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The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn off your Mind 2nd Edition
Author(s): Lachman (Author), Gary (Author)
- Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
- Publication Date: 25 Nov. 2022
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 546 pages
- ISBN-10: 191286844X
- ISBN-13: 9781912868445
Book Description
It is the 60s yes it is magic, sex, drugs and rock and roll. In The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind, Gary Lachman uncovers the Love Generation’s roots in occultism and explores the dark side of the Age of Aquarius. ‘He has produced an impressively researched guide to the odder aspects of a weird decade. Lachman reveals the Sixties as a period when the credulous were willingly led by the duplicitous. Spiritual tourists resurrected forgotten gurus like Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Blavatsky and the creepy Crowley. Lachman notes that the fraudulent Carlos Castaneda was published by the University of California. Such was the strange power of the repellent Charles Manson that Rolling Stone almost ran a cover declaring: ‘Manson is innocent’, until the paper interviewed him. The result was more accurately headlined: ‘Is this the most dangerous man alive?’ There is much in Lachman’s book to entertain and inform those who wished they had lived through the Sixties and those who did but can’t remember. If you want to know about, say, beatnik king Brion Gysin, ley-line apostle John Michell, and zen master Alan Watts, this is the place to start.’ Chris Hirst in The Independent’s paperback of the week
Editorial Reviews
Review
Turn Off Your Mind depicts the late-Sixties subcultural craze for the occult with graphic precision. –Jonathan Meades in The New Statesman
A parish priest I know, like a good shepherd, ever vigilant for his flock, recommended Turn Off Your Mind to me, to gain a better understanding of the depths of cultural and moral crisis affecting our society.
–Francis Slobodnik, The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
There is much in Lachman’s book to entertain and inform those who wished they had lived through the Sixties and those who did but can’t remember. –Chris Hirst in The Independent’s paperback of the week
About the Author
A founding member of the rock group Blondie, he wrote some of the band’s early hits. Before moving to London in 1996 and becoming a full time writer, Gary Lachman is the author of the Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind, an ‘occult history’ of the 1960s, The Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse, The Dedalus Occult Reader, The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters and In Search of P.D.Ouspensky:The Genius in the Shadow of Gurdjieff and , as Gary Valentine, New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop and Others 1974-1981, a memoir of his years as a musician in New York in the 1970s.
