whatever you want I'll do

01:24:35So try to squeeze a drop of blood

01:24:39Squeeze a drop of blood from a sugar few

01:24:42Good night

01:25:12I'll try to squeeze a drop of blood

01:25:18I'll try to squeeze a drop of blood

01:25:42I'll try to squeeze a drop of blood

01:25:50Although I miss a drop of blood

01:25:58I'll try to squeeze a drop of blood

01:26:02Just to throw a drop of blood

01:26:05If I plug you I'll try to squeeze a drop of blood

01:26:08To the distribute blood

01:26:08With a disability

01:26:09Everybody ready to be植and

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