The history of religion contains the entire spectrum of human experience, including the most beneficent concepts and experience of enlightenment, God, universal intelligence, and so on. It also includes the most malefic realms of humanity: occult mind control, subjugation of populations, exploitation of our good nature, rationales for genocide, war, human sacrifice, and other perversions. The history of psychedelics is no different.”

Robert Forte who has been around the psychedelic world for decades as a writer, facilitator and researcher. He has known or has worked with most of the biggest names in psychedelic history including Dr. Stanislav Grof and Timothy Leary among others. The interview covers a lot of ground and will likely ruffle some feathers.

It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude. This is the, it seems to me, the ultimate in malevolent revolutions shall we say, and this is a problem which has interested me many years and about which I wrote thirty years ago, a fable, Brave New World, which is an account of society making use of all the devices available and some of the devices which I imagined to be possible making use of them in order to, first of all, to standardize the population, to iron out inconvenient human differences, to create, to say, mass produced models of human beings arranged in some sort of scientific caste system.

Via LogosMedia.com “I’m uncle sam, that’s who i am; been hidin’ out in a rock and roll band.” – The Grateful Dead – US Blues References: Manufacturing the Deadhead: A product of social engineering… by Joe Atwill and Jan Irvin link The Secret History of Magic Mushrooms link “Magic Mushrooms and the Psychedelic Revolution: Beginning a New History” by Jan […]

The great synchromystic sage of the Secret Sun blog, Chris Knowles, joins THC for his 9th time.

Via Skeptiko.com Joe Atwill cautions against the resurgeing interest in psychedelics and entheogens. Listen to the full interview (with transcript): http://skeptiko.com/joe-atwill-why-de… Forum discussion: http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/forums/… Skeptiko.com is the #1 podcast covering the science of human consciousness. We cover: – Near-death experience science and the ever growing body of peer-reviewed research surrounding it. – Parapsychology and science that defies our current understanding […]