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"The Sgt. Pepper album... compresses
the evolutionary development of musicology and much of the history of
Eastern and Western sound in a new tympanic complexity. Then add psychedelic
drugs. Millions of kids turned-on pharmacologically, listening to stoned-out
electronic music designed
specifically for the suggestible, psychedelecized
nervous system by stoned-out, long-haired minstrels. This... is the most
powerful brainwashing device our planet has ever known.
Indeed, if you were an observer from a more highly evolved planet wondering
how to change human psychology and human cultural development (in other
words if you were a divine messenger),
would you not inevitably combine electrical energies from outside with
biochemical catalysts inside to accomplish your mutation?"
- Dr. Timothy Leary, in his "Thank God For the Beatles" essay ©1968, League For Spiritual Discovery. |
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