It's All In Your Mind: The Virtual Basis of Religion, Sex, Time, And Death
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In 1967, a chance meeting with Meet the Press founder Bill Monroe led McKinney to switch from his MFA writing program to the Harvard Business School. A summer spent organizing Black Light, a minority arts initiative in Kansas City convinced him a new approach was required to combat the widespread ignorance and misunderstanding fundamental to drug abuse..
The popular 8th grade materials, dubbed “artful, informed and ingenious” by columnist William F. Buckley, were soon in use nationwide, followed by the pioneering K-6 curricula, the only one chosen by HHS for “demonstrated impact in the classroom.”
Recruiting a team of nationally recognized experts in the multiple aspects of the problem, The Creative Learning Group produced the first medically accurate and easily taught multi-media curricula, “ bringing medical truths into the vernacular”.
When the Nixon administration halted school funding for drug education to promote the law and order “Drug War” oriented DARE program, the company produced curricula first for the Navy, and later, with the legendary Col. James Ketchum, the first video cassette educational series for the Army, code named “Project Jonathan".
As space became available, New Age magazine rented space, and it soon became a hub for a variety of religious, spiritual, and philosophical groups.
McKinney provided advice, contributed articles and reviews, and began his study of the similarity of drugs and religious experience on consciousness from prayers to meditation, from ecstatic practices to EST.
