Timothy Leary’s psychedelic eugenics

In the 1970s, Timothy Leary, high priest of LSD, starting preaching a new gospel. He become obsessed with the idea of a hierarchy of different genetic castes spread throughout the Earth, at different levels of evolution, culminating in a super-caste of Californians destined to leave Earth and continue their evolution in space. He preached selective breeding to enhance intelligence, and even suggested Hitler was ahead of his time. ‘Whatever happened to Timothy Leary?’ as Aldous Huxley once asked. How did the prophet of the counterculture ended up preaching eugenics and even praising Hitler? I’m researching how New Age thinkers who believe in ‘spiritual evolution’ often end up supporting forms of ‘<a href="https://medium.com/spiritual-eugenics" rel="noopener">spiritual eugenics</a>’. They believe humans are evolving into superhumans, but only some humans are evolving, a spiritual-genetic elite, while other humans (perhaps particular races or classes) are failing to evolve. The elite should breed more and with each other, for the good of the species, while inferior humans should breed less. That, to generalize, is the thinking one often finds in advocates of spiritual evolution, like Nietzsche, RM Bucke, Annie Besant, Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin. <a href="https://medium.com/spiritual-eugenics/timothy-learys-psychedelic-eugenics-7cd28f42764d">Visit Now</a>