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Psychedelic Tricksters
Psychedelic Tricksters: Psychedelic Trickster: A True Secret History of LSD | David Black
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Timothy Leary, ‘High Priest’ of LSD, predicted: ‘The next war for control of this planet and beyond, has to do with the control of consciousness’.
From the late-1940s onwards, the US Central Intelligence Agency secretly attempted to use psychedelic drugs for purposes of social control and psychological warfare. But in the 1960s, LSD escaped its captors as a new generation of rebellious youth on both sides of the Atlantic discovered psychedelics as means for expanding consciousness rather than controlling it.
This book examines the role of the key players in this history, such as the underground LSD manufacturers and distributors, Sidney Gottlieb (head of the CIA’s MK-Ultra program) and Tim Leary. Author David Black challenges many of the myths and conspiracy theories surrounding LSD, the CIA and the counterculture, and presents a meticulously-researched new secret history of psychedelia.
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David Black

From the late-1940s the CIA secretly attempted to use psychedelic drugs for social control and psychological warfare. But in the 1960s, LSD escaped its captors as a new generation of rebellious youth on both sides of the Atlantic discovered psychedelics as means for expanding consciousness rather than controlling it. As Timothy Leary predicted: ‘The next war for control of this planet and beyond, has to do with the control of consciousness‘.

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From the late-1940s the CIA secretly attempted to use psychedelic drugs for social control and psychological warfare. But in the 1960s, LSD escaped its captors as a new generation of rebellious youth on both sides of the Atlantic discovered psychedelics as means for expanding consciousness rather than controlling it. As Timothy Leary predicted: ‘The next war for control of this planet and beyond, has to do with the control of consciousness‘.

the barbarism of pure cultrue The preface of this book is available as a taster on the publisher's blog http://thebarbarismofpureculture.co.uk/wp/preface-to-psychedelic-tricksters-a-ne... 4y
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