Albert Hofmann- LSD My Problem Child - Audiobook & Book & Related Lecture byBuoy

Albert Hofmann- LSD My Problem Child

Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist. He completed a complex and insightful PhD in a very short time and then became a pharmaceutical researcher.

This contains the book in two formats and the audiobook. Be sure to read the reviews and the content section if interested.

It also contains an English language lecture by Dr. Hofmann where he reads some passages of the book.


Summary

This book gives tremendous insight into Albert Hofmann's life and research. Hofmann is the scientist who, in 1938, first isolated the compound LSD-25 from ergot. At the time, Hofmann had no idea that this compound had what we've come to know as psychedelic properties. He certainly didn't foresee the psychedelic craze of the 1960s.

Hofmann, who died in 2008 at the age of 102, tells us how his research began, how it progessed, and what, ultimately, went wrong. Some of the early researchers (including Hofmann) took the LSD and detailed their "trips" in journals. Excerpts of these are shared with us, which make for fascinating reading.





Amazon Summary

The discovery of the psychedelic properties of LSD was a milestone in the history of consciousness. Albert Hofmann's personal story of that discovery and its consequences is one of my favorite books. --- Andrew Weil, M.D., author of From Chocolate to Morphine, The Natural Mind, and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health.

Aldous wrote about LSD that 'it is a gratuitous grace neither necessary nor sufficient for salvation.' However, it provides the opportunity to discover and make creative use of the infinite possibilities of the human mind. Probably The Doors of Perception might not have been written were it not for Albert's 'Problem Child.' Thank you, Albert. --Laura Huxley, widow of Aldous Huxley and author of This Timeless Moment.

The current revival of the psychedelic aesthetic in art, design, fashion, music and film is testament to the revolutionary power of LSD. Its complex nature and true impact, however, remains unrecognized and this book provides both a personal history as well as rigorous analysis of this enduring phenomenon --Christoph Grunenberg, Director of Tate Liverpool and curator and editor of Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era.




Details
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: MAPS.org; 4th edition (March 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0979862221
ISBN-13: 978-0979862229




Content

This item contains the following content:

1] The audiobook as 11 MP3 files, corresponding to the introduction and 10 chapters.
2] The book in PDF and HTML formats.
3] Book cover images.


Note: this book is read by a synthesized voice (AT&T Mike); however, I am a very experienced audio book listener and I have created the MP3 files as well as all of the Microsoft Word source files. I used TextSpeaker 3.2, converted the Word files to WAV files and then converted them to MP3. After much testing I have determined that this permits a much better quality than simply allowing textspeaker to convert the files directly to MP3. I have created the Microsoft Word files (and therefore the audio files) with some care by placing periods after all titles and sections for natural pauses, as well as the elimination of the title contents pages and any citations that would not normally be found in an audio book, and I have included footnotes that would generally be included within an audiobook. In case you are interested it took approximately half as long, perhaps more, to create this audiobook as it would have taken to simply read the book, but I was hoping to share my work with a larger community as well as to enable myself to listen to the book again at a later date. Often there are many times I listen to audio books and then wish to search for or relisten to a particular item and the inclusion of the PDF as well as the Word file should enable you to search for content electronically which then makes searching for that portion of the audio book considerably more easy.