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Albert Hofmann
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Birth Data
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| Birth Name: |
Hofmann, Albert |
| Birth Date: |
1/11/1906 (January 11, 1906) |
| Birth Time: |
15:00 CET
(-1:00) (3:00 pm) |
| Birth Place: |
Baden,
Switzerland |
| Latitude /
Longitude: |
47 N 29 / 08 E
18 |
| Rodden Rating /
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A / From memory |
| Source Notes: |
Ray Mardyx
quotes him, 10/1988 |
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Interpretive Reports
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Biography
Swiss chemist dubbed “the father
of LSD” who later wrote a book called, “LSD, My Problem Child.” Hofmann
discovered LSD by accident on April 16, 1943 while he was an employee of
a pharmaceutical company in Basel, Switzerland. He had been working in
the lab when he inadvertently got some on his fingers that afternoon
(his journal entry says "the middle of the afternoon"). Three days
later, he conducted an deliberate official test.
Hofmann was the oldest of four children. Always enthralled by the
natural world, he was fascinated by plants and how they interact with
the human body. In 1927, after graduation from the University of Zurich,
he joined Sandoz Pharmaceuticals where he was assigned to investigating
plants’ medicinal properties. He began to study ergot, a rye fungus. By
1938 ergot was synthesized and some of its compounds proved useful in
treating medical conditions. He noted his reactions when he isolated a
compound called LSD-25 and accidentally exposed himself to it. The
aftereffects were reminiscent of a mystical feeling that came over him
as a child when he was wandering through a field: a spiritual oneness
with nature. He called LSD “medicine for the soul” and for its first
several years, it proved useful in treating psychiatric disorders. In
1984,he told psychiatrist Stanislav Grof that his experience with the
drug made him "aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of
nature and of the animal and plant kingdom."
Hofmann disapproved of LSD’s widespread recreational use in the 1960s
and was disappointed that such drug abuse effectively put an end to
scientific experiments that could have benefited humanity. Throughout
his life he maintained that LSD ought to be treated with the same care
and control as morphine.
In his career with Sandoz, he worked on other hallucinogenic plants and
researched their sacred uses by native civilizations. He retired in 1971
as the company’s director of research for the department of natural
products. After his retirement he served on the Nobel Prize Committee,
was a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences and held membership in
scientific organizations researching medicinal qualities of plants. The
Albert Hoffmann Foundation was established in 1988 to continue and
expand his work in human consciousness.
Hofmann and his wife, Anita had four children. One son predeceased them
in a battle with alcoholism. Anita died in December 2007. Hofmann
suffered a fatal heart attack on April 29, 2008 around 9 AM in Basel,
Switzerland, age 102.
For More Information on
the Web:
http://www.hofmann.org/
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Insight/Article.aspx?id=759618
http://www.hallucinogens.com/hofmann/index.html
Obituary
New York Times article
Hofmann Interview by Stanislav Grof:
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v11n2/grofhofmann.html |
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What Do You Think?
It is
said that many great discoveries are results of accidents. Albert Hofmann,
who identified LSD, presents an example of such a discovery. But like other
great discoverers and inventors, Hofmann was open to the possibilities and
explored his accidental discovery further, contributing to the modern body
of knowledge about plant medicine for physical and psychiatric conditions.
In the wake of his recent death, let’s study his chart this week:
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In a New York Times column of January 7, 2006 (see link above), Craig Smith
quoted Albert Hoffman: ''It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with
living nature.” Smith added “He [Hofmann] said any natural scientist who was
not a mystic was not a real natural scientist.” Where in Hoffmann’s chart do
you see this connection with nature, the acceptance of the spiritual or
mystical dimension to human consciousness?
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Where is the scientific orientation and discipline shown in the chart?
Hofmann’s work with plants contributed to
the development of medical and psychiatric treatments. Where is his legacy
shown? Is it better reflected by his Midheaven or by his 10th house cusp in
the Equal House System?
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