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The Meaning of the Song "Blackbird" by the Beatles. It's about Racism and The Civil Rights Struggles in the USA in 1968.

Listen to the Song: 

Paul McCartney and the Ladies that Inspired the Song Blackbird


Are you familiar with the song “Blackbird” by The Beatles? Most of us are, but few know the REAL meaning behind it…


Paul McCartney was visiting America. He was sitting, resting, when he heard a woman screaming. He looked up to see a Black woman being surrounded by the police. The police had her handcuffed, and were beating her.

He thought the woman had committed a terrible crime, only to find out that "the crime" she committed was to sit in a section reserved for whites.

Paul was shocked. There was no segregation in England. But, here in America, the land of freedom, this is how Blacks were being treated.

McCartney and the Beatles went back home to England, but he would remember what he saw, how he felt, the unfairness of it all.

He also remembered watching television and following the news in America, the race riots and what was happening in Little Rock, Arkansas, what was going on in the Civil Rights movement.

He saw the picture of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford attempt to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School as an angry mob followed her, yelling, "Drag her over this tree! Let's take care of that n**ger!'" and “Lynch her! Lynch her!” “No n**ger b*tch is going to get in our school!”

McCartney couldn't believe this was happening in America.

He thought of these women being mistreated, simply because of the color of her skin. He sat down and started writing.

Last year at a concert, he would meet two of the women who inspired him to write one of his most memorable songs, Thelma Mothershed Wair and Elizabeth Eckford, members of the Little Rock Nine (pictured here).

McCartney would tell the audience he was inspired by the courage of these women: "Way back in the Sixties, there was a lot of trouble going on over civil rights, particularly in Little Rock. We would notice this on the news back in England, so it's a really important place for us, because to me, this is where civil rights started. We would see what was going on and sympathize with the people going through those troubles, and it made me want to write a song that, if it ever got back to the people going through those troubles, it might just help them a little bit, and that's this next one."

He explained that when he started writing the song, he had in mind a Black woman, but in England, "girls" were referred to as "birds." And, so the song started:

"Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting
for this moment to arise."

McCartney added that he and the Beatles cared passionately about the Civil Rights movement, "so this was really a song from me to a Black woman, experiencing these problems in the States: ‘Let me encourage you to keep trying, to keep your faith, there is hope.’

"Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting
for this moment to be free."


McCartney has given various statements regarding both his inspiration for the song and its meaning.[2] He has said that he was inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird one morning when the Beatles were studying Transcendental Meditation in Rishikesh, India and also [3] writing it in Scotland as a response to racial tensions escalating in the United States during the spring of 1968.[4]

Project MKULTRA: The CIA Mind Control Experiment That Escaped The Laboratory and Got Out Onto The Dance Floor! Was "The Sixties" Really a Test to Just Find Out What Would Happen IF A Million People Took LSD?

At First, The CIA Allowed Millions of Doses of LSD to be Distributed at Grateful Dead Concerts JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE CURIOUS... and then Later, The CIA Deployed All Those Vendors BECAUSE IT WORKED! Many People Who Took LSD Became "NOT A THREAT" To The Ruling Class. People Became interested in Learning How to Play Guitar instead of Being Interested in The Violet Overgrow of the US Government... People Became interested in Organic Farming... Again, Remote Marijuana Farmers and Organic Vegetable Growers DO NOT POSE A DANGER TO THE IVY LEAGUE EAST COAST ESTABLISHMENT... 

They Even Had a CIA Consultant Touring Coast to Coast Advising Young People to "Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out." Yes, Dr Timothy Leary Worked for the CIA Designing the Leary Personality Test. --- AND --- People who "Drop Out" are Mostly Harmless... There were a Couple of Exceptions: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin Started the "YIPPIES" and Protested Against the Vietnam War... Causing Thousands of People to Surround the Pentagon to Try and Levitate It. They also Created the 1968 Chicago Riots... 

Charles Manson Was a Product of Decades Spent Incarcerated in the USA Prison System... He used LSD to Brainwash Teenage Runaway Girls in Los Angeles... Creating What He Called "Charlie's Angels" - Later Made into a TV Show... In a TV Network Planning Meeting they FLIPPED THE SCRIPT and Made Charlie GOOD instead of EVIL. Higher Ratings with a Good Guy. And They made the Angels Beautiful Women instead of the Plain Looking People in the Manson Family... 



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The FBI KNEW What was Going On. Observe this Official Report Published Due to a Freedom of Information Act Request. Heavily Redacted. Note Page 14. 

FBI FOIA Grateful Dead


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In the 1960s, The CIA was on a Quest to Discover a Technique to Create Mind Controlled Robot People That would DO WHATEVER THEY WERE TOLD. They Tried Drugs, Hypnosis, ESP, Tape Loops and Sensory Deprivation. Sometimes, All At Once! However, The Most Successful was TV News... 

Here is the Trick: Broadcast a TV News Show that Captures the Attention of the Primitive "Lizard" Brain. LOUDLY SHOUT "Danger - Danger" and People React! and People Keep On Watching! Because a Million Years of Evolution Has Programmed Us to GO ON HIGH ALERT Whenever Someone Shouts "Danger - Danger."

Historically, People That Ignored That Warning Were Eaten by Sabre Tooth Tigers and DID NOT SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH TO CREATE CHILDREN. 

"Danger -Danger" People from a Different Tribe are Approaching... YOUR Tribe Survived Because They PREVENTED Other Tribes from Stealing Your Food and Women... Xenophobia Has a Survival Value... Racism Works!


MEME - Danger Danger Aliens Approaching - Fake Border Crisis - gvan42 Purple64ets Gregory Vanderlaan

However, In 2020, The Survival Value of Hatred FAILS. Getting Along With People That Have a Different Skin Color Is a Great Idea! Mainly Because People Own Guns and Knives and Being Friends Results in Fewer Fights... DUH... 

People Have a Difficult Time Telling the Difference Between the Propaganda They See on TV and The Real World... In Reality, People From Different Tribes DO NOT ACTUALLY POSE A DANGER... But The Marketing Geniuses at TV Stations Have Realized they Will Get More Viewers if they PRETEND that there is a CRISIS... and It's NOT JUST FOX NEWS... CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and OAN all use the Marketing Strategy of Shouting "Danger - Danger." 

For Example: The Population of the USA is 331,002,651 People... The Total Number of Americans That Have Died from tRUMP's Coronavirus is 149,000... or A TINY PERCENT... 
(Body Count as of 7/26/2020 and More Dying Every Day!)
DANG! That's Not Really A Big Danger! Over 400,000
Americans Died of Opioid Overdoses in the Last Ten Years...
And YET, If You Watch TV NEWS, They All Pretend That
tRUMP's Coronavirus is a BIG Danger!




A REAL DANGER is Death by Prescription Drug Side Effects. 
https://www.unityrehab.com/blog/prescription-drugs-more-deaths-than-illicit-drugs/
BUT, Pharmaceutical Companies Buy a LOT of Advertising Time on TV News... and so TV NEWS SIMPLY REFUSES TO MENTION THIS SUBJECT... 

Eating Good Food Causes Good Health... Did You Ever Notice that "Organic Earth Mothers" are Really Slim and Healthy Looking? Compare Vegetarian Hippie Chicks to Blubber Babes at WALMART! 

What I Thing is Funny is That... On the same day... I See Advertisements SELLING ROUNDUP HERBICIDE and Other Ads are SELLING LAWYER SERVICES TO HELP YOU SUE BAYER/MONSANTO FOR CAUSING CANCER. 
MEME - Roundup Causes Cancer - Cute Ads - gvan42 - purple64ets - Gregory Vanderlaan

#Brainwashing #CIA #MKULTRA #FBI #NSA #DARPA #EIEIO #MindControl #HumanRobots   


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Located on Highway 101 in Northern California near Oregon. Arcata is a UNIQUE Town… Home of Humboldt State University and Countless Artists, Musicians and Hippies!

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Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves what Medicine is Best…

Photos of The Sacramento River near Chico, CA

Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All the Cannabis Prisoners

A Dramatic Savings of Government Spending CURRENTLY WASTED On Law Enforcement and Incarceration and a MASSIVE INCREASE IN VOLUNTARY TAXES! Everybody Wins! We Could Use the Extra Money to Pay for Education and Healthcare for All.

If you don’t smoke you wouldn’t pay a cent. It’s a Win-Win situation. More money going into the Treasury and Less going out.  In addition, states that have legal medical marijuana have fewer deaths due to opioid addiction. Some people simply choose the safer drug… DUH…

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/06/11/legalize-marijuana-nationwide-tax-it-and-free-all-the-cannabis-prisoners/

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LEGALIZE VOTING – Fight the GOP Attempt to Overthrow of the US Government... 

DEMOCRACY is Vastly Better than MONARCHY… Especially Mad King Donald… LOCK HIM UP!

Let’s Stop Advertising Prescription Drugs on TV. Those Ads COST a FORTUNE and The Patients Pay for Them in Higher Drug Prices!

Secret Trick to Life: Learn How To Do a FACT CHECK on Google.

That Way People CAN’T Lie to You. Because You Refuse To Believe Their Lies… Simply Type the Words “Fact Check” and the Statement You Want to Verify… Read the Results… It Can Be Quite Eye Opening!

1619 Project: #MoscowMitch McConnell is Reviving Interest Again… Now, It’s a GOP CANCEL CULTURE CAUSE!

He Wants the US Government to BAN Teaching the History of Slavery in the USA… In Public Schools…

I Did a Scientific Experiment On How Drugs Effect My Skill Level Playing Chess.

Results: Coffee Made Me Play Better. Alcohol and Marijuana Made me Worse. LSD Made Me Reject the Entire Idea of Tests and I Refused to Play Games…

It was a Simple Test and You Could Recreate it Yourself for a “PEER REVIEW” – I owned a Chess Computer that Played at Different Skill Levels… I Took Those Drugs – I Played against the Machine and Determined What Level I Could Beat the Machine… and That’s Why… all these years later… the only drug I take is Coffee… and a Dozen “Doctor Drugs” That Don’t Seem to Do Anything but Don’t Seem to Do Any Harm Either… After All... “One Pill Makes You Larger, and One Pill Makes You Small… and The Ones That Mother Gives You Don’t Do Anything at All…” – Grace Slick

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/i-did-a-scientific-experiment-on-how-drugs-effect-my-skill-level-playing-chess/ 




POP QUIZ! WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON??? Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Maria Butina=Guilty, Paul Erickson = Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guilty, George Nader=Guilty
CAN YOU SPOT THE FREAKING TREND???

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - BUTTON For Sale...


Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire - STICKERS for Sale...

Music Video: The Lock Him Up and Throw Away The Key Blues (tRUMP's a Danger to Self and Others... Police Code 5150...) http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/music-video-lock-him-up-and-throw-away.html

Music Video: Butterfly Freedom - Did You Ever Notice... Reality?  It's Right Outside Your Door... Take a Walk in the Woods... Unplug... and Experience Nature... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/music-video-butterfly-freedom-chords.html

HOW TO Join the Global #DumpTrump Movement. Anyone, Anywhere in the World May Write to US Senators and House Representatives Using Their Online Contact Forms. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/05/join-global-dumptrump-movement-anyone.html

Let's Cut The Police Force in Half. How to Contact Your Senators and Representatives. Fewer Police = More Safety. Police Need MORE TRAINING About How to STOP MURDERING UNARMED CITIZENS https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/lets-cut-police-force-in-half-how-to.html

Absentee Ballots [vote by mail] are one way to make sure YOU CAN VOTE AT ALL. Republicans are putting a LOT of effort in preventing people from voting. Especially Black and Brown people. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/absentee-ballots-vote-by-mail-are-one.html


If tRUMP Wins, He Will CAUSE Global Economic Collapse. Billions of People Will Die of Starvation. Remember That #TrumpHasFailed When You Vote. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/if-trump-wins-he-will-cause-global.html

Millions of Republicans #RUNAWAY from tRUMP... Everyone Has Realized... He's a Pile of _______ ! (Redacted - Community Standards) Did You Ever Notice That Republicriminals are trying to Destroy Democracy by Preventing People from Voting... Then, They Can Crown CZAR Donald Glorious Leader For Life! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/millions-of-republicans-runaway-from_10.html

tRUMP IS INSANE! A Call for Invoking the 25th Amendment. When He Causes Global Economic Collapse, Billions Will Die From Starvation. #LockHimUP in a Mental Hospital... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/trump-is-insane-call-for-invoking-25th.html

Jaime Harrison is Running for Senator against Evil Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Jaime is Young and Smart, Lindsey is Old and Corrupt. Join the Campaign to throw the Insane TrumpNiks OUT! Register and Vote! 2020 is the Year we Win the Senate, The House and The Presidency! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/05/jaime-harrison-is-running-for-senator.html

Proof of tRUMP's Failed Economy... Obama Did Not Need Food Banks... People Bought Food With Paychecks From Jobs. Remember: You Can't Eat tRUMP's Lies! #DumpTrump #BillionDollarLoser #tRUMPisaFAILURE https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/proof-of-trumps-failed-economy-obama.html


Music Video "Vote for Joe, He's Not Insane!" CAMPAIGN SONG - Chords and Lyrics Provided So You Can Record This and Make a Hit Record! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/music-video-vote-for-joe-hes-not-insane.html

Great Book: "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...

The project conducted tests on college students at Stanford University. Ken Kesey and Robert Hunter both were employed. Later, Ken started having "ACID TEST" parties where the participants took LSD and danced to the Music of the Grateful Dead. Robert Hunter wrote lyrics for the Dead.

Just co-incidence?
      or were "the sixties"
             a CIA experiment to test MKULTRA?


MEME - gvan42 - MKULTRA
MKULTRA - The CIA Mind Control Experiment
That Escaped the Laboratory and
Got out on the Dance Floor!


Source: The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks.

The OSS (predecessor to the CIA) agent Edward Hunter created a new word for the English Language: BRAINWASHING: to cause a person to radically change their beliefs... They wanted to test if it was possible to cause people to start believing what they were told to believe... useful for control of a nation of sheep...

We can see that many people believed the LIES told by George Bush and voluntarily supported the invasion of IRAQ... Congress funded the war and teenagers joined the ARMY because they BELIEVED THE LIES! Two people are required for LIES to be effective... The TELLER of the Lies and the BELIEVER of the Lies.  It would be a good survival strategy to become skeptical. That way, you don't end up a gullible fool.

"Think for Yourself and Question Authority" -Timothy Leary


MEME - gvan42 - Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics
Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics


Would the knowledge learned by years of research be useful in our present day war in the Middle East? Could we use psychedelics to reduce the will of the enemy to fight? Change a whole culture into Pacifists?
What would happen if ten million muslims ate LSD ? Would they put down their guns and pick up a guitar? Write some POETRY? Become HIPPIES?

Supposedly MKULTRA ended, but we hear rumors of it being continued in 2007. Amy Goodman interview on Democracy NOW with Jose Padilla's psychotherapist makes the claim that during his 3 1/2 years in solitary confinement, he was dosed with LSD as part of the interrogation... no proof, because the hallucinations of sensory deprivation are indistinguishable from those caused by eating psychedelics. The victim would not be able to tell the difference...
http://www.alternet.org/story/59958/


MEME - gvan42 - CIA MIND CONTROL PROJECT MKULTRA


BRAINSPLICE: Center of the Cyclone by John C Lilly. http://www.johnclilly.com

MKULTRA: The Leary personality test was developed for the CIA by Dr. Timothy Leary years before he became famous for being the "ACID GURU" The title of Leary's Ph.D. dissertation was, "The Social Dimensions of Personality: Group Structure and Process."
http://www.markriebling.com/leary.html

One result of LSD use is the realization that we are all one... Countries and borders become obviously fake... The only REAL lines on a map are coastlines... The absurdity of going to war is exposed... Why would we travel halfway around the world to kill strangers? That's why hippies rarely VOLUNTEER for the Army... The death business holds no facination... It could be that LSD use provides a biological survival value... Darwin survival of the fittest... If there is a voluntary death cult like the US ARMY... some brainwashed people will join and die... Guaranteeing that their genes will not be passed onto the next generation... slowly breeding the warrior gene out of the species... Hippie men will laugh at the concept of joining the military and go sing love songs to ladies... a lot more fun!

After all is said and done, we do have to thank the CIA for making LSD so widely available and popular... If they had never done project MKULTRA, then millions of people would not have been introduced to psychedelics...

MKULTRA: What they learned was that the most effective way to brainwash a person is to start training them at birth. The agents at the CIA have a long history of using themselves as test subjects. They would slip LSD into each other's drink just to see how it would work in an operational setting... George Bush senior was employed at the CIA as the director. Is it possible that he used his own son as a brainwashing test subject?

Now that you suspect that George the Son was trained from birth to be a pre-programmed robot, does not his behavior seem understandable? He says "GOD" told him to smite Saddam... could that not be an implanted thought to be triggered later? He would have no understanding of reality because all he has ever known is the world created for him by the Agency... He appeared to be waiting for someone to tell him what to do on the morning on 9/11/2001 while he read "My Pet Goat" with children after being informed of the second plane crash...

The Motion Picture "Manchurian Candidate" explores the possibility of creating a brainwashed assassin. The original stars Frank Sinatra and Angela Landsbury. It's one of the finest movies ever made. A remake with Denzel Washington expands upon the theme by making the puppet masters a multi-national corporation. Quite a realistic premise given Halliburton and Blackwater's insane behavior...
"Conspiracy Theory" stars Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts and Patric Stewart. Mel names MKULTRA as the source of his troubles...   What, you never heard of Blackwater ???

Dr. John Lilly did experiments involving electrodes being inserted into the brains of monkeys and letting them push a button that caused a feeling of pleasure. He also invented the Isolation tank. The Movie "Altered States" is quasi-biographical. The Movie "The Day of the Dolphin" was about his research into man-dolphin communication.

MKULTRA: One rumor is that after the CIA sponsored LSD tests were completed in Palo Alto on Ken Kesey, Robert Hunter (lyricist for the Grateful Dead) and Stewart Brand (Whole Earth Catalog), the CIA allowed them to create the traveling ACID TEST that featured the musical performances of The Grateful Dead. The agency just wanted to see what would happen if millions of people took LSD in uncontrolled situations... It always amazed me that we were able to trip in public in crowds up to 80,000 people without adult supervision or mass arrests. Just co-incidence? I don't think so. I think the CIA was just curious... They wanted to see how effective it would be to dose millions of people. Would they become docile and easily controllable?  Now, we find that Bob Wier and Mickey Hart have joined the "Bohemian Grove" club... known as a men's summer-camp visited by republican political leaders and the super-rich... Did they get invited because they could perform well at campfire sing-alongs? I hope so...


MKULTRA: The mystery of Mary Pinchot Meyer. She was a friend of John Kennedy and supposedly gave him Marijuana and LSD while at the White House as a guest. Then, a few days after his assasination, she was killed and the crime has never been solved. Her family gave the CIA her diary to help them figure out what happened, and they claim to have burned the diary-unread... She was a friend of Timothy Leary.

A group of women were turning on the top 1% of the men in society: political leaders, movie stars, artists, scientists and business leaders. The idea was to change the whole world by changing the minds of the leaders...
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_lsd.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer


 MKULTRA: In Canada, Dr. Ewan Cameron had a hospital where he tried to help mentally ill people by months in sensory deprivation and endless LSD trips. The victims had to listen to tape recordings of their own voice expressing their deepest fears. This "psychic driving" technique was supposed to destroy the victims ego and create a clean slate to build a brand new person... Eventually, the country paid $700,000 to the survivors of the experiments. A movie called "The Sleep Room" was made about his hospital. In a bizarre twist, the head of the World Psychiatric Association (Dr. Cameron) did unspeakable torture to his patients... as if he was the MOST mentally ill of all. All funded by the CIA.

MKULTRA: The mysterious death of Dr. Frank Olson. He was a US ARMY employee that was dosed with LSD without his knowledge and then got upset. He sought psychiatric help and then a couple of days later died after he went out a window of a hotel on the 13th story. Fell, jumped or was pushed? no one knows. President Gerald Ford gave the widow $750,000 for settling out of court.
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson
http://maebrussell.com/Frank%20Olson/Frank%20Olson%208-8-02.html

This is the conspiracy theory... The CIA wanted to test what would happen if large numbers of people were dosed simultaneously. The did an experiment with an exploding lightbulb filled with LSD in the New York City subway system. This delivery method was a failure... a few people were dosed heavily and the mass were not dosed at all... An alternative delivery technique was to dissolve LSD into a beverage and give it away free to a large crowd of people. This technique is errily similar to what happened at the Acid Tests...
Just co-incidence???

I believe that the CIA felt that people who had had the LSD experience were less likely to protest the War in Vietnam... Those people would have a tendency to drop out and go practice subsistence farming in rural communities instead of participation in the violent overthrow of the US government. This belief seems accurate... Hey, I live in Humboldt County, California... I'm not really that interested in revolution... more interested in ART, MUSIC and webpage design...

To furthur add to the mystery, it seems to me that there was very little law enforcement in the parking lots of the concerts.
Obviously, everyone knew that it was easy to find and purchase illegal drugs there. Somehow, the police  simply decided to
not enforce the law at the shows...
Sure, some people were busted and that was a tragedy, but,
for years a triving illegal business community followed the Dead around... or did the Dead follow the community around?

After all is said and done, we do have to thank the CIA for making LSD so widely available and popular... If they had never done project MKULTRA, then millions of people would not have been introduced to psychedelics...

 The Motion Picture "Manchurian Candidate" explores the possibility of creating a brainwashed assassin. The original stars Frank Sinatra and Angela Landsbury. It's one of the finest movies ever made. A remake with Denzel Washington expands upon the theme by making the puppet masters a multi-national corporation. Quite a realistic premise given Halliburton and Blackwater's insane behavior...

"Conspiracy Theory" stars Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts and Patric Stewart. Mel names MKULTRA as the source of his troubles...   What, you never heard of Blackwater ???

Burning Man ... a San Francisco art project that grew up and moved to the desert... big fun for the whole family of man...

MKULTRA: Yellow Submarine... Take a look at that movie. Would the Beatles have ever tripped if not for the promotion and popularization of LSD given by the CIA ??? The Magical Mystery Tour was a bus trip extremely like Ken Kesey's Bus trip paid for by his book royalties from "Sometimes a Great Notion"...
"One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest".  That book was an account of madness in a hospital... sort of like his experience with LSD at the MKULTRA sponsored hospital in Palo Alto run by Dr Sidney Gottlieb... read more at:
http://www.key-z.com  OH, what great artwork Zane Kesey has done with his website... Thanks Zane!!!

The music of the western world changed dramatically... The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, The Moody Blues, Country Joe and the Fish, The Grateful Dead, Cream and countless others used their experience to help them compose... Speaking of experiences, what about the Jimi Hendrix Experience?

And the ART! Peter Max... Mouse Kelley, Rick Griffin, Hipgnosis...

And the Books!
Carlos Casteneda: The Teachings of Don Juan.
Aldus Huxley: The Doors of Perception.
Ram Dass: Be Here Now. Still Here...

recommended reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA

The Search For The Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences by John D Marks.
http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/lsd/marks.htm

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond.  by Martin Lee; Bruce Shlain
 http://www.levity.com/aciddreams/

The Frank Olson Project - a website created by Frank Olson's family to explore the issues surrounding his death.
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/

Results of the 1973 Church Committee Hearings, on CIA misdeeds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

Rockefeller Commission:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_activities_within_the_United_States

The commission was created in response to a December 1974 report in The New York Times that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. The commission issued a single report in 1975, touching upon certain CIA abuses including mail opening and surveillance of domestic dissident groups. It publicized Project MKULTRA, a CIA mind control study.

On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said:
"The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an 'extensive testing and experimentation' program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens 'at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.' Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to 'unwitting subjects in social situations.' At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers."  source: Congressional Record.
Storming Heaven: LSD and The American Dream.  by Jay Stevens
http://www.stormingheaven.com/

Jay Stevens is a journalist, social historian, and novelist living in Vermont. He has written numerous magazine and newspaper pieces. Mr. Stevens co-wrote "Drumming at the Edge of Magic" and "Planet Drum" with the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, published by Harper's San Francisco.

Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse. by Gordon Thomas
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Into-Madness-Control-Medical/dp/0553053574

John C Lilly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly

http://www.johnclilly.com/

In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada by Anne Collins
 http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Room-Brainwashing-Experiments-Canada/dp/1550139320

1984 by George Orwell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Brave New World by Aldus Huxley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doors_of_perception

Fiction by Tom Wolfe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test

Ken Kesey's Magic Bus named FURTHUR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furthur

How U.S. Interrogators Destroyed the Mind of Jose Padilla
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted August 17, 2007.

http://www.alternet.org/story/59958/

Jose Padilla has been found guilty in court and faces possible life in prison, but forensic psychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty explains after interviewing him that Padilla already paid the ultimate price through torture -- he's lost his mind.

According to his attorneys, Padilla was routinely tortured in ways designed to cause pain, anguish, depression and ultimately the loss of will to live.

His lawyers have claimed that Padilla was forced to take LSD and PCP to act as a sort of truth serum during his interrogations. (JUST LIKE PROJECT MKULTRA)

Origins of the term "brainwashing"

The term brainwashing first appeared in the English language relatively recently. Author John Marks writes that a journalist later revealed to have worked undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency first coined the term in 1950.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hunter_(U.S._journalist)

Edward Hunter (1902-1978) was an American journalist, author and intelligence agent. He is credited with popularizing the use of the term "brainwashing" in English, and collected a large number of examples of Chinese Communist propaganda targeted at the (largely illiterate) population in the immediate post-revolution period.

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