In one of those strange but meaningful coincidences, LSD was first recognized as a psychedelic in April of 1943 when Albert Hofmann took his now famous bicycle ride. This amazing ride occurred just four and a half months after the first nuclear chain reaction was produced at the University of Chicago, and just a bit more than two years before the first atomic bomb was detonated at Almagordo, New Mexico in July of 1945.

It was God’s will perhaps, that we were given a way to save ourselves from our newly discovered means of destroying ourselves. LSD turned out to be extremely useful as a means of releasing great amounts of psychic energy and raising consciousness – just as nuclear energy quickly became a means of releasing great amounts of physical energy and killing lots of people (Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki, Aug. 9, 1945.)

Since those days, thanks to Buckminster Fuller and others, we have learned that we do in fact live upon Spaceship Earth and that what goes on anywhere on Mother Earth really does affect all of us – e.g., potentially deadly pollution from Asia being blown over the United States and Canada almost daily. We have also begun to learn that our leaders really are one-sided and insane and that we do indeed need to rescue ourselves.

Unfortunately, since the sixties, we have not done much with our new knowledge. The changes that LSD introduced into our culture in the sixties were incredible. If we had followed these changes out, had allowed them to grow and mature, if we hadn’t instead believed the CIA and given into our fear of the unknown, we would be living today in a much more conscious and kindly world.

However, just as the various world governments (the United States, England, and Germany, among others) started WWI in order to derail communism and the labor movement (see Jack London’s book, The Iron Heel), so today the various world governments began their war on the psychedelics in order to maintain their own stranglehold on what they have called reality.

We need to do something about this. But I’m not into any sort of physical revolution, not even against a corrupt and debasing government. I’ll leave that to others. I’m into spiritual revolution instead, into changing people’s heads.

I keep coming back to notion of the hundredth monkey, to the idea that you or I might just be the one, the hundredth one that would turn the tide, the one that would be enough to return goodness and sanity to this world gone mad. Maybe you and I really are the very last ones needed to open ourselves to the new, to the new path that Spirit wants us to go on this time around. Personally, I’m going to open myself to this new world that’s coming by using LSD wisely.