September 2009
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“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity...”
– Jim Morrison
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Jimi Hendrix - Like A Rolling Stone (Monterey...
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“I am engulfed, and drown deliciously… Soft music like a perfume, and sweet...”
– Louis Campbell-Tipton (1877-1921) , “The opium-smoker”, 1907. [voice and piano]
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WatchGeorge Harrison performing While My Guitar Gently Weeps at The Concert for Bangladesh in 1971.
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Worldwide Moment-simultaneous photography project... →
With less than 48 hours remaining until Worldwide Moment, 84 countries have representatives pledged to take a simultaneous photograph in celebration of international peace, human rights awareness, and artistic collaboration.
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Design for Dying, Timothy Leary
Design for Dying was published in the United States in 1997, a year after Timothy Leary died. Although most of the book is written from Leary’s point of view, R. U. Sirius played a major part in editing it, shaping various essays and notes of Leary’s into a coherent text. Sirius’s voice is as prominent as Leary’s. The book resembles a casebook in form, with three major sections labeled ‘‘Living,’’...
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Cleansing of the Doors of Perception
World religion scholar Huston Smith was turned on by Timothy Leary after the two were introduced to one another by Aldous Huxley in the early 1960s. The experience was interpreted as deeply religious by Smith, and is captured in detailed religious terms in Smith’s later work Cleansing of the Doors of Perception. This was Smith’s one and only entheogenic experience, at the end of which...
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Turn on
“Turn on” meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. “Tune in” meant interact harmoniously with the world around you — externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested...
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