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From: popeyeti@access3.digex.net (Pope Electric Yeti)
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: Island One, part One.
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Date: 7 Jun 1994 04:42:39 GMT
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Message-ID: <2t0trv$3b2@news1.digex.net>
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Namaste everyone!
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Those of you who have been following the little brushfire flame war that
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has been going on against Bruce Eisner's ad campaign for his magazine
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"the Island" somethingorother Newsletter have been kind of curious about
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the open threat I made to reveal his personal email to me if he posted
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another ad. Well, he hasn't so I won't.... yet... If Eisner want to
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publish a magazine, fine by me. However if he wants to use a public
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network for private ends, without even so much as a paragraph of *his*
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work to compensate, that is setting a bad precendent. Soon we will be
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bombarded by billboards and ads for everything under the sun. We will
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have our "lofty net culture" stolen from us and sold back to us for a
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quick buck. It could happen, no lie, if we don't start telling people
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from day one that we aren't going to buy into the
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Madison-Avenue-Sell-Your-Own-Mother way of looking at the world.
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Well before everyone starts humming "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" I
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am going to do what I promised I would do. Here is a *FREE* Island Group
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Newsletter, number one part one.... (worth every cent I paid for it)
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Everyone is a member of the Island group who says s/he is. I can't
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stop anyone from posting drivel, least of all myself, so if ya don't like
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it then don't read it or write something better.... Send all complaints to
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president@whitehouse.gov, because I've got more important things to do.
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ISLAND GROUP NEWSLETTER
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NUMBER ONE, PART ONE
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A Review of Moksha, Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
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edited by Micheal Horowitz & Cynthia Palmer.
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"But he who contemplates the 3rd mantra of OM, i.e., views God as
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himself, becomes illuminated and obtains moksha. Just as serpent relieved
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of its olded skin, becomes new again,so the yogi who worships the 3rd
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mantra relieved of his mortal coil, of his sins and earthly weaknesses,
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and freed with his spiritual body to roam throughout God's Universe,
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enjoys the glory of the All-Pervading Omniscient Spirit, ever and
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evermore. The contemplation of the last mantra blesses him with moksha or
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immortality."
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From The Mandukyopanishat being The Exposition of OM
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the Great Sacred Name of he Supreme Being in the Vedas.
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Trans. Pandit Guru, Datta Vidyathi,
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Prof. of Psychical Science, Lahore. Lahore 1863
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A breif search of the books by Aldous Huxley at my college library yielded
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this little gem. Moksha is a collection of writings by, to and about Huxley's
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experiences with psychedelics. It contains a number of personal letters,
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interviews and even an edited transcript of one of his psilocybin sessions.
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The book is divided into two parts and is in roughly chronological order.
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The first part, "Precognition", starts with "A Treatise on Drugs" written in
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1931. He follows this with other articles that show his personal fear
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of the use of drugs that numb the mind, while suggesting that a new drug
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"Soma" should be developed to satisfy the need for bliss and escape, one
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that would not have the negative effects of street drugs. In these
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articles he is predicting the mass use of psychedelics, without the
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knowledge of the deeper, more spiritual nature of these drugs. The second
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half, entitled "Psychedelics and Visionary Experience", starts in 1953,
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the year of Huxley's first mescaline session. He is a different man, less
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alienated and cynical and more hopeful and optimistic. The difference is
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striking, and quite inspirational. Only those who have had a psychedelic
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experience will truly appreciate the difference. He takes a writer's
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talent with words, an artist's talent for images and a mystic's talent
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for navigating the mind and combines them together into a synthaesthetic
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whole. This book is truly a tribute to a man whom many saw as a visionary.
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ISBN: 0-88373-042-1
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Stonehill Publishing Company, 1977..
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End Part One.
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