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//-->THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACYTHE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY: FACT OR FICTION?There is a sizeable portion of the otherwise reading population that refuses tolook at ANYTHING connected to Lyndon Larouche. In its most acute form, thisintellectual close-mindedness centers primarily on his lack of what some believeis an essential positive regard for the British royalty. Perhaps the most"outlandish"OR "true-blue" publication has been Chapter VII of EIR, DOPE, INC.(3rd Ed. 1992). Following the chapter is a fragmentary chronology of events.True or false. You decide for yourself.The Aquarian ConspiracyIn the spring of 1980, a book appeared called The Aquarian Conspiracy that putitself forward as a manifesto of the counterculture. Defining the countercultureas the conscious embracing of irrationality -- from rock and drugs tobiofeedback, meditation, "consciousness-raising," yoga, mountain climbing, grouptherapy, and psychodrama. The Aquarian Conspiracy declares that it is now timefor the 15 million Americans involved in the counterculture to join in bringingabout a "radical change in the United States."Writes author Marilyn Ferguson: "While outlining a not-yet-titled book about theemerging social alternatives, I thought again about the peculiar form of thismovement; its atypical leadership, the patient intensity of its adherents, theirunlikely successes. It suddenly struck me that in their sharing of strategies,their linkage, and their recognition of each other by subtle signals, theparticipants were not merely cooperating with one another. They were incollusion. It -- this movement -- is a conspiracy!"1Ferguson used a half-truth to tell a lie. The counterculture is a conspiracy --but not in the half-conscious way Ferguson claim -- as she well knows. Fergusonwrote her manifesto under the direction of Willis Harman, social policy directorof the Stanford Research Institute, as a popular version of a May 1974 policystudy on how to transform the United States into Aldous Huxley's Brave NewWorld. The counterculture is a conspiracy at the top, created as a method ofsocial control, used to drain the United States of its commitment to scientificand technological progress.That conspiracy goes back to the 1930s, when the British sent Aldous Huxley tothe United States as the case officer for an operation to prepare the UnitedStates for the mass dissemination of drugs. We will take this conspiracy apartstep-by-step from its small beginnings with Huxley in California to thevictimization of 15 million Americans today. With 'The Aquarian Conspiracy', theBritish Opium War against the United States has come out into the open.The ModelThe British had a precedent for the counterculture they imposed upon the UnitedStates: the pagan cult ceremonies of the decadent Egyptian and Roman Empires.The following description of cult ceremonies dating back to the Egyptian Isispriesthood of the third millennium B.C. could just as well be a journalisticaccount of a "hippy be-in" circa A.D. 1969: "The acts or gestures that accompanythe incantations constitute the rite [of Isis). In these dances, the beating ofdrums and the rhythm of music and repetitive movements were helped byhallucinatory substances like hashish or mescal; these were consumed asadjuvants to create the trance and the hallucinations that were taken to he thevisitation of the god. The drugs were sacred, and their knowledge was limited tothe initiated . . . Possibly because they have the illusion of satisfieddesires, and allowed the innermost feelings to escape, these rites acquiredduring their execution a frenzied character that is conspicuous in certainspells: "Retreat! Re is piercing thy head, slashing thy face, dividing thy head,crushing it in his hands; thy bones are shattered, thy limbs are cut topieces!"2The counterculture that was foisted on the 1960s adolescent youth of America isnot merely analogous to the ancient cult of Isis. It is a literal resurrectionof the cult down to the popularization of the Isis cross (the "peace symbol") asthe counterculture's most frequently used symbol.The High PriesthoodThe high priest for Britain's Opium War was Aldous Huxley, the grandson ofThomas H. Huxley, a founder of the Rhodes Roundtable group and a lifelongcollaborator of Arnold Toynbee. Toynbee himself sat on the RIIA council fornearly fifty years, headed the Research Division of British intelligencethroughout World War II, and served as wartime briefing officer of PrimeMinister Winston Churchill. Toynbee's "theory" of history, expounded in histwenty-volume History of Western civilization, was that its determining culturehas always been the rise and decline of grand imperial dynasties. At the verypoint that these dynasties -- the "thousand year Reich" of the Egyptianpharaohs, the Roman Empire, and the British Empire -- succeed in imposing theirrule over the entire face of the earth, they tend to decline. Toynbee arguedthat this decline could be abated if the ruling oligarchy (like that of theBritish Roundtable) would devote itself to the recruitment and training of anever-expanding priesthood dedicated to the principles of imperial rule.3Trained at Toynbee's Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates in the"Children of the Sun," a Dionysian cult comprised of the children of Britain'sRoundtable elite.4 Among the other initiates were T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, SirOswald Mosley, and D.H. Lawrence, Huxley's homosexual lover. It was Huxley,furthermore, who would launch the legal battle in the 1950s to have Lawrence'spornographic novel Lady Chatterley's Lover allowed into the United States on theground that it was a misunderstood "work of art."5Aldous Huxley, along with his brother Julian, was tutored at Oxford by H.G.Wells, the head of British foreign intelligence during World War I and thespiritual grandfather of the Aquarian Conspiracy. Ferguson accurately sees thecounterculture as the realization of what Wells called The Open Conspiracy: BluePrints for a World Revolution. The "Open Conspiracy," Wells wrote, "will appearfirst, I believe, as a conscious organization of intelligent and quite possiblyin some cases, wealthy men, as a movement having distinct social and politicalaims, confessedly ignoring most of the existing apparatus of political control,or using it only as an incidental implement in the stages, a mere movement of anumber of people in a certain direction who will presently discover with a sortof surprise the common object toward which they are all moving . . . In allsorts of ways they will be influencing and controlling the apparatus of theostensible government."6What Ferguson left out is that Wells called his conspiracy a "one-world brain"which would function as "a police of the mind." Such books as the OpenConspiracy were for the priesthood itself. But Wells's popular writings (TimeMachine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and so forth), and those of his protegesAldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (1984 and Animal Farm),were written as "mass appeal" organizing documents on behalf of one-worldorder. Only in the United States are these "science fiction classics" taughtin grade school as attacks against fascism.Under Wells's tutelage, Huxley was first introduced to Aleister Crowley. Crowleywas a product of the cultist circle that developed in Britain from the 1860sunder the guiding influence of Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- who, it will be recalled,was the colonial minister under Lord Palmerston during the Second Opium War. In1886, Crowley, William Butler Yeats, and several other Bulwer-Lytton protegesformed the Isis-Urania Temple of Hermetic Students of the Golden Dawn. This IsisCult was organized around the 1877 manuscript Isis Unveiled by Madame HelenaBlavatsky, in which the Russian occultist called for the British aristocracy toorganize itself into an Isis priesthood.7The subversive Isis Urania Order of the Golden Dawn is today an internationaldrug ring said to be controlled by the Canadian multi-millionaire, MauriceStrong, who is also a top operative for British Intelligence.In 1937, Huxley was sent to the United States, where he remained throughout theperiod of World War II. Through a Los Angeles contact, Jacob Zeitlin, Huxley andpederast Christopher Isherwood were employed as script writers for MGM, WarnerBrothers, and Walt Disney Studios. Hollywood was already dominated by organizedcrime elements bankrolled and controlled through London. Joseph Kennedy was thefrontman for a British consortium that created RKO studios, and "Bugsy" Siegel,the West Coast boss of the Lansky syndicate, was heavily involved in WarnerBrothers and MGM.Huxley founded a nest of Isis cults in southern California and in San Francisco,that consisted exclusively of several hundred deranged worshipers of Isis andother cult gods. Isherwood, during the California period, translated andpropagated a number of ancient Zen Buddhist documents, inspiring Zen-mysticalcults along the way.8In effect, Huxley and Isherwood (joined soon afterwards by Thomas Mann and hisdaughter Elisabeth Mann Borghese) laid the foundations during the late 1930s andthe 1940s for the later LSD culture, by recruiting a core of "initiates" intothe Isis cults that Huxley's mentors, Bulwer-Lytton, Blavatsky, and Crowley, hadconstituted while stationed in India.LSD: 'Visitation from the Gods'"Ironically," writes Ferguson, "the introduction of major psychedelics like LSD,in the 1960s, was largely attributable to the Central Intelligence Agency'sinvestigation into the substances for possible military use. Experiments on morethan eighty college campuses, under various CIA code names, unintentionallypopularized LSD. Thousands of graduate students served as guinea pigs. Soon theywere synthesizing their own 'acid.' "9The CIA operation was code named MK-Ultra, its result was not unintentional, andit began in 1952, the year Aldous Huxley returned to the United States.Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was developed in 1943 by Albert Hoffman, achemist at Sandoz A.B. -- a Swiss pharmaceutical house owned by S.G. Warburg.While precise documentation is unavailable as to the auspices under which theLSD research was commissioned, it can be safely assumed that Britishintelligence and its subsidiary U.S. Office of Strategic Services were directlyinvolved. Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA when that agency began MK-Ultra,was the OSS station chief in Berne, Switzerland throughout the early Sandozresearch. One of his OSS assistants was James Warburg, of the same Warburgfamily, who was instrumental in the 1963 founding of the Institute for PolicyStudies, and worked with both Huxley and Robert Hutchins."10Aldous Huxley returned to the United States from Britain, accompanied by Dr.Humphrey Osmond, the Huxleys' private physician. Osmond had been part of adiscussion group Huxley had organized at the National Hospital, Queens Square,London. Along with another seminar participant, J.R. Smythies, Osmond wroteSchizophrenia: A New Approach, in which he asserted that mescaline -- aderivative of the mescal cactus used in ancient Egyptian and Indian pagan rites-- produced a psychotic state identical in all clinical respects toschizophrenia. On this basis, Osmond and Smythies advocated experimentation withhallucinogenic drugs as a means of developing a "cure" for mental disorders.Osmond was brought in by Allen Dulles to play a prominent role in MK-Ultra. Atthe same time, Osmond, Huxley, and the University of Chicago's Robert Hutchinsheld a series of secret planning sessions in 1952 and 1953 for a second, privateLSD mescaline project under Ford Foundation funding.11 Hutchins, it will berecalled, was the program director of the Ford Foundation during this period.His LSD proposal incited such rage in Henry Ford II that Hutchins was fired fromthe foundation the following year.It was also in 1953 that Osmund gave Huxley a supply of mescaline for hispersonal consumption. The next year, Huxley wrote The Doors of Perception, thefirst manifesto of the psychedelic drug cult, which claimed that hallucinogenicdrugs "expand consciousness." Although the Ford Foundation rejected theHutchins-Huxley proposal for private foundation sponsorship of LSD, the proposalwas not dropped. Beginning in 1962, the Rand Corporation of Santa Monica,California began a four-year experiment in LSD, peyote, and marijuana. The RandCorporation was established simultaneously with the reorganization of the FordFoundation during 1949. Rand was an outgrowth of the wartime Strategic BombingSurvey, a "cost analysis" study of the psychological effects of the bombings ofGerman population centers.According to a 1962 Rand Abstract, W.H. McGlothlin conducted a preparatory studyon "The Long-Lasting Effects of LSD on Certain Attitudes in Normals: AnExperimental Proposal." The following year, McGlothlin conducted a year-longexperiment on thirty human guinea pigs, called "Short-Term Effects of LSD onAnxiety, Attitudes and Performance." The study concluded that LSD improvedemotional attitudes and resolved anxiety problems.12Huxley At Work Huxley expanded his own LSD-mescaline project in California byrecruiting several individuals who had been initially drawn into the cultcircles he helped establish during his earlier stay. The two most prominentindividuals were Alan Watts and the late Dr. Gregory Bateson (the former husbandof Dame Margaret Mead). Watts became a self-styled "guru" of a nationwide ZenBuddhist cult built around his well-publicized books. Bateson, an anthropologistwith the OSS, became the director of a hallucinogenic drug experimental clinicat the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital. Under Bateson's auspices, theinitiating "cadre" of the LSD cult -- the hippies -- were programmed.13Watts at the same time founded the Pacifica Foundation, which sponsored tworadio station WKBW in San Francisco and WBM-FM in New York City. The Pacificastations were among the first to push the "Liverpool Sound" -- the
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