...An investigative reporter has told Congress how he discovered documents linking the Manson murders to the CIA’s clandestine mind control experiments known as MKUltra. Tom O’Neill, who spent 20 years researching and writing his book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, appeared in front of the Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Project hearing on Capitol Hill. During his opening statement, he revealed how he discovered correspondence between  Dr. Louis Jolyon West, a psychiatrist who in 1967 shared office space in San Francisco with a clinic which provided free medical care to Charles Manson and his followers before their notorious murder spree, and Dr Sidney Gottlieb, the architect of the CIA’s LSD experiments conducted on willing and unwitting subjects between 1953 and 1973. Much remains unknown about the extent of the research because documents were destroyed before the hearings held by the Church Committee in the 1970s.

Owsley “Bear” Stanley III was the man who electrified the 1960s. He created the purest LSD in history, bankrolled the Grateful Dead, engineered their legendary live sound, and helped ignite the psychedelic revolution. But behind the myth is a life full of strange coincidences, unexplained privileges, and connections that seem to brush up against the shadowy world of MK-Ultra and Cold War intelligence. In this episode, we follow Owsley from his expulsion from school and confinement in a psychiatric institution, to his sudden access to elite universities and top-secret military technology. We trace his rise as the world’s most prolific LSD chemist, explore why his labs operated with unusual freedom, and examine how the culture he built grew into a nationwide movement that reshaped — and in some cases redirected — the energy of the era’s social activism. Was Owsley simply a brilliant and eccentric visionary, or was he a key figure in a much larger, unseen story? This is the untold history of the man who changed a generation… and the questions he left behind.

 How a hippy prank made the world insane.

 
  

...written and recorded on cheap tablet utilising the Fruity Loop app, mixed and mastered @ le manse......this first quartet of demos from the forthcoming album Whatever Happened to Ragland Parks coming soon on rfsOriginals are all in DADGAD tuning, "a tuning made famous by my fave rave Davey Graham, i had always found it a difficult tuning to get into until one day these songs started to pour out, and i started to sing, and here they are now...
...overproduced by Enrique Che Pelligro...

 ...have you noticed your favorite 'wellness' guru switching from electrosmog warnings and orgone based product advice to an 'alt-right' perspective of late? it's not a new phenomenon, those uber-menschen SS types were big on yoga back in the day (and wasn't our old favorite double agent Crowley big on similar eastern philosophies when he was dabbling?) makes ya thunk

Tietke’s research shows that not only were there S.S. leaders who were fascinated with yoga, they even used yoga’s history and philosophy to justify the Holocaust. S.S. Captain Jakob Wilhelm Hauer wrote “yoga can internally arm us to prepare us for the forthcoming battles,” while Commander Heinrich Himmler actually considered the Bhagavad Gita as a blueprint for cruelty. He identified with the attitude of “unscrupulous killing for one’s ‘higher purpose,'” wrote Tietke.

 https://www.yogajournal.com/tourblog/nazi-leaders-fascinated-by-yoga/