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“Chapter 7,” titled “Vietnam/Boomer Generation—Marijuana & Psychedelics”

“Wow, Man!” “Just Do It” “Go with the Flow”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

by M. Adzema

(publishing 9/2022)

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CW22Q 7/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website now & to be published Sept 2022)

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CW22Q 7/2

[Quotes/highlights:] “…for every LSD experience gone wrong, there were hundreds or thousands more whose experience of LSD was transformative.” []

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CW22Q 7/3

[] “This [overwhelmingly positive results of LSD], simply, is due to the fact that, even without a guide, the psyche’s normal tendency is toward growth & resolution.” []

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CW22Q 7/4

[] “…those of us who lived through that period [of the 60s] & either participated in LSD use or heard the stories of psychedelic experiencers can attest that transformative spiritual experiences were quite common,..” []

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CW22Q 7/5

[] “…even when [LSD] was used just for the “fun” sensory part;& people also described experiences of curling up in fetal position & reliving their births, long before anyone even heard the term perinatal. As concerns the spiritual level,..” []

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CW22Q 7/6

[] “…it was not uncommon to hear of people [on LSD] who saw Jesus, or who went to a place they could only describe as “heaven,” & this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the varieties of spiritual experiences that were had.” []

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CW22Q 7/7

[] “…it is only when one goes deeper into the psyche & “feels” the Pain of that estrangement, or in psychedelic terms goes deeper into the actual reliving of the traumas…” []

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CW22Q 7/8

[] “…[the actual reliving of the trauma] that caused the creation of those alienating scripts, that one can go beyond the horrifying reality of cognitive estrangement.” []

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CW22Q 7/9

[] “…in doing that processing, one arrives at a reality in which one’s “heart” is opened, & one can catch a glimpse of a reality beyond the normal one—one in which we are all spiritually connected, in Love.” []

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CW22Q 7/10

[] “The Sixties subculture was one of experimentation in all areas, including drugs, which grew out of beliefs—following in the footsteps of the Beat Generation—” []

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CW22Q 7/11

[] “—that normal life/people were characterized by phoniness, alienation, conformism, robotism, & lack of feelingness...& hypocrisy.” []

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CW22Q 7/12

[] “*Plastic* became the pejorative the Vietnam-era Generation would use to describe the phony people they saw around them, as revealed, often, by the mind-expanding drugs.” []

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CW22Q 7/13

[] “…the Sixties Generation … predominant drugs of choice were “pot” (marijuana) & LSD. Alongside this sort of drug use were attitudes of activism, free love, love as the ultimate value and/or as equivalent to God,..” []

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CW22Q 7/14

[] “…pacifism in regards to the war, the valuing of openness, authenticity, “real” communication, & passion and/or feelingness, including sensory awareness or heightened perception of the physical world.” []

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CW22Q 7/15

[] “Once the pot experience opens to the second level of awareness—the recollective-analytic, which is deeper & more real than the initial enhanced sensory awareness—there is no going back.” []

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CW22Q 7/16

[] “Regardless the cost, the one thing the Sixties Generation did not want to do was to end up like their parents; thus, the disdain for the use of alcohol.” []

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CW22Q 7/17

[] “By the time of Altamont—another huge musical event held in California after Woodstock—the change was apparent.” []

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CW22Q 7/18

[] “Alcohol was now being used, with the other drugs, in abundance; there was no disdain for its use; & violence & death at [Altamont] coincided with this change.” []

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CW22Q 7/19

[] “Gen X were raised & educated to be a corrective to Sixties youth & their values. They would not be influenced to drugs of mind expansion but to ones of this-worldly practicality,..” []

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CW22Q 7/20

[] “…especially [drugs] that aided [the Gen X] values of greed, acquisition, power, indifference to the plights of others, & reckless defiance of social niceties.” []

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CW22Q 7/21

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