Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undergoing the third great wave of religious awakening in America (the first in the 1740s, the second between around 1825-1850); we may be witnessing some great dialectical resolution of West and East; we may simply be watching the aftermath of a million LSD trips and the casting-about of a hundred million turned-off, disillusioned people; but clearly Something Big is happening, and by refusing to take it seriously except when it leads to such macabre events as the Guyana massacre we are quite possibly missing the boat on the most crucial historical event of our lifetime. Wake...
...consciousness was reinforced by LSD, dope, and the loving I was doing," he added...
Conway and Siegelman thought the dark side of sudden personality change was obscured by reports of the transcendent, cosmic, revelatory and eestatic experiences many people had as a result of meditation. LSD, or whatever. They have set out to illuminate the negative aspects of the phenomenon--and come up with scare stories of brainwashing, mind control, Manson murders, Son of Sam shootings...
According to their campaign literature, the Hedonists believe in "constant physical contact between genders, oral surgery for Jimmy Carter, total use of beer, wine, thai sticks, ganja cigarettes, quaaludes, THC, LSD as the Bill of Rights," among other points. They insist they are very serious about the campaign...
Unwittingly summarizing his own situation, Carlin talks about his teenage drug experience: "The trouble with drugs is that they are self-limiting. They open certain doors of perception which you already have--the drug doesn't add anything which isn't already there. Even with LSD and mescaline, you reach a point where it just doesn't do as much for you anymore...