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...DeRopp sees drugs as one way for the initiate to get the haziest sense of what the fourth room is about. He says that the psychedelics (among which he includes hashish) can offer very temporary and "cheap" self-transcendence. But the revelations of trips are subject to a law of diminishing returns. Ultimately, the drug experience wastefully "burns out the centers of spiritual energy," all of which must operate at full potency if the student aspires to enter the fourth room. DeRopp never really gets much more specific, which has caused some grumbling among heads who are open...
This reliance on plausible generalities when operational specifics are so sorely needed undercuts the value of the whole book. DeRopp is a very articulate man who usually has the good sense not to technically overshoot the vocabulary of the lay reader. But outside of recounting some enlightening but esoteric anecdotes, he really does little more than crystallize a sense that experience has given...
...know that the linear pursuit of ego-goals is a closed circle wherein getting there is none of the fun. Except for the sketchiest of suggestions that require a dedicated between-the-lines reading. DeRopp helps us but little in acting on that knowledge. He verbalizes many of our sickest foibles and follows with a rejoinder like "On the other hand, the student of Creative Psychology (capital C. capital P) approaches the problem from a much healthier premise." After a while, the reader half expects to come across an application black to fill out and send away for your free...
...Because DeRopp chooses to deal with the only game that subsumes all other games, the Life or Master Game, we must avoid setting requirements of success that are too high to be met. It is hardly fair to ask if the author resolves the problem he broaches when that problem is essentially man's place in the cosmos...
...Harvard. Tagged from grade school as "gifted children," herded together during Orientation Week for pronouncements on how "special" we are glad-handed by proud relatives and deified by guidance counselors. we can use as many reminders of our biological spiritual identity as we can get. If we remember that DeRopp, like the rest of us, has a firmer grasp of the questions than of the answers, reading his book can have some value...