Drugs and hypnosis. Ted Bundy also supposedly used hypnosis.
The circular rhythms of Manson’s songwriting can be heard in the song he authored that the Beach Boys recorded.
Kate Millet’s own sister outed Kate’s radical dream (decades later) as witnessed at the founding of NOW.
They are really all different shades of the same evil intentions.
“Drugs and hypnosis. Ted Bundy also supposedly used hypnosis.”
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It didn’t take a whole lot of that, though. You have to keep in mind the zeitgeist of the late 60s youth - they were looking for something to believe in anyway. So they were primed for whatever came their way. Many young people of the era would go on to join the “Jesus Movement” of the late 60s-early 70s, with a good number becoming today’s evangelical pastors and leaders.