In the mid 1950s, the Army’s chief of intelligence preached a new military doctrine of war without death…
Thimothy Leary had one of the great mid-life crises of our time.
He was forty years old when he first took the magic mushroom.
Everything he looked at was transfigured.
When he looked at plants he could just see them,
rather like Albert Hofmann before him, bursting with life, bursting with color…
There was a feeling that you could take a college graduate from Indiana U
and give him L.S.D. and create a hippie, that that’s what it was,
was sort of college baby boomer plus L.S.D. equals hippie,
and hippie equals somebody who’s dropping out
and probably wants to overthrow the government and the culture of America.
