IVIV (1) LSD (WAS Re Zappa and the Mothers in the 60s); panentheism

[Doug Millison]

Robin:
> I think from Big Sur on up, the general attitude towards LSD was more
> Aldous Huxley than Hunter S. Thompson.

Which continues to the present, as far as I know.  For example, the  
Council on Spiritual Practices http://csp.org/ whose founder I met  
here in the San Francisco Bay Area once, interesting guy with a  
Silicon Valley background. Some people close to the CSP were  
instrumental in helping Huston Smith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huston_Smith 
  get a book published a few years back:
Cleansing the Doors of Perception
The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals  http://csp.org/cdp/CDP.html

MDMA may remain an object of ritual use outside the clubs, as recently  
as a few years ago it did. Mushrooms are still around, I hear.  I'm  
not as close now as I once was to some foax involved in that scene.

In addition to pantheism, there is panentheism which I know through  
the writings of another Bay Area resident I have had the pleasure to  
meet, Matthew Fox. I've read and enjoyed several of his books.  
Original Blessing is perhaps the best known, but I have been more  
influenced by his the introduction and commentaries in  _Breakthrough:  
Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality in New Translation_ .  1980,  
Image Books, is the edition I have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism