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Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Born in Milwaukee and educated in Boston, Theodore P. Druch went on to take a “higher” degree at Timothy Leary's LSD.
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Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has said that when his much-ballyhooed TV series is at its best, it isn't so much a story as it is a time machine — transporting viewers back to the s and a way of life that sometimes looks, to audiences a half century removed, to be taking place on another planet.
See also: Boomers share memories of Woodstock. I suspect that directors Allison Ellwood and Alex Gibney feel the same way about their new documentary The Magic Trip , which chronicles One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey's drug-fueled, psychedelic bus journey across the country with The Merry Band of Pranksters, his eclectic band of pals and acquaintances. The bones of this particular road trip, regarded as one of the seminal events of the burgeoning counterculture movement that would dominate the latter half of the decade, have been picked over for pop culture analysis and entertainment many times before, most notably in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.
But Ellwood and Gibney have a newly unearthed advantage in their attempted retelling: hours and hours of actual film and audio created 47 years ago by Kesey and the Pranksters as they made their way on a bus dubbed "Further" from the San Francisco Bay Area to the New York World's Fair. You can imagine how excited the directors, whose passion for their subject matter is clear, must have been to get access to the footage — and then, after having sifted through it, how daunted they must have been by the task ahead.
Here's the problem: Kesey, whose original intent was to document his journey on his own, didn't bother to bring along any professional photographers, so the footage he shot was — to put it mildly — a complete mess. Most of the footage is jittery, much of it is unfocused, and none of it is synced with audio. We're told in narration by actor Stanley Tucci that for the bulk of 40 years Kesey himself tried to turn his footage into a film, without success. After his death in , the collection languished until the directors struck a deal with the author's estate.
Considering the quality of the source material, what Ellwood and Gibney have come up with is kind of amazing. With generous use of subtitles and a dose of psychedelic animation, they've taken more than hours of footage and crafted a dreamy montage of the trip. Look, there's an amphetamine-fueled Neal Cassady of On the Road fame chattering nonstop — and nonsensically — as he drives the bus. Yes, drives the bus. Listen to Kesey narrate one of his acid trips the filmmakers assist with kaleidoscopic animation of colored shapes and Rorschach images.
Watch the Merry Pranksters make an unscheduled stop in the desert not that any of their stops were scheduled, of course to down some peyote and invent tie-dyeing. It's all a bit uneven, and the flashes of interesting material too often get lost in all the psychedelia. The cultural revolution of the sixties in the United States was dangerous to the ruling class when peace was about to break out at the time America was waging a colonialist war against Vietnam.
Not only was a new generation going to the universities in greater numbers, many began to discover that there were ways to expand their consciousness far beyond anything that they could learn from the books. Timothy Leary thought that society could be changed through psychedelic substances, particularly LSD. But telling young people to reject the values of their parents was equivalent to declaring war on American society as it existed in the sixties. Leary told students to start a drop-out movement on their college campuses.
In the next five to ten years we expect that between twenty and thirty million Americans will be taking LSD regularly in their spiritual development and psychological growth.
The Man Who Turned on the World-Chapter 5
Looking back on the situation, the ignorance of American society rather boggles the mind. The attempt by courageous individuals to open the minds of America and expand their consciousness met with crushing reaction. At the forefront of this movement was a figure perhaps not well recognized by the youth of today. Timothy Leary became the pivotal figure and the old established system predictably came down upon him very hard. He found himself in prison. I had known about him, but did not know the inside story and what really happened. When the information one gets is filtered through the corporate press, one gets mostly lies about a figure like Leary that goes against the mainstream society.
One comes to think of the person as a dangerous crackpot who is not only evil, but also insane. Sometimes quite wild. Sometimes an active professor at Harvard University receiving research grants and constructing a path-breaking theory of human behavior and at other times engaged in wild sexual orgies. In many ways, he was a pioneer in attempting to understand the brain in a scientific way and pushing the frontiers of consciousness.
Predictably, with President Richard Nixon out to get him, he ended up in prison in California in l, given a long prison sentence for having one eighth of an ounce of marijuana. It seems that he was too smart to stay in prison. His wife and friends vowed to get him out and organized a jail break.
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It could work only because Leary was not in one of the high-security prisons. On the night he busted out, he wrote a note for the prison guards. This was in l I pray that you will free yourselves. To hold man captive is a crime against humanity and a sin against God.
Oh Guards, you are criminals and sinners. Cut it loose. Be free. At this time, he was a 49 year old academic. He was not considered an escape risk because of the results of some psychological tests he was given. When Leary saw the questions on the exam, he realized that he had, himself, written the questions years ago, and so he knew how to answer them to fool the authorities. But he was not cut out for military life and got into trouble. He wanted to think for himself and question authority. But in , he was back in the Army and became a psychologist. It was here that he began to question the psychological model that was used in the United States up through the ls.
In this view, there were two types of behavior, the normal and the abnormal. Abnormal meant those who were unmotivated, homosexual, radical, and so on. He had the IQ of a genius and published many papers while still a student. At the same time, he wrote a book, which changed the field of psychology with ideas that were considered radical then. The book contributed some important new ideas. The environment and circumstances are important factors. The patients must assume responsibility for their lives. The discipline was in crises, as psychotherapy was not working. Those who got counseling were no better off than those who got none, on the whole.
At the time, Leary was thirty-five years old. He left Berkeley, remarried, and took the two children to Europe. He worked on another book in which he argued that the psychiatrist must get out into the real world and be involved with the patient. He realized that observation changed the situation. After falling ill and seeing the healing as spiritual, Leary met a professor, David McClelland. He was offered a job at Harvard. While at the university, he met Richard Alpert.
An old friend, Frank Baum, talked of magic mushrooms that could give one a psychedelic experience. Gordon Wasson had researched the mushroom cult back to four-thousand years. Timothy Leary thought this might be a key for behavioral change. In the summer, he went with Alpert to Mexico to find some of these mushrooms. Timothy and his friends ate the mushrooms sitting around the swimming pool. After half an hour, they began to laugh uncontrollably. The experience altered his brain. His concept of time and space changed.
Leary recalled that he saw the world with clarity and learned more about the mind in four hours than ever before. This is, of course, very much the experience called enlightenment in Eastern religions.
Leary decided that this discovery would allow him to explore the methodologies he wrote about in his book. The doctors would take the psychedelic drug with the patient. But for society, the possibilities were just too explosive. They had the possibility of releasing people from the repression of authoritarian religious dogma and accepted political ideology. Now Leary had a new mission. The Harvard Psychedelic Research Program was set up.
The active component of the magic mushrooms was psilocybin.
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It was available from Sandoz laboratories in Switzerland in the form of pink pills. Professors and students would take the pills together with observers and see what happened. Hundreds of students volunteered. It was found that the experience was one of broadening awareness and increased insight. There was humanistic interchange. The little pink pills were teaching the students more than their professors could.
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- The Magic Trip bus rolls once again in new documentary .
If more people could have the experience, it was thought, maybe it would end war. The experience was nothing new, in fact. It was just that the ignorance about it was just too vast. It had been around for thousands of years, not only in India among the sadhus, but in many tribal societies.