Tag Archives: Ralph Metzner

“TO AWAKE. TO DIE. TO BE BORN”

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born in about 1872  in the Caucasus region of what is now Russia. The so called “rascal sage” heralded the coming of ancient and esoteric Eastern teachings to the West. Neither a modernist nor a purveyor … Continue reading

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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

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PSYCHEDELIC ARTS & CRASH

Psychedelic arty crashers. From the psychedelic movement there  came, inevitably, psychedelic art, and like a great deal else in the movement, it contained much that is old, much that was new, and much that was borrowed and appropriated, especially from … Continue reading

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