Watch What Happens When a Portrait Artist Takes LSD

Im entitled to my opinion to let others know there are other ways to become a Shaman.

Your body has unto itself, everything it needs to induce hallucination and inspiration.

But people are behind and withheld from this info.

Shamanic drugs have been promoted mainly for thousands of years. The other alternative has not.

LOL! No - just something I found on the internet that exemplifies psychadelic art.

I haven't seen that in 20 years, & it has popped into my head alot over the last few...thanks

No

mine had more an Escher type quality with human figures intertwined like Celtic knots. :)

hehe you had us all going there :D, it's still a nice picture though, even though you didn't paint it :o)
ah celctic knot people :D, that sounds a bit trippy hehe

What do you mean the other alternative has not been promoted...I personally came upon both ways at approximately the same time, they kinda go hand & hand as far as "alternative" ideas...

Not on purpose! It's just a personal smilie I've had for awhile that I thought was appropriate to the post - didn't occur to me till after posting that it made it appear that it was my painting. Silly me!

I do remember the title of one of my pieces - it was a man twisted into an impossible position, as if he is physically trying to see inside himself - "The purpose of the game is to discover the purpose of the game"

very deep :o)
I like that spark of clarity that it has, the psychodelica/art in general, but I can understand why it would be so easy to get lost in it all, and why LSD and psychodelics in general shouldn't be taken lightly :o)

Cool vid!

Very true!

I saw/understood how and why people "don't come back" during my last BIG trip. Let's see if I can put it into the words of this reality....

You have to leave a marked trail when you begin your trip or you may get lost and never find "home" again. In other words, KNOW who you are and where you are in that moment before you set out. A trip can fragment you and you dissolve into the whole - all things one with no beginning and no end. You must CHOOSE to reassamble as well as REMEMBER original form/state.

Hope that makes some sense for those that have never tripped.

Ok it was a documentary on Picasso and Matisse. I believe Picasso 'borrowed' Matisse's cubism/geometric ideas.

[link to www.picassomatisse.com]

I have never tried drugs myself though, so it is hard to relate to, 100%
But it does make sense

Yes, but then again, I may not want to come back even if I am able.

Thanks for the link.

As soon as the pics started popping up in the vid, the first painter I thought of was Picasso. The drawings became more Picassoish as the lsd took effect.

Yes, but Van Gogh's later work shows his deterioration from the lead poisoning which he got from ingesting the lead paint.

EDIT: Van Gogh's later works include the Sunflower.

[link to www.vangoghgallery.com]

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Ah! And that is the secret to why some never do...

It's ALL choice ;)

Thanks for this link as well Red.

Starry Nights was also part of the lead poisoning period. It is clear that the lead had an amazing effect on his painting.

I wonder what it did to his thought patterns?
I should clarify that, cuz I know it made him nuts, he did chop off his own ear after all, lol.

But I wonder if he realized what it was doing to his art and his thought process.

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Well, damn, he cut off his ear.

LOl, see my addendum to my post above.

I wonder if he was cognizant of what it did to his painting style or if to him it was just a natural progression in his paintings.

the one at 5hrs 45mins in looks like the atist is incorporating some form of enegy field

interesting that some aspects of tripping include synesthesia

Noone will ever know. I actually really like Starry Nights, one of my favs. It draws me in and I like that.

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There's a great documentary that came out in 2011. It has the film footage of Ken Kesy and the Merry Pranksters trip on their bus ride across USA in the early 60's. I think it's called Magic Trip? Really fun to see the innocence and joy of a group exploring LSD together. Ken Kesey was one of the first people to undergo lsd in the clinical trials when the cia were attempting to find uses for it. It was legal up until late 1966.

Unfortuanlty pharma drugs and cheap drugs like crack has pretty much killed the market on lsd. I haven't heard about lsd being around since the 90's.

Tribute song to Tim Leary, LSD guru.



Edit to add this tidbit of info.:

Seven grams of Leary's ashes were launched into space aboard a rocket carrying the remains of 24 other people including Gene Roddenberry (creator of Star Trek), Gerard O'Neill (space physicist), Krafft Ehricke (rocket scientist), and others. A Pegasus rocket containing their remains was launched on April 21, 1997, and remained in orbit for six years until it burnt up in the atmosphere.

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An acid trip story by John Lennon and some psychaedelic art.

BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty lady, don't feed the troll.

Each bindle then held a gram of LSD, so even the barely visible traces would have been hundreds of doses for each of you. Insanity! That's pretty close to what some people call a "thumbprint" dose.
I was tripping hard one time and this girl wanted me to draw on her hand, I wanted to draw a mushroom but it turned out to be just a crooked squiggly line haha. Drawing is hard when you're coming up on a strong trip.

It saddens me to see how the mind is destroyed and disorganized under the influence of LSD. He obviously regresses, then when it wears off, begins to pull himself back together.

Maybe it wasnt destroyed..maybe it was released..who knows :)

Whoa mama! That is a hefty dose Purple Chicken. I did more than a few trips back in the day, always kept it at or under 500 mics though. Never had a bad experience with it, learned a tremendous amount. Some of which I even managed to bring back with me heheh. I have to respect the portrait artist in that he could function as well as he did. You can see how the different intensities of the waves affect him as he goes along. Then again he was probably locked in a plain room with a researcher staring at him..losing himself into his art would be the winning option.

What most do not know is that LSD has always been a part of mankind's transformation throughout history. Ever since civilizations based on farming began, there has been some level of human-LSD interaction. LSD is an isolated compound of the "brain" of a very common fungus called ergot that grows on grain crops. Many times throughout history, people have had "acid" trips.

Most of the time this was severely negative, accompanied with bouts of gangrene, burning sensations, foaming at the mouth, seizures, and a host of other discomforts. It is now called ergotism, but in the past was called "St. Anthony's Fire".

LSD (or a compound similar in the ergot) is thought to have fueled the Ancient Greek Eleusian Mysteries, which Plato and Arisotle both attended. A secret drink made from a special grain was given to each participant. What went on there was considered secret, and could not be spoken about outside of the event. This event was separate from the Dionysian Festivals which were alcohol fueled and orgiastic.

Look at the Beatles. Everything from Rubber Soul on is incredible.

The boy band stuff before it...not so much.

With all that said, this is dangerous stuff. Street drugs are bad because you never know what you are getting. So don't.

Weak minds need not apply. You will lose.