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ISBN: 0802130623

Book Title: Acid Dreams : the Complete Social History of Lsd-The Cia, the Sixties, and Beyond

Item Length: 9.2in

Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

Publication Year: 1994

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

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Author: Bruce Shlain, Martin A. Lee

Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science

Topic: Entheogens & Visionary Substances, Sociology / General, Popular Culture

Item Width: 6in

Item Weight: 14.8 Oz

Number of Pages: 384 Pages

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Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account-part of it gleaned from secret government files-tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early l950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture; here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history. "Engaging throughout . . . at once entertaining and disturbing." - Andrew Weil, M.D., The Nation; "Marvelously detailed . . . loaded with startling revelations." - Los Angeles Daily News; "An engrossing account of a period . . . when a tiny psychoactive molecule affected almost every aspect of Western life." - William S. Burroughs; "An important historical synthesis of the spread and effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an era." - John Sayles.

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Acid Dreams : the Complete Social History of Lsd-The Cia, the Sixties, and Beyond

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Bruce Shlain, Martin A. Lee

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English

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1994

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Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science

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384 Pages

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by escalator_over_the_hill
Dec 31, 2008
If You are Interested in "the Sixties" - Read this Book
This is a valuable book. For those of you that believe that something very important happened in the evolution of humanity during the “Cold War” era, and that widespread use of psychedelic drugs was instrumental in that evolution, this book is an essential read. LSD was widely used by the mental health profession in the 1950s, and was one of the most effective treatments for alcoholism ever tried. Considerable research into the human mind was conducted and great discoveries were made in the scientific community. In a parallel universe, covert governmental agencies (principally the CIA) were conducting their own research, in hopes of creating better soldiers or achieving some method of mind control or interrogation techniques (their efforts failed miserably, of course). Find out why the ... This is a valuable book. For those of you that believe that something very important happened in the evolution of humanity during the “Cold War” era, and that widespread use of psychedelic drugs was instrumental in that evolution, this book is an essential read. LSD was widely used by the mental health profession in the 1950s, and was one of the most effective treatments for alcoholism ever tried. Considerable research into the human mind was conducted and great discoveries were made in the scientific community. In a parallel universe, covert governmental agencies (principally the CIA) were conducting their own research, in hopes of creating better soldiers or achieving some method of mind control or interrogation techniques (their efforts failed miserably, of course). Find out why the real “Captain Trips” was Alfred M. Hubbard, not Jerry Garcia. Somewhere along the trail, it hit critical mass, and the genie escaped the scientific community and ordinary citizens started tripping – for self–exploration, recreation, enlightenment, whatever you want to call it. It only took a couple of years of that before a tipping point was reached, and at that point our government, and most others, reacted as governments always do to forces that they don’t understand and can’t control – they made it illegal and drove it underground. Did that make it explode and grow orders of magnitude faster than it would have otherwise? Who can know? And the beatniks and proto–hippies have themselves to blame in some ways, it was all too outrageous and visible to be ignored. For whatever reasons, here we are today. The jury is still out on whatever it was that happened during that decade or two (I would describe it as the 1960s plus another half–decade each way) and whether our race has actually assimilated what we learned then. Personally, I think that there have been certain concise, discreet moments in history when the human race truly changed, call it paradigm shifts, quantum leaps, whatever you want. And I believe that a big chunk of one of these occurred in the time between when Sputnik went into orbit and when man last walked on the moon. If you are a student of those times, or are at all interested in that aspect of the march of human evolution, do not pass up this book. You will be more knowledgeable for having read it.
by paprgy
Mar 11, 2008
Excellent book about the Counterculture
This book is perfect - It offered everything I was hoping for when I first purchased it. It covered from the end of the 50's and the Beat generation and how their influence lead into the hippie generation, and it ended in the early 70's tying in the beginning of hard rock and punk. It is a true spectrum of the 1960's counterculture generation. It's a large book but its facinating to learn about the history and the culture. It really ties up everyhting and clearly shows the correalation between the drug counterculture and the govn't & society during that time period. The author also goes into government policies at the time and conspiricys and covert CIA and classified documents. I was amazed by the actions of the CIA and the testing of LSD on unsuspecting American citizens ( MKULTRA ). It ... This book is perfect - It offered everything I was hoping for when I first purchased it. It covered from the end of the 50's and the Beat generation and how their influence lead into the hippie generation, and it ended in the early 70's tying in the beginning of hard rock and punk. It is a true spectrum of the 1960's counterculture generation. It's a large book but its facinating to learn about the history and the culture. It really ties up everyhting and clearly shows the correalation between the drug counterculture and the govn't & society during that time period. The author also goes into government policies at the time and conspiricys and covert CIA and classified documents. I was amazed by the actions of the CIA and the testing of LSD on unsuspecting American citizens ( MKULTRA ). It is like the stuff movies are made of but it really happened! Truly and amazing and interesting book - I could not put it down. I reccomend it to everyone, regardless of your view on LSD or drug counterculture - a true wealth of information on 1960's America! PEACE!
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Feb 19, 2019
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Mar 24, 2010
Acid Dreames by Bruce Shlian, Martain A. Lee
Very fast reply, good service, 5 star rating from me...This a very amazing book to read, and to know what the government has been up too. Plua what others programs has been going on up to this day in time....
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Oct 11, 2010
Acid Dreams
I owned this book before and lended it to someone. I never got it back. It is an amazing book, that tells the whole truth about hallucinogens. A+ book in my knowledge of hallucinogens.

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