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“...the Sixties Generation ... predominant drugs of choice were ‘pot’ (marijuana) and LSD. Alongside this sort of drug use were attitudes of activism, free love, love as the ultimate value and/or as equivalent to God, pacifism in regards to the war, the valuing of openness, authenticity, ‘real’ communication, and passion and/or feelingness, including sensory awareness or heightened perception of the physical world.”

October 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM

Michael Adzema

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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

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Chapter 7

Vietnam/Boomer Generation — Marijuana and Psychedelics

“Wow, Man!” “Just Do It” “Go with the Flow”

[Quotes/highlights:] “...for every LSD experience gone wrong, there were hundreds or thousands other LSD experiences that were powerfully transformative. This, simply, is due to the fact that, even without a guide, the psyche’s normal tendency is toward growth and resolution.”

June 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM

Michael Adzema

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*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, pp. 97, 98

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"Once the pot experience opens to the second level of awareness — the recollective-analytic, which is deeper and more real than the initial enhanced sensory awareness — there is no going back. "

"Regardless the cost, the one thing the Sixties Generation did not want to do was to end up like their parents; thus, the disdain for the use of alcohol. "

"By the time of Altamont -- another huge musical event held in California after Woodstock -- the change was apparent. AIcohol was now being used, with the other drugs, in abundance; there was no disdain for its use; and violence and death at the event coincided with this change."

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October 6, 2026 at 5:28 PM

Michael Adzema

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS

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“The Sixties subculture was one of experimentation in all areas, including drugs, which grew out of beliefs — following in the footsteps of the Beat Generation — that normal life/people were characterized by phoniness, alienation, conformism, robotism, and lack of feelingness ... and hypocrisy. Plastic became the pejorative the Vietnam- era Generation would use to describe the phony people they saw around them, as revealed, often, by the mind- expanding drugs.”

October 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM

Michael Adzema

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS

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“Generation X would swallow whatever untruths they had been fed. For they had been led, by the WWII-Gen media, to scapegoat the Sixties Generation for any problems they saw around them. This use of fake news and misrepresentation beginning in the 1970s and 1980s to deflect attention away from the actual filthy-rich perpetrators is important. This tactic of the wealthy elite targeting a scapegoat to create a Culture War, which would keep their larceny in the shadows, is indeed the premise of this book.

“I need to make clear just how long has been going on this ploy of the wealthy using Culture War to hide their secretive and ongoing Class War. It makes it easier to see why it is so pervasive today, as we observe in the media’s use of Lefties as target practice for the irritations of grumbly MAGAts.”

October 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM

Michael Adzema

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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema. Ch 7, p 98

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“Gen X were raised and educated to be a corrective to Sixties youth and their values. They would not be influenced to be critical thinkers, to be generalists — free thinking and open-minded, which would make them liberal thinkers, politically. Rather, they were taught that open- heartedness and free thinking were silly and impractical in a ‘real world’ of greed, gamesmanship, status climbing, and struggle. They would not be introduced to heroic or idealistic notions of possibilities for world renewal or evolution but would be shunted onto the traditional paths of job/career, family, competition, wealth acquisition, and consumerism.”

October 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM

Michael Adzema

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*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, pp. 96, 97

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“...those of us who lived through that period and either participated in LSD use or heard the stories of psychedelic experiencers can attest that transformative spiritual experiences were quite common, even when the drug was used just for the ‘fun’ sensory part; and people also described experiences of curling up in fetal position and reliving their births, long before anyone even heard the term perinatal. As concerns the spiritual level, it was not uncommon to hear of people who met with someone who would be comparable to a Jesus, or who went to a place they could only describe as ‘heaven,’ and this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the varieties of spiritual experiences that were had.”

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October 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM

Michael Adzema

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“...it is only when one goes deeper into the psyche and ‘feels’ the Pain of that estrangement, or in psychedelic terms goes deeper into the actual reliving of the traumas that caused the creation of those alienating scripts, that one can go beyond the horrifying reality of cognitive estrangement.”

“...in doing that processing, one arrives at a reality in which one’s ‘heart’ is opened, and one can catch a glimpse of a reality beyond the normal one — one in which we are all spiritually connected, in Love.”

October 3, 2026 at 5:09 PM

Michael Adzema

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October 1, 2026 at 4:53 PM

Michael Adzema

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July 24, 2026 at 5:22 PM

Michael Adzema

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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

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June 26, 2026 at 11:22 PM

Michael Adzema

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So it was that while Grof and other researchers like Masters and Houston were studying LSD’s effects in controlled settings and with sessions guided by researchers who had experience with accessing deeper levels of the experience — as, for example, Grof himself — there was some degree of access of the deeper levels of the experience even by people using it in uncontrolled situations and with no guidance. It is for this reason that there were some calamities that occurred under the influence of the drug. These rare instances were seized upon by counterculture opponents to spread falsities about the drug’s safety. This, in turn, led to LSD being outlawed.

These portrayals of LSD are clearly seen to be outlandish and paranoid, when you consider that the effect of LSD on DNA, which is one of the charges against it, are about as powerful on affecting DNA as an ordinary cup of tea would be. This was pointed out by Stanislav Grof in his book LSD Psychotherapy (1978). So we see how much lying and propaganda were brought to bear by the WWII Gen around this cultural phenomenon, LSD. Indeed, as it turns out, for every LSD experience gone wrong, there were hundreds or thousands other LSD experiences that were powerfully transformative. This, simply, is due to the fact that, even without a guide, the psyche’s normal tendency is toward growth and resolution. Hence, many people were able to flow with and be taken…

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July 30, 2026 at 4:06 PM

Michael Adzema

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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

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Gen X would not wish to “drop out”; they would think it wise to hunker down in the remaining cultural trappings of a WWII-Generation materialism and focus on family pleasures and either unquestioning religiosity or unbending atheism. In either case, they would close their minds to the psychological mindedness and philosophical yearnings of the Sixties youth. They would sing, following Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, “Choke me in the shallow water, before I get too deep”; adding, “Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box; religion is the smile on a dog.” Which song, “What I Am,” (1988) was played repeatedly on radio and other media outlets in the late Eighties, early Nineties.

Sixties Gen/ Gen X Opposition Amplified Cultural Division

Rather, Generation X would swallow whatever untruths they had been fed. For they had been led, by the WWII-Gen media, to scapegoat the Sixties Generation for any problems they saw around them. This use of fake news and misrepresentation beginning in the 1970s and 1980s to deflect attention away from the actual filthy-rich perpetrators is important. This tactic of the wealthy elite targeting a scapegoat to create…

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August 3, 2026 at 8:37 PM

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July 1, 2026 at 9:08 PM

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“Rather than the Superman/Mighty-Mouse influences on the childhoods of the previous Boomer generation — which had Sixties youth thinking they could and should change the world for high ideals of peace, love, and utopian betterment — Gen X would ape being rascally Bugs-Bunny– like figures: Not giving a damn, laughing at the ‘kumbaya,’ spitting on the environment, and ridiculing the airy-fairy. Because of the propaganda put upon them to turn them away from Sixties values, Gen X would end up despising the actual revolutionaries of the cohort of Sixties youth preceding them. They would pride themselves on tossing a monkey wrench into any utopian works, generally being a nuisance or obstructionist to any attempts at a better, or simply survivable, world.”

July 25, 2026 at 5:46 PM

Michael Adzema

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July 6, 2026 at 8:55 AM

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“Gen Xers would conveniently deem their abject submission to monetary and traditional values as some kind of grand rebellion against what they had been taught were ludicrous values of peaceniks, tree-huggers, dirty hippies, and ‘Berkeley’ radicals. For their generation had been taught, by the establishment, in typical Culture War fashion, that it was the political correctness of the generation prior to them that was the actual danger, the actual ‘established’ order, the actual establishment.”

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July 8, 2026 at 8:27 AM

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Marijuana “Cocktails,” History, and Culture

Once the pot experience opens to the second level of awareness — the recollective-analytic, which is deeper and more real than the initial enhanced sensory awareness — there is no going back. That does not mean that people will not try to recapture the earlier type of experience. Very often it is at this point that the person will begin mixing the pot with other drugs, in particular, alcohol, because they will try to block out the deeper awareness of the mind-expanding substances with these other drugs that diminish awareness.

Indeed, we saw this happen on a massive scale in the Sixties. Initially, pot users were disdainful of people who used alcohol, calling them “juiceheads.” They were disdainful of alcohol use because they were aware that it reduced awareness and that it had served that purpose for their World-War-Two-Generation parents. And the Sixties Generation saw their parents as in great denial of obvious realities — about themselves and the world — as people who did not “walk their talk,” and were ... a charge leveled like an arrow at the heart of the WWII Generation’s values and world ... “hypocrites”! Regardless the cost, the one thing the Sixties Generation did not want to do was to end up like their parents; thus, the disdain for the use of alcohol.

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August 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM

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July 19, 2026 at 4:29 PM

Michael Adzema

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For our purposes here, however, it is important to keep in mind that LSD had the capacity to take one to deeper realities than the horrifying recollective-analytic one. One might say that the recollective- analytic perception is a cognitive view, an intellectual view, or an existential view, and it is certainly an alienated one; but that most of all it lacks the aspect of “the heart.”

In other words, it is only when one goes deeper into the psyche and “feels” the Pain of that estrangement, or in psychedelic terms goes deeper into the actual reliving of the traumas that caused the creation of those alienating scripts, that one can go beyond the horrifying reality of cognitive estrangement. This happens on LSD when the biographical or psychodynamic level is reached; and even more so when the perinatal/symbolic level is worked through, relived. For in doing that processing, one arrives at a reality in which one’s ‘heart’ is opened and one can catch a glimpse of a reality beyond the normal one — one in which we are all spiritually connected, in Love.

It is significant to point out that LSD has this capacity beyond the use of pot so we might understand the differences between the Beat Generation’s reaction to their perception of the unreality of existence, obtained in their use of marijuana, and the Sixties Generation’s quite different reaction to that perception of social phoniness, who were influenced by the use of both marijuana and LSD.

August 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM

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[Chapter 7 text begins:] The preeminent researcher on the effects of LSD on consciousness is, without question, Stanislav Grof. However, Robert E. L. Masters and Jean Houston’s research with LSD led to their seminal work, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience. This book came out in 1967 and had a significant impact on the drug culture of the time.

Most influential on the counterculture at the time, however, was Timothy Leary’s work, The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It was a work that sought to be a guide for journeyers in mind-expanding experiences, which was based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as its title informs. That work came out in 1966 and was coauthored by two other notables in consciousness research, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner. Richard Alpert is he who later became Ram Dass. As Ram Dass, Alpert authored another influential work in the Sixties consciousness culture, Be Here Now (1971).

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July 10, 2026 at 3:05 AM

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A Concocted Generation, Gen X

These things in mind — the unpredictability of the psychedelic experience and its tendency to sooner or later bring up buried feelings of Pain and trauma — it is clear that for practical purposes, psychedelics were anything but helpful. And Gen X, following their Fifties Generation conforming parents, were suddenly practical, were suddenly “real world”–oriented.

Taught to Ridicule the Sixties and Hate Goodness

This confrontation with a harsher practical reality than their Boomer/Sixties predecessors was what was put upon Generation X in their formative years by the powers-that-be. For such wealthy Controllers had attacked the counterculture with the educational and media changes I have been describing as having occurred beginning in the Seventies. Together with that control of information and the narrative of common opinion toward more conservatism, Gen X would be influenced to ridicule the values of the prior generation’s counterculture and its members.

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July 28, 2026 at 11:18 PM

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Nonetheless, for their complicity in bending themselves along lines pleasing to higher ups, for their overall conformity, Gen X would be allowed a veneer of smart-alecky rebelliousness. Notice the sarcastic/snarky tone in “What I Am,” for example. This allowance for being irreverent placated Gen X for their conformity by letting them cover it up with a self-obsessed bravado. “Who needs philosophy? Who needs religion? Haha.” Not Gen X, told they were better than the philosophical-spiritual generation prior to them.

In this way, Generation X were somewhat like their Fifties Generation parents in being allowed to “ape” rebelliousness — examples, Elvis Presley, born 1935; Johnny Cash, born 1932; James Dean, born 1931; and the movie, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) — while actually being very conforming. Witness Presley’s willingness to be drafted into the Vietnam War; whereas a latter-born generation member, Muhammad Ali — born 1942, thus on a Fifties-Sixties Gen cusp — defied the draft and, like his activist cohorts of the Sixties Generation — paid a price for his idealism, for his refusal to submit. Ali was arrested for his “draft dodging” and was found guilty in 1967 — after only twenty-one minutes of jury deliberation, mind you — of violating the Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. He would have his…

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August 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM

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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

Ch 7, pp. 98, 99

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July 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM

Michael Adzema

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*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 105

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS

Page 105

…the popular song described it at the time, “Just give me weed, whites, and wine....”

Nevertheless, some people simply never had the experience of the horrifying inner inauthenticity of normal existence. Being very defended, they were able to continue to use pot for pleasure, and some of them are able to continue to use it this way to this day. Older folks — middle- aged and up — are especially well-defended and repressed in general. As Janov has pointed out, such persistent and long use of defenses against reality reinforces and strengthens them to such a point as to make them inaccessible to change. Their defenses against painful perceptions cannot be brought down by primal therapy or pot. In common parlance, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and older people are more “set in their ways.” So it is that when some of these, having missed the “party” during the Sixties, use pot hoping to get a taste of what they missed, they almost never experience anything but the initial sensory awareness and relaxation, that is, if they are able to experience the drug’s effects at all.

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