Word: acids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERMANN HESSE -- The Nobel Prize - winning German novelist, whose book, The Journey to the East, is an excellent metaphor for the kind of revelation-seeking an acid trip entails. In the book he writes of the pilgrimage: "Throughout the centuries it had been on the way, towards light and wonder, and each member, each group, indeed our whole host and its great pilgrimage, was only a wave in the eternal stream of human begins, of the eternal strivings, of the human spirit towards the East, towards Home. The knowledge passed through my mind like a ray of light and immediately...
MARSHALL McLUHAN -- The English professor whose difficult books (Understanding Media and The Medium is the Massage) and a really great interview in Playboy magazine provide a theoretical basis for what acid trippers believe about telepathy: "Tribal man is tightly sealed in an integral collective awareness that transcends conventional boundaries of time and space. As such, the new society will be one mythic integration, a resonating world akin to the old tribal echo chamber where magic will live again: a world of ESP . . . Electricity makes possible--and not in the distant future, either--an amplification of human consciousness on a world...
...BEATLES--While all rock groups do music that sounds "far out," the Beatles are really the only ones who represent a specifically acid experience with a combination of lyrics and musical sounds. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Dear Prudence, in particular, deal with the kind of transcendence that the acid experience is. The totally new kind of sound in both these songs is what it's all about...
...diaphragm. A relatively small hernia will permit the lowest part of the gullet to slide upward into the chest, while a larger one will let part of the stomach slide up (hence the synonym "sliding hernia" for a hiatal hernia). In such cases, some of the stomach's acid contents flow back up into the gullet, causing irritation and inflammation (esophagitis...
...surgery for hernia consisted mainly of stitching the diaphragm to restore the hiatus to its natural, former size and putting the stomach back in place. This worked well for most patients, at least for a few months, but after that as many as 25% had a recurrence of their acid reflux. So they were back where they started with "heartburn," which became especially severe while they were lying down, and it was likely to wake them in the middle of the night. Then they spent sleepless hours, propped up in pain...