Albert Hofmann

"At age 19 I made the decision to become a chemist for both mystical-philosophical reasons and for reasons of curiosity."

Hofmann's work produced other important drugs, including methergine, used to treat postpartum hemorrhaging, the leading cause of death from childbirth.

But he was also disturbed by the cavalier use of LSD as a drug for entertainment, arguing that it should be treated in the way that primitive societies approached psychoactive sacred plants, which are ingested with care and spiritual intent.

Was in Pont Saint Esprit in Summer 1951. Interviewed by Fuller. A Terrible Mistake, pg. 355 and 359 - Albarelli.

Questionable inventor of LSD: 

Though like many of those associated with the origins of the psychedelic movement, Albert Hofmann is called “divine,” evidence has come to light which exposes him as both a CIA and French Intelligence operative.  Hoffman helped the agency dose the French village Pont Saint Esprit with LSD.  As a result five people died and Hofmann helped to cover up the crime. The LSD event at Pont Saint Esprit led to the famous murder of Frank Olson by the CIA because he had threatened to go public. It was the exposure of Olson’s murder and his involvement with the MK-ULTRA program that caused the national uproar leading to the Church Commission.<a title="" href="http://www.gnosticmedia.com/manufacturing-the-deadhead-a-product-of-social-engineering-by-joe-atwill-and-jan-irvin/#_edn36">[36]</a>

Incredibly, a paper to be published in Time and Mind this July by English researcher Alan Piper shows that LSD was known about years before Albert Hofmann supposedly “invented” it on 16 November 1938 (Hofmann claims to have not been aware of LSD’s properties until 16 April 1943). Piper has noted that in 1933 Jewish author Leo Perutz wrote the novel Saint Peter’s Snow, wherein a new drug made from a fungus from wheat is secretly tested and used in a failed attempt to bring about a return of religious beliefs and return a Roman Emperor to his throne, with a priest who warns that it’s instead the worship of Molech. Rather than a return of Christian belief, the book ends in a communist rebellion. The relationship between psychedelics and communist or socialist political leanings is not uncommon and should be noted. Piper sees the parallelism between Perutz’s psychedelic drug and LSD as an unsolved mystery, but provides cultural historical background to the conception of the novel and the scientific study of ergot. The authors maintain that in light of the evidence showing that the psychedelic movement was part of a multi-generational plan, Perutz’s book clearly shows an awareness of that agenda. It’s ironic too that Perutz chooses the name of St Peter’s Snow for the title of the book from the following quote, as it states on page 93 that “in the Alps it was called St Peter’s Snow” and of course the Alps are primarily in Switzerland – where Hoffman supposedly invented the drug:

A few months later I came across the incomparably more important testimony of Dionysus the Areopagite, a fourth-century Christian Neo-Platonist, who states in one of his works that he imposed a two-day fast on the members of his community, who longed for the real presence of God, and he then regaled them with “bread made with holy flour.” […]

I came across an ancient Roman rural priests’ song, a solemn invocation of Marmar or Mavor, who at that time was not yet the bloodthirsty god of war but the peaceful protector of the fields. ‘Let your white frost invade the crop so that they acknowledge thy power,’ it said. Like all priests, Roman rural priests knew the secret of the hallucinogenic drug that produces a state of ecstasy in which people ‘become seeing’ and ‘acknowledge the power of the god’. The white frost was not a kind of wheat, but a wheat disease, a parasite, a fungus that invaded the wheat and fed on its substance.” […]

“There are many kinds of parasitic fungi,” the baron went on, “the ascomycetes, the phycomycetes, and the basidiomycetes. In his Synopsis Fungorum Bargin describes more than a hundred varieties, and nowadays his work is regarded as out-of-date. But among that hundred I had identified the only one that produces ecstatic effects when it is introduced into human food and thus finds its way into the human organism.” […]

There is – or was – a wheat disease that was often described in earlier centuries and was known by a different name wherever it appeared. In Spain it was called Mary Magdalene’s Plait, in Alsace it was known as Poor Soul’s Dew. In Adam of Cremona’s Physician’s Book it was called Misericord Seed, and in the Alps it was called St Peter’s Snow.<a title="" href="http://www.gnosticmedia.com/manufacturing-the-deadhead-a-product-of-social-engineering-by-joe-atwill-and-jan-irvin/#_edn37">[37]</a>

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The book continues later on with the same theme we’re discussing here, where two of the main characters of the plot argue over whether they should test the drug on themselves:

I did not at first realize that she was talking about the baron. “I’ve been quarrelling with him,” she went on. “A very serious quarrel. With whom? The baron, of course, about the hallucinogen. He maintained that we two, he and I, should not take it, but I disagreed. We were the leaders, he said, we must remain clear-headed and dispassionate and be above things, our task was to lead and not be carried away. That’s what the quarrel was about. I said that being above it meant being out of it, and just because he was the leader he must feel and think what the crowd thought and felt.[…]” <a title="" href="http://www.gnosticmedia.com/manufacturing-the-deadhead-a-product-of-social-engineering-by-joe-atwill-and-jan-irvin/#_edn38">[38]</a>

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Later in the story we discover that the woman, Bibiche, who created and tried the drug, is the one who headed the communist rebellion.

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It appears that Arthur Stoll, Albert Hoffman's boss, really invented LSD. Hoffman was just a cover story. Stoll was also a member of the Royal Society that was headed by... Thomas and Julian Huxley. Who could have guessed that there'd be a straight line from Sandoz to the Huxleys?

Of course thanks to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alan.piper.14" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=673988656">Alan Piper</a>, we were able to prove last year that the story that Hoffman invented LSD was ridiculous.

Piccard, in Liquid Conspiracy, states, p. 71:

"According to Al Hubbard, Hofmann's knowledge of LSD's effects came about several years prior than his recollection.

Why the disputed chronology? Is there something to hide?

If there is something to hide, it may lie in the early series of experiments with LSD conducted by Hofmann's supervisor Dr. Stoll. These tests were often conducted without the knowledge or permission of his patients. This pattern was unfortunately repeated on numerous occasions and resulted in the destruction of many lives. The conclusions of this study were published in a Swiss pharmacological journal."

Here we have the clear motive... if Stoll was doing secret experiments from 1927 on, then to cover it up, he'd say that Hoffman invented the drug in 1938 and didn't discover it until 1942.

So therefore the mystery of St. Peter's Snow is solved.

In the same interview, Wasson said that Albert Hofmann “work in some way with the CIA” and that Hofmann’s “discoveries were imparted in whole by Sandoz to the U.S. government. Sandoz wanted to be on the right side of things.” Hofmann’s connection to the CIA has never been officially confirmed by the CIA, which maintains a policy of not commenting on or revealing information on foreign citizens who find their way into its employment.[58] [emphasis – mine] ~Hank Albarelli

Hank Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, Trine Day, 2009. P. 359

Albert Hofmann

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