The Psychedelic Review, Vol. 1, No. 8 (1966)

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8 THE PSYCHEDELICREVIEW

Nor th American psychiatric estab- this Review, who have themselvesI ishmen t which has led to a remark- seen the ir own inner and o uterab le series o f follies o f which family world altered b y a reac tion trig-therap y is a recent example, gered b y a chemical. The same fac-

Lai.g uses the mo dels popu- tors whi ch ]ead to a ps ychotomi - REVIEWIar ly known to scie ntists of the mid mctic re action in normal peoplelgth cen tury but which have been probably lead to the psychosis fea- NUMBER II / 19dr _improved within our lifetime. Thus tures of schizophrenia , while thehe uses the term "organ ic basis" as same var iab les which direct theit was used then. An organic lesi on psychedelic reaction may occasion- TWO CASES OF ALTFR _D CONS CIOUSNES S WITH AMNESIAis usually a tumor, a break in the ally lead to the psychedelic reac- APPARENTLY TELEPATHI CALLY INDUCED Margaret A. Paul 4circula tion, or something like that , tions which were the basis o f Chris-and in this sense the re is l ittle evE- tianity, of Alcoholics Anonymous, THE SE COND FINE ART: NEO-$Y MBOLICdonee that schizophre nia is an or - of Synanon, and of Schizophrenicsganic disease. But there are a large Anonymous. COMMUNICATION OF EXPERIENCE Timothy Leary number of molecular disea ses where Society will not permit Laingthere are no "org anic" lesions. No to ac t the way he wr ites. For if the ASPECTS OF BIO CHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY

c hanges a re seen in the micro scope sc hizophrenic is no t s ick, he is in- OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS Daniel X. Freedman 33or on gross examination of the deed mad, and madnes s may tak ebody's organs. The cur rent model only two forms, (a) the madne ss ofof molecular diseases cannot p rop- the devil and (b)the madness of the MYSTICAL STATES AND THE CONCEPT OF REGRESSIONerly be lum ped w ith organic models sai nt. The d evils in our society a re Raymond P rince st Charles Sava ge S9of illnesse s un]ess one takes ad- ba rely tolerate d most of the time.vanta ge o f the w onde rful flexibility Even our sa ints are often difficult DISCUSSI ON OF PAPER BY PRINCE AND SAVAG Eof the E nglish language and uses t o live with. If schizophr enia is mad-the w ord 'o rganic' in the sense ness , the n Laing is incompeten t to Walter H. Clark 7 &chemis ts use it when th ey discuss d eal with it for he is not q ua lifiedorganic chemi cals, i.e. ch emica ls by ex pe rien ce :,nd tra ining to dea l PROGRAMMED C OMMUNICATION DURING

containing boun d carbon, with madness. N either, as a psyches- EXPERIEN CE WITH DMT Timthy Leary 13In any ev ent Laing s eems re- trist, am I. I[ schizophr enia is mad -marka bly naive an d ignorant of ness, s ociety will deal with it as itmolec ular a nd genetic advan ce- d id during the days of the ]nqu isi- PSYCHEDELIC RESEARCH IN THE C ONTEXT OFmen ts o f the past two de ca de s . Re- tion when devil s we re d riven from CONTEMPORARY PSYCH OLOGY Robert E. Mogar 9 6cen tly in Oslo, Norway, at a meeting the m ad in order to save t heir soulson the m olecular basis of some me n- by met hods which were ge ne rally SOME OBS ERVATI ONS ON THE RESISTANC E TO THEtnl diseases (s chizophrenia , primnr- app roved of for ma ny years. I fEly) sponsore d by N ATO, there was s c hizophr enia is m adn ess, L aing USE O F LSD IN PSYCH OTHERAPY Harold R. Ste rn 105a rema rkable consensus that the mus t give u p his m edica l deg reesmolecular ba sis of schizophrenia since they are n o longer o f any SEEDSOF GLO RY Robert Wolff I 1was firmly est ablished. The sp ecific val ue to him, and society ha s givende tails of the biochemical pa thol- h im no specia l right (or res pon s ibil- SYNCHRONICITY AND T HE PLOT /PLOT Arth u r Kleps 123ogy still must be spelled out but no ity) for de aling with mad ness and it

scie ntist prep ared t o listen to evE- had bette r be le ft with coun se llors SKY TASTE ALIVE iNSIDE Geo rge Andrews 12 5dence can continue to insist sch izo- of the mad, ministers, rabbis an dphrenia is not :l molecular di sease, such like, who are muc h more con-This is no t incompatible with our versant with saints or d evils than BOOKREVIEWS 127view; it is a lso psycho logical, soc io- are psy choan:dys ts.logical and even theological. Fo r Laing would take from thc NOTES ON CONTRIB UTORS 121like the psyc hedelic reaction the schizophrenic his r ight to be sickmolecular abnormality in schizo- and remove from h im a ll the good- Due to an oversight the cover of Psychedelic Review t/7 was notphrenia merely se ts off the train of ness i n socie ty which is mobilized credited. It was designed by Don Snyder and Bruce Bacon.events which a re pe rceived and re- to he lp the sick become well.acte d to b y a person in terms of h is Cover Drawing this issue: Jack Wiseown life's progra mming. This con - A. Holler, Ph .D., M.D.

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facture your own chemi cal fu el for a permanent ly higher sta te ofconsciousness. Per haps certai n catal ysts, in troduced into thesystem from the outside, will aid the process of transformi ng ourheavy- hy pnotic c onsc iousness into spiritual gold.

$DITORIAL But why cannot this wor k be car ried out openl y? Are wereally enter ing anot her Dark Age? Who has the r ight to dec ide wha t

you put in your ow n body? The FD A, in a s tatement re leased toIn the sp ring of 1965 a youn g man brou ght to the edito rial office the press o n Decem ber 18 , 1965, proposed that the Commissionerof The Psychedel ic Review , then located on a country estate in may determ ine that a dru g had a "potent ial for a buse" if"individ-Millbrook , N.Y., a bag of dried mushrooms which he had p icked in uals ar e taking the d rug on their own initiative rath er tha n on thethe munic ipal p ark of one o f the major cities o f the North West . basis of medical adv ice from a practit ioner ," a ruling of quest ion-His inv estigations had shown that this mushroo m, whose botanic al able lega lity.identit y was not yet exac tly determ ined , grew very plent ifully all The FDA has now issued a ruling explicitly specifying whichover the No rthwestern p arts of the Unit ed States; and that it washallucino genic. An experiment on the p art of one of the ed itiors d rags come under the rest rictions o f the new D rug Abuse Contro lLaw. The possession of LSD, DMT, mescaline, pe yote and ps ilocy-read ily confirmed this fin ding. One can onl y guess at the num ber bin thus becomes a feder al offense .of species of fungi or oth er plants that have ps ychedelic propert ies. Meanwh ile, accord ing to est imates published recent ly in theThe handful of mushroom guidebooks av ailable in t his my cophobic Nat ion (Marv in B. Freedm an and H arvey Powelson, Nat ion,

cultu re give no idication: being conce rned only with catego rizing Jan. 31, 1966 ), "the proportion of colle ge students who ex perimentthese aston is hing plants as "edible" or not, the y will in most cases with pot or LSD ma y run as high as 10%' and "the number of d ruggo by taste. But pleasing taste is no re liable index to ps ychedelic tak ers is g rowing."potenc y, as eve ry peyote or morning -glory consumer knows. Freedm an and Powelson pro pose that "the reason wh y sever al

The point of thi s story is not merel y that our environment hundreds of the b rightest and most aw are of American youth arecontains potentiall y dozens of psychi cally active pl ants and foods, attracted to th e psychede lic experience" is they "are examin in gFor when we asked the enthusiastic m ycophile to w rite up his the v alues of the Western world and are finding them wanting.re sults for publica tion in the Rev iew, he dec lined, on the grounds There is an upsurge of interest in introspection and the life of thethat t his would draw the attention of the law-enforcement agencies emotio ns.'

to this plant, and would make it difficult to obtain . Similarly, an - This withdraw al of interest from externals towards the explora -other friend of ours was unwilling to publish a one -step synthesis tion and mastery of th e intern al is of course precisel y t he d ev elop -of dimethyltryptamine he had developed, for fe ar that the starting ment that alar ms lawmakers the most. No form of rebel lion is

product would be made inaccessible, as ha ppened in the case of more threaten ing to the power -possessin g beings of the moment "mornin g-glory seeds, to a ce rtain extent , than i ntern al detac hment.

Like the medieval alchemists, the psychede lic chemists and The process of soci al change that are occurring around us arebotanists of today are forced by the pecu liar conditions of their likely to be enormously heightened and accelerated by psychede lics.times to pursue their science underground, and to veil their results The college students and high school students who are taking LSDin the langua ge of allegory. When the alchemists t alked of the now are going to be deans and legislators tomorrow. Phenomenatransformation of coarse substances into fine, of met al into gold, and concepts which we now struggle with and resist are going tothey were talking, in fact, about t he chemical transformation of be taken for granted b y the next genera tion.substances which are only one or two steps removed from a psychi- Per haps we are ente ring a more inward p hase o f the cycle.cally active form, and that the enzymes requ ired for these steps After almost two c entur ies of unrestricted tec hnological muscle -also exist in the body. What the alchemists were se arch ing for was bu ilding and exp loitation we are beginning to look into the rays -an effective wa y of transmuting body chemicals into psychede lic terious and ill -unders tood processes going on within us, attempt -form. Perhaps this can be done inte rnally, by someone who real ly ing to guide and direct our unruly and willful energies into con-

underst ands the workin gs of his own chemic al facto ry. This is the struc tive and protect ive channe ls.pro gram of Guard jieff. Get to know your own machinery . Manu-


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4 Consci ous ne ss With A nnesia 5following evenin g. My husband and I, in a mutu a l burs t of impul-s ivene ss, o ffered our selve s as s ubject s a nd we were accepted.

The experiment took pl ac e on Friday evenin g, J une 23, in thelaboratory in Ca rmel Vall ey. The re were three subjects, the two

of us and a professor of philos ophy from Stanford University. ItTWO CASES OF was the first ti me that either my husband or myself had taken anyhallucinogenic drug (and the last ) but the pr ofessor had experi-

ALERTED C ONSCIOUSNESS mented previously with various agents and had alway s had pleas-ant , mystical experiences. The setting was very informal, with

WITH A MNESIA APPA RENTLY several friend s and laboratory assistants wanderin g in and out at

TELEPATHICALLYNDUCED irregular intervals.At seven-thirty, preceding the ingestion of the drug, I wasgiven a Match ing Abacus Test. The purpose of this test is to evalu-ate one's ab ility to receive information telepath ically. I mad e onlytwo hits out of fifty tries, which is below the chanc e expectanc yof five. No conclus ion about m y telepath ic sensitivity could be

MARGARETA. PAUL drawn fr om such a sm a ll sample of my perfor man ce, of course ,but the de s ign of the experime nt was mere ly to te s t my ability

before and a fter the in gestion of the h aUucin ogenic ag ent. Ob -vious ly I could h ardly go a ny lower on the sca le, a nd it was hope-This is a partial rep ort of my experien ce under the influen ce of fuUy expe cted th at I might go higher. Unfortu na te ly, all three ofan h a llucinogenic mushroom taken f or experiment al purp os es , us were so diso riented and co nfused th at we were un able to take aThe det a ils which are selected f or pre sent a tion indica te th at two s ec ond te s t. Theref ore , it appeared at the ti me as if the purp os e ofof my patient s s uffered s ta te s o f a ltered consciousne ss with the experi ment ha d been thw arted.aberr ant beh avior foUowed by am ne s ia for the three-h our peri od At eight-ten I dr ank a broth ma de from the mu shroo m Amanitadurin g which I was unc onsc ious. There i s no proof that their panthe rina , found in the s ta te of Oregon. There i s no s tandardodd be ha vior and subsequent am ne s ia were in any way re lated t o dosag e of thig co ncoction, but I drank only half as m uch as ismy s ta te of mind, but t he c oincidence in ti me and the sim fiarity cus toma ry be ca use of a well-e s tabhshed h abit of my s tomac h toin moo d are su fficiently start ling to a rouse spe culation. The reject th a t which it finds unp latable. The br oth h ad an une x-que stion a rise s whether symptoms o f ment a l disturb ance in one pected ly pleasa nt woodsy flavor and was not a t all rev olting as Imind ma y be pr oduced by a dis turb ance in another mind a t a dis- had been led t o believe. Sin ce Dr. Puh a rich said it might take asLan ce and with out any of the u sual means o f comm unication. If long as two hours for the firs t effect s to a ppear , I sett led d own toso, o ur approa ch to diag nos is m us t be br oa dened t o take such p os - read a book on religious m ysticism, hoping to direct my thoughtss ibilities into ac cou nt, into uplifting channe ls. Within a few minute s, however , I was

The experi ment of which I spe ak was planned only twenty- n auseous, dizzy and un able t o concentr a te. I took a sho rt walkfou r hours before it took plac e and n o one knew of it except the outs ide in the early du sk bu t when I ret u rned t o the l aboratory Iimmedia te p a rticipant s . It was co ndu cted a t a dis tance of three w as s way ing uns teadily. I sa t down in a s tra ight ch air, folded myhundred miles from m y office and neither of the two pa tient s who a rms o n a table , and re s ted my he ad on my arms . I ju s t wanted t obe cam e inv olved in it even knew th at I was o ut of town. be left al one.

On Thursda y, June 22, 1961, my hu sband, Dr. Kurt Fantl, By now it was eight- thirty. After a few extr ao rdina ry per cep-a lso a psychia tris t, a nd I traveled by p lane from o ur h ome in S an Lions, s uch as g ray line s co nver ging upon me , inter sper sed withPedr o, California, to Carme l, three hundred miles up the coas t, to flas he s o f orange and tur q uoise , te le sco pic vis ion, bringing theattend a s ympos ium o n h ypn os is . That evenin g we h ad dinner with f a r end of the laboratory clear ly before my eye s, the interpret a -our friend, Dr. Henry K. Puh a rich, the dire ctor of a sma ll re sea rch Lion of voices rec orded on tape as a n EEG rec ord which I re ad inlabora tory in Car me l Valley. He t old u s o f recent experiment s in the air , and the sen sa tion of my own b ody bein g toss ed on the

which he w as a tte mpting to disco ver whether there i s a n incre as e waves o f a s torm, I s ubs ided int o a coma .in extras en so ry per ception under the inf luence of hallucinogenic F or the next three h ours I lived in a world of nightma re s .drugs . He h ad another of the se experi ment s planned f or the Real ity disa ppeared as I was whirled from o ne f antas y to a nother.

I. Read before the Seventh Weste rn Divisiona l Meeting, American Psy chiatr ic Assoc iat ion, Hawaii.,A ug ust 2 8 to Septem _xS.


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THE PSYCHEDELIC REVIEW Cons ciousn ess Wi th Ann esia 7

Certain traumatic childhood experiences were re lived with total called several friends, wi th whom he might conceivably haverecall, but the y soon became interw oven with incidents from my spent the time, but n one of them could tell him an ything. Onadult lifen I felt terribly threatened by a destru ctive force and the M onday, when I saw him, he was still dazed and anxi ous. When Ionly comprehensible escape was through l ove, love of all kinds: t old him of my experience on Friday night and remarked up on itsparental, br otherly, humanitarian, and sexual. The at om bomb similarity with his, his depressi on lifted but his w ondermentfell as in my fantasy I th ought I had predi cted, and I was killed, increased. And s o did mine, for it seemed to me that we n ow had

Dying was a sweet ecst as y which I expe cted to be followed by a an example of telepathi c communi cation, though it was n ot atvision of heaven. But it was n ot. I found I had t o return to earth all a ccording to experimental design, sin ce I was on the sendingand live through the wh ole ghastly sequence, time and time again, rather than the receiving end.

I wrestled with the conviction that I was either psy chotic or in hell, On Tuesda y I saw an other patient, Mrs. Z, a twenty-eight-and I could not de cide which. It was truly a catastrophic experien ce year-old unhappil y married w oman wh o had been d oing very wellfor me, and one fr om which I sought desperatel y to escape.

At eleven-thirty in the evening I awakened abruptly fr om the for the past few weeks with a gradual rise in spirits and lesseningworld of hallu cinations. Within two Or three minutes I was corn- of anxiety. On this day, h owever, she reported that she was afraidpletely oriented for time and pla ce though I was still quite labile she had had a setba ck since Friday because she had be come quiteemotionally, and unstead y physically. In fa ct, as I was driving the disturbed on that evening and ever sin ce then had felt that she wascar home from the airport on Sunday evening my husba nd says I in a fog. I asked her what had happened on Frida y, but try as shealmost took a wrong turn off the freeway which might have meant might she could only recall that she thought she had company forinstant death, but since he was not even in a condition to drive I dinner and that she had cooked teri-yaki. Though she could recalldon t know how far to trust his judgment. Anyway, for several every other day of the past week, she could not recall Friday even-days, intervals of lucidity alternated with waves of hysterical ing. I told her of my experience on Friday a nd mentioned that onelaughing and crying, wild and very loose assoc iations, confused of my other patients had had amnesia for that period. We disc ussedthinking and lapses of att enti on.

On Monday, June 26, I saw patients as usual, though I was still the possibility that the same sort of thing might have overtakenprone to spells of ab sent-minded day-dreaming. I was startled her. She was relieved and expressed a desire to find out what shequite wide awake, however, when Mr. X, a thirty-year-old bachelor had done during those lost hours.clinical psychologist: said that he had been depressed and unable Fortunately, she was able to check on her actions by question-to work or to think straight s in_e he had ' lost' three hours on ing her husband. He confirmed the menu and the fact that thereFriday evening. He went on to say that ever since Friday he had were guests. He told her that she had not been drinking; in fact,been ' floating in and out of a mild psychotic state.' Since I had he had fixed her a wine & soda but she had not finished it. Instead,also lost three hours on Frida y and was still floating, I asked him shortly after dinner, that is, around eight o'clock, she had askedto tell me more.

one of the women guests t o accompany her t o the ice cream st oreAs far as he could remember, he said, he had g one to the

and she had n ot come home until midnight. C ontinuing her in-market on Friday afternoon to buy fo od for his dinner, whi ch hecooked himself. On this day the mushr ooms looked espe cially vestigati ons, my patient had asked her friend wh o had accom-delicous, and th ough he had never cooked mushr ooms before, he panied her t o buy ice cream h ow they had spent all th ose lost hours.bought some and prepared them with hamburger. After dinner he She was ast onished to learn that she had insisted up on driving t ohad planned to wat ch a particular TV sh ow on science, fiction at the home of a man with wh om she was se cretly in love, that sheeight o'clock, but he said he must have fallen asleep be cause the had sat outside his h ouse mooning over him f or at least tw o hours,next thing he knew he was wat ching the eleven o'clock news. On and that only her fri end 's vigilance had prevented her fr om throw-Saturday he was tense and anxi ous, worrying ab out the world lng hersel f' into her lover's house and arms. She was h orrified tosituation , particularly the Berlin crisis. He felt that an at omic realize that she had divulged her se cret to her friend wh o was l ike-attack was imminent and th ought he sh ould lay in a supply of ly to gossip, but grateful that she had been prevented fr om makingcanned g oods and water.

Mr. X was unusually concerned ab out the three h ours which a further f ool of herself.he could not remember be cause it did n ot seem to him that he had F ollowing our assumpti on that these two patients were re-been in a n ormal sleep. He feared that he might have left his h ome sponding to a stress experien ced by their therapist in a cris is s itua-in a trance-like state and d one some awful unkn own thing. He had ti on, we must n ote that each responded differently a ccording to

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of a nuclear holocaust and wish ed to prepare himself against such

a disaster. Mrs. Z, a frustrated an d impulsive woman, reacted wi th THE SECOND fiNE ART:strong sexual desires and p oor judgment.

Both patients had earli er expressed an interest in ESP pheno- NEO-SYMBOLICOMMUNICATIONmena, Mr. X with fearful fas cination and Mrs. Z with relu ctantacceptance. Mr. X had had n o previous ESP experiences., Mrs. Z OF EXPERIENCEhad often rep orted pre cognitive dreams and intuiti ons. Both pa-tients had an unusually str ong but ambivalent em otional attach-ment to thei r therapist. TIMOTHY LEARY

These in cidents are of n o great imp ortance in the field of para-

psychology because more dramati c events are being rep orted dail y; INTRODUCTO RYnor are the y important in the field of psychedelic research since

almost ever y subject feels he has great clairvoyant powers. But Scien ce is the des cription of t he behavior of enternal processes-they may be important in the field of psychiatry since they suggest movements in spa ce-time. Every one is a s cientist-amateur orthe possibility that one mind ma y influence another at a distance pr ofessional-when he communi cates about external events. Theeven to the extent of producing temporary psychotic-like symptoms, rep orter, the g ossip, the cop o_athe corner wh o gives you directionsPerhaps man y unaccountable m oods and impulses stem fr om tele- are, like the nu celar physicist, des cribing what 's happening , outpathic communi cations, and the y remain una ccountable be cause there, when and where.we have n ot learned where or how to l ook for their source. This "Dear, where is m y red sweater?"sounds un comfortabl y l ike witchcraft but ma y indeed be a phen o- "It 's in the second drawer of the bureau in the guest ro om."menon which must be in corporated int o our diagn ostic system. L ocat ed i n space-ti me.Certainl y I never expe cted to be involved in wit chcraft, even les s The phil osophy of science spells out the rules f or defin ingto be a witch, and least of all, an unwitting Wit ch. good and bad s cience and aU of us-amateur or professional-

would benefit fr om a more explicit understanding of the rules ofexternal des criptiot_s.

Art is the description of experien ce, internal rea ctions, thestate of one's co_sciousness. Everyone is an artist -amateur orprofessional-when he communicates ab out his experien cing.

"How are you?""I feel lous y."The des cription of an inner state. A cliche, ineffe ctive descrip-

tion. Bad art, but art.The purp ose of science is to locate movements in spa ce-time

and to describe them t o others. The purp ose of art is to des cribeexperien ce to others, to "turn on" others, to produce the experiencein others.

Our current v ocabulary of experience leaves everything to bedesired. The subject-predi cate, cause-and-effe ct, linear nature ofIndo-European languages is adequate f or describing onl y a narrow,macroscopic, symb olic fragment of external and internal hap-penings

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10 THEPSY CHEDELICREVIEW Th eS econd ine Art 11order t o communicate his hallucination he must have access to

dimensional -flow languages to descr ibe external energ y processes, energy -transforming machine s which duplicate the cap illary flowThese sci entific languages work because they go beyond the verba l and he must then have some me ans of imposing the perceivedmind to follow the data . An experiential language w hich aims at form on the direct -energy flow.communicati ng experiences beyond the lifeless-static-symbolic Hallucina tory art is multi ple-exposure art. A highly com -must imitate the pg ysical sciences and develop mult iplicit y-simul- plicated form of commu n ication.taneit y-flow. It must break out of the grammatica l str ait jacket. A deta iled surve y of the types of experience, the four clas ses-

It is convenient to consider four broad classes of experience, of art and illustrations of the Four Fine Arts fo rms is presentedFour levels of consciousness: in a book, "Static and Ecstatic Dimensions of Consciousness and

1. Awareness in terms of convent ional s ymbols; aware ness Their Communication, " (to be published b y University Books).of the game. This essa y presents an example of the Second Fine Art, Nco-

2. Awareness in te rms of new combinations of s ymbols; the S ymbolic Communication. The illustration combines famili ardream, the f antasy, symbol s, words, in new references .

3. Awareness of direct energy as it hits the nervous s ystem; The p articular method used here has been used b y poets forno symbolic or game perceptions; raw sensed mos aics, centuries, was developed to a u nique a rt form by James Jo yce in

4. Awareness in which symbolic forms are i mposed on Finnegans Wake and b y two psychedelic poets, William Bu:'ro ughspatt erns of direct ener gy; ha llucinations, and Byron G ysin. It is ca lled by Burroughs and Gysin "the cut-up. "

Art has been defined as the communication of experience. The redund ant sequence of sub ject-pre dicate gramm ar andIt is useful, therefore, to consider four bro ad classes of art expected game connections is s liced up and reco mbined. Ex-

which are used to co mmunicate the four types of aw areness, perience, we recall, doesn't come in linear sentences. Only theThe Four Fine Arts: hopeless pedant ex periences i n terms of sub ject-pred icate prose.1. Communication in terms of symbols which are connected Experience must be commu nicated the way it is regis tered in the

in conventional game relations hips. This is reproductive art. nervous system. Mu ltiple and simult aneous.Descriptive prose. The cut -up, as a magic-invoking -visionary-turn -on, has been

"Willy Mays ran to se cond base. " used for centu ries by artists in many media. The Egyptian Sphinx,Famili ar game s ymbols hooked up according to the accepted for examp le,,is an ancient and classical ly moving cut -up." This

rules, giant woman -animal sitting silently in the desert eloquently2. Nco .symbolic Art . Communication us ing symbols but wrenches us away from our t ribal game thoughts and hurtles us

in new combinations which shatter the co nventional game expect- hauntingly, ee rily, back to evolut ionary memori es.a tions (gam matica l, visual, te mpora l). The cut-up which follo ws is a description of a psilocybin

"Second base to swam Willy Mays." experience which occ urre d, once upon a time , in Cambridge ,3. Tranart . Communicat ion which bypass es symbols and Massachus etts.

uses direct energy to "turn on" the receiver of the messag e. Here Se veral sou rces of verbal symbols were used to p aint thisthe symbolic mind of the artist is not active. The artist is an energy experiential portrait. Each verbal sou rce becomes a paint pot withtransformer and h is artistic instruments are energy trans forming which the overall design is sketched.machines, projectors, polarizing and d iffract ing lenses, sound The six sources of the words used are: a newspaper accountrecorders and t ransformers, published in the London Sunda y Telegram, March 12. 1961 , wri tten

4. Hallu cinator y Art. Communica tion in which symbols by Arthur Koestler and t itled "Return Trip to Nirvana ", a descnp-are imposed on sensations of d irect energy in an idiosyncratic way. tion of a mystic experience by Arthur Koestler, taken from The

The artist takes a ps ychedelic drug. He "goes-out-of-his-mind' Invi sible Wr iting, New York, Macmillan Co., 1954; pa rts of theinto a kaleidoscopic flow of direct energy-swirling patterns of first and last chapt ers of The Lotus and the Rob ot by Arthurcap illary-coiling. He then tries to interpret this raw energy. He Koestler, New York, Macmillan Co., 1961; from the short story"sees" multi-colored snakes. He communicates this vision. In "Without and Within" by Herman Hesse, in Great Short Stories

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12 THEPSYCHEDELICREVIEW Th e Sec ondFin e Art 13last cha pter , the psychedelic-session c hapter of Steppenwolf by The psychiatris t in char ge of When I closed my eyes I sawHerman Hesse, New York, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1 963; and ' the mushroom was an English - luminous, moving pa tterns o f grea tfrom a session report taken from t he files of the Harvard Psy- man of the quiet, ge ntle and un- beauty, which was h ighly enjoy-chedelic Project. American Kind. Based on his own able; then the patterns changed in to

There are two methods of verba l cut-up which have been experiences and on ex periments planaria-a kind of flatwor m whichwidely used. In the random cut -up , sentences or clauses from with 10 test-subjects, he ven tured I had wa tched under the micro -each source are scissored out , placed in a receptacle and drawn the cautious and tentative opinion scope the previous da y in a lab -tha t compared with the fas hionable oratory ; but the worms had aout by chance. The mind of the "word -paint er" operates only in wonder-dru gs, mescalin and l ysergic tendenc y to change in to dragons,the selectionoftheword -paint-sources, acid, the effect of the mushroom w hich was less e njoyable, so I

In the p rogrammed cut -up one n arra tive is taken as base and was rela tively harmle ss and eh - walked out of the show b y openingcla uses or senten ces fro m add itional verbal sources are planfully tirely on the pl easant, euphor ic my eyes.

woven ar ound this base -line, side. I tr ied it a gain, direct ing theThe illustr ation which follows uses the met hod of the pro - It is well known that the mental beam of the table-lamp, wh ich had

gra mmed cut -up. Here are the verb al sour ces used in th e illustra, attitude, the mood in which one a strong b ulb, straight at my closedtion. enter s the gates of mushr oom land, eyelids, and the effect was quite

plays a de cisive part in determin - spectacular -rather like the ex-lng the nature of the exper ience, plos ive paintings of sch izophren ics,

CUT- UP SO URCE NO. 1: FROM "RETURN TRIP TO NIRVANA'. Since Dr. P. was such a pleasant or Walt Disney's "Fantasi a."person and the atmosphere of Ann A flaming edd y, the funnel of a

A few weeks ago I rece ived a to th e University of Michigan a t Arbor appe aled to me, 1 volunteered to rnado , appeared over my head ,letter fro m a fr iend, an American Ann Arbor. I had been invited ther e as a guinea pig, though I fel t a dr awing me upward; w ith a l ittle

little guilt y towards my enthusi - auto-suggestion and self-drama -psychiatris t working at H arvard for qu ite different reas ons, but onUniversity: the first morning of m y stay the astic f riend in Harvard. However, t isation I could have ca lled it a

subject of the magic mushroom on the day b efore I t ook the drug, I vision of myself as the prophe thad a ve ry unpleas ant experience- Elijah being taken to Heaven b y

DEAR K: crop ped up. wi th the result that I faced theThings are happening here a w hirlwind. But I fel t that this

which I think will interest you. The DRUGS ON BRAIN mushr ooms iff an anxious and de- was buying one's visions on thebig, new hot issue these da ys in This, howev er, was not much of pressed s tate, cheap ( "Car te r' s mush ro oms areman y American circles is DRUGS. a coincidence as at the present They come synthesized , in the the best ; mystic experience gum' -We believe that the s ynthetics of moment a surp rising number of shape oflittle pi nk pills. I swallowed ante ed or mone y refunded "); so I

the cac tus peyote (mescahn) and Americans from Brass to Beat, nine of them (18mg of psiloc ybin), again walked out of the show bythe mushroom (psilocybin) offer seem to have, for different reasons, which is a f air-sized dose for a forcing m y eyes to open. It was aspossibi lities for expanding con - drugs on the br ain; the Brass be- person of my weight . They were simple as that, and I congratu latedsciousness , changin g percep tions, cause t hey are worr ied a bout br ain- supposed to start acting after 30 m yself on my sober s elf-contro l, aremov ing abstrac tions .... wash ing and space -flight tr aining; minutes, rat iona l mind not to be fooled by

We are offering the experience the Beat because drugs provide a However , for nearly an hour little pills.nothing at all happened. I wasto distinguished creative people, rocket-powered es cape fromreality;Artists, poets, writer s, scholars, the Organization. Me n because chatting with Dr. P. and one of hisWe've learned a t remendous a- tranquillisers are m ore effective assistants, first in his office, then ina room which had a comfortable DIFFE RENT LOOKmount b y listening to them . . . If then the h omely aspirins and fruit- c ouch in it and a tape re corder;you ar e interested I'l l send som e salts of yore; and the s piritual lymushrooms over to you... I'd l ike to frustra ted on all l evels of society after a while I was eft alone in the By now, however, even wi thhear a boutyourreact ion.., becaus e drugs p romise a kind of do- room, but D r. P. looked in from open eyes, the room looked dif-

Shortly afterwar ds, I had to go it-yourself app roach to Salvation. time to time. I la y down on th e ferent. The colou rs had b ecome notcouch , and soon b egan to experience only more luminous and b rilliant,the kind of phenomena wh ich hav e but d ifferent in qual ity from an y1. Reproduced.b y permiseion,from The Sun -

dayTelegraph, L ondon. been repe atedly described by people colour prev iously seen ; they werewho experimented with mescahn, locat ed outside the normally visible


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14 rile PSY CHEDELICREVIEW Th eSecond ine Art 15spectrum, and to refer to them one SUDD EN EFFECT The same ha ppened when other ech oes of the relation betweenwould have to invent new words- so member s of the staff joined us later , pr isoner and inqu isitor , of Ges tapo

I sha ll say that the walls were breen , The signalling tape recorder One of them , the jovial Dr. F. , was and GPU.the curta in darsh , and th e sky out- was the f irst symptom of a chem - trans formed into a vision so ter -side emerdine . Also, one of the wal ls ica lly-induced stat e of insanity, r if_ing- a Mongol with a broken WR ONG KINDhad acquired a concave bend like The full effect came on with in - neck hanging from an invisible

the inside of a barrel , the plaster sidio us smoothness and sudden - gallows-that I thought 1 was going Poor Dr. P. and his nice col-

sta tue of the Venus of Milo had ness. Dr.P. came into the room, and to be sick; yet I could not stop my- leagues had to endure what theyacquir ed a grin, and the straight a minute or two later I saw the se lf staring at him. In the end I wou ld call a "negative trans -dado _line was pleas antly curved, light and rea lised what a fool I had said : "For God's sake let's snap ference ," and serve as projection

which st ruck me as an exceedingly been to let myself be trapped by out of it, " and we moved into screens for the lantern slides ofclever joke. his cunning machinations. For a nother part of t _e room, where the the past , stored in the ment al under -

But ali this was quite unlike the du ring tha t minute or two he had effect became weaker, g round. Thus I was a rather un -wobbling world of drunkenness, undergone an unbe lievable trans - As the last remark indicates I fortuna te choice for a guinea pi _-for the r oom was plunged into an formation, was s till in control of my ou tward except perhaps to demonstra te whatmushroomland can do to the wrongunderwater s ilence , where the f aint It started with the colour o f behaviour, and th is remained true kind of guinea p ig; and I sus pect

hum of the tape re corder became hi s face, whi ch had become a sickl y throughout the wh ole three or four that a sizable m inority of peopleobtrusively loud, and the alm ost yellow. He stood in a corner of the hours of the experience. But at wh o try for a chemical hft to Hea-im perceptible undulation s of the room with hi s back to the green the same time I h ad completel ycurtains became the Ballet of the wall, and as I stared at him hi s lost control over my percepti on of ven , will fi nd themselve s landed inthe other pla ce.Flowing F olds (the undulation s face split into two, hke a cell dj- the w orld. I m ade repeated eff orts

viding, then re united again, but by "t o walk out of the show" as I had I d o not want to exaggerate thewere caused b y the warm air as - this time the tra nsformation was been able to do during the first sm all risks invo lved in properlycending f rom the central -heating supervised ex periments for legiti -body), complete. A small scar on the stages on the couch, but I was

doctor's neck which I had not powerless against the de lusions. I mate research purposes ; and I alsobelieve that eve ry clinical psy-A narrow s trip of the revolving no ticed before, was ga ping wide, k ep t r ep ea ting to myself: "But thesechiatrist could de rive immense

spool of the ta pe recorder caugh t the trying to ingest the flesh of the are nice, friendly people, they are bene fits from a few expe riments ingleam of the lamp eve ry few sec- chin; one ear had sh runk, the other your f riends ," and so on. I t had nochemically-induced, tem poraryonds ; and this faint, inter m ittent had grown by sever al inches; the effect whatsoever on the s pon-

spark, unnoticed before , observed face became a smirking, evil phan- taneo us and inexorable visu al psychosis , enabling them to seelife through their patie nts' eyes.out of the corner of the e ye on the tasm. Then it changed again, into transforma tions.But disagree with the enthus -

visual pe riphery, became the re- a different kind of Hogarthian I have me ntioned before thatvolving beam of a miniature light - vision, a nd these transformations al l of Dr. P. 's previous sub jects lasts ' belief that mesc alin or psilo -house. This lowering of the senso ry went on for wha t I imagined to be has positive eupho ric experiences ; cybin, even when taken under thethreshold and simul taneous heigh t- several minutes. I "broke the se ries," as he ruefu lly most favourable conditions, wi ll

ening of the intensity and emo - All this time the doctor 's body remark ed over post-mortem drinks , provide ar tists, writers o r a sp i ringtional signi ficance of perceptions, rem ained unchanged; the hal - mystics with new insigh ts, or re -is one of the basic phenomena of lucinations were con fined to the I had met the mushroom in the velat ions of a transcenden tal

the mushroom universe. The inter - space from the neck upward ; and wron g state of mind, owing to tha t nature.mittent light -signal f rom the slow- they were strangely t wo-dimen- incident on the previo us day, which I profoundly admire Aldously revolving spool beca me import - sional, like faces cu t out of card - had awak ened memories of pas t Huxley, both for his philosophyant, meaningful and mysterious; i t beard. The phenomenon was al - experiences as a politica l prisoner, and uncompromising sinceri ty. Buthad some secret message. After - ways strongest in that cor ner of and of pas t preoccupations with I disagree with his belief that

wards I remembered, with sym - the r oom where i t had first oc - brain -washing, torture and the d rugs can procure "what Catholi cp at he ti c u nd ers ta nd in g, the fan- curred, and fad ed into less of- extraction of confessio ns. The theologians ca lagratuitousgrace. "

tasies of paranoiacs about hidden fensive disto rting-mirror effects phantom faces were obvious pro - Chemically-i nduced rap tures mayelectric machines and other con - when we moved elsewhere, al- jections of a deep-seated resent- be f rightening or wonderfu lly

traptions plan ted by their enemies though the lighting of the room ment against being "trapped " in a gratifying; in either case they are

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played on one's own nerv ous ican writer wh om otherwise I r a ther mountains of m'y scho ol days, the absolute cathar si s, the peacesystem , liked-began to declaim about Cos- it took us about five to six hours to that pa sseth all under standing.

mic Awareness, Expanding Con- climb a 7,000-foot peak. Today, ( page352)NO MERIT sciousness, Zen Enlightenment, and many of them can be reached in a

Some of the reports in the file, so forth. This struck me as obscene, few minutes by cable-car or ski-written after the experience, are in m ore so than f our-letter words; lift, or even by motorcar. Yet y ou CUT-UP SOURC E NO. 3:a more sober vein, but n ot a single thi s pressure-cooker mysticism still see thousands of schoolb oys, FROMitem contains anything of arti stic seemed the ultim a te profanati on, middle- aged couples and elderly " THE LOTUS AND THE ROBOTmerit or of theoretical value; and But my exaggerated reaction was no men puffing and panting u p thethe drug-induced productions were doubt also mushr oom-conditioned, steep path, groaning under the by ARTHUR KO ESTLERall far beneath the writer' s normal so I went to bed. load of their kna psacks. When they

stand ards (Huxley's report wa s not arriv e a t the a lpine refuge near the The sewers of Bom bay had beenin the file). AN ANSWER summit, streaming with sweat, opened b y mistake, I was told, be -

I think I understood the reason In "Heaven and Hell, " defending the y shout for their tradition al re- fore the tide had come in. The dampfor this when I took the mush- the mesca lin ecstas y against the ward-a glass of schnapps and a heat, impregnated b y their s tench,room the second time, under more reproach of a rtificialit y. Huxley, plate of hot pea-soup. And then the y invaded the air -conditioned cabinhapp y and relaxed conditions. This the mos t highly respected ex- look at the view-and then there is the moment the door of the Vis-wasin the apar tment of my Harvard ponen t of the cult, argues that, onl y a man and a mount ain and a count was opened. As we descendedfriend ; there were six of us in a "in one wa y or another, all our ex- sk y.convivial a tmosphere. We all t ook periences are chemical ly condi- My point is not the virtue of the steps I had the sensation that awet, smelly diaper was beingvarious amounts of the pill, and this tioned "; and that the great m ystics swea t and toil. My point is that, wrapped around my head b y sometime I took a little more (either 22 of the past also "worked systemat - although the view is the same, their abomina ble joker. This was Decem -or 2 4 mg for l lost count ), ica lly to modify their bod y chem- vision is different from those who ber ; the previous da y I had been

Again there were delusions: istr y . . . starving themselves into arrive b y motorcar , slithering over the frozen snow inthe room expanded and contrac ted low blood sugar and a vitamin defi- the mountains of Austria . (page 15)in the m ost extra ordinary manner, ciency . . . They sang interminable Li lies that feste r smell far w orselike an acco rdion play ed slowly, psalms, thus increasing the amount CUT-UP SOU RCE NO. 2: than weeds; b oth India and Japanbut the fa ces around me changed of carbon dioxide in the lungs and FROM seem t o be spiritually si cker, moreonly slightly and in a pleasant the blood-stream, or, if they wereway, becoming m ore beautiful Orientals, they did breathing ex- "THE INVISIBLE WRITING " estranged fr om a living faith thanthe West. They are at opposite end sThen came the Moment of Truth: a er cises to accomplish the same byA RTHUR KOESTLE R of the Asiati c spectru m, wh osepiece of chamber musi c played on a purpose." centre is occupied by the vas tness oftape re corder. I had never heard There is, of course, a certain Then I was fl oatingon my back China, one of the w or ld' s oldestmus ic played like that before, I am ount of truth in this on a purely in a river of iaeace under br idges of cultures; yet it p roved less resist-suddenly under st ood the very es- physiol ogical level , but the con-sence of music, the se cret of its clusions whi ch Huxley draws, and silen ce It came from nowhere and ant against the impa ct of a mater-magic the advi ce he tenders t o modern flowed n owhere Then there was n o ialistic ide ology. The nati on which '' river and n o 1. The I had ceased t o had held fast f or two and a half

Unfortunately, I was unable t o man in search of a soul, are all exist . . . When I say "the I had mi llenn ia to the teaching of C on-tell the next day whethe r it had been the m ore distressing: " Knowing as ceased t, o exist" 1 refer t o a concrete fucius, La o-Tse and the Buddha ,a quartet or a quintet or a trio, and he d oes what are the chemical ' ' experien ce ... The 1 ceases t o exist su ccumbed to the atheist ic doc-whether by Mendelss ohn or Bach. conditions of transcendental ex- be cause it has, by a kind of mental trine f ormulated by the s on of aI may just as well have listened t o perience, the aspiring mysti c should osm os is , e stabl ished communica- German lawyer, and has be come theLiberace. It had n othing t o do with turn f or technical help t o the tion with, and been diss olved in, the m ost accomphshed ro bot state thisgenuine appre ciation of music; spe cialists in pharma cology, in universal p ool. It is this pr ocess of side of science fiction T o look tomy soul was steeped in cosmic b io-chemistry, in physi ology and

dissolution and limitless expansi on Asia f or mystic en lightenment and

schmalz, neur ology." whi ch is sensed as the 'oceanic' spiritual gu idance has be come asI sobered up, th ough, when a I w ould like t o answer this withfellow mushroom-eate r- an Amer- a parable. In the bel oved Austrian feeling, as the draining of all tension, much of an anachronism as to think


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. . . I s ta rted my jou rne y in recognized as s upe rs tition was not in anguish, a s you h ave d one it , fresh ourselves a li ttle."

sa c kcloth and as he s and c am e b ack profound ly odious a nd repu gnant to but tYee ly, voluntarily. Su mmo n up F rom a rece ss in the w all herat he r proud of being a Eu rope an. lt him. Alien , uncu ltured , and re- the p as t, s ummo n up the futu re : took three glass es a nd . a quaintmay be a som ewh a t pa rochial ta xded pe ople might occupy the m- both a m in you_ I/nd] today yo u h ave little b ottle , also a s mall orientalpride , bu t it is not sm ug, for, as a s elves with it: in remote antiquity been the sla ve of the w ithin. Le arn box inlaid with different ly colored

Hung ar ian-b orn, Fren ch-loving, the re ma y have been my stical or to be it s mast er. That is mag ic, woods . He f illed the three glass esEnglish writer w ith som e expe r- magi cal thinking: but since the (p ag e 263)ien ce of prisons and c onc entr a- birth of science and logic the re from the b ottle and, taking threetion cam ps, o ne c annot help be ing was no longer any sen se in ma king long thin ye llow c iga rettes from theaware of Europe' s pas t sins a nd u se of these outmoded and dub ious CUT-UP SOU RCE NO. 5: box and a box of mat che s from the

pocket of his silk jac ket , he ga ve u spresent deadly pe ril. And yet a de- t ools . FROM a light. And n ow we all slowlytached c ompar ison with other con - So he said and so he thought; "STE PPENW OLF " smoked the cigare ttes whose smoketinents of the way E urope stood and when tra ces of supe rs ti ti onup to its past trials, and of it s came to his attenti on he be came by HERMAN HESSE wa s as thick as incense, leaningcontributi on to man's histo ry, angry and felt as if he had been ba ck in ou r chairs and slowly sip-leaves one with a new confidence touch ed with something ho stile. We joined him when he be ckoned ping the a romatic liquid whoseand affection for that small figure (page 251-2) and in the do orway he said to me in strange ta ste was so utterly un-r iding on the back of th e Asian bull. One da ), Frederick went t o the a low voice: "Brother Harry , I in- familiar.(page 285) house of one of his friends with rite you t o a lit tle entertainment. Its effect wa s immeasurably en-

whom he had often studied. It so For madmen only, and one p rice livening and delightful -as thoughCUT-UP SOURCE NO, 4: happened that he had n ot seen this only-y our mind. Are y ou ready?" one were filled with ga s and had noFROM friend for some time... Again I n odded, longer any gra vity. Thus we sat

During a pause in the lab orious The dear fell ow gave us ea ch an pea cefully exhaling small puffs"WITHIN AND WITHO UT" conversati on Frederi ck looked about arm with kind solicitude, Hermine and taking l ittle sip s at our glasses,

the studi o he knew s o well and saw, his right , me his left, and con- while ever y moment we felt our-by HERMANN HESSE pinned loo sely on the wall, a sheet ducted us upstai rs to a smal l round selves growing l ighte r and mo re

of paper ... He st ood up and went r oom that was lit fr om the ceiling serene.to the wall t o read the paper, with a bluish light and nearly Fr om far away came Pablo's

There was once a man by the There, in Erwin ' s beautiful empty.., warm v oice.name of Freder i ck; he dev oted him- script, he read the w ords: "Nothing Where were we ? W as I asleep ? "It is a pleasure t o me, dearself to intellectual pursuits and had i s with out, nothing is within : for Was I at h ome? Was I driving in a Harr y, to have the pr ivilege of beinga wide range of knowledge. But all what is with out is within." There car ? No, I was sitting in a blue light y our host in a small way on thisknowledge was n ot the same t o it was ] There he stood fa ce to face in a round room and a rare atm os- occasion. You have often been

him, n or was any thought as good a s with what he feared . . . What phe re, in a stratum of real ity tha t sorely wear y of your life. You wereany other: he loved a certain kind of stood written he re, as an avowal of had become rarefied in the extreme, striving, we re you not, for escape?thinking, and d isdained and ab orn- his friend's concern at the m oment, Why then was Hermine so You have a longing to forsake thisinat ed the others. What heloved and was mysticism Erwin was unfaitb- white? Why was Pablo talking so worl d and its re ality and to pene-revered was l ogic-that so admir- ful (pages 254-5) much? Was it n ot perhaps I wh o trate to a r eality mor e native to you,able method - and, in gene ral, what "This is the way," Erwin replied, made him talk, sp oke, indeed, with to a wo r ld beyond time. Y ou know, ofhe called " science." and perhaps you have alread y his voi ce? Was it n ot my own s oul course, where this other w orld lies

'_l'wice two is four," he u sed to taken the m ost difficult step. You that contemplated me out of his hidden. It is the w orld of your ownsay. "Thi s believe; and man must have found by experien ce: the with- b lack eyes like a l ost and frightened s oul that y ou seek. Onl y within your-do his thinking on the ba sis of this out can be come the within. Y ou bird?.., self exists that other realit y fortruth." have been bey ond the pair of anti- "My friends , I have invited y ou which you long. I can give y ou

He was not unawar e, to be sure, theses . It seemed hell t o you; to an entertainment that Harr y has nothing that has n ot already itsthat there w ere other sorts of think- learn, it is heaven F or it is heaven long wished f or and of which he has being within yourself. I can throwlng and knowledge ; but the y were that awaits you. Beh old, this is l ong dreamed. The hour is a little open to you no picture gallery but


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20 THEPSYCH EDELICREVIEW Th e Seco ndFin eArt 21your own so ul. All 1 ca n give you is "We are in m y Magic Theate r," A TRIP INTO THEMIND OFROBORTLOTUSthe op portun ity, the impulse , the he sai d with a smile , **andif you (The*Assemble dCut-Up Portrait)key. I can help you to make your wish at an y time to learn the tangoown world vis ible. That is all." or to have a talk with Alexan de r

(pages ]73-5) t he Gre at , it is alway s at your set * Once there was a man b y the name of Robort Lotus w ho wasAnd la ter.., vice. But I am bound to say, Harry, painted within and without by Herman Hesse . Whether his manu-"This little theater of mine has as you have disapp ointed me a little, s cript needs an y postductory remarks may be open to question. I,

many doors into as many boxes a s You forgot your sel f bad ly. You broke however, feel the need of adding a few page s, in which I tr y toyou please , ten or a hundred or a through the hum or of m y little record m y own rec oUections of him. What I kn ow of him is littlethousand, and behind each do or theater and tried t o make a mgss of enough, yet the impressi on left by his personality has remained, inexactly what you seek awaits you. it, stabbing with knives and spat- spite of all, a deep and s ympatheti c one.It is a p retty cabinet of pictures, m y tering our pretty picture-world with Robort Lotus devoted himse ff to intellectual pursuits. He haddear friend; but it w ould be quite the mud of realit y. That was n otuseless f or you to go through it as prett y of you .... I th ought you had given up the n ovel as a medium of tea ching, and had a wide range

of knowledge. But n ot all kn owledge was the same t o him. Return-you are. Y ou would be checked and learned the game better. Well, youblinded at ever y turn by what you willd o better next time.".., ing t o his first pr ofession he said that any th ought was n ot as goodare pleased to call your personality. I understood it all. I understood as another . He preferred science and rep orting. Scien ce-reporting.You have n o doubt guessed l ong Pabl o. I understood Mozart, and He l oved a certain kind of think in g , confessing t o me that

since that the conque st of time and s omewhere behind me I heard his psy chology was his first l ove, the ol ogy in whi ch he felt he couldthe escape from realit y, or however ghastly laughter. I knew that ali make his greatest self-expressi on.else it may be that you choose t o the hundred-thousand pieces of He was rewriUng an earlier book on creative thinking (th e mind)descr ibe your longing, means simpl y life's game were in m y pocket. A and disdained and ab ominated the m ystical experien ce. Insightthe wish to be re lieved of your so- glimpse of its meaning had stirr ed and outlook is what he called s cience once in a Fran co prision.called personalit y. That is the pris on my reason and I was determined towhere you lie. And if you we re to begin the game afresh. I w ould In 1959 he used t o say, "twice times tw o is four," and heenter the theate r as you are, you sample its t ortures once more and finishe d his aut obiography, Robort and the Lotus, not unaware, t owould see everything thr ough the shudde r again at its senselessness, b e sure, that there we re other sorts of thinking abo ut a book whicheyes of Ha rry and the old spe ctacles I would traverse n ot once more, but was t o become quite relevant t o the psychedelic controversy. (Butof the Steppenwolf. Y ou are the re- often, the hell of m y inner being, the y were not science.) He held a l ow opinion which explains mu chfore requested t o lay these One day I would be a better ab out the "set," whi ch, alth ough a free-thinker, he br ought to hisspectacles aside and t o be so kind as hand at the game. One da y I would own psilo cybin experien ces. He c ongratulated himself on histo leave your h ighl y esteemed pe r- learn how to laugh. Pabl o was rati onal min d.

sonality here in the cl oakroom waiting for me, and Mozart t oo. He was n ot intolerant of religion, his paternal name, L otus,where you wi ll find it again whenyou wish..." (pages 175-6) being India, and his given name, Ro bort, founded on a tacit agree-

And then , after the kale ido - CUT-UP SOURCE NO. 6, a psy- ment among scientists Sober self -control was Jap an.scope of vis ions , Harry "comes to ": chedelic session re port from the Fooled by little pil ls for sever al centu ries, Robort Lotus dis liked

Pablo l ooking warmly at me out files of Harvard Psyc hedelic Re- what he saw in the east while his science embraced nearly eve ry-of his dark exotic eyes.., search Project, was used as the thing that existed on e arth. "Lies that fester smeU fa x worse th an

"Pablo " I cried with a convul - base-line for the following cut- up weeds." That was worth k nowing.sive s ta rt . "Pab lo, where are we?" portr ait. With the single exception of one single province he said that

"both India and Japan seem to be spiritually sicker , the human_, e e _ e e e e _._ ,:_ _ _ soul more es tranged, a sor t of custom to co ngratulate myself on this

religion from a living faith and to tolerate more speculations onthe soul than the west.

Though without them se riously, Robort Lotus was a rationalmin d, tolera nt long before Aldous Huxley found in yoga eve rythingthat Robort Lotus recognized as superstition. A remedy for our


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22 THEPSYCHEDELICREVIEW Th e Seco ndFin eArt 23Brave New Wo rld . Without taking serio usly what Schopenhauer continent, puffing and pant ing up the steep path. This idea existedcalled the U panishads the consolation of his life was profoundl y from the vastness of Asia and could so deepl y distress him, whileodious andre pugant to him. gai ning a fresh impression the more passionatel y h is compact -

Alien, uncultured, and retarded people of t he first generation ness and coherence ass ailed it and those he secretl y suspected ofof the Nuclear Age might occup y themselves with solace in Zen. believing in it.

In remo te antiquit y the west groaning u nder the weight of knap- "I started my journe y so far only a very few little pills among

sacks and receptivity to the voice of mystical or magical th inking the truly educat ed in sackcloth and ash es." Challenging Aldouswas l imited to periods of spiritual emergency. DRUGS ON THE Huxley who had op enly and frankly defended the cult. He cameBRAIN. But since the birth o f science to moods of futility and back rather proud, a r ational mind professing belief in this docu ine.despair there was no long er any sense in making use of such out- Of being a European. It may be parochial pride. AN ANSWER. Amoded self-congratulat ion and dub ious tools, doct rine seemed destined, but it is not smug. Should it gain in

So he said and so h e thought. SUDD EN EFF ECT. He traveled circulat ion: DRU GS ON BRAIN. DIFF ERENT LOOK. SUDD ENin India and Japan (in 1958-59) when traces of superstition came EFF ECT. WRONG KIND. NO MERIT. AN ANSWER. Power for ato the mood of the pilgrith. He became angry like countless othersbefore and felt that h e had b een touched. WRONG KIND. Whether Hunga rian-bo rn, French-loving, English wr iter to destroy allspiritual values on earth with some experience of prison and con-the east had an y answer to offer-something hostile to our per-plexity and d eadlocked problems - he was not to b e fooled by little centration camps to call forth chaos.One cannot h elp being awa re. Well, matters had not reach ed

pills'It angered Robort Lotus, striking the offactory note. He found Europe's past s ins-that po int yet of present deadly peril. Thescatt ered individuals who op enly embraced a detach ed compa risonsuch traces among his own sort, which guided his reactions among w ith other continents. The idea NO MERIT. Of the way Europe

educat ed men conversant with the culture of Asia. DIFF ERENTLOOK. The principles of scientific thinking. Sober self-control, stood up st ill so few in number that th ey could be consideredSerf. odd ities to its past trials and of its contribution to man s history.

The sewers of Bombay had b een opened by mistake and Sober self-control.nothing was mo re painful and intolerable to him than th e damp P eculiar fellows. But a drop of the poison leaves one with a n ewheat impregnated by the scandalous notion which lat ely by their confidence. An emanat ion of that idea and a ffection for thatstench invaded the air-conditioned cab in. He had som etimes small figure, Hunga rian-bo rn, could be perceived first on thisheard expressed and d iscussed the moment the door of the Vis- side, then riding the back of the Asian bull.count was op ened by men of great cultu re. NO MERIT. As we de- Among the half-educat ed and th e people R.L.'s portrait ofhim-scended the steps that absu rd idea that a w et, smelly diaper was self (no end of new doctrines) could be a small figu re compactscientific thinking a round my head was possibly not a supreme, and coherent. DRUGS ON THE BRAIN. Esoteric doctrines, sects,

timeless, eternal , foreordained and unassa ilable mode of thought and d iscipleships sketched with accu racy. The world was full o fby some abominabl e joker, the struggle of the European mind and th e Asian bull. Every-

The second half of the book, but one of many, was a t ransient where one could sc ent the tormented search for verbal meaning.way of thinking, permeated with the stink of Zen, not impervious Superstition. Scien ce. Mysticism. Franc o prison. Science. Zionism.to change and down fall which is not a rude expression. This ir- Spiritualistic cults. Communism. Insight and Outlook. Oth erreverent, destructive, poisonous not e a ph rase often used in Zen mysterious forces. It was really necessa ry to combat? But to whichliterature. WRONG KIND. sc ience, as if from a private feeling of weakness to which a g enera-

Even Robort Lotus could not d eny it and thus in a sense came tion of postwar intellectuals owe their poli tical liberation had forback impoverished, cropping up here and th ere as a result of the the present given free rei n.distress throughout th e world rather than enriched. NO MERIT. A 1 first met Robort Lotus in London in 1959. Always haunt ed byrat ional mind. Like a wa rning, like a white hand 's ghostly writing what h e calls monumental feelings he called up my aunt , Whit-taker Chamb ers to inquire for a furnished room. F eelings ofthat h is plac e was Europe. inferiority, he went one day to the house of one of his friends. He

The more Robort Lo tus suffered f ro m looking at this tinywas, in fact, as h e called himself a real wolf of the Steppes. Is-


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24 THE PSYCHEDELIC REVIEW The Seco nd Fin e Art 25

olated from lif e by his ca tegorizing mind it so happened tnat he Wha t about Hitler's gas chambers?" The old Buddhist looks at thehad not seen the fr iend for some time. "Hell o. Yogi /commissa rl tense, alert Eur opean visit or and smiles. "When y ou ask theseArrival /departure " Blan ching he st ood motionless for a moment, logical questi ons we feel embarrassed," said the Zen abb ott."Lotus/Robortl Promise /fulfillmentl" There it wasl There he stood The Arist otelian intelle ctual Tell me, Maria, h ow can y ou

face to face with what he fea red Endlessly dan cing the old Aris- have f ondness f or him, a tires ome old logican with no looks, whotoleian two-step. "Certainly " he cried. "Of c ourse I know it. Age even has grey hair and d oesn ' t play a sax ophone and d oesn't singof longing at the twilight bar. Its mysti cism, its Gn osticism? any English l ove songs, wh ose only security rests on his ability

You look at Robort Lotus and see the face of Europe' s history, t o rationalize ea ch new experien ce? Most of that sort instinctivelyHow deep the - into whi ch his life had d rifted on account of his refuse t o have anything t o do with the psy chedelic chemicals. Atdisposition and destiny, and h ow consciously he a ccepted this times Maria, t oo, avai led herse lf of Pablo's secret drugs and was-as his destiny, I certainly did n ot know until I read the re cords forever pr ocuring these delights for me als o. A few adventur ous orhe left behind him. Rational mind. C ongratulati ons. A new epis- c ourageous intellectuals have made the psy chedelic voyage andtemology? Is there such a thing? In the haunting eyes and the struggle thr oughout the sessi on to impose their minds. Pabl o wasfurrowed fa ce-skin. This is the way , Erwin replied. On this frail always most markedly on the alert t o be of service t o him. On ce hehinge swung the fate of a generat ion of thought. And perhaps y ou said to Robort Lotus with out more ado: You always try t o keep t hehave already taken the m ost difficult step. Oh rati onal mind of experien ce under mental c ontrol. That is bad. One sh ouldn't be

Europe You have f ound by experien ce. Jewish. Hungarian. like that. The mind is by definiti on anti-ecstasy. Try a mild pipe ofAustrian. Fren ch. German. English. All under one skull. The opium. The psy chedelic session is the final test of rationality. Wewithout can become the within. Great G od What d oes not stand be came friends and he to ok some of my specifics. The ordeal com-classified as man or wolf he does not see at all. The n oble arrogance pleted, he wr ote his report explaining away what his rebelliou sof the self-a ssigned task Once you had been bey ond the pair of cortex tried t o do to the symmetry of his verbal mind. On ce I gaveantitheses. In Franco cell he was floating on his back in a river him a drink from three little bottles, a mysterious and wonderfulof peace under bridges of s ilence. It seemed hell to him. It came draught. And th en when he had got into a v ery good humor we pro-from nowhere and flowed nowhere. Learn, my friend, it is heaven posed to celebrate a love orgy. He declined ab ruptly.There was no river and no I. Fo r it is heaven that aw aits you. The When we started our research at Harv ard we wrote to RobortI had ceased to e xist. Behold this is magic. But now he puffs and Lotus telling him about the mystical experiences we were en-pants up the steep path g roaning under the l oad of mind. T o inter- countering and inviting him t o participate in a l ove orgy. Br otherchange the with out and the within, n ot by compulsion. In this Robort, I invite you to a little entertainment. F or madmen only andway he was always re cognizing and affirming with one-half of the pri ce only-your mind. Are y ou ready? An i mmediat e' repl y.himself, in th ought and act, what with the other half he f ought and Robort Lotus was coming to the United States and w ould like verydenied. H is rational mind need n ot crouch ready t o categorize and mu ch to come to Harvard and try the mushr ooms.evaluate every new event, ea ch new e xperience. Not in anguish, as A few days bef ore his scheduled arrival a ph one call came fr omhe did it, but freely, v oluntarily. Y our poor mind need n ot be the New Y ork. In somber tones Robert Lotu s said that he had alreadyfulcrum upon which galaxie s turn. Su mmon up the past. Y our frail taken psilocybin wi th a psychiatrist in the mid-wes t and had acortex need not sup port the weight of the universe, explaining, hellish pa ranoid experience. Fo r God's sake, let's snap out o f it.ordering, labeling, relating everything that occu rs. Summon up H e had no d esire whatsoever to make the voyage again trans-the future. Both are in you. You need no longer judge the good and formed into the claws o f a predato ry bird. Never. No thanks. Wrongevil of each n ew flick of cosmic process. Unt il toda y you have been kind. No merit. He made repeated efforts to walk out of the show.the slave of the within. Learn to be it s mast er. Drugs on the brain. He was powerless ag ainst the delusion.

Well, why not come up to Harvard an yway and look a round andThe heavy weight of monotheism. Cruel doctrine of individ- see what we were doing? Agreed.

ual will. I b elieve in one God the creator of Heaven and Earth. One Robert Lotus was an object of interest and adm iration atmind. One judicial autho rity to make a billion decisions each Ha rvard. The top schola rs came to the center to pa y homage. Asecond that th e plan et turns. The billion-fold moral judgments, list of appo intments was qu ickly set up. It was quite a ball. A"You favor tolerance toward all religions and all political systems.


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26 THEPSYCHEDELICREVIEW Th e Seco ndFin e Art 27skinny Profe ssor Bur hus told him that Hindus must be conditioned Dr. Jehovah and Dr . Moses, with a dark and fiery eye and theto give up reli gion. He felt in his waistcoat pocket-t he number str ide of Wotan , finally got to a point where t hey could only corn-was no lon ger t here Miss Jerr y Burner w ith her left hand pr aised municate with each other . I saw them pray at the edge of the Redhim for the limpid EL ASSER spark ling in the thick peasant glass. Sea. Together they had a rappor t and hi gh pitch of understand ing'Td have loved to have danced wit h you ag ain," he said, intoxi- in Handel's wonderful duet for two basses in which this event iscated by her warmth. (Later he worried that J erry would steal his magn ificently sung. To th e rest of the world they were hopelessnumbered ideas. Th e devil was in it if ever these failed him ) eccentrics. So strange and incredible to be looking on at all th is.Waltzing masked around the Harvard Yard, watching Robort Robort Lotus' medical friend sudd enly seeing sac red peyote writ,Lotus' cha rm and alert mind pla ying at th e intellectual gam e. with it hemes and its wonders, the source in our childhood of the

From all po rts a d ancing girl flung herself into his arms. first dawn ing susp icion of another world than this, presented be-"Danc e with me{ .... I can 't," he said, 'Tm bound for hell." fore a d istast eful publ ic that sat eating the provisions brought

The second aft ernoon there was an hou r free so we phoned with it from home.over to the Massachus etts Mental Health Institute to see about F inally the social pressure was too g reat and they crackedarranging a danc e with one of the world's top n eurologists. Of all und er the strain. A nice picture, indeed, picked up by chance in -the surprises I had p repared for him this was to b e the most violent, the huge wholesale clearance of culture in these days. JehovahFor, have no moment of doubt that it was I, who brought Robort went to Mexico where he died in short time. Moses, with da rk andLotus to this bird of parad ise who was delighted to be our host at f iery eye and a long sta ff and the stride of Wotan , went to Munichhis special table at the Ritz Bar. where he was treated by a monster of a psychiatrist who failed to

"So far," he said, "I have control." That was fine. The schedule understand him. My God, rather than com e to such a pass it would

was: d rinks at the Ritz, dinner at the Steel Helmet in Boston with have been better for the Jews and everyone else, let alone thethe Frank Barrons and th en an evening at th e Magic Theater for Germans, to have perished in those days, forthwith of a violentRobort Lotus to observe a ps llocybin session run under easy-going, and unb ecoming death instead of th is dismal pretense of dyingsupport ive circumst ances for madmen o nly. i nch by inch that we g o in for tod ay. Quitting tre atment, the friend

To put on a good mush room ritual we had wired up to Charles returned to Berlin and kiUed himself.

Olson , our father who art in Gloucester. The giant Olson, genial At the Ritz the neurologist was waiting at his special tabl e. Hisguru, father of modern poetry. Unfortunat ely it is a hab it, a vice ofhis, alwa ys to speak his mind, as indeed Goethe did in his better secretary was with him and th e waitress hovered by solicitously.

"So far," he said "I have contented myseff with turning themoments. A few years previous he had retired to a rocky promon-tory overlooking the harbor from w hence he served as guide and heads of ret ies. But now your t ime has come. First, let ' s have a .ot_ga

of champagne. "friend to our work. Olson dominates an y gathe ring with his size,his wit, his intellect, his noble stature, his wise anim al energ y. He Robort Lotus made a quip a bout their mutual Euro pean back-was striving for r edemption but it wil l take him all his time. He was ground which the psychiatrist avoid ed. Robort Lotus' eyes, wolf ofthe person, surel y, to introduce Robort Lotus to the open-brain the Steppes, narrowed and mild dislike grew quickly to strong dis -and its ecstatic possibilities, taste. Couldn ' t stand a pe rson who denies h is raci al past.

On the wa y to the Ritz Robort Lotus told us of two dear friends A long anatomical argument beg an. Like two teletype ma -of his, Moses and Jehovah, who had researched mescaline in chines, the m an, chatte ring neurolog y tapes, s ank slowly downBerlin during the twenties. Their ps ychedelic sessions kept open - into a sogg y whisky swamp of sullen genera lization. The neurol-ing up more and more re alms of experience and revelation. Dr. o gist, press ed by Robort 's finny logic and data, flop ped through theMoses climbing Sin ai, a gl oomy hero in a gloom y wilderness of undergrowth of swizzle s ticks and olives. Poised on an island ofrocks, and Dr. Jehovah in the midst of storm and thunder and potato chips he de nied there was such a thing a s a mid-brain.lightning imparting the Ten Comm andments, while worthless Robort Lotus surfaced to lob gl ances of resignation our wa y.friends set up the Golden Ca lf at the foot of the KURFURSTEN- "Keep quiet with your questions and chatter. I 'm a professorDAMM. They tried to tell others about their discove ries but no one of theolog y if you want to know. But the Lord be pr aised, there 'swould listen, neither their colleagues nor their families. Might y no occasion for theology now, m y boy. It's war. Come on. " Then his

face grew tense. "What did you say your name w as?" he asked the


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28 THEPSYCHEDELICEVIEW The Sec ond Fin e Art 29neurologi st. Ah. "And did you ever by c hance practice in Munich?" dropp ed quickly to the pistol. He pa led and puUed back. There heAh. "Then did you ever ha ve a pat ient by the na me of Dr . Moses?" stood face to face with wh at he feared.No. He remembered no such pa tient. Moving in Uke a c ross-ex- Olson roa ring out genial greetings. "Brother Har ry, I inviteaminer, Ro bort l_tus sketched in more de tails abo ut his friend, you to a little enterta inment. For madmen only, and on e price

about hid problems, his history, his appea rance - dark and fiery only-your mind. Are you ready?" Coats removed, the groupeye - and a long staff- and the strideofWotan , assembled in the study. W hy then was Hermine so white? Why

Slowly the neurologist remembered. "Oh yes, now that you re- was Pab lo ta lking so much? A low built-in couch ran along twomind me, I do seem to re member treating the ca se. I saw him pray sides of the room, intersecting at the corn er. A large round tab leto God at the ed ge of the Red Sea, and I saw the Red Sea part ed to strung people out in the form of a circle. Highballs. After beginninggive free pa ssage, a deep road be tween piled-up mountains of talk subsided we planned the session. My frien ds, I have invitedwater . And by the way, do you have any idea what beca me of him?" you to an entertainment that Harr y has long worked for and ofRobort Lotus breathed hea vily. "N o said the neurologist. "I saw which he has long dreamed.him cUmbing Sinai, a gloomy hero in a gloomy wil derness of rocks. Ols on and Lear y and Barton and a Ha rvard graduate studentI was about to ask you if you knew of the outcome of the ca se. As named Lynn were to take psilocybin. The hour is late and noa matter o f fact he k illed himseff in BerUn the following year." doubt we are all fatigued. Nancy Bar ton and Nunez and Rhona

A sudden quiet settled down over the tab le. (The confirmation were to act as ground-contro l. So first we will rest and refreshclasses conducted by the clergy to see this reU gious film could ourselves a little. Robort Lotus w ould observe. From a recess in theargue without end a s to how the film people mana ged this.) Neur ol- wall I too k a quaint little bottle, also a small oriental box inlaidogist puffed quickly at cigar and called the waitress over. A nic e with differently colored woods. We we re sitting around the tablepicture, indeed, p icked up by chance in the huge wholesale clear- and the pills were counted out for each voyager. Robort Lotus hadance of culture in these days. gotten over the shock of meeting Olson and the toy pistol and was

Then the Barrons arrived, Frank poised and ch eerful and his in fine spirits, watching intently. When the last person had takennew wife, Nancy , ra diant and bouncing. On and on went this his poti on Robort Lotus reached o ver and said, let me go along too.

He took ten tab lets and washed them down with his drink. So henuptial dance. God knows where the girl got her voice; it was sodeep and good and maternal. Obediently I shut my eyes, leant my did, perch ed on his stool, while the dance went on around us to thehead a gainst the wall and heard the roar of a hundred mingled lively strain of the stri ngs. The shi p cast off.voices surge around me. After another drink we moved to leave. We sat immeasurab ly listening to the hi-fi. Its effe ct was eh-Outside the a ir co ming off the Boston Common was clear and fresh livening and delightful, making light conversation. Olson wasand we had al l escaped from an e specially grim me ntal hospital, spread o ut over the couch, center of a giggling admiring group, a sSomewhere we heard a door bang, a glass break , a titter of laughter though one were filled with gas.die away, mixed with the an gry hurr ied noise of motor car s star t- We wh o had shared the psychotomimeti c cocktail session atlng up. We fel t close together a fter the ordeal and dro ve to the the Ritz and had no longer any gra vity were reviewing t he day's

events quietly. The soft peace of th e mushroom began to descend.North End for seafood. "You're read y?" Far up in unhuman spacerang out that strange laugh. Robort Lotus, bubbling with spirit, Jangled, rac ing minds began to purr smoothly. Every moment weordered w ines and made a gaUant scenewith Nancy. felt ourselves gr owing lighter a nd more serene. The few words

spoken were concise Zen K oans, questions answered in the asking.When we arrived back a t the house Charles Olson was in the From far a way came Pa blo's war m voice. A candle flame on the

kitchen leaning over talking to young Jack Leafy, his back to us. circular table flickered softly saying, "I t is a p leasure to me, myWe broug ht Robort Lotu s up to Olson. The giant poet turned, dear Ha rry , to have a Spanish g uitar concerto , pure notes of thinlooked down at the small figure of the nove list and beamed out of steel in the privilege of being your host i n a small way on thishis jolly eyes that really were a nimal's eyes except that ani mal's occasio n."

eyes are always serious while his always laughed and tu rned into Olso n played gestural games with a sofa cushio n. A qmeuyhuman eyes. circli ng thread of close ness wove us toget her. You have often beenOlson was holdi ng a pistol in his hand. sorely weary of your life. Whe n eyes met, they sent rays of amusedRobort Lotus' e yes went up, up, up to look at Olson and then


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30 THEPSYCHEDELICREVIEW Th eS econd ine Art 31HOURS TO CLIMB TO THE 7000 FOO T PEAK. Sober self control{

understandin g. You were striving, were you no t. So here we are. You would be checked and blinded at every turn by what you areBorn and dyin g together. A lon ging to forsake this world and its pleased to call your personality. A small compact figure, Jewish,reality. The in credible statistical-chance nature of our existen ce, Hun garian, Austrian now standin g in fron t of the group, gesti-our sharing this quick intersection in astrophysi cal space-time to culating earnestly.penetrate to a reality more native, to a world beyond time. The You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of t imeglance of re cognition. We love, we love, we are all burnished and the escape from real ity, words, it see med hell to you, camecopper -atoms-conductive-on the same humming wire of energy , from nowhere and flowed nowhere, or however else it ma y be thatWe know, of course, where this other world lies hidden, y ou choose to de scribe your lmlgin_ PUFFING AND PANTING UP TH E

Nanc y and Fr ank Barron were looking into each other 's eyes. STEEP PATH Rhona and Lynn and Olson look up curiousl y at theIt is the world of your own soul that you seek. They rose and Nancy fra il cortex explaining, orde ring, labe ling everything. Meaninggiggled and did a swirling dance, radiant, and then they were gone. simply the wish to be re lieved of your so -called personality. NO

Bach's ivory ping-pong bal l bouncing precise down steel-wire MERIT. There he was, face to face with what he feared, an Amer-tympanic membrane. Only within yourseff exists that other reality ican writer whom he ot herwise liked. That is the prison where youfor which you long. Rhona and Lynn giggling fondly at Olson 's lie. DRUGS ON THE BRAIN. Robort Lotus breathed heavil y. THEMohawk Sachem funn y chiefness. Ro bort Lotus, lost in harmo nic VIRTUE OF SWEAT AND TOIL. You ar e therefore requested to benet s st run g aloft, I can give you nothing that ha s not a lread y its so kind as to leave your highly esteemed personalit y here wherebeing within yourself. The room rolling gently to oce an-swells of you will find it again. In making use of such outmoded self con-vibration. I can th row open to you no pic lure gallery but your own gratulation and dubious tools m y soul was stepped i.n cosmicsoul. Look, he is rew riting an ear lier book in a river of peace, schm altz. Be as jolly as you can WRONG KIND.

We are a ll burnished copper atoms; your rational mind need not The virtue of sweat g roans under the load. To teach you toc_uch on humming wires o f energy . All I ca n give you is the laug h is the whole aim. Wha t is he ta lking about? Questioningopportu nity, the impulse, the ke y. Robort Lotus' face w as now a glances. You feel quite well, I trust? ZEN ENLIGHTENM ENTrich pur ple. Moving in like a cro ss-examiner Ro bort Lotus, haunt- SEEMED THE ULTIMATE PROFANATION. Not afraid ? That 'sing eyes and furrowed face-skin, was supporting the weight of the good, excellent. Come dear compact figure; join the thread ofuniverse. Bach's ivory ping-pong balls drowning out his lips mov- closeness weaving us together. REPROACH OF ARTIFICIALITY,lng rapidly. I help you to make your own world visible . That is all. HUXLEY. Gesticulates, face cut out of c ardboard. You will now ,He puffs and p ants up the steep path groaning. But no one is listen- without fear and with wonderful pleasure, enter our visionar ying. world. YOU AMERICANS{ DRUGS ON THE BRAIN. AMER ICAN

Rhona and Lynn giggling fondly at Olson's b ridges of silence. EFFICI ENCY SHORT-CUTS COSMIC AWARENESS. You willWate rfalls of thin steel notes muffling mind words, introduce yourself to it by means of a t rif ling suicide .

Their intersection in astroph ysical space -time is differentNow I will conduct you to my peep-show and s how you my little from those who arrive b y motorcar. WRONG KIND. We are in a

theater. Will you come? PRESSURE-COOK ER MYSTICISM magic theater: a world of pictures. So I ag ain walked out of theRobort Lotus' soundless face began to declaim about the orde al show by fo rcing my eyes to open . I congratul ated myself on mycompleted. The mind by definition is anti-ecstasy. This little sober self -control, a ration al mind not to be fooled b y a little Mo-theater of m ine has as many doors into as many boxes as you ment of Truth. See that you pick out beautiful and chee rful onesplease. A piece of chamber musi c played. He was explaining that and s how that you re ally are not in love with your hi ghly quest ion-two times two is pressure -cooker mysticism but no one listened, able personalit y any longer. Good -night. Robort Lotus waved, faceTen or a hmg lmd or a thousand, and behi nd each door exa ctly what you crinkling in parochi al pride. He left the room For ma dmen only.seek awaits you. Thi s struck me as obscene, more so th an four- Long moments followed the departure. Bach's stringed clock tick -let ter words . IN THE BELOVED AUSTRIAN MOUNTAINS OF ed song of planeta ry motion. In dead silence. He was gone.

MY SCHOOL DAYS IT IS A PRETTY CABINET OF PICTURES, Fearing a return of Michigan p aranoia, I followed after.MY DEAR FRIEND. A small figure, compact and coherent sou nd- Knocked softly at his door. Barron 's merr y voice shouts come in.lessly lectures astride the Asian bull. It would be quite useless Barron? In R0bort Lotus' room? Entered. I WAS GREATLYfor you to go through it as you are. TOOK US FOUR OR FIVE CHEERED AT FINDING THAT I COU LD ESCAPE F ROM THAT


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3 THESYCHEDELIC EVIEW 33CURS ED WOL F WOR LD AND WENT IN. Barren joll y. We didn 'tknow this was Lotus ' room. We just fell into the first room we Aspectsof thesaw. L otus came t o go to bed. You sh ould have seen his fa ce when

i o c h e m i c a l_IB Il

o fhe saw us. I KEPT REPEATING TO MYSELF , "BUT THESE ARE rna rmacologyNICE FRIENDLY PEOPL E, THEY ARE YOUR FRI ENDS, AND

SO FORTH." Wa s he upse t? No. I'd say startled. Very apologeth: . Psychotr opicDrugs7Where'd he go? Don't know. Ba cked out mut tering for giveness.Checkin g guest rooms down the hall. Lotus. Lotus. Kno cking

softly, Lo tus. I still knew him well enou gh, and he still b ore afaint resemblan ce and yet he had grown a few centuries older.Yes ? Is it you, Pablo? Come in. Where are w e? Lotus was in bed. DANIELX, FREEDMANGiggling. Radiating plea sure. High. We are in my Magic Theater.Sailing high. But I'm bound to sa y, Ha rry, you have disappo intedme a little. Life is a song. L ife is beaut iful. Life is the goldendream of a lotus p rincess _n a b ed of lilies. You forget yourseffbadly. Only a decade ago ps ychopharmacolog y faced the future equipped

The next morning when we woke him up to st

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