Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD (54 page)

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Authors: Martin A. Lee,Bruce Shlain

“We wouldn’t want everyone doing too much”
B
quoted in Abbie Hoffman,
Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture,
p. 73.

“We were never more awake”
A
R. Gordon Wasson, “Seeking the Magic Mushroom,”
Life,
May 27, 1957.

“The Leary,” which was used by the CIA
A
Richard Levine, “Ram Dass’ USA,”
Rolling Stone,
April 22, 1976.

“It was above all and without question
A
Timothy Leary, “The Religious Experience: Its Production and Interpretation,” in Weil, et. al.,
The Psychedelic Reader,
p. 191.

“I discovered that beauty”
B
Timothy Leary,
High Priest,
p. 12.

“handsome, clean-cut, witty”
B
quoted in Stewart Tendler and David May,
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love,
p. 46.

“We rode out to his place”
O
Humphry Osmond, remarks at the LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.

“We would avoid the behaviorist approach”
B
Leary,
High Priest,
p. 66.

“indistinguishable from, if not identical with”
B
quoted in Huston Smith, “Do Drugs Have Religious Import?” in Solomon,
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug,
p. 159.

—Chemical Crusaders—

“We’re going to teach people to stop hating”
B
quoted in Leary,
High Priest,
p. 120.

“the very technology stereotyping”
B
Allen Ginsberg, Introduction to
Jail Notes
by Timothy Leary, p. 9.

“We were thinking far-out history thoughts”
B
Leary,
Neuropolitics,
p. 3.

“Politics, religion, economics”
B
Leary, High
Priest,
p. 340.

“Oh yeah . . . anything”
I
Allen Ginsberg (quoting Dizzy Gillespie) with M. Lee and B. Shlain, April 1980.

“perceived the interrelationship of all life”
B
quoted in J. C. Thomas,
Chasin’ the Trane,
p. 215.

“It’s philosophical . . . the Rolls-Royce of dope”
B
quoted in Leary,
Flashbacks,
p. 55.

“Mainly I felt like a floating Khan”
L
Jack Kerouac to Timothy Leary, undated.

“I was so high on bourbon”
B
Charles Olson,
Muthologos,
Vol, 1, p. 22.

“a love feast, a truth pill”
ibid., p. 32

“wretched shame that we don’t have it”
ibid., p. 23.

“When they come after you”
I
Allen Ginsberg (quoting Charles Olson,) with M. Lee and B. Shlain, April, 1980.

“Leary used to argue”
B
Olson, p. 38.

“we were probably too proselytizing”
I
Allen Ginsberg with M. Lee and B. Shlain, April 1980.

“Love conquers all”
ibid.

“This is wonderful. no doubt”
B
quoted in Leary,
Flashbacks,
p. 59.

“You don’t need drugs to get high”
A
William Burroughs, “Academy 23,”
Village Voice,
July 6, 1967.

“At the immediate risk of finding”
B
William Burroughs,
Nova Express,
p. 13.

“What I had experienced”
B
Michael Hollingshead,
The Man Who Turned on the World,
p. 10.

“The reality on which I had consciously”
ibid., p. 12.

“It came sudden and irresistible”
B
Leary,
High Priest,
p. 246.

“LSD involved risk”
B
Hollingshead, p. 12.

“Uncontrolled experimentation has in the past”
D
(CIA) Memorandum for the Record,
“International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF), ALPERT, Richard, LEARY, Timothy,” 1 November 1963.

“I have this friend who’s a very important”
B
quoted in Leary,
Flashbacks,
pp. 128–29.

“I can’t give you all the details”
ibid., p. 154.

she and JFK smoked pot together
A
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, review of
The Kennedys
by Peter Collier and David Horowitz,
New York Times,
June 13, 1984.

“De Qumcey’s Confessions of an Opium Eater”
B
quoted in Alan Harrington, “A Visit to Inner Space,” in Solomon,
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug
, p. 87.

Kelman, recipient of a small grant
A
Al Larkin, “The CIA Funded Opponent of Leary,”
Boston Globe,
September 1, 1977.

“I question whether this project”
A
quoted in Noah Gordon, “the Hallucinogenic Drug Cult,”
New Yorker,
August 15, 1963.

“These drugs apparently cause panic”
B
quoted in Geller and Boas, p. 166.

“I liked Tim when we first met”
O
Al Hubbard, interview with Oscar Janiger, October 13, I978.

“LSD is so powerful . . . a thousand rumors”
O
Leary to reporter Bob Gaines, quoted in “LSD: Hollywood’s Status-Symbol Drug.”

“Some day it will be quite humorous”
A
quoted in Noah Gordon,
New Yorker
, August, 15, 1963.

“the Establishment’s apparatus for training”
B
quoted in Geller and Boas, p. 164.

“From this time on . . . dimly understand”
B
Leary,
High Priest,
p. 131.

—The Crackdown—

“with the proper precautions psychedelics are safe”
A
Sidney Cohen, “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Side Effects and Complications,”
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease,
130 (1960): 30, 39.

“sensitive to their scientific integrity”
CR
Letter from Alexander Naimon to Senator Edward Kennedy,
Biomedical and Behavioral Research,
p. 1144.

“It was a very intense period”
A
“The Compass Rose of Consciousness: An Interview with Dr. Oscar Janiger,”
L.A. Weekly,
November 13–19, 1981.

“may have been subject to the deleterious effects”
B
Jonathan O. Cole and Martin M. Katz, “The Psychotomimetic Drugs: An Overview,” in Solomon,
LSD: The Consciousiness Expanding Drug,
p. 237.

“At one time it was impossible to find”
A
Roy S. Grinkler, Sr., “Editorial: Lysergic Acid Diethylamide,” in Solomon,
LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug,
pp. 228–29.

“latent psychotics are disintegrating under the influence”
ibid.

to orient its behavioral activities exclusively toward operations
CR
“Report of Inspection of MK-ULTRA,” August 13, 1963,
Biomedical and Behavorial Research
, p. 903.

“Why if they were worthwhile six months ago”
CR
Organization and Coordination of Federal Drug Research and Regulatory Programs: LSD,
Hearings before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, May 24–26, 1966, pp. 72–75.

“We are abdicating our statutory responsibilities”
CR
Letter from William V. Vodra to Richard A Merrill, July 28, 1975,
Biomedical and Behavioral Research,
p. 513.

The FDA collaborated with the Agency
D (CIA) “Report of Inspection of MK-ULTRA,” 13 August 1963; “ARTICHOKE Conference, 16 April 1953,” 11 May 1953;
Office Memorandum for Acting Deputy Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, from Chief of Medical Division, SI, “Secured Personnel for Special ‘ARTICHOKE’ Project,” 7 April 1953.

“The whole thing was just moving geometrically”
O
Oscar Janiger, remarks at the LSD Reunion in Los Angeles, February 16, 1979.

CHAPTER FOUR: PREACHING LSD

—High Surrealism—

“It’s only a matter of time”
O
Leary, comments to reporter Bob Gaines, quoted in “LSD: Hollywood’s Status-Symbol Drug.”

“Light and free you let go”
B
Laura Huxley, “Oh Nobly Born!” in Huxley,
Moksha,
pp. 265–66.

“We lived out a myth”
B
Hollingshead, p. 99.

“It hardly registered”
B
Arthur Kieps,
Millbrook,
p. 51.

“How can I make more money”
ibid.

Dr. Max Jacobson served as JFK’s personal physician
B
Leary,
Flashbacks,
p. 200.

“LSD was fun”
B
Paul Krassner, “My First LSD Trip,” in Paul Krassner, ed.
The Best of the Realist,
pp. 145–46.

NASA scientist Steve Groff turned up at Millbrook
B
Hollingshead, p. 124.

“Objects are seen that are not objectively there”
A
Ralph Metzner, “Subjective Effects of Anti-Chohnergic Drugs,”
Journal of Psychedelic Drugs
October-December 1977.

“All night, I alternated between eyes open terror”
B
Kieps,
Millbrook,
p. 12.

“I was knocked to the floor”
ibid., p. 74.

“Apparently, those in control of the instrumentalities of coercive power”
ibid., p. 125.

“Art, this is not a psychedelic love message”
ibid., p. 208.

—The Psychedelic Manual—

“For every clarification that one arrives at”
B
Kieps,
Millbrook,
p. 211

“Zen and Buddhist stock rose sharply”
ibid., p. 58.

“I have never recovered from that shattering ontological confrontation”
B
Leary,
High Priest,
p. 256.

“recurring science fiction paranoia”
ibid., p. 257.

“incredibly specific about the sequence and nature”
B
Leary,
Psychedelic Prayers
, p. 3.

“the comforting darkness of selfhood”
B
Huxley,
Doors,
p. 56.

“everything that happened would be proof of the conspiracy”
ibid., p. 57.

“if there was somebody there to tell me about the Clear Light”
ibid.

“Let’s face it—LSD is not the key”
B
Hollingshead, p. 9.

“If you can’t let go and instead grab the first life-saver”
B
Kleps,
Millbrook,
p. 242.

“Is it entirely inconceivable”
A
Leary, “The Religious Experience: Its Production and Interpretation,” in Weil, Leary, and Metzner eds.,
The Psychedelic Review,
p. 203.