This year, the GaiaMedia Foundation celebrates its 25th birthday. In 1993, Dieter Hagenbach turned fifty and wanted to dedicate this phase of his life to a new and meaningful project. He invited his friends and acquaintances asking them to support the newly established Gaia Media Foundation instead of giving him presents.
Among the guests were Anita and Albert Hofmann, HR Giger, Claudia Müller-Ebeling and Christian Rätsch. The foundation council was made up of Dieter as president as well as Pierre Joset (again member of the council since September of 2017) and myself. In 1998, we were joined by Albert Hofmann. He remained an active member of the board until his death.
Dieter was born in1943, the year in which Albert Hofmann discovered the psychoactive effects of LSD. Dieter and I had already planned a large conference around the topic for the 25th birthday of this momentous discovery but Albert Hofmann was not willing to participate at that time. A conference about LSD in Basel without Albert Hofmann was out of the question. But he came around fifteen years later, and we launched a first highly successful conference the year he turned 100 and the World Psychedelic Forum in 2008.
On 19 April 2018, we will celebrate the 75th birthday of the discovery of LSD. The event (information only in German) is fully booked. However, there will be a free live stream for all sponsors of the foundation. You will find further information about this in one of the next issues of the gaiamedia goodnews.
As a sponsor you support our endeavors to distribute our goodnews and other activities of the foundation. It would make us very happy if you join us too!
Warmly,
Lucius Werthmüller
P.S. Those who are already sponsors of the GaiaMedia Foundation will receive the annual report for 2017 and the bill for 2018 within the next few weeks.
Smaller than the Radius of the Planet
There is a patch like ice in the sky this
evening & the wind tacks about, we are
both stopped/fingered by it. I lay out my
unrest like white lines on the slope, so that
something out of broken sleep will land
there. Look up, a vale of sorrow opened by
eyes anywhere above us, the child spread out
in his memory of darkness. And so, then, the
magnetic influence of Venus sweeps its
shiver into the heart/brain or hypothalamus,
we are still here, I look steadily at nothing.
“The gradient of the decrease may be de-
termined by the spread in intrinsic lumin-
osities” —the ethereal language of love in
brilliant suspense between us and the
hesitant arc. Yet I need it too and keep
one hand in my pocket & one in yours,
waiting for the first snow of the year.
J.H. Prynne