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M O'D

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Before any further eulogising of this man takes place, it behoves the reader to look into the facts behind his career. Like so many of his ilk, http://www.gnosticmedia.com/manufacturing-the-deadhead-a-product-of-social-engineering-by-joe-atwill-and-jan-irvin/ Sasha Shulgin worked as an agent of the state:

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Shulgin's Ecstasy

[...] The Tavistock agenda also spawned the counterculture, Human Potential Movement, and Rave Culture. Psychedelic chemist, Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin worked out a whole series of mind-altering compounds, including Ecstasy, STP, synthetic THC and nearly 200 other hallucinogenic compounds.  The godfather of X is a paradoxical character. This counterculture pioneer is also a member of the Bohemian Club, which has been called an Illuminati or globalist front. Strange bedfellows, indeed.

How is it this psychedelic chemist has crossed cultural lines from the ivory tower to Chemical Corps firms, to the roots of psychedelic culture, to rubbing elbows with the transnational meta-controllers of The Grove? Shulgin remains an ambiguous character with a career arc that cut an influential mercurial path through the cultural landscape. We might call him the "Einstein of psychoactive compounds," most of which he tested on himself.

What cemented the Bohemian deal was an unexpected subpoena sent to Sasha on behalf of Claude Pepper's "The House Committee On Crime In America." This famous witch-hunt of the times was concerned with criminal cartels, illegal drug masterminds and those suspected of being their teachers. According to his autobiography, when Sasha entered the Court House the Witch-finder General scowled, "How can you call yourself a scientist" he demanded, "and do the type of work you do?"

Under oath Dr. Ecstasy was "raked over the coals." Criminal associations were introduced into testimony, including Sasha's alleged clandestine association with Owsley Stanley, the infamous LSD chemist who made "Orange Sunshine" LSD. Further, Sasha had once been approached to set up and run an illegal lab in Jamaica, being offered "six million dollars" according to his fictional PIHKAL. Even within the government, whether he was a "good guy" or "bad guy" depended on relative point of view.

Shulgin's research and discoveries permeate the entire social spectrum in recursive feedback loops between counterculture, the military/industrial complex, intelligence, and the global elite. The "love drug" Ecstasy, codenamed "Adam," has been jokingly called a "weapon of mass elation." His fictional autobiographies, PIKAL and TIKAL reveals a double-life as a witting and unwitting agent in the twilight zone of clandestine work.

How can someone create the ultimate "peace pill" like MDMA and mingle with warmongers, nuclear arms dealers, transnational criminals and media manipulators? How can MDMA's Godfather, Dr. Shulgin, sit through the Illuminati-derived occult rituals of Bohemian Grove and then casually write about this in his books? Did he lose his own conscience in the "Cremation of Care" ceremonies? How can he create a drug that promotes truth and communication and sit in an ultra-manipulative secret society called a "private gentlemen's club," focused on themes of secrecy, monopolization of resources, war and death?

This chemical genius was quickly grabbed up by powerful interests. In his youth, he worked on pesticides for Dow Chemical, infamous for producing Napalm and other BW agents used in Vietnam. He quickly moved to investigating hallucinogenic drugs. There he developed one of the first synthetic THC compounds, active ingredients in marijuana. He learned how to concentrate the potency and toxicity of many compounds.

The dragon of biological warfare owes much to this old pesticide research. Toxins and poisons derived from plants and animals can be developed into (BW) biological warfare agents - proteins capable of acting on specific receptors in the human body. Developers rely on a variety of sources for toxins, including microbes, snakes, spiders, sea creatures and plants. Toxins can also be derived from algal toxin, for example, and are highly poisonous and difficult to halt with vaccines or other medical treatment.

Another toxin - Saxitoxin - from marine algae, affects nerve cells, eventually causing the victim to stop breathing. Weapons experts also consider the possibility of bioregulators - organic chemicals that regulate cell processes. Physiologically active catalysts will be weaponized for biological warfare in the future.

An intelligence community report points out that such chemicals could short-circuit and disrupt the bodily functions and kill the affected victim. – (Gertz, Air Force Magazine, Jan. 1988). Such biological warfare weapons have been called "bug-spray for humans." Chemical and biological warfare has terrified the world and is banned today by most civilized nations

Psychonauts

This early pesticide and THC work led Dr. Shulgin to members of the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. In the 1960's, the Edgewood Arsenal was a main chemical-biological weapons developer for the US military. Shulgin was offered a job working for what he "fictionally" described as the "San Carlos Aerospace Laboratory" under the auspices of NASA. The person who interviewed Sasha for the job told him what to expect. He explained astronauts might be exposed to long periods of sensory isolation and the potential mental challenges that ensue.

A research program was created, geared to developing chemicals that could be used to train those astronauts who might be subjected to long bouts of sensory deprivation. Shulgin was mandated to "teach them to roll with the altered states of consciousness that could very well be a consequence of that isolation" (PIHKAL, pp. 43)

No doubt NASA also had interests in anti-emetic (anti-vomiting) drugs for those new to zero-gravity. And anti-boredom. relaxing and hunger-stimulating agents might be useful on long space flights. Natural THC from marijuana is well known for easing dysphoria and many symptom while stimulating appetite. We can presume similar action for synthetic THC.

Edgewood Arsenal published an academic paper on manufacture of synthetic THC in May, 1967, two years after Shulgin left Edgewood and Dow. This Journal of Organic Chemistry paper is titled, "Synthesis of the Eight Stereo Isomers of Tetrahydrocannabinol Congener" by Herbert Aaron and Parker Ferguson.

So, was Shulgin designing top-secret chemistry for NASA? Or designing top-secret chemistry for: potential biological warfare? Dr. Shulgin supposes in his book PIHKAL, that the man he now worked for - a person he pseudonymously calls "Captain B. Lauder Pinkerton" - was an NSA (National Security Agency) agent: Pinkerton arrived with a whole other world of new biological research projects already established by his own agenda for Sasha to see and explore.

"Here were arcane projects such as black-membrane dynamics, studies of the influence of gravity on plant growth, the relationship between magnetic fields and the blood-brain barrier, and the effects of radiation on fertility." - PIHKAL, pp. 45

Captain Pinkerton spoke to Dr. Shulgin about many things. For example, "Pinkerton might bring up the subject of mental telepathy and the possibility of influencing another persons thoughts at a distance". Intelligence was very interested in the fringes of psi powers and truth drugs in those days. Alexander Shulgin naturally concluded that his work would end-up at the CIA or Department of Defense, probably weaponized.

Free Agent

Troubled, Sasha claims he quit this new job right before his official top-secret clearance was approved, since top-secret clearance "would effectively gag [him] for the rest of his life." His future in open science could be compromised by covert black ops agendas. Science that might save lives or led to important discoveries for the common man could be compromised. Still he knew there were probably a lot of people in the government very interested in what he published.

"I have no doubt whatsoever that the CIA and probably the Defense Department take a close look at some or all of the compounds that I write up; they probably feel that I am doing a lot of their work for them, as a matter of fact. . .testing them for use in war - biological warfare and that sort of stuff?...Or possibly crowd control, or prisoner-of-war interrogation, or maybe helping to drive an unfriendly Head of State into some kind of befuddlement - who knows? Their objectives are not my objectives..." (PIHKAL, pp. 157)

Alexander Shulgin went on to operate his own licensed lab as a consultant, and teach as a college professor. He taught Public health classes at San Francisco General Hospital and lectured at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and San Francisco State University, among others. As the godfather of Ecstasy, he gave life to the Rave movement and other countercultural trends. He is highly respected among the psychedelic intelligentsia despite his background with clandestine forces.

Over the years, Shulgin contracted with the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse) and many other government agencies. He retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of California. Besides Dow Chemical, Shulgin also contracted with Bristol Labs and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.

According to the memoir of retired Colonel James Ketchum, M.D., Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten (2006), military mind meddlers wanted a nonlethal incapacitating agent that would dissolve the will to resist, and funding for chemical weaponry and mind control was readily available in the early 60s. Other "incapacitating" experimental drugs of the era included LSD, PCP, STP, MDA, DMT, BZ and Ritalin. Various agencies tested these brainstorms on witting and unwitting victims, and then they escaped the handlers.

One morning, Ketchum arrived at his office in Edgewood and found "a large, black steel barrel, resembling an oil drum, parked in the corner of the room," he recounts in his book. Overcome by curiosity, he opened the barrel and examined its contents. There were a dozen tightly sealed glass canisters that looked like cookie jars; the labels on the canisters indicated that each contained about three pounds of "EA 1729," the Army's code number for LSD. By the end of the week, the 40 pounds of government acid -- enough to intoxicate several hundred million people -- vanished as mysteriously as it had appeared. Ketchum still doesn't know who put the LSD in his office or what became of it.[...]

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Bush

Interesting article MoD (thank you for posting) - some of which i am aware of some not (have read Tihkal but not Pihkal and would like to see more referenced information on the bohemian club if you have it).  To be critical of the article you posted I would say 90% of that article is 'filler', a technique whereby if you mention one topic in association with another it appears somewhat implicating whereas the direct evidence is not there.  That said some of those associations are correct, but what was the substance of those associations?  What was the intent?  The article goes no way to demonstrate anything underhand.

Yes, from our position looking back from where we are with what we know (or think we know via the internet) it may be easy to tarnish one man for having such associations.  It was a different time then, with different information available about the nature of these entities (state agencies etc), to quote your own article:

"Their objectives are not my objectives..." (PIHKAL, pp. 157)

You don't achieve what he achieved without many people form any different reasons taking an interest. 

I sat in the same room as the man once, it seemed like a good man.

Booosh

M O'D

Hey, boosh... if you haven't checked this out, then it will prove interesting reading - no 'filler' here... Aldous Huxley, the Tavistock institute, Timothy O'Leary and other associated statists have played quite a number on the western world...


QuoteManufacturing the Deadhead:

A product of social engineering...

By Joe Atwill and Jan Irvin

May 13, 2013

Version 3.7, May 17, 2013

In 2012 Jan Irvin made an important discovery.  In the course of re-publishing The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by the Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Allegro,[1] Irvin had been researching the letters of one of Allegro's most prominent critics, Gordon Wasson, at various university archives (including Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, and the Hoover Institute at Stanford) when he came across primary documents–letters actually written by Wasson–showing that he had worked with the CIA.[2]

Though Gordon Wasson was both chairman for the Council on Foreign Relations and the Vice President of Public Relations for J.P. Morgan Bank, he is most famous as the individual who "discovered", or more accurately popularized, magic mushrooms. An article in Life magazine described fantastic visions and experiences Wasson claimed to have had while under their influence (see Life, May 13, 1957 – Seeking the Magic Mushroom). Wasson's claims were the first description of the effects of psilocybin ("magic") mushrooms presented to the general public.

Irvin saw troubling implications in his discovery. He was aware, of course, of the CIA's infamous Project MK-ULTRA, in which the organization had given LSD to unsuspecting U.S. citizens. He also knew of the many conspiracy theories claiming that the government has been somehow involved with the creation of the "drug culture."  He was also aware of Dave McGowan's research on the drug and music movement that had come out of Laurel Canyon in the 1960's, which showed that many of the "rock idols" who created it were the children of members of military intelligence.[3]

So the fact that a member of the CIA had also been involved with the discovery of Psilocybe mushrooms fit into a large collection of troubling linkages between the American government and the drug culture that emerged during the 1960's. Irvin decided to do further research into the government's involvement with the "psychedelic movement".  An obvious question he hoped to answer was: Had Wasson been somehow involved with MK-ULTRA?

During this research, Irvin came in contact with another scholar, Joe Atwill, author of Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus. Atwill's research into the origins of Christianity had led him to conclude that Rome had invented the religion. Further, he believed that the Caesars had deliberately brought about the Dark Ages. They had used Christianity as a mind control device to give slavery a religious context intended to make it difficult for serfs to rebel.  Like Irvin, Atwill had become suspicious of the U.S. government's many connections to the psychedelic movement, which reminded him of the Caesars' intellectual debasing of their population to help bring on the Dark Ages.

When comparing the results of their research, Irvin and Atwill developed a theory about the origin of the psychedelic movement of the 1960's: The "counterculture" had been developed by elements within the U.S. government and banking establishment as part of a larger plan to bring about a new Dark Age; or, as it was marketed to potential victims, an 'archaic revival.'[4]

In 1992 Terence McKenna published in his book Archaic Revival:

These things are all part of the New Age, but I have abandon that term in favor of what I call the Archaic Revival—which places it all in a better historical perspective. When a culture loses its bearing, the traditional response is to go back in history to find the previous "anchoring model." An example of this would be the breakup the medieval world at the time of the Renaissance. They had lost their compass, so they went back to Greek and Roman models and created classicism—Roman law, Greek aesthetics, and so on.[5] [emphasis added] ~ Terence McKenna

In another chapter regarding his timewave theory, he states:

Within the timewave a variety of "resonance points" are recognized. Resonance points can be thought of as areas of the wave that are graphically the same as the wave at some other point within the wave, yet differ from it through having different quantified values. For example, if we chose an end date or zero date of December 21, 2012 A.D., then we find that the time we are living through is in resonance with the late Roman times and the beginning of the Dark Ages in Europe.
   
Implicit in this theory of time is the notion that duration is like a tone in that one must assign a moment at which the damped oscillation is finally quenched and ceases. I chose the date December 21, 2012 A.D., as this point because with that assumption the wave seemed to be in the "best fit" configuration with regard to the recorded facts of the ebb and flow of historical advance into connectedness. Later I learned to my amazement that this same date, December 21, 2012, was the date assigned as the end of their calendrical cycle by the classic Maya, surely one of the world's most time-obsessed cultures. [6]  ~ Terence McKenna

Notice that the date McKenna chose – 12-21-2012 – was earlier falsely claimed to be the date of the Apocalypse foreseen in the Mayan calendar by professor and CIA agent Michael Coe in his 1966 book The Maya[7], although it was changed by McKenna in 1993 from Coe's 2011 date to December 21, 2012.[8] Moreover, McKenna sees this date as resonating with the beginning of the Dark Ages. If, as the authors believe, the psychedelic movement was part of a general plan to usher in a new Dark Age, this suggests that McKenna's promotion of a drug-fueled "archaic revival" was also a part of the plan.

    I guess am a soft Dark Ager. I think there will be a mild dark age. I don't think it will be anything like the dark ages that lasted a thousand years [...][9]
    ~ Terence McKenna

Most today assume that the CIA and the other intelligence-gathering organizations of the U.S. government are controlled by the democratic process. They therefore believe that MK-ULTRA's role in creating the psychedelic movement was accidental "blowback." Very few have even considered the possibility that the entire "counterculture" was social engineering planned to debase America's culture – as the name implies. The authors believe, however, that there is compelling evidence that indicates that the psychedelic movement was deliberately created. The purpose of this plan was to establish a neo-feudalism by the debasing of the intellectual abilities of young people to make them as easy to control as the serfs of the Dark Ages. One accurate term used for the individuals who were victims of this debasing was "Deadhead," which is an equivocation for a "dead mind" or "a drugged, thoughtless person."

Aldous Huxley predicted that drugs would one day become a humane alternative to "flogging" for rulers wishing to control "recalcitrant subjects." He wrote in a letter to his former student George Orwell in 1949:

But now psycho-analysis is being combined with hypnosis; and hypnosis has been made easy and indefinitely extensible through the use of barbiturates, which induce a hypnoid and suggestible state in even the most recalcitrant subjects.
   
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. [emphasis added] [10]
    ~ Aldous Huxley

Decades later, one of the CIA's own MK-ULTRA researchers, Dr. Louis Jolyon West, while citing Huxley had this to say on the matter:

The role of drugs in the exercise of political control is also coming under increasing discussion. Control can be through prohibition or supply. The total or even partial prohibition of drugs gives the government considerable leverage for other types of control. An example would be the selective application of drug laws permitting immediate search, or "no knock" entry, against selected components of the population such as members of certain minority groups or political organizations.
   
But a government could also supply drugs to help control a population. This method, foreseen by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (1932), has the governing element employing drugs selectively to manipulate the governed in various ways.

To a large extent the numerous rural and urban communes, which provide a great freedom for private drug use and where hallucinogens are widely used today, are actually subsidized by our society. Their perpetuation is aided by parental or other family remittances, welfare, and unemployment payments, and benign neglect by the police. In fact, it may be more convenient and perhaps even more economical to keep the growing numbers of chronic drug users (especially of the hallucinogens) fairly isolated and also out of the labor market, with its millions of unemployed. To society, the communards with their hallucinogenic drugs are probably less bothersome–and less expensive–if they are living apart, than if they are engaging in alternative modes of expressing their alienation, such as active, organized, vigorous political protest and dissent. [...] The hallucinogens presently comprise a moderate but significant portion of the total drug problem in Western society. The foregoing may provide a certain frame of reference against which not only the social but also the clinical problems created by these drugs can be considered.[11]

    ~ Louis Jolyon West

The idea of drugs for control seems to be an ancient one. Italian professor Piero Camporesi, writing on Medieval Italy in his book Bread of Dreams, says:

    Adulterated breads had been put into circulation by the untori of Public Health: criminal attacks orchestrated by the 'provisionary judges' who were supposed to oversee the well-balanced provisioning of the public-square.

    On the 21st, a Sunday, with Monday approaching, Master ... [blank in the manuscript] Forni, Judge of provisions in the square of Modena, was arrested, along with the bakers, for having had forty sacks of bay leaf ground to be put into the wheat flour to make bread for the square, where it caused the poverty to those who brought it to worsen, so that for two days there were many people sick enough to go crazy, and during this time they could not work or help their families.[12]

Camporesi later continues:

    It would be wrong to suppose that one must wait for the arrival of eighteenth-century capitalism, or even of imperialism, in order to see the birth of the problem of the mass spreading of opium derivatives (first of morphine and then, today, of heroin) used to dampen the frenzy of the masses and lead them back – by means of dreams – to the 'reason' desired by the groups in power. The opium war against China, the Black Panthers 'broken' by drugs, and the 'ebbing' of the American and European student movements (supposing that hallucinogenic drugs were involved in the latter, as some believe), are the most commonly used examples – we don't know with what relevance – to demonstrate how 'advanced' capitalism and imperialism have utilized mechanisms which induced collective dreaming and weakened the desire for renewal by means of visionary 'trips', in order to impose their will.

    The pre-industrial age, too, even if in a more imprecise, rough and 'natural' manner, was aware of political strategies allied to medical culture, whether to lessen the pangs of hunger or to limit the turmoil in the streets. Certainly we could laugh at interventions which are so mild as to appear almost surreal, amateurish or improvised; but we must not forget that both in theory and in practice the 'treatment of the poor man', cared for with sedatives and hallucinogenic drugs, corresponded to a thought-out medico-political design.[13]
    ~ Piero Camporesi

A key element in the creation of America's drug counterculture was "The Grateful Dead," a rock band that passed out LSD to people attending its concerts in the 1960's.  At their concerts listeners were encouraged to take LSD and to "tune in, turn on, and drop out." An expression that instructed the LSD takers to abandon the modern world and join what McKenna coined the "archaic revival."

There is a recording of Dr. Timothy Leary actually describing the retrograde culture that those who dropped out would participate in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKi4zoJPfFs. In this talk, Leary, Alan Watts, Alan Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Allen Cohen describe how those that "tune in, turn on, drop out" would abandon modern culture and return to the status of a peasant [...]

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