PSYCHEDELIC BABY REACHES PUBERTY

by Peter Stafford ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 1971

Mr. Stafford has 'assembled' a good deal of material on the LSD experience, with a very peripheral consideration of marijuana and alcohol, chiefly by getting a lot of people to put their acid heads together although there are a few professionals engaged in the discussion (e.g., a hospital psychiatrist). In the beginning there are some 'orientations' about the ""giant transforming wave now washing over society"" which will inaugurate other 'values and thinking' although this is all most unspecific: the experience is on the one hand 'primarily emotional' and then it's 'intensely self-reflective' and then it's political and then 'actually religious.' Follows a great deal of testimony (it would have been more helpful if all of the pieces were identified and dated) both good and bad: a shrivelling piece called ""The Crazy Things We did with Acid""; some tapes with messiahs Allen Watts and Allen Ginsberg; what's happening now, not much, in Washington D.C. or what will happen in 1984. The epilogue points towards acceptance and legalization since drugs are essentially desired by the middle class -- up until then it's mostly soundings, not findings.

Pub Date: Oct. 1, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Praeger

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1971

Categories: NONFICTION