The Bad Trip

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Set and Setting in the Sixties

There were two schools of psychedelia in the late sixties, the Baba Ram Das/Timothy Leary East Coast spiritual school, and the West Coast Ken Kesey blow your mind school. I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area so of course I was loyal to the Prankster dharma, the let it wail, superhero mindset. At the League for Spiritual Discovery, Leary and Ram Das would carefully manage what they called…