http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... trol&hl=en (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2029928926876648290&q=LSD+power+control&hl=en)
KD and I found Aron Ranen's "Power & Control- LSD in the Sixties" documentary online last weekend. It is a 4 part, 40 minute look at the history of LSD in the US, and has excellent interviews with people like Ram Dass. It discusses government-sponsored LSD experiments with monkeys in the 1970s, long after the sacrament was declared illegal, and has interviews with people involved with Tim Leary's "Good Friday Experiment." Really good stuff for learning more of the counterculture's vital history!
[The link above is to part 1, the other 3 parts are at the same site. Google video and Youtube both have this piece]
Thanks for the link Cen, I'll check it out.
A~
Avery--We thought it was a really good film. The film maker traveled far and wide across the US to interview people, and there is some good archival footage too. What's sad is how many people whose memories and experiences need to be documented from the 60s are looking really old and frail. Ram Dass is in a wheelchair. Getting people like him on film talking of what happened then is vital.
Remember when the CIA was doing those Acid dosings, trying to see if it could be used by the military???? Yeah, well here's a bit of trivia I just learned last week..... Ted Kosinsky (aka The Unabomber) is documented as having been part of that experimental group..... Now, it might just be me, but I got to thinking..... One would assume the agency kept pretty close tabs on the peeps it fed the trip to right????? Hmmmm, makes me wonder how 'ole Teddy boy could bop around planting bombs for some 20 odd years and escape detection..... Guess this is another on for the conspiracy buffs to mull over........ sal
Strange, Sal, and disturbing. Here's a little more on it:
Ted K., the CIA & LSD
It turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, was a volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Published July 15, 1999 by counterpunch.com
http://www.counterpunch.org/tedk.html (http://www.counterpunch.org/tedk.html)
Michael Mello, author of the recently published book, "The United States of America vs. Theodore John Kaczynski," notes that at some point in his Harvard years--1958 to 1962--Kaczynski agreed to be the subject of "a psychological experiment." Mello identifies the chief researcher for these only as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, working for the CIA's predecessor organization, the Office of Strategic Services. In fact, the man experimenting on the young Kaczynski was Dr. Henry Murray, who died in 1988.
Murray became preoccupied by psychoanalysis in the 1920s, drawn to it through a fascination with Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," which he gave to Sigmund Freud, who duly made the excited diagnosis that the whale was a father figure. After spending the 1930s developing personality theory, Murray was recruited to the OSS at the start of the war, applying his theories to the selection of agents and also presumably to interrogation.
As chairman of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard, Murray zealously prosecuted the CIA's efforts to carry forward experiments in mind control conducted by Nazi doctors in the concentration camps. The overall program was under the control of the late Sidney Gottlieb, head of the CIA's technical services division. Just as Harvard students were fed doses of LSD, psilocybin and other potions, so too were prisoners and many unwitting guinea pigs.
Sometimes the results were disastrous. A dram of LSD fed by Gottlieb himself to an unwitting U.S. army officer, Frank Olson, plunged Olson into escalating psychotic episodes, which culminated in Olson's fatal descent from an upper window in the Statler-Hilton in New York. Gottlieb was the object of a lawsuit not only by Olson's children but also by the sister of another man, Stanley Milton Glickman, whose life had disintegrated into psychosis after being unwittingly given a dose of LSD by Gottlieb.
What did Murray give Kaczynski? Did the experiment's long-term effects help tilt him into the Unabomber's homicidal rampages? The CIA's mind experiment program was vast. How many other human time bombs were thus primed? How many of them have exploded?
There are other human time bombs, primed in haste, ignorance or indifference to long-term consequences. Amid all the finger-pointing to causes prompting the recent wave of schoolyard killings, not nearly enough clamor has been raised about the fact that many of these teenagers suddenly exploding into mania were on a regimen of antidepressants. Eric Harris, one of the shooters at Columbine, was on Luvox. Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents and two students in Oregon, was on Prozac.
There are a number of other instances. Apropos possible linkage, Dr. Peter Breggin, author of books on Prozac and Ritalin, has said, "I have no doubt that Prozac can contribute to violence and suicide. I've seen many cases. In the recent clinical trial, 6% of the children became psychotic on Prozac. And manic psychosis can lead to violence."
A 15-year-old girl attending a ritzy liberal arts school in the Northeast told us that 80% of the kids in her class were on Prozac, Ritalin or Dexedrine. The pretext used by the school authorities is attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, with a diagnosis made on the basis of questions such as: "Do you find yourself daydreaming or looking out the window?"
Ritalin is being given to about 2 million American schoolchildren. A 1986 article by Richard Scarnati in the International Journal of the Addictions lists more than a hundred adverse reactions to Ritalin, including paranoid delusions, paranoid psychosis, amphetamine-like psychosis and terror.
Meanwhile, uncertainty reigns on the precise nature of the complaint that Ritalin is supposed to be treating. One panel reviewing the proceedings at a conference on ADHD last year even doubted whether the disorder is a "valid" diagnosis of a broad range of children's behavior, and said there was little evidence Ritalin did any good. In 1996, the Drug Enforcement Administration denounced the use of Ritalin and concluded that "the dramatic increase in the use of [Ritalin] in the 1990s should be viewed as a marker or warning to society."
Indeed. Land mines now litter the terrain of our society, waiting to explode.
Considering it further, I have to say that LSD won't make a man jump out of a window, or bomb a building. LSD won't "make" a person do anything, but if there is some real deep fucked up shit in a person's psyche, it will come out, and nobody can say how it will manifest. But I have to point out that suicide and murder are not in any way common results of LSD use.
Trippers tend to want to grok the world more and make friends with trees and listen to cool music :twisted:
Had an occasion when I almost became a 'statistic' once... I was trippin on some mutiple hits of blue microdot.... The noise from the pool players was getting a bit too intense for me, so I stood gazing out a wide and open window..... I glanced down from my 3rd story spot and noticed two guys in an animated conversation....For a micro-second I started to step through the open window :shock: --- Seems I had gotten all wrapped up in viewing these dudes, and thought I was part of their conversational group, and wanted to continue whatever conversation they were having!!!.. Yeah, I caught myself moving; figured I was 3 stories up, decided I was thoroughly ripped on 'el Cid, and better go lay down and put on some headphones, but ahhhh, for that one brief moment, I almost made Art Linkletter proud :P :wink: :wink: ---------sal