In 1973, at the lowest point in his life, Timothy Leary had a vision. He was in Folsom Prison, facing a 15-year sentence at the age of 53, psychedelics were banned, Nixon was back in power, the Sixties were well and truly over.
Tag: Aldous Huxley
How Henry R. Luce and Clare Boothe Luce helped turn America on to LSD + Some Notes
The Time and Life Acid Trip: How Henry R. Luce and Clare Boothe Luce helped turn America on to LSD. (archived)
I accidentally came across this when I was looking into Henry Luce, some more. It doesn’t mention Luce’s ties to the CIA, i.e. Operation Mockingbird. The notes are from another project that I’ve been slowly working on. That one I won’t be publicizing until I’m finished with it.
Related & Notes:
Stephen Siff: Henry Luce’s Strange Trip: Coverage of LSD in Time and Life, 1954-68
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Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy
Our present economic, social and international arrangements are based, in large measure, upon organized lovelessness….
Aldous Huxley: The organized lovelessness of war
The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley died 57 years ago today.
He had warned 4 years previously that our apparently democratic societies were in fact ruled by a “Power Elite” – “modern technology has led to the concentration of economic and political power”.
How right he was!
Source.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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