MUSC 2150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, Concept Album, Swinging London
12 Nov 2015
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The doors of perception: ken kesey, timothy leary, and lsd. Psychedelic movement was concerned with new ways of experiencing the world. People were suspicious of institutions (influenced by the civil rights movement and the. Marijuana and lsd played a central role in the new worldview people were seeking. People saw hallucinogenic drugs as essential to unlocking the doors to perception. Lsd was accidently developed by swiss scientist albert hoffmann while working on a migraine cure. Lsd was rested by the cia as a truth serum and considered a treatment for alcoholism. Book called the psychedelic experience: based on the tibetan book of the dead, guide to the use of acid. Drug use became linked with eastern religion and hippie culture. Psychedelic ambition: the beach boys and the beatles. The rise pf psychedelia coincided with a tendency toward more ambitious approaches to rock.
