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Visually it's not that different from a lot of current psychedelic imagery. E.g. the Eurorack video synthesis scene. The creators most likely took inspiration
by handy2000 3y ago
Visually it's not that different from a lot of current psychedelic imagery. E.g. the Eurorack video synthesis scene.
The creators most likely took inspiration from their personal experiences smoking reefers (probably too early for psilocybin considering it's 1940s, but possible too!).
- 0xDEADFED5 3y agothere's always mescaline! https://hermetic.com/parsons/i-hight-don-quixote-i-live-on-peyote https://hermetic.com/parsons/i-hight-don-quixote-i-live-on-p...
- handy2000 3y agoOh right! Mescaline became known in the US artistic and scientific circles a bit earlier than psilocybin.
- fsiefken 3y ago"Neo: You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming? Choi: All the time. It's called mescaline, it's the only way to fly" -- The Matrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdAMq5LdAvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdAMq5LdAvs Isolated in 1896 and synthesized in 1919. Havelock Ellis described the use of cactus Anhalonium lewinii, or mescal button by Kiowa Indians (New Mexico) in "Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise" (1898). Aldous Huxley took mescaline for the first time on May 3, 1953 and subsequently wrote about it in Doors of Perception (1954) and Heaven and Hell (1956). Jim Morrison co-founded The Doors, named after Huxley's book, in July 1965 in Los Angeles, California. He formed the band with Ray Manzarek, whom he met at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television when they were both students. Carlos Castaneda, himself a kind of enigma and his books controversial wrote his first book shortly after, "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge," published in 1968,