New York Provo Magazine

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NEW YOaK PROVO, a magazine of psychedelic revolution , is
is publ i she d irregula r __ y , if at all, s omewhere on thu l owe r
East Side . It will accept any article s on psychedelic pheno-
mena wi th an a narchist or lflarxist porspccti ve, vvi t h the
proviso that -yhc     <lL:"e:es to r emain anonymous . Ideas a r c
ego contosts are not.
NEW YORK PROVO ux i st:-: because it::'3 i mpossibl e to expre ss
some i deas on buttons or handbills. Wu apologize :or our
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i cold media
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Unfortuna t ely we arc stoned poor, bei ng stoned .
If you Nant to di g what we have to say, you ' ll havt: to r ead
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Conten ts :
p . 1--PROVOS- -·art iclo.
p . 2--HAROLD HEI·.PHILL ANO HI::> PSYCHEDELIC LINGJ-I.M--fiction.
p. S--DUTCH PROVO- - passage uxcur pt ed from a t ranslat i on
of an articl e in tho magaz i ne of Dutch Proves .
p . 9 --DRUO RIFFS---featur e .
p . 10 --PSYCHEDELI CS AND SOCI.1 1. LIST PERSPECTIVE--articl e .
p . 18-- PROLYXIN ELIXIR--f actual pe rsonal
Formula::tfor me scali oe extraction from :t:e yote :
Cover ':Jell v!ith • • • Boil for two gours • •. Drain and press (vr i ne
press i s· boss }o. o Boil dmm to s trlilnB coffee consistency ••• Cool •••
Fill bottle approx. t full with •• Add ! lb. lye f to
each 2 e;al . of j uiee., . .• (Sh? uld get hot - allovl
to caol) . . . . . .., . .
Next add equal quantity of ben. ·zene (not ben- zine , the popul ar sol -
vent but pure grade Benzene) ••• Seal container wi th c over which will
allow jar to work as extraction flas k ••• Invert times ••• Al l ow
to break • •• Dr'IDI off bebezffine when fully set tled ••• Add
PFt 2 (normal ) sulfuric acid (1 0% sol .) drop by dr op unti-l solution
i s normal(<Z PH), ae;i tate to mix acido •• remove ppwder f'rom bottom. · ••
Add as much water by iSJolume as p9wder • • slowly in beaker ·in
Piln of water-benzene \vill boil away-( odor of benezene will vanish
whe n all is well .• okllow to cool s l owly
.Afte r several hours fi l ter and wash c:pystals with acetone ••• Repeat
with once cooke d cactus . .. Lone; l i vd the Psychedeli c Revoluti on! ! !
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PROVOS
Lat ely I find that · I'm spending my t i me dodging othe r peopl e 's
game s, like the draft game, the cop's cont rol game , the narco squad's
bust-heads game . I don't r eally \.'rant to bothLr those people . But
they've never stopped to ask my f eelings on the matter .
I dig love--! like to walk down t he st r eet wher e the vibrations
are good. rrhose who go around hating a r e nowher e . But when t he
flower power continp.; cnt t ells me that the only way to survive i s to
cl ean up, l ook r espectable, and l ove the cops--wel l, I just don't
know about that . Somehow, with that 25 year s entence hanging over
our heads , we' supposed to
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assi milat e'' into American soci ety.
Like the Jews in Ger many?
\ll e can .all play the Til:.E-LIJi'E game ? and make the ma s s medi a, and
keep on r econstructing bourgeois culture in its own image. But where
is the psychedelic r evolution at? The old society anrt the old values
are corrupt --obvious examples like Viet Nam aside . And all of us
have found that even if you drop out-- if you change your life and
your values- - you're still i n s ociety. The nitty
gritty of American soci ety is a power s tructure , built on guns and
money, And ther e isn' t r eally a question of co- existence , because
all power structures demand compl et e allep:i anc<:} . That's why no utopia
has .. ever suc ceeded in tltis country. The ones that fail ed , failed .
The ones that succe eded, like the r·. ormons in Utah , wer e forceably
brought back int o the American i;iainstream, you compet e only if
you have money. I f t he psychedel ic r evolution means anything , we
have to think about off ering a new soci ety in place the old, one that
can deal with modern t echnol o,,.v without beinp- transformed into another
variety of State Capitalism. Otherwise we ' re just putt ing ourselves
on.
Unfor tunat el y New York Provo can ' t offer its ver y own sl1ini ng
vi sion of a new society. Ideas will evol ve in heads . But we
have two simpl e con1r•1 ents. First , to thos e who think tlwt they can do
their thing within the system, we point out tl1e almost limitles s
capacity of .the pm;er strtccture and the ma ss media to a bsorb and cor-
good people and ideas . I t's a lot smarter t o turn on Puerto
Ricans thap. to try to make deals the Tactical Police Force •
. Second, to thos e who want to do .a totally new, \ipur e '' thing , we think
that ther e i s much to be l earned from social science and  
Now most l eft i sts i n t hi s count r y are slic:ht l y cr azy. They spend so
Pluch time arguing about ideol ogy--mainly to avoid doing anyt hi nr.--
that they end up being uptight , aggr es s ive adrenaline- heads . Adren-
aline is like a natural amphetimine , a stimulant that your body
produce s in s t ates of stress and conf lict . This means that all the
leftists are really just get ting high . Real stoned leftists end up
as adrenaline addicts ; and like A- heads t hey' re always rappi ng ,
running down a standard. s e·t of riffs ( HM:-. r xism- Leninism
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) . They'd
rather argue than teach. This is too bad , l furxi sm,
with social science , has a good under stand1ng of how th1s
society ope rates.
Like the Di rrger s , Proves helieve that the community should r e-
ahsorb the "[)ov-rers and functions that the State has taken f or itself.
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But Provos go f 11 r ther J because we see tl1at tlle community must develop
new wa;rs of rl  
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t:ith nll of t e chnologv and mass society. Everyone
i s faced immecl.ia t el y wi til the power structure . Provos seek to pro-
voke cl ear of the power s tructure . New York Provo pro-
poses s preadi ng psychedelics widely now, mas s ive non- violent resis-
t ance , Nerry Prankster provocationist politics, to reveal to
everyone how cruel and asinine the power structure is .
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HAROLD HEEPHI LL AND HIS PSYCHEDELIC LI NGAJ.:
(The author writ es : i i A definite work of psychedelic por-
nography, dedica·ted to all those who woul d suppress it . " He
apol ogize s: ·,;I llope that this story wi l l never be misconstrued
as corroborat i ve evidence shoul d the author get arrested for,
say , littering , and I find it necessary t o proclaim my int 0r -
est in to be stoned academic. I could lie to you, and
tell you t he story was written duri ng a two-week mari juana
high , because when I t ried to wri t. e it hip:h on LSD I enrled up
tracing the patterns 1•rhich appeared on t he paper , but l
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l evel with you: I wa s drunk .
liThe author 1...-as also under the toxic influences of the
I· a r aui 3 de Sa de , Ti mothy Leary , Robe:::-· t Dylan, Dr Kraft - Ebbing,·
Donal d Lauria, Soupy and an unknown Frenck pornographer .
I hope any mora l will be divi ded among these , the
maj ority fal l ing n;:->cn tho shoulders of Dr. Lauria, whose remark-
able piece of ssier se oupplied me with the most subl ime
sort of aesthet ic i ncpirat ion. (See footnote #3 )
"l·:y r eader i:n_, ->t for give my occasi onal l apse s into t ot al
depravity along my in·tD,·mit t .:mt utilization of dr ug- cul ture
slang . I have a conc ise set of f ootnotes , that the
non- user may be to understand the esoteric vernacular .
Wi th t hese bri ef r emnrks I l eave you to the chaos of my nervous
syst em . . . •• . .. . , . ")
Bardo
Harry Hemphill glc.t11Ced contemptuousl y at his momentary refl ec -
tion in the vi2l of liquid which he anxiously examined
under a desolat e sliver of light that had somehow managed to escape
the fate most suns llino encoun t er-:s on E 15th St . and Ave . :E. As his
slim bepnn t o trace the bottle
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s deliniations a previously
repres serl thought floated. furt i vely from Hemphill's overactive
unconscious into that adamentine s E: ctor of his being wherei n aware-
ness r c; sides.
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' Perhaps I should e1i1:9ty the contents of the via l into the
sink or toil et and abandone my heinous plan . Maybe I am in-
sane , and I should concetrate on preventine; my madness from
resulting in my imprisonment.
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But as Harry focused hi s consc i ousness on llis recent past, he
realized that it was to r econsi der . His vile vision of
vindictive !tad sustained him throup.;h 2 years of near
suicidal being , and H:::trry knew that abandoning it would mean allowi ng
the beast which r nr,ed wi.thin him to de stroy him. Even if he was
s omehow able to overcome t his beast , t he other conspirators invol ved
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would if they felt he was considering recantation, so
there was , 1n r eal1ty , no turning back .
As t he s e racer1   Harrv ' s mind, Prise i lla Tuii,Ial
pulled her opt1cal- a rt dress up over her sunburnt shoulder s in the
a ,)artment which faced Harry
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s acroos a narrow airsllaft . Instantl y a
mes s age rushed from the occipital sector of Harry's brain to t l1e area
of. th? hypothalmus which his often misdirect ud libido.
t hen systematically r emoved her braziere and pantie s and
pl ant eCI. hersel f on a bidet which had recently been i nstalled
the of her livingroom. I hesitate to reveal the lascivious
pass eel Hemltill' s mind as he surrepti tious l "l,r
Vlewen Pr1Sc1lla douch1nG herRelf for fear my pen itself would be
overcome with shame and pC' rha!Js refuse to impart its ink upon the
sur f ace of the !Japer. But l et it suffice to say that Pr iscill a had
a r oused Harry ts best ial instincts to tile dee;ree that hi s all
- consuming obsession was dissolvect in a stm·my sea of prur ience and
he was of r eality purel y in nature . '
Unconsciously, Harry pl aced t he tr<msparent vial which a few
seconds ago he had been per-usinp: witl1 int ense interest a gainst t he
infl amed skin of hi s peni s , in a abortive attempt to quell the f i r e
that had loc=·lizecl_ itself in tlwt most sensit ive of organs . But the
omnipresent hand of sud.denly intervined , and Har ry
spill ed the amorphous contents of the vial , compl etely inundating his
new er e ct penis and two slightlv atrophi ed testi cles .
The vial had container! til e endproduct of a long and a r duous s eries ..
of bioche1:1ica l reactions, and was ca-pable of producing i ts effect in
man at dosap.:es times r: ,·, l. l er than the smallest crit i cal dose of
LSD. Its ps:rchotropic effects bad not as yet been fully i nvestigated
but were somewhat comparabl e to those a chieved by sniffing carbona
cleaning fluid wh i le hi p-11 on a pr olonged shot of DhT . Thi s perni -
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ci ous hall ucinogL1 mixed with a hi rthl y concentrated form of _m·SO,
a chemi cal which the e:;;>idermi c l ayer of the human body to
metamorphose into a permiable 1o1e mbrane and thus r eadi ly permi t any
substance placed on the affected area to diffuse into the bl oodstream
and eventually to the br ain. So t h e unstabl e liquid whi ch wa s nm•I
spPedil y evaporatinG into the stale a ir of Harry's rail road flat was
designed to be instantaneously psychedel ic , and would trul ly f it into
that catagory which the sagacious Dr. Lauria t ermed The Ni ghtmar e
Drugs .3
Awa r e of the project ed effects I have enumerated , Harry trembl ed
with f ear tho distinction of beinf the first human be ing to
die from an overdose of the insidious utopiate . But inst ead of the
overpowering rush4 and subsequent mortification Harry had accept ed as
his ultimate destiny, his peni s beFan to ext end and at
nate int ervals of thir ty s econds while his sc rotum d1l1gently fol l owed
suit . Harr y surmis r d that he had stumbl ed or_rather
across , a drug act eel a s a l ocal psvchedel1c , l . e , a drur:
expanded the consci ousness of a particular part of t he body , l eav1ng
t he surrounding tissues unaffected.
A vap.:ue rl rows i ne ss then enrml fed Hemphill
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s confused i nt el lect as
as hi s sentienc e rlrifted. s lovdy toy,rard hi s genitals .
Second Bardo
Harry had beun reborn into the Universe of Sexua l Un r eality, and
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the first r e presentative of this f a nt.:.3y-macro cos m that he e ncountered
was n one otl10r than Priscilla Tuinal, dressed i n the flowing black
and v• rhi t e habit of a Catholic Nun, leadino an o.pp:::·oxima. t e ly 1 2-year
- old f emal e parochial student into his midst . The chil d's irmnn ture
brea s t s had already to develop, and we r e just bar0l y percept -
ible where they b eneath the symbolic cre s t a nd
pocket of her blue Catholic School uniform" He r JT13t ciling d r ess
covered her kne es an{! f or1.1ed 2 ve contrast, with h e r thick
tastele s :s stocking s and brown pedalpusher s , whil e lle.J. · s traight blonde
hair accentuatecl the pal e, ev en feature s of he r blu'3 - e yed Iri sh
- Amer ica n countenance . Sist er Priscilla i.nL:::- oduc ecl t he young
innocent as '
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Larie
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', divulging the true of Bobby Dylan's
he r et ofor e ambiguous l yric, i• vJhere are y n'.l to·l Swe et Narie?" to
Harry, who was pantine and droolinr; uncontrolauJ.:r ,
After whispering i neffabl e ins·cr uctlons t' h e r cll.:trge , Sister
Tuina l hastily withdrew into an adj ucc nt .• l ea ving this
undefiled ma i d e n to the vi c issitud es of r s fancy. Bu t
it was this paragon of Chri stian vi rtu0 11ll o w::. !·1.ly Harry,
and reaching into h e r b r e nst pocket ,_,vi tl1 her t lr .. :::) c.mcl for efingc r,
magically produced a skinny cigarette.
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i;J,mlcl j ou like a joint of
black hash?·,,5 she inouired polit e l y , a .:. ·: ,c ;)f fe:;.· c d hira the spiked
reefer . Harry ac ceptucd it pr eedily , pJ t t1 e cigarette bet ween
his y ellow t eeth a
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<:d tinr, i ts ignition r:. .';!"1!. : ·· t:-·cl ck of matches with
an opti cal art patt e rn on c over, gift from
Il'iari e withdrew a solitary match and lit c i ga rette.
Just a s Ha rry was abo11. t to cockt. n-' .1 I):P. roach l!:arie beg ... n un -
buttoninp; he r blouse r evealing a whi te unC: eJ.chirt with two small
humps mildl :r protruding from i1er ch er-t. . 'r:1e:1 -·.:cbing with both
hands to t he side of h r·-r dress , the minor .. .-::_ t.: l a motion she d
the garment which h n. d pr e vi<msly s ecre t e c1. h::: :r ess pod enda .
Harry had now at·ta ined a pitch of frem1y l':her e !·1is prick twitched
involunta rily while hi s testicles did 2nd , n eedl e s s to
say, t he roa ch Harry wa s t r yine; do- up f fell ··· ·J the fl oor . h arie
then r emoved both Ha r ry v s pants and ·,ri t-, h one swift , experi-
enc ed jerk,. aft e r which she f e ll to h e J..' ;-,.ne e ::> a. r.d begnn i mplanting
tende r kisse s . on Harold' s s he placed
t h e blood- r e d hea d of Harry 's organ of int o h e r t t1in- lipped
mouth, started slowly to move lwr head <md. :.:.\, ..; !,· ·:_t:,   crazy. I
once ap:ain hesitate to reveal t h e scurrilous which passed
through s mincl when, on the verge r "' :... <<:J .s:.1, Hari e loosene d
her l abial thus per mitting a stre "lm o:.· t o gu s h forth ancl
stain he r innoc ent chil d 's face. Let it La : ay that Harry
intc:·rtwined his f inge rs in her flowing ::_ · r.:r:. and l et flow a
quantity of scum which was beyond bel ie:' ... Fe- r f I we r e to describe
the neurologi cal orde r of Harry's nerve .. s "1 · '::; rbaJ. ly, I fear
that my r eaders' brains would fall -out tl: ·: onz;il ·t 11elr noses and rip;gr
mortis would · immediatel y set in.
As Harry baske d i n tl1is ef f l upent of Catholic
purity, with his s p illed sperm seed now d:ri p:Jj ! G fTom her rosey cheeks
to h e r holy medallion, a door svrung or or n.r; ::: ix plainclothes
detect i ve s , six uniforme d patrol men, 'lllcl S .[., . tJ_n F' :i.nk , all from the
Fifth St . Pr e cinct . Harry exclaimGd . . .
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as Captain Fink ap9roached him and sei z. ·3d t-.he roc. c:1 which Hemphill
had incautiously d isgardcd from the marble floor beneath h is feet . ,
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You call t his nothing?•·
Fink anFri ly demanded of Harry as he exh.ibited the incriminating butt
to his f ellow l awmen , them to ent er .
ol • • • A1:d how about this scum- stained s eventh gr ader,
I suppose you ca ll he r nothing too • .. ? ·•
he added as one of t he det e ctives slapped handcuffs end l ee irons on
the spea chl ess f elon 's wrists and unkles r e spectivel y.
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one of t he detectives int erj ected melodramatical ly • .•
cause i t was .I.D.Y daughter you just ravi shed!! • i
Dnd from t l1e l andscape of bl ue-uniforms, r ed-necks and shiney badges
Det ective 0' b:-i en of t he Kosher Squad emer ged wher eupon tile pet rifi ed
child began to whi mper:
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; Dada , Dada , D:....tda , Etc . et. al .
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. a s if she were gi vinp.; a l ect ur e on <:m anti-nrt movement prominent in
the early nineteen-t wenti es . Obviously, the child ha d .
r etrogr essed intellectually to a l evel far below her previous capacity
which enrar,ed her f ather. '
iiI 'm ,B;Oing to kill you, silver studcl.ed phantom! ;.
he s creamed , conf us ing Dyl an 's r i f f in the ' Gat es of Eden'8( r ari e's
r ecord ) with the repercussions of an incident thnt occured
between s ix members of Hell 's Angels and and the college student
  of a local Detccti v e , who wa s s elling magazines door-to- door
Southern California . Tl1en demons trating the need for a Civilian
Police Board even in t he kingdom of .. Sexua l Unreal ity , Detect i ve
O' Brien commenced punch the shit out of the suspect, whil e the other
arresting of fi cers CJ.ddcd t hei r obs cene j i bes and insults, r nthc·r than
int ervening on t !J e accused's behal f .
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' Ask her V!l:r.•:i ·e s he c; ot ·the Op-art mat ches! ! "
Harry pl eaded futiley.
Third Bar do
Two minutes after Hemphill ' s a ccident, co-conspirator Ethel Tript a -
mine ent ered hi s desol at e dwelling and observed him standing at the
window, obs t ens i bly watching Priscilla Tuinal continue t o dou cl1e her-
self. Hi s genitals were still undul at i ng a s pr evious ly  
which i ndicat ecl to Ethel thnt an i r r epairabl e mi s hap llad occured in
her absence . Aft er spott ing t he oft - compt empl at ed vial r esting supine
on the fl oor, Ethar inferred the exact circums t anc es of hhe calamity,
but was at a loss for nct i on. She begun to pl ead de spar at el y with
Ha rold , hoping t hat associations l inked wit h her voi ce would bring him
back t o focus .
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" s me Ethel , Et hel Triptamine ; Ha rry
we wer e to contami nut e tl1e r eservoi rs of Tulsa,
Oklahoma , and scr ew-up t he l ame s--Harry, don ' t you r emem-
bc r the Psyched> lie War far e l lovement? ·•
But t he potent drug he had absorbed t llr ou,P"l l hi s ski n s till l ocalized
pr e cari ous el ectro- chemical stc\Si s , whi ch we in the ter m
or consc iousness , in t he neurological labyrinth of Harold Hemphill ' d
r epr oduct i ve or gans . Ethel joinGd. the disposable n eedle of a l1ypodermic
r..·.yr i nge , which she found. l ying Ha rry 's va cuum- pump , with a baby' s
pacifi er, whi ch she: ex t r acted from her pocket -book, by drawine; a pi ece
of bl ack t hread around t he pacifier
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s out er rirn . She sur veyed the
numerous drur;s and chemical s Ha r ry had haphazardl y lying aronnd his
apartment , and chose a s mall bottle marked YTb or CJ. zine El i xir
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By s queezi ng the malleabl e ext erior of the pacifier, she induc ed part
c•f t he liquid to i"i ll its i nterior, <1 nd injected Ha rry intramuscually
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with it about one an inch from his groin , hoping radically to
change his set.
Fourth Bardo
H.:n-ry vm..; 1' '-::_ ·. :..11 i:1 f'.:1. o<:.k-pnnl. l cd furni 1:>h .... d in Lo. t c:: Col oni a l
American , witl1 thr Sta-r Spangl ed Banner pl aying in the backe: r ound ovfJr
a musac system which was so d i sguisvd thr. t th l; sound seemed to
eminat e from no one place in particu Lar. He sit·L. ing in an over-
stuffed armchair , with his feet res ting on a hassock , f eel i ng qui te
di z·zy. _Next to him s a t two bl oo!:lhounds , one with a pair of s lippers
in its mouth , and the other with the \rlashi ngton Post between its
t eeth . The smel l of !·.ot ap)l o pi c· \rJ.JS th<':.: kneeling b l ood-
hounds t o grow rest l e ss, Priscilla Tuinal cheerful ly entered by
· ·>.at to be t. he ld·cchen door , carrying on h e r a r m a freshl y
baked al)ple pic. Accompanying Friscilla was Librium-Bi r d Schi ckl gruber ,
t h e dau ght er of t h e b.onific€mt [md penc e - loving rule r of Ha r ry's
nDt :!.ve l und. Libr:i.um·-Bird w2s wcnri ng h e r madras blouse and
her black torreador pants , and t he avernge Ame rican uni-
ve rsity student in every detail . Idss Tuina l plac8d the s t eaming
appl e pi e on a mahogany c:mdtable a foot f r oltl \-vhc r o Harry sat, then
sil ently absented l1or sel f from Harry
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s and the girl ' s p r esenc e .
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iDaddy
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Daddy--bird . .  
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liTho d ead pregnant won1nn C. 0 . D. from Vi et Name today.
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Harry f s mouth b r.:;_,... --1 to .Some component i n Ha rry's pr e s ent
i ncarnation made the idea of pr egnant ori ental cor ps e highly
stimul ating to him. But h e 1·ras t a k en aback when he hear d h imself
r epl y:
•iExcc:!llont , Daughter , but fir;,;t , why don't you have a l ook
at my s : a r .. . ?"
and slowly unzippi ll& !5s fly , Harry exposed h i s wizene: d pe nis to the
smil ing teenager he call ed

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'Now Daddy_ , .
the girl answer coyly,
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You know t hat your appendix isn't   i n your glans
so how coul d t .ho scar from your a ppendectomy exhi bit
itself Lct t n be seri ous Daddy ; Why get yoursel f
aroused by my touch and thereby incur tl1e mor al guil t e ngen-
d e r ed by an ince stuous when you have at your
di sposal the means to consummnte pl easure f ree from ever y
taint of morel r emonstranc e Nanis puri tanical mind i s ca pabl e
of imposine upan n2.ture? For , when t r a ced to i t s ul timat e
origins ) docs not morality spring from a certain enl i t htened
consideration for one's fSllow man? Christ i a n mora lit y most
certainly rloes. TberGf ore, when you vi olate that yellow
p:;:-egnant corpse , v.rhich your servants have meticul ousl y pr e -
pared for you you no mora l prec ept , since
the woman is dci1.d and there fore is no longer as a
f ellm-v huma n be ing.; ,
All this philosophy confused Harry whil e inc iting his l ower
centers to assume control of his wi l l . It also s e rved t o
resuscitate his devitalized member, t o t he point thnt hi s daught er 's
care s s es woul d bo merely superfluous.
;, Li brium-·Bird . ..
Harry heard h i mself say
"You cmd I know that I am going to bugger that c orps e not
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becau se any desire to take out; my neeod for you on a d ead
yollmo1 11-0.. because I am a n ecrophile {as some
factions have s uggested) , and , not even because she 's the
best I get since Looney- Bird turned gay, but Daught er,
I am go1ng to bugg er that dil e cti be cause ·
0 I AN A PATRIOT!! ·· - -- ·
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Even the credulous Librium was astounded at Harry's and
hautily
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Daddy, . you don
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rHt1·onal1zat1.on l1. kc tlw·c? Come now, Papa , I know you can
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do better than that . . . ...
A' noi of confidenc e dominat ed Harry's voic e as he r eplied to· his
daur;hter: ·
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Ah Librium, belle of the South, didn't I tell you she
was pregnant? ! Do you want tha t kid coming over he r e to
steal our womEm .. and r ape our T. V. s0ts? ! And stop that Hfre e
from every taint of moral r emonstrance
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c.n-ap. I ain't a bit
int erest ed in th2t turd. All I know is that ther e ' s a fixed
amount of material wealth --th is \'iorld i s physically
capable of and I aim to see the Caucasian race
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Librium c ould offer no rebutta l to Harry's irrefut a ble log ic, so
she wa lked - ip.to the oroom where the corpse was stor ed. She promptly
r e turned with two spe cial a gents deposi ted the naked, · bulg ing
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body on Ha rry
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s o r od- and.- wlliit e stri.pped couch , salut ed , then depart 0d.
HDaddy, aren'toyou gc. ing to wait till it thaws a little?ir
asked the inqui::dtive t0cnagc r. But Harry wa s panting so heavily
that Li brium' s l;r8re unint e llig ible. Receiving no reply, Librium
seate d he r self in which Harry lla d previously occupied,
slipped off her ·black t orre2dors, and began s hoving of the
appl e pie that Pri sci -.la had l eft on the endtable, into
pulsating vagina. Vv'hi_le Librium exhibit ed the rare aberration Krafft
-Von Ebbing t er me d \ivictual iph eliali , Harry attacked the corpse merci-
l e ssly. As he went a uout his wretched business , his passion, inflamed
by the touch of cold buttocks, slowly increased to the point where
Harry broke int o song :
·,; .•• and h er ass hole's red gl are
as I burst it with care
gAv8 proof through her shit
t hat h er cunt was still the re
Oh say sha ll my s car- spangl ed
ba nana s t ill wave
whe re whit emen are Kings
and the niggers are slave s
Play Ball!! ! !"
1oli th these concluding words Harry burst into a paroxism of orgasm which
very well might have a ppr oxi mated Librium Bird 's in both intensity and
durat ion.
Fifth Bardo
Ethel Triptamine had phoned the other members of the Committee
for Psyclwdelic whGn Harr y f ui l ed to r e spond to twelve cpnsecu
ti ve inj ections of Thor azine ;-- Five membemof the Sub-
committee had c:-::C!
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to Ha rry' s l aboratory- apar tment in order to discus
Harry's Hr edundancy
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i in the Psychede lic I'o•Ovement. One half
an· hour-- aftc Harry spilled· the viscuous l iquid on his shlong, all
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five were in Harry ' s flat. On his doubl e mattre ss sat Texas Bruce,
lithe r.Iesc[\ l inc Kid
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;, the Reverend Ben Actozine of the Evangelical
syChedelic Communi on , Tom \IJatson and Susan Lee --a highly polished
amphotimine dealer anrl his slum- goddess mi stress r espect ively--and,
standing tRlking to Ethel, was none other than Owsl ey Tabb , the
West Coast aci <i kinG and number one cook on the Pure Food and Dr.ug
Administration's Most Wanted Chemists List . After five minut es of
conversation with Ihss Triptamine, the l egendary fi gure of the Psy-
chedelic underworld nonchalantly withdrew a tranquillizer gun loaded
with a mass ive dose of barbituat es f r om his shoulder-hol stt)r , a i med .
i t at Harry's gr oi..n and fired . Hhen Harry's genital, ceased to
pul sat e , the member s of the committ ee agreed unanimously that he
wa s dead and convinced tl1o Revo Actozine to administer the l ast rit es
c: s Ho.rry passed into the et ernal sedative sleep of death.
Harry had di ed just as   in the midst of filling the
ror pso ' s rectum with hot sperm, slowly fading into his orgasm.
Let us hope , sympathetic r eader , tha t the Psychedelic Vvarfare
Hr-, -_rem9nt i s nip1:>ed in the bud by our zealous law- enforcement
.)r: :;_ and that tl1e next gl ass of water we ingest will not
a drug similar to Ha rry's l ethal hallucinogen, which would
probably r ender us et ernally ecst at ic.
Foo: ne>tes :
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1 . (D. M. T.) di met hyltryptamine--related to the 'magic mushroom',
• i ntense tnken intraveinously.
2. ( . . Ir.S. O.) i methyl sulfoxide--a solvent as described, which
0c s ide- effccts of blindness .
3. (The Drugs) a virulent anti- psychedelic polemic by
Dr. Lourj rt oftio U .. 'l.O Hospita l's Ps ychi atric clinic.
Lh (rur;h ) t he f' '?ncD..tion of a drug hitting the brain.
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'1Ck ha L1·1) hashi sh , prepared from the poll en of the mari -
juana fl owo_:- .
6. (cockta il t he r oach) placing the butt of the r eefer (roach)
i.. nto a r oll ed-up matchbook cover in order to smake it .
7. (do- up) smoke
8. (' Gc. t e3 of Eden') Columbia r e cords--Bringing It All Back Home
- .. ver se : "The mot orcycle black madonna , two wheel ed gypsy queen
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; and. her 0::. 1 ver stud( ed phantom cause the grey- flannel
O\',erf to scream .••
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S. (Thorazine El ixer) brand name chloropromaz ine--antidote for
ps ychedelic s .
DUTCH PROVO
(Provocationi st politics came out of the student and drug move-
    in Holland . Nore than any othe r psychedelic mevement , Dutch
expe: riment with creat ive politics and
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provo happenings
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For ins tance , they tri ed to put LSD in the wat er of the horses of the
Royal Pr oc ess i on, when a member of Dutch Royalty mar r i ed an ex- Nazi ,
They ar e s t oned anar chist ; they r esist t he machinery control
f.'l.mes of moQ. er n society, But they l ook for allies . During a general
uni. c!l s tri ke l ast ·year Provos and unions fail ed to overthrow the
·o:t;J. i y · because the conservat i ve Communi sts would not
cooperD..te. Yor k Provo will try to present inter esting Dutch
Provo writ:j_ng.. The followinr; - -
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Solida rity- Provotariat - Pr ol etariat ol
--i s both libertarian and r eal istic. )
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In order, to bring a. renl t her e is necessary a
class of peop .... e who s ee t ltelr u1portance ln that r evolution and can
identify with it ,
This revolutionary class is primarily tl1e huge hunger- prol etariat
o,f . the   world. These hungering masses hnve an
evldont conc ern ln malnng n complete change i"tl direction in the
handling of foodstuffs by other wealthy nations in the world. Cnn
a world revolution of tl1e hungering proletariat succeed wi t hout the
help of a revolutionary power, coming from the wealthy nations?
rrhis SE:ems unlikely, and if it should happen, this revolution
would be l ed by the Coimnunists along a highly dogrc.atic and authori-
tarian path. But t her e is in the Western nsphalt jungles an upcoming
r evoluti onary class- -the provotoriat-- the revo]utionary youth who
not bound hand nnd foot to thG Capital i st or Communist productiVB
process. The task to be effected is the solidarity of the provotariat
in the over-developed world with the prolet ariat in the under-devel oped
world . The provotariC\t must. become tile r evolutiona ry compl ement of
the hunger- proletariat. The many c..ctions of thl. you t,h in the Fe stern
worl rl a tsainst til e wnr in Vi et Nam ma:dc the beginning of this develop-
ment. 1\. comprehensive inquiry int o conditions of tho hunger ·
- prolotariat is very imrortant for this solidarity.
Inde ed, there comes out of discussion of
Ifurxism and Anarchism.
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The year of STP-· ··whatever it m.:. y be--- cE::ems to be upon us. Both
INNER SPACE and Don McNeill ( VILLAGE VOICE) have already report ed most
of the facts nvailablo on t he new psychedelic (?). Us ers I've talked
-to report that it :'}_()t lilce prolonged Dl\-1'1
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; it _ts very intense , with
aft ereffects thaJc one person compared to a contiuous hashish high. But
before you GO crazy to get it , I offer two cautionary r emarks .
Lynn House of INNEH SPACE called i t much more ;,psycllically
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dangerous
than LSD; i. e , more people flip out. As for physical danger, I am
reminded of one experimental drug thC'.t I renlly dug, which turned out
to bo an ampJlCtim. -.r.c nnalogLJ.e of mesca line; more damaging that cocaine
to boot. The adv· ·ttage of STP seems to be total ego transcendenc e .
People said that they ceas ed t v be a self, that they became pu_re
e:x;periencinr , pure E:mergy., If you ·,-.rant a comp.'lrabl e , qui et er experience ,
without experi menting, try the mescolinc-acid hip;h. Thirty minut es
aft er taking three dramarnine, drop milligrams of me scaline sulfa te;
ihirty minuies lat er, take t he equiva l ent of half an Owsley tablet
of LSD. The mescaline anc1 the acid come on together , and mescaline
smooths the rush. The LSD is "menta2_••; tbe mescaline is sensory;
they complement each ot11er, You become jeweled experiencing , often
de scribed as the one clear light. It lasts hours . Unfortunat ely
mescaline , the groovi est and Gent l est psychedelic , is very hard _to find .
Of pract ical interest is RitD. J. in (met hylphenidat e , a CIBA produc:t)t
a vir·tually harmless stimulant. Rit;11in is a mood elevator- - the

closest thing to pot. in a pill"- but it cannot , like amphetimine ,
get you very high. In many ways it fs the of amphetimine .
It's physically harmless. On 20 milligrams you function really well;
it stimulat es clear conceptual thinking, so that you're mor e \\ together."
( Ritalin is ideal for t he student \.vho lws to do a paper he hates . )
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Unl i ke   11\fhich up blood circul at ion, Ritaline
affects the of the brain directly. as a ''psychic
ener gi zer ·•, to help ·:. :..zophrenics r elat e and cope , it nlso cnorgi zes
the hip psyche . Rar ely, it .:mxi ety s t nt es . But it is
l egal; it cD.n be obtained easily on a psychiatri st 's per scription .
Finally, if you t ake it with ac id, you get a very s uper i or hi gh . And
because i t is 8 psychic energizer, in some cc:: s es it is prefer abl e to
an abortant if you l1ave a bad trip. 20 milligrams of Rita lin can
help you to deal with the phenomena that trouble you, to overcome
  to have a e;ood tri p . And when you come down your pr oblem will
be, t o some ext ent, "sol ved
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There arc:::: endl ess number of things that can be done . The one
that I am most fond of would be a comp2rative study and correlation
of t he l anguage and attitudes of var :Lous soc i al eroups according to
thei r rol es i n r eacting to LSD experi enc e directly and indi r ectly •
••. . · The m2rxist language i s int eresting: i n Czechos lovakia ther e
was a l ot of by Dr . J . Roubicheck , who came to the
conclusion that LSD inhibits condi tioned reaction . This i s ver y
importAnt in the riarxian, Pavlovian soci ety, because what that me.:1ns
i s that you a way of wipine; out braim,rashing condi t i oned r e-
acti ons. If you have someone who has been accused of ha ving bour-
t endencies , if he takes LSD he can then claim to have wiped out
this conditioned r eact i on. It could elimi nate an awful l ot of dia-
lectical bul ls.hit in Marxist countries . ·,;
exerpt cd f r om HVJhat Allen Ginsb,_ r g
Said to Dr. Fox' ' ; INN3R SPACE tf3
;;The probl em with the Under ground Medi a i s t hat they're afraid to
print in-depth treatments generally. Short articles get you r eaders . ;,
--overheard r emark of Tuli Kupfcrber g )
The peace demonst ation on April 15 di ffered st rikingly from the
march of the sprinr of 1966. Fully a third of t l1 c Apri l 15 marchers
seemed to be hippies , compl ete wit t1 flowors
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long hair , and psyche-
delic trivia, many chanting HLove ! '
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In 196b t ho rnarch had be<:!n
compl etely st:'aight . Thi s year r s march was much larger , and i ·ts
diversity r ef l e cted pr::t rticipation of mEmy differ ent gr oups . But whi l e
other groups in the mvrch expr essed mor e sophi sticated ideologi es
(there was , indeed , no single li hip linei
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), the turned- on popul ation
of New York and environs commanded the curiousity of the public nnd
the attention of t he The psychedelic movement had emer ged as
a mass political phenomena .
political forc es usually spring from consider abl e social
change . Tltat a movement, social a nd polit ical, should have as its
credo t he use of cer tain drue s i s unique , however . Drug use i n the
past pre saged no upheavals . There was in fact no drug movement , as
such , until t he int roducti on of psychedelic ,
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consciousness- expandingil
drugs into American culture. Wi de spread use bcgnn aft er 1960 . Tl1e
int ense repression thnt followed mi ght at l east hnvt1 exci t ed the
curiousity of   socialist cl ements; for a ccording to their
own Marxist analysis, any r epr ession so harsh and thor ough must be
r oot ed i n the conflict between the capitalist power-structure
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and s ociet y at However intrinsically repr e s s ive that power
st11uctm:e? s .. wul d have not.od the exc eptional intensity of
the offlclal r eactlon to the Psychedelic I··::.enace .
Inst e:ad , most of the l eft was quick t o j oin in condomninP'
Progressive Labor, for instance , called psychedel ics a • •
pl ot \\ , point to commercialism (
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f ashi ons , ) ,
and to the nU1'1b ers of peo·"l 8 who l eft P . L. aft or experimenting with
the drugs . I'!Iany groups f orbade thE..:ir memberships to turn on . This
article questions thei r response , as   to the
closely, from a Narxi s t   the
exporl ence ltself, tho lmpa.ct of expanded consciousness upon the. user's
soc i al r e sponse , and the probable effects of widesnread use upon modes
of socio-economic and polit ical orga.nization in this soci ety. · Where
is the drug movement going , i n Marxist t erms? And what have Marxists
to l earn from it ?
This articl e uses mat er i a l from a pilot s tudy recent l y compl et ed
on the of cont i nual psychedel ic us8 on tho soc i al respon se
and pol i t ics of ten peopl e. In itsel f f amiliarity wit l1 a social' scene
oft en breeds this study of thE: t en was an attempt to
test a s eries of gen eral obsorva t Lms t hrough int onsi ve study of a
f airl y r epre:sEmtati ve sampl e of Ul'l ers. The t en subj e cts r epresent ed
the ir.fide st cross-section possi bl e of the psychedelic community, in
t erms of socio- economic l evel and background , educat i on, a nd
Tho size of tho sample '.ras limited by 1 ) time , 2) community
paranoia, which made it difficult to find more than ten continual
users (i. e , more than 20 trips) who wer e al so r epresentative , and J)
the exclusion of regul ar users of heroin or ··amphet i mine, which
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%'odify
personality in wa ys radically different from tl1e psychedelics ,
and are usually used in GOlX1.ra.tu subculture s. The " r epre s entati veness
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of a sampl e is far more impor-::.a.nt than its size, € '
Sampling pr ocedure cons isted of an opun- ended int erview involving
six queri es , eacll in tho f or m of s overal quest ions. developed fl exi bly
and at l ength. Tho aj_)pnoach was as ma lleable a s poss ible , so as t6
r e cord the subj ect
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R mvn responses , rather tllan tho int erviewer's
int er pr etation. The six covered 1) use , 2) psycl1o- social
r .eaction, 3) occupational hi s tory, h) educational history, 5) Socio-
e·conomic status before and after , and 6) changes in politica l
at.ti tudes . Sub jects were t old this wa.s to br-.. a sociolop.- ical study
of tho ef fects of LSD; t l1ey were cooperative anct . int er ested. Only
person bualified r efus ed to be int erviewed.
Bri efly, t ho s tudy :found that expanded consciousness stimul ates
Ilfassi v:e r e sponse from tho user, which he integrates via sys t ems of
meaning and va.luo (idcol oei es ), oi th0r previ ously or newly found;
and that the particular moaning-system chosen suits · tllE; user ' s
socio-economic and i de cl ogical background.
The Di alect i cs of Expanded Awa r ene s s
. Marxists in this country, espec ially tho s o "Marxist-LeninistS
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historically involved with c ommuni st or quasi-communist groups, have
approa ched dinl ectj_cnl materia lism from a purely political perspecti ve ,
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neglecting it both as a philosophy and as an application of science
to social pr oblems. They are accustomed to treat a century's writing
a s if it exi stect purely to fortify their   momentary
ooliticnl line . The ir ignorunC(: is unfortunate , for as a philosophy
if you 1nat erialism provides gr uat
insight into the psychedelic phenomena and its social implications ..
The psychGdclic exp(: rience i s best understood i n t er ms of the
i mmedint e of r adically expanded awareness : the rate at which
one notices I t s:,>eeds up.;.
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Noticement
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internal nnd ext ernal r ealities which s t imw.lates a response from the
orgapism, happens at a V[lstly acc elerat ed rate. The subj Gct - obj ect
di vision of a norma l ls!"!QWer experi encing a known tends to give way to
a detached, ecstatic , It egoless
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' experiential event . In turn, this
int ense perceptual awarene ss elicits from tho user total co!).ditionod
response for the particul ar s et und setting he finds hi mself in.
Of course a s et of contradictor y r esponses is not express ed in
behavior ; this massive response is immediat e in consci ousness . The
role- playing that int egrates normal behavior is inadequat e to l imit
this massive response; disparate roles , r eactions , and i deas awaken
in consc i ousne ss . The continual user, in fact , eventually becomes
aware not only of his current rol es, but of every role he has ever
playE:: d .
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Dial ectical materialism is concerned with this ver y pro:bl em of
experience and respons 2. IVlarx distinguished between two ways of bei ng
aware--- between objective knowing of one 's experience , and subj ect ive
behavior in to that experiencc--i . e, between what a man
experienc es and what he does. He root ed human change in the tension
between the two--the dial e ctic between data-input process ( knower),
and the conditionally modifi ed, survi •.-al-dirccted r esponse (operator l.
Both are ways in which we arc aware , as we s ee in 'f\1ar x' s comment that
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iknowing"--as knower and oper ator t ogether --involves the transformation
of the known as well as the knov.rer, sinc8 it is t hroup.; h our behavioral
response that the r eality of the ob j ects of our experience is t ested .
Hence this i s an essentially dial ect i cal mat er i alism--material
r eality emer ges as we r e s pond to our environment . 'l'hc dial@ctical
t ension between subj ect ive and obj ec tive mode s of awarene ss --between
man 's subj ective urge t o survive and his obj ective experienc@--is
explicit in I4a rx
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Marx ' s main conc ern was with applying thi s concept to human
experience a s a whol e , s ince history may be defined in terms of
l earning and r esponse , r e solut i on of man's situation int o one more or
less favorabl e to his survival, then further l earning and r esponse
to the situation so creatod. Ivlan '. s r espons e be comes part of objective ,
mat c.:: r ial r eality, apart from him as any material r eality, since man
is unabl e to control what ho cr eat e s . (The man ,..,..ho ov.ms t echnol ogy
is owned by t e chnology. ) This makes t he dial e ctic , according to
Mar x , quit e neutral as r egards human w0l farc ; it falls upon us to
live with hi 0tory f avorably or unfavorably. He himself rGcommEmded
a kind of ti ego-transcendenc e
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, throuf; ll conceptual effort ,
to at compl et e awa rcne:; ss of yourself and your environment,
unbiased by invol vement, so as to be able to modify your
conqitioning. For society is a functi on of conditioned r esponse .
And unl ess we modify s ocio- e conomic and politicul forms, which are
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like cnpi t nl ist pr op8rty
r cl ·at1.ons , nat+on- stet e , et c . --we never IT cat ch up
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from the dial 8ctic .
Alienati on: Rol e and Ins titution
The pr eceding philosbphical insert be com0s r el evant when wu l ook
at t he actual f i ndi ngs about tl1c ef f e ct of cont i nua l dr ug usc from the
aforement i oned s t udy . lJhil e f indings cons i der abl y amonk t ho
Sl?-bj octs , cert a in omcr ged . All t hu sub j t.: cts r eport ed
consider a bl e chango in t he ir live s since they had bL: gun u s i ng the
drugs . They s ai d t hat th(; y wer o s timul at ed i nt ellectually by their
experience s (although cducat i ona1as pirat i ons moro a pr oduct of
past persona l experi ence than any f act or like drug us c ) . Thos e of
lower s ocio- economi c backgr ound had not boon upw2r dly mobil e ; t hose
with middl 0 cl ass wer e both downwa rdly· und upwardly mobil e .
Ther e was a high incidence of l eftism in lower cla ss
nnd dovmwnrdly mobile pet it bour geois subj e.: cts . E single exception
wa s a film-maker from a righti s t up)! or mi drU c class ba ckground , who
had be como an apolit ica l f ollowc· r of 'r i mothy Leary . Those who r ema ined
in tho middl e clus s t ended t o bu apol itical . Throughout the s ampl e
thor o wns .:1 high corr elation bet we en educat i onnl ba ckground a nd .
pol i t ica l sophi s t i cat i on, a singl e exception bcingo.high school drop
- out of lower midc.Uo cl nss or igin, who de s cribed himself a s a
anarchist
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In one r cspGct tho s ocial effects of ps ychedel i cs wer e tho same
for a ll t L: n subj c.cts .. Each s a i d that ho hnd been stimulat ed int ellect -
ual .ly; t hat r epeat ed psychedelic experience brougbt about Hrol o
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ocs tas y
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' : a ctive nwar one ss of value s, · ideas, plapning
behavior previously aut oma ticnlly and unrefl cct ivol y pursued.
consci ousne s s of roles - played, s ubj ects r opert ed now
awarene s s of t ho r outines and ins titutions of societ y , freeing thorn
from unconsci ous, mechani ca l int ur 0ction, from conditioned r e spons e
t0 the manipulat ed, emotional symbol s of t ho mass media. They boc.:1me
mor e concerned with porsenal s nt isf nction , a s they saw it, l os s wit h
the controls · nnd status symbols of the gr eat Amcricnn ';Game'; .
A r epr es ent ative s ubj e ct s a id of hi s ps ycho-social r c.; action thnt
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became awa re of r epetitive patt er n s of buhavior; 'dropped out',
pl aying r ol es to a ct out <l lionnt i on; sustnincd a t empor a ry int 0lluctual
hiatus, but learned empat hy--to r el nt o to peopl e inst ead of stetus;
be came ant i-mat eria list .
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The wide va ri ety of obser ved ef fects on the di r ection of s ocia l
mobility and politica l behavior, on t ho othc.; r hand , worked a gainst easy
conclusi ons about thu probable widos cal c socio- e conomic and politicnl
i mpa ct of psychedelics. It is in light of lithe dial e ctic of expanded
consciousnos s
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a lienation, t hat the e cstatic psycho-social r Ga ctions of thc.; 10 subj ects
provide a starting point .
We ar c born . into human soci ety; we play role s from that moment on .
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is tho psychologi cal end of human int er nction, just a s stntus is
t he s ocia l end . Every area of int cr nction has its rol e nnd s t atus ;
role organize s one 's lifo just a s stnt us organi ze s soci ety. A role
played subs ume s st atus; i t can be dcs cribc0 a s a line of planning ,
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which or ders r esponse accor di ng to a routine s et of val ues ancl proce-
dures , with n corresponding int erpretat i on of the world . Rol e- playing
excludes awarene ss, ideas , and behavior that arc irrel evant to the
it is
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• It integr at e s conditioning . Now the very
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der us unconscious of thorn ns we pl ay a r ol 8. Wi th so much effort
i nvolved in l enrning and accomplishing various pr ocedure s, for in-
stance , one has littl e l eft to r e- examine them. And i f ever y
r ole include s an inturpretation of the worl d--a
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int erpret ation i s narr owly to its us c in turms
of r ole.; rarely do8s thinking int erfer e.: directly with r ole -playing.
Procedure modifies int or pr utation , r at her thnn vi ce ver sa . Hence,
and because most of our values and procedures aru socially conditioned
in the first pl ace, cl ements of onG' s roles t end t o bE.:
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is I:larx' s key duscriptivl.) COilCI..) pt for the di al ectic
bf human c:xpcri enco and It s uxm.lining the
psychedelic expuri unce anrl its (:)ff Gcts, is pr ofound . Al i unation is
in man 's rntionnlly structured mot ivation
(valuos , proccdurus) is impos ed upon the world (internal and ext erna l)
through beha vior , modifyinG experienc e ; as that pr ocL:ss , moreover,
through which the... '
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so imposed becomes alhm and inimical
to hwnan mot ivation a s directly f elt: In other words,   modifi-
cations of r eality obj Gct ify his whli:ch in its vury
becomes unamunabl e to his wil l .
Besides the dim0ns i on not orl--i. o , the of
simpl e conditioned to
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qunt e role- playi ng , and n.; sulting '
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' bias of behavior--
alienat i on is a social phenomena . Institutions and rituals tend to
assume lia life of their own'; . Fron wides pr u<ld b8l i ef in their forms ,
f r om pc:rs onDl COEli• ·i tmcnt and s ol f - int erest of men invol vE: d i n til t ir
funct i ons , institutions bccone independent of human wi l l and sur,rive
as al most organic ent i ti0s --antithetical thouph they be to original
· purpose or human well-being. becomes all-important; meuns
absorb onds ; the quas i-organic continuity of pre cident and
devel ops along i ts own lines . Depending upon wl wrL- a pL: r son i s
socinlly situatud, his att:i,.tud.:.; s toward a ci ven institut i on vnry.
But every mL.mber of n soci uty contains , of i ts predominant ins titutions ,
a r itual anul ogue in t hL roles hG pl ays . And in thu f act that th8
psychic C; nEJ r e;y suf'fichmt to cllanp;e rol es-played t ends to be more
than absorbod maint a ining them, socio- economi c and politica l inst itu-
tions r esist modification or control- - not becaus G men f ear coercion,
primarily, but bGcauso they no longer distinguish b-ct wc; en thu cultural
and the natura l. The inst itutional functiona ry, his act i ons r el atively
to t he pr ocedure pr ucidunt of his position , hns as litt l e
freedom as anyone .
The massive conditioned r esponse--tho flood of r eactions , r ol es ,
nnd ideas elicited by psychedel ic, expanded consciousnoss--invol ves , .
then, not only a Freudian "rut urn of the repre ssed'' , but a jarring !
new awarene ss of
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For the multi- roled member of a compl ex, urban culture , f rustrat ed
and "wasted
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by t he role- conflict, alienation , and meaningl essness of
his linear r ole- playing, the need coher ently to r e-inter pr et, to unify
his pas t and pr<:: sent is overwhel ming. He l ongs for
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just outside of society as a compact and coher ent nself" . The modern
success of
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imeaning-syptcmsli - - ideologi e s like Freudi anism, l•.'iarxi .sm, and
    a function of mor e than obj e cti vity or successful
response to the world, as supposed. Each pr ovides the convert
with a conc eptual /normative framework with whi ch t o gras p and int egrat e
h;Ls past and pr esent, l iberating his ener gies and awar ene ss from the
conflicts inherent in linear norms and int erpretations . Science , wher.e
interpretation according to rul e s of scient i fic evidence is a l one the
cpd, is another alternative .
Whe:Pe sci enc e an<i I·.1arxist idcoloe;y alike depend on rigor ous appli-
cation of a conceptual fraD1cwork : n order to achieve awareness, use of
a psychedelic expands awareness ; so that to deal with his mas s ive
response, the user is forc ed t o appl y his f ormerly par tial inter preta-
t ions. and ideol ogi e s compl et el y and Or, no workable
meaning- system existed , as in the cas<:J of tht.: formerly rightist film
- maker, he adopts a now ideology lik0 the one proffer ed by Dr . Luary.
I n all of the ten cases studiad, ceased to apol ogize f or
rol e- playing , to P certain ext ent , and an instrument for modifyi ng
personalit y, and t o some extent , soci ety. Herein lio the politicai
dimensiohs of the psychedelic r t.: volution , for ther u proved to be a
strong correlation sodi o- economic background and the
cont ent of those efforts.
The new politics of t he tan continual user s studi ed, more.t han
anything ·el s e , r epresent ed the ir r eaction t o their place in American
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Gamc; ' . Three of subj 0ct s wor l.; st rugz:;i:4 i ng a gainst low socio- e conomic
backr;round and .. concomittant .:; ducat i ona l and occupat i onal drawbacks .
They quit . Their politics repre s ent, in spite of l eftist sentiments,
s i mple communistic anarchism, akin t o tlw att itud<J s of tho Digp.:ers .
Three others, of upper middle c:ass background , wer e potent i al wi nners;
thcywst ayod somowhuru in thu middle class . The.:.:r=:: arc thE:; politics of
psychedelic non- invol vement , t o varying For two subj ? cts· with
upper middl e cl ass bnclcgr ounds and oxt enslve coll ege , de scent lnto the
impoverished pet it bourgeoi s came vvhon e;enuine nrtistic a ctivity sup-
plant ed r egul ar occupation . One started as a rightist , tho other a s a .
both are now strictly Lenr yite in t lH.: ir to non
- involvement, their bel i ef in LSD as a social panac ea . For tho two who
:i:n addition to upper middle cl ass and college background had historie s
of Marxist activism, membership in the impover i shed petit bour geois
int elligcnsia is a badge of place in psyched0lic r evolution.
Illegality of psycl10dolics compounded the user 's a lienation. They
t ended· to r e-int erpret the world in t urms of their own ·ex"?e:ri once, past
and pre s ent; ma ss media and nuthority r e ceded f r om t he ir for mer pr e
- eminence ns det er minants. But hmiVL; VE: rmuch alicme1tion from capitalist
soc i ety thoi r poli tical views expressed, illn each case ·the user r ospuct ed
his soci o- economic and pol i t i cal past and present . However modifi ed
by the psychodcl ic cxperi0nce , socio- ec ono1nic det erminism stil l operat es .
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The Political Future
The frequent use of psychedelics is spreadi ng , and it seems to
aggr Rvntc the continual user ' s alienation from both traditional \
authority the·mass media. Continual use seems to
a stronger, mor e con cret e , and simult.r.meously more individua l '
i deologi cal r espons e to t he user' s not i on of society. But t his
mean·s that conw1on use of psychedelics is no guarantee of a unified
psychedelic movement , or of its eventual succes s . The novcn6nt!s
efforts ar e its own . If conditions revolutions, men make
At the same time; ther e are social condit ions, a side from
treat ed in the study, that make up thu context the movement pres ent l y
The user in middle and upper cla sses, for i nst ance , must
derrl with a cha r act eristic, rigid social response : the pr eva l ent
norms of possession and control, Qassively r e- enforced by t he violenc e
rmd alienntion of capitalist soc i ety. I n tll u mi dc'l.le nnd upper classes,
t he peed to control and to be cont rollGd , to possess or to be pos - ·
sassed is obsess i onal . This culturnl fasc ination with control ari ses
parttally to insure r estricti on of bour geois behavior to the routine ,
linebr rolc- playine tlwt mainta i ns capi t ::ill.ist inst itutions . B(:)yond
this, the i ndividua l who cr aves r i gid control when he i nteracts with
others, who appronches his envi r onment bent on· posse ssing, ther eby
displays a hi s tory of r el at i ve punishment and starvation. Rigid
heranc0 to nor ms of possessi on .. and control indi cates a past life full
of f ear, emotional violence , and punishment , a childhood s pent being
controlled and possess0d rather than l oved . A chil d his
f amilial figuve s; serve onl y to r e- emforce control and

The exper i enc8 al t ers this normative statis totally,
Expanded awareness stimulat es a mnss ive conditioned r usponse to the
user' s s et and s etting that defi es r e striction of any lcind.
sion , the psyche 's strongest control-rl:; sponse , t ends to disappenr .
But norms of possessi on and cont r ol compl ement repress ion. As r epr essed
memori es r uturn, painfully· i mmediate in awareness , t he user's norms
of ppss ession <.:md control are brought into confl ict, a,nd t r ansformed.
His eventunl social r eaction, depending on his background, wi ll range
from Learyit e detachment to vnrious pol itical t endenci es . In any
case , tho psychedelic exper i ence to the limits of the ego :
to posse ss is to yourself to a thing as you fast en it to your-
s el f ; to cont rol i s to f ast en yourself to viol ence to 1naintain control,
in fpar it will b0 broken . Hence , psychedelics t hreat en t he ·
viol ent norms that r e- enfor ce thi s society.
Consi dering the politica l r eacti on of frequent psychedelic usors
f rom. low soci o- economic backgrounds , it is stimulat ing to not <.; t hat .
18 . B million , or h2% of all tous e-hoJLds in United Stat e s had
annual incomes of l oss than ,5, 000 in t he 1959 census; another 19 . 3
million--43%--got by on l ess than   000 . rJiost playc.; rs i n · the Ameri-
can Game are not winners . And the anar chi stic , communi stic Diggers,
what ever their other attitudes , r epudiat e: tlw present order .
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mi ght be rt:duc ed to the simpl e observation
that the trnnsacti ons of any socia l gr oup- - r egar dl e ss of particulnr
form or cont ent--are l a r gel y transact i ons a bout the a llocation of
work and the r esul t ing goods anrl services . Norms like possess ion and
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control, . gl:"owths like· the milita ry-industrial compl ex,
the war ln are f unctions of our pre s e nt
from our rattlEr than consequences of
or production a::1d distribtrtion as such" Nov.r e very major
smcio- e c onomic r evolut i on (i. e, . repl ac ing
come with the inqlement at i on of a n ew t echnol ogy (st eam e ng ine )
enabl ed men to r opl ac0 a l ienated economic instituti ons wi.tp new
m6d es of int e raction wi t l1 to e conomic environme nt.
The st eam engine was complet ely i n i mical to f e udal and post - f eudl:ll
e¢onomic institut i ons. Early 20th Century capitalism, on the oth8r
hand, hnd produced nothing which could enable Russi a t o cr eat e
s ocialism. ·
Marx n e ver specifi ed the forms of sos i u:i_i st or communist soci ety.
He expected only that 1·ritb socialimn ownersh1.p of the me:·:ns of produc-
and distribution would be common to thut e c onomic int e raction
wcul d c e<1se to be a l ienated i n capit a list forms o.'.' ownership and ' market
ex change , and that r eforms would come the politica l dominance of
the non-bour geolilsie ( e . g , the prol etari nt)..., Communism would arise with
the fina l disappea r ance of ali enati on, <1nd t l1e absorption of seconda ry
s<;>cial structure by primary groups ( e . g ,
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, communitie s, etc.).
In t his light the psyc hed elic ···. i s p.:=: ;<·wps Uw key not only
to gr eat e r social consciousness ,   fatol to capitalism. ·
Thi s pharmacology is precisely the v.Jhj_ch will r el eas e human
en ergie s from the al ienated inst i tu-' · · • ;.s of CC.'J. · ···.:: lism, e nabling · men
to r e organize society, and the j.r int eract ion, on a highe r,
s aner l e vel. The psychccl.el i c rcvoluti. on is revolutionary in a s ens e
:a6 I··rarxist can i gnore,. It pi'esageD tho end of both capitalism and
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At pr esent, the probability that the Now Left will succeed its
currunt appeals t o leftist within the psychedelic community
.i s limit ed . With n f 0w > thG mi ddl e class int e lligensia of
t he drug movement undorsG Lcary 'c New Leftists for
the most part f orgone the psychedelic exper i ence , and posse ss a dis-
tort e: d vision of it .. s r,:: li tical imrar:t .. ; Th e D.Lggcrs, with tlw same
awaren e ss that de spise .'' a mcch'-m:i st -:_ (.: ; co:'por a t 8 capitalist ---
aJ?.d the shoddy offe rin·: "3 of :i.t s mass Ii1C;:-l Ht > .::re to d istrust- a
s:tmila r t enden cy on tlw Lef'.:. ·!.:, ,; ;.:ym' . Jl o and present a : slick
ide ological explanati on in of r Gal ity.
In the ond there will be n o with any pres e nt State , not
because compromise invol ves one in ma li 's exploitation of ma ri.
All present :'tatcs arc i dentical i n their a lienation ( split)
from the peopl e a nd t h e ir survival c Arly for ce th<.!t r c s iJ l ve s that
a lien a tion threatens the Stat e, pnranoia and sadism are
t nble concomitt ant s of its functj_on : maint..odning man
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his productive e nviro:mment • . For, as with the the en e rl?y
polity is s apped by its
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- ,o.and it cannot cope with the of ter.h;..ology , or the pathology
of its r epressive, sadistic custcms. The State amplifi e s our weak ego,
pfoj e cting on e veryone our guilt a nd f ea r3 oa0ed _in.
t ioning common to a ll of us; the outl ets of f a sclst pathol ogy be .come
war, poverty, and tyranny , not only e conomically but
n e cessary.
Capita lism is as inescapably repre ssive of the psychedelic
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phenome na C! s tile psy:h<..:: cl elic movement is threatening to the pre s ent
order . The Tomoki nu Square 2t roci t i es only the beginning . To
ch<m r·e your you have: to society. Nor will be a
trully n ew soci ety wi".::.hout
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rcac,tion within the r Gvolut ion- -will the atte mpt of any party
t o deal Ni t h the a l i-- ·. i.on, and control patholot;y
boqueath od upon it by past o

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PROLYXIN ELIXIR
(The powt:r st: ··1ctu re has the drug t l: chnology t oo . The following
shows how the: y are v;.:. l ling to usu i t" )
ton tlw fift h Sunday after I L.; nt er t d the institution I was put ·
on prol yxin (; lixir. It   ll : 45, just before l unch . I was sitting
at a t abl e in tho day1·oom, t nl king and pl.c: ying gin with another
patient two student nurse s. I was surprisc.: d when thu ntt cmdcnt
with thv iilGcl.ications c.:1 rt stopped nnd kmdE:.: d 1110 a cup with
sqmQ S'rrup in it . Bef or e I could ask o. oue st ion , the H0nd Nurse of
S(; cond Floor R(; c ui vin g , I·Icn' s VJ ine; , w.c:s by my t abl e . I ..,.ms, s he
snid, t o have begun my nodic ntion a a f ter I ente r ed,
bnt the ordc.: r had been mispl aced. I l ook ed at them swollolrJCd
the c ont ents of tho pape r cup .
Fully two thirds of the 3,500 i nmat es of Kal amazoo St nt (; Hospi -
tal   g:i.vun a t ran qu:U i zing drug of sor.1e sort . Not only di d tho
ha v e a tl1 araputi c Ka lamazoo is prima rily a custo-
di al i nst itut i on : wi·i·,lt a stnff c ons isting of 3 a f ov1
more psvchol ogists soc i a l workers , several r egul.:l r l\·iD ' s , some
eccupational Tlwro.py p0opl c --aboL1t thirty prof<.; s s i onals in a ll--and
900 nurse s <md with t r ·d ning r a n ging from 4 WL.eks up . In
thi s milieu drugs :-::t..:I7L.:d t he :i_ m:) ortnnt funct i on of k L.cping the
bohavior of the 3, 500 o:;:dc:rly •
. Prolyxin e l ixir, or f l u;Jh enoz ine hydrochloride , is <.1 Squibb
product. Idenll y, it cupprosSL.; S n ounnl a ctivity betwcon tl to foru
--brnin <:mel th2 brm.n , pr LJ venting pursonali ty conflicts from
communicnt ing   C\S n (:rvous   On thE:.: first day of
medication , t. h u (·l ;:' '.':.g rncrGl y e me gr of::gy , and made:: it impossi ble to
r ead< Aft.e:-lunch nn ·;:,lw second da y, h owt..:vur. the back of my h ead
began to f evl h oavyn I v'ras pl o.yi ne; chuss , again with a student nurse .
[:l oon my h ead wa s t1rr:L s!:,ing so f nr back t oward my right shoulde r-blade
thnt it b(; carrlC i iilpossibl e t o SC:L the che ssboard. The student nurse
me to tho n earby wnrd , wh\..;r e I could l ay down o For th'-.! n ext
thr ee hours   wh ol e body twis t <..::d an·' j C:! rked in involuntar y s pasms.
Nei ther rel nx i ng nor a ttomp·t.inr; to cont r ol my muscl e s did nny good .
The expe ri ence of losing control wa s Bot so much pa inful as ne rve - -
s hatt e ring ; I cri ed. An att end ent put me in a hot bath . Some time
nround 7:00 thnt evening I f ell slowl y nsl cop , cxhaust ud, my descent
into unc onsc i ousne ss st i l l ioltecl bv an occasi onal t remor.
I awoke the n ext morning tremblinr-.:; with n e rvous static . My
s econd convulsion camo on bef ore lunch, when I was in Occupational
The rap:· I was i n bed i n t,m minut us ; it l asted tha n two h ours
-··Wor sG than. the day buf oru " Aft ...: r lunch the doctor s a w !TIL; . Appar-
ently ·t.he staff my r eaction would pass , or tlwt I wns bluffing .
Tho doctor r a isDd my dos e:; f r OJ ·l 10 mi lligrams t hrcL t i mes o. duy to
25 milligr nms thre e: time s a dny. I a;1 tol d that 25 milligrams of
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prolyxin elixir is equi.valcnt to milligrums of thorazine . That
afternoon I had the l ongest and most viol ent convulsion.
I lose track of tho days. I was largely i gnore d,
confined to a b1.0 d; I slept 16 or mort: hours a dny. I would awake, Late
in the morning, agitat ed. Toward t wo in the the trembling
would i ncreas e , I would j erk and tvvist for t\-.ro or three hours, my
body archipg around my rit;ht shouldc.:r-blude. I did not complain too
much; I did not want t o svnt to thircl. fl oor, to thE: penal floor, to
spend six of my life with a:ubula tory catatonics <md homosexuals
who talked to themselves. I continued to r eceive 25 milligrams of
prolyxin elixir three time s a day ..
On Friday the convulsions stop1.")ed, or rather, subsided to a con-
  nervousff'trpermanent convulsion tha t l eft me ha lf--pa ralyzed. I
slowly that morning , on cg·.:s, to t llc The Huad Nurse wa s
amused that I had fina lly decided t o gut out of bed .
I had a v·isitor that wE.:elcend who l ater d.esc':' ibed me a s a zombie.
I s poke with him for an hour, grogp.:.y , drool :'ng, my n(; ck and bnclc co
twisted that I could not sit up in thu ch.:1:i.::·. Fj 1' the next couple of
days I tried to shake off the effLCt3 of tho drug, hobbling back and
forth, up and down the of Second Floor Recei ving> Men Wing.
More and more , though , I t urned to I 't-TC.ls and under the
drug's influence , I could sleep 16 18 hcurP. a day, grabbing a couch
in one of the dayrooms bet,tleen meal "> .
This disturbed t-he st<1ff; it w.!..·:. l.J.rm·;al,
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r eality.;, I was overJ oyed one noon I wa s told the. t I was being
taken off prolyxin elixir.
Twenty-four hours l at e r I Hus begging to be put bnck on it; my
body chemistry hnd become .. Loned ·i--o the drug, nnd I was in the
middle of violent '"i t l1JrarrCl l s ymptoms. l''rj - body slli ver ed furiously, my
t eeth r a ttled, t he drool::.ng became 'vorse . Sometimes a ll the shivering
in my body would spchronize, a r1d I would j erk up and down in tho chair
wher e I s a t or the bed wherP. I L :.y. Falltng asleep last ed hours. The
second da y \•ms t he wc rst . .·· -lPPGr my t eeth chatter ed together so
violently that I CO'J.ld no-:. o<..lt . HhE.m I begged tho Head Nurse to put
mo ba ck on prolyxin e lixir! to gi v0 me in i t s   she
thrcat en ud me wit h Thi 1·d Flo ::·"i:" .
Toward the end of the :-:8 :-:_ • rlay • l ended ; it ha d l ated 72
hours. Wi thdrawnl =·"·.:t s t e;; n t ::..:-n-:s t. :1D:_ (:o:-. -,rul 3ions . In all,
I was unde r the ef:i:'ects of :r::-v n e lixir f 'J-r:' exactly two wc.:eks.
Now that I was able t o r ead aga: n my book.:3 has di.:::eppear ed from the
floor. I know that the staff d:J of rr.y :·c; a ding-· -·this w2s made
explicit two weeks lat ur---be c aur; e it en; ' ··l ed rnG 'L '1 withdr aw from the
Thera putic Presence . I have that I was given pr olyxin elixir
to inhibit my reading . In those t wo week . .> I l ost l5 pounds •
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