Thanks sixtieschick, and I won't ask again for clarifiction!

But it seems to me you are jumping to many conclusions/making a lot of assumptions about people you didn't know, ie the musicians from the 60s, so I'm wondering where you are getting the information to make claims like Donovan and the Beatles took drugs for the reasons you are ascribing to them, ie your statement:

"There was a lot of music going down that reflected the spiritual experiences people felt they were having while on drugs: The Dead, the Sons of Champlin, Donovan, Beatles, etc. etc."

That just sounds crazy to me, and so I'm curious as to where you are getting your "facts". It looks to me like you are fishing for anecdotes here that will support your beliefs that there are proveable connections between 60s drug abuse, 60s music and musicians, and "spirituality".

Honestly, I'm not saying this to blast you. I'm not condemning you or anything for thinking like that. I just don't know that making those kinds of claims without some serious facts to back them up will make for a very believable, much less authoritative book on the era, is all.