Twilight Gods In The Twilight Zone: God, Drugs, War & Distant Dreams Of Peace (1962-1979)

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

As he lay on his deathbed, Aldous Huxley (famed author of Brave New World and The Doors Of Perception) asked his wife for a final 100 microgram dose of LSD. It was 11.30am, November 22nd, 1963. Within the hour, President John F. Kennedy was publicly slaughtered in downtown Dallas, Texas and the U.S. (and, indeed, the world) erupted into a swirling nightmare of War, further Assassinations and seismic Social Ruptures. Were the Shuddering and Lysergic decades that followed some kind of splinter fro