#society #radical #change Turn on, tune in, drop out. #LSD #Acid #microdot I can't remember a thing lol.
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/114346159544073139

https://www.europesays.com/uk/21627/ LSD-Inspired Drug Reverses Psychosis Brain Damage Without Hallucinations #BrainResearch #hallucinations #Health #JRT #LSD #MentalHealth #neurobiology #Neuroscience #psychedelics #Psychology #psychopharmacology #psychosis #schizophrenia #UCDavis #UK #UnitedKingdom

Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon

FLOYD+ZAPPA: Interstellar Overdrive !!!

https://soundcloud.com/gdo2/floyd-zappa-interstellar-overdrive

Happy Birthday Vincent Van Gogh; the closest thing you can get to Ergot poisoning without all the leg work.

Have you explored psychedelics as a tool for self-healing or personal growth?

Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead. You can read more about Bateson and Mead’s early experimentation with, and promotion of, psychedelics (and their collaboration with the CIA) in the recent book, “Tripping on Utopia.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson #psycheldelics #books #writer #author #poet @bookstadon

"The Way of the Psychonaut explores the life and work of Stanislav Grof, Czech-born psychiatrist and psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer. Stan’s quest for knowledge and insights into the healing power of non-ordinary states of #consciousness, influenced the discipline of psychology and profoundly changed many individual lives."

"Stan discovered the lasting impact of unconscious memories from the birth process to influence a person’s life."

https://www.thewayofthepsychonaut.com

I’m no expert, and it’s been a few decades since I have ingested #LSD, but I never would have thought that Microdosing would help with #ADHD. Depression maybe, but I am not surprised to hear it wasn’t efficacious.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2831639

#LSD meaning [[Liquid Shape Distortions]]:

https://collidingscopes.github.io/liquid-shape-distortions/

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

errol morris's new "chaos" #documentary certainly wasn't comforting, but i did find it almost relaxingly quaint to spend a few hours concerned with the intersections (& horrors) of charles manson, mkultra, COINTELPRO, #LSD, mind control, & the haight-ashbury. #film

Legalize THC and classic psychedelics already! These substances have potential to help people heal:

- THC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol
- LSD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD
- Psilocybin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin

Why keep these therapeutic tools hidden? Research shows promise for mental health treatment.

Screw the system! Boost if you're ready for change!