Tavistock, The Beatles, Theodore Adorno, LSD, and the Grateful Dead
Did you know there is a longstanding rumor that Theodore Adorno worked with the Beetles (via the Tavistock Institute) to promote their music and make it more addictive? Puts a whole new meaning to “Beetle Mania” huh?
https://twitter.com/s7ephen/status/1699440065259176316
Theodore Adorno (author of "The Authoritarian Personality" [1], one of my 2020 lockdown reads) says you can make ANYONE a celebrity (or any song, a huge hit) by just using HEAVY repetition everywhere. https://t.co/27n5qXyDPt
— Stephen A. Ridley (@s7ephen) September 6, 2023
[1] https://t.co/b5c2d3vhXv pic.twitter.com/LQf4EdJpnr
Also did you know that Owsley Stanley [1] the “LSD Guru” of the Grateful Dead (and the sound engineer that created their sound) has a background in chemistry [2] and Psychological Warfare.”
He was strongly influenced by Hermetic literature and occult studies even as he was beginning his LSD experimentation. (Infact, the “Grateful Dead” were originally called “The Warlocks”.) He got his first LSD from a batch created by Swiss doctor Albert Hofman in 1938 in Austria.
Also noteworthy, the Nazis originally “invented” LSD’s “other” uses, by experimenting on prisoners:
See Also: the “Sidney Gottlieb” portion of this other thread. https://twitter.com/s7ephen/status/1674227007192809474
There's more on all of this in the Sidney Gottlieb book also pic.twitter.com/jDcIxakLMy
— Stephen A. Ridley (@s7ephen) June 29, 2023
Before they were called psychedelics or entheogens, they were actually called SCHIZOPHREnogens. This alone says A LOT about why they may have been chosen as a tool by the likes of Richard Helms and Sidney Gottlieb.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Funny how you can’t get Dave McGowan’s website where he published the short essays that would later become his books.
