• Tripping on Utopia: Mead and Psychedelic Science

    Tripping on Utopia: Mead and Psychedelic Science

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    • Revisionist history of psychedelics in the 20th century, highlighting their impact on the Cold War and Silicon Valley
    • Challenges the notion that the Baby Boomers were the first to experiment with drugs; emphasizes their parents’ role
    • The post-WWII generation embraced social experimentation and mainstream drug use in the ’40s and ’50s
    • Features notable events, such as John C. Lilly’s LSD experiments with dolphins and Cary Grant’s philosophical musings under the influence
    • Centers on anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who sought to reshape humanity through consciousness expansion
    • Chronicles their complex relationship against a backdrop of government opposition and the intertwining of psychedelic research with intelligence agencies
    • Explores a new origin story for psychedelic science, linking personal and scientific narratives from various global locations
    • Examines the evolution of drug culture and its connections to broader social and political movements
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