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College Notes & Texts, Inc. (1968), Edition: First Printing, Paperback
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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.
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LibraryThing member autumnc
Because of this book I quit my high-paying suit-wearing lining-the-pockets-of-white-men-in-ties job at an American bank and go back to University, where I successfully completed a degree in psychology and now am practicing existential psychology.
LibraryThing member jburlinson
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.
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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. Show Less
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8.43 inches
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First Edition 1968
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