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Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon

[r] images d’un monde visionnaire / henri michaux, éric duvivier. 1963

In 1964, Sandoz, the company that first synthesized LSD in 1938, commissioned Belgian poet and painter Henri Michaux (24 May 1899 – 19 October 1984) to create a film to show the power of hallucinogenic drugs.

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“key finding” is that “unitive experiences” predict improvements for #psilocybin a #psychedelic adding to what has been elucidated in the #ketamine research (Kolp, et al, 2014) as well as #mdma #Ayahausca #mescaline #dmt #lsd and other medicines studied throughout 100+ years of #psychedelicresearch literature— there may be something of benefit in the structured, supported use of these compounds for humans and other animals. The #psychedelicexperience is supported by #psychedelicpractitioners

#psychedelic experiences include, and are not limited to visionary states, Near Death Experiences #nde Out of Body Experiences #obe & transpersonal experiences occurring with chemical compounds like #ketamine #dmt #psilocybin #lsd #mescaline in plant medicines like #Ayahausca #iboga and various mushroom species— part of worldwide cultural spiritual practice spanning thousands of years. These experiences, when supported by a wisdom approach, have been shown in ongoing research to be beneficial.

cnbc.com/2021/11/29/peter-thie Pepperidge Farms remembers— 2021: Peter Thiel-backed psychedelic start-up (atai life sciences) increases stake in Compass Pathways #fda #psychedelics #psychedelic Fascism’s finest are patenting forms of generic medicines & molecules — #ketamine #psilicybin #dmt #mescaline #mdma are off-patent, and do we really need venture-capitalist funded designer drugs sold to us by fascism? The narrative of “Wild West of ketamine clinics ” vs try Spravato by Johnson & Johnson - tired

#psychedelictherapy is #existential and that doesn't just happen safely within the walls of a psychotherapy office or psychedelic center. #telehealth increases access to #psychedelicassistedpsychotherapy in all 50 states #psychedelicmedicines have been studied as adjuncts to psychotherapy for over 100 years. #mdma was first synthesized in 1912 by Merck. #psychedelicresearch in #psychedelics ranging from #LSD to #mdma #ketamine #dmt #ayahasuca #5meodmt #mescaline #psilocybin spans 100 years.

Research into psychedelics spans 100 years. They are medicine to some. Sacraments to others. Some people find the harmful effects to outweigh any benefit. Still others find a sense of the divine in themselves & others. This is replicable across time in different medicines, in people around the world. psyche.institute/psychedelic-s #psychedelic #research #psychedelicassistedpsychotherapy #psychedelics #psychedelictheapies #psychedelicresearch #mescaline #peyote #plantmedicine #mentalhealth #psychiatry

Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilyzed mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger. Margaret Mead's connection was discussed in the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen.

#cia #MindControl #torture #lsd #MKUltra #castro #nazis #oss #AllenGinsberg #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction @bookstadon