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...true that taking a "drug" usually locks you into experiencing you actions through a given fixed perspective for as long as you are under the drug's influence. If, for example, you take LSD, you've got to be ready for clear light, revelation, and ego transcendence for the next eight hours or more. (A lot of people don't think they are ready for this. And since there is no real condition of being ready for an experience or not being ready, what they think they are capable of is all that matters...
Reprints of yesterday's CRIMSON Supplement on LSD, Richard Alpert, and Higher Forms of Consciousness will be available at our 14 Plympton St. offices todaf for the rest of this week...
...acid literature and acid thought are really only those ideas that deal with high level revelation, mysticism, telepathy, and transcendence of the ego. The LSD experience should not be confused with, for example, the stream-of-consciousness way of representing the way we experience the regular world. It would be confusing to call, let's say, James Joyce an acid tripper...
There are a number of people whose work is very much what the acid experience is about. We will call these guys the acid trippers. Some of them (like Hesse and McLuhan) have never taken LSD, but have explained the ideas the are very helpful in trying to understand what the acid experience is like. Most of the others' writings are directly influenced by their experience with acid...
...KESEY and TOM WOLFE--Wolfe wrote the book (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) about Kesey's organizing the Merry Pranksters, who crossed the U.S. in a bus with him, and threw huge parties in California with LSD in the Kool-Aid. The book is a milestone in acid literature, and probably the only good thing directly about the experience. Kesey has written Sometimes A Great Notion, a book that really flows, since he started taking the drug. And the Merry Pranksters are the ones who put fluorescent paint in psychedelics...