#Counterculture

9 entries tagged Counterculture.

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Alan Watts Alan Watts was the British-born interpreter of Zen Buddhism, Vedanta, and Taoism for Western audiences whose books and Pacifica radio talks shaped the spiritual vocabulary of the 1960s counterculture.
Stewart Brand Stewart Brand is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation, the figure who carried 1960s counterculture into Silicon Valley tech-utopianism.
Timothy Leary Timothy Leary was the Harvard psychologist turned psychedelic evangelist who ran the Harvard Psilocybin Project, coined 'turn on, tune in, drop out,' operated under documented CIA surveillance while drawing on research networks whose funding traced to MKULTRA, and in his final decades became a champion of personal computers, space migration, and life extension.

Brotherhood of Eternal Love A spiritual commune and LSD manufacturing organization based in Laguna Beach, California, that produced and distributed the Orange Sunshine brand of LSD through manufacturer Ronald Hadley Stark, who had documented CIA and international intelligence connections.
Esalen Institute Esalen Institute is the Big Sur retreat center founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Dick Price that became the seedbed of the Human Potential movement and whose Soviet-American citizen-diplomacy program drew documented CIA and FBI monitoring.
Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic San Francisco free clinic founded in 1967 during the Summer of Love that became a nexus for counterculture health services and, through its proximity to CIA-funded psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West, a potential node for intelligence community monitoring of the hippie movement.

Cybernetics Cybernetics is the postwar science of control and communication in animals and machines, founded by Norbert Wiener and developed at the Macy Conferences, which diffused into computing, systems theory, artificial intelligence, and the Californian counterculture.
The Californian Ideology The Californian Ideology is the 1995 essay by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron diagnosing the fusion of San Francisco hippie counterculture with free-market neoliberalism and technological determinism in 1990s Wired-era tech culture.
Whole Earth Catalog The Whole Earth Catalog was Stewart Brand's counterculture compendium of tools and ideas, published from 1968, subtitled Access to Tools, opened with we are as gods, and won the National Book Award in 1972.