Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

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Thanks for the hat tip Simulist.

I say that any chance it presents itself, someday it may even catch on.

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A little more from Rob Brezsny:

Evil Is Boring

excerpted from PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia



When an old tree in the rain forest dies and topples over, it takes a long time to decompose. As it does, it becomes host to new saplings that use the decaying log for nourishment.

Picture yourself sitting in the forest gazing upon this scene. How do you describe it? Would you dwell on the putrefaction of the fallen tree while ignoring the fresh life sprouting out of it? If you did, you'd be imitating the perspective of many modern storytellers, especially the journalists and novelists and filmmakers and producers of TV dramas. They devoutly believe that tales of affliction and mayhem and corruption and tragedy are inherently more interesting than tales of triumph and liberation and pleasure and ingenuity.

Using the juggernaut of the media and entertainment industries, they relentlessly propagate this covert dogma. It's not sufficiently profound or well thought out to be called nihilism. Pop nihilism is a more accurate term. The mass audience is the victim of this inane ugliness, brainwashed by a multibillion-dollar propaganda machine that in comparison makes Himmler's vaunted soul-stealing apparatus look like a child's backyard puppet show. This is the engine of the phenomena I call the global genocide of the imagination.

At the Beauty and Truth Lab, we believe that stories about the rot are not inherently more captivating than stories about the splendor. On the contrary, given how predictable and ubiquitous they are, stories about the rot are actually quite dull. Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing in despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

Most modern storytellers go even further in their devotion to the rot, implying that breakdown is not only more interesting but far more common than breakthrough, that painful twists outnumber vigrous transformations by a wide margin. That's just absurd disinformation. Entropy does not dominate the human experience. Even factoring in the misery in parts of Africa and the Middle East, the Global Bad Nasty Ratio never exceeds 50 percent. And here in the West, where most of you reading this live, the proportion is lower. Besides that, the fact is that a vast majority of the people on this planet love to be alive, and the preponderance of their experience is a YES, not a NO.

Still, we at the Beauty and Truth Lab are willing to let the news media fill up half their pages and airwaves and bandwidths with poker-faced accounts of decline and degeneration, misery and destruction. We can tolerate a reasonable proportion of movies and novels and TV dramas that revel in pathology. But we also demand EQUAL TIME for stories about integrity and joy and beauty and bliss and renewal and harmony and love. That's all we ask: a mere 50 percent.

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John Lennon describes his first acid trip

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Excerpted from Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia by Rob Brezsny:

I had been drawn to and in contact with the other side of the veil long before resorting to psychedelic technology. I regularly remembered and treasured my dreams throughout childhood, and when I was 13 years old I also began to record them. This ongoing immersion in the realm of the dreamtime imbued me early on with the understanding that there were other realities besides the narrow little niche that most everyone habitually inhabited. My psychedelic experiments only confirmed and extended that certainty.

As I gained confidence in the suspicion that my formal education had concealed from me nine-tenths of reality, I tuned in to the paper trail documenting the existence of the missing part. It had been mapped by shamans and alchemists and magicians for millennia: So my readings of Jung and Campbell and Graves and Eliade revealed. Their work in turn magnetized me to the literature of Western occultism, whose rich material was written not by academics but by experimenters who actually traveled to the place in question.

The myriad reports were not in complete agreement, but many of their descriptions overlapped. The consensus was that the other side of the veil is not a single territory, but teems with a variety of realms, some relatively hellish and some heavenly. Its names are many: dreamtime, fourth dimension, underworld, astral plane, collective unconscious, afterdeath state, eternity, bardo, and Hades -- to name a few.

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There was another issue on which all the explorers agreed: Events in those "invisible" realms are the root cause of everything that happens here. Shamans visit the spirit world to cure their sick patients because the origins of illness lie there. For Qabalists, the visible Earth is a tiny outcropping at the end of a long chain of creation that originates at a point that is both inconceivably far away and yet right here right now. Even modern psychotherapists believe in a materialistic version of the ancient idea: that how we behave today is shaped by events that happened in a distant time and place.

As I researched the testimonials about the treasure land, I registered the fact that dreams and drugs were not the only points of entry. Meditation could give access, as could specialized forms of drumming and chanting and singing and dancing. The tantric tradition taught that certain kinds of sexual communion can lead there. As does, of course, physical death.

I wanted to try all those other doors except the last one. Pot, hashish, and LSD were very good to me (never a single bad trip), but their revelations were too hard to hold on to. As I came down from a psychedelic high, I could barely translate the truths about the fourth dimension into a usable form back in normal waking awareness. At least in my work with dreams I had seen a steady growth of both my unconscious mind's ability to generate meaningful stories and my conscious mind's skill at interpreting them. But my progress was sketchy in the work of retrieving booty from the exotic places where drugs took me.

The problem was that unlike the other techniques on the list, psychedelics bypassed my willpower. Their chemical battering ram simply smashed through the doors of perception. No adroitness or craft was involved on my part. One of my meditation teachers referred to drug use, no matter how responsible, as "storming the kingdom of heaven through violence."

Gradually, then, I ended my relationship with the illegal magic. Instead I affirmed my desire to build mastery through hard work. Dream interpretation, meditation, and tantric exploration became the cornerstones of my practice. In time, I learned to slip into the suburbs of the mysterium via song and dance as well.

I must confess, though, that my plans did not immediately bear the fruit I hoped they would. Even my most ecstatic lucid dreams and illuminated meditations did not bring me to dwell on the other side of the veil with the same heart-melting vividness once provided by psychedelics. Even my deepest tantric lovemaking and music-induced trances failed to provide the same boost.

But then into my life came a consolation: the 19th-century artist and visionary William Blake. My encounter with his work alerted me to the fact that there is yet another name for the fourth dimension -- a name that also describes a common, everyday human faculty that most of us take for granted.

Here's the special message Blake seemed to have written just for me in A Vision of the Last Judgment:

This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity; it is the divine bosom into which we shall go after the death of the Vegetated body. This World of Imagination is Infinite and Eternal, whereas the world of Generation, or Vegetation, is Finite and Temporal. There exists in that Eternal World the Permanent Realities of Every Thing which we see reflected in this Vegetable Glass of Nature. All Things are comprehended in their Eternal Forms in the divine body of the Saviour, the True Vine of Eternity, the Human Imagination.

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TRIGGER WARNING

http://www.american-buddha.com/dianalakeakasnake.htm

DIANNE LAKE AKA SNAKE

by charliesfamily.tripod.com




Dianne Elizabeth Lake was born sometime in late 1953. While Diane was still very young, her parents embraced the "hippie" lifestyle and brought their young daughter with them to Wavy Gravy's Hog Farm Commune in southern California. It was while living there that 13-year-old Diane met Charles Manson at a party in Topanga Canyon. Charlie immediately took a liking to the auburn-haired beauty and it was not long before she became a permanent fixture on the black magic bus. After all, she had nothing holding her back; she joined the Family with her parents' permission.

During her days at Spahn Diane earned the nickname "Snake." Author Ed Sanders has said that the moniker comes from the "transverse ophidian wiggles" that she made during sex, although Lake has firmly denied this. Whatever the case may be, it is undoubtedly true that young Diane's early background left her relatively free of sexual hangups; at various times she has been cited as the favorite sexual partner of both Manson himself and his "second-in-command," Paul Watkins.

Snake's life with the Family was not all fun and flowers, though; it has been documented that Manson beat her on a somewhat regular basis. Prosecutor Bugliosi has said that at various times Charlie had punched her in the mouth, broke a chair leg over her head, kicked her across a room, and whipped her with an electrical cord. "Despite such treatment," says Bugliosi, "she stayed, which implied something tragic about the alternatives available to her."

Snake's young age, prolonged drug use, and possible mental illness led to her to be completely delusional by the time she was arrested at the second Barker Ranch raid in October 1969. Snake apparently thought that the murders were wrong, but was unable to do anything because of her fear of Charlie, whom she believed to be in her head at all times. It was only after kindness and coaxing from Inyo County officer Jack Gardiner that Diane came out of her shell and found the courage to speak against the Family.

After a six-month stint in a mental hospital, Gardiner and his wife took in Diane as a foster child. While living there she attended Big Pine High School and did a tremendous job at acclimating herself into "normal" society. She went on to get her associate's degree and worked in a bank for many years. Today she is a born-again Christian and is married with three children. She apparently shows no scars from her Manson days.

by M. Turner, charliemanson.com

LAKE, DIANNE ELIZABETH: (aka Snake, Dianne Bluestein) Born around 1953. Said that her parents became hippies when she was a child. By the age of 13, she was a member of the Hog Farm commune and had tried group sex and LSD. Just before her 14th birthday she joined the Family with her parent's approval. She later told police that Manson had beat her several times. She said about a month before the Tate murders (she thought July) Manson told the Family "I'm going to have to start the revolution." She said many times during June, July and August 1969 that Manson told the Family "We have to be willing to kill pigs in order to help the black man start Helter Skelter." She also said Watson had told her that Manson had ordered the murders and that he had stabbed Tate. She said one morning about a week or two before the August 16 raid, that Van Houten had come to the back house at Spahn with a purse, rope and a bag of coins and hid them. A short time later, a man knocked on the door and Van Houten hid. The man left and Van Houten came out. Van Houten told her that the man had given her a ride from Griffith Park (which was near the LaBianca house) and she didn't want to be seen by him. Lake and Van Houten counted the money (about $8 in change) and it was split up to buy food. She said she believed it was divided between her, Cottage and Good. Good was in jail the morning after the LaBianca murders, though. So, Lake testified that Good "might not have been there." This cast doubt on whether this happened on August 10. She also had told the grand jury that she was in Inyo County on August 8 and 9 rather than at Spahn Ranch. At trial she testified that Manson asked her to lie, though. Said she did because she was afraid for her life. When asked if there were any foreign coins, she said "Canada." In one statement she said the coins were in the purse but testified they were in a plastic bag. Van Houten built a fire and burned the purse, credit cards and rope. Burnt her clothes, too, but Lake didn't notice any blood on them. In late August or early September, Van Houten told her that she had stabbed someone who was already dead (near Griffith Park near Las Feliz). Van Houten said someone had written something in blood on the refrigerator and that she had wiped everything clean of fingerprints, even things they hadn't touched. Said they took a carton of chocolate milk. Described a boat outside. Said she wasn't at Tate murder. Van Houten also told her she had been reluctant to stab but after she'd done it, it became fun. The more she stabbed, the more she enjoyed it. At Willow Springs, Krenwinkel told her she'd dragged Folger from the bedroom into the living room. Krenwinkel also told Lake that Watson had told Leslie to stab Rosemary LaBianca and to wipe fingerprints off everything they had touched but Lake was not allowed to testify to this. Lake suffered emotional problems and had LSD flashbacks. Said she loved Manson but feared him. She was arrested in October 12, 1969 Barker Ranch raid. On November 26, 1969 she was questioned by police but gave no answers. On December 8, 1969 she testified before the grand jury and denied any knowledge of the Tate/LaBianca murders. In late December she did finally talk to police. Manson testified that Lake wanted attention and would cause trouble and accidents to get it. He said she wanted a father to punish her and he obliged to keep her from burning down the ranch. In January 1970, Inyo County court sent her (at age 16) to Patton State Hospital because of her emotional problems. The staff psychiatrist called her schizophrenic but said her problems were emotional instead of mental. Said they were behavioral disorders of adolescence and possibly drug related. In early June, she was still in Patton but making straight A's in school. After her release from Patton, detective Jack Gardiner and his wife were appointed as her foster parents and she lived with them until graduating high school.




DIANNE ELIZABETH LAKE
AKA: Snake, Dianne Bluestein

Dianne Lake was born in the early '50's. Her parents were prominent members of Wavy Gravy's Hog Farm commune. From an early age, Dianne was subject to both group sex and hallucinogenic drugs. In 1967, just before her 14th birthday, Dianne met the family at the "Spiral Staircase" house in Topanga Canyon. With her parent's permission, Lake left to travel with the family. Manson seemed to have it out for Snake (Dianne's alias in the family), often beating her in front of others. When police raided Spahn's Ranch on August 16, 1969, Dianne, along with Tex Watson were hiding out at a ranch in Olancha. It was there that Tex laughed at a newspaper headline about Sharon Tate's murder. "I killed her. Charlie asked me to. It was fun," Watson told Snake. He told her to keep quiet, and she did.

In October of 1969, Dianne was arrested with the family in the second Barker Ranch raid. In December, Lake testified that she knew nothing about the murders. She remained silent even after LAPD interrogated her for hours, threatening her with the gas chamber. She finally broke her silence when she was befriended by Jack Gardiner - an Inyo County officer - and his wife. Afterwhich, she provided the District Attorney with loads of incriminating evidence against the family.

In January of 1970, Dianne was admitted to Patton State Hospital, where she was labeled "schizophrenic" due to an emotional trauma. She spent 6 months there, and even began attending high school. She made good progress, and was eventually declared competent to testify at the murder trials. After being released from Patton State, Dianne was taken in by Jack Gardiner and his wife. Dianne went on to graduate both high school and college. Today she is reportedly happily married with 3 children.

Excerpt from "Helter Skelter -- The True Story of the Manson Murders," by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry




When interrogated in Los Angeles, sixteen-year-old Dianne Lake had been threatened with the gas chamber. And had said nothing. Inyo County Deputy DA Buck Gibbens and investigator Jack Gardiner tried kindness, something Dianne had known little of during her life.

Dianne's parents had "turned hippy" which she was still a child. By age thirteen she was a member of the Hog Farm commune, and had been introduced to group sex and LSD. When she joined Manson, just before her fourteenth birthday, it was with her parents' approval.

Apparently not finding Dianne submissive enough, Manson had, on various occasions: punched her in the mouth; kicked her across a room; hit her over the head with a chair leg; and whipped her with an electrical cord. Despite such treatment, she stayed. Which implies something tragic about the alternatives available to her.

After her return to Independence, Gibbens and Gardiner had a number of lengthy conversations with Dianne. They convinced her that other people did care about her. Gardiner's wife and children visited her regularly. Hesitantly at first, Dianne began telling the officers what she knew. And, contrary to what she had told the grand jury, she knew a great deal. Tex, for example, had admitted to her that he'd stabbed Sharon Tate. He did it, he told her, because Charlie had ordered the killings.

On December 30, Sartuchi and Nielsen interviewed Dianne in Independence. She told them that one morning, maybe a week to two weeks before the August 16 raid, Leslie had come into the back house at Spahn with a purse, a rope, and a bag of coins. She hid them under a blanket. When, a short time later, a man arrived and knocked on the door, Leslie hid herself. She told Dianne the man had given her a ride from Griffith Park and she didn't want him to see her.

The two LaBianca detectives exchanged looks. Griffith Park was not far from Waverly Drive.

After the man left, Leslie came out from under the blanket and Dianne helped her count the money. There was about eight dollars in change, in a plastic sack.

Because of Leno LaBianca's coin collection, the detectives were very interested in that bag of change.

Q. "O.K., you say you helped Leslie count the money or coins. Did you see any coins in there from another country?"

A. "Canada."

Leslie then built a fire and burned the purse (Dianne recalled it as being brown leather), some credit cards (one was an oil company card), and the rope (it was about 4 feet long and 1 to 1-1/2 inches in diameter). Then she took off her own clothing and burned it too. Had Dianne noticed any blood spots on the clothing? No.

Later, in late August or early September, while they were at Willow Springs, about ten miles from barker Ranch, Leslie told Dianne that she had stabbed someone who was already dad. Was it a woman or a man? Leslie hadn't said.

Leslie also told Dianne that the murder had occurred someplace near Griffith Park, near Los Feliz; that someone had written something in blood on the refrigerator door; and that she, Leslie, then wiped everything so there would be no prints, even wiping things they hadn't touched. When they left, they took some food with them. What kind of food? A carton of chocolate milk.

Had Leslie said anything about the Tate murders? Leslie had told her she wasn't in on that.

Sartuchi attempted to get more details. The only other thing Dianne could recall was that there had been a big boat outside the house. But she couldn't remember whether Leslie had told her about the boat or whether she had read it in the paper. She did, however, remember Leslie describing it.

Prior to this, the only evidence we had linking Leslie Van Houten with the LaBianca murders was the testimony of Susan Atkins. Since Susan was an accomplice, this would not stand up in court without independent corroboration.

Dianne Lake supplied it.

There was a question, however, as to whether Dianne would be able to testify at the trial. She was obviously emotionally disturbed. She had occasional LSD flashbacks. She feared Manson, and she loved him. At times she thought he was inside her head. Shortly after the first of the year the Inyo County court arranged for her to be sent to Patton State Hospital, in part for treatment for her emotional problems, in part because the court didn't know what else to do with her.



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The Jimi Hendrix Political Harassment, Kidnap and Murder Experience

From The Covert War Against Rock (Feral House, 2000)

By Alex Constantine




“I don’t believe for one minute that he killed himself. That was out of the question.” — Chas Chandler, Hendrix Producer

“I believe the circumstances surrounding his death are suspicious and I think he was murdered.” — Ed Chalpin, Proprietor of Studio 76

“I feel he was murdered, frankly. Somebody gave him something. Somebody gave him something they shouldn’t have.” — John McLaughlin, Guitarist, Mahavishnu Orchestra


THE MURDER OF JIMI HENDRIX


He didn’t die from a drug overdose. He was not an out-of-control dope fiend. Jimi Hendrix was not a junkie. And anyone who would use his death as a warning to stay away from drugs should warn people against the other things that killed Jimi—the stresses of dealing with the music industry, the craziness of being on the road, and especially, the dangers of involving oneself in a radical, or even unpopular, political movements.

COINTELPRO was out to do more than prevent a Communist menace from overtaking the United States, or keep the Black Power movement from burning down cities. COINTELPRO was out to obliterate its opposition and ruin the reputations of the people involved in the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, and the rock revolution. Whenever Jimi Hendrix’s death is blamed on drugs, it accomplishes the goals of the FBI’s program. It not only slanders Jimi’s personal and professional reputation, but the entire rock revolution in the 60′s. — John Holmstrom. “Who Killed Jimi?”(1)


As the music of youth and resistance fell under the cross-hairs of the CIA’s CHAOS war, it was probable that Jimi Hendrix—the tripping, peacenik “Black Elvis” of the ’60s—should find himself a target.

Agents of the pathologically nationalistic FBI opened a file on Hendrix in 1969 after his appearance at several benefits for “subversive” causes. His most cutting insult to the state was participation in a concert for Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale and the other defendants of the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial.(2)

“Get [the] Black Panthers,” he told a reporter for a teen magazine, “not to kill anybody, but to scare [federal officials]….I know it sounds like war, but that’s what’s gonna have to happen. It has to be a war….You come back to reality and there are some evil folks around and they want you to be passive and weak and peaceful so that they can just overtake you like jelly on bread. … You have to fight fire with fire.”(3)

On tour in Liesburg, Sweden, Hendrix was interviewed by Tommy Rander, a reporter for the Gotesborgs-Tidningen.” In the USA, you have to decide which side you’re on,” Hendrix explained. “You are either a rebel or like Frank Sinatra.”(4)

In 1979, college students at the campus newspaper of Santa Barbara University (USB) filed for release of FBI files on Hendrix. Six heavily inked-out pages were released to the student reporters. (The deletions nixed information “currently and properly classified pursuant to Executive Order 11652, in the interest of national defense of foreign policy.”) On appeal, seven more pages were reluctantly turned over to the UCSB students. The file revealed that Hendrix had been placed on the federal Security Index, a list of “subversives” to be rounded up and placed in detainment camps in the event of a national emergency.

If the intelligence agencies had their reasons to keep tabs on Hendrix, they couldn’t have picked a better man for the job than Hendrix’s manager, Mike Jeffrey. Jeffrey, by his own admission an intelligence agent,(5) was born in South London in 1933, the sole child of postal workers. He completed his education in 1949, took a job as a clerk for Mobil Oil, was drafted to the National Service two years later. Jeffrey’s scores in science took him to the Educational Corps. He signed on as a professional soldier, joined the Intelligence Corps and at this point his career enters an obscure phase.

Hendix biographers Shapiro & Glebeek report that Jeffrey often boasted of …

“undercover work against the Russians, of murder, mayhem and torture in foreign cities. … His father says Mike rarely spoke about what he did—itself perhaps indicative of the sensitive nature of his work—but confirms that much of Mike’s military career was spent in ‘civvies,’ that he was stationed in Egypt and that he could speak Russian.”(6)


There was, however, another, equally intriguing side of Mike Jeffrey: He frequently hinted that he had powerful underworld connections. It was common knowledge that he had had an abiding professional relationship with Steve Weiss, the attorney for both the Hendrix Experience and the Mafia-managed Vanilla Fudge, hailing from the law firm of Seingarten, Wedeen & Weiss. On one occasion, when drummer Mitch Mitchell found himself in a fix with police over a boat he’d rented and wrecked, mobsters from the Fudge management office intervened and pried him loose.(7)

Organized crime has had fingers in the recording industry since the jukebox wars. Mafioso Michael Franzene testified in open court in the late 1980s that “Sonny” Franzene, his stepfather, was a silent investor in Buddah Records. At this industry oddity, the inane, nasal, apolitical ’60s “Bubblegum” song was blown from the goo of adolescent mating fantasies. The most popular of Buddah’s acts were the 1910 Fruitgum Company and Ohio Express. These bands shared a lead singer, Joey Levine. Some cultural contributions from the Buddha label: “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy,” “Simon Says,” and “1-2-3 Red Light.”

In 1971, Buddha Records’ Bobby Bloom was killed in a shooting sometimes described as “accidental,” sometimes “suicide,” at the age of 28. Bloom made a number of solo records, including “Love Don’t Let Me Down,” and “Count On Me.” He formed a partnership with composer Jeff Barry and they wrote songs for the Monkees in their late period. Bloom made the Top 10 with the effervescent “Montego Bay” in 1970. Other Mafia-managed acts of the late 1960s were equally apolitical: Vanilla Fudge (“You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” “Bang, Bang”),(9) Motown’s Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Curtis Mayfield.(10) In the ’60s and beyond, organized crime wrenched unto itself control of industry workers via the Teamsters Union. Trucking was Mob controlled. So were stadium concessions. No rock bands toured unless money exchanged hands to see that a band’s instruments weren’t delivered to the wrong airport.(11)

Intelligence agent or representative of the mob? Whether Jeffrey was either or both—and the evidence is clear that a CIA/Mafia combination has exercised considerable influence in the music industry for decades—at a certain point, Hendrix must have seen something that made him desperately want out of his management contract with Jeffrey.

Monika Dannemann, Hendrix’s fiancé at the time of his death, describes Mike Jeffrey’s control tactics, his attempts to isolate and manipulate Hendrix, with observations of his evolving awareness that Jeffrey was a covert operator bent on dominating his life and mind:


“Jimi felt more and more unsafe in New York, the city where he used to feel so much at home. It had begun to serve as a prison to him, and a place where he had to watch his back all the time.


“In May 1969 Jimi was arrested at Toronto for possession of drugs. He later told me he believed Jeffrey had used a third person to plant the drugs on him—as a warning, to teach him a lesson.

“Jeffrey had realized not only that Jimi was looking for ways of breaking out of their contract, but also that Jimi might have calculated that the Toronto arrest would be an easy way to silence Jimi…. Jeffrey did not like Jimi to have friends who would put ideas in his head and give him strength. He preferred Jimi to be more isolated, or to mix with certain people whom Jeffrey could use to influence and try to manipulate him.

“So in New York, Jimi felt at times that he was under surveillance, and others around him noticed the same. He tried desperately to get out of his management contract, and asked several people for advice on the best way to do it. Jimi started to understand the people around him could not be trusted, as things he had told them in confidence now filtered through to Jeffrey. Obviously some people informed his manager of Jimi’s plans, possibly having been bought or promised advantages by Jeffrey. Jimi had always been a trusting and open person, but now he had reason to become suspicious of people he didn’t know well, becoming quite secretive and keeping very much to himself.”(12)



Five years after the death of the virtuoso, Crawdaddy reported that friends of Hendrix felt “he was very unhappy and confused before his death. Buddy Miles recalled ‘numerous times he complained about his managers.’ His chief roadie, Gerry Stickells, told Welch, “he became frustrated … by a lot of people around him.”(13)

Hendrix was obsessed with the troubles that Jeffrey and company brought to his life and career. The band’s finances were entirely controlled by management and were depleted by a tax haven in the Bahamas founded in 1965 by Michael Jeffrey called Yameta Co., a subsidiary of the Bank of New Providence, with accounts at the Naussau branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Chemical Bank in New York.(14) A substantial share of the band’s earnings had been quietly drained by Yameta. The banks where Jeffrey opened accounts have been officially charged with the laundering of drug proceeds, a universal theme of CIA/Mafia activity. (The Chemical Bank was forced to plead guilty to 445 misdemeanors in 1980 when a federal investigation found that bank officials had failed to report transactions they knew to derive from drug trafficking.(15) The Bank of Nova Scotia was a key investor in the Bank of Commerce and Credit International, BCCI, once described by Time magazine as “the most pervasive money-laundering operation and financial supermarket ever created,” with ties to the upper echelons of several governments, the CIA, the Pentagon and the Vatican.(16) BCCI maintained warm relationships with international terrorists, and investigators turned up accounts for Libya, Syria and the PLO at BCCI’s London branch, recalling Mike Jeffrey’s military intelligence interest in the Middle East. And then there were bank records from Panama City relating to General Noriega. These “disappeared” en route to the District of Columbia under heavy DEA guard. An internal investigation later, DEA officials admitted they were at a loss to explain the theft.


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From the corporate media, but conveys some key moments:

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John Lennon describes his first acid trip

This has finally proven to me that the only interesting acid trip in the world is your own.

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[Elvis]

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There was, however, another, equally intriguing side of Mike Jeffrey: He frequently hinted that he had powerful underworld connections.
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Hendrix must have seen something that made him desperately want out of his management contract with Jeffrey.

To add to & confirm this a bit, an anecdote:

Around 1980 a musician friend who knew and had toured with Hendrix shortly before Jimi's death, told me he firmly believed Hendrix was murdered. He said Hendrix's management was "Mafia" and was ripping him off. According to my friend, they'd been giving Hendrix something like $1000 a week for party money. This kept Hendrix happy, for a while. Then he began to 'wake up' a little and realized he was being taken.

The last time my friend saw Hendrix was shortly before his death, following the last tour. Hendrix was in good spirits and excited about the future, says my friend, and was planning to dump his management, sue the hell out of them, go in some new musical directions and start his own record label.

Very shortly after that, Hendrix was dead.

My friend's own band had been ripped off by their manager, who basically just stole all their money (quite a bit, from records and touring) and was slippery enough to get away with it (or at least the lawyer they hired told them it was useless to go after the guy). I have no reason to doubt any of what my friend told me. All told, it was enough for him to quit the music business. Fucked up all around.

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There was, however, another, equally intriguing side of Mike Jeffrey: He frequently hinted that he had powerful underworld connections.
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Hendrix must have seen something that made him desperately want out of his management contract with Jeffrey.

To add to & confirm this a bit, an anecdote:

Around 1980 a musician friend who knew and had toured with Hendrix shortly before Jimi's death, told me he firmly believed Hendrix was murdered. He said Hendrix's management was "Mafia" and was ripping him off. According to my friend, they'd been giving Hendrix something like $1000 a week for party money. This kept Hendrix happy, for a while. Then he began to 'wake up' a little and realized he was being taken.

The last time my friend saw Hendrix was shortly before his death, following the last tour. Hendrix was in good spirits and excited about the future, says my friend, and was planning to dump his management, sue the hell out of them, go in some new musical directions and start his own record label.

Very shortly after that, Hendrix was dead.

My friend's own band had been ripped off by their manager, who basically just stole all their money (quite a bit, from records and touring) and was slippery enough to get away with it (or at least the lawyer they hired told them it was useless to go after the guy). I have no reason to doubt any of what my friend told me. All told, it was enough for him to quit the music business. Fucked up all around.

Yes- completely believable, and Jimi would have been so well supplied with mind-altering substances from his friends in the (CIA-linked) Brotherhood of Eternal Love that $1000 a week would have kept him fairly well distracted from the parasites embedded in his scene.

Jimi's 1970 film Rainbow Bridge is centered on a visit he made to his Brotherhood friends in Hawaii. The clip of this notoriously stoned-out movie that I will present here follows immediately on occult rituals being performed on the beach (chanting Alice Bailey's Great Invocation, that sort of thing) and features- at 7:11- a rather brazen depiction of the Brotherhood's "smuggling kilos of hash from Afghanistan inside Rainbow Surfboards" trick. They pretty much started the Afghan hash connection to North America:






Here also is an audio recording of "Hey Baby (The land of the new rising sun)", which conveys perhaps a bit of the messianic zeal connected to the Brotherhood's LSD operations and coded references to being associated with another star besides our Sun- which was cultivated by Owsley and other Brotherhood leaders- some of whom definitely cultivated a Manly P. Hall/Alice Bailey type esoteric mystique around their wholesale drug operations:

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Rapture Ready: The Christians United for Israel Tour

Max Blumenthal's latest takes us on a shocking and at times bizarre tour of right-wing Pastor John Hagee's annual Washington-Israel Summit, blowing the cover off the Christian Zionist movement in the process. Starring Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay, Pastor John Hagee, Ambassador Dore Gold and a host of rapture-ready evangelicals praying for Armaggedon.

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I can't say anything good or bad about the researcher here- do know that Wayne State was where a friend had a disturbing acid experience as part of a government-sponsored study- and also know that the controversial/notorious Dr. Kit Green was based there.

http://www.med.wayne.edu/degracialab/me ... ndeff.html


Psychedelic Drugs & Kundalini

Donald J. DeGracia, Ph.D.

Summary of Effects of Awakened Kundalini

Note: Rows marked * correspond to Psychedelic Drug Effects

Physiological
A. Efferent - Somatic Motor
1. Spontaneous performance of asañas (postures) even if the aspirant knows no Hatha yoga. (1,2)
2. Spontaneous twisting and/or revolving of the body and limbs, dance-like gestures. (1)*
3. Spontaneous movement of hands in formal Indian dance patterns. (1)
4. Trembling of the body (1)*
5.Utterances of deformed sounds. (2) Spontaneous chanting, singing or vocal noises. (1)

B. Efferent - Autonomic
1. Constriction of breathing. (1)
2. Automatic breathing of various kinds. Temporary stoppage of breath.(2)
3. Spontaneous laughter, tears of joy. (2) Automatic/involuntary laughing or crying. (1)*
4. Alterations in sexual desire (e.g. see Gopi Krishna's writings)*

C. Afferent (Sensory)
1. Sensory hallucinations: audio, visual, gustatory and olfactory. (2)*
2. Audio hallucinations: humming, rushing water, tinkling, bell sounds, etc. (1)*
3. Closed-eye perceptions: dots, lights, flames, geometrical shapes, pure white light. These may be perceived as visions of saints or deities. (1)*
4. Feelings that the body has become extremely huge or small (1)
5. Creeping sensations in the spine (1)*
6. Tingling sensations through the body. (1) Itching or crawling sensations under the skin. (2)*
7. Sensations of heat or cold. (2) (1)*

Emotional
1. Extreme feelings of ecstasy and divine bliss. (2)*
2. Extreme feelings of fear. (2)*
3. Enhanced sense of empathy (2)*
4. Loss or dissociation of emotions (2)*

Cognitive/Spiritual:
1. Recall past lives. (2)*
2. Enhanced intuition and psychic powers (siddhis). (2)*
3. Feelings of unseen guidance and protection. (2)*
4. Emptying of the mind. (1)*
5. There is an experience of being a witness in the body. (1)*
6. Questions may arise in the mind and be spontaneously answered (revelation or enhanced insight). (1)*
7. The hidden meaning behind the (Indian) scriptures are revealed. (2)*
8. Mystical experience (1),(2)*




References

(1). John White (Ed). (1990) Kundalini Evolution and Enlightenment (revised ed.). Paragon House. New York.

(2). Ajit Mookerjee. (1986) Kundalini The Arousal of the Inner Energy, 3rd ed.. Destiny Books, Rochester Vermont.