Augustus Owsley Stanley, underground acid pioneer, is dead due to a car crash.

Thanks for being a legend in your own time and for indirectly helping me to grasp the true meaning of my signature below. RIP.

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Owe him a few thank you's as well.

The Dead's Phil Lesh had this to say about Owsley:

A Beautiful Mind

I received a text in the middle of last night that Bear Stanley has died in a car accident in Australia. Bear, for me, was a true kindred spirit; when we first met, it was as if I had met a long-lost brother from another lifetime. I am heartbroken and devastated at his passing.

He was a friend, a brother, an inspiration, and our patron at the very beginning of our creative lives. We owe him more than what can be counted or added up- his was a mind that refused to accept limits, and he reinforced in us that striving for the infinite, the refusal to accept the status quo, that has informed so much of our work.

He never gave up his quest for pushing the limits of whatever he was working on. We had just been discussing his concept of point-source sound reinforcement in relation to a new project of mine, and his vision incorporated the latest developments in technology and perceptual research.

My heart goes out to his family, for whom he had such love and pride- his wife Sheilah, his children, grand-children, and great-grandchildren- who have lost their patriarch.

A mind like Bear’s appears very rarely, and it’s been my privilege and honor to have known and loved two such minds- Jerry and Bear. I always laugh when I think about what Jerry once said about Bear: There’s nothing wrong with Bear that several billion fewer brain cells wouldn't fix.

I am eternally grateful for all of the gifts that Bear brought to the scene and to the music.
Fare you well; I love you more than words can tell.

- Phil

I'll definitely be having a ceremony with some friends this weekend... sad day today

Happy trails Bear.

One of my Bufo's we call Godzilla, but we decided to give him the proper name of Owsley and let his nick name be Godzilla.

Interview about drugs, nutrition, global warming,...

Some stuff he wrote

Some "quotes"

“I wound up doing time for something I should have been rewarded for. What I did was a community service, the way I look at it"

"Listen man, I'm not cooking meth or selling whores, I need this for my LSD lab"

"Any time the music on the radio starts to sound like rubbish, it's time to take some LSD"

Fuck.

Peace.

Thanks.

Owen "Bear" Stanley is a well known hero in the psychedelic community, his knowledge, insight, kindness and personality was thoroughly appreciated by most he met.
Without Augustus Owsley Stanley III, the Grateful Dead might not have had their famous Bear logo, nor many of their counterculture drugs. Stanley was killed on Sunday-week in a car accident.

His car swerved off the highway and hit a number of trees in the northern Queensland town of Mareeba, Australia, killing him and injuring his wife Sheilah.
Stanley, had worked with a number of artists as their personal chemist, occasional sound engineer and in the case of The Dead, their financial backer.

In his honor, here is an audioclip of his last public appearance at the Australian Psychedelic symposium, Entheogensis Australis 2009.
Episode 1 - Bear (Owsley) Stanley ‘Reflections’ - Speaking openly about his life, LSD, DMT and politics

R.I.P Owsley "Bear" Stanley - a humble champion of psychedelics, in his own words "I just had a lot of fun, I dont think ever really did much of anything"

Blessings,
DiMi