"How can we Americans change theme? I will make a first proposal: that everybody who hears my voice... try the chemical LSD at least once, every man, woman and child over 14 in good health... then I prophecy we will all have seen some ray of glory or vastness beyond our conditioned social selves, beyond our government, beyond America even, that will unite us into a peaceful community... America's political need is orgies in the parks, on Boston Commons, with naked Bacchantes in the national forests... I am acknowledging what is already happening among the young in fact and fantasy... I am in effect setting up moral codes and standards which include drugs, orgy, music, and primitive magic as worship rituals... and I am proposing these standards to you respectable ministers... that you endorse publicly the private desire and knowledge of mankind in America, so to inspire the young."
Allen Ginsberg said that in 1966 to a group of ministers. what could you substitute for LSD? |