Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

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Postby American Dream » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:43 pm

A bit more information on the "Judo Gang":


INQUIRY INTO KILLINGS DISCLOSES DRUG LINK

SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES MARCH 28, 1978

OAKLAND, Calif., March 27 — Some elements of the murky underworld of the international drug trade have come to light as law enforcement officials have begun unraveling the circumstances surrounding the killings here in January of Francis A. Ragusa; his wife, Jennifer, and his sister, Marianne.

Police Say That One of West Coast Slaying Victims Was in ‘Charge of Operations Throughout World

According to the local police, the 28 year‐old Mr. Ragusa was the mastermind of a worldwide drug operation that al lowed him to build a small financial empire ‘ consisting of Caribbean shrimp boats, an interest in an oil tanker, collections of Oriental rugs and books, real estate holdings and bank accounts held under a variety of names.

Investigators said that they had been told by sources active in the drug trade, some of whom were given immunity from prosecution, that Mr. Ragusa was involved in an international smuggling operation with laboratories in West Germany, Scotland and New York City and routes through the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, the Bahamas, Thailand and other Asian countries. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the Oakland police in the investigation.

“He only dealt with guys who had armies of street dealers working for them,” said Capt. James Stewart, the head of Oakland's criminal investigation unit. He added that Mr. Ragusa had dealt in LSD, cocaine and marijuana but not heroin.

Last week the police arrested Lawrence P. Reilly and held him without bail for the Ragusa killings. Two cars found outside the Oakland Hills residence of the Ragusa family the night of the murder and other “solid evidence” led the police to Mr. Reilly, Captain Stewart said. Mr. Ragusa had been stabbed 29 times, his 24-year-old wife five times and his 21year‐old sister 19 times.

Mr. Reilly, who had been a friend of Mr. Ragusa since they grew up together in New Hyde Park, LI., has denied killing the three. The police said that Mr. Reilly was upset because he said Mr. Ragusa had boasted to him about killing two or three people in Miami. Captain Stewart did not disclose what connection that had with the Ragusa killings.

None of the stabbing victims was tied up, which leads the police to believe that more than one person was involved the killings. Captain Stewart described the killings as a “frenzied attack.”

The police found $15,000 in cash, 192,000 tabs of LSD and 16I/2 pounds of marijuana in the plush rented house where the victims were found.

But the police quote sources as saying that Mr. Ragusa. routinely kept $100,000 to $150,000 in cash on hand and that on the night he was’ killed he had $1 million to $2 million worth of ergotamine tartrate, the chemical base for LSD, at the residence.

“He ‘definitely had East Coast Mafia connections,” Captain Stewart said. “But as far as we can tell, he was not a part of the Mafia organization, but a separate entrepreneur who traded with them.”

Captain Stewart said that a packet found at the residence referred to $11,000 that Mr. Ragusa at one time used to bail out two persons in Port Washington, LI; who had been arrested in a state narcotics drive.


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The article as it originally appeared.



Desert Sun 22 March 1978

Mafia Ties? Suspect Held In Murders, Dope Racket

OAKLAND <AP) - Police have arrested a 29-year-old man for questioning about a triple murder they say could be lied to East Coast Mafia murders and a global drug smuggling racket involving at least eight countries and East Coast Mafia murders. Laurence Patrick Reilly was arrested Monday night and booked for investigation of the Jan 25 murders of Francis Anthony Ragusa and Ragusa’s wife and sister, police said. Captain .lames Stewart, head of Oakland’s criminal investigation division, said Reilly had been a childhood friend of Ragusa’s in New York. The motive for the murders remained unclear. Reilly was arrested at his home in San Rafael, The address, investigators said, was listed on the registration cards of two cars found in the driveway of the Ragusa house the night of the killings. The victims were found dead with numerous stab wounds at their expensive • Piedmont Pines home in Oakland. Near the bodies police found plastic bags with enough LSD for 50,000 doses or "hits.” Officers also found $15,000 in cash and two pounds of ergotamine tartrate worth $1 million on the LSD market. The compound is a chemical base for the mind-affecting drug. The investigation also involved the FBI and drug enforcement agents interested in Ragusa’s connections to a drug smuggling racket involving at least eight countries, Stew art said He called Ragusa “a titan” in the world of LSD who had connections with illegal drug laboratories in Germany and Scotland. Ragusa also had ties to drug smuggling operations in The Netherlands. India, the Bahamas. Thailand, Canada, and South America, and was involved in LSD trade in California, New York and Hawaii. Stewart said. Investigators added that there were also “possible links with Ragusa to Mafia killings on the East Coast and other dope-related murders on the West Coast." Stewart said Reilly grew suspicious of his old friend when Ragusa began talking about murders he had committed in the Miami Beach area, but the officer did not indicate if this was related to the killings. Ragusa was the third male of his line to die a violent death.
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Postby American Dream » Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:06 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-k-c ... 71985.html

The Making of a Teacher
02/13/2012
Craig K. Comstock


Can a lad sometimes regarded as bad by his father, by a Catholic priest, by the Army, and by the Drug Enforcement Administration transform in the middle of life’s path into a Zen roshi and reinvent his tradition in ways that impress the brainy Ken Wilber, Mr. Integral? A Heart Blown Open by Keith Martin-Smith shows how it happened as it follows the life of Denis Kelly from a small Wisconsin city to the Bay Area in its glory years to a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York, with a stop in federal prison.

Why prison? On the West Coast, Kelly was head of a “family” that manufactured “window pane” LSD, an adventure that allowed him to live the high life and to blow minds with well-refined molecules before he learned to help people blow open on the meditation zafu.

The biography reads less like the result of interviewing colleagues and examining documents than like the tales of a natural raconteur, with a good listener shaping a narrative and filling in some details. After a bout with cancer, Kelly is very much alive, founder of a Buddhist order called Hollow Bones. He spent an intense fortnight with the author who then drafted material and reviewed at least some of it with the primary source.

However, the result contains stringent judgments about the hero, many of them from Kelly’s own lips. He apparently has a rep to keep, not only as a “bad boy,” but also as a Buddhist observer of himself and others. A few of the stories seem a bit truncated, but the bio offers more lively material than many books twice as long.

(Disclosure: At the age of 60, on the hunt not for any “ism” but a sort of mind training, I was introduced to Kelly. He invited me to sit with his sangha, a circle of meditators that met almost daily around dawn and that included individual talks with him, in a form known as “dokusan.” While remaining ignorant of the stories in this bio, I realized in the initial interview that Kelly had the air of a rogue, which was paradoxically attractive to me, because I wanted a teacher who exuded not piety but engagement with life.)

Kelly came to regard LSD less as a mountain top, and like some authors in Allan Badiner’s Zigzag Zen, more as a gate. Then he encountered limits in the practice he adopted, noticing that people who had “awakened” were sometimes limited or held back by their emotional bodies. For example, a person’s behavior could be warped by unresolved anger

While mastering the traditional koans (such as the sound of one hand clapping), Kelly integrated yoga into the practice, pioneered what he called “emotional koans,” and championed an ecological vision. For many people, his work followed the “training adventure” conducted by the Mankind Project, which teaches emotional literacy and awareness of personal mission.

Martin-Smith’s nourishing bio lays out food for thought about how experiences one might never chose can, with luck and hard work, lead to valuable psychological or social inventions. For example, what is the relation between dissociation caused by childhood trauma and beneficial witness consciousness? Between the rebel’s view of life and the ability to lead people beyond the ordinary mind? Between seeing that “realized” masters can act badly and developing a broader basis for personal development? And what is the deeper wisdom in Dylan’s seemingly paradoxical line, “to live outside the law you must be honest”?
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Postby American Dream » Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:11 pm

Capitalism: The Religion?

“A corporation doesn’t need to convert anyone to destroy a person’s spirituality, it only needs to hollow out your spirituality and then sell you back the rotten guts.”

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In these periods of market demolition or expansion, the powerless are always the first to suffer. You’ve seen the first blows of this war already delivered. One manifestation of spiritual consumerism is known well enough as “cultural appropriation.” But, being as many radicals are staunch materialists, they take the apparent at face value, and only see this on the spectrum of race relations. And though “cultural appropriation” does have that element to it, it at the same time exists in the context of spiritual consumerism.

Spiritual consumerism is not only a threat to minorities, it endangers everyone. Even if you manage 100% to avoid willfully engaging in cultural appropriation, you may have fallen victim to spiritual consumerism. Cultural appropriation by dint of it being a matter of race is bad enough. But cultural appropriation does not just hurt those whose culture is stolen, shredded, and sold to the spiritually hungry. Those who partake of the spiritual that has been profaned in such a manner also suffer a grievous blow.

Yes, to engage in cultural appropriation, or any other form of spiritual consumerism, is to engage in self-harm! To become poisoned, one need only eat poison! When things of the spirit world: songs, dances, rites, prayers, etc. are turned into consumer goods (or outright stolen by the spiritually hungry), something private, personal and spiritual is turned into something material, mass produced, and very public. Not public in the manner that some personal interaction with a public rite is public, and yet also very personal, but public in the ego feeding Facebook way.

Public in a way that feeds the narcissism and disconnection required to perpetuate the employee/consumer lifestyle, “Oh, look at all the pictures of me at the crystal chakra alignment and sweat lodge spirit animal quest workshop that I went to! It only cost me 999.99 USD, and I got this cool medicine pouch with an AUTHENTIC amethyst! LOOK AT ME AND HOW SPIRITUAL I AM!”…public like that.

The confusion and argument over cultural appropriation, what it exactly is and where one draws the line, is then understandable. It was not being analyzed by those who are conscious of the spiritual, nor was it being examined in this larger context. It was a topic of examination and discussion for intellectuals analyzing and experiencing it third hand. But spiritual consumerism doesn’t stop with cultural appropriation and may even come in forms not readily identifiable in their outward appearance.

The most powerful shamans of Australia’s aboriginal tribes are initiated by the spirits of the dream time themselves. The spirits will put him to sleep, and perform a surgery on him, in which their old organs are removed, and new organs, as well as stones that convey power unto the shaman, are implanted. The shaman is then lead back to his people, and after a few days of light craziness, will begin training with other shamans. The use of objects implanted or worn to convey power of some kind exist the world over, and is a feature of many of mankind’s encounters with the spiritual.



Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to put jade eggs in your pussy. Assuming of course you have one. If you are not fortunate enough to have a pussy, and instead have your gonads on the outside, do not worry! I’m sure there is soon to be a jade cock ring coming your way. Anyway, according to GP’s website GOOP,

“Yoni eggs, once the strictly guarded secret of Chinese concubines and royalty in antiquity, harness the power of energy work, crystal healing, and a Kegel-like physical practice. Jade eggs’ power to cleanse and clear make them ideal for detox, too.”


“This particular jade, nephrite jade, has incredible clearing, cleansing powers,” says Shiva Rose; “It’s a dark, deep green and heavy—it’s a great stone for taking away negativity—and it’s definitely the one to start with.”

ImageNow, I am no one to tell you that you can’t put things in your pussy. You can do what you want. But you don’t have to pay 66.00 USD for the experience (Eris why not 666.00 USD for fucks sake!?). Also there’s a risk of toxic shock and infections, but like I said, you’re an adult, you do what you want. But if you are going to risk infection and death, at least don’t pay some corporate vampire for the privilege.

Kale chips taste like punishment. In fact, there is a lot of food out there nowadays that my wife categorizes as “punishment food.” Eating it tastes like punishment. The eating of food otherwise avoided is nothing new. The Jewish people eat bitter herbs and unleavened bread as a remembrance. Certain Tibetan rituals involve long life pills that, I can tell you, don’t taste great. Some religions have observance through the avoidance of food. The idea of food connecting you to the spiritual, either by ingestion or avoidance, is as old as religion itself.

It is this connection to the idea of food = spirit or food = purity, et cetera that give health (punishment) food and crash diets (punishment fast) their appeal and continued commercial success. One need only examine the terminology used in speaking of diets or health food or “unhealthy” food to see this connection at work. What was once a spiritual ideal, that one ate certain things or avoided eating certain things to embody, is now the ideal of the “perfect body”, as defined by the current consumer fad (but usually always some variation of skinny/muscular).

Of course this is part of the war of conquest of the spiritual being waged. To fear something used the world over, by every culture, to connect us to the spiritual, as a way to alienate us from the spiritual, and our food, and our own bodies, is a fell blow.

I could go on at length in all the ways that the human need to connect with the spiritual is exploited, turned against itself by the faithful of Capitalism. I shouldn’t have to. Now that I’ve told you about it, you’ll start seeing it more and more. Corporations instinctively know that the jig is up if you connect with the spiritual, and have been actively waging a holy war on spirituality, at behest of their god, for as long as corporations have existed.

Even the word, “spirituality,” is now so tainted that it sets eyes rolling when someone uses it as an adjective or description for themselves. A corporation doesn’t need to convert anyone to destroy a person’s spirituality, it only needs to hollow out your spirituality and then sell you back the rotten guts. As radicals, revolutionaries, and as people of the spirit, it is time for us to take back what is rightfully ours.


More at: https://godsandradicals.org/2017/02/09/ ... religion/#
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Postby Karmamatterz » Fri Feb 10, 2017 10:33 am

There is for sure some merit to the overall agenda in the article. I grew weary of the commercialism at yoga studios years ago. Same with Deepak and others. I do find the wisdom of the late Wayne Dyer to be quite beautiful though.

There seems to be quite the controlling tone of this article (no author assigned to it) that they are the arbiters of what's culturally "correct." I don't need them or anybody else telling me that. If I want to purchase a rosary or anything else from some traveling Buddhist monks I will. Not fond of the strong message that says they are all knowing about cultural appropriation. Who do they think they are to tell anybody what crystal, stone, totem etc...is right or wrong. Rubbish, and none of their business.

Are the keepers of Gods & Radicals self-assigned police in this sphere? Are they going to (maybe they already have) start rating yoga studios and instructors based on their political correctness of what appropriate or not to teach or "appropriate" from ancient yogic practices?

I find this thread fascinating at times. It comes off as very preachy and controlling with articles such as these, even if their point about commercialism is correct.
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Postby American Dream » Sat Feb 11, 2017 3:34 pm

Roots of the Judo Gang?


The Brotherhood of Eternal Love

Stewart Tendler and David May


The Badlands — Brotherhood International


CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The calling card was 1 kilo of LSD. He was growing fat and was balding, the wide forehead pushing back thick, dark hair. In his early thirties, Ron Stark seemed quite at home on the Brotherhood ranch in a smelly jellaba—and the Brothers loved him.

He was introduced through an indirect connection with Millbrook and Leary. The first anyone knew of Stark was when a man turned up in New York to see Hitchcock. The messenger had been part of the psychedelic menagerie at Millbrook, and came as emissary of a large French LSD operation. Hitchcock sent him west. Stark, the man's boss, followed soon afterwards.

Stark had a remarkable ability for giving his listeners what they wanted to hear, speaking the language of both the smugglers and the chemists. 'He impressed the heck out of the Brothers,' said one source, 'especially as he came up with all sorts of smuggling scams which they liked.' There was the West African 'scam'. Using connections which included both business and ministerial contacts, Stark proposed that heavy electrical equipment be sent backwards and forwards to the United States packed with drugs instead of the normal mechanisms. There was the Japanese 'scam'. Stark had business contacts there, too. If the Brothers wanted to turn the world on, they should not forget Red China. The Japanese criminal syndicates could be very useful in reaching the Chinese mainland.

The Brothers were afraid police action would cost them the ranch, while Hitchcock was desperate to remove all traces of his connection. Stark had companies and lawyers who could take care of such worries. Sand still needed financial expertise, and Scully wanted to go into a legitimate electronics business. Again, Stark had answers. He sat on so many boards, controlled so many concerns, that a few shell companies or a few thousand dollars were no problem.

As for LSD, Sand was still tableting but had no immediate prospects of a laboratory without raw materials. In return for a feedback of money and materials, Stark could fill the gap. The LSD would be made in Europe, in a laboratory safely out of reach of the American authorities, and dyed orange to continue the flow of Orange Sunshine. To spice the offer, Stark added that he had discovered a new quick process of making LSD and even had the assistance of an English chemist who, he claimed, had done research for a Nobel Prize-winning team.

No one worried that Stark seemed far removed from the traditions of the psychedelic scene. This was some sort of LSD entrepreneur, whatever his clothes and his outrageous ideas. This was a Faustus tempting the Brothers further into the new world of big business drug-making, and no one stopped to wonder where he was coming from. If they tried to find out, they would not get very far.

Ronald Stark was and is an enigma. Many people can describe him and remember conversations or events, yet they cannot say who exactly he really was. With a clutch of different identities, he moved like a chameleon from communes and LSD laboratories to luxury hotels and exclusive gentlemen's clubs. The major LSD producer who became adviser and partner of the pacific Brothers was also adviser and confidant of terrorists, walking with Arab princes and Sicilian Mafiosi. He was the man who made LSD a transatlantic commodity, the catalyst for a British subsidiary which became one of the world's greatest LSD producers.

If Owsley was, according to Leary, God's Secret Agent, for whom did Stark work? There is no one word which accurately describes Stark … and that is the way he wanted it. Stark operated on four continents, in at least a dozen countries. He did so for the most part successfully because in the Americas they knew little about what he did in Europe, just as those in Europe knew very little about what he had done in Africa, and those in Africa knew nothing about his activities in Asia. His textbook for security, exhorting others to follow his example, was, of all things, a science-fiction novel published in the 1960s by Robert A. Heinlein, called The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. It is the story of a lunar colony's attempt to free itself from the control of Earth through a movement based on a system of cells, each kept in ignorance of the others. The success of the revolution is also aided by skilful deployment of disinformation.


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Postby dada » Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:08 pm

Sometimes when reading this thread, I get a kind of big picture deja-vu, like the entire "spirituality and drug trip" has been covered many times over through the millennia. Strange drug kingpins, dealers that you wouldn't suspect were dealers, mysterious chemist/businessmen. This latest crop is romanticized, made into cult 'superstars,' by our global publishing industry and electronic broadcast media. It all seems special and new this time around.

For the last century or two, the 'New Age' has been practically the same as what we're doing now. Nothing much has changed, and everything has already been said before. In some ways it was more interesting a hundred years ago.

And Spirituality has gone hand in hand with commercialism for as long as there's been history. There's always someone to exploit the spiritual. I wonder if they need each other. You see where I'm going with this.

I find Spirituality to be all the same whether it's preachy or not. How it works for me is, there's a wordless living/dead nothing. Below that there's chance, coincidence, and luck. And then there's nine cat goddesses, and me. Below that, the rest is just noise, amusement, and junk food. That's the plane where Spirituality is. To me, to me.

You think the Robots will have religion? When the AI becomes conscious, I mean. "A metal heart girt with a blue serpent is my name, sayeth the singularity," or something.
Both his words and manner of speech seemed at first totally unfamiliar to me, and yet somehow they stirred memories - as an actor might be stirred by the forgotten lines of some role he had played far away and long ago.
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Postby American Dream » Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:51 am

Propaganda techniques remains essentially the same. Building on human vulnerabilities, core needs/desires and prevailing cultural myths, the hierophants know that compelling motivations the come from the deep and uncharted. What is really outside the Spectacle now seems even more uncertain than ever.


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Postby American Dream » Mon Feb 13, 2017 3:47 pm

Inside the bizarre 1960s cult, The Family: LSD, yoga and UFOs

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‘The tentacles of this cult were incredibly wide’: children who were in the cult The Family, at Lake Eildon.

Hamilton-Byrne’s creed was a hodgepodge of world religions and miscellaneous esoterica (including UFOs), but hinged mostly on her personal charisma – her sermons are unintelligible to the uninitiated. She collected 10% of her followers’ incomes and amassed a fortune – including homes in Britain and New York – while encouraging them to engage in frauds, forgeries, spousal swaps and scam adoptions. At her Lake Eildon property, Kai Lama (or “Uptop”), her enforcers, the fearsome “Aunties”, kept her children under a strict and allegedly abusive regimen until 1987, when police raided the home and removed the kids.

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‘There are people out there who probably have a lot to answer for’:
five boys with bleached-blond hair who believed they were
Anne and Bill Hamilton-Byrne’s children
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“I think LSD helped,” says the book’s other author, documentarian Rosie Jones. “That was a really big part of the cult.” One of Hamilton-Byrne’s important early acolytes was psychiatrist Howard Whitaker, a researcher in the use of psychedelics to treat mental illnesses, who helped funnel drugs to the group. (The Family eventually staged a silent takeover of a private hospital in Kew, where Whitaker worked.) Hamilton-Byrne herself supposedly kept a jar full of LSD blotters at her home in the hills, and would personally guide her followers through their “trips”, thereby ensuring their acceptance of her divinity.

Johnston and Jones’s new book, The Family, is a companion to Jones’s feature documentary, which arrives in theatres this month. The pair have delved into the history of the cult, collecting testimonies from former acolytes and associates, as well as the police detectives who laboured for years to defang its operations. Their reporting sheds light on how Hamilton-Byrne managed to collect followers and keep them in thrall, and what has become of her cult today.

Jones hopes the book and film will provoke a new public discussion about the cult – not just recognition (and perhaps compensation) for its victims, but a reckoning on the part of the authorities that let it flourish.

“The really interesting thing about this group is that it wasn’t a bunch of hippies with flowers in their hair: they were middle class; they were highly intelligent; they were successful in their careers,” Jones says. Hamilton-Byrne pulled prominent doctors, psychiatrists and scientists into her orbit. Another early follower was British-born physicist Raynor Johnson, master of Queen’s College at the University of Melbourne. His social circle included founders of the Liberal party and Ansett airline.

That high-society respectability lent an air of intellectual probity to The Family’s formation – and, in some instances, helped suppress public scrutiny. Jones and Johnston report that Sir Reginald Ansett is said to have quashed negative coverage of the group on his TV station ATV-0 (now Channel Ten), and there are intimations of conspiracy (or at least callous inaction) on the part of judges and even a state premier.

“The tentacles of this cult were incredibly wide,” Johnston says. “There were tentacles into pretty much every aspect of Melbourne society through the 70s and 80s, and there are people out there who probably have a lot to answer for.”

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Anne Hamilton Byrne and husband William, left, with friend arrive at County Court, Melbourne, in November 1993

Anne Hamilton-Byrne herself, now in her mid-90s and afflicted with dementia, lingers halfway between life and death, and beyond the grip of the law. But her affect on her followers is ongoing: not only on her former “children” who bear the scars of their traumatic childhood, but on those lonely few who still carry a torch for the Great White Brotherhood.


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Postby American Dream » Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:55 am

I found this article horrifying, especially from page 169 on:

Psychedelic Experiential Pharmacology










American Dream » Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:46 pm wrote:
FATE Magazine wrote: ON NOVEMBER 21, 1974, Dr. Salvador Roquet, his assistants and 25 patients were arrested during a group therapy session by Mexican police, who burst into the Institute brandishing pistols and machine guns The raid was instigated by Guido Belasso, director of-the Mexican Center of Drug Independence, according to the Mexican newsmagazine "Tiempo".

The patients were jailed only briefly but Dr Roquet and his assistant Dr Pierre Favreau were imprisoned for several weeks due to the seriousness of the drug charges Dr Roquet had operated his clinic in complete openness for more than six years and had earned the gratitude of government officials for his help in stemming unrest at the Universidad de Mexico by successfully treating a radical student leader.

An organization of Roquet's former patients, led by influential Mexicans, came to Roquet's defense and a number of distinguished American psychiatrists testified to the validity and effectiveness of his methods. Ultimately Drs Roquet and Favreau were cleared of the charges and allowed to reopen the Instituto.


A Google robot translation of: http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=93521

Dr. Salvador Roquet's ally in these crimes was Miguel Nazar Haro, the infamous DFS/CIA agent:
I was tortured with natural and chemical drugs: Ulloa

Raymundo Sanchez
11.09.2003


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Emery Federico Ulloa had a meeting yesterday with a bitter part of his past. Walking through the narrow corridors of the Palace corridor Lecumberri M recalled that afternoon of October 2, 1968, when he was on the presidium of speakers at the Plaza of Three Cultures in Tlatelolco.

Chronicle talked to spent more than two years of his life behind these walls are now called the National Archives, but during his youth, was "the worst" prison for political dissidents. "They grabbed me at the meeting of October 2, was José Luis Nazar Haro. From there I took the Military Camp No. 1, and then brought me here, Lecumberri and locked me in this bay, was the M" he said as recognized the recesses of this dark room. - What do you remember that time?. -That here were José Revueltas, Ely de Gortari and Heberto Castillo. - What charges against him? -Conspiracy, inciting rebellion, conspiracy, theft and murder. - How to endure the confinement? He wrote at least three hours a day and others were preparing their final exams. The tests applied UNAM in jail. -From a distance, what do you think? It was a hard life but bearable. We were together even though we had different ideological positions, but the closure has taught us much about the respect for plurality. He states that before being transferred to Lecumberri, kept in a safe house, where Nazar Haro himself was questioned for 20 hours.

- What do you ask? - He began the questioning by saying, you're a mouse, I'm a cat, I raised my hand like this (up) and I felt it was a mouse. - Were you tortured? Yes, well I got a lot of drugs, natural and chemical. - Who gave them and for what? The psychiatrist Salvador Roquet. - What effects did they have? 'It was a horrible thing, impressive, psychological torture, where he produced cycles in which altered my behavior, passed from the terror hysteria.

Former political prisoner explained that Nazar Haro and his people wanted to denounce other fellow students who participated in the movement. At 35 years away from the massacre of October 2, the man expected that with the recent decision of the Supreme Court opens the possibility of punishing those responsible for disappearances and torture during the 70s. Affected toured the "famous" creaking M About a hundred former political prisoners of the dirty war gathered yesterday at the place where dissidents were being detained by the Mexican State: The Black Palace of Lecumberri. They met in what is now known as the National Archives to sign the "Declaration of Lecumberri" which requires the executive and judicial punishment for those responsible for the "arbitrary executions" and repression of social activists of years past, as well as the perpetrators of enforced disappearances. Four days after the Supreme Court's Office determined that the crime of unlawful deprivation of liberty prescribed as the body is not located or abducted person, who suffered political persecution during the decades of the 60, 70 and 80, returned to see the faces. Some after a couple of decades. At noon, under a cloudy sky autumn, the former political prisoners entered the room. They walked the corridors and cells that now bear the historical memory of Mexico, but first stack was used for dangerous criminals and people uncomfortable with the government. They recognized the place and rebuilt the past. About the halls, mounted photos of dozens of people who, by their ideology, they were imprisoned. Those affected by the dirty war also came to the famous bay M, which were housed political prisoners and where they were José Revueltas, Heberto Castillo, and other dissidents.
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Postby American Dream » Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:59 am

I didn't know the story at all regarding John Starr Cooke and Tim Leary:


Timothy Leary: A Biography - Page 300
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Postby American Dream » Wed Feb 15, 2017 2:30 pm

This is not what I call a honorable history, even if it was written by one of those responsible:



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Re: Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

Postby American Dream » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:44 am

The Tim Scully Interview: Manufacturing 750,000,000 Doses of LSD to Save the World

In 1977 Tim Scully was imprisoned for the manufacture of LSD, a high-standard variety thereof well known in the 1960s as Orange Sunshine. Following his release in 1980, Scully returned to a life concerned more with electronics than with acid-infused ideology. The story of his acid adventures with Nick Sand have been documented in the new film The Sunshine Makers – philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-H here asks Tim Scully eight questions stemming therefrom.

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‘The Sunshine Makers’ documentary shows that your motive for creating LSD was ideological: to save the world from its destructive tendencies. Yet later it seems you became disillusioned with this popular belief. Were you disillusioned because so much opposition accrued against LSD use, or were you disillusioned because you believed that even without opposition, LSD use would not instill an age of peace and harmony?

In 1965 I believed that if everyone shared the experience of oneness, the world might be saved from nuclear destruction, which otherwise seemed likely. By 1966 or 1967 many of us believed that it might not have been coincidence that Albert Hoffmann discovered the effects of LSD right around the time the atom bomb was first tested. We thought of it as a counterforce to world destruction. We also believed that transcendent LSD experiences would mean an end to hypocrisy and dishonesty; we hoped that it would bring an end to discrimination of various kinds and destruction of the environment. And we believed it was worth any risk to try to save the world.

But by 1970 the scene had grown much darker and it was becoming impossible for me to overlook how badly people were behaving. Many people, who should have known better, were using bad drugs. LSD didn’t end dishonesty and hypocrisy in the scene. It became increasingly clear to me that people could have intense psychedelic experiences of oneness and still act just as badly when they came down.

I still believed (and still believe now) that the LSD experience can be very valuable. But I am no longer convinced it is a panacea.

A couple of years after I dropped out from making LSD I was dodging grand jury subpoenas in Europe as the legal storm clouds were gathering which eventually led to the trial in US versus Sand Scully and Friedman. I ran into some evangelical Christians in Zürich and belatedly realized that they had the same proselytizing zeal and the same gleam in their eyes that my friends and I had.

On reflection I’ve come to realize that the peak experiences brought about by LSD are not so different from the peak experiences that people have known down through the ages from one religion or another or in some cases from one political belief or another. Once I realized that, it was no longer so surprising to me that experienced LSD users remained flawed in the same way as true believers in various religions and political movements have been down through history.

At the point when I decided to stop making LSD in 1970 my decision was based on the fact that the balance between risk and benefit had tilted strongly in the wrong direction. While I still believe that LSD was beneficial I no longer unconditionally believe that it might save the world and instead only believe that it might make the world a slightly better place. At the same time, on the risk side of the equation the risks had escalated tremendously. Thus my decision to stop.


More at: http://highexistence.com/tim-scully-int ... ave-world/


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Re: Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

Postby liminalOyster » Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:58 am

["Costanzo Allione and an Italian film crew completed an hour-long color movie at Jack Kerouac School of Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado 1978 summer, a serious and spontaneously filmed account of conversations and teachings of home scenes of myself, poets Peter Orlovsky, William S Burroughs, Anne Waldman, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Diane di Prima, Timothy Leary, Daniel Ellsberg and Gregory Corso and Lama Chogyam Trungpa - including conversation, singing, nakedness, meditation, student Poets, and readings, & Nuclear Protest arrests at Rocky Flats Plutonium Bomb-trigger Facility nearby. Thanks - Allen Ginsberg]

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Re: Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

Postby American Dream » Sat Mar 04, 2017 11:18 am

Thanks, lO! All the people I would love to hang out with, even if a couple had one foot the MKULTRA world (Leary and Burroughs). Interesting people all, despite the excesses of Chogyam Drunkpa...
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