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Message-ID: <051310Z04061994@anon.penet.fi>
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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From: an101723@anon.penet.fi
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Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 05:06:54 UTC
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Subject: LSD:the best book, the only book.
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To: anon@anon.penet.fi
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L.S.D. Best book..The Only Book.
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My psychedaelic experience began in September 1970. My companion and
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guide helpfully set me up with an LSD starter-kit of Frank Zappa's 'Hot Rats'
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and Dr. John's 'Night Tripper'. The quite astonishing psychedaelic architecture
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of Frank Zappa's music was my first synesthetic experience. Dr. John left you
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quietly muttering incantations and wondering where you'd learned them and
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what they meant. His music was sublime and subliminal. To read, I was given
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Chairman Mao's 'Where do correct ideas come from' (which I now realize
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was purely for show) and Timothy Leary's 'Politics of Ecstasy'.
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I haven't read the book for nearly twenty five years. But I count myself as
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lucky to have had that book to read right at the beginning. I didn't like
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Leary's
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style. But his overly rich, sub-McCluhanite flashiness and his funny views on
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religion didn't matter. Tim had the answers. Alright, you could tell from
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his style, he was a bit of boaster. But Tim was the only one who new
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where to go. Tim was the only one who told you the protocols. When you
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looked at your hand and suddenly you were able to identify every last
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pulsing capillary, fixed in utter astonishment, just this side of shock,
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Tim said that what was happening to you was clearly a kind of
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awareness that, if pursued, would propel you from the normal confines of
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your body, to a level where you were conscious of the molecular and
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sub-molecular
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basis of all things. There was an exciting comic book quality about Tim's
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adventures.
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Tim regressed regularly. Back to the womb and beyond...back and back. Tim
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remembered when we were frogs, back even further, when we were amoeba.
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Tim's adventures were both red-blooded and cerebral at the same time. As
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an exercise in prose, Tim's book will seem horribly dated. It didn't
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read too well at the time. But as a 'try-this and see' manual it was an
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*essential* guide for so many of us. By the time that Tim wrote the Politics
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of Ecstasy, he had long since made his mind up that psychedelics belong to
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humanity and that narrowly scientific accounts were only part
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of the picture. Much of what Tim said might have been bollocks. But Tim
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took a giant step.
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The Politics of Ecstasy: the best book, the only book.
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an101723@anon.penet.fi.
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