Editing Charles Manson (section)

=== Parolee and patient ===
Less than a month after his 1967 release, Manson moved to [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] from Los Angeles,<ref name="Guinn, p. 94">{{harvnb|Guinn|2013|p=94}}</ref> which could have been a probation violation. Instead, after calling the [[San Francisco]] probation office upon his arrival, he was transferred to the supervision of [[criminology]] doctoral researcher and federal probation officer Roger Smith.{{sfn|O'Neill|2019|p=237}} Until the spring of 1968, Smith worked at the [[Haight Ashbury Free Clinics|Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic]] (HAFMC), which Manson and his family came to frequent.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=David E |last2=Luce |first2=John |date=1971 |title=Love Needs Care: A History of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic and Its Pioneer Role Treating Drug-abuse Problems |publisher=Boston, Little, Brown |url=https://archive.org/details/loveneedscarehis00smit/ |access-date=April 30, 2021}} p. 52</ref> Roger Smith, as well as the HAFMC's founder David Smith, received funding from the [[National Institutes of Health]], and reportedly the [[CIA]], to study the effects of drugs like [[LSD]] and [[methamphetamine]] on the [[Counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture movement]] in San Francisco's [[Haight–Ashbury]] District.<ref>{{harvnb|O'Neill|2019|p=251}}</ref> The patients at the HAFMC became subjects of their research, including Manson and his expanding group of mostly female followers, who came to see Roger Smith regularly.<ref>{{harvnb|O'Neill|2019|p=266}}</ref>

Manson received permission from Roger Smith to move from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury District. He first took LSD and would use it frequently during his time there.<ref name="Guinn, p. 94"/> David Smith, who had studied the effects of LSD and amphetamines in rodents,<ref>{{harvnb|O'Neill|2019|p=260}}</ref> wrote that the change in Manson's personality during this time "was the most abrupt Roger Smith had observed in his entire professional career."<ref>Smith, p. 257</ref> Manson also read the book ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'', a science fiction novel by [[Robert Heinlein]].<ref>{{harvnb|O'Neill|2019|p=237}}</ref> Inspired by the burgeoning [[free love]] philosophy in Haight–Ashbury during the [[Summer of Love]], Manson began preaching his own [[philosophy]] based on a mixture of ''Stranger in a Strange Land'', the [[Bible]], [[Scientology]], [[Dale Carnegie]] and [[the Beatles]], which quickly earned him a following.<ref>{{harvnb|Guinn|2013|p=95}}</ref> He may have also borrowed some of his philosophy from the [[Process Church of the Final Judgment]], whose members believed [[Satan]] would become reconciled to [[Jesus]] and they would come together at the [[Eschatology|end of the world]] to judge humanity.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Account |first=LEH IT Admin |date=2017-03-08 |title=Sinister Scenesters |url=https://64parishes.org/sinister-scenesters |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=64 Parishes |language=en}}</ref>