IVIV LSD re Grof

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CIA and Grof: As I recall from those days (and my recollection ought to be 
reliable, as my then-lover spent a summer with him), Grof was one of fewer 
than a dozen people who had legal endorsement to experiment with LSD. The 
CIA may have been the source of that permission. There were, of course, all 
kinds of rumours flying about regarding his (potentially) more insidious 
work for the Bosses. Corina returned with the definite impression that there 
were no pernicious connections between the two. However, my memory may not 
serve, and she could have been mistaken.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: IVIV LSD re Grof


> On Sep 13, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Doug Millison wrote:
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Grof*
>>
>> Grof's book, LSD Psychotherapy, may be difficult to find but it's
>> worth reading,  I have a copy I acquired a few years ago. Grof
>> apparently conducted LSD psychotherapy sessions with thousands of
>> patients over a period of years, and it's rumored he had CIA
>> connections but I forget the details of that particular story.
>>
>> Dr. Hilarious comes to mind, easily.
>
> There is a time and location issue here, a bit of a hurdle we may not
> be able to get over: Grof "completed his Ph.D. in Medicine at the
> Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences in 1965, training as a Freudian
> psychoanalyst at this time."* He didn't make it to the States until
> 1967. While it is possible that TRP bi-located—time-travelled into the
> future to see what Stanislav Grof might become, as time-traveller
> Pynchon moves forward in history while writing Lot 49—Occum's Razor
> won't cut that theory.
>
> Of course, if TRP did the whole time travel thing, that would explain
> a lot of went on in Against the Day.
>
> Mind you, for many years I assumed that Dr. Hilarius just had to be a
> variation/fictionalization of Grof. I even met Dr. Grof at KPFA. Also
> met Timothy Leary there as well. Still, considering the Brotherhood of
> Eternal Love's inclusion in Inherent Vice and their checkered history
> with the CIA, I'm voting for Leary as Hilarius, even though Dr.
> Leary's handshake is as American as a used Falcon rolling off the lot
> of Ralph William's Motors.
>
> Meanwhile, here's a documentary on LSD, now on YouTube, called "The
> Beyond Within."
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzq_sBsjbAU&feature=related
>
> If you've got any other information concerning Dr. Grof, I'm all ears—
> or eyes, or whatever synethestic mash-up of sensory impressions you
> might provide.
>
>
>


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