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American History: Author Ken Kesey was a Paid test subject in Project MKULTRA, the CIA LSD Experiment to see if Drugs could be used as weapons of war.

 They also tested LSD on Robert Hunter (Lyrics-Grateful Dead) and Stewart Brand (Whole Earth Catalog Author). Ken Kesey Employed the Dead to play at his Acid Tests... so, WAS the Grateful Dead Tour a CIA Experiment to see what would happen if millions of people used LSD? I certainly feel that if the Police WANTED to arrest all the LSD Merchants that worked the Parking Lot, they would have had an easy time... So, maybe they were bought off by the CIA so that the MASSIVE Distribution of LSD could continue... Maybe the Grateful Dead Tour was DEPLOYMENT of MKULTRA because the CIA felt that they were undermining the Anti-War Movement... Radicals that were Protesting took LSD and Dropped Out to go live on Communes in the country, grow some vegetables, chickens, weed and Children...

LSD Ripple Colorswirl by gvan42- Gregory Vanderlaan - Psychedelic Art
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Mickey Hart and Bob Weir belong to the Bohemian Grove... This all makes sense to me as The Grove was started as a getaway for artists, musicians and journalists who wanted a private place to party outside of San Francisco... So Bob Weir and Mickey Hart would be a great addition to group sing alongs around the campfire...

Timothy Leary was a CIA employee who wrote the "Leary Personality Test" years before he ate Magic Mushrooms and LSD.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/great-books-project-mkultra-cia-lsd.html

Great Books: Project MKULTRA CIA LSD American History "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate" by John Marks

MKULTRA: a CIA Mind Control Project in the USA during the 1950's and 1960's. They were looking for a way to use drugs as weapons of war. For example: LSD as a way to simply get the "enemy" to lay down their arms, voluntarily... like, too stoned to fight...

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LSD Psychedelic Art by Greg Vanderlaan vandergreg gvan42 purple64ets gregvan

Great Book: "The Whole Earth Catalog" by Stewart Brand. He was an MKULTRA Participant at Stanford with Ken Kesey and Robert Hunter.

A Classic Book that Connected People who wanted to Pursue Alternative Life Styles with Companies That Sold Stuff That Could assist Making that Happen... Popular with People that Built Hippie Communes and People That DREAMED ABOUT Building Hippie Communes... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog
A catalog that provided links to tools that would be useful to build a commune. What if you needed something? Here were people that sold that very thing... with phone numbers and addresses of the suppliers. It was a book that enabled people to live alternative lifestyles...

The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC) was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published by Stewart Brand several times a year between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. The magazine featured essays and articles, but was primarily focused on product reviews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Right%27s_Trip and it had a story that had a paragraph or two on every page... Called Divine Right's Trip... It is kinda autobiographical of a Magic Bus Trip around the USA. by Gurney Norman... In 1960, he received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University... Ken Kesey studied Creative Writing at Stanford at the same time... 

MKULTRA was a CIA Experiment where they studied the effects and usefulness of DRUGS as a weapon of war. LSD was given to volunteers to see if it had any value for the military in interrogation of prisoners... At The Stanford University experiments Ken Kesey, Robert Hunter and Stewart Brand took LSD and then decided that EVERYONE should have that experience... Ken Kesey started holding Acid Tests where hundreds of people took LSD and The Grateful Dead played Music... Robert Hunter wrote lyrics for the Dead and eventually hundreds of thousands of people took LSD at Grateful Dead Concerts... 


So, was "The Sixties" a CIA Experiment to see what would happen if thousands of people too LSD? Did they hope that LSD would make people so spaced out that we  would stop protesting against the War in Vietnam? That might have been their plan but... it didn't work... Just look at Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman

THE PLOT OF DIVINE RIGHT'S TRIP... 

The plot is set in the 1960s, which chronicles the awakening of the hippie stoner Divine Right (alter ego of the main character D.R. Davenport) as he travels from Kentucky with his girlfriend Estelle across the country, in a patient and introspective 1963 VW Bus, Urge. Divine Right has no idea where he is or where he is going.


D.R. and Estelle take turns sleeping and driving, but D.R.'s constant straddling between waking and sleeping makes the journey as much an inner trip as it is a physical seemingly random trip from Urge to anywhere. The first helper character to be encountered is the Lone Outdoorsman who is a non-moving object in this road-trip story, stuck camping on the same site since years ago, watching TV in his solitude. He is suspicious soul.




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Great Movie: "Conspiracy Theory" MKULTRA, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson and Patrick Stewart... American History told as an Exciting Fiction Story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_Theory_(film)  Mel Gibson plays the part of a Mind Contol Victim that was programmed to be an assassin... Patrick Stewart is the CIA Bad Guy who made Gibson into a "Manchurian Candidate". Julia Roberts helps Mel Escape from the Brainwashing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra The CIA wanted to see if Drugs could be used as a weapon of war. They did drug experiments to find a "Truth Serum" to assist interrogation of captured spies. The most successful was a combination of Cannabis and Benzedrine... It kept the subject awake but in "The Twilight Zone"...

The Most Famous were the experiments at Stanford where The CIA gave LSD to students just to see what would happen... Ken Kesey, Robert Hunter and Stewart Brand were part of this experiment. Kesey then "liberated" some LSD and had free form parties with the Grateful Dead playing Music... These were called The Acid Tests. Later, Owsley made the LSD... Including The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour,

Eventually the Acid Tests became LSD Fueled Rock Concerts where people would sell "Doses" in the parking lot and thousands of people would trip together... to music designed to be listened to on Acid. The Concerts would start with an hour of normal rock music, then a break and then... when the audience was peaking... the band would play a jam session called Drums/Space where two drummers would play a duet and the other members of the band would make quasi-random noises... A big part of this performance was Mickey Hart playing an instrument called "The Beam"... 13 very long strings attached to a steel I Beam and played with drumsticks... This was also used in a Star Trek Movie.

Was "The Sixties" a CIA Mind Control Experiment that escaped from the Laboratory and Got out onto the Dance Floor? 

Grateful Dead Logo...
Lightning Bolt Skull...
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Another plan was to give large quantities of people LSD and get them too stoned to fight with weapons... Basically get the enemy to lay down their guns and surrender. They tried a delivery system with a remote controlled Acid Bomb in the New York Subway System. No actual LSD but they wanted to see how to deliver LSD to large groups of people...

Read More At:

http://www.key-z.com/

http://www.dead.net/

https://blankonblank.org/interviews/jerry-garcia-on-the-acid-tests/

https://www.mickeyhart.net/news/all-about-the-beam-baby-5211

https://www.edge.org/memberbio/stewart_brand

http://www.thebear.org/ Owsley Stanley's Website

http://www.dead.net/band/robert-hunter 

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