Exerpts from the 'Crystal to Blotter' and 'Thumbprint' threads as originally posted on shroomery.org by Chinacat72

Crystal to Blotter.

I have decided to make this thread to concentrate info that I have posted in other posts. I will discuss LSD crystal and what happens with it. This info is from my experiances a long time ago. I can safely offer it because I have retired from this line of work and stay far away from it.

First I will briefly discuss the people or family as there called so you can get an appreciation for what they do and have done. The family is motivated to spread LSD because we believe that LSD is a key given to us from above. LSD was given to man from God to help him see the error of his ways. Why do you think it was discovered during the most horrible time in history. It is the antidote for the atomic bomb. It`s doesn`t matter if you believe this or not, because what I`m trying to express is how deeply important the family feels about the sacred value of LSD. Those who are at the upper levels of the family will gladly sacrifice there lives and freedom to do this work.

OK now down to the crystal. I have little knowlege about LSD manufacture so I`m going to talk about the final product the crystal. On tour crystal came in brown glass bottles with 1-10 grams in them. The bottles were sealed and contained CO2 and crystal. You can`t just buy crystal from family. First you have to be taught how to lay it, which I`ll cover in a little bit. Also you have to do a thumbprint (eat it) there are no exeptions to this rule.The reason is to make sure your Karma is clean enough to handle this sacred work.

TYPES OF CRYSTAL
Needlepoint-very pure (95%) white powerdery crystal, was available in small amounts. The best of the best
White Fluff-Very pure (95%) white light flakes of crystal. Still around and the most sought after. Very pure
Silver-Good and clean (85-90%) light greyish crystal. Was an unbelievable amount of this around in the late eighties and early nineties. Very good stuff. My first thumbprint was this kind. If you ate acid in the 80-90`s you probably sampled some silver.
Amber-Decent (70%?) This crystal varied from a light amber color to an almost dark brown color. Was always available. One batch called quadricept amber was the color of light honey and was very good. Lot`s a people worked with this crystal but I always would use silver instead since it was better and the same price.
Lavender (60-70%) light purple to almost black colored crystal. Like amber it varied batch to batch.
TJ (tornado juice) - purity unknown. I've seen this shit in about four different colors and it always scared me. No experience with it.
Champagne (50-60%) black crystal, nasty stuff IMHO. I worked with it once and swore to never touch it again.

OK so you got some crystal and need to get it on blotter. It`s a pretty amazing feeling holding a jar in your hands that has 10 grams of crystal in it. That`s 100,000 doses in the palm of your hand. For dealing with laying we`ll say we got 1 gram. Acid is always layed 1 gram at a time. 1 gram=10 tenpacks. 1 tenpack is ten sheets of 100. 1 gram=10,000doses. If your laying needlpoint your doses will be 95mcg, because your crystal is 95% pure. If your laying amber your shit will be 70mcg, because it`s 70% pure. Got it ?

Now you get a glass pyrex pan to dip your tenpacks in. Your crystal is dissovled into 110ml. of everclear per gram.The purer crystals dissolve instantly with a little stirring. The not so pure take a little shaking. Champange is damn near impossible to get to dissolve evenly.
Paper-for white blotter standard watercolor paper #14 or equivalent is used. It`s critical you get the right paper. If you don`t it won`t absorb right and you`ll fuck it all up. Print`s are made up ahead of time and perferated.
OK so you got your crystal dissolved and your paper cut and ready. There are 2 schools when it comes to putting it on the paper. First dump the solution in the pan and dip each tenpack into it then lift it up and let any excess solution run off into the pan. Second method is to put the tenpack into the pan and squirt the solution on it with a baby syringe (the ones they give little kids medicine with). I Have done both and prefer dipping them just because its quicker. Then the tenpacks are layed out to dry which doesn`t take long since alcohol evaporates quickly.
If you did it right there will be very little residue left in the bottom of the pan. This residue is extremly potent and is eather soaked up with a piece of paper (called mop up) or made into potent liquid (called wash). Whatever you choose this is saved for your personal use.
While your doing all this you get very, very high. As soon as you open the jar of crystal it intoxicates the air. Most people wear rubber gloves when doing this -some don`t. Just don`t have any plans afterwards.
There might be slightly different methods used when laying, but this is how the dead family does it.
After the tenpacks are dryed there distibuted and eaten up.
Since the end of the Grateful Dead the massive distribution network that used to get rid of so much acid has been broken up badly.
Never fear Acid is still out there

One last note as I stated at the beginning of this post I am no longer involved with this business. I don`t use or sell LSD anymore. I haven`t for years.
I realise many of you really want some acid, but I can`t help you so please be so kind as not to P.M. me for a hookup.
If you have questions regarding any of this I will be more than happy to try to answer them if I can.
God bless you all

LSD is still around though it seems that a majority of the labs are inactive at the moment. This is normal as they don`t produce all the time. Most like the silver family only produce about every 5 years. Though they usually produce enough to last that long.
When the Grateful Dead toured massive amounts of LSD were disributed around the country. On a typical east coast tour 100-150 grams could easily be sold. Thats a million to a million and a half doses. This flooded these citys and the LSD trickled down to every nook and cranny of America. By the time it was dry again another tour would roll through the region and resupply it. Plus we would meet people on tour from certain areas of the country and keep them supplied with the help of the good ole USPS.
Sadly when the dead stopped touring this network went into shambles. People fell out of touch and with no shows, there wasn`t the marketplace for distibution. In turn parts of the country aren`t getting saturated anymore.

LSD isn`t moved and sold like the cartel`s move coke and such. It`s handled by a brotherhood of people who truely believe there doing the work of God (or whatever name you call creation). We believe that LSD crystal has to be handled by the right people who are totally commited to the movement.
When we moved crystal there was always the feeling that we were protected by a higher power. I can`t tell you how many times I have had crystal or acid on me or my brothers and have been in situations where we should have gotten busted and something always protected us. So many times that coincidence is not an option. Why do I think we were protected. Because the family does it for mankind not money. We viewed LSD as the only hope for the radical change in consciousness that would save us. So in effect we viewed our work as the work of God. You know why they never busted a family lab? Because we would never betray LSD. Just as Jesus was nailed to the cross we were willing to spend the rest of our lives in jail or die to protect what we viewed as the salvation of are species. Sounds a little dramatic doesn`t it, but I`m trying to give you an understanding of the faith in LSD that the family has.
By the way the Kansas bust was not a family lab incase anybody is wondering.
The point I`m trying to make is the family believes LSD has to move through the right hands. This is why you can`t go down to the corner and get a gram of crystal.
Sorry to ramble. As far as your original question. LSD will always be around.
As some of the cooks retire I assure you that they pass there recipes and secrets down to those chosen to continue to fight the good fight.
I don`t think it will ever be as readily available all over the country as it once was due to the break up of the disribution cycle of tour. I could be wrong and hope I am.
A lot of old family have moved on and including myself retired, feeling we served our time.
The family does hear your cries for more acid and they don`t plan on giving up on mankind. Now's a good time for labs to be inactive. The current goverment administration is viewed as a bad storm that needs to pass.
As jerry sang "all good things in all good time"
Keep the faith


The Thumbprint.

It is hard to describe a thumbprint. Human language cannot describe an experience that encompasses all of life. Every cell of every creature or living thing that ever lived or will live is connected by the energy or light. When we die our body and our ego is gone. We become one with eternity or the light or God or whatever name you wish to call it. A thumbprint allows this to happen and rerturn to our physical body. My first print I layed down and quickly realized that this was my actual death. You watch the whole process unfold with complete awareness.
I didn't cling to my body I just realized my life had passed. As I was spiraling up or out I saw my life evolve through the years I lived. The happiness, the sadness, the people I loved, and the people I didn't. The joy that I gave and the pain that I caused. I saw the true nature of reality and why things were the way they were. As I got higher I saw the nature of reality on the cosmic scale and saw that the reason for our evolution was to experience love. To love is to have experienced the finest of life. Then came the moment were it was time to let go. As I did it came for me and I sobbed uncontrollably for I realized that the light or energy we call god or creation was perfect. It was pure unconditional love.
What else could God have been I realized. That glint of innocent perfection in a baby's eye. The light was pure as the heart of Jesus Christ. I dissolved into it and died. Since there was no me - only the all, I cannot remember the rest because there was no me to remember. After forever I slowly decended into my body.
I spent days awake afterwards talking to myself. I vowed to God to spread LSD so others could see the light. I vowed to look at every person as the Lord and treat them as such.
I was reborn and continue to live by the values I learned. I became as active as I could spreading LSD. Year after year in hotel rooms with a pyrex pan and watercolor paper. Hoping excitedly that some of these hits will help guide my brothers and sisters back towards the light. LSD is a direct message from God. Period. I don't think we get another chance. We can love each other or we can kill each other, but it is up to us. As I always say in my threads as a reminder, my work with LSD ended years ago.

As for your question about eating and going to the bathroom. I don't think I ate for a week afterwards. As for going to the bathroom I hadn't eaten before hand at my guides advice so it wasn't a problem. I remember letting go as it got dark and coming back a lttle before sunrise. I was high for along time afterwards and as I said earlier you never fully return. I feel high all the time still and its been years.
Also I did many, many, prints after that. I have eaten a lot of crystal but it was never like that first time.
I must stress that I was in the company of very evolved and older people that made sure my experiences were optimal. These were kind old spirits that had been were I was going many years before and many times. They held me as a baby every inch of the way.

You have heard of near death experiances right. A thumbprint is a beyond death experiance.
I have a rich life now that's full of good fortune. A wonderful wife and 3 children who are completely wonderful. Every day is complete joy. I couldn't ask for more, but I know it will end one day for good. I await this day with no fear, but the knowlege that most rewarding and enlightening experiance of life -is death.

Ok, i'll tell you about the one that went bad.

This finds me in Oakland in the early 90's. Between tours I would sit out in San Francisco and keep things flowing. Friends from the east coast would need shit so I would lay it and mail it or others would come out to get a lower price and I would lay it and send them on their way. Well a real good friend came out to get 4 or 5 grams. With him he had a few people. I told him he could help me lay it and to have his friends hang out in the city till were done. He says this friend of his is ready to come with us. Now I had talked to the guy before and knew he was connected to the rainbow family, but his energy seemed weird. Trusting my friends judgement I said alright.

So we decide to drive over to oakland to lay it in a hotel. We get to some sleazy hotel out by the freeway and get ready. Now I'm a little edgy about this newbie watching, but as long as he stays out of the way it's fine. So we get to work and it takes quite awhile to lay 5 grams of acid. Thats 50 tenpack or 50,000 doses. Were done and cleaning up and he says my friend is ready for a print. I'm like are you sure and he says I think so. I look at his friend and he's like just give it to me I can handle it. So I get out my jar of silver crystal and knock some out on the nightstand because my friend wants to take some with him to do in the mountains.

Well this fuckin dude sticks his finger right in my pile of crystal and then licks it. I'm like thats a pretty hefty dose there soldier. He's like ya whatever -now what do we do. Then I started to realize it was going to get weird. Within 2 minutes he's saying man my fuckin stomach hurt's - that was poison. I'm like go in the bathroom your going to puke. He goes in there and and we hear him cussin and puking. Meanwhile I'm askin my friend what the hell he's got us into. Then the bathroom door opens and he comes out butt naked saying I'm gettin the fuck out of here!

Were like no man just chill -your not going to be able to get far. We put him in the back bedroom and turn the lights out and figure that's best for him. I close the door and tell him if he needs me were there. I figure he's got some things to sort out with God. Now this hotel is right on the freeway. In fact you can jump out the window onto it. Were also on the second floor. Well were sitting there and I'm making some phone calls telling people I'm going to be hung up for awhile and I hear cars on the freeway honking. We go back into the bedroom and he's halfway out the window, getting ready to jump onto the Oakland freeway naked as the day he was born.

We pull him back into the room and he's starting to realize he's dying. He thinks I'm causing him to die and I'm the devil. Now shit gets ugly. He's screaming at us that he's dying and trying to get out of the hotel. Since I just layed 5 grams I'm high also as is my friend. We call some other friends to come over. Were holding him down on the bed trying to cover his mouth. We have 50,000 doses of freshly layed LSD in the room and I don't need the cops coming. I take the pan and all the supplies I used to lay with and throw them out the window onto the freeway.

My other friends get there and we tell the girls to take the acid and get out of here quick. This guy's screaming at the top of his lungs that he's dying and I know the other hotel guests can hear him. It's got to be any minute that the Oakland police show up. I'm telling him to let go, don't fight it. He thinks I'm Satan so he's not listening to anything I say. Also as we have been wrestling him he has lost control of his bodily fluids. There's puke, shit, and piss all over. I can't imagine what the cops are going to think when they come in and see a couple hippies on some guy covered in puke and shit screaming I'm dying - as we tell him it's ok, and he'll like it.

After a while he stops moving. He was sucked into eternity. He was gone. As he laid there motionless we cleaned him up. And my friend sang amazing grace over and over to him. After an hour passed I realized the cops hadn't came. I contribute this to 2 things. The protection of God, and the fact we were in a nasty part of Oakland and people here mind their own business.

My girl comes by and brings us clean shirts and pants. I take a shower and clean up as they watch him and then we take turns. My nerves are frazzled. I'm high and this guys bad trip has really wigged me out. Me and my girl decide to go for a walk since my friends with him and he's not moving. We get out side and realize that going for a walk at 3 am in Oakland isn't going to be good. She senses my tension and we go to the side of the hotel in some bushes were she layes me down and sets my mind at ease with that magic only a woman can perform.

As dawn breaks he's coming around. Talking incoherantly, but I can see a sparkle in his eye. We all part ways and me and my girl head back to SF to get some sleep.
A day or two later my friend calls and says they're heading home and to come say goodbye. I get there and this guy comes up to me and gives me a big hug and says he's sorry. I tell him don't worry about it. He then tells me that he met God and was a different person now. This makes me happy.

This man hasn't taken LSD since and lives in Oregon and owns a organic farm.
He's happy with a family and at peace.
He says that night was the most important and best thing that ever happened to him. I see him at the Oregon county fair every year and we always have a big hug.
he's turned into somebody I really admire and love.

After this incident I became very carefull of who I printed.

I would like to thank Chinacat72 for sharing his knowlege of the important work that, through others, continues to this day!
-ergonaut 2009