Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD (55 page)

—The Hard Sell—

“Find the wisdom”
B
Leary,
Politics,
p. 288.

“would be sold like beer”
B
Kieps,
Millbrook,
p. 25.

“In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session”
B
Leary,
Politics,
p. 106.

“It’s all God’s flesh”
B
quoted in Kieps,
Boohoo Bible,
p. 207.

“I would say that at present our society”
B
Leary,
Politics,
p. 243.

“Tim had what we needed”
B
Kieps,
Millbrook,
p. 203.

“Of course I’m a charlatan”
ibid., p. 290.

“It was easier to see him”
B
Hollingshead, p. 57.

George Blake, the convicted spy who penetrated
ibid., p. 177.

“the panties were dropping as fast as the acid”
A G. Gordon Liddy, “The Great Dutchess County Dope Raid,”
True,
June 1975.

CHAPTER FIVE: THE ALL-AMERICAN TRIP

—The Great Freak Forward—

“Before I took drugs”
B
quoted in Burton Wolfe,
The Hippies,
p. 201.

“The first drug trips were”
B
Ken Kesey,
Garage Sale,
p. 175.

“tootling the multitudes”
B
Tom Wolfe,
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,
p. 88.

“The purpose of psychedelics”
B
quoted in B. Wolfe, p. 203.

“Neal Cassady drove Jack Kerouac”
B
Ginsberg, Introduction to Leary,
Jail Notes,
p. 8.

“the yoga of a man driven to the cliff edge”
B
Kesey, p. 220.

“creeping religiosity”
B
T. Wolfe, p. 113.

“It was like hail and farewell”
ibid., p. 90.

“they thought we were square”
I Michael Hollingshead with M. Lee, July 21, 1981.

“When you’ve got something like we’ve got”
B
quoted in T. Wolfe, p. 172.

“We’re in the same business”
A
quoted in Warren Hinckle, “A Social History of the Hippies,”
Ramparts,
March 1967.

“It was a very electric atmosphere”
B
Hunter Thompson,
Hell’s Angels,
p. 300.

—Acid and the New Left—

“the storms of youth”
B
Lautréamont,
Poesies,
quoted in
Point Blank
by the Situationist International, October 1972, p. 41.

“There’s a time when the operation”
B
quoted in Paul Jacobs and Saul Landau,
The New Radicals,
p. 61.

“Social radicals tend to be ‘arty’ “
B
Hunter Thompson, “The Nonstudent Left,”
The Great Shark Hunt
, p. 403.

“When a young person took his first puff”
I
Michael Rossman with M. Lee, November 11, 1978.

“a dead wet dog on a cool morning”
B
Michael McClure,
Meat Science Essays,
p. 41

“The acid experience is so concrete”
I
Carl Oglesby with M. Lee, April 24, 1979.

“Do you want to know how to stop”
B
quoted in T. Wolfe, p. 199.

“Being a musician means”
B
quoted in Miles,
Bob Dylan: In His Own Words,
p. 114.

“He was LSD on stage”
B
quoted in Anthony Scaduto,
Dylan,
p. 235.

CHAPTER SIX: FROM HIP TO HIPPIE

—Before the Deluge—

“Beauty will be CONVULSIVE”
B
quoted in Gaëton Picon,
Surrealists and Surrealism,
p. 86.

“The general tone of things”
B
quoted in Eugene Anthony,
The Summer of Love,
p. 111.

“What the Kesey thing was depended on”
B
quoted in Michael Lydon, “The Grateful Dead,” in Albert J. LaValley, ed.,
The New Consciousness,
pp. 555–56.

“It seemed like we were in a time machine”
B
Stephen Gaskin,
Amazing Dope Tales,
p. 2.

“Every time we’d make another batch”
I
Tim Scully with M. Lee, November 10, 1982.

“a world famous dope center”
B
quoted in Nicholas von Hoffman,
We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against,
p. 123.

“We were not guilty of using illegal substances”
B
quoted in Anthony, p. 126.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident”
ibid., p. 130.

—Politics of the Bummer—

“the pseudo-intellectuals who advocate the use”
B
quoted in David Zane Mairowitz,
The Radical Soap Opera,
p. 181.

“the greatest threat facing the country”
A
quoted in Richard Bunce, “Social and Political Sources of Drug Effects: The Case of Bad Trips on Psychedelics,”
Journal of Drug Issues,
Spring 1979, p. 227.

“We do not want amateur or blackmarket sale”
CR
The Narcotic Rehabilitation Act of 1966,
Hearings before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, January 25–27, May 12, 13, 19, 23, 25, June 14–15, July 19, 1966, p. 253.

“For six years I have been in the unfortunate position”
ibid., p. 257.

“for serious purposes, such as spiritual growth”
ibid., p. 241.

“I should think that in the Army of the future”
ibid., p. 249.

“Would you mind telling me if you are really”
ibid., pp. 423–24.

“It is difficult for us to imagine”
ibid., p. 415.

“If I were to give you an IQ test”
ibid., p. 414.

“We are not drug addicts”
ibid., pp. 417, 424.

“I have a strong feeling”
CR
Organization and Coordination of Federal Drugs Research and Regulatory Programs: LSD,
p. 37.

“We are now in a position to understand”
B
Paz, pp. 97–98.

“Although human chromosome breaks have been reported”
CR
Dr. Van Sim, “Fact Sheet on LSD Studies at Edgewood Arsenal,” in
Biomedical and Behavioral Research,
p. 228.

Those who were willing to risk their own sanity
A
Bunce,
Journal of Drug Issues,
Spring 1979, p. 227.

nearly
50%
of those questioned reported having
ibid., p. 218.

“We can explain the substantial historical decline”
ibid.

“That was a mean and dirty trick”
I
Ken Kesey with M. Lee, July 21, 1978.

“How lucky those of us are who approached LSD”
B
Laura Huxley, “Disregarded in the Darkness,” in Huxley,
Moksha,
pp. 74–75.

—The First Human Be-In—

Unless otherwise indicated, all information on John Starr Cooke in this section of the text is based on an interview with Michael Bowen by M. Lee and B. Shlain, July 9–10, 1980.

John Cooke . . . is said to have made the acquaintance of CIA operatives
I William Burroughs with M. Lee, March 2, 1981.

“We knew we had the tiger by the tail”
I
Allen Cohen with Mr. Lee and B. Shlin, June 10, 1980.

“For ten years . . . a new nation has grown”
B
quoted in Anthony, p. 155.

“that, if necessary, we have a mass emotional nervous breakdown”
B
Allen Ginsberg, “Public Solitude,” in Jessie Kornbluth ed.,
Notes from the New Underground,
p. 69.

“Welcome to the first manifestation”
B
John Bryan,
What Ever Happened to Timothy Leary?,
p. 4.

“The only way out is m”
B
Steve Levine, “The First American Mehla,” in Jerry Hopkins ed.,
The Hippie Papers,
p. 21.

“The Be-in was a blossom”
B
Michael McClure in Anthony, p. 7.

“In about seven or eight years”
B
quoted in Mairowitz,
Soap Opera,
p. 185.

“There was a fantastic universal sense”
B
Hunter Thompson,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
p. 68.

“dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane”
B
quoted in Don McNeil,
Moving Through Here,
p. 145.

“in their independence of material possessions”
A
“The Hippies,”
Time,
July 7, 1967.

“The hip thing was fundamentally a drug-boosted look-in”
A
Carl Oglesby, “The World Before Watergate,”
Inquiry,
May 29, 1978.

“the whole problem of whether to take over”
B
Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, “Changes,” in Kornbluth, p. 139.

“the choice is between being rebellious”
ibid., p. 194.

“Don’t vote. Don’t politic”
B
quoted in Bryan, p. 96.

“young men with menopausal minds”
B
Ginsberg, Leary, Snyder, Watts, “Changes,” in Kornbluth, p. 141.

“People should not be allowed to talk politics”
B
quoted in Bryan, p. 96.

“the first thing you have to do”
B
Ginsberg, Leary, Snyder, Watts, “Changes,” in Kornbluth, p. 148–49.

“a more profound vision of themselves”
ibid., p. 143.

“the flavors and ingredients of whatever happens to be cooking”
I
Michael Rossman with M. Lee, November 11, 1978.

“The private is public, and the public is”
B
Charles Olson Reading at Berkeley,
p. 5.

“turn and face man, the body of man”
A
Antonin Artaud quoted in Ira Einhorn, “The Sociology of the Now,”
The Psychedelic Review,
Winter 1970-71.

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE CAPITAL OF FOREVER

—Stone Free—

Unless otherwise indicated, information on the Diggers in this chapter is based on an interview with Peter Berg and Judy Goldhaft by Eric Noble and M. Lee, April 29, 1982.

“Street events are rituals of release”
A
“The Digger Papers,” published in
The Realist,
August 1968.

“a poetry of festivals and crowds, with people pouring”
B
Antonin Artaud, quoted in Hoffman,
Major Motion Picture,
p. 102.

“encouraging the looser and disordered sort of people”
B
B. Wolfe, p. 63.

“No frozen moments for tomorrow’s fantasy”
B
“The Digger Papers,” in
The Realist,
August 1968.

“Western society has destroyed itself”
ibid.

“The U.S. standard of living is a baby blanket”
ibid.

Mundane objects . . . warned the straight world of a threat
B
Dick Hebidge,
Subculture: The Meaning of Style,
p. 213.

“The media casts nets, creates bags”
B
quoted in Kornbluth, ed.,
Notes From the New Underground,
p. 284.

“Stamp out police brutality”
B
quoted in Hopkins, ed.,
The Hippie Papers,
p. 136.

“Say if you are hungry, we will feed”
B
B. Wolfe, p. 71.

—The Great Summer Dropout—