Product Description
Storming Heaven is the extraordinary story of how LSD evolved from a psychiatric tool to a force that changed a generation, from the first tentative explorations of Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts through Timothy Leary and the "Summer of Love".
At once sceptical and sympathetic, with a wonderful sense of the comic, Stevens is the ideal guide through the psychedelic maze.
At once sceptical and sympathetic, with a wonderful sense of the comic, Stevens is the ideal guide through the psychedelic maze.
Synopsis
To a generation of psychotherapists, LSD was a door to the unconscious. To the CIA, which purchased enough to turn on 100 million people, it was potentially a mind-control weapon. To Aldous Huxley, it was a force which could push mankind up the evolutionary ladder, a belief inherited by Dr Timothy Leary, who thought LSD would transform America into a spiritual Utopia. "Storming Heaven" begins in scientific investigation and ends in social and cultural revolution. With names like Henry Luce, Cary Grant, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, G Gordon Liddy and Charles Manson, the books examines a force which shaped contemporary America.
