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- From: popeyeti@access3.digex.net (Pope Electric Yeti)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Island One, part One.
- Date: 7 Jun 1994 04:42:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <2t0trv$3b2@news1.digex.net>
-
- Namaste everyone!
-
- Those of you who have been following the little brushfire flame war that
- has been going on against Bruce Eisner's ad campaign for his magazine
- "the Island" somethingorother Newsletter have been kind of curious about
- the open threat I made to reveal his personal email to me if he posted
- another ad. Well, he hasn't so I won't.... yet... If Eisner want to
- publish a magazine, fine by me. However if he wants to use a public
- network for private ends, without even so much as a paragraph of *his*
- work to compensate, that is setting a bad precendent. Soon we will be
- bombarded by billboards and ads for everything under the sun. We will
- have our "lofty net culture" stolen from us and sold back to us for a
- quick buck. It could happen, no lie, if we don't start telling people
- from day one that we aren't going to buy into the
- Madison-Avenue-Sell-Your-Own-Mother way of looking at the world.
-
- Well before everyone starts humming "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" I
- am going to do what I promised I would do. Here is a *FREE* Island Group
- Newsletter, number one part one.... (worth every cent I paid for it)
- Everyone is a member of the Island group who says s/he is. I can't
- stop anyone from posting drivel, least of all myself, so if ya don't like
- it then don't read it or write something better.... Send all complaints to
- president@whitehouse.gov, because I've got more important things to do.
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- ISLAND GROUP NEWSLETTER
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- NUMBER ONE, PART ONE
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- A Review of Moksha, Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
- edited by Micheal Horowitz & Cynthia Palmer.
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- "But he who contemplates the 3rd mantra of OM, i.e., views God as
- himself, becomes illuminated and obtains moksha. Just as serpent relieved
- of its olded skin, becomes new again,so the yogi who worships the 3rd
- mantra relieved of his mortal coil, of his sins and earthly weaknesses,
- and freed with his spiritual body to roam throughout God's Universe,
- enjoys the glory of the All-Pervading Omniscient Spirit, ever and
- evermore. The contemplation of the last mantra blesses him with moksha or
- immortality."
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- From The Mandukyopanishat being The Exposition of OM
- the Great Sacred Name of he Supreme Being in the Vedas.
- Trans. Pandit Guru, Datta Vidyathi,
- Prof. of Psychical Science, Lahore. Lahore 1863
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- A breif search of the books by Aldous Huxley at my college library yielded
- this little gem. Moksha is a collection of writings by, to and about Huxley's
- experiences with psychedelics. It contains a number of personal letters,
- interviews and even an edited transcript of one of his psilocybin sessions.
- The book is divided into two parts and is in roughly chronological order.
- The first part, "Precognition", starts with "A Treatise on Drugs" written in
- 1931. He follows this with other articles that show his personal fear
- of the use of drugs that numb the mind, while suggesting that a new drug
- "Soma" should be developed to satisfy the need for bliss and escape, one
- that would not have the negative effects of street drugs. In these
- articles he is predicting the mass use of psychedelics, without the
- knowledge of the deeper, more spiritual nature of these drugs. The second
- half, entitled "Psychedelics and Visionary Experience", starts in 1953,
- the year of Huxley's first mescaline session. He is a different man, less
- alienated and cynical and more hopeful and optimistic. The difference is
- striking, and quite inspirational. Only those who have had a psychedelic
- experience will truly appreciate the difference. He takes a writer's
- talent with words, an artist's talent for images and a mystic's talent
- for navigating the mind and combines them together into a synthaesthetic
- whole. This book is truly a tribute to a man whom many saw as a visionary.
-
- ISBN: 0-88373-042-1
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- Stonehill Publishing Company, 1977..
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- End Part One.
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