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...live, can barely handle peak loads. At a national electricity summit two weeks ago, industry leaders warned that if action isn't taken soon, supplies could run short or the grid give way within five years. "We don't have much reserve margin," says Alex Sundakov, of energy consultancy Castalia. "We are flying by the seat of our pants, really...
Cohen presents his credentials early in the article ("I have taken LSD many times"), and a note reveals that he spent some time at Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert's Castalia Foundation. But then, when the acid-heads know he's on their side of the chasm...
...held accountable for popularizing the mind-bending drug LSD, was arrested in Texas in December and last month received the maximum sentence-30 years in jail and a $40,000 fine-for illegally transporting marijuana. Last week police raided the rambling, 64-room house rented by Leary's Castalia Foundation in Millbrook, N.Y., and Leary, free on bail, once again was arrested-this time on charges of "possessing" narcotics, which were found in an upstairs bedroom...
...opened a sort of Hallucination Hilton in an old resort hotel. He offered to expand consciousnesses at the rate of $200 a month and $6 per expansion; the Mexican government expelled him after two months. He tried unsuccessfully to reopen in the Caribbean, finally established something called the Castalia Foundation on a 3,000-acre estate in Millbrook, N.Y., near Vassar and Bennett colleges. Along the way, he had become very much a religious mystic; the four-story foundation headquarters was filled with religious statues, yoga exercisers and Leary followers seeking spiritual enlightenment by smoking marijuana cigarettes and chewing morning...
...moment Leary is at his home in Millbrook, New York, where he directs activities of The Castalia Foundation, are institution devoted to research on "psychedelic," or "mind-broadening," experiments, such as those induced by certain drugs. "This was a heresy trial," Leary said yesterday, "but in the long history of heresy trials, I suppose I got off lightly...
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