20th century philosophers made a conscious decision to seek ‘meaning and reality’ through irrational existential ‘experiences.’ Francis Schaeffer comments:
“Because the only hope of meaning had been placed in the area of non-reason, drugs were brought into the picture. Drugs had been around a long time, but, following Aldous Huxley’s ideas, many students now approached drug taking as an ideology, and some as a religion. They hoped that drugs would provide meaning ‘inside one’s head,’ in contrast to objective truth, concerning which they have given up hope. Psychologist Timothy Leary (1920- ), Gary Snyder (1930- ), author-philosopher Alan Watts (1915-1973), and poet Allen Ginsberg (1926- ) were all influential in making drugs an ideology.
“Timothy Leary, for example, said that drugs were the sacraments for a new religion. Of course … this drug taking was really only one more leap, an attempt to find meaning in the area of non-reason. Charles Slack (1929- ), writing of his long relationship with Leary, reported in Timothy Leary, the Madness of the Sixties and Me (1974) that Leary had said to him, ‘Death to the mind, that is the goal you must have. Nothing else will do.’”
The really pernicious aspect of this godless insanity is that professors taught our precious sons and daughters that reality could only be understood through consciousness altering drugs. Some of the drugs continually altered consciousness in a manner not concordant with reality. It was reprehensible, but of little or no concern to academics with a Godless value system.
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