The Secret History of LSD - From MK Ultra to Modern Mysticis

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The Secret History of LSD - From MK Ultra to Modern Mysticism - Thomas Hatsis



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Thomas Hatsis is an author, lecturer, and historian of witchcraft, magic, Western religions, contemporary psychedelia, entheogens, and medieval pharmacopeia. This video is inspired from his new book "LSD, The Wonder Child, The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in the 1950's". You can also learn more about his work at linktr.ee/psychedelichistorian

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Never been my thing bro !...LSD sounds too close to Lizard

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Is THIS the Real Reason Psychedelics Are Illegal?



Trials in both the UK and US have shown that psychedelics are as good at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, but also that they actively improve people's well-being. So why are they still illegal?

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“The rapid rise of drug use, which had its beginning in this country about twenty years ago, was not, however, a consequence of the discovery of LSD, as superficial observers often declared. Rather it had deep-seated sociological causes: materialism, alienation from nature through industrialization and increasing urbanization, lack of satisfaction in professional employment in a mechanized, lifeless working world, ennui and purposelessness in a wealthy, saturated society, and lack of a religious, nurturing, and meaningful philosophical foundation of life.”

― Albert Hofmann, LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science

"I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation."

― Albert Hofmann

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The CIA’s Secret Experiments (Conspiracy Documentary) | Real Stories

In August 1951, inhabitants of the picturesque French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit were suddenly tormented by terrifying hallucinations. People imagined lions and tigers were coming to eat them. A man jumped out of a window thinking he was a dragonfly. At least seven people died, dozens were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets and hundreds were affected.

Almost immediately, wild theories started circulating to explain the this mysterious case of mass insanity. There were claims of poisoned flour, contaminated water and even witchcraft. But the truth was stranger than many of the theories: the CIA had spiked the local food with LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

In this documentary, we reveal how for decades, the CIA has been using unconsenting people as guinea pigs in thousands of different experiments.