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THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY: FACT OR FICTION?
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/aquarian.htm#The Aquarian Conspiracy

There is a sizeable portion of the otherwise reading population that refuses
to look at ANYTHING connected to Lyndon Larouche. In its most acute form,
this intellectual close-mindedness centers primarily on his lack of what
some believe is an essential positive regard for the British royalty.
Perhaps the most "outlandish"OR "true-blue" publication has been Chapter VII
of EIR, DOPE, INC. (3rd Ed. 1992). Following the chapter is a fragmentary
chronology of events. True or false. You decide for yourself.


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The Aquarian Conspiracy
In the spring of 1980, a book appeared called The Aquarian Conspiracy that
put itself forward as a manifesto of the counterculture. Defining the
counterculture as the conscious embracing of irrationality -- from rock and
drugs to biofeedback, meditation, "consciousness-raising," yoga, mountain
climbing, group therapy, and psychodrama. The Aquarian Conspiracy declares
that it is now time for the 15 million Americans involved in the
counterculture to join in bringing about a "radical change in the United
States."

Writes author Marilyn Ferguson: "While outlining a not-yet-titled book about
the emerging social alternatives, I thought again about the peculiar form of
this movement; its atypical leadership, the patient intensity of its
adherents, their unlikely successes. It suddenly struck me that in their
sharing of strategies, their linkage, and their recognition of each other by
subtle signals, the participants were not merely cooperating with one
another. They were in collusion. It -- this movement -- is a conspiracy!"1

Ferguson used a half-truth to tell a lie. The counterculture is a
conspiracy -- but not in the half-conscious way Ferguson claim -- as she
well knows. Ferguson wrote her manifesto under the direction of Willis
Harman, social policy director of the Stanford Research Institute, as a
popular version of a May 1974 policy study on how to transform the United
States into Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The counterculture is a
conspiracy at the top, created as a method of social control, used to drain
the United States of its commitment to scientific and technological
progress.

That conspiracy goes back to the 1930s, when the British sent Aldous Huxley
to the United States as the case officer for an operation to prepare the
United States for the mass dissemination of drugs. We will take this
conspiracy apart step-by-step from its small beginnings with Huxley in
California to the victimization of 15 million Americans today. With 'The
Aquarian Conspiracy', the British Opium War against the United States has
come out into the open.

The Model
The British had a precedent for the counterculture they imposed upon the
United States: the pagan cult ceremonies of the decadent Egyptian and Roman
Empires. The following description of cult ceremonies dating back to the
Egyptian Isis priesthood of the third millennium B.C. could just as well be
a journalistic account of a "hippy be-in" circa A.D. 1969: "The acts or
gestures that accompany the incantations constitute the rite [of Isis). In
these dances, the beating of drums and the rhythm of music and repetitive
movements were helped by hallucinatory substances like hashish or mescal;
these were consumed as adjuvants to create the trance and the hallucinations
that were taken to he the visitation of the god. The drugs were sacred, and
their knowledge was limited to the initiated . . . Possibly because they
have the illusion of satisfied desires, and allowed the innermost feelings
to escape, these rites acquired during their execution a frenzied character
that is conspicuous in certain spells: "Retreat! Re is piercing thy head,
slashing thy face, dividing thy head, crushing it in his hands; thy bones
are shattered, thy limbs are cut to pieces!"2

The counterculture that was foisted on the 1960s adolescent youth of America
is not merely analogous to the ancient cult of Isis. It is a literal
resurrection of the cult down to the popularization of the Isis cross (the
"peace symbol") as the counterculture's most frequently used symbol.

The High Priesthood
The high priest for Britain's Opium War was Aldous Huxley, the grandson of
Thomas H. Huxley, a founder of the Rhodes Roundtable group and a lifelong
collaborator of Arnold Toynbee. Toynbee himself sat on the RIIA council for
nearly fifty years, headed the Research Division of British intelligence
throughout World War II, and served as wartime briefing officer of Prime
Minister Winston Churchill. Toynbee's "theory" of history, expounded in his
twenty-volume History of Western civilization, was that its determining
culture has always been the rise and decline of grand imperial dynasties. At
the very point that these dynasties -- the "thousand year Reich" of the
Egyptian pharaohs, the Roman Empire, and the British Empire -- succeed in
imposing their rule over the entire face of the earth, they tend to decline.
Toynbee argued that this decline could be abated if the ruling oligarchy
(like that of the British Roundtable) would devote itself to the recruitment
and training of an ever-expanding priesthood dedicated to the principles of
imperial rule.3

Trained at Toynbee's Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates in the
"Children of the Sun," a Dionysian cult comprised of the children of
Britain's Roundtable elite.4 Among the other initiates were T.S. Eliot, W.H.
Auden, Sir Oswald Mosley, and D.H. Lawrence, Huxley's homosexual lover. It
was Huxley, furthermore, who would launch the legal battle in the 1950s to
have Lawrence's pornographic novel Lady Chatterley's Lover allowed into the
United States on the ground that it was a misunderstood "work of art."5

Aldous Huxley, along with his brother Julian, was tutored at Oxford by H.G.
Wells, the head of British foreign intelligence during World War I and the
spiritual grandfather of the Aquarian Conspiracy. Ferguson accurately sees
the counterculture as the realization of what Wells called The Open
Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution. The "Open Conspiracy," Wells
wrote, "will appear first, I believe, as a conscious organization of
intelligent and quite possibly in some cases, wealthy men, as a movement
having distinct social and political aims, confessedly ignoring most of the
existing apparatus of political control, or using it only as an incidental
implement in the stages, a mere movement of a number of people in a certain
direction who will presently discover with a sort of surprise the common
object toward which they are all moving . . . In all sorts of ways they will
be influencing and controlling the apparatus of the ostensible government."6

What Ferguson left out is that Wells called his conspiracy a "one-world
brain" which would function as "a police of the mind." Such books as the
Open Conspiracy were for the priesthood itself. But Wells's popular writings
(Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and so forth), and those of his
proteges Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (1984 and Animal
Farm), were written as "mass appeal" organizing documents on behalf of
one-world order. Only in the United States are these "science fiction
classics" taught in grade school as attacks against fascism.

Under Wells's tutelage, Huxley was first introduced to Aleister Crowley.
Crowley was a product of the cultist circle that developed in Britain from
the 1860s under the guiding influence of Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- who, it
will be recalled, was the colonial minister under Lord Palmerston during the
Second Opium War. In 1886, Crowley, William Butler Yeats, and several other
Bulwer-Lytton proteges formed the Isis-Urania Temple of Hermetic Students of
the Golden Dawn. This Isis Cult was organized around the 1877 manuscript
Isis Unveiled by Madame Helena Blavatsky, in which the Russian occultist
called for the British aristocracy to organize itself into an Isis
priesthood.7

The subversive Isis Urania Order of the Golden Dawn is today an
international drug ring said to be controlled by the Canadian
multi-millionaire, Maurice Strong, who is also a top operative for British
Intelligence.

In 1937, Huxley was sent to the United States, where he remained throughout
the period of World War II. Through a Los Angeles contact, Jacob Zeitlin,
Huxley and pederast Christopher Isherwood were employed as script writers
for MGM, Warner Brothers, and Walt Disney Studios. Hollywood was already
dominated by organized crime elements bankrolled and controlled through
London. Joseph Kennedy was the frontman for a British consortium that
created RKO studios, and "Bugsy" Siegel, the West Coast boss of the Lansky
syndicate, was heavily involved in Warner Brothers and MGM.

Huxley founded a nest of Isis cults in southern California and in San
Francisco, that consisted exclusively of several hundred deranged worshipers
of Isis and other cult gods. Isherwood, during the California period,
translated and propagated a number of ancient Zen Buddhist documents,
inspiring Zen-mystical cults along the way.8

In effect, Huxley and Isherwood (joined soon afterwards by Thomas Mann and
his daughter Elisabeth Mann Borghese) laid the foundations during the late
1930s and the 1940s for the later LSD culture, by recruiting a core of
"initiates" into the Isis cults that Huxley's mentors, Bulwer-Lytton,
Blavatsky, and Crowley, had constituted while stationed in India.

LSD: 'Visitation from the Gods'
"Ironically," writes Ferguson, "the introduction of major psychedelics like
LSD, in the 1960s, was largely attributable to the Central Intelligence
Agency's investigation into the substances for possible military use.
Experiments on more than eighty college campuses, under various CIA code
names, unintentionally popularized LSD. Thousands of graduate students
served as guinea pigs. Soon they were synthesizing their own 'acid.' "9

The CIA operation was code named MK-Ultra, its result was not unintentional,
and it began in 1952, the year Aldous Huxley returned to the United States.

Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was developed in 1943 by Albert Hoffman,
a chemist at Sandoz A.B. -- a Swiss pharmaceutical house owned by S.G.
Warburg. While precise documentation is unavailable as to the auspices under
which the LSD research was commissioned, it can be safely assumed that
British intelligence and its subsidiary U.S. Office of Strategic Services
were directly involved. Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA when that
agency began MK-Ultra, was the OSS station chief in Berne, Switzerland
throughout the early Sandoz research. One of his OSS assistants was James
Warburg, of the same Warburg family, who was instrumental in the 1963
founding of the Institute for Policy Studies, and worked with both Huxley
and Robert Hutchins."10

Aldous Huxley returned to the United States from Britain, accompanied by Dr.
Humphrey Osmond, the Huxleys' private physician. Osmond had been part of a
discussion group Huxley had organized at the National Hospital, Queens
Square, London. Along with another seminar participant, J.R. Smythies,
Osmond wrote Schizophrenia: A New Approach, in which he asserted that
mescaline -- a derivative of the mescal cactus used in ancient Egyptian and
Indian pagan rites -- produced a psychotic state identical in all clinical
respects to schizophrenia. On this basis, Osmond and Smythies advocated
experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs as a means of developing a "cure"
for mental disorders.

Osmond was brought in by Allen Dulles to play a prominent role in MK-Ultra.
At the same time, Osmond, Huxley, and the University of Chicago's Robert
Hutchins held a series of secret planning sessions in 1952 and 1953 for a
second, private LSD mescaline project under Ford Foundation funding.11
Hutchins, it will be recalled, was the program director of the Ford
Foundation during this period. His LSD proposal incited such rage in Henry
Ford II that Hutchins was fired from the foundation the following year.

It was also in 1953 that Osmund gave Huxley a supply of mescaline for his
personal consumption. The next year, Huxley wrote The Doors of Perception,
the first manifesto of the psychedelic drug cult, which claimed that
hallucinogenic drugs "expand consciousness." Although the Ford Foundation
rejected the Hutchins-Huxley proposal for private foundation sponsorship of
LSD, the proposal was not dropped. Beginning in 1962, the Rand Corporation
of Santa Monica, California began a four-year experiment in LSD, peyote, and
marijuana. The Rand Corporation was established simultaneously with the
reorganization of the Ford Foundation during 1949. Rand was an outgrowth of
the wartime Strategic Bombing Survey, a "cost analysis" study of the
psychological effects of the bombings of German population centers.

According to a 1962 Rand Abstract, W.H. McGlothlin conducted a preparatory
study on "The Long-Lasting Effects of LSD on Certain Attitudes in Normals:
An Experimental Proposal." The following year, McGlothlin conducted a
year-long experiment on thirty human guinea pigs, called "Short-Term Effects
of LSD on Anxiety, Attitudes and Performance." The study concluded that LSD
improved emotional attitudes and resolved anxiety problems.12

Huxley At Work Huxley expanded his own LSD-mescaline project in California
by recruiting several individuals who had been initially drawn into the cult
circles he helped establish during his earlier stay. The two most prominent
individuals were Alan Watts and the late Dr. Gregory Bateson (the former
husband of Dame Margaret Mead). Watts became a self-styled "guru" of a
nationwide Zen Buddhist cult built around his well-publicized books.
Bateson, an anthropologist with the OSS, became the director of a
hallucinogenic drug experimental clinic at the Palo Alto Veterans
Administration Hospital. Under Bateson's auspices, the initiating "cadre" of
the LSD cult -- the hippies -- were programmed.13

Watts at the same time founded the Pacifica Foundation, which sponsored two
radio station WKBW in San Francisco and WBM-FM in New York City. The
Pacifica stations were among the first to push the "Liverpool Sound" -- the
British-imported hard rock twanging of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and
the Animals. They would later pioneer "acid rock" and eventually the
self-avowed psychotic "punk rock."

During the fall of 1960, Huxley was appointed visiting professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Around his stay in that
city, Huxley created a circle at Harvard parallel to his West Coast LSD
team. The Harvard group included Huxley, Osmund, and Watts (brought in from
California), Timothy Leary, and Richard Alpert.

The ostensible topic of the Harvard seminar was "Religion and its
Significance in the Modern Age." The seminar was actually a planning session
for the "acid rock" counterculture. Huxley established contact during this
Harvard period with the president of Sandoz, which at the time was working
on a CIA contract to produce large quantities of LSD and psilocybin (another
synthetic hallucinogenic drug) for MK-Ultra, the CIA's official chemical
warfare experiment. According to recently released CIA documents, Allen
Dulles purchased over 100 million doses of LSD -- almost all of which
flooded the streets of the United States during the late 1960s. During the
same period, Leary began privately purchasing large quantities of LSD from
Sandoz as well.14

>From the discussions of the Harvard seminar, Leary put together the book The
Psychedelic Experience, based on the ancient cultist Tibetan Book of the
Dead. It was this book that popularized Osmund's previously coined term,
"psychedelic mind-expanding."

The Roots of the Flower People
Back in California, Gregory Bateson had maintained the Huxley operation out
of the Palo Alto VA hospital. Through "SD experimentation on patients
already hospitalized for psychological problems, Bateson established a core
of "initiates" into the "psychedelic" Isis Cult.

Foremost among his Palo Alto recruits was Ken Kesey. In 1959, Bateson
administered the first dose of "SD to Kesey. By 1962, Kesey had completed a
novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which popularized the notion that
society is a prison and the only truly "free" people are the insane.15

Kesey subsequently organized a circle of "SD initiates called "The Merry
Pranksters." They toured the country disseminating SD" (often without
forewarning the receiving parties), building up local distribution
connections, and establishing the pretext for a high volume of publicity on
behalf of the still minuscule "counterculture."

By 1967, the Kesey cult had handed out such quantities of "SD that a sizable
drug population had emerged, centered in the Haight-Ashbury district of San
Francisco. Here Huxley collaborator Bateson set up a "free clinic," staffed
by **Dr. David Smith -- later a "medical adviser" for the National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML); **Dr. Ernest Dernberg
an active-duty military officer, probably on assignment through MK-UItra;
**Roger Smith-a street gang organizer trained by Saul Alinsky. During the
Free Clinic period, Roger Smith was the parole officer of the cultist mass
murderer Charles Manson; **Dr. Peter Bourne -- formerly President Carter's
special assistant on drug abuse. Bourne did his psychiatric residency at the
Clinic. He had previously conducted a profiling study of GI heroin addicts
in Vietnam.

The Free Clinic paralleled a project at the Tavistock Institute, the
psychological warfare agency for the British Secret Intelligence Service.
Tavistock, founded as a clinic in London in the 1920s, had become the
Psychiatric Division of the British Army during World War II under its
director, Dr. John Rawlings Rees.16

During the 1960s, the Tavistock Clinic fostered the notion that no criteria
for sanity exist and that psychedelic "mind-expanding" drugs are valuable
tools of psychoanalysis. In 1967, Tavistock sponsored a Conference on the
"Dialectics of Liberation," chaired by Tavistock psychoanalyst Dr. R.D.
Laing, himself a popularized author and advocate of drug use. That
conference drew a number of people who would soon play a prominent role in
fostering terrorism; Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael were two prominent
American delegates.

Thus, by 1963, Huxley had recruited his core of "initiates." All of them --
Leary, Osmund, Watts, Kesey, Alpert -- became the highly publicized
promoters of the early LSD counterculture. By 1967, with the cult of "Flower
People" in Haight-Ashbury and the emergence of the antiwar movement, the
United States was ready for the inundation of LSD, hashish and marijuana
that hit American college campuses in the late 1960s.

'The Beating of Drums . . .'
In 1963, the Beatles arrived in the United States, and with their decisive
airing on the Ed Sullivan Show, the "British sound" took off in the U.S.A.
For their achievement, the four rocksters were awarded the Order of the
British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen. The Beatles and the Animals,
Rolling Stones, and homicidal punk rock maniacs who followed were, of
course, no more a spontaneous outpouring of alienated youth than was the
acid culture they accompanied.

The social theory of rock was elaborated by musicologist Theodor Adorno, who
came to the United States in 1939 to head the Princeton University Radio
Research Project.17 Adorno writes: "In an imaginary but psychologically
emotion-laden domain, the listener who remembers a hit song will turn into
the song's ideal subject, into the person for whom the song ideally speaks.
At the same time, as one of many who identify with that fictitious subject,
that musical I, he will feel his isolation ease as he himself feels
integrated into the community of "fans." In whistling such a song he bows to
a ritual of socialization, although beyond this unarticulated subjective
stirring of the moment his isolation continues unchanged . . . The
comparison with addiction is inescapable. Addicted conduct generally has a
social component: it is one possible reaction to the atomization which, as
sociologists have noticed, parallels the compression of the social network.
Addiction to music on the part of a number of entertainment listeners would
be a similar phenomenon."18

The hit parade is organized precisely on the same principles used by Egypt's
Isis priesthood and for the same purpose: the recruitment of youth to the
dionysiac counterculture.

In a report prepared for the University of Michigan's Institute for Social
Research, Paul Hirsch described the product of Adorno's Radio Research
Project.19 According to Hirsch, the establishment of postwar radio's Hit
Parade "transformed the mass medium into an agency of sub-cultural
programming. Radio networks were converted into round-the-clock recycling
machines that repeated the top forty hits." Hirsch documents how all popular
culture -- movies, music, books, and fashion -- is now run on the same
program of preselection. Today's mass culture operates like the opium trade:
The supply determines the demand.

The Vietnam War and the Anti-Vietnam War Trap
But without the Vietnam War and the "anti-war" movement, the Isis cult would
have been contained to a fringe phenomenon -- no bigger than the beatnik
cult of the 1950s that was an outgrowth of the early Huxley ventures in
California. The Vietnam War created the climate of moral despair that opened
America's youth to drugs.

Under Kennedy, American military involvement in Vietnam -- which had been
vetoed by the Eisenhower administration -- was initiated on a limited scale.
Under Lyndon Johnson, American military presence in Vietnam was massively
escalated, at the same time that U.S. efforts were restricted -- the
framework of "limited war." Playing on the President's profile, the
anglophile Eastern Establishment, typified by top White House national
security aide McGeorge Bundy and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara,
convinced President Johnson that under the nuclear "balance of terror," or
the regime of Mutual and Assured Destruction, the United States could afford
neither a political solution to the conflict, nor the commitment to a
military victory.

The outcome of this debacle was a major strategic withdrawal from Asia by
the United States, spelled out in Henry Kissinger's "Guam Doctrine,"
adoption of the spectacular failure known as the "China Card" strategy for
containing Soviet influence, and demoralization of the American people over
the war to the point that the sense of national pride and confidence in the
future progress of the republic was badly damaged.

Just as Aldous Huxley began the counterculture subversion of the United
States thirty years before its consequences became evident to the public,
Lord Bertrand Russell began laying the foundations for the anti-war movement
of the 1960s before the 1930s expired. Russell's "pacifism" was always
relative -- the means to his most cherished end, one-world government on the
imperial model, that would curb the nation-state and its persistent tendency
toward republicanism and technological progress.

Lord Russell and Aldous Huxley cofounded the Peace Pledge Union in 1937
campaigning for peace with Hitler-just before both went to the United States
for the duration of World War.20 During World War II, Lord Russell opposed
British and American warfare against the Nazis. 1111947, when the United
States was in possession of the atomic bomb and Russia was not, Russell
loudly advocated that the United States order the Soviets to surrender to a
one-world government that would enjoy a restrictive monopoly on nuclear
weapons, under the threat of a preemptive World War III against the Soviet
Union. His 1950s "Ban the Bomb" movement was directed to the same end-it
functioned as an anti-technology movement against the peace-through-economic
development potentials represented by President Eisenhower's "Atoms for
Peace"' initiative.

>From the mid-1950s onward, Russell's principal assignment was to build an
international anti-war and anti-American movement. Coincident with the
escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam under British manipulation,
Russell upgraded the old Peace Pledge Union (which had been used in West
Germany throughout the postwar period to promote an anti-capitalist "New
left" wing of the Social Democratic Party, recruiting several future members
of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang in the process) into the Bertrand
Russell Peace Foundation.

In the United States, the New York banks provided several hundred thousand
dollars to establish the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), effectively the
U.S. branch of the Russell Peace Foundation. Among the founding trustees of
the IPS was James Warburg, directly representing the family's interests.

IPS drew its most active operatives from a variety of British-dominated
institutions. IPS founding director Marcus Raskin was a member of the
Kennedy administration's National Security Council and also a fellow of the
National Training Labs, a U.S. subsidiary of the Tavistock Institute founded
by Dr. Kurt Lewin.

After its creation by the League for Industrial Democracy, Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS), the umbrella of the student anti-war movement, was
in turn financed and run through IPS -- up through and beyond its
splintering into a number of terrorist and Maoist gangs in the late 1960s.21
More broadly, the institutions and outlook of the U.S. anti-war movement
were dominated by the direct political descendants of the British-dominated
"socialist movement" in the U.S.A., fostered by the House of Morgan as far
back as the years before World War!.

This is not to say that the majority of anti-war protesters were paid,
certified British agents. On the contrary, the overwhelming majority of
anti-war protesters went into SDS on the basis of outrage at the
developments in Vietnam. But once caught in the environment defined by
Russell and the Tavistock Institute's psychological warfare experts, and
inundated with the message that hedonistic pleasure-seeking was a legitimate
alternative to "immoral war," their sense of values and their creative
potential went up in a cloud of hashish smoke.

'Changing Images'
Now, fifteen years later, with nearly an entire generation of American youth
submerged in the drugs that flooded the nation's campuses, the Aquarian
Conspiracy's Marilyn Ferguson is able to write: "There are legions of
[Aquarian] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and
hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors'
offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White
House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually
all arenas of policy making in the country."22

Like the British inundation of China with drugs in the nineteenth century,
the British counterculture has succeeded in. subverting the fabric of the
nation, even up to the top-most levels of government.

In 1962, Huxley helped found the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California,
which became a mecca for hundreds of Americans to engage in weekends of
T-Groups and Training Groups modeled on behavior group therapy, for Zen,
Hindu, and Buddhist transcendental meditation, and "out of body" experiences
through simulated and actual hallucinogenic drugs.23

As described in the Esalen Institute Newsletter: "Esalen started in the fall
of 1962 as a forum to bring together a wide variety of approaches to
enhancement of the human potential . . . including experiential sessions
involving encounter groups, sensory awakening, gestalt awareness training,
related disciplines. Our latest step is to fan out into the community at
large, running programs in cooperation with many different institutions,
churches, schools, hospitals, and government."24

Esalen's nominal founders were two transcendental meditation students,
Michael Murphy and Richard Price, both graduates of Stanford University.
Price also participated in the experiments on patients at Bateson's Palo
Alto Veterans Hospital. Today Esalen's catalogue offers: T-Groups;
Psychodrama Marthon; Fight Training for Lovers and Couples; Religious Cults;
LSD Experiences and the Great Religions of the World; Are You Sound, a
weekend workshop with Alan Watts; Creating New Forms of Worship;
Hallucinogenic Psychosis; and Non-Drug Approaches to Psychedelic
Experiences.

Several tens of thousands of Americans have passed through Esalen; millions
have passed through the programs it has sired throughout the country.

The next leap in Britain's Aquarian Conspiracy against the United States was
the May 1974 report that provided the basis for Ferguson's work. The report
is entitled "Changing Images of Man," Contract Number URH (489~215O, Policy
Research Report No. 414.74, prepared by the Stanford Research Institute
Center for the Study of Social Policy, Willis Harman, director. The 319-page
mimeographed report was prepared by a team of fourteen researchers and
supervised by a panel of twenty-three controllers, including anthropologist
Margaret Mead, psychologist B.F. Skinner, Ervin Laszlo of the United
Nations, Sir Geoffrey Vickers of British intelligence.

The aim of the study, the authors state, is to change the image of mankind
from that of industrial progress to one of "spiritualism." The study asserts
that in our present society, the "image of industrial and technological man"
is obsolete and must be "discarded": "Many of our present images appear to
have become dangerously obsolete, however . . . Science, technology, and
economics have made possible really significant strides toward achieving
such basic human goals as physical safety and security, material comfort and
better health. But many of these successes have brought with them problems
of being too successful -- problems that themselves seem insoluble within
the set of societal value-premises that led to their emergence . . . Our
highly developed system of technology leads to higher vulnerability and
breakdowns. Indeed the range and interconnected impact of societal problems
that are now emerging pose a serious threat to our civilization . . . If our
predictions of the future prove correct, we can expect the association
problems of the trend to become more serious, more universal and to occur
more rapidly."

Therefore, SRI concludes, we must change the industrial-technological image
of man fast: "Analysis of the nature of contemporary societal problems leads
to the conclusion that . . . the images of man that dominated the last two
centuries will be inadequate for the post-industrial era."

Since the writing of the Harman report, one President of the United States,
Jimmy Carter, reported sighting UFOs his National Security Adviser Zbigniew
Brzezinski made speeches proclaiming the advent of the New Age, the Joint
Chiefs of Staff every morning read so-called intelligence reports on the
biorhythms and horoscopes of the members of the Soviet Politburo. The House
of Representatives established a new congressional committee, called the
Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, where the likes of Ferguson have
come to lecture up to a hundred congressmen.25

What began as Britain's creation of the counterculture to open the market
for its dope has come a long way.

The LSD Connection
Who provided the drugs that swamped the anti-war movement and the college
campuses of the United States in the late 1960s? The organized crime
infrastructure which had set up the Peking Connection for the opium trade in
1928 -- provided the same services in the 1960s and 1970s it had provided
during Prohibition. This was also the same network Huxley had established
contact with in Hollywood during the 1930s. The LSD connection begins with
one William "Billy" Mellon Hitchcock. Hitchcock was a graduate of the
University of Vienna and a scion of the millionaire Mellon banking family of
Pittsburgh. (Andrew Mellon of the same family had been the U.S. Treasury
Secretary throughout Prohibition.) In 1963, when Timothy Leary was thrown
out of Harvard, Hitchcock rented a fifty-five-room mansion in Millbrook, New
York, where the entire Leary-Huxley circle of initiates was housed until its
later move back to California.26

Hitchcock was also a broker for the Lansky syndicate and for the Fiduciary
Trust Co., Nassau, Grand Bahamas --- a wholly owned subsidiary of Investors
Overseas Services. He was formally employed by Delafield and Delafield
Investments, where he worked on buying and selling vast quantities of stock
in the Mary Carter Paint Co., soon to become Resorts International.

In 1967, Dr. Richard Alpert put Hitchcock in contact with Augustus Owsley
Stanley III. As Owsley's agent, Hitchcock retained the law firm of
Babinowitz, Boudin and Standard 27 -- to conduct a feasibility study of
several Caribbean countries to determine the best location for the
production and distribution of LSD and hashish.

During this period, Hitchcock joined Leary and his circle in California.
Leary had established an LSD cult called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love and
several front companies, including Mystics Art World, Inc. of Laguna Beach,
California. These California-based entities ran lucrative trafficking in
Mexican marijuana and LSD brought in from Switzerland and Britain. The
British connection had been established directly by Hitchcock, who
contracted the Charles Bruce chemical firm to import large quantities of the
chemical components of LSD with financing from both Hitchcock and George
Grant Hoag, the heir to the J.C. Penney dry goods fortune, the Brotherhood
of Eternal Love set up LSD and hashish production-marketing operations in
Costa Rica in 1968. 28

Toward the end of 1968, Hitchcock expanded the LSD-hashish production
operations in the Caribbean with funds provided by the Fiduciary Trust Co.
(IOS). In conjunction with J. Vontobel and Co. of Zurich, Hitchcock founded
a corporation called 4-Star Anstalt in Liechtenstein. This company,
employing "investment funds" (that is, drug receipts) from Fiduciary Trust,
bought up large tracts of land in the Grand Bahamas as well as large
quantities of ergotamine tartrate, the basic chemical used in the production
of LSD.29

Hitchcock's personal hand in the LSD connection abruptly ended several years
later. Hitchcock had been working closely with Johann F. Parravacini of the
Parravacini Bank Ltd in Berne, Switzerland. From 1968, they had together
funded even further expansion of the Caribbean-California LSD-hashish
ventures. In the early 1970s, as the result of a Securities and Exchange
Commission investigation, both Hitchcock and Parravacini were indicted and
convicted of a $40 million stock fraud. Parravacini had registered a $40
million sale to Hitchcock for which Hitchcock had not put down a penny of
cash or collateral. This was one of the rare instances in which federal
investigators succeeded in getting inside the $200 billion drug fund as it
was making its way around the "offshore" banking system.

Another channel for laundering dirty drug money -- a channel yet to be
compromised by federal investigative agencies is important to note here.
This is the use of tax-exempt foundations to finance terrorism and
environmentalism. One immediately relevant case makes the point.
In 1957, the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins established the
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) in Santa Barbara,
California. Knight Commander Hutchins drew in Aldous Huxley, Elisabeth Mann
Borghese, and some Rhodes Scholars who had originally been brought into the
University of Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s.

The CSDI was originally funded 1957 to 1961 through a several-million-dollar
fund that Hutchins managed to set up before his untimely departure from the
Ford Foundation. From 1961 onward, the Center was principally financed by
organized crime. The two funding conduits were the Fund of Funds, a tax
exempt front for Bernie Cornfeld's lOS, and the Parvin Foundation, a
parallel front for Parvin-Dohnnan Co. of Nevada. IOS and Marvin-Doorman held
controlling interests in the Desert Inn, the Aladdin, and the Dune -- all
Las Vegas casinos associated with the Lansky syndicate. IOS, as already
documented, was a conducting vehicle for LSD, hashish, and marijuana
distribution throughout the 1960s.30 In 1967 alone, IOS channeled between $3
and $4 million to the center. Wherever there is dope, there is Dope, Inc.

REFERENCES:
Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy (Los Angeles: J.P. Archer, 1980),
p.19.
Paul Ghalioungui, The House of Life: Magic and Medica' Science in Ancient
Egypt (New York: Schram Enterprises, 1974).
Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History (New York: Oxford University Press,
1935).
Martin Green, Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England after
1918 (New York: Basic Books, 1976).
See Ronald William Clark, The Huxleys (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968).
H.G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific
Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (New York: Harper and Row, 1902),
p.285.
Helena P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient
and Modern Science and Theology (Los Angeles: Theosophy Co., 1931).
Francis King, Sexuality, Magic and Perversion (New York: Citadel, 1974),
p.118.
Ferguson, Aquarian Conspiracy, p. 126n.
Institute for Policy Studies, "The First Ten Years, 1963-1973," Washington,
D.C., 1974.
Humphrey Osmund, Understanding Understanding (New York: Harper and Row,
1974).
Rand Corporation Catalogue of Documents.
Gregory Bateson, Steps to the Ecology of the Mind (New York: Chandler,
1972).
Ralph Metzner, The Ecstatic Adventure (New York: Macmillan, 1968).
See Clark, The Huxleys.
Michael Minnicino, "Low Intensity Operations: The Reesian Theory of War,"
The Campaigner (April 1974).
Theodor Adorno was a leading professor of the Frankfurt School of Social
Research in Germany, founded by the British Fabian Society. A collaborator
of twelve-tone formalist and British intelligence operative Arnold
Schoenberg, Adorno was brought to the United States in 1939 to head the
Princeton Radio Research Project. The aim of this project, as stated in
Adorno's Introduction to the Sociology of Music, was to program a mass
"musical" culture that would steadily degrade its consumers. Punk rock is,
in the most direct sense, the ultimate result of Adorno's work.
Theodor Adorno, Introduction to the Sociology of Music (New York: Seabury
Press, 1976).
Paul Hirsch, "The Structure of the Popular Music Industry; The Filtering
Process by which Records are Preselected for Public Consumption," Institute
for Social Research's Survey Research Center Monograph, 1969.
Ronald Clark, The Life of Bertrand Russell (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1976),
p.457.
Illinois Crime Commission Report, 1969. The Institute for Policy Studies
(IPS) was established in 1963 by Marcus Raskin, a former National Security
Adviser under NSC Director McGeorge Bundy, and by Richard Barnet, a former
State Department adviser on arms control and disarmament. Among the board of
trustees of IPS were Thurmond Arnold, James Warburg, Philip Stern, and Hans
Morgenthau, with seed money from the Ford Foundation (later to be headed by
McGeorge Bundy). IPS has functioned as the "New left" think tank and control
center for local community control, community health centers, and direct
terrorist organizations. In its report "The First Ten Years," the Institute
lists among its lecturers and fellows, members of the Weathermen group, and
known associates of the Japanese Red Army, the Puerto Rican terrorist Armed
Forces of National Liberation (FALN), and the Black Liberation Army. See
also Carter and the Party of international Terrorism, Special Report by the
U.S. Labor Party, August, 1976.
Ferguson, Aquarian Conspiracy, p.24.
Criton Zoakos et al., Stamp Out the Aquarian Conspiracy, Citizens for
LaRouche monograph, New York, 1980, pp. 60-63.
Ibid.
Ibid., pp. 10-12.
Mary Jo Warth, "The Story of Acid Profiteers," Village Voice, August 22,
1974.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Hutchinson, Vesco.




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FRAGMENTARY AQUARIAN CHRONOLOGY
In the 1820s De Quincy confessed to the high incidence of opium eating among
the English aristocrats and artists of his day. Among habitual users of
Laudanum and morphine have been included Coleridge, Dickens, Carlyle,
Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the poet Laureate Tennyson.
Britain's Foreign Minister, Lord John Russell and Anthony Ashley Cooper
(Earl of Shaftesbury) "guided the political training of ex-American George
Peabody, founder of the Morgan financial empire." In 1857 Morgan and Peabody
were saved by an emergency line of credit (800,000 pounds) furnished by the
Bank of England with Barings a guarantor of the loan. Peabody later become
friends with the "top racial ideologues in British science, Thomas Huxley
and Charles Darwin."

The American Museum of Natural History, of which the main functions are
education, research, exhibition, and publication, was founded in 1869 by a
group of wealthy men, among whom was the elder J. P. Morgan. Inspired by the
urging of a young naturalist, Albert Smith Bickmore, and by the theories of
Darwin and Huxley which had suddenly given a new interpretation to the
origin of life, the group resolved to found a museum that would be the
"means of teaching our youth to appreciate the wonderful works of the
Creator."

The British biologist Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975), contributed to
knowledge in embryology, systematics, genetics, ethology, and evolutionary
studies. He studied the development of many organisms, writing, with Sir
Gavin De Beer, Elements of Experimental Embryology (1934). Huxley presented
many of his ideas of evolutionary mechanisms in Evolution: The Modern
Synthesis (1942). In 1946 he was appointed the first director general of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In 1948 Sir Julian Huxley, called for a radical eugenic policy in UNESCO:
"Thus, even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy of
controlled human breeding will be for many years politically and
psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the
eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care and that the public mind
is informed of the issues at stake that much that is now unthinkable may at
least become thinkable."

The fact that emergence of an organized youth-counterculture around
"post-industrial" utopianism reflected the emergence of the forementioned
types of psycho-social conditioning, should not be read as evidence that the
emergence of the movement itself was in any sense "spontaneous," or
"natural." Very little in modern history has been less natural, indeed more
unnatural, than the self-styled nature cult which has grown up, "on behalf
of the environment," around the 1961 initiatives of Prince Philip's and
Prince Bernhard's reactionary World Wildlife Fund. The members of the new
youth-counterculture were virtually campus-laboratory guinea-pigs, whose
behavior was induced and directed, from the top-down, from the outset.

The environment preparing this operation was established as early as the
1920s, under British Brigadier Dr. John Rawlings Rees of the London
Tavistock Clinic. The entire operation was dominated by relatively highly
refined methods of mass-brainwashing, assisted by such networks as the Lewin
centers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and the network of Freudian and kindred brainwashing networks,
such as "MK-Ultra," spun out from under the direction of Julian Huxley at
the UNO and the London Tavistock Clinic. His humanistic beliefs were set
forth in the classic Religion Without Revelation (1957). "I use the word
'Humanist' to mean someone who believes that man . . . his body, his mind,
and his soul were not supernaturally created but are all products of
evolution," Julian Huxley once said.


In 1957 Julian Huxley wrote: "And the relation to practical existence may be
one of escape, as in asceticism or pure Buddhism; or of full participation,
as in classical Greece or the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia; or of
rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesars's, as in usual Christian
practice." The IUCN has lately produced the UN's Global Biodiversity
Assessment, which suggests that the human population should be reduced to
one billion. From the very beginning key UN figures such as Brock Chisholm,
Julian Huxley and Paul G. Hoffman "were promoting anti-natalist policies."
The United Nations is a specific example of Humanism at work. The first
Director General of UNESCO, the UN organization promoting education,
science, and culture, was the 1962 Humanist of the Year Julian Huxley, who
practically drafted UNESCO'S charter by himself. The first Director-General
of the World Health Organization (WHO) was the 1959 Humanist of the Year
Brock Chisholm.

One of this organization's greatest accomplishments has been the wiping of
smallpox from the face of the earth. And the first Director-General of the
Food and Agricultural Organization was British Humanist John Boyd Orr. The
poppy seed from which it is derived was long known to the Moguls of India,
who used the seeds mixed in tea offered to a difficult opponent. It is also
used as a pain-killing drug which largely replaced chloroform and other
older anesthetics of a bygone era. Opium was popular in all of the
fashionable clubs of Victorian London and it was no secret that men like the
Huxley brothers used it extensively. Members of the Orphic-Dionysus cults of
Hellenic Greece and the Osiris-Horus cults of Ptolemaic Egypt which
Victorian society embraced, all smoked opium; it was the "in" thing to do.

Entering the University of Vermont (which was located in Burlington) at the
early age of fifteen, Dewey still evinced no special talent, until in his
senior year he led his class and won the highest marks on record in
philosophy. This transformation in Dewey's scholastic record was occasioned
by his accidental perusal of a physiology textbook written by Thomas Henry
Huxley, the foremost supporter in England of Darwin's theory of evolution.
Awakened to the excitement of the effort to understand the world, and
beginning to doubt his early moralistic beliefs, Dewey delved into
philosophy for an answer to the conflict between revealed dogma and the
findings of science. This was the beginning of Dewey's lifelong task of
reconciling these two poles.

In 1890 Fabian Havelock Ellis saw the leadership of women as a source of
renewal.

Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England. He was
"the beloved son of English intellectual aristocrats." His father Leonard
was an editor and minor poet. His mother was the former Julia Arnold. A
granduncle, Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a celebrated poet and critic.

Aldous's Round Table father, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), was a
Victorian scientist, essayist, defender of Darwin (evolutionist) and an
agnostic. T.H. Huxley, on the eve of the publication of Darwin's The Origin
of Species, promised to support Darwin's thesis. However, he warned that he
had burdened his argument unnecessarily. He was so vociferous in his defense
that he earned the nickname "Darwin's Bulldog." He once said: "It is the
customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as
superstitions." Huxley's Man's Place in Nature (1863) embroiled him in
further controversy; it espoused the idea that the closest relatives of
humans are the anthropoid apes. Having studied under Professor Thomas H.
Huxley, H. G. Wells went on to teach school in North Wales. Huxley described
his Church of Humanity as "Catholicism minus Christianity". To Huxley the
only good Church was a dead Church. Huxley adopted David Hume's philosophy.
He professed belief in God and cut the ground from under every argument for
his existence. Sir Leslie Stephen in the Dictionary of National Biography
pronounced him "the acutest thinker in Great Britain in the 18th Century"
and exposed the clerical libels about his last hours. Huxley was not only
one of the most decorated men of science of his time, but all his life an
outspoken agnostic (a term which he himself coined to avoid the harshness of
atheist). Pious folk spread a myth about conversion late in life but his son
Leonard shows in his biography of his father that all this is nonsense. A
few months before he died he said to his son: "The most remarkable
achievement of the Jew was to impose on Europe for 18 centuries his own
superstitions."

Patrick Geddes (1854- ) held summer meeting at the Edinburgh school,
utilizing the Outlook Tower to preach his three S's; 1) sympathy for people
and the environment, 2) synthesis of all factors relating to a case, and 3)
synergy -- the combined cooperative action of everyone involved (Boardman
15). As Meller wrote, "Geddes felt that he had formed a new philosophy of
education which incorporated the many methods he had learned from Le Play,
Comte, Huxley, and others during his endeavors into biology civics, and
geography."

In 1898 Havelock Ellis reported to the Smithsonian Institution: "If it ever
should chance that the consumption of mescal becomes a habit, the favorite
poet of the mescal drinker will certainly be Wordsworth. Not only the
general attitude of Wordsworth, but many of his most memorable poems and
phrases cannot -- one is almost tempted to say -- be appreciated in their
full significance by one who has never been under the influence of mescal.
On these grounds it may be claimed that the artificial paradise of mescal,
though less seductive, is safe and dignified beyond its peers." At the turn
of the century, both William James and Havelock Ellis undertook their study
of hallucinogenic agents. James used nitrous oxide (apparently to avoid bad
stomach cramps) while Ellis used the newly discovered peyote.

In 1902 William James of Harvard "redefined religion" as an "experience
rather than a dogma."

The Bakers were prominent in supporting eugenics and utopian-feudalist
social engineering. Captain James A. Baker, so the story goes, the
grandfather of the current boss of Foggy Bottom, solved the murder of his
client William Marsh Rice and took control of Rice's huge estate. Baker used
the money to start Rice University and became the chairman of the school's
board of trustees. Baker sought to create a center for diffusion of racist
eugenics, and for this purpose brought in Julian Huxley of the infamous
British oligarchical family to found the biology program at Rice starting in
1912. Huxley was the vice president of the British Eugenics Society and
actually helped to organize "race science" programs for the Nazi Interior
Ministry, before becoming the founding director general of UNESCO in
1946-48. James A. Baker III (CFR) was born April 28, 1930, in the fourth
generation of his family's wealth. Baker holdings have included Exxon,
Mobil, Atlantic Richfield, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of
Indiana, Kerr-mcgee, Merck and Freeport Minerals. Baker also held stock in
some large New York Banks during the time that he was negotiating the Latin
American debt crisis in his capacity as secretary of the treasury. Secretary
Baker's family wealth and power came from their representing Harriman, the
international oil companies and George Bush's Zapata Petroleum, all sponsors
of the population control, or ban-dark-babies movement. This movement is
synonymous with the Scottish Rite.

Aldous Huxley's mother died when he was 14. Three years later an eye
infection left him blind for 18 months. Although his sight improved, he was
plagued with poor vision all his life. He was 6'4", thin and fragile. His
head was high-brow and had a lot of hair. "He tended to be a spiffy dresser,
wearing suits in subtle colors, a watch and chain, sometimes a reptile tie,
other times a wide-brimmed hat." He studied at Eton and than at Balliol
College, Oxford. He wanted to become a Doctor but an eye infection nearly
blinded him which caused him to abandon this dream and probably accounted
for the bitterness in his writings and his aversion to the human body. In
1916 he took a degree at Oxford. He was friendly with Lord Philip and Lady
Ottoline Morrell -- famous leaders of the Bloomsbury group. It was at their
country place that he met D.H. Lawrence. Huxley said Eliot was "curiously
dull -- as a result, perhaps, of being, at last, happy in his second
marriage." In 1919 he married Maria Nys, a Belgian refugee. They had one
son -- Matthew. As a journalist, Huxley wrote and published two volumes of
symbolist poetry. "Following the war, he flirted briefly with the
then-triumphant, predominantly English imagist movement."

Before the end of 1918, in the first postwar election, Captain Sitwell was
contesting Scarborough as a Liberal candidate for Parliament. He lost the
election, but secured 8,000 votes to his Tory opponent's 12,000.
Simultaneously, Sitwell entered upon another new career as joint literary
editor, with Herbert Read, of the quarterly Art and Letters. A few years
before, Sitwell had known no contemporary writers but his own sister; he was
now ideally placed to remedy that lack. With his brother, he had taken a
London house on Swan Walk where there were more pictures than furniture, and
French paintings hung even in the kitchen. Sitwell's guest list at Swan
Walk, and later at 2 Carlyle Square, resembled the index to a history of
modern literature. Arnold Bennett, in his diary for June 15, 1919, approved
of the dinner and the decor he had found at Swan Walk and noted that his
dining companions included, among others, W. H. Davies, Lytton Strachey,
Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, Leonard Woolf, and Herbert Read.

The sexual perversions of Bloomsbury were a deliberate statement of moral
autonomy. Homosexuality, according to Keynes and his sometimes lover Lytton
Strachey, was the supreme state of existence, "passing Christian
understanding," and superior to heterosexual relationships. The ethical
superiority of homosexuality lay in its striking opposition to the external
morals of the Victorian era, and the moral laws of God. As Deacon surmised,
Keynes' homosexuality was ultimately a rebellion "against the Puritan ethic:
he hated Puritanism in any form . . ." Although Keynes attended religious
services until in his teens, as he once explained to a friend, he was
confident that Huxley had exploded the whole Christian religion. He wrote
another friend, telling him that Christians were irrational and exhibited
stubborn pride: "They don't want to admit that a position they've taken up
with confidence is untenable." According to Keynes, Christianity represented
"tradition, convention and hocus pocus." As a young man at Cambridge Keynes
became involved with a secret society called the "Apostles" which included
such notables as Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Clive Bell and Leonard Woolf.
It was an association that was to last a lifetime. Many of the Apostles,
including Keynes, were later to become regular members of the "Bloomsbury
Group" named after the Bloomsbury district of London where the group
regularly met. The Apostles (and later the Bloomsbury group) were quite
taken by the philosophy of G. E. Moore, a once fervent Quaker who, losing
his faith, became a thorough philosophical sceptic. As Keynes's biographer,
Robert Skidelsky, concluded, as far as the Bloomsburries were concerned, the
value of Moore's book, Principia Ethica, lay chiefly in its "rational
justification of a rearrangement of values." They were looking for an ethic
which would release them from the duties required of Victorian gentlemen.
And in their eyes, Moore's book provided just this.

In 1921 Huxley turned to more creative writing. After two volumes of short
stories, he began a series of novels. His sophisticated satire caused him to
become known as a prophet of doom for the cult of the amusing. His
reputation was firmly established by his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), a
witty satire on the intellectual pretensions of his time. In 1923 Aldous
Huxley, 29, English novelist-critic published Antic Hay. His most celebrated
novel -- Point Counter Point -- appeared ten years following World War I.
The hero was said to have been modeled after D.H. Lawrence.

Huxley met the writer Gerald Heard who imparted to him a quasi mystical
notion of the evolutionary development of human consciousness.

Between 1923-1933 Huxley visited Italy where he saw much of Lawrence and
became "a kind of disciple." In 1933 he edited the letters of the dead
Lawrence.

Huxley's early comic novels, which include Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren
Leaves (1925), and Point Counter Point (1928), demonstrated his ability to
dramatize intellectual debate in fiction; he discussed philosophical and
social topics in a volume of essays, Proper Studies (1927).

In 1924 a collection of Huxley's poetry was published.

John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) was prominent on the English literary scene
for three decades. Murry was editor of the literary journals the Athenauem
(1919-21) and Adelphi> (1923-48), the husband of writer Katherine Mansfield,
and friend to such luminaries as Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence. Huxley
caricatured Murry as the pretentiously "spiritual" editor, Burlap, in his
novel Point Counter Point (1928).

In the 1930s, biology professor Hermann J. Muller lost his job (under the
otherwise liberal president H.Y. Benedict) because he had written for a
Marxist student publication without obtaining permission. Muller later won
the Nobel Prize, at Indiana in 1946, for work he did at Texas that led to
blood plasma transfusions, which saved tens of thousands of lives in World
War II. A politically naive leftist in the 1930s, Muller won Julian Huxley's
praise as "the greatest living geneticist."

In both fiction and nonfiction Huxley became increasingly critical of
Western civilization in the 1930s. Brave New World (1932), his most
celebrated work, is a bitterly satiric account of an inhumane society
controlled by technology, in which art and religion have been abolished and
human beings reproduce by artificial fertilization. Huxley's distress at
what he regarded as the spiritual bankruptcy of the modern world led him
toward mysticism and the use of hallucinatory drugs. Huxley, suggested a
world where people went to the "feelies" rather than the movies, where men
were attended by "pneumatic girls" (a phrase borrowed from T.S. Elliot's
poem "Whispers of Immortality") and where reproduction would be controlled
by the state. The perfect psychedelic, soma, was described: "Euphoric,
narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant -- all the advantages of Christianity and
alcohol, none of their drawbacks." In the preface to his Brave New World
Revisited (p. viii) Huxley wrote, "If I were now to rewrite the book, I
would offer a third alternative . . . the possibility of sanity . . .
Economics would be decentralist and Henry Georgian."

In 1931 Aldous Huxley read Phantastica and wrote a scathing condemnation of
"all existing drugs" in the Chicago Herald Examiner. He concluded that the
solution was not prohibition but the search for better drugs.

In 1933 the Tales of Jacob by Thomas Mann were published. In October 1933
the magazine Esquire began publication and included writing by Hemingway and
Aldous Huxley.

In 1934 Aldous Huxley visited Central America.

In 1936 Aldous Huxley published Eyeless in Gaza. He termed chastity "the
most unnatural of the sexual perversions." Frederick Matthias Alexander --
one of the founders of the Alexander method -- was used by Huxley as his
model for the anthropologist Miller. The novel portrayed its central
character's conversion from selfish isolation to transcendental mysticism.
In 1936 Huxley's transition to mystical writings began. "Because Crowley had
extensive contacts with the European secret societies his specialist
knowledge was used by the SIS [Britain's Secret Intelligence Service] for
'Black Propaganda' purposes. Crowley had confided to the writer Aldous
Huxley in 1938 when they met in Berlin that Hitler was a practicing
occultist. He also claimed that the OTO had helped the Nazis to gain power."

The story of the first LSD is well-known -- of concoction in 1938, and then
discovery of dramatic psychoactive effects when Albert Hofmann five years
later swallowed 1/4,000ths of a gram (250 micrograms).

Christopher Isherwood (1904-) was a follower of Swami Prabhavananda, a
playwright and fiction writer who translated the Bhagavad-Gita and other
Hindu writings from Sanskrit. He converted from Anglicalism to Hinduism.
During World War II he was a pacifist and served alternative service with
the Quakers. He became a convert to the Vedanta Society.

Huxley became interest in "eclectic mysticism" at a time of the intense
fundamentalist religious revival in California. Huxley borrowed from Wells
the phrase "Doors in a Wall." This referred to the use of drugs in death
cult rituals. Huxley called drugs "modifiers of conscience" and said that
hallucinatory drugs had been used since the earliest recorded history.
Huxley dabbled in drugs such as the Mandrake plant. Many who have been
encouraged to use drugs have died prematurely through overdosing or by
suicide.

In a 1940 letter Aldous Huxley said that he was "profoundly optimistic about
individuals and groups of individuals existing on the margins of society."

Orwell contested Huxley's vision in Brave New World because he believed that
it did not provide an accurate picture of the mechanisms of power in the
totalitarian present and future. In a 1940 essay, Orwell wrote: "Mr. Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World was a good caricature of the hedonistic Utopia, the
kind of thing that seemed possible and even imminent before Hitler appeared,
but it had no relation to the actual future. What we are moving towards at
this moment is something more like the Spanish Inquisition, and probably far
worse, thanks to the radio and the secret police." In an article on
"Prophecies of Fascism" in the same era, Orwell made similar claims: "In
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a sort of post-war parody of the Wellsian
Utopia, these tendencies are immensely exaggerated. Here the hedonistic
principle is pushed to its utmost, the whole world has turned into a Riviera
hotel. But though Brave New World was a brilliant caricature of the present
(the present of 1930), it probably casts no light on the future."

Huxley wrote to his brother Julian that social transformation could be
obtained by an attack on all fronts -- economic, political, educational and
psychological. In 1942 Aldous Huxley published The Art of Seeing.

Gerald Heard first visited Black Mountain with his friend Aldous Huxley in
1937. He was so taken with the idea of learning communities that he went on
to found Trabuco College in Ventura, California, in 1942.

Huxley's writing culminated in a rather complete exposition of the mystical
way in 1945 -- The Perennial Philosophy.

At the close of World War II he wrote: "Between ivory towerism on the one
hand and direct political action on the other lies the alternative of
spirituality. And between the totalitarian fascism and totalitarian
socialism lies the alternative of decentralism and cooperative
enterprise--the economic-political system most natural to spirituality."
What some called "dream killers" Huxley called "bad artists."

"[(S)uch propagandists] accomplish their greatest triumphs, not by doing
something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater,
from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not
mentioning certain subjects . . . totalitarian propagandists have influenced
opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent
denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals. -- Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World (1946, revised forward).

Huxley, who moved to southern California in 1947, was primarily a moral
philosopher who used fiction during his early career as a vehicle for ideas;
in his later writing, which consists largely of essays, he adopts an overtly
didactic tone. Like his contemporaries D. H. Lawrence and George Orwell,
Huxley abhorred conformity and denounced the orthodox attitudes of his time.
The enormous range of his intellect and the pungency of his writing make him
one of the most significant voices of the early 20th century. "As political
and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends . . . to increase. And
the dictator . . . will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction
with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, the movies and the
radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is
their fate." -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1948).

Huxley wrote a letter to Orwell in 1949 stating: "The philosophy of the
ruling minority in 1984 is a sadism which has been carried to its logical
conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it. Whether in actual fact the
policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own
belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways
of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and that these ways will
resemble those which I described in Brave New World."

The Societe Europeenne de Culture, a think tank created in 1950 through the
efforts of Venetian intelligence operative Umberto Campagnolo, has for the
past three decades pulled intellectuals from both East and West into
organizing for an "international culture," based on rejecting the existence
of sovereign nations. The SEC counted among its members the cream of the
postwar intelligentsia: Adam Schaff of Poland, Bertolt Brecht of East
Germany, Georg Lukas of Hungary, and Boris Paternak of the Soviet Union, as
well as Stephen Spender and Arnold Toynbee, Benedetto Croce and Norberto
Bobbio, Julian Huxley and Thomas Mann, Francois Mauriac, and Jean Cocteau.
Later, the SEC launched the Third World national liberation ideology.

Andrijah Puharich was born in 1918. He received medical degree from
Northwestern University in 1947. Reportedly a friend of Aldous Huxley. In
1952 he had first contact with "the Nine", the highest minds in the
universe, through a medium.

Aldous Huxley's 1952 book, The Devils of Louden, was inspired by a 1632
incident in Louden, France. Jeanne des Anges, a nun, suffered nightmarish
erotic hallucinations after being spurned by Cure Grandier -- who was burned
at the stake.

Psychedelics (hallucinogens) such as mescaline (derived from the cactus
peyote) and psilocybin (which comes from a Mexican mushroom) were originally
eaten by primitive men to induce visions. Huxley, in his "remarkable work,"
reported his experiences with mescaline. Huxley's persuasive book was one of
the first modern works to put forward any kind of argument for experimental
drug taking and it is generally believed to have been responsible for
sparking off the wave of semi-intellectual interest in drugs which finds its
expression in today's so-called 'drug culture.'"

In 1952, the first International Congress of the International Humanist and
Ethical Union (IHEU) was held in Amsterdam. IHEU represents more than 3
million members in 30 countries. The early sponsors of IHEU were also
instrumental in founding the United Nations. They included Lord Boyd Orr --
first head of the World Food Organization, Sir Julian Huxley, first head of
UNESCO and Canadian physician Brock Chisholm, first head of the World Health
Organization. In 1952 British psychiatrists Humphrey Osmond and John
Smythies published "A New Approach to Schizophrenia," theorizing that when
the body is confronted with extreme anxiety it produces the hallucinogen
adrenochrome, inducing schizophrenic or psychotic reactions. The next year
they flew out to bring Aldous Huxley a vial of mescaline. Huxley later
cabled his editor that mescaline was "the most extraordinary and significant
experience available to human beings this side of the Beatific Vision." He
then dashed off The Doors of Perception in a month. In The Doors of
Perception he wrote: "The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall
will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but
less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his
ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to
things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries,
forever vainly, to comprehend."

In 1953 Robert Hutchins quoted Aldous Huxley: "But in actual historical
fact, the spread of free compulsory education, and, along with it, the
cheapening and acceleration of the older methods of printing, have almost
everywhere been followed by an increase in the power of ruling oligarchies
at the expense of the masses." Hutchins added: "The case of the much-vaunted
literacy of the Japanese provides striking confirmation of the conclusions
of Toynbee and Huxley that the spread of universal, free, compulsory
education had promoted the degradation and enslavement of men."

Humphry Osmond experienced mescaline in the early 1950s, and in May 1953
provided this to Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles. Huxley's report to Osmond,
The Doors of Perception, remains a milestone in psychedelic history, as does
the word that Osmond coined -- "psychedelic." Currently, Osmond works as a
psychiatrist in Tuskaloosa, Alabama. He is coauthor of The Hallucinogens
(Academy Press) and How to Live with Schizophrenia, co-editor of
Psychedelics: The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs (Anchor
Books) and author of Understanding

Understanding. Osmond's interest in this field grew out of a fascination
with schizophrenia and alcoholism. He went into the Navy once he had
qualified for medicine at Guys Hospital in London in 1942. Oscar Janiger had
his first LSD experience in 1954. After a training in botany, he entered the
fields of teaching and psychiatry. He has lectured at UC Irvine and the
California College of Surgeons, was research director for the Holmes
(holistic health) Foundation, maintains a private practice, and founded the
Albert Hofmann Foundation. He administered LSD to 875 people, many from the
creative communities of Beverly Hills and Hollywood. In 1955 Huxley's first
wife died. In 1956 he married Laural Archera. In Heaven and Hell (1956) he
described the use of mescaline to induce visionary states of mind.

In its May 13, 1957 issue, Life ran a feature called "Seeking the Magic
Mushroom." R. Gordon Wasson, a J.P. Morgan Vice-President, and his wife,
recounted their 1955 visionary adventures among "psilocybe cultists in
darkest Mexico."

Huxley called Bill Wilson, the co-founder of AA " the greatest social
architect of our time." Syanon, a revolutionary rehabilitation program using
AA, was founded in Ocean Park, California by Chuck Dederich in 1958 and
spread as drug use expanded.

In his Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley in 1958 described a society
in which war had been eliminated and where "the first aim of the rulers is
at all costs to keep their subjects from making trouble." He described a
likely future: "The completely organized society, the scientific caste
system, the abolition of free will by methodical conditioning, the servitude
made acceptable by regular doses of chemically induced happiness, the
orthodoxies drummed in by nightly courses of sleep teaching . . ." He
predicted non-violent tyranny: "Under the relentless thrust of accelerating
over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more
effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their
nature; and quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and
all the rest -- will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of
non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed
slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy
and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial -- but
democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling
oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen,
thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as
they see fit."

In 1958, in Brave New World Revisited , Huxley wrote a diatribe against
overpopulation and overconsumption. His comment about Aryan drug use as part
of an elite religious ceremony seems to be historic in nature. There was a
priesthood that was very knowledgeable about the effects of drugs. The Isis
cult seems to have also used drugs in its productions. Hitler thought he
talked to "the evil one" while on a mescaline trip. When alone or with his
inner circle, did he engage in religious ceremonies, evocations or
incantations? Or did they use drugs to get "high?" The Huxley quote does
suggest drugs and religious worship were connected as early as the Aryan
conquest of India. The word "Iran" derives from "Aryan."

In Brave New World Revisited Huxley contested Orwell: "George Orwell's 1984
was a magnified projection into the future of a present that contained
Stalinism and an immediate past that had witnessed the flowering of Nazism.
Brave New World was written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in
Germany and when the Russian tyrant had not yet got into his stride. In
1931, systematic terrorism was not the obsessive contemporary fact which it
had become in 1948, and the future dictatorship of my imaginary world was a
good deal less brutal than the future dictatorship so brilliantly portrayed
by Orwell. In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But
tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change. Recent developments
in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have robbed Orwell's
book of some of its gruesome versimilitude. A nuclear war will, of course,
make nonsense of everybody's predictions. But, assuming for the moment that
the Great Powers can somehow refrain from destroying us, we can say that it
now looks as though the odds were more in favor of something like Brave New
World than of something like 1984."

Neil Postman commented: "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for
there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would
deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much
that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared the truth
would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a
sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley
feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent
of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley
remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and
rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny 'failed to take
into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.' In Brave New
World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared
that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin
us."

Purchased in 1960 for $285, this small substance may be said, without
exaggeration, to have perpetrated the most significant cultural revolution
of our time. John Beresford, a pediatrician of British extraction working in
New York City, purchased gram H-00047. Before long, it passed into the
systems of Donovan, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Paul Krassner, Frank
Barron, Huston Smith, Aldous Huxley, Paul Lee, Richard Katz, Pete La Roca,
Charlie Mingus, Saul Steinberg, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph
Metzner, Alan Watts, Jean Houston and perhaps a thousand others. "There is
some possibility," commented Michael Hollingshead, a main distributor, "that
my friends and I have illuminated more people than anyone else in history."

In the summer of 1960 Timothy O'Leary used magic mushrooms for the first
time in Mexico. He realized his old self was dead, collaborated with Dr.
Richard Albert and discussed the meaning and implication of the new world
with Aldous Huxley. In the 1960-1961 school year Leary and Albert began a
series of experiments on Harvard graduate students -- using pure
psilocybin -- and with a physician in attendance. When students at Harvard
were given mushrooms, they "came up with accounts of mystical experiences
which largely duplicated accounts of mystical experiences of Christian
saints they had read in books. Takers of mescaline commonly have similar
experiences to Huxley's, just as Huxley's were similar to those reported by
earlier experimenters like Havelock Ellis." In 1960 Leary tried psychedelic
mushrooms while on a vacation in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The experience opened
up a new world for him: "I realized I had died, that I, Timothy Leary, the
Timothy Leary game, was gone. I could look back and see my body on the bed.
I relived my life, and reexperienced many events I had forgotten. More than
that, I went back in time in an evolutionary sense to where I was aware of
being a one-celled organism. All of these things were way beyond my mind."
Leary was in Mexico in August, 1960, intending to work on a book.

Around 1961 Aldous Huxley said at a U.S. State Department-sponsored
conference at the California Medical School in San Francisco: "There will be
in the next generation or so . . . a pharmacological method of making people
love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak.
Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that
people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will
rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel --
by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological
methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." Timothy Leary recalled
his conversation with Huxley who told him to be a brain-drug cheerleader for
evolution like he and his grandfather before him. However, Huxley told Leary
that the obstacle to the evolution was the Bible: "Drugs that open the mind
to multiple realities inevitably lead to a polytheistic view of the
universe. We sensed that the time for a new humanist religion based on
intelligence, good-natured pluralism and scientific paganism had arrived."

Huxley was among those who encouraged Michael Murphy and Richard Price in
their decision to open Esalen in 1961. Murphy and Price wrote to Huxley, who
believed science and mysticism were complementary activities, and whose
elucidation of "the perennial philosophy" and ideas about the human
potential shaped Esalen's work for the next 32 years. It is said that Aldous
Huxley, that modern of moderns, went to a few Ouspensky meetings in London.
Eventually Huxley settled for Gerald Heard who drew heavily on Eastern
philosophy. In Huxley we may find a symptom of a desperate tendency to turn
in our crisis to ideas and teachings that stand outside the stream of
Western culture. At Huxley's suggestion, Murphy and Price sought out Gerald
Heard, philosopher and mystic, who cast a deep Irish spell with accounts of
people and events that revealed the secrets of human transformation. An
afternoon with Heard in the summer of 1961, in which Heard displayed his
characteristic enthusiasm and sense of a cosmic mandate, confirmed Esalen's
two founders in their decision to start a seminar center. In the first three
years of the Big Sur human-potential center, the lecturers included Alan
Watts, Arnold Toynbee, Gerald Heard, Linus Pauling, Carl Rogers, Norman O.
Brown, Paul Tillich, Rollo May and Carlos Castaneda. Esalen's first brochure
"flew under the title of a series of 1961 lectures by Aldous Huxley: 'Human
Potentialities.'"

Like the hero in Maugham's The Razor's Edge, Michael Murphy went to India
seeking enlightenment. He lived for eighteen months at the Aurobindo Ashram
in Pondicherry -- an institute combining the wisdom of East and West.
Michael Murphy and Richard Price decided in 1961 to open the Esalen
Institute in Big Sur, California as a center for humanistic psychology. The
institute, which was opened in 1962, conducts workshops, seminars, and
symposia. The late Hindu Geru Sri Aurobindo has a follower by the name of
Maurice Strong who has connections with David Rockefeller, the Rothschilds
and other groups of the money elite.

One evening in 1962, Abraham Maslow was forced to seek shelter at the
nearest residence due to fog: "He arrived in time for an Easlen study group
that was unpacking a case of twenty copies of his latest book."

In 1962 Billy and Tommy Hitchcock purchased Millbrook. It became "the shrine
where acid was sanctified." Tommy had become friends with Leary toward the
end of the 1950's.

In the Summer of 1962, Billy Hitchcock met Dick Albert at his mother's house
and recalled: "I found Dick funny -- he understood how to laugh at himself,
and he had a background similar to mine. He was Jewish, his father was head
of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad. He opened me up. He got me to read
Thomas Mann, Salinger . . . he was already having his problems with Harvard,
and he had established this community in Mexico, Zihuatanejo. Tommy and
Peggy went down there, and Peggy told me I should try a psychedelic. I said,
'Why?' She said, 'That's a good question, try it, you've got nothing to
lose.'" Mescaline was the drug of choice at that time.

In 1962 Look Magazine did a special issue on California. Aldous Huxley was
cited as among the Californians who were calling for a new national
constitutional convention.

In 1962 Allan Watts published The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the
Chemistry of Consciousness with a forward by Timothy Leary and Richard
Albert.

On November 27, 1962, Leary and Alpert stated: "If you announce your
discovery you're in trouble. If you discuss it quietly with friends you have
a cult. If you try to apply these potentials within the conventional,
institutional format you are side-tracked, silenced, blocked or fired . . .
For the first time in American history and for the first time in the Western
world since the Inquisition there now exists a scientific underground and
foundation largesse, over a hundred responsible professional researchers are
volunteering their time, their own money, risking their reputations and
their legal freedom to research consciousness without institutional
support."

In 1963 Richard Deacon published the 310-page City of Man: The Hopes and
Possibilities of a World Culture which included a discussion of the ideas of
Toynbee, Teilhard de Chardin, Mumford, Jaspers, Wells, Huxley, Northrop, and
many others.

In 1963 the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show. They combined rock and
mystical music, long hair, and the worship of Hinduism. The guru who was
sought after by the Beatles was Maharishi Mahesh (TM) Yogi. Drugs were
suggested in many of their songs: "Yellow Submarine" (a "submarine" is a
"downer"), "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" (the initials of the main words
are LSD), "Hey Jude" (a song about the drug known as methadrine), "Stawberry
Fields" (where opium is grown to avoid detection) and "Norwegian Wood" (a
British term for marijuana). John Lenon's song "Imagine" attacked religion
("Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above
us only sky"), espoused a do you own thing philosophy ("Imagine all the
people, Living for today"), attacked nationalism ("Imagine there's no
countries"), attacked religion ("It is isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or
die for and no religion too"), called for the abolition of private property
("Imagine no possessions"), supported a new international order ("I wonder
if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all
the people, Sharing all the world") and advocated a one-world government
("You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll
join us, and the world will be as one.") Lennon called for abolition of
private property and then left his Japanese-born widow a $250 million
estate.

In 1963 Harold Asher wrote Experiments in Seeing -- a story of his search
for mystical experience through LSD. Initially LSD was classified as a "new"
drug with few restrictions on its experimental use. In 1963 it was
reclassified as an "investigational new drug" and made available only to
carefully selected investigators. In 1963 Timothy O'Leary founded the
International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF) to encourage research
on psychedelic substances. The institute, however, died for lack of outside
interest or support. In the Good Friday Study W.H. Clark -- a Leary
follower, found that subjects given psilocybin before attending religious
services were more likely to have a life-changing or mystical experience. In
March 1963 Leary and Alpert began recruiting for the IFIF. They attracted
the "young, the idealistic, the eccentric, and the rebellious . . ." They
lectured in Los Angeles to promote the International Federation for Internal
Freedom. Leary left without notifying univesity authorities and went to
Mexico to arrange the lease of a hotel in Zihuatanejo for use as an IFIF
summer colony.




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In May 1963, two months after Leary's Mexico departure, Richard Alpert
publicly attacked the administration's stand on denying psilocybin to
undergraduates. He was fired by Harvard on May 27.

Major issues at Harvard that caused friction for Leary included no doctor
being present during experiments, use of undergraduates and drug sessions
being conducted off campus or even in Leary's house. In the Spring of 1963
Leary and Albert were dismissed from their academic positions. Leary was
fired for not attending his classes. He admitted the non-attendance but
thought he was on approved leave. Albert separated from Leary and lectured
on the West coast while Leary settled in at an estate in Millbrook, New
York -- owned by a wealthy supporter of Leary's beliefs.

The IFIF colony was in operation by June 1963. The stay was a short one.
After an unassociated murder, a newspaper in Mexico City began a campaign
against the group and the Mexican government ordered the group out. In the
summer of 1963, Leary rented Millbrook from Wall Streeter and Lehman
Brothers's Billy Hitchcock for $500 a month.

Leary and Alpert holed up in Millbrook, New York. In Volume I of the
Psychedelic Review, in the Fall of 1963, Leary and Ralph Metzner did an
article on Herman Hesse -- the German novelist whom the group adopted as its
literary prophet.

Arnold Toynbee, in the September 29, 1963 edition of The New York Times,
discussed an alliance between the Soviets and the Fabian-controlled West to
face the yellow menace of Red China.

Before his death JFK said the Country "is in dire peril . . ." and that it
might not "survive his term in office." Evelyn Lincoln, JFK's secretary for
12 years, quoted him as saying: "If they are going to get me, they will get
me even in Church" (meaning anywhere). Mary Pinchot Meyer told Timothy
Leary: "They could not control him (JFK) anymore."

The use of peyote in religious ceremonies was declared legal in California
in 1964.

In 1964, the Leary-Alpert manual for the psychedelic experience, based on
the Tibetan Book of the Dead, was published.

In 1964 Augustus Owsley Stanley III tried LSD for the first time as a
29-year-old Berkley dropout.

None of the ideas of the "Now Generation" of 1964 were less than thirty
years old.

By 1964 Ken Kesey and his Merry Prankster friends were touring the country
in a Day-Glo-painted school bus. Later they gave Acid Test parties and
supplied LSD which was still legal. Music was provided by the Grateful Dead
at later Acid Tests. The Grateful Dead began at 710 Ashbury street as an
acid-rock group with electric guitarist Jerry Garcia, 24, drummer Mickey
Hart, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and others. The name was taken from an Oxford
dictionary notation on the burial of Egyptian pharoahs. McKernan died of
alcohol and drugs.

In 1964 and 1965, George Leonard traveled around the country working on
"what he thought would be the most important story of his career. It would
run in two or three subsequent issues of Look, he anticipated, and he
intended to call it 'The Human Potential.'" The article, which eventually
ran to some 20,000 words, was never published by Look. It was considered
"too long and too theoretical."

In 1965 Esalen's Michael Murphy (student of Eastern philosophy and
humanistic psychology) joined forces with Look's George Leonard (Student of
Social and Political Movements in the U.S.). In the Fall of 1965, B.F.
Skinner, S.I. Hayakawa, Watts, Carl Rogers and J.B. Rhine led seminars.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Esalen became particularly popular as the
scene of various exploratory approaches to personality development and
consciousness expansion. These types of activities have remained the
institute's focus. A former President of the American Psychological
Association has said that Esalen is potentially "the most important
educational institute in the world."

Alice Bailey, the most prolific writer for the New Age, wrote in 1965: "The
Illuminati have ever led the race forward; the knowers, mystics and saints
have ever revealed to us the heighth of racial and individual
possibilities."

The Psychedelic Reader came out in 1965 as an anthology to the 1964 manual.
Alpert gradually dropped away from the group while Leary became even more
outspoken. Alice Bailey, the most prolific writer for the New Age, wrote in
1965: "The Illuminati have ever led the race forward; the knowers, mystics
and saints have ever revealed to us the height of racial and individual
possibilities."

In 1965 alone the British sent 136 ships with oil and other war good that
docked at the port of Haiphong. At a time when America had 300,000 troops in
South Vietnam, England had sent only 11 police instructors and a professor
of English. Standard and Shell were taking 33,000 barrels of oil daily out
of North Thailand and refining it at Bangehak and Srivacha. While Thailand
officials lied, the Bangkok News said that foreign companies had taken
40,000,000 barrels of oil out of the Burma ground in 1965. President De
Galle of France blasted the Standard Oil "policy" in Vietnam. Standard Oil
had operations in North Vietnam and Burma. The Shelf Coast extended from
Hong Kong to Vietnam, Burma and Thailand. No news stories revealed that
thousands of barrels of oil were being taken out by Standard Oil every day.
Moody's Manual of Industrials listed nearly 300 foreign operations but not a
line about the Thailand wells. Once this was revealed, the next issue
eliminated all mention of foreign operations. It was first said there was no
oil industry in Thailand. Later authorities advised that the production of
oil was a major industry.

In 1965 Allen Ginsburg used the phrase "flower power" at a Berkley rally.
The flower antiwar theme appeared in "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" and in fashions. The
Hells Angels had attacked the marchers calling them "Un-American."

A 1965 article by San Francisco Examiner reporter Michael Fallon used the
term "hippie." The beats used the term hippie as a term of disdain. While
hippies used drugs for the sake of experience, beats had used drugs for the
sake of art. They also preferred rock music to jazz. While beatniks had
adopted from the black culture, the hippies looked to Native Americans.
Deerskin moccasins, silver and turquoise jewelry and headbands were adopted
as well as ingesting peyote buttons. Identification with Native Americans
occurred along with referring to communal groups as tribes. The multimedia
show "America Needs Indians" was a big hit in 1965. By May 1965, Owsley
Stanley III was filling orders for LSD from around the country from his Los
Angles laboratory. He financed the rock group The Grateful Dead, the San
Francisco Oracle underground newspaper, joined up with Ken Kesey and became
the chief supply chemist for the Acid Tests.

In August 1965, Ken Kesey invited the San Francisco chapter of the Hells
Angels to a party at his home in La Honda. He introduced them to LSD. They
became heavily involved with both supply and demand until the end of the
1960s. In December 1965 Leary's 16-year-old daughter was found at customs
with a pillbox in her brassiere that contained a smidgen of marijuana. An
indictment was made against Leary for attempted to smuggle marijuana out of
the country without paying a duty on it. Billy Hitchcock set up the Leary
defense fund. The case was taken to the Supreme Court where it was thrown
out on the grounds of double jeopardy. After this incident, Leary "let
Millbrook really start to run downhill." Ken Kesey rolled up in a bus with
the Merry Pranksters and it was rumored that 80 Hell's Angels were aboard.

Death cults existed four thousand years ago. The resurgence of death cults
began with the arrival of Aldous Huxley in America. He copied the formula
from the Isis-Orsiris cult, the Dionysus cult and the rituals of Tibetan and
Egyptian high priests. A principal disciple of his was Timothy Leary. LSD,
which was made by Hoffman La Roche, was introduced into America by Huxley
and Bertand Russell. After working with Leary at Harvard, Huxley and Leary
created the International Federation for Internal Freedom Psychadelic
Training Center in Mexico. Students at this "invisible university" had
lessons from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the center it was taught that
"death is a transition, it is only a change in form, in some cases a happy
release." Among the death cults are the Luciferian Society, the Dionysus
Cult, the Osiris-Horus cult of ancient Egypt, the Freemasons, the Urania
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Children of the Sun, witchcraft,
demon worshipers and Aquarians who venerate Caligula. Death cults are
devil-worshiping in purpose and all end in death for someone.

In their first seminar on Human Potentiality, led by Willis Harman, every
program leader was involved with LSD research: Adams, Harman, Gregory
Bateson, Gerald Heard, Paul Kurtz, and Myron Stolaroff. Other drug-culture
luminaries, such as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, taught at Esalen, and
various psychedelics were used by the staff and students, although drug-use
was not officially endorsed. Strangely, the Institute was never raided by
the authorities. Charles Manson and members of his family played an
impromptu concert at Esalen three days before their massacre at the Sharon
Tate house.

In Island Huxley's society relied upon the mind for healing. His last novel
featured extended families, learning by doing and imagining and commerce was
bowed to ecology. Huxley died on November 22, 1963, in Los Angeles. This was
the exact same day that JFK was assassinated. This was also the day that
C.S. Lewis died. He "asked for and received an injection of LSD on his
deathbed . . ." "His time on earth spanned the end of the Victorian Age and
the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, and he was always in the vanguard of,
never afraid to investigate (and even to believe in) the strange and the
mystical, yet he never lost respect for everyday reality." He authored 47
books, including Crome Yellow and After Many A Summer Dies the Swan. Huxley
spent forty years living in and working in Hollywood collaborating with
Adorno and Horkheimer.

At the height of their popularity, the Beatles went to India -- the land of
the Hindus. Aldous Huxley wrote about soma -- an intoxicating drink for the
Brahmins. In fable it was personified as a god -- representing the moon.

Dr. Louis Jolyon West is a director of AFF. An expert in brainwashing for
the Air Force and the CIA, West first achieved fame from his MK-Ultra
feat -- he injected LSD-25 into an elephant and killed it. West researched
"the psychology of dissociated states" for the CIA, using LSD and hypnosis.
His friend {Aldous Huxley} suggested to Dr. West during an MK-Ultra
experiment that West hypnotize his subjects prior to administering LSD, in
order to give them "post-hypnotic suggestions aimed at orienting the
drug-induced experience in some desired direction." Huxley was friends with
Dr. Louis "Jolly" West, and suggested that West try combining LSD with
hypnosis. Dr. West was called upon by the government to examine Jack Ruby,
who had killed Lee Harvey Oswald before Oswald could stand trial for his
alleged role in the assassination of President John Kennedy. Huxley was also
interested in parapsychology, and lectured on the topic at Duke University.
It was at Duke where Huxley had contact with J.B. Rhine, who reportedly did
experiments in psychic phenomena for the CIA and the Army. Longtime CIA
doctor Louis J. West once treated Aldous Huxley. It was West's diagnosis
that Ruby was a "candidate suitable for treatment" that allowed him to be
put on drugs.

In 1964, Lilly held seminars at the Esalen Institute, and was Group Leader
and Associate in Residence from 1969 to1971.

Laura Huxley, Aldous's widow, sponsored a foundation devoted to "conscious
childbirth" called Our Ultimate Investment.

During the radical 1960s, the late Leary and Richard Albert did extensive
research on LSD and other psychedelic elements -- in collaboration with
Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg and others. The pair escaped to a mansion in
upstate New York. While Leary continued to ride naked on horses, Richard
Alpert went to India in 1967 and met his spiritual teacher -- Neem Karoli
Baba. He came back with a new name -- Baba Ram Dass ("servant of God"). He
then began teaching Kali-worship (goddess of thieves) to Harvard students.
After six years or so of getting high, visited India. There he met a
23-year-old man named Bhagwan Dass. Eventually, after fasting, yoga and
meditation, Albert was introduced to Dass' s guru -- Maharaji. He then
changed his name to Ram Dass, returned to the U.S. and wrote Be Here Now.
When he became Ram Dass, he forsook his Jewish upbringing and was estranged
from his family. His never-named father was a wealthy lawyer, President of
the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and founder of Brandeis
University. The recently sick Ram Dass is said to be known and loved all
over the world as the self-described "HinJew." Dismissed from Harvard with
Leary in 1963, Dass was involved with the Zihuatanejo Project, the IFIF (The
International Foundation for Internal Freedom) and the Castalia Organization
at Millbrook, all of which were attempts to realize a psychedelic utopia as
presented in Island by Aldous Huxley, and Glass Bead Game by Herrman Hesse.

Michael Kahn was an important associate of Timothy Leary during the
mid-1960s, taking LSD trips with him and providing him with privacy
periodically in those turbulent years. He has observations of related
activities at Harvard and Millbrook. Kahn lectures at UC San Anselmo. His
writings include The Tao of Conversation and Between Therapist and Client.

LSD was not made illegal until 1966. In 1966 Leary founded the League of
Spiritual Discovery.

In 1966 Leary was arrested for the possession of marijuana at the Millbrook,
New York estate and appeared at three congressional hearings. He told Sen.
Ted Kennedy that "LSD is not a dangerous drug." In that same year he began
his own religion -- the "League of Spiritual Discovery" -- with LSD as the
sacrament. Its slogan was: "Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out." G. Gordon
Liddy, local Assistant District Attorney, used as his slogan for the
Republican nomination for Congress: "Throw Hitchcock Out of Millbrook."

In 1967 the New York Phoenix House established seminar rap session
techniques. It was started by five former drug addicts.

The musical Hair opened in 1967. The song "Age of Aquarius" talks about the
influence to be felt at the end of the century at "the dawning of the Age of
Aquarius." The Age of Pisces lasts from 0 A.D. to 2000 A.D. The Age of
Aquarius begins at 2000 A.D. to last until 4000 A.D.

By 1967 many of the Haight-Ashbury residents had turned from acid to speed.

Beginning in 1967, Timothy Leary said in lectures delivered around the
country: "turn on (to the scene), tune in (to what is happening), and drop
out (of high school, college, grad school . . .)."

In 1967 Owsley was arrested in his lab and sentenced to three years in jail.

In 1967 the Beatles accompanied the Maharishi to India and announced their
intention to give up drugs and follow his teachings.

In 1967 a court decision, involving Timothy O'Leary, held that the use of
marijuana was not essential to the practice of Hinduism.

By 1967 a large drug population had emerged in San Francisco where Ken Kesey
had handled out LSD. In 1967 a Tavistock-sponsored "Conference on the
Dialectics of Liberation" was chaired by Dr. R.D. Laing. Two of the American
delegates were Angela Davis and Stokley Carmichael. "By 1967, with the cult
of 'Flower People' in Haight-Ashbury and the emergence of the anti-war
movement, the United States was ready for the inundation of LSD, hashish,
and marijuana that hit American college campuses in the late 1960s."

The 1967 Be-In was referred to as "A Gathering of the Tribes." The January
1967 Human Be-In was followed by the "Summer of Love" in Haight-Ashbury.
Bill Graham staged concerts at the Fillmore six days a week. The event was
coordinated by Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Jerry Rubin. Some 10,000
"heard speeches, danced to music by San Francisco bands, chanted Hindu and
Buddhist rituals, ate free turkey sandwiches (some laced with LSD), and
generally celebrated the birth of the countercultural community."

In April 1967, warnings were issued and businesses were closed in
Haight-Ashbury after a huge influx of hippies. In response, as a form of
protest, Hippies marched shouting "Haight is love." Over 30 people were
arrested in the demonstration.

The Grateful Dead hosted an Om Festival featuring om chanting with the music
for 2,500 during the Summer of Love.

During the winter 1967-1968, LSD reached a peak. Its use declined
thereafter. Mescaline, which offers less of an inner experience but a more
intense sensory show than LSD, became the hallucinogen of choice for many
previous LSD users.

Esalen became "real" when the New York Times ran an article on it on
December 31, 1967 in the Sunday Magazine. Hot baths, which may be taken in
the nude, "are considered a rite of passage into a new life."

In April 1968 Columbia University was seized by a group of students for
several days. James Kunen, one of the student leaders, wrote in The
Strawberry Statement that a report on the SDS convention mentioned men from
Roundtable International trying to buy radicals. "These men are the world's
leading industrialists and they convene to decide how our lives are going to
go . . . They offered to finance our demonstration in Chicago. We were also
offered Esso (Rockefeller) money. They want us to make a lot of radical
commotion so they can look more in the center as they move to the Left."
Jerry Rubin once said: "The hip capitalists have some allies within the
revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the
kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen." During the fall of 1969
$85,000 in Carnegie Foundation funds were paid to the SDS. An undercover SDS
police informant said he had "wondered where the money was coming from for
all this activity, and soon discovered it came through radicals via the
United Nations, from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, United
Auto Workers, as well as cigar boxes of American money from the Cuban
embassy."

Brandeis University was the head of all SDS chapters throughout the United
States. The founders and some of its top administrators have been "violently
anti-religious and have left wing associations."

In 1969, after a series of arrests on drug charges, Leary was sentenced to a
minimum security prison in California.

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair drew 300,000 in August 1969 to Bethel, New
York. Performers included Jim Hendrix, Joan Baez, Ritchie Havens, the
Jefferson Airplane, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana and others.
Abbie Hoffman called it "the first attempt to land man on the earth."

On December 6, 1969, the Altamont Music Festival outside San Francisco
attracted 300,000 to a free Rolling Stones concert. The Hells Angels
administered several beatings and stabbed a boy to death when he tried to
reach the stage.

In 1970 Margaret Mead said: "There are no elders who know what those who
have been reared within the last 20 years know about the world into which
they were born." She called for psychologically "qualified" parents to rear
all the children -- leaving the less qualified parents free to explore their
inner selves and one another. Margaret Mead said in 1970: "This break
between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal." In 1970,
just before the Nixon/Kissinger invasion of Cambodia (that produced a storm
of antiwar protests on and off campuses), the Bilderbergers discussed the
"future function of the university in our society." Participants included
Paul Samuelson, Graham T. Allison (later Dean of the Kennedy School at
Harvard University) and Andrew Cordier (Dean of the School of International
Affairs at Columbia University 1962-68) (also acting president of Columbia
in 1968 during the student occupation). In 1970 Governor Reagan acknowledged
the possibility of a "bloodbath" to put down campus unrest.

After being organized in New York by a small group concerned with pollution
and smog, the first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970. Activities
around the country included car "funerals," traffic blockades and clean-up
programs. On Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Norman Cousins (CFR), the longtime
president of the United World Federalists (later the World Federalist
Association), proclaimed, "Humanity needs world order. The fully sovereign
nation is incapable of dealing with the poisoning of the environment . . .
The management of the planet . . . requires a world government." The UNESCO
Biosphere Conference and ecological activism produced the first Earth Day in
1971. Both Earth day and the beginning of the Army-McCarthy hearings share
the date April 22 (Lenin's birthday).

In September of 1970 Leary escaped from prison by walking away from prison.
He turned off a flame he had ignited ten years before. "A real cop-out."

In 1973 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead received a years probation in New
Jersey for possession of LSD, marijauna and cocaine.

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) overcame beatings by his father by retreating
into "a point in space with no dimensions." He devoured all the classics
within his reach from the Bible through Mill and Voltaire to Darwin and
Huxley. By the age of 14, he was reading Plato and knew he was interested in
psychology. In 1956 he went for psycho-analytic training at the
Freudian-oriented Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London. From
1962-1965, Laing directed the Langham Clinic in London and began to
experiment with mind-expanding substances as a means of accelerating
transcendental trips to the inner self. In 1967, a conference sponsored by
psychiatry's National Association for Mental Health (NAMH) in the United
Kingdom was devoted to "The Role of Religion in Mental Health." The Reverend
George Croft, a lecturer in experimental psychology, said that distressed
persons were seeking psychotherapists rather than ministers because as Jung
suggested, ministers were not expected to possess "psychological knowledge
or insight." Also speaking was psychiatrist Dr. R. D. Laing from the
Tavistock Institute who suggested that the clergy get more in touch with the
"egoic experience," and seminaries and theological colleges should discuss
this as a church component. In the early 1970's he studied under Buddhist
and Hindu spiritual masters in Ceylon, India and Japan, and lectured
throughout the U.S. Laing was a vegetarian with a respect for life such that
he could not even bear to cut the grass.

In 1975, Princeton Professor Richard A. Falk (CFR) laid out a map in On the
Creation of a Just World terming the seventies as the decade of
"consciousness raising," the eighties the decade of "mobilization" and the
ninties the decade of "transformation."

In 1975 the "Masters" told Alice Bailey that the time was right for the open
propagation of "The Plan."

In 1975 the War in Vietnam officially ended.

In 1975 the "Brain/Mind Bulletin" magazine was first published by Marilyn
Ferguson as "a vehicle for pulling . . . information on mind and
consciousness together."

In the summer of 1976, Bruce traveled back to Europe and to England. He met
and had lunch with Albert Hofmann on the Rhine river. Hofmann told him
stories of meetings with Huxley and Leary and other noted figures in the
"psychedelic movement" as it was known back then. He also met and became
friends with Michael Hollingshed, author of The Man Who Turned on the World,
an autobiography by this trickster who was responsible for turning both the
Beatles and Tim Leary onto their first trips. Hollingshead conveyed a
substantial amount of gram H-00047 to Harvard University and to London,
after coming to the U.S. as an official working for British-American
cultural exchange. Hollingshead's activities centered in Manhattan, London
and Katmandu. He wrote much about psychedelics in a variety of head
magazines.

Returning from Europe in 1976, Bruce left Los Angeles for Santa Cruz,
California, where he was to spend most of the next two decades. Bruce
escorted Hofmann and his wife Anita during their tour of Santa Cruz. Also
there were other noted psychedelic researchers, including Oscar Janiger,
William McGlothlin, Ron Siegel and others. At a dinner, Hofmann toasted his
pcychedelic grandchildren -- many of them there, including Leary, Ram Dass
and Metzer, the noted Harvard trio who had collaborated on research and
together wrote The Psychedelic Experience, based on the Tibetan Book of the
Dead. Bruce had done a lot of footwork, hiking through the redwood campus of
the University of California Santa Cruz, setting up the logistics. Now tired
of this massive organizational effort, Bruce went off with his friend Danny,
who together drank a bottle of psilocybin extract. Having just read Island
by Huxley and Intelligence Agents by Timothy Leary, some of the circuits in
Bruce's mind began to perceive new connections and sychronicities. As he
walked with his friend down to the windswept beaches, he thought about his
original expectations for the 'Sixties. He then believed the counter-culture
would become the dominant culture in some revolution of love and ecstasy.

At Jonestown, Guyana, 914 followers of paranoid pastor the Rev. Jim Jones
obeyed his order to join him in death by drinking Kool-Aid laced with
cyanide. Mass-murderer Jim Jones cooperated with Bertrand Russell and Aldous
Huxley indirectly through the Peace Pledge Union. The New Agers were proud
to claim Jim Jones and his People's Temple as their own until his Guyana
murder-suicide fiasco. After that, they never mentioned him again except to
point to him as an example of the dangers of religious fundamentalism. When
Jones moved to San Fransciso and purchased land to build a new Temple, it is
said the land had been the site of the Albert Pike Memorial Temple. In
November 1978 over 900 people died at the People's Temple in Guyana. At
Jonestown, it was intially assumed that the large vat of drink containing
poison was the cause of the suicides. Autopsies showed that 700 of the 900
had died of gunshots wounds and stangulation -- not poison. "They had not
committed suicide at all; they were brutally mass murdered. According to
Jack Anderson, a tape made by Rev. Jones mentioned a man named Dwyer.
Richard Dwyer was the deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Guyana and
accompanied Rep. Leo Ryan to investigate the encampment. The Congressman was
murdered but Dwyer was not affected. He claimed that Jones' reference to him
was "mistaken." In 1959 he had began working for the CIA and had "no
comment" when Anderson asked if he was a CIA agent." Among the drugs found
at Jonestown was chloral hydrate -- used in the CIA's sec