Psychedelic Beer (Potions Of The Future)

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Release Date: 1997-12-15

Label: High Society

Dope memo #3: The secret and suppressed history of beer

"Beer was not always the boring drink it is today. In olden times, livened up by the strengths of certain herbs, it contained the power of holy, magical plants and was both a beverage and a sacrament. The alcohol drink itself served ancient cultures and primitive peoples mostly just as the substance or solution that carried much more effective and more powerful, intoxicating drugs. Such beer was consciousness expanding and sexually stimulating. In the 16th Century, the Church and the State wanted to control their citizens’ drug consumption. This resulted in the Deutsche Reinheitsgebot von 1516 (the German Purity Law of 1516), which is still valid today and stipulates that beer may only be brewed from water, malt, hops, and with the help of yeast. Thereby, in truth, the use of psychedelic, arousing tonic and medical additives was forbidden.
“The Purity Law – wich did not originate coincidentally in the hayday of wichhunting – is not only the first food legislation, but also the first drug law of its kind in the west. Our modern drug laws are all Christian attacs on the pagan medical herbs of our ancestors; for example: hemp, haenbane, opium, magic mushrooms, and so on. The only drug which Christian drug policy and legislation allowes are the most harmfull of these known, namely alcohol and tobacco.
“The history of beer is a history of the decline of a holy, devine beverage to a mundane substance of the masses.”

Exerpts from the book Urbock by Christian Rätsch / AT Publishing
(More about psychedelic beers of the future, including home-brew recipes in the CD booklet to PSYCHEDELIC BEER II)

(also written in German)

Track 1 duration is wrongly listed as 11:11 on the artwork. Track 4 wrongly listed as "Angstman" from the same record, Dancenstein.

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