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    Default The "Magic Trip" movie by Ken Kesey

    This amazing movie was just posted on youtube. If your an older person you might have lived the time period but certainly it shows historical perspective of that time. I was just a young teen back then.
    Quote Ken Kesey, Neal Cassidy and the Grateful Dead star in this rollicking film about the Merry Pranksters, created from never-before-seen footage of their legendary, acid-fueled cross-country road trip in 1965.
    oops sorry the movie will not imbed and is age restricted.
    Here is the link though.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_l1aqwX3KQ

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    Default Re: The "Magic Trip" movie by Ken Kesey

    Quote Posted by mojo (here)
    This amazing movie was just posted on youtube. If your an older person you might have lived the time period but certainly it shows historical perspective of that time. I was just a young teen back then.
    Quote Ken Kesey, Neal Cassidy and the Grateful Dead star in this rollicking film about the Merry Pranksters, created from never-before-seen footage of their legendary, acid-fueled cross-country road trip in 1965.
    oops sorry the movie will not imbed and is age restricted.
    Here is the link though.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_l1aqwX3KQ
    Tripping (1999 Ken Kesey / Merry Pranksters documentary) (55 min)
    Ken Kesey, Neal Cassidy and the Grateful Dead star in this rollicking film about the Merry Pranksters, created from never-before-seen footage of their legendary, acid-fueled cross-country road trip in 1965.

    The back-up video below plays in Firefox but not in Safari. It could have something to do with my Safari settings for YouTube.
    Magic Trip (1:48:00)
    Ken Kesey, Neal Cassidy and the Grateful Dead star in this rollicking film about the Merry Pranksters, created from never-before-seen footage of their legendary, acid-fueled cross-country road trip in 1965.
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    Default Re: The "Magic Trip" movie by Ken Kesey

    And the CIA to thank for starting the whole San Fran Psychedelic music scene by including in their LSD experiments Ken Kesey, Robert Hunter (in my view on par with Dylan as the best lyricist-poet in the 20th century), and others...


    https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2018...ultra-program/

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    Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and a source of inspiration in the counterculture movement, was first exposed to LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a part of the MKULTRA project while still a graduate student at Stanford University. He came to be involved in the study almost by accident, as a neighbor of Kesey’s—a psychologist—signed up for the project but had to back out at the last minute. An outstanding athlete and a straitlaced individual up to that point, Kesey had never done any sort of drug and had never even tasted alcohol. At the time of the experiments, Kesey was in training for the 1960 Olympics, as he had earned a place on the wrestling team as an alternate.

    Despite Allen Ginsberg’s insistence, Kesey did not believe that the project was sponsored by the CIA, and not until decades later did Kesey discover the program’s true intent: “[The testing] wasn’t being done to try to cure insane people, which is what we thought. It was being done to try to make people insane—to weaken people, and to be able to put them under the control of interrogators.”

    Of course, the resulting effect of the LSD did not weaken Kesey, as psychedelics came to be a tool of enlightenment for the author and cultural icon. Kesey noted that the CIA experimentation helped in evoking the kind of epiphanies that ultimately served as the foundation for the counterculture movement that would soon follow: “We suddenly realized that there’s a lot more to this world than we previously thought . . . One of the things that I think came out of it is this, is that there’s room. We don’t all have to be the same. We don’t have to have Baptists coast to coast. We can throw in some Buddhists and some Christians, and people who are just thinking these totally strange thoughts about the Irish leprechauns—that there is room, spiritually, for everybody in this universe.”

    While still undergoing the CIA testing, Kesey took a job at the project facility, noting that his status as an employee gave him access to several experimental drugs. While Kesey’s friends and many others were able to make LSD on their own after the testing, Kesey acknowledged that the government had the best LSD around, saying, “[The homemade LSD] never was anywhere as good as that good government stuff. That’s the government—the CIA always has the best stuff.”

    ...
    Robert Hunter



    Robert Hunter, a lyricist and longtime collaborator with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, was exposed to the same testing as Kesey, though he had no idea that it was a part of the MKULTRA project until many years later. Hunter had a very different experience from Bulger, saying the following in an interview with Reuters in 2013:

    I couldn’t figure out why they were paying me to take these psychedelics. What they wanted to do was to check if I was more hypnotizable when I was on them. It was hard to pay attention to what the hell they were talking about, much less be hypnotized. It was the first time I had had any of this stuff, and the drugs in themselves were rather spectacular. Nobody had had my experiences, and it was at least two years before those drugs started getting out on the street. It was like a secret club of one.

    As a songwriter, Hunter is responsible for some of the most cherished songs in the Dead’s expansive catalog, including “Ripple,” “Uncle John’s Band,” “Dark Star,” and “Box of Rain,” and his talents will be honored in the summer of 2015 when he is scheduled for enshrinement into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, joining the likes of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie. Through the CIA testing, Hunter was the first of his social circle to try LSD by a few years, so when Garcia took LSD for the first time, it was Hunter who advised him, “Go home, put on a Ravi Shankar record, just listen to the music.”
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    Default Re: The "Magic Trip" movie by Ken Kesey

    Darn it - The video has not been made available by the uploader for my country (UK)

    S.

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    Default Re: The "Magic Trip" movie by Ken Kesey

    Quote Posted by samsdice (here)
    Darn it - The video has not been made available by the uploader for my country (UK)

    S.
    Running Deer has come up tops again - her first video, above, works fine in the UK.

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    Default Re: The "Magic Trip" movie by Ken Kesey

    Great OP mojo. much needed at the mo

    I was there but in more recent times 0yO

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    And thank you running dear for the working link.
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    Default Re: The "Magic Trip" movie by Ken Kesey

    Quote Posted by angelfire (here)
    Quote Posted by samsdice (here)
    Darn it - The video has not been made available by the uploader for my country (UK)

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    Running Deer has come up tops again - her first video, above, works fine in the UK.
    Yep, can confirm there's no issues viewing in the UK....

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    Default Re: The "Magic Trip" movie by Ken Kesey

    Also on Netflix Canada.
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    Default Re: The "Magic Trip" movie by Ken Kesey

    Longest time running film in the cinemas in Sweden
    26 years nonstop!
    "Gökboet"
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    "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

    Whatch it , if you did, rewatch it!
    You will not be disappointed!

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