Timothy Leary's ties to the Military and CIA

Do you all think hippie culture was deliberately steered by right wing forces in such a way that potential activists were led to not engage in political action?

Drop out.
be apolitical
chase Utopia

Hmmmmm?

 

A recent article in "The Washington Times" reveals the Pentagon is funding academic research into how protest movements grow. Not that this proves any conspiracy theory, just that it shows the military is interested in social change!

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/13/us-defense-department-studying-protesters-prep-mas/

 

I think humans are deliberately fucked in the head, on purpose, to keep them spinning the wheels of politics and war, on purpose.

From "The Washington Times", the page is so busy that it fractures and splits one's attention, causing distraction and lack of focus. The result is a diminished level of comprehension. Some people think "attention deficit" is a BRAIN disease. I think it's a consequence of mental abuse; bombardment.

See how they managed to get 'sexiest' right in the middle of what you're reading?

 

close but not exactly. fact is, L.S.D. WAS developed for and by the military. (there was even an article in popular mechanics or mechanics illustrated, i forget which, about its intended use and how it might end conventional warfare, some time in the i950s that i remember reading myself, somewhere around the tender age of 11 or 12. (i was born in 1948))

dr tim was head of the american psychiatric association, i forget the actual name, until he was replaced by dr maslow.

these two things as simple, well documented and well known historical facts. as for the mutual warpings and pervertings of competing political causes, those are the gordian knot beyond all unravelling.

i'm not sure where or what is supposed to be a "conspiracy" in any of that.

i know that one of the reasons dr tim got replaced by dr maslow, was his perhaps over enthusiastic promotion of civilian use of neurotropic substances. it may even have been suggested that dr tim's own judgment may have been somewhat impaired by their consumption.

 

Don't have to be that way. Only stupid people believe everything they read.

 

And they quickly lost interest in when they saw it was not a useful weapon. MK Ultra is well documented but the fact that it is illegal is proof to me that they realized it would do the opposite, allow people to move beyond the war culture. Our government is aligned with a ancient race from mars that relies on war. There are other races and other paths that forsake that. This is not what the elite want. If LSD did what they wanted it to it would be pushed like Xanax on the TV. "Ask your doctor about LSD".

The idea that the hippie culture was orchestrated in order to make people drop out of society is ridiculous. It made people far too involved for that. Of course they tried to (and possibly did) compromise key people in the movement such as Timothy Leary. But that would have been done because they saw the power for change in it. The 60's were the only time when a massive group of people really showed the potential to leave empty materialism and war behind. They were on to the idea of there being something more. A whole generation of youth who might not fall for it, the most dangerous thing there is. That is why it is trivialized today as a bunch of kids getting high. It is a perfect example of history being written by the winner. There was the potential for so much more. You misunderstand it if you think it was only kids smoking pot and dropping acid.

 

LSD was created by Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist looking for a medicine which would have stimulating properties while not causing uterine contractions.

The military didn't use LSD until about a decade after the discovery of LSD's psychedelic effects and their intended purposes had little to nothing to do with how the hippies used LSD.


In response to the op, I don't think the hippie movement was steered by the establishment sans some media commodifying hippie ideals. The society itself was going through a turbulent time and there was much dissension among all different types of groups and even within groups.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'be apolotical,' the hippie movement or those closely associated with them were probably more political oriented for various causes then at any other point in the 20th century. There were groups protesting the Vietnam War, racial and sexual discrimination, environmental causes, etc.

 

good things to know. i furst herd about it in an article in popular science sometime in the late 50s or early 60s.
i agree the whole 'hippie movement' was about real politics of real people. whoever said it wasn't wasn't me.
i did, and will continue to say though, that real politics isn't about ideology. any ideology.
ideologies only exist to manufacture consent, which is what corporate media was attempting to do in the popular mind, by attempting to depict the higher moral ground of populist movements, as ignorant and unwashed.
of course it backfired on (the corporate, called establishment at the time, mindset), and we all owe a debt of gratitude that it did.

 

I do believe the hippy movement and 60s drug culture was a product of the CIA. The evidence points to Leary being a possible CIA agent, or at the very least a witting tool of the agency. The intelligence agencies use people they call change agents to move society in a desired direction by changing the way people think. Now some people may see the hippy movement as a positive thing, and I agree there are many positive aspects to the hippy subculture. However, it would appear that the 60s were the start of the chaos and dysfunction we see today in society. A lot of new age ideas were introduced around this time which seem to be a precursor to reshaping people's world views as we enter the Aquarian age.

Gloria Steinem, another change agent, also has ties to the CIA.

 

They tried to steer the hippie movement like they try to steer every other worthwhile one. How much they succeeded, I wouldn't know.


Discredit, but at the same time, make them seem threatening and like something that must be opposed. Cave, but cave in half measures, so that the whole measure being sought by the movement is forever beyond reach - you get a half measure, you are discredited, and if you say anything you're talked down to and told you already got what you wanted and you're just a fringe nutjob who took too much acid.

When you accomplish nothing, they make it sound like you accomplished something, so that people don't take you seriously when you make demands, and will resent you for your greed and insatiability. When you accomplish something, they make it sound like you accomplished nothing, to prevent momentium and hope from building or spreading beyond the isolated movement.

 

Timothy Leary wanted to dose the water supply in america with acid.Grace Slick and Abbie Hoffman wanted to dose Richard Nixon when they were invited to the white house.Imagine how much the world would be different if that happened