Blowing America’s Mind: A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD, and Zen

By John Selby ’68 and Paul Jeffrey Davids ’69

Published April 23, 2018

Blowing America’s Mind (Yellow Hat Productions) tells how the CIA became involved in psychedelic drugs and deep hypnosis on Princeton students during the ’50s and ’60s. John Selby ’68 and Paul Jeffrey Davids ’69 were among the guinea pigs for the CIA’s secret mind-control research.

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Terri Sewell ’86 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, stands next to a portrait of civil rights leader John Lewis.
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