Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Major Project Progress

My first argument for my major needs redefining. I realised this morning that I hadn't explained in my blog that the immediate reaction from the left is not only the idea of psychedelic drug use in search of a higher political consciousness (Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman - Yippies) but also the search for heightened spiritual awareness (Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner - Hippies?). These ideals were in direct conflict and are expressed in the early histories. However, they may be discussed in the same argument as both sides of the discussion acknowledge the presence of the other. They express an understanding that there were two main groups who used psychedelic drugs for two very different purposes during the sixties. 


SOURCES:

Political-

We Are Everywhere - Jerry Rubin (1971)

Author Rubin, Jerry.
Title Do it; scenarios of the revolution. Introd. by Eldridge Cleaver. Designed by Quentin Fiore. Yipped by Jim Retherford. Zapped by Nancy Kurshan.
Publisher New York, Simon and Schuster [1970]


LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Fisher Research  323.2 106  CHECK SHELF 


Author Hofmann, Albert, 1906-2008.
Uniform title LSD, mein Sorgenkind. English
Title LSD my problem child : reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science / Albert Hofmann ; translated by Jonathan Ott.
Publisher Boston : Houghton Miffin Co., 1983.


LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Medical  615.7883 13  DUE 14-06-10

Spiritual-

The politics of ecstasy - Timothy Leary

Author Stevens, Jay.
Title Storming heaven : LSD and the American dream / Jay Stevens.
Publisher London : Heinemann, 1988, c1987.
 
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Storage (Sydney)  DF 054193  CHECK SHELF

 

 Boomers-

Author Miller, Timothy, 1944-
Title The hippies and American values / Timothy Miller.
Publisher Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1991.
Edition 1st ed.
 
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Fisher Research  305.568 12  DUE 05-05-10


Title From Camelot to Kent State : the sixties experience in the words of those who lived it / Joan Morrison, Robert K. Morrison.
Publisher Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Edition [2nd ed.].
 
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Fisher Research  973.923 12 A  DUE 15-06-10

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