Gary Lachman

How rock's high rollers and a new wave of occultists caused a magical revolution.

The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

Turn Off Your Mind

Gavin

Thesis: Charles Manson, Scientology, and Altamont were not horrible subversions of the 60s' ideology - but its logical conclusion. A series of pop history lessons, and is in fact a bit too full of sections like: "...and then Ram Dass went to India and met Guru McFamous who also knew Bastard McProfound who was notorious for writing a best-selling book of consciousness revolution and being racist for kicks". This is a fairly clear-eyed account of a bunch of creeps who still have lots of cultural capital, but not very deep about why anti-rationalism persists in a world so drastically improved by reason's yields.

Turn Off Your Mind The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

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