I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do.
To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.
Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.
Drugs made me feel more normal.
I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.
I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.