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[Paul E Ester]

18. Ken Kesey - dupe of a CIA project?

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Kesey explains how his first LSD trip happened when he joined a research study at Stanford University in 1959:

I’d never been drunk on beer, you know, let alone done any drugs. But this is the American government. They said, come in here. We’ve just discovered this new spot of space, and we want somebody to go up there and look it over, and we don’t want to do it. We want to hire you students. And I was one of 140 or so that eventually turned out. It was CIA-sponsored.

I didn’t believe it for a long time. Well, Allen Ginsberg says, you know who was paying for that? It was the CIA. I said aw, no Allen, you’re just paranoid. But he finally got all the darn records, and it did turn out the CIA was doing this. And it wasn’t being done to try to cure insane people, which is what we thought. It was being done to try to make people insane – to weaken people, and to be able to put them under the control of interrogators.

We didn’t find this out for 20 years. And by that time the government had said OK, stop that experiment. All these guinea pigs that we’ve sent up there into outer space, bring them back down and don’t ever let them go back in there again because we don’t like the look in their eyes. Listen/read more

http://blindflaneur.com/2011/08/18/flashbacks-ken-kesey’s-cia-sponsored-acid-trip/

The further bus was a continuation of MK-Ultra waging a psychological war on the american population. It happened right after they had studied the effects of LSD, dosing customers of prostitutes in San Francisco and studying it's effects. By sending LSD into the wild the CIA accomplished the task of stopping the militant left and anti-war movements as they turned to introspection and "dropped out". Dropping out they left the political system to the right who made the laws and leaving the bankers to their own devices.

What we don't know is were Kesey, Ginsberg, Leary and FBI informant Jerome Garcia witting or unwitting participants in this program.

"Create your own reality" or engage politically and dominate and change the system.

While you were out on tour, the corporations and the banks were robbing your house blind.