Bicycle Day

Bicycle Day Facts & Quotes

• Along with synthesizing LSD, Albert Hofmann was also the first one to create psilocybin, the main ingredient in magic mushrooms.
• Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux. It was particularly remarkable how every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a door handle or a passing automobile, became transformed into optical perceptions. Every sound generated a vividly changing image, with its own consistent form and color - Albert Hofmann, first use of LSD, 1943
• You, my dear friends, and millions all over the world who now commemorate the 50th birthday of ergot's child, we all testify gratefully that we got valuable help on the way to what Aldous Huxley said is the end and the ultimate purpose of human life--enlightenment, beatific vision, love. I think all these joyful testimonies of invaluable help by LSD should be enough to convince the health authorities, finally, of the nonsense of the prohibition of LSD and of similar psychedelics - Albert Hofmann, 50th anniversary of Bicycle Day

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Bicycle Day Top Events and Things to Do

• Explore the virtual Albert Hofmann museum.
• Learn more about psychedelics using an academic psychedelic bibliography.
• Watch a movie that poses a question, asks why, or challenges normal frameworks. Here are our suggestions:
  Cloud Atlas (2012)
  Enter the Void (2009)
  Waking Life (2001)

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