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Can some knowledgable person here tell me what if any connection there is among Timothy Leary, the Starseed Transmissions, the Nine, etc? I remember reading about Timothy Leary receiving messages from Sirius which he (or they) called Starseed. But I also read a book called "The Stargate Conspiracy" in the early 00s which spoke about some "Starseed Transmissions" given to nine occult-obsessed people, many w/ connections to high finance, big science, politics, etc. These concerned the ennead of ancient Egyptian religion, recasting the Egyptian pantheon as space aliens. I assumed it had something to do with Leary, but it wasn't mentioned, and I found Leary's essay called "Starseed" online, and it seems to regard the idea off transmission as a metaphor, with Leary himself as the source, transmitting from the "black hole" of Folsom prison.

Can anyone sort this out for me?

I can't say much about the newer Starseed work, but I do have a few thoughts about the earlier Tim Leary stuff. I smell the hand of very sophisticated psy-ops in that.

I believe they were "channeled" when Leary was housed at Folsom Prison, before he was moved to Vacaviille Prison, a notorious MKULTRA site. I also believe that at least one of the four-person "telepathic team" was a likely CIA operative and confidence artist. That would be Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Tim's "wife", and somewhat of a junkie too.I can't say if the other members of the team were compromised, but certainly they were prisoners, and thus very vulnerable.

Interesting that Leary got into boosting space travel during and after these sessions, a place where arguably his line coincided with elite agenda. Interesting that his later friend Carol Rosin ("Mata Hari Von Brownie") was an intimate, even a disciple, of notorious space Nazi Werner Von Braun. Interesting also that Leary after the Starseed sessions became a big booster of the L5 Society which actively tried to turn on psychedelic people to a pro-space exploration agenda. Also interesting that L5 actively promoted space launches by a German company called OTRAG which featured Von Braun as scientific adviser and another big Nazi war criminal Kurt Debus (also of NASA) as Chairman of the Board.

For whatever it is worth, around this same time Marshall Applewhite, of later infamy with the Heaven's Gate suicide cult, was recruiting an earlier iteration of his mind control cult. He and another woman ("Bo" and "Peep") were recruiting people to give up all their earthly belongings to go underground with them so they could be taken by alleged "space brothers" to the stars. I don't know what ever happened to these people, but a lot disappeared.

So, anyway, my personal understanding is that Tim Leary was a CIA-affiliated psychologist who "spun out" into loose-cannon status but was then taken into CIA-linked mind control prisons through extraordinary rendition with the active collusion of his paramour Joanna Harcourt-Smith.

While he was under this influence he got redirected into Starseed, SMIILE, and that kind of thing. How this relates to the other Starseed, I can't say, other than to point out that Egyptian esoterica seems to be a key element of very,very elite occultists- the people several steps above ordinary Satanists in the ritual abusing occult underworld. Please note that I am not saying or implying that most "rank and file" Satanists have anything to do with this.

So make of that what you will.

Yeah I cant say for the other stuff, but Leary is best taken with a hit of acid, some salt and plenty of good whiskey.
Sorry I just ate the last of it too.
The whiskey, I mean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters

The Merry Pranksters were a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and sometimes lived communally at his homes in California and Oregon. The group promoted the use of psychedelic drugs. Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus enigmatically labeled "Furthur." Their early escapades were chronicled by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

Notable members include Kesey's best friend Ken Babbs and Neal Cassady, Carolyn Adams (also known as Mountain Girl), Allen Ginsberg, Wavy Gravy, Paul Krassner, Stewart Brand, Del Close, Paul Foster, George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, John Page Browning (also known as Rampage or the Cadaverous Cowboy), Barbara Pinson (known as "Terra") and others.

Summit meeting with Leary

While Tom Wolfe says the attempted meeting with Leary was unsuccessful, photographic evidence points to the fact that Leary actually met up with the pranksters at least once. During this voyage they unsuccessfully attempted to meet Dr. Timothy Leary at his Millbrook estate in New York, where they had hoped to hold a summit meeting between the two major leaders of the psychedelic movement.

There was disagreement between Kesey and the Pranksters and Leary and his followers over the direction of the psychedelic movement. Dr. Leary initially argued that psychedelic drugs should be approached in a serious, scientific manner for psychological and spiritual enlightenment. The Leary camp originally opposed giving people psychedelics outside of a controlled setting and especially denounced giving the drugs to people without their knowledge. Kesey, however, believed that psychedelics were best used as a tool for transforming society as a whole, and that if a sufficient percentage of the population had the psychedelic experience, revolutionary social and political changes would follow. Therefore they made LSD available to anyone interested in partaking — most famously through the "electric kool-aid" made available at the Acid Test events they would sponsor in the years following the bus trip. As the use of LSD spread widely through the Western world, Leary ultimately joined the bandwagon of "acid populism" as well.

It was hoped that the attempted 1964 meeting between Kesey and Leary would resolve this disagreement in a way that would draw on the strengths of both approaches. However, when Kesey and the Pranksters arrived at Millbrook they discovered that Leary had just crashed from a three-day acid binge and could not be revived sufficiently to greet his guests. Plans for a subsequent summit became impossible when both Kesey and Leary were imprisoned on drug charges. Ken Babbs and Wavy Gravy assumed the leadership of the Pranksters while Kesey was incarcerated. Wavy Gravy would eventually leave the Pranksters to establish his own group, The Hog Farm.

The Acid Tests are credited with the expansion of the consciousness of the sixties. Kesey believes that the sixties, particularly the experimentation with psychedelic drugs was the beginning of a paradigmatic shift that is still relevant today. In Kesey's own words, "It was the beginning of a real true revolution that is still going on."[7]

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Hells Angels

Kesey and the Pranksters also had an important relationship with the infamous outlaw motorcycle gang the Hells Angels, who were introduced to LSD by Kesey. The details of their relationship are documented both in Wolfe's book and in famous counterculture figure Hunter S. Thompson's book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Poet Allen Ginsberg also wrote a poem about the Kesey/Angels relationship.

“The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”

“You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.”

“The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.”

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”

“You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”

"I believe with the advent of acid, we discovered new ways to think and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts of mind. Why is it that people are so afraid of it ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply? Because they are afraid that there is more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they are afraid to go in and they don't want us to go in there either because if we go in, there we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control"

"LSD hints to us that there is a, an area of the mind which could be called unsane, beyond sanity and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity, you go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity"

Maybe it was celestial intelligences guiding the hands of the Leary/Milbrook meeting with the Pranksters, but I also see the hand of more earthly intelligence...agencies in all this.

Kesey of course got his first trips from MKULTRA linked shrinks in the Palo Alto area, as did many/most in their crew. Owsley, who made much of their underground acid, was from an elite Skull and Bones family- the Stanleys of Kentucky (Morgan Stanley and etc.). They sure distributed a lot of LSD without too much interference...

Much more that can be said on this, but I want to be sure to keep the link back to Starseed clear and open.

Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD
when he discovered the secret of life Copyright 2004 Associated Newspapers Ltd. Mail on Sunday (London)

August 8, 2004
BY ALUN REES


FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.

The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in
Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.

Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not
the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

Despite his Establishment image, Crick was a devotee of novelist Aldous Huxley, whose accounts of his experiments with LSD and another hallucinogen, mescaline, in the short stories The Doors Of Perception and Heaven And Hell became cult texts for the hippies of the Sixties and Seventies. In the late Sixties, Crick was a founder member of Soma, a legalise-cannabis group named after the drug in Huxley's novel Brave New World. He even put his name to a famous letter to The Times in 1967 calling for a reform in the drugs laws.

It was through his membership of Soma that Crick inadvertently became the inspiration for the biggest LSD manufacturing conspiracy-the world has ever seen the multimillion-pound drug factory in a remote
farmhouse in Wales that was smashed by the Operation Julie raids of the late Seventies.

Crick's involvement with the gang was fleeting but crucial. The revered scientist had been invited to the Cambridge home of freewheeling American writer David Solomon a friend of hippie LSD guru Timothy
Leary who had come to Britain in 1967 on a quest to discover a method for manufacturing pure THC, the active ingredient of cannabis.

It was Crick's presence in Solomon's social circle that attracted a brilliant young biochemist, Richard Kemp, who soon became a convert to the attractions of both cannabis and LSD. Kemp was recruited to the THC project in 1968, but soon afterwards devised the world's first foolproof method of producing cheap, pure LSD. Solomon and Kemp went into business, manufacturing acid in a succession of rented houses before setting up their laboratory in a cottage on a hillside near Tregaron, Carmarthenshire, in 1973. It is estimated that Kemp manufactured drugs worth Pounds 2.5 million an astonishing amount in the Seventies before police stormed the building in 1977 and seized enough pure LSD and its constituent chemicals to make two million LSD 'tabs'.

The arrest and conviction of Solomon, Kemp and a string of co-conspirators dominated the headlines for months. I was covering the case as a reporter at the time and it was then that I met Kemp's close friend, Garrod Harker, whose home had been raided by police but who had not been arrest ed. Harker told me that
Kemp and his girlfriend Christine Bott by then in jail were hippie idealists who were completely uninterested in the money they were making.

They gave away thousands to pet causes such as the Glastonbury pop festival and the drugs charity Release.
'They have a philosophy,' Harker told me at the time. 'They believe industrial society will collapse when the oil runs out and that the answer is to change people's mindsets using acid. They believe LSD can help people to see that a return to a natural society based on self-sufficiency is the only way to save themselves.

'Dick Kemp told me he met Francis Crick at Cambridge. Crick had told him that some Cambridge academics used LSD in tiny amounts as a thinking tool, to liberate them from preconceptions and let their genius wander freely to new ideas. Crick told him he had perceived the double-helix shape while on LSD.

'It was clear that Dick Kemp was highly impressed and probably bowled over by what Crick had told him. He told me that if a man like Crick, who had gone to the heart of human existence, had used LSD, then it
was worth using. Crick was certainly Dick Kemp's inspiration.' Shortly afterwards I visited Crick at his home, Golden Helix, in Cambridge.

He listened with rapt, amused attention to what I told him about the role of LSD in his Nobel Prize-winning discovery. He gave no intimation of surprise. When I had finished, he said: 'Print a word of it and I'll sue.'

American Dream wrote:Maybe it was celestial intelligences guiding the hands of the Leary/Milbrook meeting with the Pranksters, but I also see the hand of more earthly intelligence...agencies in all this.

Kesey of course got his first trips from MKULTRA linked shrinks in the Palo Alto area, as did many/most in their crew. Owsley, who made much of the undeground acid was from an elite Skull and Bones family- the Stanleys of Kentucky (Morgan Stanley and etc.). They sure distributed a lot of LSD without too much interference...

Much more that can be said on this, but I want to be sure to keep the link back to Starseed clear and open.

Yeah. Im not discounting any of that.

Yes, I'm conscious of the dangers of a highly negative presentation of the LSD story.

Here's a perhaps more balanced perspective:

The birth of popular psychedelic culture in modern America is like unto Carnaval in the colonial Americas. Carnaval represents a compromise, a sharing of power between the Empire and the People. In Carnaval, for one day a year, the slave class got to dance in the streets, to celebrate their arts and culture, to let the goddesses and gods come forth. The Empire had more overt power, but could never fully suppress the power of the People.

In a similar way, the LSD revolution, though intimately tied to spooky forces who may have wanted to weaken and confuse the Resistance, also represents a flowering of freedom- freedom to love, to create art on a higher vibration, to experience mysticism directly, to break out of oppressive social roles, to sow life instead of death.

So the Empire had the upper hand in certain ways, but the Promethean act of bringing psychedelics into the popular culture changed things in some very profound ways.

And here we stand.

Yeah.
Remarkable in my opinion is how magic shroomies ever managed to stay "hidden and unknown" trhu the Dark Ages and Inqvisition and whatnot, practically growing fucking every-where on Earth -
taking Wasson to go looking for em to bring em back to use?

http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/ ... fo12.shtml

Good shit thou.
More down to earth those lil fellas too.
Just be humble, aye, and remember to thank the lil ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Gordon_Wasson

Wasson's studies in ethnomycology began during his 1927 honeymoon trip to the Catskill Mountains when his bride, Valentina Pavlovna Guercken, a paediatrician, chanced upon some edible wild mushrooms. Fascinated by the marked difference in cultural attitudes towards the fungus in Russia compared to the United States, the couple began field research which led to the writing of Mushrooms, Russia and History published in 1957. In the course of their investigations, they mounted expeditions to Mexico to study the religious use of mushrooms by the native population. They became the first westerners to participate in a Mazatec sacred mushroom ritual. In 1957, they published a Life magazine article (Seeking the Magic Mushroom), bringing knowledge of the existence of psychoactive mushrooms to a wide audience for the first time. Through his collaboration with Roger Heim, the mushrooms were subjected to scientific study, and Albert Hofmann[1], using material grown by Heim from specimens collected by the Wassons, identified the chemical structure of the active compounds, psilocybin and psilocin. Two species of mushroom, Psilocybe wassonii Heim and Psilocybe wassonorum Guzman were named in honor of R. Gordon Wasson. Hofmann and Wasson were also the first westerners to collect specimens of the Mazatec hallucinogen Salvia divinorum, leading to its description as a new species, and bringing it into cultivation outside of Mexico.

Experiences with the magic mushrooms apparently had a profound effect on Wasson, and fungi remained a persistent theme in his work. His next major contribution was a study of the ancient Vedic intoxicant Soma, which he proposed was based on the psychoactive Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushroom. This was published in 1967 under the title Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. His attention then turned to the Eleusinian Mysteries, the initiation ceremony of the ancient Greek cult of Demeter and Persephone. In The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978), co-authored with Albert Hofmann and Carl A. P. Ruck, it was proposed that the special potion "kykeon", a pivotal component of the ceremony, contained psychoactive ergoline alkaloids from the fungus Ergot (Claviceps spp.).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets

Stamets is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, and is an advisor to the Program for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Medical School, Tucson, Arizona. He is active in researching the medicinal properties of mushrooms,[2] and is involved in two NIH-funded clinical studies on cancer and HIV treatments using mushrooms as adjunct therapies. Having filed numerous patents on the antiviral, pesticidal, and remediative properties of mushroom mycelia, his work has been called pioneering and visionary.[3] A strong advocate of preserving biodiversity, Stamets supports research into the role of mushrooms for ecological restoration.

The author of numerous books and papers on the subject of mushroom identification and cultivation, Stamets has discovered four new species of mushrooms. He is an advocate of the permaculture system of growing, and considers fungiculture a valuable but underutilized aspect of permaculture. He is also a leading researcher into the use of mushrooms in bioremediation, processes he terms mycoremediation and mycofiltration.

Stamets was the recipient of the "Bioneers Award" from The Collective Heritage Institute in 1998,[4] as well as the "Founder of a New Northwest Award" from the Pacific Rim Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils in 1999. He was also named one of Utne Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in their November–December 2008 issue. His work was featured in the documentary film The 11th Hour.[5]

American Dream wrote:Yes, I'm conscious of the dangers of a highly negative presentation of the LSD story.

Here's a perhaps more balanced perspective:

The birth of popular psychedelic culture in modern America is like unto Carnaval in the colonial Americas. Carnaval represents a compromise, a sharing of power between the Empire and the People. In Carnaval, for one day a year, the slave class got to dance in the streets, to celebrate their arts and culture, to let the goddesses and gods come forth. The Empire had more overt power, but could never fully suppress the power of the People.

In a similar way, the LSD revolution, though intimately tied to spooky forces who may have wanted to weaken and confuse the Resistance, also represents a flowering of freedom- freedom to love, to create art on a higher vibration, to experience mysticism directly, to break out of oppressive social roles, to sow life instead of death.

So the Empire had the upper hand in certain ways, but the Promethean act of bringing psychedelics into the popular culture changed things in some very profound ways.

And here we stand.

But back to Starseed, go on...

There was a big trend in the early - mid 70s for people to be in contact with Aliens, esp among the US psychedelic intelligens cia (kind of joking there).

Leary, RAW, Lilly and others all claimed to be in contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. As did T and D Mackenna, Close encounters was being made or came out, "Changing Images" was published.

And don't forget this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiWBz55fSQA&feature=related

And Horselover Fat with his VALIS.
Vast Artificial Living Intelligence System?

I completely forgot that, and it was one of the first things in my mind when I started that comment.

Its an interesting trend tho isn't it.

And think about it. Leary and co may have had their experiences before and during the publication of CIoM, but in the next 10 years the song I just posted, Close Encounters and ET all came out. They were huge in the US. Not to mention Planet Earth by Duran Duran.

My head is stuck on something precious
Let me know if youre coming down to land
Is there anybody out there trying to get through?
My eyes are so cloudy I cant see you

Look now, look all around, theres no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
This is planet earth youre looking at planet earth

And the androgobot fashions of the v early eighties

For some reason I don't see Hawkind or Floyd as part of this trend.

Dunno about Bowey tho.