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[–] 29 points 5 months ago (6 children)

It was the same idea of Aldous Huxley, writer of 'brave new world' and 'doors of perception'.

Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 μg, intramuscular." According to her account of his death[107] in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 am and a second dose an hour later; Huxley died aged 69, at 5:20 pm PST on 22 November 1963.[108]

Basically no one remembers his passing, though, look at the date. JFK was assassinated on the same day Huxley left the mortal plane on a trip, so the news was completely snowed under.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Never knew they died on the same day. That's interesting enough as a standalone fact, but also given the JFK and Timothy Leary connection.

    We always hear about Marilyn and JFK, but it seems like Mary Pinchot tends to get swept under the rug.

    She was an artist and the ex-wife of a CIA big wig who had an affair with JFK. She almost certainly smoked weed with him at the White House, and her friend Timothy Leary (along with the CIA's counterintelligence chief, James Angleton) claimed she also got JFK to take acid at one point.

    JFK actually taking acid is unverified, but Leary alleged that Pinchot's influence on JFK was making him less willing to back war hungry policies of some very powerful men in the U.S. government, and that as a result, he became a bit of a thorn in their side. He also claimed that the day JFK was assassinated, Pinchot called him and said "he was changing too quickly."

    About a year after JFK's assassination, Pinchot was killed in a still unsolved murder, and shortly after her murder, her sister and brother in law claimed they found James Angleton breaking into her home to steal her diary.

    https://archive.is/2021.04.29-040456/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1998/10/11/the-woman-who-knew-too-much/47b45afd-5676-47d4-b035-56287b129d07/

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon.

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