by Sweejak » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:13 am
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://tinyurl.com/a6pwp">tinyurl.com/a6pwp</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>Acid Dreams<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.levity.com/aciddreams/">www.levity.com/aciddreams/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>If we stay small and loose we offer an assymetrical challenge that they don’t know how to react against politically or otherwise.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>I couldn't agree more.<br> <br>I'm reading Acid Dreams now but Storming Heaven is superior IMO.<br>A few snips.<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Over at the Dutchess County Prosecutor's office, there was one man in particular who felt Leary had to be stopped. This was an assistant DA. a gun?toting ex?FBI agent named George Gordon Battle Liddy. Leary, sequestered behind the stone portals of the Hitchcock Estate, reminded Liddy of Dr. Frankenstein, and in one of his fantasies he imagined himself leading a mob of enraged citizens up the steps of Alte Haus—an appropriate miss?en?scéne since both Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Leary were convinced they were creating a New Man.<br><br>But when the time came, Liddy had to settle for two dozen sheriff's deputies. On the night of April 16, as Marya Mannes and the other guests chanted in the sacred grove, Liddy and his men were hunkered down in the woods, waiting for everyone to retire. Millbrook's fluctuating population—surveillance indicated an average of thirty to fifty occupants—raised certain legal difficulties. In order to make the charges Stick (drug possession, crossing state lines for immoral purposes, etc.) it was necessary to treat the mansion like a hotel and surprise the guests in their rooms. Liddy intended to perform a classic "no knock" entry, which meant that after the lights went out they would kick in the front door.<br><br>But the lights didn't go out. After the sacred grove, Leary led his charges inside for a preview of his latest multimedia show. Given the mindset of the sheriff's department, the projector's blue flickering light meant only one thing: pornographic movies. And there was considerable competition as to who would sneak forward and reconnoiter.<br><br>The lucky fellow was back in a few minutes, snorting in disgust.<br><br>"It ain't no dirty movie. You'll never guess what them hippies are watching. A waterfall."<br><br>"A what?"<br><br>"A waterfall for crissake! It's just a movie of a goddamn waterfall. It goes on and on and nothing ever happens but the water. I kept watching, you know? I figured there'd be, you know, broads jumping in and out of the water or something."[44]<br><br>When the last of the lights finally went out, Liddy led the troopers up to the door, kicked it open, and went racing up the sweeping staircase. Deputies charge down the halls, to stand guard at every room. Leary appeared in a shirt but no pants. Guests, ignoring the orders to remain inside, tumbled into the halls. Marya Mannes pulled out her notebook and began writing down everything that was happening. Someone else grabbed a guitar and improvised a folksong:<br><br>Oh they 're busting Doctor Leary<br>Cause the evening, it was dreary<br>And the fun had nothing better else to do.<br>We got the sheriffs out the ass<br>Cause they 're looking for our grass.<br>And they hope to find a ton of acid too![45]<br><br>Before he was hauled off in handcuffs, Leary had the following exchange with Liddy.<br><br>"This raid," he said, "is the product of ignorance and fear."<br><br>"This raid," Liddy replied, "is the product of a search warrant issued by the state of New York."<br><br>"The time will come," Leary said, "when there will be a statue of me erected in Millbrook."<br><br>"I'm afraid the closest you'll come is a burning effigy in the village square." Liddy smiled<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>the real message the opponents of the psychedelic movement brought to the Congressional hearings. LSD was eroding the work ethic, it was seducing the young into religious fantasies, it was destroying their values. "We have seen something which in a way is most alarming, more alarming than death in a way," testified Sidney Cohen. "And that is the loss of all cultural values, the loss of feeling of right and wrong, of good and bad. These people lead a valueless life, without motivation, without any ambition … they are deculturated, lost to society, lost to themselves."<br><br>if psychedelics continued to spread, then America ran the risk of becoming a society of spaced?out mystics; a communist society no doubt, since the drugs would have sapped the will to confront Soviet aggression.<br><br>It was an odd debate, with the opponents arguing that LSD had the potential to destroy America, while the proponents claimed the exact opposite. For them, LSD was therapeutic; it corrected the neurotic excesses brought on by a consumer culture; it jarred one free of mental ruts, allowing old problems to be seen from new angles; it accessed higher levels of information, some of which were spiritual in nature. If America was to remain a world power, it could not afford to turn its back on such a useful tool.[13]<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>On April 13, 1953, while Huxley was dashing off that enthusiastic note to Osmond concerning mescaline, the CIA formally approved MK?ULTRA, and diverted $300,000 to fund its initial investigations. Although MK?ULTRA investigated drugs as diverse as nicotine and cocaine, a large part of its interest and excitement centered on LSD. Indeed, the CIA considered LSD to be of such promise that in November 1953 they sent two men with a black bag full of cash to buy up Sandoz's entire supply, which they thought was ten kilos.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Hell, the book is available here online as are others... in the Hallucinogens section.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://sunrisedancer.com/radicalreader/default.asp">sunrisedancer.com/radical...efault.asp</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=sweejak@rigorousintuition>Sweejak</A> at: 8/4/05 11:28 pm<br></i>
