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Indlæser... High priest (udgave 1995)af Timothy Francis Leary
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I sought enlightenment when I first read this book at age 17. I received megalomania, which can be contagious. Lying on a sun-baked rooftop and achieving oneness with a somewhat skeptical lizard goes only so far. Don't get me wrong, though. This book served to sanction many lunacies in my youth. For that, I think that two stars is probably all too meager a tribute. In the end, however, the tedium becomes all-embracing. "I have died many times," Leary serenely confides. You will too, if you last for all 353 pages. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Back in print after 20 years, this text from the earliest days of psychedelia chronicles the experiences on 16 acid trips taken before LSD was illegal. The trip guides or "high priests" included Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Ralph Meltzner, Huston Smith and a junkie from New York City named Willy. It tells of the goings-on and freaking out at the Millbrook mansion in New York State that became the Mecca of psychedelia during the 1960s, and of the many luminaries who made their pilgrimage there to trip with Leary and his group. Chapters include an I Ching reading and a chronicle of what happened during those "spacewalks" of the mind. No library descriptions found. |
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Why did I have so little interest in reading further? Maybe b/c Leary covered the territory so thoroughly, so insightfully, so painstakingly that there was a feeling of completion to it. Dunno. Maybe parts of it didn't completely jive in a practical way w/ my own circumstances. More than anything else, I think I was too motivated to move on w/ my own philosophical development to immerse myself any further in Leary's. Even now I feel little motivation to read any more. It might be b/c I intuit that I'd have to give great concentration to fully appreciating the genius of it & I don't want to spend my energy that way. The holy ceiling light 'knows' that doesn't always stop me. Maybe some of it just seemed too 'hippie' for me, too New Age. Whatever the 'reason', I still have the utmost respect for this bk & for Leary. ( )