"Part of the scenery began to melt and morph and the fractals became very vivid as the music picked up. I remember seeing a huge ladybug, which of course was also arranged out of this fractal shape. I followed him down the hill, still listening to the music, and we went back to the termite infested tree. He led me to the original fractal patterns and it was at this point that I made a connection. The tree, the rock, and all matter were arranged according to this fractal pattern. It was everywhere for a reason! I understood that this shape was some abstract code to the Universe. And it was the rock that I held in my hand, containing the code, that was the key to unlocking its secrets. Here, the music stopped and the hallucinations did as well. Everything I saw looked as it did in normal reality, except that if I concentrated, I could see the code in all things. It was comforting to know that I truly found the Answer to everything and that it would guide me the rest of the day."

Trip report from someone on Mushrooms.

Source: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=82483

"Music also took a hold on my body and consciousness to an extent I would not have believed possible."

Trip report from someone on LSD.

Source: http://www.liquidsounddesign.com/experi ... nce_b.html

Rare footage of a 1956's housewife during an LSD experiment with Sidney Cohen.

"After my first dose I began to hear a buzzing/ringing noise in my ear. It would get louder and louder and eventually the buzz would get very high pitched. The treatment center is on the ocean so the waves crashing started to sound very very different. I can't explain the sound."

Trip report from someone on Ibogaine.

Source: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=88781

"If you are an artist, have your medium readily accessible. Be it watercolors or drums, you will be amazed what a little creative expression can do to reverse a bad trip."

Trip report from someone on LSD.

Source: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=66600

I suposse that you had experiences with the "Green Fairy" - what role did she play in the recordings, if any?

The green fairy has showed her face now and again in different inspiring situations. The reason to choose Crowley's poem as the lyrics of one of the tracks is to build up a multifaceted array of meanings for the song in order to more precisely appoint the characteristics of the type of mind that is being depicted in the lyrics. Some of our members are avid followers of the green fairy, even to the extent that one of our guitarists brews his own elixir yearly, much to our privilege!

Juho Goatspeed (Spiderpact)

Source: http://www.juju23.fi/misc/Spiderpact_interview.pdf

Lyrics to the song Lavaging Expectorate Of Lysergide Composition by Carcass.

(Lead: Administration of toxic compounds by M. Amott)

Officinal - immiscible compounds are mixed,
A gagging expectorate, of lysergic acids,
Premensely emerced, consciousness slowly sips,
Peculated, in an ebriat(i?)ng narcocis...

...Cataleptic,
Imbibe...neurotripsick...

(Leads: Gross disorientation by W.G. Steer)

Neurally numbed, a narcosis so trans-lucid,
So pernicious, halluciagenics,
Procreating, ocular contorting,
Your idiosyncrassy, is now expropriated...

...Extirpation,
Mind...termination...

Source: http://metal-archives.com/release.php?id=46

"Beach! Beach! Ha! Little boys with toys. We all pack into a giant car and trundle off to a cheesy little tourist beach on lake Michigan. Someone throws what I would later discover to be Wagon Christ into the CD player. Amazing backwards noises and insane psychedelia. Quality album. Both N and I are having crazy auditory hallucinations, but it's clear at this point that he got a lot more chemical than I did. Sigh. Should have eaten the whole thing. Still could... but, I'm tripping madly anyway. Save it for a rainy day. I will say only this: as far as toys go, lakes and sand have no equals. Gah. At this point, and as the trip continued, I really wasn't able to determine how much I had taken. The low visual level seemed to indicate less than 2 (as two drops had knocked my eyes out of their sockets...) but the intensity of the pure psychedelia was out of this world. As I said before, insane auditory hallucinations. Weird, dissonant backwards noises, children laughing, etc."

Trip report from someone on LSD.

Source: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=9633

Last interview given by Albert Hofmann (then aged 102) some weeks before he died.

Do you think that for the artist, is LSD an important experience for creativity? For art?

Maybe. Yes.

It can be?

It has been! Many, many works have been done under the influence of LSD.

Source: http://www.tygersofwrath.com/alberthofm ... iewlsd.htm

"Gerald Heard, who lived his last 34 years in Los Angeles, was also one of the first to interpret psychedelics as harbingers of this postmodern cultural breakthrough. He viewed mind-altering drugs, along with psychical research, the New Physics, ecology, holistic field theory, Gestalt psychology, semantics, and the sociology of knowledge, as part of a larger cultural mutation, a profound epistemological revolution in our postmodern psyche. Heard was convinced that only through research and ongoing experimentation can we test the significance of consciousness-changing drugs for society, therapy, education, invention, discovery, and religion."

Source: http://island.org/ive/2/heard2.html

"For many who have taken it under proper, controlled conditions, it has brought about an astonishing enlargement of sensitivity and perceptiveness, and it may thus cast new light on the wellsprings of creativity."

Gerald Heard, taken from Can This Drug Enlarge Man's Mind?, 1963.

Source: http://www.lycaeum.org/leda/docs/16413.shtml?ID=16413

"During this second hour we can say that the subject is "gaining altitude." How does he record this heightening of consciousness ? By far the most common remark refers to the growing intensification of color. Flowers, leaves, grass, trees, are seen with tremendous vividness -"with the intensity that Van Gogh must have seen them," is an often-used description. They seem to pulse and breathe; in fact, even everyday, fixed objects around the room may take on "flowing," "waving" shapes, as if invested with some life force of their own. Intensification of sounds, too ( such as the singing of birds, though far away), is often commented on with fascinated surprise. Music frequently becomes an absorbing delight even to the nonmusical - while to the musical it has on occasion become almost unbearably intense. "Under LSD I asked that my favorite recording of my favorite Beethoven quartet (Opus 135) be played," one musical taker reported; "but after a few minutes I had it turned off. Its emotions had become too searing -and besides, I had suddenly made the discovery that one of the instruments was playing ever so slightly off pitch."

Gerald Heard, taken from Can This Drug Enlarge Man's Mind?, 1963.

Source: http://www.lycaeum.org/leda/docs/16413.shtml?ID=16413

"It is the unique quality of attention which LSD can bestow that will or will not be of benefit. Intensity of attention is what all talented people must obtain or command if they are to exercise their talent. Absolute attention -as we know from, for example, Isaac Newton's and Johann Sebastian Bach's descriptions of the state of mind in which they worked -is the most evident mark of genius functioning. But for the truly creative person ( and I refer specifically to that person capable of exercising "integral thought") LSD may be of some use. It could help him to exercise integral thought with greater ease and facility, and at will. And for a number of sensitive people willing to present themselves for a serious experiment in depth, LSD has shown itself of some help in permeating the ego, in resolving emotional conflicts, and in reducing those basic fears, the ultimate of which is the fear of death. However, the practical answer to What should be done about it ? seems to be that LSD remain for the time being what it is: a "research drug," to be used with greatest care to explore the minds of those who would volunteer to aid competent researchers by offering themselves as voyagers to the "Gate of Ivory."

Gerald Heard, taken from Can This Drug Enlarge Man's Mind?, 1963.

Source: http://www.lycaeum.org/leda/docs/16413.shtml?ID=16413

About Opening the Portals of Heaven: Brazilian Ayahuasca Music, a book which was published in 2010:

"In this great, small work, we find privileged passkeys to the complex musical universe of the so-called 'ayahuasa religions' founded on dense research into how the 'musicians' represented here understand their musical practices. Besides treating us to another indispensable chapter of the great Brazilian musical tradition, they help us understand the relation between music and religion in broader terms, and the way that we become spiritual beings through poetry, rhythm, and melody, and communicate with realities other than the immediate."

Edmundo Pereira, Professor of Anthropology at UFRN and researcher at the National Museum/UFRJ.

Source: http://www.erowid.org/library/books/ope ... tals.shtml

Increasingly attracted to parapsychology, Federico Fellini met the Turin magician Gustavo Rol in 1963. Rol, a former banker, introduced him to the world of Spiritism and séances. In 1964, Fellini experimented with LSD 25 under the supervision of Emilio Servadio, his psychoanalyst during production of La strada. For years reserved about what actually occurred that Sunday afternoon, he admitted in 1992 that "objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to my self. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one."

Fellini's hallucinatory insights were given full flower in his first colour feature Juliet of the Spirits (1965), depicting Giulietta Masina as a housewife, Juliet, who rightly suspects her husband's infidelity and succumbs to hearing voices of spirits summoned at a séance at her home. Her sexually voracious next door neighbor Suzy (Sandra Milo) introduces Juliet to a world of uninhibited sensuality but Juliet is haunted by childhood memories of her Catholic guilt and a teenaged friend who committed suicide. Complex and filled with psychological symbolism, the film is set to a jaunty score by Nino Rota.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_F ... .931969.29