ED Noor: In retrospect, LSD did the very opposite from "freeing" the mind. But oh, how they sold that concept! It was everywhere and a major factor in the "God-is-dead" mindset required for the destruction of Christianity in the West.
How was my
generation, a.k.a. the baby boomers, children of the “golden age of America”, so
badly suckered by that Anglo-Zionist cabal of grey-suited men hiding in
the shadows? Our sheer numbers, our idealism, our hope, optimism and ability to
change the future for the betterment of humanity if we could seize the
opportunities offered, was unparalleled in annals history.
We were a threat to
the long term goal known now as the NWO or international communism, and as such
had to be neutralized. There was too much to even begin to discuss here: they
did their work well ~ sabotaged us on every level, how naive we were in retrospect. How naive so many choose to remain. One major component was that of drugs, something most
thought was an organic movement that came about on its own. Not at all. And
consider the names of the men involved and their imprint on today’s Western
world and culture. Leary, Huxley, LaVey, Kerouac, Crowley, Dulles, Hubbard.
Strange note; Leary discusses Zionism to a small degree. That really did catch me off guard.
Strange note; Leary discusses Zionism to a small degree. That really did catch me off guard.
"Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" ~ Leary and Crowley, bosom buddies
This amazing
62-minute video was recorded at a private party in Los Angeles hosted by Oscar
Janiger (cousin of Allen Ginsberg). Attendees included Myron Stolaroff, Sidney
Cohen, Al Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Humphry Osmond, John Lilly, Laura Huxley,
Willis Harmon, Nick Bercel, and others, who were the key conspirators in the
CIA's notorious MK-Ultra LSD "mind-ccontrol" project.
MK-Ultra,
begun in the 1950s, developed from the behavior control research project
coordinated by the Tavistock Institute, with the Scottish Rite Masons, the CIA,
and other British, American, Canadian and United Nations agencies. Formed at
Oxford University, London, in 1920 by the Round Table’s Royal Institute for
International Affairs (RIIA), the Tavistock Clinic, whose members referred to
themselves as an “invisible college,” became the Psychiatric Division of the
British Army during World War II.[1]
A successor
organization, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, was then founded in
1946 under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, when it separated from the
Tavistock Clinic. According to John Coleman, a former British Intelligence
agent, it was
Tavistock-designed methods that got the US into World War II and
which, under the guidance of Dr. Kurt Lewin, established the OSS, the
predecessor of the CIA.
The
Cybernetics Group was unofficially launched in 1942 at a conference in New
York, sponsored by Frank Fremont-Smith, the medical director of the CIA front,
the Josiah Macy Foundation. Fremont-Smith would be the permanent co-director of
the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) with John Rawlings Rees, a doctor
at the psychological warfare unit called the Tavistock Institute.[2]
Through
official military and intelligence conferences over which it presided, and
through various informal and secret operations, the Cybernetics Group and the
Macy Foundation directed the spread of LSD by US agencies during the 1950s.
In
connection with the founding of the (WFMH), headed by John Rawlings Rees, a New
York agent of Montagu Norman named Clarence G. Michalis had been made chairman
of the board of the Macy Foundation. Rees, along with Margaret Mead, Lawrence
K. Frank, Fremont-Smith and Frankfurt School director Max Horkheimer, who were
all in Paris together in the summer of 1948 to launch the WFMH, formed the core
of the Cybernetics Group. Conference attendees also included the Tavistock
Institute’s Kurt Lewin.
MK-Ultra
began in 1952, the year Aldous Huxley returned to the United States accompanied
by Dr. Humphrey Osmond who was brought in by Allen Dulles to play a prominent
role in the project.[3]
In 1952,
Osmond, who originally coined the word “psychedelic,” began working with
psychedelics, particularly mescaline and LSD while looking for a cure for
schizophrenia at Weyburn Mental Hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada. He suggested
that mescaline allowed a sane person to see through the eyes of a schizophrenic
and suggested that it be used to train doctors and nurses to better understand
their patients. His research attracted the attention of Aldous Huxley, who
volunteered to be a subject. In 1953, Osmond gave Huxley a supply of mescaline
for his personal consumption. The next year, in The Doors of Perception, whose title
was drawn from a poem by William Blake, and which reflected the ideas of
Gurdjieff, Huxley claimed that hallucinogenic drugs “expand consciousness.”
The man who
introduced both Osmond and Huxley to LSD was Alfred Hubbard, who had worked for
the OSS during the war as a “Special Investigative Agent.” Hubbard, who is
known as the “Johnny Appleseed of LSD,” became the first person to emphasize
LSD's potential as a visionary or transcendental drug. He became an apostle for
LSD in the early 1950s after supposedly receiving an angelic vision telling him
that something important to the future of mankind would soon be coming. When he
first read about LSD he immediately identified it as part of that vision and he
sought it out and tried it for himself in 1951.
Over the
years, Hubbard also reportedly worked for the Canadian Special Services, the
U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms.
Through his extensive connections, which included the Pope, as he once boasted,
he has been credited with “turning on” as many as 6,000 people to LSD.[4]
Hubbard was
also in contact with LSD evangelist Timothy Leary who began privately
purchasing large quantities of LSD as well.[5]
Between 1954 and 1959, Leary was director of clinical research and psychology
at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland, where he devised a personality
test, “The Leary,” which is used by CIA to test prospective employees. Leary
became associated with CIA contractor Frank Barron who had worked with the
Berkeley Institute for Personality Assessment and Research, which was funded
and staffed by CIA psychologists.
In 1960,
with government funding, Barron founded the Harvard Psychedelic Drug Research
Center. Leary followed Barron to Harvard, becoming a lecturer in psychology.
Barron administered Leary some CIA-supplied psilocybin and LSD, after which
Leary began experimenting regularly with psychedelics and also studied their
effects on others in controlled experiments. Leary's Harvard associates
included Martin Orne, a researcher receiving funds from CIA, and former chief
OSS psychologist Harry Murray who had monitored the early OSS “truth serum”
experiments, and numerous other known CIA contractors. One of Dr. Murray’s many subjects was a Harvard
undergraduate math major Theodore Kaczynski, later known as the infamous
“Unabomber.”[6]
Leary later
admitted to knowing at the time that “some powerful people in Washington have
sponsored all this drug research.”[7]
“It was no
accident,” Leary explained, referring to the spread of LSD. “It was all planned
and scripted by the Central Intelligence, and I'm all in favor of Central
Intelligence.”[8]
Some of the
researchers present at the cybernetics conferences later went on to do
extensive government funded research on the psychological effects of LSD, and
its potential as a tool for interrogation and psychological manipulation in
such projects as the CIA’s MK-Ultra program. The Macy Foundation’s chief LSD
executive, Harold Abramson, was a psychiatric researcher at Columbia University
and at the eugenics center in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. In
1953, the same year that the MK-Ultra was established, Abramson proposed an
$85,000 study to the CIA on the effects of LSD on unwitting hospital patients.
Funding for the project was funneled through the Macy Foundation. It was
Abramson who first “turned on” Frank Fremont-Smith.
It was
Abramson who gave LSD for the first time to Bateson. Bateson then became the
director of a hallucinogenic drug experimental clinic at the Palo Alto Veterans
Administration Hospital.[9]
Bateson was
also associated with John Lilly who also became friends with both Leary and
Ginsberg. When Lilly read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, he had chosen
to give up his study of physics and pursue biology, eventually focusing on
neurophysiology. In 1952, Lilly had studied the effects of sensory deprivation
tanks, and also briefed the intelligence community with his progress. [10]
The 1980 movie Altered States starring William Hurt is partly
based on his life.
ED Noor: Watch the full movie
BRAVE NEW WORLD
In 1963,
Bateson was hired as the associate director of research for Lilly’s
Communication Research Institute, which studied dolphins in the Virgin Islands.[11]
From
experimenting with LSD and ketamine while floating in isolation tanks, Lilly
came to believe that he was in psychic contact with the aliens of what he
called the Earth Coincidence Control Office, who were guiding events in his
life to lead him to work with dolphins, which were psychic conduits between
aliens and humans. The aliens, he believed, were acting for the survival of
organic life forms against artificial intelligences, called solid state
lifeforms.[12]
Lilly
apparently gave dolphins LSD and told a story of one dolphin who seduced a man
into having sex with her in a holding tank.[13]
SEX
WITH DOLPHINS?
While Lilly
implies that he left the National Institute of Health because of unethical
government interference, his Communications Research Institute, founded in 1958
to study dolphins, was partially funded by the Air Force, NASA, NIHM, the
National Science Foundation, and the Navy.[14]
Bateson gave
LSD to his friend, Beat poet Ginsburg at Stanford University in 1959 under
controlled experimental conditions. Ginsberg’s cousin was Macy Conference
attendee Oscar Janiger, a University of California Irvine psychiatrist and
psychotherapist, known for his LSD research, which lasted from 1954 to 1962,
and for having introduced LSD to Cary Grant and Aldous Huxley.
Following
the framework of a typical Grey Walter setup suggested to him by Burroughs,
Ginsburg had himself hooked up to EEG machine connected to a flicker
stroboscope, while listening to recordings of Wagner and Gertrude Stein. Ginsberg had a bad trip
which became the basis of his poem, “Lysergic Acid,” and which he recounted as
follows:
I had the
impression that I was an insignificant speck on a giant spider web, and that
the spider was slowly coming to get me, and that the spider was God or the
Devil ~ I wasn’t sure ~ but I was the victim. I thought I was trapped in a
giant web or network of forces beyond my control that were perhaps
experimenting with me or were perhaps from another planet or were from some
super-government or cosmic military or science-fiction Big Brother.
ED Noor: If it were at all possible, my opinion of notorious
pedophile Ginsberg just tumbled to a new all-time low. Doing LSD then
listening to weighty Wagner AND the grating voice and thoughts of Gertrude Stein is
utterly suicidal and guaranteed to be on a fast train to having a downer!
After
hearing about Leary’s Psilocybin Project at Harvard, Ginsberg asked to join the
experiments. Leary and Ginsberg shared optimism for the benefits of
psychedelics in helping people “turn on,” and Ginsburg convinced Leary of the
idea of recruiting popular artists and intellectuals to take these drugs. Leary
would later come right out and say, “From the time that Ginsberg showed up on
my doorstep, everything changed. After that, the project was different, my life
was different, and I was on a different path.” [15]
As pointed
out by Peter Conners, author of White Hand Society, about the collaboration of Leary and Ginsberg,
Leary began to abandon not only sound scientific methods in his research,
getting him fired from his position at Harvard, but started favoring “hip talk
and poetic language he was getting from Allen,” which blossomed into his
counterculture reputation.[16]
Together
they began a campaign of introducing other intellectuals and artists to
psychedelics.[17]
Ginsberg
joined Leary at an experimental community he created at Millbrook, a retreat in
upstate New York, after leaving Harvard in 1962. At Millbrook, Leary was
working for William Mellon Hitchcock’s CIA front, the International Foundation
for Internal Freedom (IFIF), later renamed the Castilia Foundation.[18]
According to
Jay Stevens, author of Storming Heaven, “Anyone who was hip
in the 1960s came to Millbrook. On any given weekend there were a hundred
people there floating through. Strange New York City types, bohemians, jet
setters, German counts. You name it; you could find it at Millbrook.”[19]
Among the
musicians who visited the estate were Maynard Ferguson, Steve Swallow, Charles
Lloyd and Charles Mingus. Other guests included Alan Watts, psychiatrists Humphrey
Osmond and R.D. Laing, cartoonist Saul Steinberg, and actress Viva Superstar, a
prominent figure in Andy Warhol’s avant-garde art circle in New York City. [20]
The
Tavistock network now extends from the University of Sussex to the US through:
~ The Stanford Research Institute (SRI);~ Esalen Institute;~ MIT;~ Hudson Institute;~ Brookings Institution;~ Aspen Institute;~ Heritage Foundation;~ The Center of Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown;~ US Air Force Intelligence;~ and the RAND Corporation.[21]
Esalen was
established in 1962, in Big Sur, California, with the assistance of Aldous by
Michael Murphy and Richard Price. Price took a room in San Francisco at Alan
Watts’ newly founded American Academy of Asian Studies (the precursor to the
California Institute of Integral Studies). This placed Price at the center of
the emerging North Beach Beat scene, where he became involved with Jack
Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder in particular.[22]
In 1956, in
San Francisco, Price experienced a transformative psychotic break and was
admitted to a mental hospital for a time. In May 1960, Price returned to San
Francisco where he met Michael Murphy, also a graduate of Stanford University.
Price’s interest in the expansion of human potential led him to investigate
many avenues of research, including the exploration of altered states of
consciousness with psychedelic drugs, and participating in experiments at
Gregory Bateson’s Palo Alto Veterans Hospital.[23]
Murphy and
Price’s goal was to assist in the coming transformation by exploring work in
the humanities and sciences, in order to fully realize what Aldous Huxley had
called the “human potentialities.” After they met in 1961, Murphy and Price
began formulating plans for a forum that would be open to ways of thinking
beyond the constraints of mainstream academia, while hoping to avoid the
dogmatism typically associated with cults. They envisioned a laboratory for
experimentation in a wide range of philosophies, religious disciplines and
psychological techniques. They were given networking support by Watts, Huxley
and his wife Laura, as well as by Gerald Heard and Gregory Bateson.
According to former British intelligence officer John Coleman, SRI “can be described as one of the ‘jewels’ in Tavistock’s crown in its rule over the United States.”[24]
Headquartered
in Menlo Park, California, SRI is one of the world’s largest scientific
research organizations, funded directly by US intelligence agencies,
particularly the CIA’s Office of Technical Services and Office Research.
Originally founded as a means of attracting commercial business research at
Stanford University in California, SRI began taking on military and
intelligence contracts, many of them classified.
The director
of Educational Policy Research Center at SRI was Willis Harman, who hired Al
Hubbard as a “special investigative agent.”[25]
Willis
Harman was also vice president of the International Foundation for Advanced
Study (IFAS) in Menlo Park, which was Hubbard’s brainchild. The founder and
president of IFAS was Myron J. Stolaroff. Born in Roswell, New Mexico,
Stolaroff received a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University, and from 1946 to 1960 he worked at Ampex, one of the first of the
high-technology companies to emerge in the valleys south of San Francisco.
Stolaroff was in contact with Gordon Wasson, and was introduced to psychedelics
by Gerald Heard and travelled to Vancouver to partake of Al Hubbard’s LSD
sessions.[26]
Hubbard
became a member of IFAS’s board, along with Humphry Osmond and Abram Hoffer.[27]
While
Stolaroff was president, IFAS conducted clinical studies that attempted to
measure the effects of LSD, mescaline, and other drugs on creativity. The real
purpose of the foundation, explains John Markoff in What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture
Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, (Images) was to make LSD credible to the medical
establishment.
ED
Noor: Links to What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture
Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (TEXT) are extremely poor. The first link leads images from the time,
none captioned, alas. This second link leads to the script, I apologize for the
poor quality but none better could be found.
In May 1974,
Harman led a study at SRI, entitled “Changing Images of Man.” The report was
prepared by a team that included anthropologist Margaret Mead, psychologist B.
F. Skinner, Ervin Laszlo of the United Nations and Sir Geoffrey Vickers of
British intelligence. The stated aim of the study was to change the image of
mankind from that of industrial progress to one of “spiritualism.” The report
stressed the importance of the United States in promoting Masonic ideals,
effectively creating the ideal Masonic state.[28]
As the report stated:
Of special
interest to the Western world is that Freemasonry tradition which played such a
significant role in the birth of the United States of America, attested to by
the symbolism of the Great Seal (on the back of the dollar bill)… Thus this…
has the potentiality of reactivating the American symbols, reinterpreting the work
ethic, supporting the basic concepts of a free-enterprise democratic society,
and providing new meanings for the technological-industrial thrust.
In 1976,
Harman wrote An Incomplete Guide to the Future in which he advocated a society based on the ideals of
Freemasonry. Harman believed that the symbol of the pyramid with the floating
capstone on the Great Seal “indicates that the nation will flourish only as its
leaders are guided by supraconscious intuition,” which he defined as “divine
insight.”[29]
ED Noor: If you have not yet done so, dear reader, might I recommend the excellent series posted elsewhere in this blog. Since the untimely and premature death of Dave McGowan, the full series has disappeared from the internet and I am proud to have posted the entire series here at Snippits and Snappits several years ago. Your adventure begins here:
INSIDE THE LC: THE STRANGE BUT MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF LAUREL CANYON AND THE BIRTH OF THE HIPPIE GENERATION: PARTS 1 ~ 3
[1] H.V. Dicks. Fifty Years of the Tavistock Clinic (Psychology
Revivals) (Routledge, 2005) p. 107; “The Aquarian Conspiracy”. Konstandinos
Kalimtgis David Goldman and Jeffrey Steinberg, Dope Inc.
[2] Glen Yeadon & John Hawkins, Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed
History of America. (Joshua Tree, Calif: Progressive Press, 2008), p. 410;
Chaitkin, “British psychiatry: from eugenics to assassination.”
[3] “The Aquarian Conspiracy”; Konstandinos Kalimtgis David Goldman and
Jeffrey Steinberg, Dope Inc.: Britain's Opium War Against the U.S, (New
York, The New Benjamin Franklin House, 1978), Part IV.
[6] Michael E. Kreca, “How the US Government Created the 'Drug Problem' in
the USA,” LewRockwell.com [http://www.lewrockwell.com/kreca/kreca1.1.1.html];
Mark Riebling, “Tinker, Tailor, Stoner, Spy: Was Timothy Leary a CIA Agent?” MarkRiebling.com
[http://web.archive.org/web/20080420123800/http://www.markriebling.com/le...
[8] Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social
History of LSD: The CIA, The Sixties, and Beyond (Grove Press, 1985), p. 7.
[13] Kripal, Esalen, America and the Religion of No Religion,
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007) p. 178.
[15] Steve Silberman. “The Plot to Turn On the World: The Leary/Ginsberg
Acid Conspiracy.” PLOS (April 21, 2011)
[17] K. Goffman and D. Joy. Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham
to Acid House. (New York: Villard, 2004), p. 250–252.
[22] Barclay James Erickson. “The Only Way Out Is In: The Life Of Richard
Price.” In Jeffrey Kripal and Glenn W. Shuck (editors), On The Edge Of The
Future: Esalen And The Evolution Of American Culture (Indiana University
Press, 2005) p. 139-40.
[23] “The Aquarian Conspiracy”; Konstandinos Kalimtgis David Goldman and
Jeffrey Steinberg, Dope Inc.
