I've been looking at a series of videos by YTer EntertheStars on Adrenochrome (his latest here) and this is leading to quite a few rabbit holes.

In this post I'll start with this pdf scientific paper from 1990: The Adrenochrome Hypothesis and Psychiatry

extracts:

The adrenochrome hypothesis of schizophrenia (Hoffer, Osmond and Smythies, 1954), was stimulated by the work of Osmond and Smythies (1952) which focused on methylated derivatives of adrenalin as possible endogenous schizophrenogens. They showed that the experience which followed the ingestion of mescaline was in many ways similar to the experience induced in normal people by schizophrenia. This drew attention to derivatives of adrenalin (and of all the sympathomimetic amines and their precursors) as etiological factors.

Adrenochrome is a member of a class of chemicals known as aminochromes, each one derived by the oxidation of its precursor amine.. The aminochromes polymerize readily, forming a complex system of melanins. Recently the melanins have been considered among the most important organizing systems in the body.

We also published a large series of clinical studies showing adrenochrome and adrenolutin were hallucinogens. These studies are described in our book, The Hallucinogens (Hoffer and Osmond, 1967). That review is still pertinent for the whole area of adrenochrome investigation went into hibernation for a number of reasons, especially in psychiatry. In 1981 Hoffer (1981) reviewed some of the more recent findings. Hoffer wrote, "Interest in the aminochromes is returning because some of the properties of the centrally active amines can not be understood unless their degradation into these oxidized derivatives is considered."

we first publicly discussed our adrenochrome hypothesis in 1952 before the Dementia Praecox Committee of the Scottish Rites Masons in New York at their meeting in the Canada Room of the Waldorg Astoria Hotel.

..Aminochromes are being given serious attention in three areas: neuropathology (Graham, 1978, 1979, 1984; Graham, Tiffany, Bell and Gutknecht, 1978); cardiology (Beamish, Dhillon, Sinsal and Dhalla, 1981; Karmazyn, Beamish, Fliesel and Dhalla, 1981; Sinsal, Yates, Beamish and Dhalla, 1981); and of course by scientists studying pigmentation in the body, especially in skin and brain.

..[The Original Adrenochrome Hypothesis] was developed between 1952 and 1954 when little was known about the chemistry and physiology of adrenochrome. All we did know was that it was readily formed by oxidation of adrenalin to a red compound in solution. It was "known" that it was inherently unstable and therefore could not form stable crystals. It was suspected it could be made in the body in the same way that freshly-sliced adrenal medulla would turn pink on standing.... But we suspected it might be an hallucinogen because pink or deteriorated adrenalin was, and it resembled the few known hallucinogens like dlysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and ibogaine. Mes-calin is not an indole but resembles adrenalin and could be indolized in the body. It is now known that methylated derivatives of sympathomimetic amines do form aminochrome derivatives. Aminochrome is a term applied to all chrome indoles derived from catecholamines (sympathomimetic amines).

..Thirty years ago, it was no secret to U.S. research groups that NIMH was actively disinterested in pursuing adrenochrome research. In one case, a director of research was advised no grant would be made to his group if he persisted in studying adrenochrome. ..

Doing a google search for "waldorf astoria2 and "scottish rite" : this book pops us The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists

...the 1961 report of the Human Ecology Foundation lists John C. Whitehorn, Professor and Director, Dept of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins.. He corresponded extensively with the Scotis Rite Research Committee and received research grants from them, as did MKULTRA and MKSEARCH contractor, Dr. Carl Pfeiffer...

the Supreme Council, 33 Degree Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Juridiction USA sponsored a conference on research in schizophrenia at Boston University School of Medicine in 1950.... Also involved in this academic circle were anthropologists Clyded Kluckholme and Margaret Mead...

The Waldorf Astoria and the Child Mind Institute:

Please join us for the Child Mind Institute’s inaugural L.A. Luncheon., venue WaldorfAstoria Beverly Hills : https://childmind.org/event/2018-la-luncheon-event/

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voat posts re Margaret Mead:

Is Pizzagate a product engineered by Cybernetics experts? by @flyingcuttlefish

REPOST: THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IS THE KEY

R.D. Laing was appointed senior registrar at the Tavistock Clinic in 1956, three years after he left the British Army Psychiatric Unit. He began experimenting with LSD in 1960, and then in 1962 when he became a family therapist at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, he also met Gregory Bateson while visiting the U.S. Bateson had been with the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA), and then led the MK-Ultra hallucinogen (LSD) project. Bateson's and Margaret Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, along with New Ager Jean Houston, would later help Hilary Clinton write IT TAKES A VILLAGE.