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April 20, 2005

Mescaline and the Member of Parliament:

mayhew.jpgA comedy fansite has published the transcript of an unbroadcast television experiment that took place in 1955. Psychiatrist Humphry Osmond gave Labour MP Christopher Mayhew the hallucinogenic drug mescaline and the results were filmed.

...but now I'm conscious also of remembering that the waves are going to come back, which, er, were originally physical and... mental, but are waves of consciousness, and now I'm conscious of that time disappearing, so I'm watching the camera, I'm watching Tubby [the camera man]... Tubby is disappearing in time... (PAUSE) Now I'm back with you, and I see I've said something rather strange to you, probably.

Link to transcript of Panorama's mescaline experiment (Thanks Arp!)

—Vaughan.

Posted at April 20, 2005 08:00 AM

Comments

dav says:

I wonder if this will be made available online now that the BBC is releasing lots of old footage?

Comment posted at April 20, 2005 08:54 PM

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