How would you feel if you were told that the government was trying to open a dimension to another world? There have been several conspiracy theories that the CIA had a top-secret project called “Project MK Ultra”; this theory suggests that the government tested American and Canadian humans to try to learn about mind control. They did tests on their brains and even did experiments on pregnant women to try to gain control of their baby’s minds. Some subjects knew what they were being tested for while others did not have a clue. Also, some people believe the government is trying to make an opening into another dimension called the “Upside Down World”. Lets uncover the truth about Project MK Ultra 130.
Ken Kesey was a brilliant man; he published his bestselling novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” before he was twenty-seven years old. In 1953 Ken volunteered himself as a test subject for Project MK Ultra 130. The CIA did several tests on Ken in hopes of learning about mind control. This experience led to Ken’s book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. He wrote about what tests they did on him and what drugs they gave him. Ken was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. In high school Ken was voted “Boy most likely to succeed:
The tension with Kesey between the natural man and the trained intellectual was always intense. It cropped up in undergraduate stories like the one entitled “The Gentle Jock,” and, more significantly, it would become the theme of his second novel, “Sometimes a Great notion”, in which the two Stamper brothers, one a logger, the other a neurotic intellectual, were personifications of Kesey's split personality. (Oakes 223)
Ken was a very active student in high school. He attended extracurricular activities, like wrestling for example, which he later received a Fred Lowe Scholarship. After earning a Bachelor of Art’s degree at the University of Oregon, he attended Stanford University's creative writing program for a little over five years. “While attending Stanford, in 1960 Kesey volunteered as a paid experimental subject in a study conducted by the U.S. Army in which he was given mind-altering drugs and asked to report on their effects. He also worked as an attendant in a hospital's psychiatric ward. These experiences served as the basis for his 1962 novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which examined the abuses of the system against the individual” (Kesey1). His second book, 'Sometimes a Great Notion' was published in 1964. The same year, he formed a closely-knit group called the 'Merry Pranksters'. They toured the country and kept organizing parties involving ‘acid tests’ till 1966” (Kesey):
I wasn’t trying to write a novel,” he once told me. “I was trying to go all the way.” And all the way he did go, leading his Band of Merry Pranksters on a cross-country journey in the psychedelic bus recently memorialized in the film Magic Trip. That experience established him as a countercultural icon. (Krassner)
Ken’s friends were very important to him. In 1964 he bought an International Harvester school bus with thirteen of his friends:
To help publicize the release Sometimes a Great Notion, and spread his more unconventional views on liberation, Kesey gathered together a like-minded group of individuals who called themselves the Merry Pranksters. In 1964 they set out together on a cross-country trip in an old bus they dubbed Further. Covered in kaleidoscopic graffiti and captained by Neal Cassady—who was immortalized in Jack Kerouac's on the road as Dean:
Moriarty—the vessel took the LSD-soaked Pranksters to the World's Fair in New York City before returning to Kesey's ranch in La Honda, California. There, the Pranksters conducted "Acid Tests," wherein attendees would receive a cup of "electric," LSD-laced Kool-Aid and resist the urge to "freak out." Guests at these events were sometimes treated to the music of a band called the Warlocks, who would later become known as the Grateful Dead (Kesey 1)
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They decorated it in garish colors and called themselves the Merry Pranksters. They left California and set out for New York. Ken and his friends traveled around the United States organizing parties and giving out LSDs. The Merry Pranksters traveled the world for the whole summer. They were often thought of as hippies with odd behavior.
Out of the thirteen of them they all had their own role to play. Some were authors, drivers, photographers, a cameraman, etc. “Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus is rusting and faded, the star-burst swirls and explosions painted along its sides encrusted with moss. Yet its glow has remained magically undiminished. This is the vehicle that in 1964 took Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters across America on what has become perhaps the most famous bus journey in history” (Brown).
Have you ever seen the tv series called “Stranger Things”? There are several theories that this show is based on a real-life story. There have been stories that the CIA had a top-secret project where they tested humans to try to learn about mind control. I believe this theory is true, and that the government tested humans like animals without their consent.
The CIA did tests on human brains and even did tests on pregnant women to try to gain control of their baby’s mind. The CIA would give them drugs and do several tests to try to accomplish mind control. Some of the people being tested did not even know what they were being tested for. In order to give consent, the subjects would have to know what they were being tested for. “The program involved more than 150 human experiments involving psychedelic drugs, paralytics and electroshock therapy. Sometime the test subjects knew they were participating in a study-but at other times, they had no idea, even when the hallucinogens started taking effect” (Ultra 1).
There are also theories that the government is trying to open a door to another dimension. Some people believe it is like the dimension in Stranger Things. In this world, everything is dark, there are monsters, and it is the opposite of the world we live in. They refer to it as the: upside down. Once this dimension is opened anything and everything inside can get into our universe.
“MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as other forms of torture”(MKUltra 1). There are several theories about what the CIA did to their “test subjects”; most people believe they gave them several drugs and did tests on their brains. They sedated their patients and would perform tests on them.
“Declassified MKUltra documents indicate they studied hypnosis in the early 1950s. Experimental goals included: the creation of "hypnotically induced anxieties", "hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall complex written matter", studying hypnosis and polygraph examinations, "hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex arrangements of physical objects", and studying "relationship of personality to susceptibility to hypnosis." They conducted experiments with drug-induced hypnosis and with anterograde and retrograde amnesia while under the influence of such drugs”(Hypnosis). Some of the CIA’s experiments leading to the subject dying. There are believed to be hundreds of records of people who died from experiments preformed on them:
Several known deaths have been associated with Project MKUltra, most notably that of Frank Olson. Olson, a United States Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher, was given LSD without his knowledge or consent in November 1953, as part of a CIA experiment and committed suicide by jumping out of a window a week later. In 1953, Olson's death was described as a suicide that had occurred during a severe psychotic episode. The CIA's own internal investigation concluded that the head of MKUltra, CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, had conducted the LSD experiment with Olson's prior knowledge, although neither Olson nor the other men taking part in the experiment were informed as to the exact nature of the drug until some 20 minutes after its ingestion. The report further suggested that Gottlieb was nonetheless due a reprimand, as he had failed to take into account Olson's already-diagnosed suicidal tendencies, which might have been exacerbated by the LSD. (Deaths 1)
There is proof of these theories, there have been released documents that the CIA meant to destroy but missed. One file was found in 1975, in a financial record building and was later released under a freedom of information act requested. The project was treated with such secrecy that it was given multiple code names.
In the end, all of the records were destroyed by the director of the CIA himself; except for a small misfiled cache. The plan for project MK Ultra was to find a way to gain a military advantage over the Soviet Union. They thought if they could learn how to control people’s minds, they could use it as a weapon against America’s enemies.
There have been theories that several celebrities are under mind control. “MK-Ultra is a wild conspiracy theory that has infiltrated certain corners of the internet. Its believers are convinced that whenever a celebrity or politician acts strangely on camera, they aren’t just nervous or butchering their lines, but are victims of a top-secret mind control division of the US government” (Polk 1).
People believe that something as simple as staring off into space is proof a celebrity is under mind control. “When rapper Cardi B unexpectedly stared into space during a red carpet interview at the 2018 Grammys, the internet didn’t blame it on exhaustion or nerves. No: according to some sections of the web, this lapse in concentration was a clear sign that she was the victim of the CIA’s MK-Ultra mind control program; the bizarre blank expression on her face was evidence of a “glitch” in her programming. “While performing "I Kissed a Girl" at a concert, Katy suddenly starts behaving oddly before passing out and being carried off the stage. "This video creeps me out," a fan wrote on YouTube. "It's like she had an mk ultra-break down." Another fan wrote, "THAT WAS A DEMONIC POSSESSION." However, others say Katy faked the whole thing as part of her act. We'll leave that up for you to decide” (White 1).
In conclusion, it is a conspiracy theory that the CIA did tests on human test subjects to try to learn about mind control. They did tests on human brains, on pregnant women, and the CIA was also trying to open a dimension to another world. One person who was involved in this experiment was a man named Ken Kesey. He wrote a book called “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” he explained everything the CIA did to him. He explained all of the tests done on him and all the drugs they used on him. Ken was a very brilliant and friendly man. The CIA would use drugs such as LSD’s on their subjects. They would perform tests on pregnant women to try to gain control of their baby’s minds before they are even born. Some of these experiments killed the subjects. I believe that this theory is true, and that the CIA did this experiment and did not plan on the rest of the world ever finding out.
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