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shifting minds
The lingering effects of the LSD culture… Though our minds do shift, though our range of perception will at times change gear, we cannot make that shift deliberately, consciously. Nor when it occurs can we hold onto it. And when … Continue reading
shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 3 generations
Sacred cow. The image of America as the land of opportunity,the near birthright that the current generation will surpass their parents and grandparents up the income and status ladder. Slowly, Americans are coming to realize that this narrative is still … Continue reading
cannabis: our reefer sadness
Life with a spliff more surreal, exciting, profound? Recapturing the moment before the soul came into the world when it was sky-high. Maybe cannabis and other psychotropics open doors as Aldous Huxley asserted or Carlos Castaneda, but its a high … Continue reading
iggy and artaud
Does the world need a new shaman? There are some slides on the net which show Iggy Pop and the Stooges playing at a high school on Michigan in December of 1970. The connection of Iggy with Artaud is always … Continue reading
TRACKING DOWN THIS “SOMETHING ELSE”
Many contemporary counterculturalists and psychologists who trend towards the ” human potential” camp of that vocation – are obsessed with the idea that people need to be deprogrammed or de-brainwashed from the inherited percepts of their culture, as well as … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged A.R. Orage, Aleister Crowley, Art Kleps, C.S. Nott, Carlos Castaneda, Corey Donovan, D.H. Lawrence, Frank Lloyd Wright, G.I. Gurdjieff, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, James Boswell, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Kathy Hurley, Kenneth Cavandar, Kenneth Walker, Michel de Salzmann, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Ralph Metzner, Rasputin, Richard Alpert, Roger Lipsey, Rom landau, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, Sufism, Terry Winter Owens, Theodorre Donson, Timothy Leary, William Butler Yeats
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LSD- THE LONG SLOW DISTANCE OF WOODSTOCK NATION
An antipathy to the material world and to the world of government, order discipline, and force went beyond a form of heresy. It is a constant theme in most religions. Think of Saint Francis, the son of a prosperous merchant, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Ange Lee, Bobby Seale, Carlos Castaneda, Cesar Chavez, Dave Dellinger, Horatio Alger, Michael Wadleigh, Oscar Wilde, Rimbaud, Ron Paul, Saint Francis, Taking Woodstock, The Chicago Seven, The Quakers, The Ranters, The Reformation, Thomas Webbe, William S. Burroughs, Woodstock 1969, Woodstock documentary, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Yogi Berra
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DON JUAN & THE SURREALIST JOURNEY TO IXTLAN
A kind of late romanticism that reflected the disenchantment with futurism and other forms of modern art that celebrated technology and progress. The surrealists rejected the notion of cure, healing and the implicit standards of normalcy, or at minimum, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carlos Castaneda, Freud, Hans Bellmer, Jennifer Mundy, Jouney to Ixtlan, Rene Magritte, Ronald E. Martin, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism Desire Unbound, Surrealist Manifesto, Yaqui Way of Knowledge
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