Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitiful it is that so-called psychiatrists and theologians who are presumably in the position of helping people should instead be responsible for leading them into deep delusion. The heedless advocacy of using LSD to obtain mystical insights and the equation of the condition of St. Theresa and an LSD flight are not only fallacious, they are irresponsible. LSD fosters no lasting attitudes of either humility or love. LSD leads to a perversion of consciousness, making spiritual progress effectively more difficult. As the Eastern mystic Avatar Meher Baba recently said: "Love will make one a better man than drugs...
...would rather experience a Callas Toscu than an LSD trip. I applaud TIME for daring to like Rudolf Bing and the beautiful new Met [Sept. 23|. It is the latest chic to find the Met somehow appalling or worse, mundane. It is gaudy (so are diamonds). It panders to popular taste-Chagall, really! It is gimmick-run, unexciting, blah, blah, blah. One wonders what could possibly have pleased its critics. But then, who cares...
Parental Wrath. The uninitiated in the nearly full house of 2,500 people are still a little dazed by it all. But the Guide explains. "What we have relived tonight," he says, "is one minute in an LSD session. Visionaries throughout history have made this voyage and come back to teach its truths to the waiting world...
...Guide ought to know. He is Dr. Timothy Leary, former Harvard professor whose experiments with psychedelic drugs aroused such parental wrath that he was dropped from the faculty (TIME, March 29, 1963). Since then, Leary has struck out on a one-man crusade aimed at making LSD and pot as American as apple pie. He is also trying to found a new religion. Death of the Mind is billed as the "first public worship service of America's first indigenous religious movement," the League for Spiritual Discovery. (The initials spell LSD...
...acid heads and the impressionable, however, Leary provides all the right production values: religiose gimmicks, weirdo music, sexo fantasy, all boffo. Following a run of twelve weekly performances in Manhattan, Leary will open his show in California, which manages to be boffo, religioso, weirdo and sexo with or without LSD. The turn may not make psychedelic drug-taking and its kicks comprehensible to the average ticket buyer, but it ought to attract enough attention to pay the nut. That's O.K. as far as Producer-Star Leary is concerned. "Any money that we make," he says, "will be plowed...