Friday, January 01, 2010

This book stems from the conviction that, in the course of our generation, many proud traditions of
protest and reform have grown as depleted as the life resources of that environment may soon be. It is
the energy of religious renewal that will generate the next politics, and perhaps the final radicalism of
our society. Already it is those who speak from the perspective of that renewal who provide the
shrewdest critique of our alienated existence, the brightest insight into the meaning of liberation. What
I offer here is in no sense a report on current religious manifestations; nor is it another tour of the
Human Potentials Movement. That has been done well enough and often enough already. Certainly I
am not out to give a blanket endorsement to every last ecstatic tremor that ripples over the
contemporary scene. I am in no position other to report or endorse. Rather, this is meant as an
independent contribution to the adventure of spiritual regeneration, a discussion of themes and
problems of the religious sensibility that have long held my attention. Perhaps some will find in it a
portion of my thought and experience that will bring a little greater clarity to their quest. At the least
my hope is to give this regenerative movement some sense of cultural and sociological location so that
its political intelligence may be sharpened.
1972 T Roszak Where The Wasteland Ends Politics And Transcendance In Post Industrial Society

• This book stems from the conviction that, in the course of our generation, many proud traditions of
protest and reform have grown as depleted as the life resources of that environment may soon be.

• It is the energy of religious renewal that will generate the next politics, and perhaps the final
radicalism of our society.

• Already it is those who speak from the perspective of that renewal who provide the shrewdest critique
of our alienated existence, the brightest insight into the meaning of liberation.

• What I offer here is in no sense a report on current religious manifestations; nor is it another tour of
the Human Potentials Movement.

• That has been done well enough and often enough already.

• Certainly I am not out to give a blanket endorsement to every last ecstatic tremor that ripples over the
contemporary scene.

• I am in no position either to report or endorse.

• Rather, this is meant as an independent contribution to the adventure of spiritual regeneration, a

discussion of themes and problems of the religious sensibility that have long held my attention.

• Perhaps some will find in it a portion of my thought and experience that will bring a little greater
clarity to their quest.

• At the least my hope is to give this regenerative movement some sense of cultural and sociological
location so that its political intelligence may be sharpened.

Spiritual Regeration, Religious Renewal for the Next Politics

1997 Barefoot The Declaration of Independence 1776
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

POPPER, K. R. The Open Society and Its Enemies.

Vol. I: The Spell of Plato.
Vol. II: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx and the Aftermath.
London: Routledge. 1945. 2 vols. 268 pp. 352 pp.
(Princeton University Press. 1950. 744 pp.)

The author, Reader in Logic and Scientific Method in the University of London, demonstrates that
Plato, Hegel, and Marx formulated ideas in political philosophy inimical to the

"Open Society,"

i.e., to a society based on reason and not on myth.

The encomiums with which this book was greeted on its British publication in 1945 were for the most
part fully deserved. Certainly we can agree with Sir Ernest Barker that:

"There is an abundance of riches in the book —classical scholarship, scientific acumen, logical
subtlety, philosophic sweep."

Bertrand Russell thought it:

"A work of first class importance . . . which ought to be widely read for its masterly criticism of the . .
. enemies of democracy, ancient and modern. . . . His attack on Plato, while unorthodox, is in my
opinion thoroughly justified. . . His analysis of Hegel is deadly. . . . Marx is dissected with equal
acumen."

The book is weak, however, on the economic side. Dr. Popper gives Marx undeserved credit for his
alleged services to "social justice." He is himself capable of saying that Marx was "right in asserting
that increasing misery tends to be the result of laissez-faire capitalism." This is because Dr. Popper
has in his own mind a mere caricature called "laissez-faire capitalism," as Marx had. In spite of this
weakness there are so many merits.
THE FREE MAN'S LIBRARY 133
THE FREE MAN'S LIBRARY
A Descriptive and Critical Bibliography
HENRY HAZLITT
1956
MekUber says bullshit Hazlitt. You defend crimninals, murderers psychopaths by glorifying the
misery caused by greedy pigs. Greedy pigs follow neither laissez faire this or that or Marx or
anything other than insatiable greed and whatever the prey will believe. Popper is a pig defending the
swine who murdered so many people by financing Hitler and Stalin to attack democracies and
America. Now their heirs are financing theocratic fundamentalisms to keep on the same path of mind
control to exploit prey.

1956 H Hazlitt The Free Man's Library A Descriptive and Critical Bibliography

SOCRATES: And yet, O son of Alexidemus, I cannot help thinking that the other was the better; and
I am sure that you would be of the same opinion, if you would only stay and be initiated, and were not
compelled, as you said yesterday, to go away before the mysteries.
MENO: But I will stay, Socrates, if you will give me many such answers.

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Thales Anaximander Pythagoras

1986 T Douglas The CIA in Australia

1948 K Freeman Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Food Of The Gods

The Search For The Original Tree of Knowledge
A Radical History of Plants Drugs and Human Evolution
Terence McKenna
1992

1992 T McKenna Food Of The Gods The Search For The Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical
History of Plants Drugs and Human Evolution

PSYCHOCYBERNETICS
by
Maxwell Maltz
1960

1960 M Maltz Psycho-Cybernetics

Friday, January 08, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Koestler trilogy

Other non-fiction

* 1934. Von weissen Nächten und roten Tagen. About Koestler's travels in the USSR. In his The
Invisible Writing, Koestler calls the book Red Days and White Nights, or, more usually, Red Days. Of
the five foreign language editions - Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the
Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language
and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother
tongue in the European Union....
, Ukrainian
Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official
language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the
Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
, Georgian
Georgian language

Georgian is the official language of Georgia , a country in the Caucasus .Georgian is the primary
language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad ....
, Armenian
Armenian language

The 'Armenian language' is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenians. It is the official
language of the Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh....
- which were intended, only the German version was eventually published, "thoroughly
expurgated", in Kharkov
Kharkiv

Kharkiv , or Kharkov is the second largest city in Ukraine.It was the first capital of Soviet
Ukraine, now the Capital of the Kharkiv Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the
surrounding Kharkiv Oblast within the oblast....
, Ukrainian S.S.R.
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north;
Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black
Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, and the work is therefore very scarce.
* 1937. L'Espagne ensanglantée.
* 1942. Dialogue with Death. Abridgement of Spanish Testament.
 * 1945. The Yogi and the Commissar and other essays.
* 1949. The Challenge of our Time.
* 1949. Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine 1917-1949.
* 1949. Insight and Outlook.
* 1955. The Trail of the Dinosaur and other essays.
* 1956. Reflections on Hanging.
* 1959. The Sleepwalkers
The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe is a 1959 book by Arthur
Koestler, and one of the main accounts of the history of cosmology and astronomy in the Western
World, beginning in ancient Mesopotamia and ending with Isaac Newton....
: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe. ISBN 0-14-019246-8 An account of
changing scientific paradigms.
* 1960. The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler. (excerpted from The Sleepwalkers.)
ISBN 0-385-09576-7
* 1960. The Lotus and the Robot
The Lotus and the Robot

The Lotus and the Robot is a 1960 book by Arthur Koestler exploring eastern mysticism.
Although dated now, by Westerners' greater exposure to Oriental practices, it concentrates mainly on
Indian and Japanese traditions, which form the two parts - the "lotus" and the "robot" respectively....
, ISBN 0-09-059891-1. Koestler's journey to India and Japan, and his assessment of East and
West.
* 1961. Control of the Mind.
* 1961. Hanged by the Neck. Reuses some material from Reflections on Hanging.
* 1963. Suicide of a Nation.
* 1964. The Act of Creation
The Act of Creation

The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler. The second volume in Koestler's trilogy
on the human mind, it is a study of the processes of creativity and imagination in which Koestler
explains that humans are most creative when rational thought is abandoned during dreams and
trances....
.
* 1967. The Ghost in the Machine
The Ghost in the Machine

The Ghost in the Machine is a 1967 non-fiction work by Arthur Koestler. The title is referring to
the British philosopher Gilbert Ryle's Ghost in the machine of Ren? Descartes' mind-body Cartesian
dualism....
. Penguin reprint 1990: ISBN 0-14-019192-5.
* 1968. Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967.
* 1970. The Age of Longing, ISBN 0-09-104520-7.
* 1971. The Case of the Midwife Toad, ISBN 0-394-71823-2. An account of Paul Kammerer
Paul Kammerer

Paul Kammerer was a renowned Austrian biologist who studied and advocated the discredited
Lamarckism ? the notion that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics they have acquired
in their lifetime....
's research on Lamarckian evolution
Lamarckism

Lamarckism is the once widely accepted idea that an organism can pass on characteristics that it
acquired during its lifetime to its offspring ....
and what he called "serial coincidences".
 * 1972. The Roots of Coincidence
The Roots of Coincidence

The Roots of Coincidence, written by Arthur Koestler, is an accessible introduction to theories of

parapsychology, including extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis....
, ISBN 0-394-71934-4. Sequel to The Case of the Midwife Toad.
* 1973. The Lion and the Ostrich.
* 1974. The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968-1973, ISBN 0-394-49596-9.
* 1976. The Thirteenth Tribe
The Thirteenth Tribe

The Thirteenth Tribe is a book by Arthur Koestler. It advances the controversial thesis that
North/East European Jews and their descendants, or Ashkenazim, are not descended from the
Israelites of antiquity, but from a group of Khazars, a people originating in the Caucasus region who
converted to Judaism in the 8th century and were late...
: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage, ISBN 0-394-40284-7.
* 1976. Astride the Two Cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70, ISBN 0-394-40063-1.
* 1977. Twentieth Century Views: A Collection of Critical Essays, ISBN 0-13-049213-2.
* 1978. Janus: A Summing Up
Janus: A Summing Up

Janus: A Summing Up is a book by Arthur Koestler, in which he develops his Philosophy idea of
the holarchy introduced in his 1967 book, The Ghost in the Machine....
, ISBN 0-394-50052-0. Sequel to The Ghost in the Machine
* 1981. Kaleidoscope. Essays from Drinkers of Infinity and The Heel of Achilles, plus later pieces
and stories.

"All great works of literature contain variations and combinations, overt or implied, of such archetypal
conflicts inherent in the condition of man, which first occur in the symbols of mythology, and are
restated in the particular idiom of each culture and period. All literature, wrote Gerhart Hauptmann, is
'the distant echo of the primitive world behind the veil of words'; and the action of a drama or novel is
always the distant echo of some ancestral action behind the veil of the period's costumes and
conventions." (from The Act of Creation, 1964)
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

So long as the mind is not free to perceive a sound produced by one hand it is limited and is divided
against itself.

Instead of grasping the key to the secrets of creation the mind is hopelessly buried in the relativity of
things and therefore in their superficiality.

Until the mind is free from the fetters, the time never comes for it to view the whole world with any
amount of satisfaction.

The sound of one hand as a matter of fact reaches the highest heaven as well as the lowest hell just as
one’s original face looks over the entire field of creation even until the end of time.

Hakuin and Hui-Neng stand on the same platform with their hands joined.
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, page 106
D.T. Suzuki, Rider and Company, London, 1979 Edition (paperback)

D.T. Suzuki Bibliography

These essays were enormously influential when they came out, making Zen known in the West for the
very first time:

* Essays in Zen Buddhism: First Series (1927), New York: Grove Press.
* Essays in Zen Buddhism: Second Series (1933), New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1953-1971.
Edited by Christmas Humphreys.
* Essays in Zen Buddhism: Third Series (1934), York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1953.
Edited by Christmas Humphreys.
* Dr. Suzuki also completed the translation of the Lankavatara Sutra from the original Sanskrit.
Boulder, CO: Prajna Press, 1978, ISBN 0-87773-702-9, first published Routledge Kegan Paul, 1932.

Shortly after, a second trilogy followed:

* An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934 . Republished

with Foreword by C.G. Jung, London: Rider & Company, 1948.
 * The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934. New York:
University Books, 1959.
* Manual of Zen Buddhism, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934. London: Rider & Company, 1950,
1956.A collection of Buddhist sutras, classic texts from the masters, icons & images,including the
"Ten Ox-Herding Pictures".

After WWII, a new interpretation:

* The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind,London: Rider & Company, 1949. York Beach, Maine: Red
Wheel/Weiser 1972, ISBN 0-87728-182-3.
* Living by Zen. London: Rider & Company, 1949.
* Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist: The Eastern and Western Way, Macmillan, 1957. "A study of
the qualities Meister Eckhart shares with Zen and Shin Buddhism". Includes translation of myokonin
Saichi's poems.
* Zen and Japanese Culture, New York: Pantheon Books, 1959. A classic.
* Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm, D. T. Suzuki, and De Martino. Approximately
one third of this book is a long discussion by Suzuki that gives a Buddhist analysis of the mind, its
levels, and the methodology of extending awareness beyond the merely discursive level of thought. In
producing this analysis, Suzuki gives a theoretical explanation for many of the swordsmanship
teaching stories in Zen and Japanese Culture that otherwise would seem to involve mental telepathy,
extrasensory perception, etc.
Source
url http://spybot.download-here.info/index.php?q=Category:Buddhism
file E:/2009/Mar2009/LibrariumMar2009/13Feb2009/SuzukiBio.htm
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THE POST-PHILOSOPHICAL ATTACK ON PLATO.

Francis L. Jackson

2005 F Jackson extract from The Post-Philosophical Attack On Plato

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Modern Anti-Philosophy

Though modern academic "philosophy" has been deliberately debased and disfigured to the point of
almost total uselessness, the continuing, pervasive influence of Platonic philosophy is so powerful a
force for reason and just government, that the agents of tyranny feel it necessary to try to destroy it in
any way possible.

"The task to which post-Hegelian thinking thus enthusiastically applied itself was the discovery of
the adequate critique of the Western spiritual and intellectual tradition, such as could lay the basis for
a new ultra-spiritual standpoint both comprehensive of it and liberated from it. The common metaphor
is a 'return to nature' in some fashion, whether through the romanticist invocation of an ante-historical
spirit--the preeminence of culture--or the substitution of natural science for metaphysics as absolute
knowledge. The former seeks to disclose and rehabilitate a pristine life and wisdom alleged to have
been suppressed and corrupted by a domineering modern intellect which 'murders to dissect.' The
latter opposes any such great leap backward and proposes a revolutionary emancipation from
everything past, appealing to a new theology and psychology of the natural, Darwinian man. But the
wish common to both is altogether to have done with the reason-ridden, idea-world of philosophy and
to rediscover (or open up) entirely aboriginal (or entirely new) territories beyond the realm of the
rational and a merely moral good and evil.

"This ultra-modernist program is of course ambiguous at its core. It is one thing simply to
abandon thought as empty and useless activity. But how could it ever be possible to demonstrate the
invalidity of philosophical reason; by what new standard and in what other form of discourse could
the case be made against it?

2004 N Livergood How Philosophy Overcomes Tyranny

Modern Anti-Philosophy
Though modern academic "philosophy" has been deliberately debased and disfigured to the point of
almost total uselessness, the continuing, pervasive influence of Platonic philosophy is so powerful a
force for reason and just government, that the agents of tyranny feel it necessary to try to destroy it in
any way possible.
The task to which post-Hegelian thinking thus enthusiastically applied itself was the discovery of the
adequate critique of the Western spiritual and intellectual tradition, such as could lay the basis for a
new ultra-spiritual standpoint both comprehensive of it and liberated from it.

The common metaphor is a 'return to nature' in some fashion, whether:

through the romanticist invocation of an ante-historical spirit—the pre-eminence of culture—

or

the substitution of natural science for metaphysics as absolute knowledge.

The former seeks to disclose and rehabilitate a pristine life and wisdom alleged to have been
suppressed and corrupted by a domineering modern intellect which murders to dissect.

The latter opposes any such great leap backward and proposes a revolutionary emancipation from
everything past, appealing to a new theology and psychology of the natural, Darwinian man.

But the wish common to both is altogether to have done with the reason-ridden, idea-world of
philosophy and to rediscover (or open up) entirely aboriginal (or entirely new) territories beyond the
realm of the rational and a merely moral good and evil.

This ultra-modernist program is of course ambiguous at its core.

It is one thing simply to abandon thought as empty and useless activity, but how could it ever be
possible to demonstrate the invalidity of philosophical reason; by what new standard and in what other
form of discourse could the case be made against it?

In spite of its prima facie implausibility, this tragic, high-operatic account of the intellectual history of
the West still exercises enormous influence upon contemporary thinking; the more recent heroes of
continental philosophy still perpetuate it.

With both Nietzsche and Heidegger the beginning is typically made with a claim to an epoch-making
insight into the essential 'nihilism' of modernity as the final embodiment of a legacy of spiritual
degeneration going back in time.

The root cause of this cultural decay, or at least its crucial symptomatic expression, is declared to be
epitomized in the historical cult of philosophy which as a matter of course elevates thought above life,
plays down the sensible world as 'mere appearance', and seeks to comprehend and subordinate living
reality under intellectual principles, the so-called ideas.

The history of philosophy is thus, as Nietzsche puts it, the history of a lie whose consequence is just
nihilism, the culture-negative culture of modernity."

Francis L. Jackson, The Post-Philosophical Attack on Plato

2004 N Livergood How Philosophy Overcomes Tyranny

2004 N Livergood Taking Back Our Country From the Plutocrats

2
THE MARRIAGE OF SENSE AND SOUL
INTEGRATING SCIENCE AND
RELIGION
KEN WILBER
RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK
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Copyright © 1998 by Ken Wilber
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Wilber, Ken.
The marriage of sense and soul: integrating
science and religion /
Ken Wilber.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and
index.
ISBN 0-375-50054-5
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CONTENTS
A NOTE TO THE READER
PART I
THE PROBLEM
THE CHALLENGE OF OUR TIMES:
INTEGRATING SCIENCE AND RELIGION
A DEADLY DANCE:
THE RELATION OF SCIENCE AND
RELIGION IN TODAY'S WORLD
PARADIGMS: A WRONG TURN
MODERNITY: DIGNITY AND DISASTER
THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE KNOWN
UNIVERSE
PART II
PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS AT INTEGRATION
THE REENCHANTMENT OF THE WORLD
ROMANTICISM: RETURN OF THE ORIGIN
4
IDEALISM: THE GOD THAT IS TO COME
POSTMODERNISM: TO DECONSTRUCT THE
WORLD
PART I I I
A RECONCILIATION
THE WITHIN: A VIEW OF THE DEEP
WHAT IS SCIENCE?
WHAT IS RELIGION?
THE STUNNING DISPLAY OF SPIRIT
PART IV
THE PATH AHEAD
THE GREAT HOLARCHY IN THE
POSTMODERN WORLD
THE INTEGRAL AGENDA
FURTHER READING

1998 K Wilber The Marriage Of Sense And Soul Integrating Science And Religion

Contents
A Note To The Reader

Part 1
The Problem
The Challenge Of Our Times: Integrating Science And Religion
A Deadly Dance: The Relation Of Science And
Religion In Today's World
Paradigms: A Wrong Turn
Modernity: Dignity And Disaster
The Four Corners Of The Known Universe

Part 2
Previous Attempts At Integration
The Reenchantment Of The World
Romanticism: Return Of The Origin
Idealism: The God That Is To Come
Postmodernism: To Deconstruct TheWorld

Part 3
A Reconciliation
The Within: A View Of The Deep
What Is Science?
What Is Religion?
The Stunning Display Of Spirit

Part 4
The Path Ahead
The Great Holarchy In The Postmodern World
The Integral Agenda
Further Reading

Pedro Henrique Fragoso Pires Garcia.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

It is impossible to divorce these intellectual struggles of Watts

from his emotional conflicts. Throughout his life Watts seemed to
need to reconcile his childhood religion with his adopted religion.
He had taken in Christianity with his mother's milk, but had
digested it uneasily, as Emily had before him. He had longed to
find it better than it was, even, perhaps, as he had longed to find
Emily tenderer and prettier than she was.

It is impossible to divorce these intellectual struggles of Watts from his emotional conflicts.
Throughout his life Watts seemed to need to reconcile his childhood religion with his adopted
religion. He had taken in Christianity with his mother's milk, but had digested it uneasily, as Emily
had before him. He had longed to find it better than it was, even, perhaps, as he had longed to find
Emily tenderer and prettier than she was.

1966 A Watts The Houseboat Summit Featuring T Leary G Snyder A Watts A Ginsberg
 Wednesday, January 20, 2010

While I subsisted in the ground, in the bottom, in the river and fount of Godhead, no one asked me
where I was going or what I was doing: there was no one to ask me. When I was flowing all creatures
spake God. If I am asked, Brother Eckhart, when went ye out of your house? Then I must have been
in. Even so do all creatures speak God. And why do they not speak the Godhead? Everything in the
Godhead is one, and of that there is nothing to be said. God works, the Godhead does no work, there is
nothing to do; in it is no activity. It never envisaged any work. God and Godhead are as different as
active and inactive. On my return to God, where I am formless, my breaking through will be far nobler
than my emanation. I alone take all creatures out of their sense into my mind and make them one in
me. When I go back into the ground, into the depths, into the well-spring of the Godhead, no one will
ask me whence I came or whither I went. No one missed me: God passes away. 20

E:\2009\Nov2009\Lee Bra Rium Nov 2009\18Nov2009\1957 D Suzuki Myusticism Christian and

Buddhist

• While I subsisted in the ground, in the bottom, in the river and fount of Godhead, no one asked me
where I was going or what I was doing: there was no one to ask me.

• When I was flowing all creatures spake God.

• If I am asked, Brother Eckhart, when went ye out of your house?

• Then I must have been in.

• Even so do all creatures speak God.

• And why do they not speak the Godhead?

• Everything in the Godhead is one, and of that there is nothing to be said.

• God works, the Godhead does no work, there is nothing to do; in it is no activity.

• It never envisaged any work.

• God and Godhead are as different as active and inactive.

• On my return to God, where I am formless, my breaking through will be far nobler than my
emanation.

• I alone take all creatures out of their sense into my mind and make them one in me.

• When I go back into the ground, into the depths, into the well-spring of the Godhead, no one will ask
me whence I came or whither I went.

• No one missed me: God passes away.

C. de B. Evans, Meister Eckhart by Franz Pfeiffer, 2 vols., London: Watkins, 1924 and 1931.

Theosophic and Neo-Platonic Influences on Hegel'sTheory of the Unconscious Abyss

JON MILLS
Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious,
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Dec. 28, 1998.
1998 J Mills Theosophic and Neo-Platonic Influences on Hegel'sTheory of the Unconscious Abyss

W Whitman Song Of The Redwood-Tree Book 16 Leaves of Grass

Friday, January 22, 2010

51
1333. The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
1334. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

1335. Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?

1336. Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
1337. (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)

1338. Do I contradict myself?

1339. Very well then I contradict myself,
1340. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

1341. I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.

1342. Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
1343. Who wishes to walk with me?

1344. Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
Walt Whitman Song of Myself 1856

Particular and Universal:

Problems posed by Shaku Soen’s “Zen”
John M. Thompson
Christopher Newport University

2005 J Thompson Particular and Universal Problems posed by Shaku Soen’s Zen
enlightenment is a man’s becoming conscious through personal experience of the ultimate nature of
his inner being

Operation Mind Control The CIA’s Plot Against America

Walter Bowart
1978

1978 W Bowart Operation Mind Control The CIA’s Plot Against America

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Poisoned Pen Letters? D.T. Suzuki’s Communication of Zen to the West
By Dharmachāri Nāgapriya
2003

2003 D Nāgapriya Poisoned Pen Letters D.T. Suzuki’s Communication of Zen to the West

INTERVIEW WITH CARLOS CASTANEDA

by Theodore Roszak
Radio interview with Carlos Castaneda - 1968 "Don Juan: The Sorcerer"

1968 T Roszak Radio interview with Carlos Castaneda Don Juan The Sorcerer

1978 Walter Bowart Operation Mind Control Page 76-77

Chapter Five
PAIN-DRUG HYPNOSIS
In 1951, a former naval officer described "a secret" of certain military and intelligence organizations.
He called it "Pain-Drug-Hypnosis" and said it "is a vicious war weapon and may be of considerably
more use in conquering a society than the atom bomb. This is no exaggeration. The extensiveness of
the use of this form of hypnotism in espionage work is now so widespread that it is long past the time
when people should have become alarmed about i t . . . Pain-Drug-Hypnosis is a wicked extension of
narcosynthesis, the drug hypnosis used in America only during and since the last war . . ."1 That
statement was the tip of a vast iceberg of mindcontrol research using drugs as an aid to hypnotic
induction. In the 1950s, under air force (and ultimately CIA) guidance, a series of papers was written
defining the limits to which a government (ours or an enemy's) could go "to make persons behave
against their will." In the introduction to one of these, the authors stated that the purpose of their study
was "to review available scientific knowledge on the use of pharmacologic agents to influence the
communication of information which, for one reason or another, an informant does not wish to
reveal."
They went on to say that, contrary to the alleged necessity for conducting such drug experiments, "no
published reports have come to our attention . . . detailing the scientific application of drugs by
intelligence agencies of any nation as a means of obtaining information. The methods of Russian
interrogation and indoctrination are derivedfrom age-old police methods that have been systematized,
and are not dependent on drugs, hypnotism, or any other special procedure designed by scientists."
The report, expressing concern over "proper" drug experimentation, urged that control placebos be
administered "silently" so that no one would know who was getting what or when. Also discussed
were the effects of drugs on different individuals in various settings, the relation between dosage
levels, the effects of food, drink, and other physiological needs, and the effects of individual variables,
such assex, intelligence, medical and psychiatric status, life situation, and so forth upon drug
reactions.

The top priority for testing in mind control were those drugs which were found to induce hypnosis.
The administration and effects of barbiturates, amobarbital, secobarbital, pentothal, and sodium
amytal were studied. Nonbarbiturate sedatives and calmatives such as ethchlorvynol, glutethimide,
methyprylon, methylparafynol, captodramin, and oxanamide were also tested. A whole range of
amphetamines and their derivatives were discussed as good tools to "produce a 'push'—an outpouring
of ideas, emotions, memories, and so forth." New drugs such as ritalin, marsilid, and mescaline were
thought to hold great promise for mind-control applications. Perhaps the most promising of this last
group was a "consciousness-expanding" drug called LSD-25.2

Four months after the first nuclear reaction was created in a pile of uranium ore in Chicago, the
psychotropic effects of LSD-25 were discovered by a thirty-seven-year-old Swiss chemist working at
the Sandoz research laboratory in Basel, Switzerland. On April 16, 1943, Dr. Albert Hofmann
accidentally absorbed a minute quantity of the rye fungus byproduct with which he was
experimenting. He later filed a report which described history's first LSD "trip." "I was forced to stop
my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and to go home, as I was seized by a peculiar
restlessness associated with a sensation of mild dizziness . . . a kind of drunkenness which was not
unpleasant and which was characterized by extreme activity of imagination . . . there surged upon me
an uninterrupted stream of fantastic images of extraordinary plasticity and vividness and accompanied
by an intense kaleidoscopelike play of colors . . ."3

Sandoz Laboratories had actually been manufacturing LSD since 1938, when it was first used in an
experiment with monkeys. Their scientists observed then that the substance caused a marked
excitation of the animals, but these results did not motivate scientists to follow up with further
research. Work with LSD fell into abeyance until the spring of 1943 when Hofmann prepared a new
batch for the storeroom, and accidentally ingested some himself. Dr. Hofmann described that LSD
experience: " . . . I did not know what was going to happen, if I'd ever come back. I thought I was
dying or going crazy. . . . My first. . . experiment with LSD was a 'bum trip' as one would gay
nowadays."

Dr. Hofmann's new discovery was investigated by the European psychiatrists as a possible key to the
chemical nature of mental illness. In 1950 LSD was introduced to American psychiatrists, and interest
spread rapidly in the scientific community here.

In 1953, the CIA made plans to purchase ten kilograms of LSD for use in "drug experiments with
animals and human beings." Since there are more than 10,000 doses in a gram, that meant the CIA
wanted 100 million doses. The CIA obviously intended to "corner the market" on LSD so that other
countries would not be ahead of the U.S. in their potential for "LSD warfare."

That year Sandoz Laboratories filled many orders for LSD from both the CIA and the Department of
Defense. According to Hofmann, they continued to do so up until the mid-sixties. The army would
visit the labs every two years or so, to see if any technological progress had been made towards the
manufacture of LSD in large quantities. Dr. Hofmann said that he had never been told the reason
for the army's interest in the drug, but he assumed, from the large quantities being discussed, that it
was to be used for weapons research.

As an employee of the pharmaceutical house Dr. Hofmann was in no position to warn the army
researchers sway from the drug despite his belief that it would be extremely dangerous if used
improperly and despite his personal distaste for their work.

"I had perfected LSD for medical use, not as a weapon," he said. "It can make you insane or even kill
you if it is notProperly used under medical supervision. In any case, the research should be done by
medical people and not by soldiers or intelligence agencies."
1978 Walter Bowart Operation Mind Control Page 76-77

In 1958, Dr. Louis Gottschalk, the CIA's "independent contractor," had prepared a think tank report
which suggested that the intelligence agencies might control people through addiction. The report put
it this way: "The addiction of a source to a drug which the interrogator could supply, obviously would
foster the dependence of the source on the interrogator. Where the source was addicted \ previous to
the situation, the interrogator might find already established a pattern of evasion of laws and
responsibilities which the addict had developed to meet his need for the drug in a society which ;
proscribes its use." The report went so far as to recommend that wounded GIs who had become
addicts to pain-killing drugs be recruited from hospitals. It stated: "Where the source had become
addicted in the setting as a sequel to the treatment of injuries, the ability of the interrogator to give or
withhold the drug would give him a powerful weapon against the source . . ."5
1978 Walter Bowart Operation Mind Control Page 81 (pdf file page 41)

Pig Bay Cuba Bowart Thailand Phuket Bugle Text Spyware

Tracking Americanski SMS Northbridge Lindsay Alice Spings
In the late sixties, when it became known that thousands of GIs serving in Vietnam had become
addicted to Laotian heroin, the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics tried sending a team of agents to Laos, but its
investigations were blocked by the Laotian government, the State Department, and the CIA. While the
Laotian government's hostility toward the bureau is understandable, the reticence shown by the
American government and the CIA requires some explanation. According to U.S. narcotics agents
serving in Southeast Asia, "the Bureau encountered a good deal of resistance from the CIA and the
Embassy when it first decided to open an office in Vietnam . . ." Did this policy bear some relation to
Gottschalk's think-tank statement, made some thirty years earlier—to create an army of drug
dependent people who could be controlled by their suppliers—in this case the CIA?

The CIA also contributed indirectly to the heroin traffic by training men who then turned to
smuggling. In the 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the heroin trade by the staff and editors of
Newsday, it was revealed that U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) agents in
Miamicross-checked a list of men who landed at the Bay of Pigs against police records. They found
that at least 8 percent of the 1,500-man CIA-trained force had subsequently been investigated or
arrested for drug dealing. "If it hadn't been for their CIA training," one BNDD agent was quoted as
saying, "some of these might never have gone into the [smuggling] business." He added that their
training in paramilitary operations, weapons use, and smuggling of equipment and men from one
place to another is well suited for illegal drug importing. The head of the Office of Strategic
Intelligence at BNDD, John Warner, said, "The key to heroin trafficking is the principle of
compartmentability. It's the same way the CIA operates. Most people don't know what the whole
project involves; most just know their particular job."6

Former CIA agent Victor Marchetti was reported as stating "The CIA is implicated in the drug traffic
in several countries. The Mafia, thanks to the CIA, has a free hand in the vast opium traffic from
Turkey through Italy to the United States."7 On July 19, 1975, Sen. Charles H. Percy, (R., Ill.)
released a letter charging that the CIA had the Justice Department drop a drug case to protect its own
involvement in drugs. Percy's letter said that the CIA refused to give federal prosecutors evidence in a
case against Puttaporn Khramkhruan, a CIA employee, and one other person. Percy complained that
"apparently CIA agents are untouchable— however serious their crime or however much harm is done
to society."

The senator's letter said he had written the Justice Department to find out why charges were dropped
against the two men, who were allegedly attempting to smuggle fifty-nine pounds of opium into the
United States from Thailand. The reply he received, from Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C.
Kenney, stated that CIA Associate General Counsel John Greany had "insisted that there
were other considerations at stake and that the material sought by the prosecutors would not be turned
over." Kenney said Greany had explained that if Khramkhruan and his associate went on trial, "the
situation could prove embarrassing because of Mr. Khramkhruan's involvement with CIA activities in
Thailand, Burma, and elsewhere."

The CIA knew that heroin causes no "consciousness expansion." It brings on a physical feeling, a
warm, glowing "high," and then dullness and insulation. But the government was interested in:

behavior control

and heroin, like LSD, was an important tool in gaining such control. While some clandestine agencies
of government were busy distributing drugs to pleasure-seeking underground America, in the
laboratories they were studying drugs for their capacities to provide access to the mind for purposes of
behavior control. Seeking the perfect "incapacitating agent," army chemists at Edgewood Arsenal
came up with a drug known as "BZ" whose effects were ten times more powerful than LSD.
Described as a hallucinogenic "superdrug," BZ was said to be so powerful that a person who took it
often experienced amnesia for long periods of time afterwards.

To test its effects BZ was given to 2,490 "volunteers." General Lloyd Fellenz, former commander of
the Edgewood facility, said that the purpose of the BZ experiment was to produce an incapacitating
gas or drug which could be placed in an enemy's water supply. Dr. Solomon Snyder, professor of
psychiatry and pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, had
formerly worked at Edgewood. "The army's testing of LSD was just a sideshow compared to its use
of BZ," Dr. Snyder said. "Nobody can tell you for sure it won't cause a longlasting effect. With an
initial effect of eighty hours, compared to eight hours for LSD, you would have to worry more about
its long-lasting or recurrent effects."8

Dr. George Aghajanian, who had also worked at Edgewood, confirmed Snyder's opinion. "With
LSD," Aghajanian explained, "you tend to dwell on the experience and recall it and that can lead to
flashbacks. But with BZ an amnesia occurs afterwards that blocks the experience out."9

Predicting the course of future events, Gottschalk's report stated: "The volume of effort devoted to
studying the behavioral effects of drugs has expanded tremendously in recent years and will probably
continue to grow. In part, this may be attributed to the ready financial support such activities have
achieved. The interest of scientists in employing drugs in research, however, transcends an interest in
drug effects, per se. Drugs constitute valuable tools for experimentation directed toward developing
basic physiological and psychological knowledge.
1978 Walter Bowart Operation Mind Control Page 82-83 (pdf file page 42)
Monday, January 25, 2010

It has been five years since that first LSD trip

with Michael Hollingshead. I have never forgotten

it. Nor has it been possible for me to return to the
life I was leading before that session. I have never
recovered from that shattering ontological confrontation.
I have never been able to take myself, my
mind, and the social world around me as seriously.
Since that time five years ago I have been acutely
aware of the fact that everything I perceive, everything
within and around me is a creation of my own
consciousness.
Above is from the original Leary Text
This is the text as quoted in Hollingshead book

It has been five years since that first LSD trip

with Michael Hollingshead. I have never forgotten

it. Nor has it been possible for me to return to the

life I had been leading before the session. I have never

recovered from the shattering ontological confrontation.

I have never been able to take myself, my

mind, and the social world around me seriously.

Since that time five years ago I have been acutely

aware of the fact that I perceive everything

within the around me as a creation of my own consciousness.

It has been five years since that first LSD trip with Michael Hollingshead. I have never forgotten it.
Nor has it been possible for me to return to the life I had been leading before the session. I have never
recovered from the shattering ontological confrontation. I have never been able to take myself, my
mind, and the social world around me seriously. Since that time five years ago I have been acutely
aware of the fact that I perceive everything within the around me as a creation of my own
consciousness.

The 1967 phenomenon of several million Americans taking LSD on their own, exploring their own
consciousness, doing it themselves, developing their own methods of turning-on, is nothing less than
an existential-transactional revolution in psychology.

The professionals the doctors and the experimentalists and the government officials don't like it.

The idea of people going out and solving their own problems, changing their own consciousness,
irritates the doctors.

They say it's indiscriminate, unsupervised, uncontrolled, and basically for kicks.

They are right.

It is and it should be.

That's what life itself is.

An indiscriminate, unsupervised, uncontrolled two-billion-year-old energy dance with ecstatic

communion as the goal.
We have found this cult of the divine mushroom a revelation, in the true meaning of that abused word,
thoughfor the Indians it is an everyday feature, albeit a holy mystery, of their lives. There are no apt
words . . . to characterize your state when you are, shall we say, "Bemushroomed." What we need is a
vocabulary to describe all the modalities of a divine inebriant. God Reveals Himself These difficulties
in communicating have played their part in certain amusing situations. Two psychiatrists who have
taken the mushroom and known the experience in its full dimensions have been criticized in
professional circles as being no longer "objective."

There is considerable disagreement in the literature as to the interpretation of the effects of

psychedelics, but there is substantial, one might say unanimous, accord on one major point: they do
drastically alter human consciousness. They apparently knock out inhibitory processes in the nervous
system (which select, discriminate, censor, evaluate) and they thus release an enormous flow of
previously screened-out awareness.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Bucke, Richard Morris (Maurice). (1901-1991). Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of
the Human Mind. New York: Penguin Group.
Friday, January 29, 2010

The romantic view of the Anglo-Dutch Synarchy International in

launching and running the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 was to create
chaos, anarchy, and perpetual revenge conflicts to such a degree that Spain
would be initiating the projects leading to an interminable world war. The
irrational belief behind this monstrous operation is that out of chaos was to
come a New Order, out of revolutionary bloodshed was to emerge the
Providential Man, the Napoleonic Beast-Man. That was the same irrational
belief, which is behind the Iraq war today, or behind the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. The Synarchy International makes believe that out of chaos will
come the Messiah, or that out of Armageddon will come the rapture. It is all
the same myth of cleansing and purifying by culling the human race with the
spilling of blood, and by manipulating {the fire in the minds of men}, as US
President, George W. Bush has blindly stated in his latest state of the Union
address. Then as today, such an experiment in chaos and terrorism is an act
of desperation on the part of the British-Dutch liberal banking system whose
monetary system is simply collapsing irremediably. It is in that context that
the Spanish Civil War must be viewed

SYNARCHY MOVEMENT OF EMPIRE

(ICLC DRAFT DOCUMENT)
BOOK III
THE SYNARCHY INTERNATIONAL
By Pierre Beaudry
BEASTMAN FRANCO
LEESBURG, Va. June 2005

http://www.pehi.eu/organisations/SME/Synarchy_Movement_of_Empire_book_03.pdf.

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2005 P Beaudry Beastman Franco Synarchy Movement Of Empire Book III

Erich Fromm 1942

Character and Social Process
An Appendix to Fear of Freedom

Source: Character and the Social Process (1942), Appendix to Fear of Freedom, Routledge, 1942;

1942 E Fromm Character and Social Process from Fear of Freedom

Erich Fromm 1969

Human Nature and Social Theory

The following letter Erich Fromm wrote in 1969 to the Russian philosopher Vladimir Dobrenkov is a
most impressive document of how deeply he was interested in getting contact with socialist thinkers
and to discuss with them his reception of Marx and his understanding of socialism. Dobrenkov
intended to write a book on Fromm and therefore started a correspondence with Fromm. Fromm tried
to clarify many topics Dobrenkov misunderstood by presenting Fromm’s ideas. But actually one
cannot say that Fromm’s clarifications showed much effect on Dobrenkov’s book Neo-Freudians in
Search of Truth, published in many languages in the seventies (Moskau: Progress Publishers).
Nevertheless, this letter is a convincing summary of Fromm’s concept of man and society and will be
welcomed by all who are interested in Fromm’s understanding of human nature as well as his social
theory and his reception of Marx.

Cuernavaca (Mexico), 10th March, 1969

1969 E Fromm Human Nature and Social Theory

Sidney Hook Reconsidered

By Robert Talisse

1999 R Talisse Sidney Hook Reconsidered

Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences

Abraham H. Maslow
First published in 1970

1970 A Maslow Religions Values and Peak Experiences

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Max Weber
Trans. Talcott Parsons, Anthony Giddens.
London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1930.

1930 M Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

1920 M Weber The Sociology of Religion

“In 1933, rumors circulate in Berlin that I. G. Farben had created a key post for Von Faupel. Von
Faupel was known as the I.G. General, who, with his friends, Georg von Schnitzler, Fritz Thyssen,
Baron von Schroeder, and Franz von Papen, brought Hitler to power. In 1934, von Faupel returned to
Germany and told von Schnitzler of I. G. Farben: “I am prepared to conquer all of Latin America.”
His plans were detailed in a thesis typed at least a year before the Reichstag Fire (Feb. 1933). The
crushing of the Spanish Republic was key to his plan of taking over Ibero-America for the Nazis.
Spain was strategically important as a flank against the U.S. through Ibero- America, just as a crucial
flank on France in Europe.
http://www.pehi.eu/organisations/SME/Synarchy_Movement_of_Empire_book_03.pdf.
5.2 THE SYNARCHIST LOOTING OF SPANISH RAW
MATERIALS.
Fascism is not a social phenomenon, it is a banker’s long term economic planning program, which is
based essentially on three things : 1) take control of national monetary policy; 2) take control of the
world’s strategic raw material wealth ; and 3), reduce world population through war, famine, and
disease. Thus, {Fascism is simply a monetarist ideology of generating profits from genocide}. After
the breakdown of the Versailles Treaty and its unpayable war reparation debt, the Anglo-Dutch liberal
banking system set out to realize the greatest looting of raw materials from around the world. Since
this could not be done without pointing a gun at different pre-selected populations, then a number of
jack-boot leaders had to be found. Those were the Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Salasar, Laval , Tanaka,
etc … of World War II, who wore the brand-name of « Fascists » on their sleeves, but, in reality, were
merely the enforcers of the Fascist Synarchy International bankers. The following report on the
Synarchy plan to grab Spanish strategic raw materials will illustrate the point
http://www.pehi.eu/organisations/SME/Synarchy_Movement_of_Empire_book_03.pdf

MACHIAVELLI'S INTENTION: THE PRINCE*

LEO STRAUSS
University of Chicago

The beastmin thing is perceptible in my Malcolm Kukura awareness of the deranged alienated
degenerate minds of Leo Strauss and his fellow-traveler-zombies Machiavelli, de Maistre, Napoleon
Bonaparte, Fried Nietzsche, Charlie Darwin, Charlie Manson, Curtis Le May, Robert MacNamara
(rag-banned) Tricky Richard Nick’s son.

when Hitler set his sights on the Basque people, with the view of grabbing the iron ore resource of
their region, his intention was nothing less than chaotic genocide with the romantic goal to produce a
Basque Beast- Man. Hitler believed, like all synarchists, that out of chaos shall come the great
Nietzschean hero on a white horse
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The formal idiom Picasso had now evolved was to remain at the core of his work till his death. In his
later phases he reworked important works by earlier artists, to a greater or lesser extent. He further
developed his own methods of three-dimensional work, and branched out into new areas, such as
ceramics.
The Image of his painting “Guernica” 1937 appears here in the text
To review Picasso's evolution in this way is to present an essentially familiar view of an unarguably
major artist. After the years spent learning the craft come the periods of experiment and of gradually
locating a personal style. Following an authoritative period of mature mastery comes a late period
which essentially plays variations on familiar themes. But if we look more closely at Picasso's case we
begin to have our doubts. In his so-called classical period, Picasso rendered the human image in
monumental fashion; but at the same time he was painting works that continued the line of synthetic
Cubism, with all its deconstruction and indeed destruction of that selfsame human image. Surely this
is an inconsistency?
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This bombardment of civilians in their churches during services was just the beginning of well-timed
and precise targetting that the Condor Legion of the Nazis were officiating in the Basque region as a
means of preparing for World War II. The most despicable slaughter of the Fascist Beast-Man,
however, was the destruction of Guernica.

Guernica was the holy city of the Basques people. This is the ancient capital which stood for centuries
as the shrine of liberty and independence of the Basque people. Under its famous oak tree the
assembly of the people would meet to make the laws and take the oath to protect the general welfare
of the people and its posterity. This small town of seven thousand people was chosen by the Condor
Legion as the first carpet bombing exercise against a defenseless civilian population. This was a test
exercise for the extermination of an entire population by incindiary bombing. Ambassador Bowers
reported :

It was a small town of no military value, and the massacre fell on a market day when the peasants
were there with their livestock and produce. The market was at its fullest at about four-thirty in the
afternoon, when suddenly, the sky was blackened by a great fleet of Hitler’s bombing planes
resembling a swarm of locusts ; and, with cold-blooded deliberation, taking their time, since there
were no defending planes, -- and Nonintervention had seen to that – the little town was peppered with
explosive and incendiary bombs. Father Aronategul, the parish priest, was seen making his way
through the debris with the sacrement for the dying, walking through the deserted street with the holy
oil. He knew how, and by whom Guernica was destroyed, and he said so to me.

When the Condor Legion was welcomed home by Goering, he said one reason the Nazis were in
Spain was that « our air fleet burned to show what it could do. » It showed it at Durango and at
Guernica.

The atrocity was made deliberately to get humanity to recoil with horror and fear before the great
might of the Nazi machine. When the Nazis realized that world opinion did not recoil in fear, but in
disgust, against the Hitler machine, the Goeble initiative began to get out the propaganda that the town
had been burned down by the reds.

Bowers saw the Spanish Civil War for what it really was. He wrote : It was now clear, after a year of
horrors, that the rebelion was not a rising of the people against the democratic regime. Had this been
true, the army, the Moors, the Italian and German troops would have triumhed within a month. It was
just as clear that it was no civil war in the usual meaning of the term, but a war of aggression openly
waged by Hitler and Mussolini. And one might add that this war of aggression by the Germans and
the Italians, in Spain, was being waged in tandem with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and China
; for as the savage German bombing of Guernica had proven to be a total success, the Japanese beast-
man conducted a similar incendiary bombing of the civilian population of Shangai, and Nanking a few
months later, in July of 1937.
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1997 Bernardo Attias Towards a Rhetorical Genealogy of the War on Drugs

MESCAL: A NEW ARTIFICIAL PARADISE
by Havelock Ellis
The Contemporary Review
January 1898

1898 H Ellis Mescal A New Artificial Paradise

Visions of the Night

Western Medicine Meets Peyote
1887-1899
2001 Daniel M. Perrine1

2001 Daniel M. Perrine Visions of the Night Western Medicine Meets Peyote 1887-1899

Psychiatric Research with Hallucinogens:

What have we learned?
Charles S. Grob, M.D.
Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness, Issue 3, 1994

1994 C Grob Psychiatric Research with Hallucinogens What have we learned

1970 Walter Houston Clark The Psychedelics and Religion

Millbrook
A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism
By Art Kleps
Chief Boo Hoo of The Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church

Copyright © 1975,

1975 Art Kleps Millbrook A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

2010 Terrence McNally The Big Theories Underwriting Society Are Crashing All Around Us Are
You Ready for a New World

2010 E Hodgson Brown The Battle of the Titans JPMorgan v Goldman Sachs or Why the Market Was
Down for Seven Days in a Row

2010 W Pitt Feelin' Alright

Sunday, January 31, 2010

2010 Z Bauman Albert Camus I Rebel, Therefore We Exist

1983 M Rothbard Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy

2004 R Price Fascism Part II The Rise of American Fascism

This is what I have learnt from America—it is the amount, and it I teach again.
(Democracy, while weapons were everywhere aim’d at your breast,
I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form,
Saw you with spreading mantle covering the world.)

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KARL BERINGER
Der Meskalinrausch
The Mescaline Inebriation
1927

HEINRICH KLUVER
Mescal The Divine Plant and Its Psychological Effects
1928
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Roy Grinker put it as bluntly as possible in the Archives of General Psychiatry: "Latent psychotics are
disintegrating under the influence of even single doses; long-continued LSD
experiences are subtly creating a psychopathology. Psychic addiction is being developed."20 Grinker
cited no data to back up these rather serious charges. He cited no data for the simple reason that there
were none—Sidney Cohen's 1960 study on adverse reactions was still unchallenged in the literature.
What Grinker was doing was projecting his own
professional biases. Believing that your average citizen was a barely functioning tissue of neuroses
and incipient psychoses, Grinker found it inconceivable that the opening of the
Pandora's box of the unconscious could be anything but disastrous. Whether they knew it or not,
people who used LSD had to be disintegrating; Grinker's whole model of consciousness
depended upon it. To a traditional psychiatrist like Grinker, consciousness expansion meant
unconsciousness expansion, and that was unconscionable.
10
Language and Reality in Modern Physics
Throughout the history of science new discoveries and new ideas have always caused scientific
disputes, have led to polemical publications criticizing the new ideas, and such criticism has often
been helpful in their development; but these controversies have never before reached that
degree of violence which they attained after the discovery of the theory of relativity and in a
lesser degree after quantum theory. In both cases the scientific problems have finally become
connected with political issues, and some scientists have taken recourse to political methods to
carry their views through. This violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can
only be understood when one realizes that here the foundations of physics have started moving;
and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science. At the
same time it probably means that one has not yet found the correct language with which to speak
about the new situation and that the incorrect statements published here and there in the
enthusiasm about the new discoveries have caused all kinds of misunderstanding. This is indeed
a fundamental problem. The improved experimental technique of our time brings into the scope
of science new aspects of nature which cannot be described in terms of the common concepts.
But in what language, then, should they be described? The first language that emerges from the
process of scientific clarification is in theoretical physics usually a mathematical language, the
mathematical scheme, which allows one to predict the results of experiments. The physicist may
be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use it for the interpretation
of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to nonphysicists who will not be
satisfied unless some explanation is
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given in plain language, understandable to anybody. Even for the physicist the description in
plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. To what
extent is such a description at all possible? Can one speak about the atom itself? This is a
problem of language as much as of physics, and therefore some remarks are necessary
concerning language in general and scientific language specifically.
Language was formed during the prehistoric age among the human

10
Language and Reality in Modern Physics
Throughout the history of science new discoveries and new ideas have always caused scientific
disputes, have led to polemical publications criticizing the new ideas, and such criticism has often
been helpful in their development; but these controversies have never before reached that degree of
violence which they attained after the discovery of the theory of relativity and in a lesser degree after
quantum theory. In both cases the scientific problems have finally become connected with political
issues, and some scientists have taken recourse to political methods to carry their views through. This
violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one
realizes that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the
feeling that the ground would be cut from science. At the same time it probably means that one has
not yet found the correct language with which to speak about the new situation and that the incorrect
statements published here and there in the enthusiasm about the new discoveries have caused all kinds
of misunderstanding. This is indeed a fundamental problem. The improved experimental technique of
our time brings into the scope of science new aspects of nature which cannot be described in terms of
the common concepts. But in what language, then, should they be described? The first language that
emerges from the process of scientific clarification is in theoretical physics usually a mathematical
language, the mathematical scheme, which allows one to predict the results of experiments. The
physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use it for the
interpretation of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to nonphysicists who will
not be satisfied unless some explanation is given in plain language, understandable to anybody. Even
for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding
that has been reached. To what extent is such a description at all possible? Can one speak about the
atom itself? This is a problem of language as much as of physics, and therefore some remarks are
necessary concerning language in general and scientific language specifically. Language was formed
during the prehistoric age among the human
1958 Werner Heisenberg Physics and philosophy P114-115