Psychedelic movement

The psychedelic movement was a spin-off of psychopharmacology, which, in the 1950s, was producing the selective antipsychotic medication that would, by the end of the twentieth century, contribute to the closing of the state mental hospitals. Some of the drugs produced by the pharmaceutical industry were inadvertently psychotogenic. 

Perception (1954), which probably marks the beginning of the modern psychedelic movement, is also such a protocol... 

In our opinion, the Establishment has behaved as establishments usually do, bolstered with the authority they possess by virtue of their social and political position. They have not been any less admirable than members of the psychedelic movement who claim that as a result of their experiences they have a deeper knowledge of the human heart and a greater understanding of the meaning of things. By their claims, their actions must be judged by a higher standard than the actions... 

Allen Ginsberg, "turned on to LSD by the U.S. Army, became the poet laureate of the psychedelic movement. 

Huxley s book opened an era when a number of pioneers of the psychedelic movement first turned on. Robert Masters, who published the earliest account of its effects in the sexual realm in his Forbidden Sexual Behavior and Morality (Julian Press, 1962), had his first experience with peyote during the 1950s in Louisiana. In I960, Arthur Kleps wrote to Delta Chemicals Co. in New York for mescaline sulfate and tried 500 mg. The experience resulted in his leaving his job as a state prison psychologist, in addition to other considerable changes in his life. Here is how he described what o ccurred ... 

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