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First we see the common narrative repeated again and again in contemporary media that Leary is to blame for ruining research, when really all he ruined was the CIA’s monopolistic control of it. The following three pages are a memorandum from RG Wasson to Thomas Lamont, President of Harvard University, September 13, 1961, just as Timothy Leary is beginning to run afoul of the Harvard Administration. Notice the tone Mr. Wasson carries throughout this missive. The president of Harvard is a powerful post in that institution, but notice who is wielding power here. Mr. Wasson is not only instructing Mr. Lamont how to manage his troublesome employee Dr. Leary, he is telling him to be secret about who is actually in charge. 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I am especially struck by the first paragraph which describes an intoxicating mushroom that deranges most of the users, while conferring illumination only on a specialized group of users. For this is precisely the point i want to make: the dual nature of the psychedelic experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606509cba020c44f81b97972/1620859913324-BC256IE354NW49VIXNI4/thehandoff+copy.jpg Archives - Make it stand out An awesome and significant photograph when you consider what is being imparted by the now famous Mazatec sabia (wise woman) Maria Sabina to Wall Street executive Wasson. Photographed by Allan Richardson to depict the transmission of the sacred mushroom from indigenous use to modernity. Note the suspicious eye of Maria’s daughter at her left shoulder. Unless ye become like little children. When a novice student of the subject I saw this photo akin to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco, the transmission of divine power to humanity. First published in LIFE Magazine, “Seeking the Magic Mushroom,” (1957), the article that introduced the psilocybin mushroom to the modern world. Eventually I learned that this entire operation was in fact a covert CIA operation, MKULTRA#58, that led to a profound shift in my understanding of modern psychedelic history. Why did the CIA sponsor this expedition, and the publication of it, in America’s most popular magazine, introducing psychedelics to the widest audience yet, essentially starting “a” psychedelic movement?I “A” psychedelic movement, I emphasize, because it seems to me that this one ‘they” started bifurcated into another, counter movement with entirely different objectives. We may assume that the movement instigated by Wasson and the CIA was intended to be in service of their corporate, military industrial establishment, as Huxley suggested in Brave New World. 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