While looking for the translation of the Portugese word comitiva, I happened to see a image that took my attention for some reason and I came here: http://lougold.blogspot.nl/2008_04_01_archive.html
There i followed the link to talks of Wade Davis and saw this great story of him that I had seen before but loved seeing again:
http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures
After that I read In memoriam Albert Hofmann, the Father of LSD who died in 2008 at the age of 102:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/world/europe/30hofmann.html?em&ex=1209700800&en=c9b88f6a99ed996b&ei=5087%0A
The last two sentences of this well written article are:
“I know LSD; I don’t need to take it anymore,” he said, adding. “Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.”
But he said LSD had not affected his understanding of death. In death, he said, “I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.”
Albert Hofmann and a model of the LSD-25 molecule
(From this article where the relation is explained between dreaming and DMT, the main substance of ayahuasca: http://dreamstudies.org/2009/07/07/are-dreams-psychedelic/).
The ears of rye?
The origin of LSD 25 is in nature, in the wet ears of rye.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claviceps_purpurea
