“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the … Continue reading The Spright Who Lives Between The Wall and the Door: A Poem, Based on Readings of Timothy Leary’s biography by Robert Greenfield
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R.I.P. to Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Poet and Publisher Who Took a Chance On the Beat Generation
R.I.P. to Lawrence Ferlinghetti - poet and publisher who took a chance and stood up to censorship lawsuits to publish some of the beat generation's best and most daring in the 1960s. Publishing Allen Ginsberg's poetry chapbook 'Howl' which was the subject of a groundshaking censorship trial cemented Ferlinghetti as a generous thoughtful leader of … Continue reading R.I.P. to Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Poet and Publisher Who Took a Chance On the Beat Generation
‘The Trial of The Chicago 7’ (2020) Is a Wonderful Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVb6EdKDBfU The 2020 Netflix film 'The Trial of The Chicago 7' is an historically based telling of a large protest which turned into a riot, and the ensuing court case of several of the leaders of the protests. It is not the same film one would make if one wanted to frame the '1968 Democratic … Continue reading ‘The Trial of The Chicago 7’ (2020) Is a Wonderful Film
The Hexen 2.0 Tarot Deck Weds Cybernetics with Mystic Divination in a Far Out Alchemical Blend
The Following Description is taken from https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html HEXEN 2.0 looks into histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, investigating parallel histories of countercultural and grass roots movements. HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, … Continue reading The Hexen 2.0 Tarot Deck Weds Cybernetics with Mystic Divination in a Far Out Alchemical Blend
