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Various Gnostic Media and affiliate articles.

Spies in Academic Clothing: The Untold History of MKULTRA and the Counterculture – And How the Intelligence Community Misleads the 99%

Spies in Academic Clothing The Untold History of MKULTRA and the Counterculture – And How the Intelligence Community Misleads the 99% by Jan Irvin May 13, 2015 Articles in this series: 1) R. Gordon Wasson: The Man, the Legend, the Myth. Beginning a New History of Magic Mushrooms, Ethnomycology,and the Psychedelic Revolution. By Jan Irvin,…

Entheogens: What’s in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic Spirituality, Social Control, and the CIA

Entheogens: What’s in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic Spirituality, Social Control, and the CIA By Jan Irvin November 11, 2014 O, be some other name! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet   Articles in this Series:…

Manufacturing the Deadhead: A Product of Social Engineering… by Joe Atwill and Jan Irvin

Manufacturing the Deadhead: A Product of Social Engineering… By Joe Atwill and Jan Irvin May 13, 2013 Version 3.7, May 17, 2013    Articles in this series: 1) R. Gordon Wasson: The Man, the Legend, the Myth. Beginning a New History of Magic Mushrooms, Ethnomycology,and the Psychedelic Revolution. By Jan Irvin, May 13, 2012 2)…

Public Notice: Appeal to the CIA regarding classification of R. Gordon Wasson documents related to MKULTRA Subproject 58

Michele Meeks 11 April 2013 Information and Privacy Coordinator, c/o Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 20505 FAX: 703-613-3007 Dear Michele, Thank you for your missive of March 26, 2013, denying to fulfill my additional request on R. Gordon Wasson, citing (b)(1) and (b)(3). Recent documents that have come to light show that the CIA’s MKULTRA…

URGENT RELEASE: The CIA’s Terence McKenna FOIA request response – “a search for records that would reveal a positive Agency affiliation” – “classified”

UPDATE: Following the original research I put out on R. Gordon Wasson on May 13, 2012, in an article titled “Magic Mushrooms and the Psychedelic Revolution: Beginning a New History” – or “The Secret History of Magic Mushrooms” – which revealed R. Gordon Wasson as a CIA agent or asset, in late August I put…

How Darwin, Huxley, and the Esalen Institute launched the 2012 and psychedelic revolutions – and began one of the largest mind control operations in history.

How Darwin, Huxley, and the Esalen Institute launched the 2012 and psychedelic revolutions – and began one of the largest mind control operations in history. Some brief notes. By Jan Irvin August 28, 2012         Articles in this series: 1) R. Gordon Wasson: The Man, the Legend, the Myth. Beginning a New…

R. Gordon Wasson: The Man, the Legend, the Myth; Beginning a New History of Magic Mushrooms, Ethnomycology, and the Psychedelic Revolution by Jan Irvin – #144

Articles in this series: 1) R. Gordon Wasson: The Man, the Legend, the Myth. Beginning a New History of Magic Mushrooms, Ethnomycology,and the Psychedelic Revolution. By Jan Irvin, May 13, 2012 2) How Darwin, Huxley, and the Esalen Institute launched the 2012 and psychedelic revolutions – and began one of the largest mind control operations…

ASTROTHEOLOGY & SHAMANISM, A review by Gerrit J. Keizer

Review of the Second Edition With Colour Illustrations of ASTROTHEOLOGY & SHAMANISM: Christianity’s Pagan Roots. A Revolutionary Reinterpretation of the Evidence, by Jan R. Irvin and Andrew Rutajit (Gnostic Media, 2009). By Gerrit J. Keizer, clinical psychologist, mycologist and forest ecologist. Neede, The Netherlands (April 2011).   In general, the second edition has substantially been…

Hawk and Venus: Neo-Shamanism or Megalomania?

A Critical Rejoinder to Raw Amanita is Always Best By J.R. Irvin March 31, 2008 Copyright J.R. Irvin, 2008. All rights reserved. Introduction The following is a rebuttal to the “journal” entry Raw Amanita is Always Best by the ambiguously named “Hawk and Venus,” August 12, 2006. This rebuttal also serves as a critique and…

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita

Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita by Michael Hoffman and Jan Irvin   Written 2006 Copyright © 2009 Jan Irvin. All rights reserved.   Contents Introduction. 4 The Entheogen Theory of Christianity and the Bible. 5 Avoidance of Scholarly Response to Christian Entheogens and Jesus’ Ahistoricity. 6 Books Covering the Entheogen…

The Balkan Wars Cover-Up, Yugoslavia, 1999

Balkan Wars Cover-Up Yugoslavia 1999 By Jan Irvin “All War is Based on Deception” Sun Tzu “Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today…