… the campaigners trying to legalise class-A drugs – a network stretching to the top of the US government….Timothy Leary remembers Aldous Huxley saying, “We must spread the word… The obstacle to this evolution, Timothy, is the Bible.”
Many proponents suggest that drugs can help us evolve to a more perfected state – what Stamets called the “next level of the human species”. Highly contingent experiences are presented as “objective” data, and alleged to shape patients’ experiences through suggestion…
Donald Trump’s nominee for his health and human services secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has criticised the “suppression of psychedelics”, and promised to legalise cannabis during his own wildcat presidential campaign. Should his nomination be approved next week (following a rocky confirmation hearing a couple of days ago) a medical psychedelics sympathiser would find themselves at the helm of American healthcare.
Elon Musk, a reported psychedelics user, has also promoted their benefits compared with traditional antidepressants. Musk’s brother even helped organise the installation of a large Holy Grail at Burning Man festival, in testament to a fringe theory that the early Church used psychedelic drugs. By no means confined to one event in London, for years now the psychedelic elite has been on a coordinated campaign to transform humanity’s relationship with drugs…
Psilocybin, along with other psychedelic and related drugs like LSD, DMT, ketamine and MDMA, has received increasingly positive press coverage in the past half-decade. This so-called psychedelic renaissance, pitched as a “paradigm shift in psychiatry”, is led by a network of university research departments, pharmaceutical firms and an array of funders: Silicon Valley captains, eccentric aristocrats, a right-wing dynasty, and the corporatised New Age. They see these drugs not just as recreational, but as an opportunity to revolutionise our medical and everyday lives.
The mycologist Stamets, who is among the movement’s most prominent figureheads, has tallied millions of views from his appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience…
How and Why Psychedelics Created the Silicon Valley Phenomenon
“Legendary computer scientists and developers who built the computer industry were devotees of LSD, including the founders of current-day tech giants Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs. (In a Playboy magazine interview, Gates skirted the question but implied that he tried it: “My errant youth ended a long time ago.”)
But there were others….”
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I used to think The Beatles more or less existed alongside the 1960’s counterculture, more than they ever led it (they didn’t play at Woodstock after all). But the following excerpt from a very early Playboy interview, February 1965, exactly one year after their first world famous Ed Sullivan Show appearances, would suggest otherwise …. Continue
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