Psychedelic Fascism

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Hi Luke,

As the days slowly get longer and we edge towards Spring, it's a great time to consider the new life that is emerging from the darkness of Winter - both in your surroundings and in your inner landscape. How are the seeds of intention that you've planted beginning to take root in your life? And what can you do to continue to nurture them?

We're delighted to welcome the new sprouts appearing in our programme in the form of courses on poetry, fermentation and body positivity; an online Imbolc ritual with Julian Vayne & Nikki Wyrd and exciting new talks on everything from Goddess Mysteriesto Cluster Headaches.
 
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Picked up here that non linear the history is the one to read? Are his films good?
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I thought non linear history was good but some of that interview is better tbh. He gets a bit bogged down when writing in a long form. Sort of sets his stall out but then has to follow through, so it gets a bit boring. But it's still very readable, and like vim said, is a good intro to d and G. In fact ends with the the G quote about cultivating a little bit of extra land.

I might read war in the age of machines next, I read a chapter of it ages ago just by chance cos it looked interesting, then lost thd book, but thst chapter wax very striking at the time, although I can't remember any of it now.

Not seen any of films but would be interested to hear if others have.
 
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For this thread? No. I've been bothered by this stuff for a while but what prompted it was Q Anon Shaman.
 
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Some absolutely appalling stuff here,
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Mike Jay · Lace the air with LSD: Brain Warfare

In the late 1950s, the CIA’s schemes included using an aerosol to lace the air with LSD in the Havana studio where...
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I knew about some of it, but there's plenty I didn't know about.
In Saigon in 1968 a CIA team implanted electrodes in the brains of three Vietcong prisoners. They were given knives and locked together in a room for a week, while the agents tried to rouse them to violence with radio signals from their remote-control handsets. They didn’t succeed. The team returned to Washington and, just as in Project Artichoke twenty years earlier, the prisoners were shot and burned.
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The research into the effects of LSD extended way beyond observations at 81 Bedford Street. Gottlieb found a willing partner in Harris Isbell, the director of research at the Addiction Research Centre in Lexington, Kentucky. The hospital ‘functioned more like a prison’, Kinzer writes, with a cohort of mostly African American inmates – a new group of ‘expendables’ – on whom Isbell could experiment at will. Gottlieb was interested in how much LSD was needed to ‘shatter the mind ... leaving a void into which new impulses or even a new personality could be implanted’. Isbell’s patients were fed escalating doses, some of them for days and weeks on end. Another enthusiastic collaborator, Carl Pfeiffer at Emory University, as part of his work on subproject 47, administered LSD to twenty inmates of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary nearly every day for 15 months. Robert Hyde at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital paid hundreds of students from Emerson, Harvard and MIT $15 each to drink a vial of liquid that might induce an ‘altered state’; in the aftermath, one of the subjects hanged herself in a clinic bathroom.
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everybody wants a bit of this

QAnon Shamanism: When Conspiracy Thinking and Spirituality Converge​

A Conversation with Erik Davis, Jules Evans and Erica Magill​

Wednesday, February 10th, 12-2pm PST​



Among the violent extremists that stormed the Capitol on January 6th, one character really stood out: the “QAnon Shaman.” Bare-chested, face-painted, and wearing a horned fur cap, Jake Angeli attracted widespread attention. After years promoting himself as a New Age light-worker and minor psychedelic influencer, Angeli had become a vocal proponent of the right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory.

Angeli is just the tip of the iceberg. Our times have witnessed an extraordinary uptick in “conspirituality:” the blending of transformational culture and outlandish, dark, and sometimes highly manipulated conspiracy narratives. Countless “spiritual but not religious” communities — engaged in wellness, yoga, mindfulness, and psychedelic healing — have seen the virulent spread of paranoid plots, baseless conspiracy theories, and rumors of Satanic mind-control.

We are right to question mainstream media stories, to explore alternative modalities, and to commit to doing (real) research. But legitimate concerns about consensus reality do not explain why so many seekers and healers fell into a right-wing reality tunnel in which Donald Trump was waging holy war against a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles.

How did this happen? Why did these narratives spread so rapidly? How did social media, the pandemic, political polarization, and flaws in contemporary transformational culture contribute?

As we go forward together into an ever-weirding world, how can we develop more spiritual discernment, epistemic health, and “nerd immunity”?

Join us and Erik Davis, Jules Evans, and Erica Magill as we explore this worrying trend and map some exit ramps from the rabbit hole.
 
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