Turn Off Your Mind Quotes

“Manson didn’t ‘kill the sixties’, as some have suggested. They committed suicide, ODed on excess, high expectations, and a belief that in getting rid of all repression - what I’ve called ‘giving way to strange forces’ - some pure, natural soul would emerge. They were wrong.”
― Gary Lachman, Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

“As Laing believed that what we take to be sanity is really madness, Marcuse believed that what we take to be a free society, is really a totalitarian regime, with chains made of television, processed foods and modern conveniences.”
― Gary Lachman, Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

“In 1969 Morrison said, ‘Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Gary Lachman, Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius