A SECTION OF MY RADICAL TRADITIONALIST AND LIBERTARIAN BOOK
EARLY COSMIC LIBERTARIANS Before Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Heinlein, Timothy Leary and the heady cosmic adventures of the 60s counterculture, there was a gathering of men in business suits who knew that the real quest for Freedom was to be found in Higher Consciousness. Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, was true to his name and was a voracious reader with eclectic interests. He was extremely well-versed in Theosophy and other metaphysical studies. He was close friends with Gerald Heard who was a phenomenon of the 1950s and highly regarded by Aldous Huxley. Read shared this interest with enthusiastic contemporaries like William C. Mullendore, James Ingbretsen, Thadeus Ashby, Edmund Ashby, and R.C. Hoiles. Guiding minds of the early Libertarians. They were participating with Heard and Huxley in experimental voyages to the frontiers of human potential. The founder of FEE in 1946 which was progenitor of later endeavors like the Cato Institute was a religio