Turn Off Your Mind

Turn Off Your Mind
The Mystic Sixties & the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

By Gary Valentine Lachman
December 2001
Sidgwick & Jackson
ISBN: 0283063661
430 pages, illustrated, 5 Ľ x 8 ˝"
$24.95 Paper Original

How did a decade that dawned with the Age of Aquarius end in Altamont and the Manson family bloodbath? The 1960s were a time of revolution-political, social, psychedelic, and sexual. But there also rose a powerful current, a revival of the occult. Previously rejected, it took center stage, reaching the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the hippies and flower children of that era. The author, a former member of the rock ground, Blondie, has written a brilliant study of that period of time, and discusses topics like: The Occult Revival. H.P. Lovecraft. Tolkien. Aldous Huxley. Henry Miller. Hermann Hesse craze. Jung & the Occult. Timothy Leary and LSD. Allen Ginsberg. Don Carlos. L. Ron Hubbard. Church of Satan. Scientology. Rolling Stones. Jim Morrison. UFOs. R.D. Laing. Jerry Rubin. Abbie Hoffman. Occult Consumerism. New Age. Black Sabbath. Led Zeppelin. David Bowie. Magic Today. Fetish Clubs. Nazi Chic. Notes. Bibliography.

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