Liminalist, I love your discussion of Whitley Strieber being an MK-ULTRA subject. I think we're cutting very close here to the heart of the UFO phenomenon, and this is going to be a long post (with links to long articles/papers and their citations), but I do hope Paracasters will read it & consider the merits of this argument. And please note that I, too, used to respect and admire both the UFOs/ET Hyphothesis and the Psychedelic Revolution, so I don't mean to sound like a judgmental jerk who dismisses the topics out of hand. I only share this info because I took these topics very seriously, because the Truth is what I was seeking.....But information I've come across in the past couple years leads me to think that I was tricked, pure & simple----and I hope fellow Paracasters will read this & carefully consider these points without automatically dismissing them. After all, most of us agree that UFOlogy needs a new approach if we want to get anywhere.
After years of being fascinated by this subject and reading many books, interviews, shows etc. on the topic, and spending an amount of time pondering the entire subject that now almost embarrasses me, I used to really think that the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis was the answer to this mystery. But then I began learning more about MK-ULTRA and the very likely possibility that most of the 'Psychedelic Revolution" was a controlled-opposition, social-engineering psy-op. I used to be very interested and enthusiastic about psychedelia, but the facade starts to crumble when you find all sorts of troubling facts----the one that started to unravel it for me was the fact that the so-called discoverer of 'magic mushrooms' (R. Gordon Wasson) was the vice-president of J.P. Morgan bank, and got MK-ULTRA funds (MK subproject 58) to promote this agenda with his 1957 Life magazine article which introduced the concept to the public ("Seeking The Magic Mushroom",
Life magazine, May 13, 1957).
I'll post a few links to papers with much of the information that opened my eyes to this possibility, but the basic idea is this: the Psychedelic Revolution was merely a public continuation of MK-ULTRA, this time on the public-at-large. With MK-ULTRA, they had secret, captive patients they could experiment on with mind-bending chemicals, electro-shocks, surgeries, over-stimulation, sensory deprivation, etc. (the horrific list goes on) and they learned a lot about mind control. The Psychedelic Revolution was then the society-wide implementation of these effects, but instead of forcing chemicals into captive patients, they created a cultural zeitgeist that *encouraged rebellious people to DOSE THEMSELVES* and they also provided the "set & setting" by which they knew these softened-up minds could be corralled into predictable patterns desired by certain Powers That Be (intelligence agencies and their oligarchical controllers). They wanted to divert the public down lines of illogical, magical, wishful thinking as a way to control the populace and neutralize intelligent, rebellious citizens who threatened to rock the boat. They know that Knowledge is Power, and that the Scientific Method is the key to controlling & transforming our world. So what do you do when there are billions of people, but only so much Land, Food, Money, Sex, Power etc. to go around? You encourage the have-nots to wander into the labyrinth of la-la land.
And this is not to say that psychedelic substances are completely useless---in fact they were showing promise in guided, controlled therapeutical settings with things like alcoholism, trauma, etc. But it was right when they were showing this promise that their therapeutic use was severely restricted, and charlatans like Timothy Leary popped up like the Pied Piper of modern youth, both encouraging Congress to outlaw 'psychedelics' (since they knew this was a better way to attract rebellious dissidents to using them), and also *deeply* entwining the popular understanding of these substances (first called 'psychotomimetics', since they mimicked psychosis!) with religious concepts-----Shlain & Lee's book _Acid Dreams_ highlights how Leary would get angry with young acid-heads who were too involved with politics, and he would chastise them that they should be "seeking God" instead. The plan was to attract the most creative, rebellious, open-minded young people and divert them into fantasy-land, or _A Separate Reality_ (the title of one of Carlos Castaneda's books, himself a fraud awarded a PhD on the basis of a character, Don Juan, who never even existed!). Two phrases come to mind: "Religion is a tool of the state", and "Mysticism is a tool of tyrants."
In 1962, at his U.C. Berkeley speech, supposed-prophet (but likely social engineer) Aldous Huxley uttered these words:
“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.”
This is the heart of the New Age movement, of which the UFO religion is a part. Consider this: In 1932, Aldous Huxley wrote _Brave New World_ where he was supposedly warning society about the dangers of a drugged-out, blissed-out culture who were diverted by chemicals into accepting this sort of soft dictatorship. BUT THEN, in 1953, Huxley corresponded with Dr. Humphry Osmond, the man who coined the term "psychedelic." In fact the point of their private correspondences was *how to effectively market the psychotomimetic drugs*. As Huxley said, "About a name for these drugs -- what a problem!" They then compared little rhyming jingles proposing a few different name for the substances, and Osmond struck on "psychedelics."---
"Entheogens: What's in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic Spirituality, Social Control, and the CIA":
Entheogens: What’s in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic Spirituality, Social Control, and the CIA - Gnostic Media
Aldous Huxley, 1962 speech U.C. Berkeley ("The Ultimate Revolution"):
Now we should ask ourselves, why would Huxley, who had supposedly been warning us about a drugged-out society, be eager to suddenly market a cool name for mind-bending drugs that made people think they'd found paradise?! His role makes more sense when you learn that his brother, Julian Huxley, was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society, and their uncle, Thomas Huxley, was a strong supporter of Social Darwinism (he was known as "Darwin's Bulldog", and he also wrote the 1890 essay, "The Natural Inequality of Men")----the Huxleys weren't freedom fighters or champions of social justice, they were racist, eugenicist control-freaks. Aldous Huxley was always careful to couch his discussions in terms of "warnings" and "being concerned" about these "troubling" issues, but there seems to have been a more nefarious agenda beneath his public surface.
As Dr. Osmond (inventor of term 'psychedelics') said himself, regarding his and Aldous Huxley's meeting with Dr. Timothy Leary:
"We [Osmond & Huxley] went out to this place. And Timothy [Leary] then was wearing his gray flannel suite and his crew cut. And we had this very interesting discussion with him. And when we went.. and I don’t think I told you this, Timothy. But the night we went we both said 'what a nice fellow he is.' He says 'he’s a very nice man,' and Aldous said, 'It’s very, very nice to think that this is what’s going to be done at Harvard.' He said 'it would be so good for it.' And then I said to him, 'I think he’s a nice fellow too. But don’t you think he’s just a little bit square?' Aldous said 'you may be right,' he said 'but after all isn’t that what we want?' "
You can hear that above quote come straight from Dr. Osmond's mouth in the below video clip, at a reunion party where he, Leary, and other LSD researchers/promoters got together to reminisce about their social-engineering project:
"A Conversation On LSD":
It includes Leary saying the following in his own words in an exchange which you can hear for yourself in the above video:
Dr. Timothy Leary: "Uh, of course…uh, then, there of course, was part [break in audio – mic muffled] coolness of the Los Angeles [break in audio – mic muffled], uh, [break in audio – mic muffled] cell, whatever you want to call it. But they kept a, you kept a, uh…
Dr. Sidney Cohen: "Would you mind not calling it a cell? Let’s call it a cluster!"
Dr. Timothy Leary: "All right. [Room laughs] Our undercover agents in Los Angeles were very cool about, uh, and yet they did more in a very laid-back way, uh, and it’s every bit as public as some of the other, you know, the buses running around the country..."
Dr. Oscar Janiger: "Yeah, and then Zinnberg says that the visionary experience, and all of the things he was doing at Harvard, and the others, his residence, and the rest he was giving LSD to, they never had a visionary, or ecstatic, or mystic experience. That the whole thing was a California invention, he said."
Dr. Timothy Leary: "Wonderful! They’re right!"
(There's a lot more to discuss about all this regarding how it applies to the UFO phenomenon, specifically how much of UFOlogy could really be the result of this kind of controlled-opposition tricksterism, but this is fairly long, so I'll leave it here for now. But all of this provides some insight into how these sneaky, controlled-opposition cultural movements are socially engineered to divert & confuse society. I can discuss in a later post why exactly the UFO zeitgeist would be useful to social engineers, but for now I'll just say that Dr. Jacques Vallee himself laid out some very convincing reasons in his book _Messengers of Deception_.)
A couple other links:
"R. Gordon Wasson: The Man, The Myth, The Legend---Beginning a New History of Magic Mushrooms, Ethnomycology, and the Psychedelic Revolution":
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/SecretHistoryMagicMushroomsProject#R. Gordon Wasson
"Manufacturing the Deadhead: A Product of Social Engineering":
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/manufac...cial-engineering-by-joe-atwill-and-jan-irvin/
