1. Free book idea for anyone who wants to write it: CIA Spirituality: The Cold War Origins of New Age Thinking. https://t.co/2GjtfkfVV7
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3. The CIA was filled with people who learned exotic languages, travelled to remote places like Tibet, and experimented with mind-altering drugs. It was, I suspect, a big vector for the spread of New Age thinking in America. Worth researching!
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4. One aspect of this is the whole idea of spirituality, going back to end of 19th century, had an anti-socialist, anti-communist dimension. The reds were "materialists" so the alternative was an ideological promotion of the spiritual realm, with some evil consequences.
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"The Men who Stare at Goats."
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One thing I learned growing up in the suburbs of DC is that most CIA personnel seem mostly normal but most are really odd in various and diverse ways.
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Sidney Gottlieb lived a very spiritual life outside of his work life as Dr Mad Scientist for the CIA
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