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] |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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.]. |
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| Fisher Research | 973.923 12 A | DUE 15-06-10 |
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