“When Daniel Kottke reminisces about his college days in the early ’70s, he describes them as pretty prosaic,” Erica Fink and Laurie Segall report for CNN. “A freshman dorm room filled with books on spirituality, Pink Floyd playing in the background, a pastoral college campus — and hallucinogens.
“The only thing, he says, that was in any way remarkable about his LSD trips was his fellow traveler: Steve Jobs,” Fink and Segall report. “He was uncomfortable discussing these experiences while Jobs was alive, but was willing to share them with CNNMoney now. ‘We would take psychedelics and whole new vistas opened up,” Kottke said.'”
“‘We were monk-wannabes,’ Kottke said. They were on a quest to better understand consciousness using an LSD varietal known as Orange Sunshine as their Sherpa,” Fink and Segall report. Apple “was based out of the garage for about a year, moving into a real office a few months after it was incorporated in January 1977.
At that point, the drug-fueled search for salvation had mostly faded. ‘Once Apple started, Steve was really focused with all of his energy on making Apple successful.’ Kottke said. ‘And he didn’t need psychedelics for that.’ Wozniak was also not interested in dropping acid, according to Kottke.”
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Owsley Stanley Bear would agree.
Ask yourself little people…? Who are your mentors? Mark FuckTheBurg? Jeff BlazeMAzone I have no profit model DickHead? Eric T. MoleMyWay to profits for my own global gain of YOUR information ???!! You people ponder Apple is Evil!? GodHelpUsAll.
You’re have a BAD trip… 😉
COOL!
If it leads to such developments as Apple Computer and the amazing music generated in the sixties…..what’s the problem, it should be available from your GP?
“…what’s the problem..”
“you know I seen a lotta people walkin’ ’round with tombstones in their eyes..” – Hoyt Axton
THAT’S the problem.
Sigh.
I love LSD. It’s wonderful and makes my weekends amazing. Glad it’s back on the scene after disappearing almost completely from 2000-2011. Everyone should try it at least once.
The effects of a typical LSD dosage lasts about 8-14 hours..do you drive on weekends? I would hate for you to confuse a red light with the Second Coming Of Christ.
Oh shut the fuck up Nancy Reagan. I don’t drive on LSD. That would be fucking impossible.
Well, that’s just excellent..tell Jesus I said “hey.”
You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about and you’ve clearly never tripped. You don’t see dragons or fictional characters. I think you “learned” everything you know about LSD from anti drug propaganda films.
I’ll give you the same reply that I gave to the other idiot below:
“unlike yourself, I was a college student in the sixties and have seen firsthand the devastation of wonderful minds and hearts of so many friends…I consider that “enlightenment.”
Until you’ve tried it, you don’t have a clue but we knew that already.
Not impossible but highly difficult until after you peak!
this is one of the main reasons why i loved Steve so much- he KNEW what was up. for those of you that haver never tripped, you DON’T know and never will.
R.I.P. Steve Jobs
Then he totally f*%ked this guy over. No shares for you best friend Daniel! It’s in the biography. Not cool Steve!
Even Woz tried to go to bat for the guy.
*narrows eyelids* He knew what this was..
While I think Steve Jobs was an amazing talent and I admire him for how he changed our lives and the entire world, I also think he was a full-on sociopath. He literally had no concern at all for other people’s feelings. No empathy of any kind. He was completely blind to the emotional states of others. Didn’t care at all if he hurt someone.
We’re lucky that Jobs grew up in a stable home with great parents so that he became a technology leader instead of a serial killer…because it seriously could have gone either way.
Thank you for that analysis, Dr. Frankenstein…and if Ted Bundy just had better parents, he would have created Apple, and Charlie Manson could have been the Fifth Beatle.
I think you mean the 7th Beatle. Pete Best was the 5th and Billy Shears was the 6th. Unless we can only count a Paul once.
I think you meant Billy Preston.
Billy Shears was Ringo Starr’s “alter ego” on Sergeant Pepper.
No….. Billy Shears won the Capital Records national Paul McCartney look-alike contest. His name is mentioned on the sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club band LP in the song transition between The opening song and “a little help from my friends”. There was much speculation afterwards that the entire contest was rigged and furthermore, Mr. Shears was never heard from again. It was later discovered that during the recording of SPLHCB, McCartney’s prized sports car had been demolished in a terrible crash. McCartney was however, no worst for the wear – leading to speculation that Paul’s vehicle incident had been fatal and that Billy was the new Paul. This is why there are two sets of Beatles on the SPLHCB album cover, the old in black & white (with the dead Paul), and the new Beatles in bright colors, facial hair and other obscuring accoutrements (to hide new Paul’s face). To top it off, Paul gets divorced and marries an American girl. Convenient, to say the least. On their next album, Magical Mystery Tour, during a song transition, the following words: “I buried Paul”.
Pete Best was kicked out early on in favor of Richard Starkey (Ringo).
Billy Preston was a known collaborator with the group.
Maybe you should do a little research before displaying your ignorance. It’s well known know that people who have psychopathic brains can grow up to live completely normal productive lives provided that the home environment they grew up in was stable and supportive.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath-180947814/
oh, a study by a “neuroscientist” who discovered that he’s a psychopath…how enlightening…I guess that’s that.
He paid for his ticket to India. Then Kotke fell out with Steve during the trip. They ended up ending the trip separately.
bad trip, man.
I don’t take illegal drugs, but am tempted to take an LSD trip before I depart from this mortal coil.
Please don’t it had a negative effect on my life for over 30 years, I would give anything to take it back but I can’t. Please don’t it’s not glamorous.
I think 1950s Housewife on LSD makes the best pro-LSD argument I’ve ever heard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miCDPzJHvjk
Awesome
an American woman describes her drug-induced hallucinations to a doctor in a controlled setting.
unawesome.
a Polish woman describes her research and discoveries in radiology.
http://www.biography.com/people/marie-curie-9263538
awesome.
‘Using LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life, it shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.’
‘Steve Jobs Bio: The Unauthorized Autobiography.’
you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it
More than a few people with terminal illnesses, have reconciled with their fate through the use of psychedelics like LSD, Psylicybin and DMT. By seeing the bigger picture, it seems to mitigate the natural fear of death.
I wonder if Steve had a chance to see the “infinite wonder”, one more time before he shuffled off this mortal coil.. After all, his last words were quoted as: “Oh, wow, oh wow, oh wow..”
Kinda sounds like tripping’ to me. (^_^)
The important thing about Jobs’s drug use is: he stopped.
“When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.”
Some people act like they need to go get laid, you act as if you need to drop some acid. You seem to be a perfect candidate for a little enlightenment.
Standing by for condescension……
unlike yourself, I college student in the sixties and have seen firsthand the devastation of wonderful minds and hearts of so many friends…I consider that “enlightenment.”
^was a
Unlike alcohol, religion or conservative thinking.
All I can say is anyone who can blithely dismiss LSD as an unremarkable, ho-hum experience must be a real dud.
Talk about some serious bragging rights
“I dropped acid with Steve Jobs”
lol how many people can say that?
big deal, my girlfriend once got drunk with Roy Rogers.
You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about and you’ve clearly never tripped. You don’t see dragons or fictional characters. I think you “learned” everything you know about LSD from anti drug propaganda films.
Well… what does happen? Can you describe it, so I could get a ” clear ” idea, of what it would be like, before taking it.
“We were monk-wannabes,” Kottke said. They were on a quest to better understand consciousness using an LSD varietal known as Orange Sunshine as their Sherpa
So ultimately it comes down to taking Orange Sunshine like everyone else? I did my share with my friends so his statement is not all that special. What about Purple Dome, double dose? What about Brown?
What was it like to do acid with anyone?
From Mr. Bill Hicks, a positive LSD story:
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
I don’t see how the author contributes to Steve’s story other than corroborating what we already know. I was hoping to read some gritty details.
For example, some existential experience what he heard, saw, said, etc.
LSD can be stored in your fat. And later you could experience flash backs, once you metabolize your energy stores.
It is possible Steve has had flashbacks in later years. Anyway part of the problem with LSD, you don’t want it to flash at a bad time, like driving a car.
I think you should fast, before consumption, and during, then continue your fast well past it’s expiration.