The Aquarian Conspiracy

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Understanding. Osmond's interest in this field grew out of a fascination with
schizophrenia and alcoholism. He went into the Navy once he had qualified for
medicine at Guys Hospital in London in 1942. Oscar Janiger had his first LSD
experience in 1954. After a training in botany, he entered the fields of
teaching and psychiatry. He has lectured at UC Irvine and the California College
of Surgeons, was research director for the Holmes (holistic health) Foundation,
maintains a private practice, and founded the Albert Hofmann Foundation. He
administered LSD to 875 people, many from the creative communities of Beverly
Hills and Hollywood. In 1955 Huxley's first wife died. In 1956 he married Laural
Archera. In Heaven and Hell (1956) he described the use of mescaline to induce
visionary states of mind.
In its May 13, 1957 issue, Life ran a feature called "Seeking the Magic
Mushroom." R. Gordon Wasson, a J.P. Morgan Vice-President, and his wife,
recounted their 1955 visionary adventures among "psilocybe cultists in darkest
Mexico."
Huxley called Bill Wilson, the co-founder of AA " the greatest social architect
of our time." Syanon, a revolutionary rehabilitation program using AA, was
founded in Ocean Park, California by Chuck Dederich in 1958 and spread as drug
use expanded.
In his Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley in 1958 described a society in
which war had been eliminated and where "the first aim of the rulers is at all
costs to keep their subjects from making trouble." He described a likely future:
"The completely organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of
free will by methodical conditioning, the servitude made acceptable by regular
doses of chemically induced happiness, the orthodoxies drummed in by nightly
courses of sleep teaching . . ." He predicted non-violent tyranny: "Under the
relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing
over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of
mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; and quaint old
forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain.
The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All
the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they
were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every
broadcast and editorial -- but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian
sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers,
policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show
as they see fit."
In 1958, in Brave New World Revisited , Huxley wrote a diatribe against
overpopulation and overconsumption. His comment about Aryan drug use as
part of an elite religious ceremony seems to be historic in nature. There was a
priesthood that was very knowledgeable about the effects of drugs. The Isis cult
seems to have also used drugs in its productions. Hitler thought he talked to
"the evil one" while on a mescaline trip. When alone or with his inner circle,
did he engage in religious ceremonies, evocations or incantations? Or did they
use drugs to get "high?" The Huxley quote does suggest drugs and religious
worship were connected as early as the Aryan conquest of India. The word "Iran"
derives from "Aryan."
In Brave New World Revisited Huxley contested Orwell: "George Orwell's 1984 was
a magnified projection into the future of a present that contained Stalinism and
an immediate past that had witnessed the flowering of Nazism. Brave New World
was written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in Germany and when the
Russian tyrant had not yet got into his stride. In 1931, systematic terrorism
was not the obsessive contemporary fact which it had become in 1948, and the
future dictatorship of my imaginary world was a good deal less brutal than the
future dictatorship so brilliantly portrayed by Orwell. In the context of 1948,
1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and
circumstances change. Recent developments in Russia and recent advances in
science and technology have robbed Orwell's book of some of its gruesome
versimilitude. A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody's
predictions. But, assuming for the moment that the Great Powers can somehow
refrain from destroying us, we can say that it now looks as though the odds were
more in favor of something like Brave New World than of something like 1984."
Neil Postman commented: "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there
would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive
us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be
reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from
us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell
feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a
trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy
porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World
Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to
oppose tyranny 'failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for
distractions.' In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what
we love will ruin us."
Purchased in 1960 for $285, this small substance may be said, without
exaggeration, to have perpetrated the most significant cultural revolution of [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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