Radio Mano, Papa Tzango.

Hello everybody, how's it going out there in the world?

This week's episode is with a man named Tim Scully, who is one of the most fascinating

people I've had the pleasure to hang out with in my brief time on the planet.

Tim Scully is best known for having created some of the best LSD known to man in the late

1960s. He was producing LSD known as Orange Sunshine. He and his friend, the late Nick

Sand, are featured in a movie called The Sunshine Makers, which I've seen. It's a fascinating

film. If you're at all interested in psychedelics and their role in society and the personalities

of some of the people who were the central movers and shakers back in the day when we're

coming around, it's interesting. We're at a moment now that I honestly didn't think I'd

live to see, which is we've gone around, it's like we're in an orbit and we've gone

around the sun and we're coming right back to where we were in the late 60s when Tim Scully

believed that production of LSD and the distribution of LSD could change the world. You'll hear

this guy was not motivated by money. If you have the honor to sit down with him, you see

immediately that this is an incredibly intelligent person, the kind of person whose intelligence

sort of moves him to the fringe of what we would call conventional human society. I

certainly got the sense that Tim is not somebody who likes hanging out at parties and schmoozing.

I think he says that himself. He's probably somewhere on the spectrum as are many extremely

intelligent people. I don't even really know what that means. I don't think anyone is clear

on how intelligence plays into the autism spectrum. But he's someone who is operating at

a level that probably makes it somewhat difficult and awkward to deal with normal people floundering

around in our nonsense. Anyway, my point is that he was motivated by the belief that psychedelics

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