‘I had love affair with a pigeon and drilled hole in my own head after LSD trip’

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VICE TV.Opening up about the unusual courtship, she added: “That was the beginning of one of the most meaningful relationships in my life.“He had two main emotions which were passionate love and hateful jealousy.”She also said their cuddles last up to half an hour and that Birdie gave her “little tiny kisses” to her pupils.And Amanda added: “He’d always be swooping off somewhere and he could never make out why I didn’t go with him, a pathetic human cripple who couldn’t fly.”She now has a painting showing Birdie sitting on her window ledge and she proudly displays it in her home in Oxfordshire.At the time of the romance, Amanda was on a psychedelic journey after she started experimenting with LSD in the 1960s.And Amanda’s psychedelic journey even led her to drilling a hole in her own head.The crazy ancient practice is called trepanning and the aim is to expand consciousness and to reduce stress.And Amanda, inspired by her former scientist lover Bart Hughes, drilled a hole into her skull with a dental drill in 1970.The then 27-year-old even made a film about the painful experience called Heartbeat in the Brain.It was screened in New York but footage is now believed to be lost.The experiment, condemned by medical professionals, gave Amanda a notorious reputation.But since then she is better known for her belief in the “transformative and therapeutic power” of LSD and she is now the founder of the Beckley Foundation.LSD - also known as acid - is a hallucinogenic drug that creates illusions known as trips.It was created by chemist Albert Hoffmann in 1938 who later became an ally of Amanda.The CIA bought the world’s supply of LSD before experimenting on government officials, doctors, CIA agents, mentally ill patients, the.