Life Magazine 1966

[Ande]

Ah, the White House at Esalen--back in the good old days when Stan Grof 
and his then wife, Dr. Joan Halifax were working with holocaust 
survivors... Joan is as interesting as Dr. Grof--a whole novel in and of 
herself --she was Joseph Campbell's protegee, with a doctorate in 
medical anthropology...

robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

>Wonderful link. I'll use it to research an old Popular Science article on Acid, a first person singular sort of thing (which was the last thing PS ever published of that guy, let me tell you). Interesting to see Baba Rum Raisin in his pre-guru phase. Truth to tell, I've got a copy of "Seed", with the cards inside in constant use. Makes for lovely altar totchkes. Even managed to bump into M. RamDass on two auspicious occasions.
>
>I'd take "Hilarius" more akin to Stanislav Grof than Tiny Dr. Tim. Grof's still in the biz (sort of), but now gets the results he desires via certain varieties of breathing exercises. And, of course, he's at the 'Scope every Friday night with that Primal Scream Choral thing of his. Things get kinda rowdy a little before last call, if you catch my drift.
>
>
>(I keed, I keed . . . )
>
>http://www.holotropic.com/
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>From: Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de>
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>>The Life Magazine von 1966: Dr. Sidney Cohen: "Many people are doing to 
>>themselves what we would never consider doing experimentally. Some day 
>>their brains may wind up in the laboratory and give us the answers."
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>>read http://www.psychedelic-library.org/magazines/lifelsd.htm
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>>"the crying of lot 49".
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>>"We still need a hundred-and-fourth for the bridge." Chuckled aridly. 
>>The bridge, die Brucke, being his pet name for the experiment he was 
>>helping the community hospital run on effects of LSD-25, mesca-line, 
>>psilocybin, and related drugs on a large sample of surburban 
>>housewives. The bridge inward. "When can you let us fit you into our 
>>schedule."
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>>"No," she said, "you have half a million others to choose from. It's 
>>three in the morning."
>>
>>"We want you." Hanging in the air over her bed she now beheld the 
>>well-known portrait of Uncle that appears in front of all our post 
>>offices, his eyes gleaming unhealthily, his sunken yellow cheeks most 
>>violently rouged, his finger pointing between her eyes. I want you. She 
>>had never asked Dr Hilarius why, being afraid of all he might answer.
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> Subject:
> Life Magazine 1966
> From:
> Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de>
> Date:
> Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:59:12 +0000
> To:
> Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> To:
> Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> The Life Magazine von 1966: Dr. Sidney Cohen: "Many people are doing 
> to themselves what we would never consider doing experimentally. Some 
> day their brains may wind up in the laboratory and give us the answers."
>
> read http://www.psychedelic-library.org/magazines/lifelsd.htm
>
> "the crying of lot 49".
>
> "We still need a hundred-and-fourth for the bridge." Chuckled aridly. 
> The bridge, die Brucke, being his pet name for the experiment he was 
> helping the community hospital run on effects of LSD-25, mesca-line, 
> psilocybin, and related drugs on a large sample of surburban 
> housewives. The bridge inward. "When can you let us fit you into our 
> schedule."
>
> "No," she said, "you have half a million others to choose from. It's 
> three in the morning."
>
> "We want you." Hanging in the air over her bed she now beheld the 
> well-known portrait of Uncle that appears in front of all our post 
> offices, his eyes gleaming unhealthily, his sunken yellow cheeks most 
> violently rouged, his finger pointing between her eyes. I want you. 
> She had never asked Dr Hilarius why, being afraid of all he might answer.
>
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>