Sandal-Strap Chronicles

"Gnomie-visions" Be Here Now sandalstrapchronicles.tumblr.com Chicago images urbs-in-horto.tumblr.com Robot history robopsychology.tumblr.com SSC & the Ankh The ANKH, in the ancient epoch of Egypt, was the symbol for Life - the spiritual and physical power to be in motion. Living was "To Go". The Ankh was drawn as a Sandalstrap. Every step is a new world, for all is in constant change, but we each have our path - so these pictures and posts are from a stream - a string of lives - connected and not, random and not, meaningful and not.

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What's all this then ?

I had Sandalstrap Chronicles up under a couple tumblr url's starting in Feb 2011, and quit in December 2018. The oldest stuff/url is still available, but I deleted it's sequel version of 7 years with over 30k image posts.

Anyway Feb 2023 and I'm back at tumblr again. Already feeling the old glass-bead game vibe.

Here's the original;

My side-blogs

[jamesusilljournal]

Endless, Evan Cohen, 2021

[erin-omalley]

[petersolarz]

Untitled © Peter Solarz

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

CARLO NASON - MAZZEGA - Lotus table lamp of opalescent Murano glass (no. L35), Italy, c. 1969

[rearte2]

by James Turrell

[miamaimania]

“Diamond Fuji” ~ Mount Fuji, Japan by makoto mizuki ◇ Rainbow corona at the exact apex

[capacity]

edit with Johann 

[charnel-grounds]

“Dreadful was the din / Of hissing through the hall, thick-swarming now / With complicated monsters, head and tail.”

Gustave Doré (1832–1883), “Satan in Pandaemonium,” c. 1860s

illustration from Milton’s Paradise lost

engraved by Louis Paul Pierre Dumont

[groovysarity]

[nessa007]

sandra bullock joining instagram and referencing april 25th was not on my 2026 bingo card but i love it!!!!

[dduane]

It seems to arrive sooner every year

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[spensorium]

🚴‍♂️ Bicycle Day: April 19, 1943 — the day Albert Hofmann first intentionally ingested LSD and rode his bicycle through Basel, Switzerland, unknowingly crossing a threshold far beyond ordinary waking consciousness.

I always find it funny that the day before 4/20 - a date now widely associated with marijuana use - is the true celebratory day of tripsters, yet it remains mostly overlooked. I used to joke that Earth Day exists just to remind us what planet we’re on after celebrating these two days 😂

LSD was synthesized from ergot, a parasitic fungus that grows on rye and grains. This blackened mold has haunted human history for centuries. In the Middle Ages, it caused outbreaks of “St. Anthony’s Fire”..a horrific burning sensation, mass hallucinations, and spiritual seizures. Entire villages would convulse in visions, dance wildly, speak in tongues, and sometimes die in agony. To the Church, it was demonic possession. To witches and midwives, it was sacred pharmakon.

Ergot was a witch’s ally.. used in feminine, lunar rites tied to childbirth, divination, and flight. It was one of the alleged ingredients in the infamous “flying ointments”, psychoactive salves for astral travel and communion with spirits. Hidden in rural ritual and folk magic, its entheogenic potential was known long before modern science extracted LSD from its fungal soul.

Fast forward to the 20th century: Hofmann, working at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, “discovers” LSD. While initially explored for therapeutic potential, its real journey led quickly into black ops. The CIA and other intelligence agencies saw LSD not as a medicine—but as a weapon. Under MK-Ultra, LSD was deployed on unwitting subjects, prisoners, soldiers, artists, civilians. These weren’t accidents; they were rituals of psychic destabilization.

What appears in hindsight as a botched mind control experiment that accidentally sparked a cultural revolution may, in truth, have been something far more deliberate.

The 1960s psychedelic explosion wasn't just a spontaneous rebellion.. it was a guided detonation of consensus reality.

Think about it: a compound with roots in European witchcraft is alchemically purified by pharmaceutical labs, weaponized by covert agencies, and then dumped into the cultural bloodstream through carefully chosen vectors: Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, The Grateful Dead, Alan Watts, and others- many of whom had direct or indirect ties to intelligence operations or elite academic institutions.

The Acid Tests, the explosion of psychedelic music, the Hippie Movement, and even the New Age spiritual revival were not merely cultural phenomena.. they were, in all likelihood, components of an occult social engineering project.

The goal? To erode the old world, dissolve traditional religious structures, fragment the ego, and introduce an interface with the Other - the subtle, astral, and sometimes demonic realms.

Yes, many had positive and life-changing metaphysical breakthroughs; real experiences of divinity that shattered the stale orthodoxies of modernity. But simultaneously, spiritual trends were deliberately pushed.. via cults, intelligence agencies, UFO religions, Scientology, and others as a means to open the psyche to more advanced and modern forms of mind control.

Through acid, the veil thinned.

And from the shadows, those who understood the rules of magic - the dark magicians behind the intelligence apparatus.. watched it unfold.

So I often contemplate…

Was the psychedelic revolution not a counter to control, but controlled opposition?

A ritualized mass initiation. A Trojan horse that seduced generations with promises of freedom and expanded consciousness… all while dissolving psychic structures that guard against possession, confusion, and collective vulnerability.

LSD became the sacrament of a new order -not one ruled by priests or kings, but by shadow networks, egregores, and techno-sorcerers.

So today, on Bicycle Day, remember:

LSD was born from fungal witchcraft, perfected by pharmaceutical alchemy, and unleashed through covert psychological operations.

It opened portals.. but not all doors lead to light.

The revolution was real.

But revolutions, when engineered by those in power, are rarely free - they transmute.

And in the midst of the swirling colors and dissolving egos…

the black magicians smiled.

And then this generation.. the acid-blooded inheritors - sought to consume even more. But what came next wasn’t LSD…

It was research chemicals.. the 25-class, NBOMes, DOxs - the TRUEST means of mind-rotting.

But that…

is a discussion for another day.

[victusinveritas]

Good Bicycle Day to all who celebrate.

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