Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, The Sixties, and Beyond

[Magda Hassan]

Thanks for linking this Ron. It was indeed interesting. But I have one slight bitch about it and that regards the misrepresentation of Jung in the piece. But that has long been part of conspiracy literature so I’m not particularly surprised by it anymore.

For example, Jung didn’t work in Berlin up to 1942. He couldn’t as he was on an SS liquidation list. The misundertanding arises from the fact that he was the President of the Berlin headquartered General Medical Council for Psychotherapy but that was a professional position held for many years prior to WWII - as he had many Jungian Analysts in Germany who’s safety he increasingly feared for. It is laughable to say he was a mysoginist. On the contrary he very much enjoyed the company of ladies, and they him (the so called Jungfrau).

I also have never read anything by him that was in any way negative about the Jewish race (and I have read and own his Collected Works and probably another 50-60 books on Jungian psychology besides). Indeed, the man he nominated to take over from him after his retirement, Erich Neumann, was Jewish. Sadly Neumann died early and so Marie-Louise von Franz became the flame-bearer.

Jung’s association with Dulles is correct. Dulles visited him a number of times when he (Dulles) was stationed as head of OSS in Berne during the war (and Jung wrote one letter to Dulles in 1945 on the subject of Allied propaganda). Jung was greatly concerned with the ease in which the German Collective psyche leapt into, rather than fell into, the Hitler pit. His essay on Schickelgruber (Hitler) remains a classic on the dangers of the Shadow.

Sorry for rant. I am a fan as you can see and have read this nonsense for years. It’s time to put the record straight in regard to the Nazis.

Is this Jung the psychologist or Harry Augustus Jung from the USA who owned the Jung Hotel in New Orleans where the secret meeting of 100+ far rightists occurred the week before the JFK hit? Jung started the American Vigilant Intelligence Organization about 1927. Check him out.

I believe David is referring to Jung the Swiss psychoanalyst. However, I am looking forward to more (much more :eating: please) about this other Jung with the hotel in New Orleans. All I could find at hand referencing him was an interesting German article on the anti-Comintern http://translate.google.com/translate?hl...hw-23.html. He is listed as 'Young' in the article. This is all new to me and sounds most intriguing. Is there a guest list of the 100 plus attending?