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Blowing America's Mind: A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD and Zen
Blowing America's Mind A True Story of Princeton CIA Mind Control LSD and Zen Author:John Selby, Paul Jeffrey Davids Not since A Beautiful Mind has there been a true story involving Princeton and altered states of consciousness - but unlike the story of the breakdown of a Princeton professor, in Blowing America's Mind the dose of madness is deliberately induced in Princeton students at the nearby (and now defunct) New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute und... more »er the guise of expanding consciousness, attaining nirvana, and improving sex lives.
Jeremy Kagan, Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Chairperson of Special Projects for the Directors Guild of America describes Blowing America's Mind as: "a fascinating journey of love, drugs and covert governmental intrigue. Suspenseful in documenting the impact of the 'Psychedelic Revolution' at Princeton in the late 1960 s, the book is a complex, poignant drama detailing CIA-sponsored hypnosis and LSD research, as the famous all-male Ivy League university is on the eve of going coed and on the edge of imploding.
" How did America's CIA get caught up in things like psychedelics, deep hypnosis - and Princeton student life? This historic entanglement of the CIA, deep hypnosis, LSD and the Ivy League happened because the CIA in the 1950's and 1960's experimented with new devious ways to impact the minds of its enemies - both foreign and domestic - including its own retiring agents (to erase memories of classified information), and also supposedly-dangerous internal hostiles ... such as college kids fighting against Vietnam War atrocities.
The secret program was called MK-ULTRA, and the well known Princeton alumni who co-authored this book were among the guinea pigs. For fifty years, no one has stepped forward to reveal the insider true story of how innocent Princeton students got caught up in and nearly done in by the CIA s late-sixties LSD-laced hypnotic research. Now the story's out in the open. The co-authors feel that their book is a true-to-life One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with a touch of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.« less