By DAVID NICKLES – Surprises are always expected in the Ozorian dimension. Prepare to be amazed! He is the ‘man’, he is the “Father of the Orange Sunshine”, he is speaking at the Chambok house at 13:30 on Wednesday, August 3rd.

Revered by psychonauts and alchemists worldwide, Nick Sand casts a near-mythological shadow across the history of cognitive liberty and consciousness exploration. With some forty years experience running underground and overground labs, Sand represents an unparalleled body of knowledge and entheogenic ethos. Hailed as the father of Orange Sunshine and a seasoned explorer of the spice realms, he is a true pioneer of taking direct action to promote societal shifts in cognition.

Sand grew up in the US and cut his teeth on entheogenic chemistry as an Anthropology student at Brooklyn University in New York. During his time there, he met Richard Alpert, who invited him to visit the commune at Millbrook, established by Alpert, Leary, and the other Harvard researchers. While at Millbrook, Sand met Owsley “Bear” Stanley, audio engineer for the Grateful Dead. Bear, an accomplished chemist in his own right, encouraged Sand to improve the purity of the products he was producing and took Sand under his alchemical wing. Through this mentorship, Sand was soon introduced to Tim Scully, and their West Coast collaboration led to the creation of the famed Orange Sunshine.

Sand’s ongoing quest to enable consciousness shifts through the facilitation of cognitive liberty eventually led to considerable attention from the government and as with numerous other alchemists under prohibition, he eventually found himself locked behind bars. The judge who sentenced him to 15 years in jail called him “the degradation of mankind,” likely unable to comprehend that, if anything, the opposite was true. Through a fortunate series of events, Sand was released from incarceration early and managed to escape to Canada, where he continued his alchemical endeavors for many years, before running afoul of the Canadian police and again finding himself behind bars. Amusingly enough, Sand’s alchemical creations tested over 100% pure, a seemingly impossible phenomenon, which likely indicated that his products were of higher purity than the Canadian government’s reference standards. As a result of his capture, Sand spent additional time in Canadian and United States prisons, before finally being released in 2000.

Following his release from incarceration, Sand has made several public appearances giving talks on entheogens and pharmacology, in addition to writing articles on set, setting, and the optimal utilization of spice. A longtime proponent of utilizing entheogens for personal enhancement, Sand has expressed an attitude “not about curing ill people, but about making well people weller,” stating, “We’re not just beasts brought to walk in one path all of our lives: we are here to fly.”

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