Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life and a sacrament," said Leary, "and a sacrament is something that gets you high." He then downed the water, and launched into a debate with Jerome Y. Lettvin, professor of Biology and Electrical Engineering at M.I.T. on the merits and evils of LSD...
...LSD he said, "Hearing about people's trips is like hearing about their operations." He called the drug "instant Zen," saying that some of the insights people get on trips are familiar to students of mysticism. But taking LSD is a dangerous way to achieve insights, he said...
...letter then goes on to cite the testimony of one user of LSD who reports that he was "constantly hallucinated and utterly confused" from his use of the drug. Getting no help from UHS, the individual then "took more, a great deal more, LSD and marijuana. . .and my so called psychosis disappeared...
Psychedevotional at Ohm. Op art has conditioned gallerygoers to accept art that visually leaps from the wall to assault the optic jugular. Much luminal art is similarly turned on. The USCO group of Garnerville, N.Y., can induce the hallucinatory traumas that occur in some LSD trips by means of blinding strobe lights-the visual equivalent of the electronic scream at the end of the Beatles' record Penny Lane...
ONCE UPON a time, when the Beatles were still in Liverpool and no one had heard of LSD, Marshall McLuhan was an easy man to like. He could explain everything from Homer to baseball with a single, breathtaking theory. The few who had read him possessed the key to history, politics, art, literature and contemporary society. But now it has all been lost...