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Blowing America\u2019s Mind
A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD and Zen
by John Selby and Paul Jeffrey Davids
YELLOW HAT PUBLISHING \u2014 JANUARY 2, 2018

An Insider Expos\xe9: College Kids are Guinea Pigs in CIA\u2019s Mind-Control Experiments

In the 1950s, the CIA had a macabre fascination with hypnosis and psychedelic drugs, and they unleashed programs to make use of them for military purposes. They lavished funds on a highly\u2010classified mind\u2010control project (which they named MK\u2010ULTRA) with the intent of bending the minds of enemies, foreign and domestic, and of erasing memories of secrets known to their own retired agents. As MK\u2010ULTRA grew into the 1960\u2019s, their list of targets expanded to include college students \u2013 especially anti\u2010Vietnam\u2010War activists.

John Selby and Paul Jeffrey Davids, the authors of Blowing America\u2019s
Mind: A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD and Zen, were among Princeton University students in the late 1960\u2019s who got tangled up in these secret experiments at the nearby New Jersey Neuro\u2010Psychiatric Institute\u2019s Bureau of Research. Recruited and paid to experience multiple deep-hypnosis sessions (mingled with micro\u2010doses of LSD), Selby, Davids and students from other campuses, such as Columbia and Harvard, believed what they were told: that regular monitored experiences of this type would introduce them to a kind of \u2018super\u2010consciousness,\u2019 spiritual enlightenment, and even better sex. Engaged in some of the very first psychedelic research, led by famous \u2018psychedelic pioneers\u2019 such as psychiatrist Dr. Humphry Osmond, Selby and Davids got some of the positive pay\u2010off, but nearly lost their identities \u2013 and their minds \u2013 in the process.

This true story documents their experiences as guinea pigs in secret CIA mind\u2010control deep hypnosis research, and it reads like scenes in a movie \u2013 intrigue and conflict at then all\u2010male Princeton University, dreamy and euphoric journeys to other worlds, hormone\u2010and\u2010drug\u2010 induced fun and frolic, sky\u2010rocketing escapes from Vietnam\u2010era reality, and drastic changes in their states of mind and behavior. Set at Princeton, and awash in mind manipulation and near mental disintegration, as well as a being a love story, it is in some ways a cousin to A Beautiful Mind.

Selby and Davids began trying to document their experiences a few years after graduating but realized that the confessions and self\u2010exposure involved \u2013 the raw reality of it all \u2013 was more than they were prepared to reveal at that time. They retained their avid interest in altered consciousness, but left their story untold \u2013 until now.

\u201cBlowing America\u2019s Mind is a fascinating journey of love, drugs and covert governmental intrigue. Suspenseful in documenting the impact of the \u2018Psychedelic Revolution\u2019 at Princeton in the late 1960\u2019s, the book is a complex, poignant drama detailing CIA-sponsored hypnosis and LSD research, as the famous all-male Ivy League university is on the eve of going coed and on the edge of imploding.\u201d

\u2014 Jeremy Kagan, Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, USC, and Chairperson of Special Projects for the Directors Guild of America

About the Authors

Paul Jeffrey Davids is the co\u2010author of six \u201cStar Wars\u201d books for Lucasfilm. He was production coordinator and a writer of the original animated \u201cTransformers\u201d TV series; executive producer of Showtime\u2019s \u201cRoswell: The UFO Cover\u2010up,\u201d starring Kyle MacLachlan and Martin Sheen, and he has produced and directed ten feature films, including \u201cThe Sci\u2010Fi Boys\u201d and \u201cThe Life After Death Project,\u201d both of which aired on SyFy, and \u201cJesus in India\u201d and the bio\u2010pic, \u201cTimothy Leary\u2019s Dead.\u201d As an undergraduate at Princeton, he won three top writing awards, then studied under full scholarship at the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies in Los Angeles. Davids is also the bestselling co\u2010author of An Atheist in Heaven: the Ultimate Evidence for Life After Death? (2016) as well as being an accomplished artist.

John Selby is a noted author, psychologist and researcher of mind\u2010brain exploration; the developer of unique mind\u2010management methods; and the creator of the BrightMind Network. His expertise in creating new cognitive tools and Focus Phrase methods for quieting the mind led to the founding of the mind\u2010tech company called WizeWell. As an awareness\u2010management consultant, John has worked with leaders in companies such as Citibank Europe, the Allianz Group, the American Airlines Pilots Association, Plantronics and many more. John Selby is the author or co\u2010author of many bestselling books, published in 14 languages, including:

Quiet Your Mind: A Guide to End Chronic Worry and Negative Thoughts
Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World\u2019s Greatest Teachers
Executive Genius: How to Build a High\u2010Awareness Company
Tapping The Source: Master Keys for Abundance and Happiness
Shooting Angels (the first of four novels in the Jack Hadley Mystery Series)
Let Love Find You: Seven Steps to Open Your Heart to Love
Expand This Moment: Focused Meditations to Set Yourself Fr



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