Huxley’s Ultimate Revolution: The Battle for

Your Mind and the Relativity of Madness

Cynthia Chung
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Dec 13, 2021

“America is the prophetic image of the rest of the urban-industrial world as it

will be a few years from now – recent public opinion polls have revealed that
an actual majority of young people in their teens, the voters of tomorrow,
have no faith in democratic institutions, see no objection to the censorship of
unpopular ideas, do not believe that government of the people by the people
is possible and would be perfectly content, if they can continue to live in the
style to which the boom has accustomed them, to be fueled, from above, by
an oligarchy of assorted experts. That so many of the well-fed young
television-watchers in the world’s most powerful democracy should be so
completely indifferent to the idea of self-government, so blankly
uninterested in freedom of thought and the right to dissent, is distressing
but not too surprising.”

– Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World Revisited” (1958)

As discussed in Part 3 of this series, Aldous Huxley would be mentored in the

ways of Monte Verità, Ascona through the mentorship of D.H. Lawrence. It
was through Lawrence’s teachings that Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard and
Christopher Isherwood would form the core of the group, Sonnenkinder (The
Children of the Sun). Lawrence’s teaching of Ascona to the Sonnenkinder
(greatly influenced by Mikhail Bakunin and Otto Gross, a disciple of Freud)
would go on to shape the Human Potential Movement and the Esalen Institute
to which this paper will focus on. [Note: Carl Jung was also a significant
member of the Monte Verità, Ascona.]

Monte Verità became the international meeting place for all those who
rebelled against science, technology, and the rise of the modern industrial
nation-state.

As already discussed in Part 3, the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) had

established their headquarters in Basel, Switzerland as the “Anational Grand
Lodge and Mystic Temple” (aka Verità Mystica) and at Monte Verità as the
“Hermetic Brotherhood of Light.”

In August 1917, Outer Head Theodor Reuss issued a manifesto for his Anational
Grand Lodge (O.T.O), called “Verità Mystica.” He then held the “Anational
Congress for Organizing the Reconstruction of Society on Practical and
Cooperative Lines” at Monte Verità August 15–25, 1917. He wanted to create a
new ethic, a new social order, and a new religion, to be achieved through the
establishment of utopian-bohemian colonies and settlements throughout the
world that was to run counter to the world of science and technology and the
industrial nation-state.

Recall from Part 3 that Light is a common theme (Children of the Sun,
Brotherhood of Light). It is also mentioned by the Theosophical Society, a
sister organization of Monte Verità, started by Madame Blavatsky, in her “The
Secret Doctrine,” where she references the mystery of the “fall” to Earth of the
rebellious angels – the solar angels or agnishvattas, to which Lucifer is the
best-known representative.

[Note: see “Descent and Sacrifice” by the Lucis Trust, originally titled Lucifer
Publishing Company, a major public player within the United Nations, which
was founded by prominent Theosophical Society member Alice Bailey.]

In the words of Alice Bailey, from her book “Rays and the Initiations,” we must
add “darkness unto light so that the stars appear, for in the light the stars
shine not, but in the darkness light diffused is not, but only focussed points of
radiance.”

Thus we must bring forth the darkness…

In this interpretation, Lucifer is good and represents the Light. In this context
Children of the Sun (the Sonnekinder) could also be connoted as Children of
the Solar-Angels; and thus the Children of Lucifer (see Part 3). This explains
what influenced the gruesome Solar Lodge to choose such a name, a so-called
renegade society of the Ordo Templi Orientis in California, which used the
curriculum of the A∴
∴A∴
∴ established by Aleister Crowley (A∴A∴ is a so-called
magical organization created by Crowley in 1907 and claims to use the
essence of Theravada Buddhism with Vedantic yoga and ceremonial magic).

[Note: the Ordo Templi Orientis also practised “Sex Magic” a corrupted
Western version of Kundalini Yoga or Tantric Yoga.]

In 1921, Aleister Crowley succeeded Theodor Reuss as Outer Head of the

Order of the Ordo Templi Orientis.

In 1935, Crowley founded the Agape Lodge No. 2 in Los Angeles.

In 1937, Aldous would move with his family and his fellow Sonnenkinder
Gerald Heard to Hollywood, where he would remain until his death.
Christopher Isherwood would make the move to Hollywood in 1939.

And just like that, the teachings of Ascona in Hollywood became a primary
focus of Crowley and the Sonnenkinder, and together they would dominate
the scene out of which the counterculture movement would be born.

It is here that we will resume the story.

Hollywood’s Fake Guru Industry

“For the radical and permanent transformation of personality only one
effective method has been discovered – that of the mystics.”

– Aldous Huxley (1941) (1)

It did not take long upon the arrival of Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard to
California for them to become quick friends with Jiddu Krishnamurti, who had
moved to O jai, California in 1922.

Krishnamurti had been selected by Annie Besant, a prominent leader of the

Theosophical Society, as a young adolescent boy in India as the likely “vehicle
for the Lord Maitreya” in 1909. Maitreya means “future Buddha” and the
Theosophical Society promoted Krishnamurti as an advanced spiritual entity
that periodically appears on Earth as a World Teacher to guide the evolution
of humankind.

The World Teacher, who supposedly had no religion nor followed any
particular school of thought, was ironically tutored solely by Annie Besant for
his entire education as a youth.

Interestingly, Krishnamurti was regarded with great suspicion by the Vedanta

Society, the latter to which Huxley, Heard, and Isherwood were also very close
to and frequented the Southern California branch regularly. They were known
as the three English “beacons” of Vedanta. (2) The Vedanta Society promotes
the study, practice and propagation of Vedanta, one of the six ancient schools
of Hindu philosophy and is part of the Ramakrishna Order.

Alan Watts, a renown Western Guru of Zen Buddhism, describes in his

autobiography “In My Own Way” (1972) an encounter he had with Swami
Prabhavananda, of the Southern California Vedanta Society:

Swami – “…his [Krishnamurti’s] teaching is very misleading. I mean, he

seems to be saying that one can attain realization without any kind of yoga
or spiritual method, and of course that isn’t true.”

Watts – “No, indeed, if in fact there is something to be attained.  Your

Upanishads say very plainly, Tat tvam asi, You ARE That, so what is there to
be attained?”

Swami – “…But this is ridiculous. That amounts to saying that an ordinary

ignorant and deluded person is just as good, or just as realized, as an
advanced yogi.”

Watts – “Exactly. And what advanced yogi would deny it?  Doesn’t he see
the Brahman everywhere, and in all people, all beings?”

Swami – “You are saying, that you yourself, or just any other person, can
realize that you are the Brahman just as you are, without any spiritual effort
or discipline at all!”

Watts – “Just so.  After all, one’s very not realizing is, in its turn, also the
Brahman. According to your own doctrine, what else is there, what else is
real other than the Brahman?”

Alan Watts, who would also become a part of the Sonnenkinder group, was a
student of Christmas Humphreys, who founded the London Buddhist Lodge in
1924. The impetus for founding the lodge came chiefly from Annie Besant
(President of the Theosophical Society from 1907-1933). Alice Bailey also
frequented the lodge.

Thus, Krishnamurti and Watts were from the same school of Annie Besant.

Interestingly, Swami Prabhavananda of the Vedanta Society, had reported that

Annie Besant had been banned from the Ramakrishna Order in India by the
Head of the Chief Monastery Brahmananda, since Besant was trying to
infiltrate the Order.

In 1929, Krishnamurti had disavowed the title of “World Teacher” and gave the
impression that he had also disavowed the entire Theosophical Society, which
is not true.

Not only did Krishnamurti continue a dialogue with many of the members of
the society, but he co-founded the “Happy Valley School” in 1946 with among
others, Aldous Huxley. The school today is recognised as a continuation of
Besant’s vision for an educational community, which was renamed the “Besant
Hill School” in 2007.

Aldous and Krishnamurti were so close that when Aldous had moved in 1945
to the mountains in Wrightwood, San Gabriel with his family from their Llano
ranch, Krishnamurti followed them moving into a place a few houses down. (3)

It appears much of Krishnamurti’s supposed distancing from the Theosophical

Society was mainly for the public eye, and as clearly showcased here, many of
the members of the Theosophical Society including Annie Besant had made a
very shoddy impression on the Hindu religious leadership.

Perhaps Krishnamurti was attempting a second infiltration, thinking his odds

would be better if he claimed to disavow the Theosophical Society, despite his
teachings remaining the same.

Krishnamurti’s emphasis on skipping steps would be a very destructive

influence that laid the groundwork for the counterculture movement as we
will see, and regardless of what Huxley’s intention was with the Vedanta
Society, one thing can be sure, he decided in the end to dedicate himself to
the path of Krishnamurti.

Music, Trance and Schizophrenia

“The resolute facing of the world as it is, when the garment of make-believe,
by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features, is stripped off.”

– Aldous Huxley (4)

Another prominent base of contact Huxley had made upon his arrival to
California was with Austrian-Polish actress and screen writer (for MGM and
Greta Garbo roles) Salka Viertel’s Sunday salon in Los Angeles which was from
the 1930s-50s a central place for networking, consisting of Hollywood
intelligentsia and the émigré community of European intellectuals- many of
whom formed the basis of the new Frankfurt School.

Among its regular Sunday attendees were Arnold Schoenberg, Maria and
Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Theodor W. Adorno, Greta Garbo, and
George Cukor.

Theodor Adorno, in his youth was a promising future concert pianist, who
later studied in Vienna under the atonal composer Arnold Schoenberg. In
1946, while in the U.S. working on the Frankfurt School’s “Cultural Pessimism”
agenda, he wrote the book “The Philosophy of Modern Music,” a diatribe
against Classical culture, writing:

“What radical music perceives is the untransfigured suffering of man…

Modern music sees absolute oblivion as its goal. It is not that
schizophrenia is directly expressed therein; but the music imprints upon
itself an attitude similar to that of the mentally ill. The individual brings
about his own disintegration…. He imagines the fulfillment of the promise
through magic, but nonetheless within the realm of immediate actuality….
Its concern is to dominate schizophrenic traits through the aesthetic
consciousness. In so doing, it would hope to vindicate insanity as true
health.”

This was to be one of the major undercurrents that shaped the philosophy of
the COUNTER-Culture movement. The name said it all. And the so-called
freedom from the “shackles” of classical culture was to take the form of
invoking schizophrenic traits through the domain of the aesthetic
consciousness (aesthetic means the set of principles that underlie how we
define and appreciate a standard for “beauty”).

It was the application of the Frankfurt School’s “Critical Theory” where

everything that came before us within any field of established learning now
had to be thrown into the garbage and we had to face the task of
reprogramming how we viewed our world, our reality. This could only occur
by invoking extreme states of fragmentation, schizophrenia, in order to build
back the pieces in a so-called more truthful way without the cultural blinders
from the past.

Part of this freeing oneself from classical culture, was to free ourselves from
the classical understanding of aesthetics, and thus a central tenet of the
counterculture movement was to now regard the ugly as beautiful, the
beautiful as ugly, and insanity as the new sanity.

In Huxley’s “Brave New World Revisited” (1958), he quotes Dr. Erich Fromm,
“philosopher-psychiatrist” from the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory:

“Our ‘increasing mental sickness’ may find expression in neurotic

symptoms. These symptoms are conspicuous and extremely distressing.
But ‘let us beware,’ says Dr. Fromm, ‘of defining mental hygiene as the
prevention of symptoms. Symptoms as such are not our enemy, but our
friend’…”

Interestingly, Tavistock-linked psychiatrist William Sargant, with whom

Huxley had also come into close correspondence, had discussed in “Battle for
the Mind” (1957) his intrigue in the “dancing mania” phenomenon that arose
during the Black Death which caused a heightened suggestibility capable of
causing a person to “embrace with equal force, reason and folly, good and evil,
diminish the praise of virtue as well as the criminality of vice.” (5)

Sargant goes on to write:

“The Voodoo cult of Haiti shows with what ease suggestibility can be
increased by subjecting the brain to severe physiological stresses. Voodoo
has numerous deities, or loa…The loa are believed to descend and take
possession of a person, usually while he or she is dancing to the drums…
The ease of men and women who have ben worked up into a state of
suggestibility by Voodoo drumming shows the power of such methods…
[they] found it more and more easy to respond to the drums and the
dancing, and…the sense of ‘being overwhelmed by a transcendent force…
[this] softening-up process…made them suggestible to the most varied
types of dogma.”

Sargant quotes Aldous Huxley from a special appendix to his “The Devils of
Loudun” (considered Huxley’s best work by many modern critics today):

“No man, however, civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming,
or Indian chanting…and retain intact his critical and self-conscious
personality. It would be interesting to take a group of the most eminent
philosophers from the best universities, shut them up in a hot room…and
measure…the strength of their psychological resistance to the effects of
rhythmic sound…Meanwhile, all we can safely predict is that, if exposed
long enough to tom-toms and the singing, every one of our philosophers
would end by capering and howling with the savages.”

Sargant concludes:

“But we do also know that there are philosophers who are more easily
converted to new behaviour patterns and new beliefs by means of solitary
prayer, and fasting, or even by the use of drugs such as mescaline.”

Aldous had a very clear interest in how one could bring about a schizophrenic
state chemically, also allowing for heightened suggestibility. Six years before
writing “Brave New World Revisited,” in 1952, Huxley would arrange to meet a
Dr. Humphrey Osmond who had just published a psychiatric study titled “A
New Approach to Schizophrenia.”

Osmond, the man who would coin the term “psychedelic” meaning “mind-
revealing,” had been working with mescaline and had asserted in his study
that psychedelics produced a psychological state identical to schizophrenia.
Osmond was studying mescaline for its chemical similarity to adenochrome, a
substance produced in the body through the oxidation of adrenaline and
linked to inducing schizophrenic traits.

In 1940, a doctor had noted that “the characteristic effect of mescaline is a

molecular fragmentation of the entire personality.” (6)

It was Huxley’s experience taking mescaline in the presence of Dr. Humphrey

Osmond in 1953 that would inspire his writing “The Doors of Perception,”
considered the instruction manual for what started the counterculture
movement.

Although many were appalled by Huxley’s detailed disclosure of his taking

mescaline and linking it as a short-cut to passing through the door that would
reveal to one the secret mysteries, yes even Aldous believed this himself, it is
nothing surprising.

As already discussed in detail in Part 2, T.H. Huxley (Darwin’s bulldog) was

considered an almost god-like figure in the Huxley household, with Aldous’
father focusing much of his work writing on the work of T.H. and Darwin.
Aldous and Julian would be raised in this larger than human personality with
the pressure that it was their calling to continue this legacy. Anything short
would be considered a terrible failure.

In fact, the Victorian period of Aldous’ birth was a time of enormous interest
in parapsychology. One of T.H. Huxley’s close associates on Darwinism, Alfred
Russell Wallace, was among the new breed “scientifically” testing psychic
powers, along with William Crookes, F. W. H. Myers and renown psychologist
William James. Their efforts to develop rigorous tests of mediums, telepathy,
and materializations led to the founding of the Society of Psychical Research,
the Theosophical Society and their American branches. (7)

Small world isn’t it?

One of the “forbidden books” that were kept in Mustapha Mond’s library was
“The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature” by William
James, which is a study of private religious experiences and mysticism.

With T.H. Huxley having coined the term agnosticism (from Greek agnōstos,
“unknowable”) meaning one can only claim to know anything through their
direct sensory experience, Aldous owed it to his god-head grandfather to
keep an ever “open mind.”

As Aldous was experiencing his first trip on mescaline in 1953, which was
recorded for further study, Dr. Humphry Osmond asked him (8):

“So you think you know where madness lies?”

My [Aldous] answer was a convinced and heartfelt, “yes.”

“And you couldn’t control it?”

“No, I couldn’t control it.”

The Esalen Institute: The Human Potential

Movement Meets the Tavistock Institute
“Welcome, this is the first manifestation of the Brave New World”

– spoken at the Human Be-In “A Gathering of Tribes” Jan. 1967 which is

credited for launching the “Summer of Love”

At this historical “Gathering of the Tribes,” Lenore Kandel, American poet with
the Beat Generation  exclaimed “The Buddha will reach us all through love,
not through doctrines not through teaching…And as I am looking at all of you,
I feel more and more that Matreiya is not this time going to be born out of one
physical body, but born out of all of us. It’s happening perhaps today. This is an
invocation for Matreiya, may he come.” (video min 12:03)

The reader should take note, the very clear sharing of philosophy with that of
Krishnamurti. That there should be no work for reaching the stage of
“enlightenment,” rather it is simply to open oneself as an empty vessel and let
the “universe,” or whatever is around, pour in.

This perversion of Indian philosophy was similar to the sleight of hand that
had then been occurring in the Christian world guided by Jesuit theologian
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (a close friend to Aldous’ brother Julian Huxley)-
whose concept of a trans-human noetic evolution guided by an oncoming
“Christ consciousness” shared many parallels to this eastern variant.

Aldous was very much interested in the study of Christian mysticism which
led to his writing “The Devils of Loudun” among other works.

“Christianity without tears – that’s what soma is.” (9)

This is also interesting in the context of Gerald Heard’s intellect having been
“hewn by the Jesuits and by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge” according
to the author of “Huxley in Hollywood,” David King Dunaway.

The Human Be-In was organised as an LSD-25 event. It had a turnout of

anywhere between 25,000 to 50,000 people. Free sandwiches were
distributed laced with LSD and the “Summer of Love,” otherwise known as the
first manifestation of the Brave New World, was born.

Human Be-In

The reader should be aware, though it gets much much stranger, that The
Grateful Dead were among the bands to play at this “Gathering of Tribes.” The
Grateful Dead was and is regarded as the epitome band of the counterculture
movement. Interestingly, Alan Trist, the son of Eric Trist (who is the founder
of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations, the psychological warfare
division of British Intelligence) is the one that put together the band.

In 1962, Robert Hunter, the Grateful Dead lyricist, was among the volunteers
for the renown anthropologist Gregory Bateson’s Palo Alto experiments using
LSD, psilocybin and mescaline, for Stanford University. The research was
covertly sponsored by the CIA in its MKULTRA program: other participants
included Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg. Ken Kesey would become famous
writing the book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on the relativity of
madness in 1962, and would later form the Merry Pranksters in 1964,
spreading bountiful, no questions asked, LSD to campuses across America.

Bateson, husband of renown cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, also

played a prominent role in the curriculum of the Esalen Institute which had
direct ties to the Tavistock Institute which we will see shortly.

There never was an organic impetus to organise a “Gathering of the Tribes”.

Rather, it was micromanaged from the very start by Tavistock and the CIA,
using the very techniques that the Frankfurt School, William Sargant and
Aldous Huxley et al. very publicly discussed several years before.

Both Aldous and Gerald Heard played central roles in developing the Human
Potential Movement (HPM) to which the Esalen Institute is recognised as
officially launching.

The founders of the Esalen Institute, Richard Price and Michael Murphy, got
the idea for Esalen’s core raisons d’être largely from Aldous’ lecture on
“Human Potentialities” in 1960, at the University of California, San Francisco
Medical Center. In this lecture, Huxley had challenged the budding students
to figure out ways to tap into the full potential of humankind that had become
latent over the centuries. In his lecture, Aldous discusses how it would be a
good idea if an institution could launch a program to research methods for
actualizing “human potentialities”, along the lines of his Brave New World, to
be studied, evaluated, and put to use by society. Murphy and Price were
enthralled.

In 1961, Murphy and Price would visit Gerald Heard who would continue
where Aldous left off on the discussion of human potentialities.

The Esalen Institute, founded in 1962, held their first series of seminars, which
they called “The Human Potentialities”. It included a seminar entitled “Drug
Induced Mysticism”. The institute was staffed with LSD 25 researchers, and
drugs circulated through-out the seminars. It launched what became known
as “The Human Potential Movement”.

The idea was how to take hold of one’s self-evolution.

In 1956, psychiatrist R.D. Laing would train on a grant at the Tavistock Clinic
in London, where he remained until 1964.

In a 1967 pamphlet published by the Esalen Institute titled “Where It’s At,” it is
written on pg 38:

“Richard Price, co-founder of Esalen, is working with R.D. Laing of London’s

Tavistock Clinic on a proposal to establish a Blowout Center at Big Sur,
where a small, selected group of psychotics will be treated as persons on
voyages of discovery and allowed to go through their psychoses. It appears
that the nonparanoid, acute schizophrenic break is relatively short and is
followed by a re-integrative process, so that the individual returns from his
‘trip’ with a higher IQ than at the beginning. We hope to find new ways to
make such breaks valuable, function-heightening experiences.”

Thus, the inducing of schizophrenic breaks was considered a “function-

heightening experience,” or so the poor sops were told. The key to reaching
maximum human potential was through the induction of madness, the
fragmentation of the mind through schizophrenic breaks, with the promise
that one would have a higher IQ at the end of the whole affair.

Thus, whether you like it or not, the relevance of the Esalen Institute’s
“revisioning of madness,” and Laing as the Crusader for the promotion of the
clinically insane, needs to be acknowledged as having been entirely spear-
headed by the Tavistock Institute, and clearly, not for our benefit.

The reality is that the revolutionary alternative to the practice of mainstream

psychology, that was sold to the masses by cult figures like R.D. Laing, was
entirely controlled and shaped by the Tavistock Institute, to which MKULTRA
is a branch.

Thus, the Esalen Institute was also a continuation of the sort of horrifying
psychiatric theories and practices that people were trying to escape from. It
was like your psychiatric ward had just had a make-over and everything was
expected to be different now since there were painted flowers on the wall.

This becomes very clear when one looks at the type of research that was
being published and promoted by the Esalen Center for Theory and Research
(CTR), such as the disturbing work of Lauretta Bender (who has links to
MKULTRA) using LSD and electroshock therapy on hospitalized “disturbed
children”, Dr. Ewen Cameron who worked with MKULTRA also using LSD and
electroshock therapy on his patients, and whose victims later sued the CIA,
B.F. Skinner known for his “modern operant conditioning chambers” aka
“Skinner Box” which there is reason to believe has also been used on children
which can be found promoted by the Esalen CTR here and here. Esalen did
not even shy away from the infamous Dr. Evil Louis Joylon West who largely
headed the MKULTRA torture project.

Notable past guest teachers and shapers of ideology and curriculum at the
Esalen Institute, include: Gregory Bateson, Albert Hofmann (the creator of
LSD at Sandoz Laboratories), Aldous Huxley, R.D. Laing, Abraham Maslow,
Humphry Osmond, Fritz Perls (pioneer of NLP), Virginia Satir (pioneer of NLP),
B.F. Skinner, Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder (one of the organisers of “A Gathering of
Tribes), Arnold J. Toynbee and Alan Watts.

Virginia Satir would become the Director of Training for the Esalen Institute.

Aldous’ hypnopaedia concept is directly linked to neuro-linguistic

programming (NLP) which became a core research subject at the Esalen
Institute. NLP focuses on how to increase suggestibility within an individual
and a crowd, such that they can receive a desired message or belief. It had a
lot of overlap with Skinner’s Box experiment, as well as William Sargant’s
work.

Richard Bandler and John Grinder created neuro-linguistic programming

(NLP) in the 1970s. In 1975 they published a book titled “The Structure of
Magic,” of which there are two volumes, intended to be a codification of the
therapeutic techniques of Perls and Satir.

In the book, Bandler and Grinder claim that NLP has magic-like qualities
which allow for an individual to change their model or map of “reality.” Since
no objective reality exists, they assert, one can simply choose the form of
reality one wishes to experience, the reality one wishes to embody. NLP
techniques are used to change how an individual’s neuronal pathway responds
or behaves in accordance to a specific stimulus. If enough change occurs, it is
claimed that it can transform the entire personality, or create co-existing
alternative personalities.

In “The Structure of Magic,” the NLP techniques are compared to “magical

incantations,” and allows for a reframing of that individual’s world. The book
includes chapters such as “Becoming a Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and “The Final
Incantation.”

In 2008, Bandler wrote “A Guide to TRANCE-formation.”

Steve Andreas, a student of Bandler and Grinder wrote “Virginia Satir: The
Patterns of Her Magic.”

Needless to say, we can see how such techniques if effective, could be

misused, not just on the masses but on the so-called “elite,” which Esalen
clearly caters to.

Recall, even Aldous’ “Alpha Pluses” of the Brave New World needed a
controller…there were only about twelve members of the Mustapha Mond
status and then there was whatever was to be found past that veil. All the rest;
the Deltas, Epsilons, Betas, Alphas and Alpha Pluses were all tightly controlled,
micro-managed really, and were not free to escape from the existential
parameters chosen for them. No one, not even an Alpha Plus, as seen with the
case of Helmholtz Watson, were free to choose a different course than what
had already been chosen for them.

Although there are positive applications of NLP which have helped many
people, within the context of this Tavistock-driven process, NLP was/is
literally an attempt to reprogram the mind as if it were a circuit board. [Note:
Gregory Bateson was the Cybernetics guru at the Esalen Institute.]

Timothy Leary, at the time a young professor of psychology at Harvard who

headed the Harvard Psilocybin Project (with Aldous Huxley on its founding
board) from 1960-62 until he was fired, was recruited by Aldous to help shape
the “Ultimate Revolution” and lead the charge of the counterculture
insurgency, to which Leary described in his book “Flashbacks: A Personal and
Cultural History of an Era,”:

“We had run up against the Judeo-Christian commitment to one God, one
religion, one reality, that has cursed Europe for centuries and America
since our founding days. Drugs that open the mind to multiple realities
inevitably lead to a polytheistic view of the universe. We sensed that the
time for a new humanist religion based on intelligence, good natured
pluralism and scientific paganism had arrived.”

Leary would give the CIA full credit for starting and initiating “the entire
consciousness movement, counterculture events of the 1960s” by flooding
LSD into college campuses across the country and investing millions in LSD
research programs. In the video, Leary looks like he is doing an ad campaign
for the CIA, “buy their product, it worked for me”. (Leary would fittingly
attempt to become a stand up comic in his washed up years, demoted from
his prominent courtier status to that of a mere jester, if only people could
have seen him for the fool he was much earlier.)

On PBS’s Late Night America, Timothy Leary commented:

“I’ve been an admirer of Aleister Crowley. I think that I’m carrying on much
of the work that he started over a hundred years ago … He was in favor of
finding yourself, and ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law’ under
love. It was a very powerful statement. I’m sorry he isn’t around now to
appreciate the glories he started.”

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“Then you think there is no God?” [asked the Savage] “No, I think there quite
probably is one.” [answered Mustapha Mond] “Then why [are you doing all of
this]?…How does [God] manifest himself now?” [asked the Savage] “Well, he
manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren’t there at all.” [answered
Mustapha Mond] “That’s your fault.” [retorted the Savage] “Call it the fault of
civilization.” [responded Mustapha Mond]

– Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”

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Feature Image: left to right, Alan Watts, Summer of Love, Human Be-In Poster,
Aldous Huxley

Footnotes:

(1) David King Dunaway, “Huxley in Hollywood,” 1989, pg 147

(2) Ibid, pg 159
(3) Ibid, pg 251
(4) Ibid, pg 328
(5) William Sargant “The Battle for the Mind”
(6) Huxley in Hollywood pg 325
(7) Ibid, pg 303
(8) Ibid, pg 335
(9) Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World”

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Bruce Cain Writes Bruce’s Newsletter Mar 26, 2022 Liked by Cynthia Chung

Great coverage! I've also written about the Ukraine. What I haven't yet written about is how the
Ukraine figures into the Great Reset. Scary times.

AS THE WHEELS FALL OFF THE PLANDEMIC AGENDA THE GLOBALISTS ARE NOW STARTING A
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warren schaich Mar 26, 2022 Liked by Cynthia Chung

Thank you for exposing the Nazi collaborators in Ukraine, Canada and US. The West basically
follows a Nazi program that has continued for far too long and has gotten stronger.
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