OT301 Overtoom 301 Amsterdam
Netherlands
Date sunday, april 23, 2006
Time 20.00
Line up Chill-out:
AWAKENING THROUGH PSYCHEDELIC REVOLUTION
20.00 LSD – Beyond within
- LSD is one of the strangest and most controversial substances known to science.
A dose smaller than a grain of salt precipitates a wonderfull or hazardous mental journey into a universe of hallucination, intense emotion and, some believe, mystical revelation. These remarkable effects were discovered by the Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman in 1943. During the 50’s the LSD was used widely for research in psychiatric hospitals. Than in the early 1960’s LSD leaked out of the laboratory. With bizarre and unforeseen consequences the drug was consumed by a generation of young people seeking spiritual transcendence and an escape from the conventional world.


22.00 LSD – Hoffman’s potion
- Long before Timothy Leary urged a generation to “tune in, turn on and drop out,”
D-lysergic acid diethylamide (or LSD) was being used by researchers to understand
the human mind. Discovered in 1943 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, LSD was hailed
as a powerful tool to treat alcoholism and drug addiction and to provide a window into
schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. Much of that pioneering research was done
by the team of Humphry Osmond, Abram Hoffer and Duncan Blewett, all working in
Saskatchewan. While researchers were establishing the medical benefits of LSD,
others — like author Aldous Huxley — promoted the drug as a powerful tool for
mental exploration and self-understanding. At Harvard, Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner
and Ram Dass (then known as Richard Alpert) became popular heroes after the
university cancelled their research project into psychedelics. Featuring interviews
with many LSD pioneers, documentary psychedelic filmmaker Connie Littlefield delves into the
little-known early history of the world’s most notorious concoction.


Additional Info OT301 is an indepent platform for artists, innovators and small scale initiatives that are not focussed on profits.
There is a 80 seater cinema which runs regular program of screenings from abstract/experimental work through indepent/activists documentary films to double and triple bills of cult classics. Next to the cinema is a bar.


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