Comment by heavyset_go
8 months ago
> No names are coming to mind, but I feel like there have been plenty of psychedelic informed cults, with cult leader narcissists who continue to abuse people despite experiencing psychedelics.
Manson would dose himself and his followers to, IMO, lower inhibitions and make them more receptive to his ideas.
Supposedly mkultra was also experimenting with that use case.
Manson's parole officer met with him at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, which allegedly was funded by the CIA and was a vector for the distribution of LSD from the state.