 CULTS
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(Wuthnow 1976)
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LEARN ABOUT TIMOTHY LEARY AND THE
PSYCHEDELIC MOVEMENT OF THE 60'S
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"...And if you
give the experience a chance, if you're prepared to go along with
it, the results are incomparably more therapeutic and transforming.
So maybe the whole thing does happen inside one's skull. Maybe it
is private and there's no unitive knowledge of anything but one's
own physiology. Who cares? The fact remains that the experience can
open one's eyes and make one blessed and transform one's whole life."
-Aldous Huxley
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AND HIS OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH PSYCHOTROPIC PLANTS
READ A STORY ABOUT A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO LEFT
IT ALL BEHIND
TO FOLLOW KEN KESEY, LIVE ON THE ROAD, AND
TO TAKE "LSD".
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ON THE CHARLES MANSON HOME PAGE
"The psychedelic movement itself
bordered on being a great cultic religious awakening, and it deposited many
of its participants directly into numerous small cults. But, in following
the psychedelic dream, young people of the late 60's were fulfill their
middle-class culture as much as they were leaving it, for the psychedelic
movement was a novel culture development that spread through networks
of the educated (including Harvard professors and students) like most other
innovations of its kind. In so doing, it drew innovative youth from
the same strata in society from which conventional careers draw their most
prominent members and in many ways was an elite movement at the same time
it tore participants away from conventionality and helped recruit many of
them to religious cults."
(Stark 1985)
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