America's biggest LSD popularizer, the disgraced former Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary, stressed that your reaction to acid depends on "set and setting": the attitudes you bring to the experience and the environment surrounding you. As an old acidhead joke goes, LSD is a highly volatile drug that can induce heart palpitations, panic, and paranoia-in those who have never taken it.Īcid's most hideous wisdom is that it can and will be as beatific, as grinding, as exalted, or as depraved as whatever is within you. Imagined by different advocates as a tool for spiritual reawakening, for political revolution, or for military mind control, LSD has a mysterious power in our bodies that is reflected in its mysterious power in our body politic. Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World, by Nicholas Schou, Thomas Dunne Books, 304 pages, $24.99
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