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On reading on post on GREENBRIAR PICTURE SHOWS (a superb site) about 2001   https://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/       I wrote this comment:

1968 was the year Timothy Leary unleashed LSD on the streets. It was legal. It was cheap. Fifty cents got us 8 hours between Heaven and Hell with the doors of perception ripped wide open. 2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY was the ultimate movie to trip to with FANTASIA right beside it. Great visuals. Great use of colour. Inspired use of music, I believed everything I read in the media about LSD until I actually passed through those doors.

 

After that I learned mass media is mass hysteria.

 

I saw 2001 in Toronto at the theatre in the ad you show. Never cared for thew warping done to the picture by that CINERAMA SCREEN. i was on acid. 2001 delivered in spades.

 

I showed the picture so often in my Rochdale College screenings I can no longer watch it without falling asleep.

 

Grass can take us to the door. LSD takes us through it.

 

In the wonderful Brit documentary LSD THE BEYOND WITHIN asked is LSD is harmful the chief medical officer of Britain responsible for conducting thousands of legal experiments in Britain with LSD replies, “Not in the least.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4zf-EbPAI .

 

 

 

I’m not saying LSD (or grass) gives us answers. Neither does.

 

But, boy, both can enhance our emotional and intellectual experience of movies, music and more on a level which is well worth getting up the courage to boldly go where we haven’t.

 

I don’t expect you or your readers to go there of course.

 

Groucho Marx did: https://www.ep.tc/realist/groucho-acid/ .

 

Many of his fans get their tits in a wringer hearing that. They shout, “NO! NO! NO!”

 

Groucho was hip before the word was invented.

 

I learned a helluva lot with LSD and, after I began doing talks on it, was gifted with DMT of which ultimate tripper Terrence McKenna said, “If there is anything stronger I don’t want to hear about it.”

 

I’m with McKenna.

 

Not saying we have to do LSD (which as Carey Grant said, is a chemical not a drug) to enjoy a movie any movie but when we do we see and hear with a clarity that is astonishing.

 

I invited Aldous Huxley’s widow Laura (who lived next door to the Bob Clampett family under the “H” in the Hollywood sign) to come to Toronto to talk about her and Huxley’s experiences. She asked, “Have you read by book, THIS TIMELESS MOMENT?” I said, “I will.”

 

After I read it I wrote her a letter. Gave her time to receive it. Then I called her. I said, “No need to bring you here. Everything you say I say. If they can’t hear me they won’t hear you.”

 

Mrs. Huxley said, “Yes. Do you come out here?”

 

I said, “Once in a while.”

 

She said, “I’d like to meet you.”

 

That would have been cool.

 

Leary wrote a letter to Huxley saying, “We haven’t talked about sex on LSD.” Huxley replied, “We are in enough trouble. Don’t let that cat out of the bag!”

 

It was LSD that led the young to 2001 in 1968.

 

It took us right where we wanted to go.

I will show 2001 at The CineForum in August.

Come as high as you are.

WARNING: The sound will be LOUD.

Kubrick wanted the sound LOUD.

 

 

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