Albert Hofmann Bicycle

A ranar 19 ga Afrilu, 1943, masanin ilmin sunadarai na Swiss Albert Hofmann sauke acid kuma ya hau babur dinsa gida. Hofmann, wanda ya yi aiki a sashen magunguna na Sandoz Laboratories a Basel, ya fara haɗawa. LSD a cikin 1938 yayin ƙoƙarin ƙirƙirar abubuwan motsa jiki don magance matsalolin numfashi da bugun jini.

Ba shi da wani ra'ayi cewa rukunin yana da tasirin hauka, kuma ba ya haifar da sakamako mai gani lokacin da aka gwada shi akan dabbobin da aka kwantar da su, don haka ya ajiye shi a gefe.

Bayan shekaru biyar, Hofmann ya yanke shawarar sake duba halittarsa. Ranar 16 ga Afrilu, 1943, ya hada wani nau'i na LSD. A wannan karon, da gangan ya shigar da ɗan ƙaramin adadin a cikin fata, kuma nutse cikin "Ba wani abu mai ban sha'awa ba ne kamar yanayin maye, wanda ke tattare da tunani mai matukar kuzari."

Ya yanke shawarar gwada kansa tare da kashi na gangan don tabbatar da illar mahallin, kuma da karfe 4:20 na yamma ranar 19 ga Afrilu, ya ci microgram 250 na sinadaran.

Nan da nan ya gane cewa tafiyar za ta yi tsanani, sai ya nemi mataimakinsa ya taimaka masa ya koma gida. Takunkumin lokacin yaƙi ya haramta motoci a kan titunan Basel, don haka dole ne su yi kekuna - wanda shine dalilin da ya sa aka san ranar 19 ga Afrilu a yanzu a duniya. Ranar Keke.

Tare da wannan ƙaƙƙarfan tafiya mai ban sha'awa, Hofmann ya zama masanin kimiyya- ubangidan mahaukatan kwakwalwa, kalmar da likitan psychiatrist Humphry Osmond ya tsara bisa kalmomin Helenanci don "bayyana hankali".

Dan jarida John Horgan ya rubuta don Scientific American wanda Hofmann ya yi imani idan aka yi amfani da shi yadda ya kamata, masu ilimin hauka na iya tada “haihuwar ikon hangen nesa” da dukanmu muke da su a matsayin yara, kuma mu rasa yayin da muke girma.

Hofmann yana da alaƙa mai sarƙaƙƙiya da filin da ya taimaka ƙirƙira, yana yiwa LSD lakabin “ɗansa mai matsala” a cikin littafin ya rubuta game da gudummawar da ya bayar ga ilimin kimiyyar psychedelic.

Ya kuma yi nazarin namomin kaza na sihiri kuma shine farkon wanda ya keɓe, haɗawa, da kuma suna mahaɗan mahaɗan psychedelic psilocybin da psilocin. Shi ya ce Horgan game da tafiyar psilocybin da ya yi a lokacin da ya ƙare a cikin wani gari mai zurfi a cikin ƙasa.

"Babu wanda ya kasance a wurin," in ji Hofmann. “Na ji cikakken kadaici, cikakken kadaici. Mugun ji!” Lokacin da ya dawo cikin wannan jirgin ya sake samun kansa tare da abokai, Hofmann ya ji daɗi. Ya gaya wa Horgan, a cikin lafazin sa na Swiss, “Na ji an sake haihuwa! Don ganin yanzu kuma! Kuma ga irin rayuwar da muke da ita a nan!”

Neman jin sake haihuwa yana da tursasawa musamman a zamanin COVID-19 da ware kai. The mahaukatan kwakwalwa Jaridar DoubleBlind kwanan nan ta buga labarin kan amfani da keɓewa a matsayin lokaci don bincike na ciki da sabunta kai.

Abokin haɗin gwiwar DoubleBlind Madison Margolin ya ce, a cikin wani yanayi mara kyau na COVID-less, za ta yi bikin Ranar Keke a wurin mai ba da shawara. “Muna shirin yin hadin gwiwa da Gidan cin abinci na Disco don yin bikin ranar Bicycle da Idin Ƙetarewa.

Madadin haka, Margolin ya ce, DoubleBlind yana gudanar da bikin kan layi kyauta tare da SPORE (Ƙungiyar Wayar da Hannu, Gyara, da Ilimi) a ranar 19 ga Afrilu don tallafawa ƙoƙarin taimakon coronavirus, "bikin haɗin kai da haɗin gwiwarmu da Duniya da juna," farawa a 8:45 na safe PST.

Margolin yana da wasu damuwa game da sababbin kasuwancin kasuwanci da ke shiga sararin samaniya, in ji ta, kamar yadda muka fuskanci "farfadowa na psychedelic." Tsawon shekaru, ƙungiyoyin sa-kai kamar su Ƙungiya mai yawa don Nazarin Hankali (MAPS) da kuma Cibiyar Chacruna na Magungunan Shuka sun jaddada bincike da ilimi don mutane su amfana daga masu ilimin halin kwakwalwa.

Amma kwanan nan, attajirai na Silicon Valley suna bincikar riba na masana'antu, neuro-pharmaceutical kamfanoni ne tasowa kasuwanci psychedelic mahadi, da kuma Wall Street Journal yana rufewa masu farawa na psychedelic.

Margolin ya ce: "A zahiri zai faru da kowace sabuwar masana'antu mai zafi," in ji Margolin. Tana da bege, duk da haka, cewa kamar yadda masu tabin hankali suke yanke hukunci a matakin gida, kuma bincike na asibiti da ci gaban kiwon lafiya na ci gaba da ci gaba, cewa sababbin masu zuwa sararin samaniya za su girmama al'amuran ruhaniya na motsi.

"Kamfanoni da yawa suna neman kafa magungunan roba daga masu ilimin hauka, yayin da suke cire bangaren 'tafiya' daga gwaninta," in ji Margolin. "Duk da haka, da yawa psychonauts yi imani da cewa tafiya ne magani."

Wannan shine kwarewar Albert Hofmann na LSD. A ranar haihuwarsa ta 100 a shekara ta 2006, a wani taron kasa da kasa a Basel, ya ba da kyauta. magana a cikin abin da ya ayyana, “Ya ba ni farin ciki na ciki, buɗaɗɗen hankali, godiya, buɗe ido da hankali na ciki don mu’ujizan halitta…. Ina tsammanin cewa a cikin juyin halittar ɗan adam bai taɓa zama dole don samun wannan abu ba, LSD. Kayan aiki ne kawai don mayar da mu abin da ya kamata mu zama. "