Revisiting the Counterculture with Matthew Ingram

Matthew Ingram is known for throwing raves in West Africa in 1993, writing for Teletubbies, his cult music blog Woebot, writing for the Wire and FACT magazines, setting up the Dissensus forum and putting out a series of LPs. His “Vitamin C” animated documentary was shown at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. He is author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness.

Here the discussion focuses on the many personalities who contributed to the cultural wave that swept the western world, particularly the United States, during the 1960s (many of whom have been interviewed by Jeffrey Mishlove). Matthew’s book specifically focuses on the period from 1955 to 1975. Topics include the role of the Vietnam war, LSD, new psychotherapies, eastern religions and the idea of enlightenment, the anti-establishment protests, the sexual revolution, and feminism. There were, of course, important historical antecedents as well as consequences.

(Recorded on October 19, 2020.)

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R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience – https://amzn.to/34nXBrs

Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture – https://amzn.to/3mkDcK4

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Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – https://amzn.to/2HBx3dq

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Charles Tart (Ed.), Altered States of Consciousness – https://amzn.to/37Eg84E

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