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Dr. Humphry Osmond, Director of Research at the N.J. Bureau of Neurology and Psychiatry, interviewed by John Bleibtreu, author, expert on animal behavior. Discussion of new views of "expanded consciousness", from biology to philosophy, animal behavior, eastern thought, and psychedelics. Osmond early perceived a similarity between the effects of LSD and the early stages of schizophrenia. Osmond coined the word "psychedelic" and was the person who gave Aldous Huxley the mescaline that led to his milestone book "Doors of Perception." Wikipedia says: Osmond first proposed the term "psychedelic" at a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1957. He said the word meant "mind manifesting" (from "mind", ψυχή (psyche), and "manifest", δήλος (delos)) and called it "clear, euphonious and uncontaminated by other associations." Huxley had sent Osmond a rhyme containing his own suggested invented word: "To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme" (thymos meaning 'spiritedness' in Greek.) Osmond countered with "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic." Osmond is also known for a study in the late 1950s in which he attempted to cure alcoholics with LSD. He claimed a fifty percent success rate. Osmond is also fascinated by personality types and how they may correspond to physical traits. . Bleibtreu wrote "Parable of the Beast", about patterns in animal behavior and what they illustrate about human society. 1969. |
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| Title: Humphry Osmond and John Bleibtreu, conversation | |
Reference: 690105 |
Categories: "ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY" |
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