The Dedalus Book of the 1960s Spiral-Bound | 2022-02-14

Gary Lachman

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A REVISIONIST ANTHOLOGY UNCOVERS THE LOVE GENERATION'S DARK ROOTS IN OCCULTISM, AND HOW MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS BECAME THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.

In The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind, Gary Lachman uncovers the Love Generation's roots in occultism and explores the dark side of the Age of Aquarius. His provocative revision of the 1960s counterculture links Flower Power to mystical fascism, and follows the magical current that enveloped luminaries like the Beatles, Timothy Leary and the Rolling Stones, and darker stars like Charles Manson, Anton LaVey, and the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Acclaimed by satanists and fundamentalist Christians alike, this edition includes a revised text incorporating new material on the 'suicide cult' surrounding Carlos Castaneda; the hippy serial killer Charles Sobhraj; the strange case of Ira Einhorn, 'the Unicorn'; the CIA and ESP; the new millennialism and more. From H.P. Lovecraft to the Hell's Angels, find out how the Morning of the Magicians became the Night of the Living Dead.
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 564 pages
ISBN-10: 191286844X
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.3 x 7.8 inches
"A parish priest I know, like a good shepherd, ever vigilant for his flock, recommended Turn Off Your Mind to me, to gain a better understanding of the depths of cultural and moral crisis affecting our society."
--Francis Slobodnik, The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
A founding member of the rock group Blondie, he wrote some of the band's early hits. Before moving to London in 1996 and becoming a full time writer, Gary Lachman is the author of many books on the counterculture as Gary Valentine, New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop and Others 1974-1981, a memoir of his years as a musician in New York in the 1970s.