Tripping on Utopia

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1023793Tripping on Utopiahttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/tripping-on-utopia-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/216608/100318f7-c6e0-46e5-a56e-b4bc33dc692d.jpg?v=638333842538400000247290MXNGrand Central PublishingInStock/Ebooks/A Los Angeles Times BestsellerOne of The New Yorkers best books of 2024A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley."It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents."Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the 40s and 50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth.At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologistsand star-crossed loversMargaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their lifes mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Batesons partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age.As we follow Mead and Batesons fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges....1019393Tripping on Utopia247290https://www.gandhi.com.mx/tripping-on-utopia-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/216608/100318f7-c6e0-46e5-a56e-b4bc33dc692d.jpg?v=638333842538400000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781538722398_W3siaWQiOiIyNjNkNWU5Ni1mZGNjLTQxYTktOTc5MC0zYjYwYjMwYzk1N2YiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMwMCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQ1LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI1NSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781538722398_A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley."It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents."Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the 40s and 50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth.At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologistsand star-crossed loversMargaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their lifes mission to harness the power of psychedelics to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Batesons partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age.As we follow Mead and Batesons fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges....(*_*)9781538722398_A Los Angeles Times BestsellerOne of The New Yorkers best books of 2024A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley."It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents."Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the 40s and 50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth.At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologistsand star-crossed loversMargaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their lifes mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Batesons partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age.As we follow Mead and Batesons fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges....9781538722398_Grand Central Publishinglibro_electonico_d80cd762-5fb6-36d1-8948-956593badae8_9781538722398;9781538722398_9781538722398Benjamin BreenInglésMéxico2024-01-16T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/hachetteuk-epub-6a6b78ce-b758-49d5-b324-c0a89eb11eaa.epub2024-01-16T00:00:00+00:00Grand Central Publishing