Manufacturing the Deadhead: A product of social engineering… by Joe Atwill and Jan Irvin
Jan Irvin, Gnostic Media | May 12, 2013

… Like Irvin, Atwill had become suspicious of the U.S. government’s many connections to the psychedelic movement, which reminded him of the Caesars’ intellectual debasing of their population to help bring on the Dark Ages. …

Topics include:

• Gordon Wasson (critic of John Allegro), promotion of sacred mushroom
• Henry Luce, publishing
• Century Club, CIA, Skull and Bones
• Edward Bernays, more details, Freud his uncle
• Bernays: sex in culture, fluoridation, feminism
• Documentation of Wasson’s PR background & relationships with elite
• Terence McKenna quotations
• Promotion of “Archaic Revival” or new Dark Age
• Apocalyptic themes
• Michael Coe and 2012
• Aldous Huxley quotations
• Quote from Dr. Louis Jolyon West of MKUltra
• Ancient idea of drugs for social control
• Piero Camporesi: Bread of Dreams
• “The Grateful Dead” rock band and LSD
• Ken Kesey
• Dr. Timothy Leary & others “tune in, turn on, drop out”- Marshal McLuhan’s phrase
• Lyrics to “The End” by the Doors – Oedipal Complex of Freud
• Freak Dancing, Vito Paulekas
• John Lennon quote
• Research of David McGowan, Laurel Canyon, music industry connections to military and OSS (CIA)
• Albert Hoffman & LSD
• Esalen Institute and Michael Murphy
• Eleusinian Mysteries
• 4th World Wilderness Congress (UNCED, George Hunt’s research)