Grateful Dead
The first United States-grown rock group of that [psychedelic] type, the
Grateful Dead, was generated as a British intelligence operation by the
Occult Bureau of [Aldous] Huxley and [Gregory] Bateson out of the Palo Alto
Veteran's Hospital where they were doing LSD and related experiments.
- Why would British intelligence want to put out a rock group?
This is part of the Satanism business. Call it the counterculture. Call it the
Dionysius model of the counterculture. Rock [music] is essentially a revival of
the ancient Dionysic, Bacchic rituals. Lots of people for long periods of time
in that kind of particular rhythmic ritual which was probably struck upon
empirically many thousands of years ago for this type of cult. It does have a
relationship to the Alpha rhythms of the brain. It does produce these sorts of
states. If combined with a little alcohol and more, shall we say, mood shaping
substances, with youth, with funny sex, this does produce a profound change of a
countercultural type. Another word for it: New Age. The longer term: Age of
Aquarius. People were experimenting with various utopian models, constructing
small groups experimentally which were considered New Age types.
---- Lyndon LaRouche on the 60's counter-culture, rock
music, LSD and the occult (see also this...)