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A brief history of Time/Life and the active sacrament....

Started by laughingwillow, June 22, 2010, 09:15:56 AM

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laughingwillow

Just stumbled across this little ditty concerning the Time-Life magazine and its early fascination with LS-Gee...

http://www.slate.com/id/2257717/

quote from linked article: The Time and Life Acid Trip
How Henry R. Luce and Clare Boothe Luce helped turn America on to LSD.
By Jack Shafer
Posted Monday, June 21, 2010, at 6:52 PM ET

Publisher Henry Luce and Clare Boothe Luce, U.S. ambassador to Italy
Alan Brinkley's comprehensive new biography of Time magazine co-founder Henry R. Luce, The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, has but one flaw. Then again, this "shortcoming" has more to do with my obsessions than it does with any inadequacy on Brinkley's part. My idiosyncratic complaint: Brinkley doesn't spend near enough space on the proselytizing enthusiasm the mogul and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, had for LSD and how that enthusiasm bled into Luce's Time and Life.......
Lost my boots in transit, babe,
smokin\' pile of leather.
Nailed a retread to my feet
and prayed for better weather...

JRL

Thanks for that. I have an endless fascination with anything to do with the early acid days, say pre 1967.
I remember as a kid we had a copy of the Scientific American that had the it's first LSD article. 1954?
a group of us, on peyote, had little to share with a group on marijuana

the marijuana smokers were discussing questions of the utmost profundity and we were sticking our fingers in our navels & giggling
                 Jack Green

Bram_

What about Timothy Leary's experiments with LSD on prisoners in jail?  Wow, amazing...

JLS