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TABU OF COA/T£A/TS - Donna Bo 1 ton 1 Little Girl On T Table of Contents Pg.3 Editorial Page Pg.4 Access Codes and Carnival Blasts - Timothy Leary interview Pg.5 Everybody Has Co smogonic Potency - Albert Hofmann interview Pg.6 Jack Sarfatti's Future Ma chine - Alex Cain Pg. 7 The Monkey Is Be ing Shed - Terence McKenna interview Pg.8 Understanding Mi nd-Active Drugs - Andrew Weil interview Pg.9 High Longevity - in conve rsation with Paul Segall Pg.10 Book Reviews - New books by William S. Burroughs and Robert Anton Wil son Pg.il A Galactic Tapp ing In To The Information Field - Terence McKen na interv iew //2 Pg. 15 Multiple Media Maniacs - Malcolm McCluhan and Marshall McClaren Pg.16 Neo-Psychedelic Party 7-Point Pop Plan

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Special thanks are due Shared Visions for the use of the 4 Psychedelic interviews, and especially to Will Nofke for having the courage to broadcast several programs on psychedelics over KPFA-FM culminating with the 6 hour program " A Day On Drugs - More Sacred Than Profane," an inspiration to all of us

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Also to Timothy Leary, Terence and Kat Mckenna for inspiration and co-operation, and to Peter Stafford and Bruce Eisner for their help and interest, THANKS,

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physics

modern

that corresponds to your

ideas

disappears.

think

I

it's more

the flow of time

backward,

the flow of time forward.

No.

tm>

Not very much.

physics

modern

description

is

its spin,

concerned

I'm

concerned

the

matter

its veloc-

its charge, all

that

with

the behavior of

of

and its momentum, ity,

think

I

these things.

with is

What

operational

an

And

like

con-

it

clusions similar to raagickal or shamanic traditions, and serves

it

it

seems that,

well

us

to

it's clear that there are

causality

that run from

or by me,

thought

that

doesn't

evolution of advance toward them

it

much to the

edifice

of

It's

sort of a

parallel

that are not temporally dependent. And

propose the theory, which is

do

display

temporal

which is everything that's

Physics always

a

which deals with those

which

and forms of causality

are in the future,

directing in

past. So I'd run it both ways to keep

the

the it

edifice.

explain the interactions of matter

time,

past

trans-

is

works slowly up

easy

to

the

So we've almost reached some

We're

you know.

on the brink of asking some very

interesting questions, like how does the brain relate to the mind?

relate

to

How

is

These

the

How does

world?

the

What

that possible?

is

What

are very modern

is

ques-

tions, you know, and interesting. But we to do the shit-work over

had

the

past

five or six hundred years to get to this

place, develop the mathematical, analyt-

technological

and

ical,

tools

for

dealing with that kind of thing.

isometric.

modern physics. They

forms

the

this

begins with the

interesting questions, almost

language?

of

and

hard ones.

I

moving wave front through the medium.

by orthodox physics,

relate

questions

memory?

think

way,

western

can lead

it

a

importance

think science

I

Science

a

which is then itself

into the future,

be a physical quantity,

the

yes.

Oh,

forming.

form

pattern,

in

maintain

to maintain the

science so that

mind

Since time is not,

really

meeting so,

description of time.

to

priestcraft,

present is like an interference pattern, where these two wave-systems collide and a

of

seems

tm)

interesting

kind of interference pattern caused

is a

Siberia,

matter

a

It

trying to model a timeless universe. And part of my theory says that the present

by

about time?

time

the

at

fades from the equation, you know.

think.

I

light,

the

Egypt,

science is finding its way towards

of

own lives,

from

fashion, too, very, very much.

speed

their

cul-

cultural

different

mythologies of ancient

know.

in

science.

in a

or the shamanic mythologies of

you

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discovering

elaborating

culture into this new focus.

because

is

the

is a

it

We're not

of

be there,

what just

is

just

of

reason,

primacy,

would

control

the

another

is

some

episteraological

and

ability to take

self-

a

one. Voodoo is another one.

tudes toward authority, their own lives, their

of

describing

of

point of view of the observer. From your own experience it would be instant. You

the other 50,888 people. How their atti-

sort

this

controversy

and speeding-up

that

and there are several such self-

funerary

There would be no such thing as time. If you were made of photons and you decided

drugs.

consistent world,

and

science is simply

touch with the bedrock of truth than any

means

it

objects

But

priestcraft of science. It is no more

slowing-down

psychedelic

lost

thing.

all,

physi-

theorem,

whether

in

technology. But

a

cor-

theorem

the

When you hear

differ totally

that

can

control political acts. This is the real

about

find

Science

with

com-

and exer-

like magic,

claimed

mythology, and political acts are closely

are

are

diet,

because they're able to divine, and predict weather, and

with

and

looks

bizarre aspects of quantum mechanics.

it's

Well,

the

it

So he seems to take time very

seriously.

rectly tm)

cise; and it's clearly

theoretically,

can deal with the future

where people drugs,

you

which would mean that

highly mathematical;

lack

a

as

the Amazon,

bining plants,

time.

possible for information to travel

it's

chaotic

and

in

The faster you're going,

somehow, this will dissolve us into more

violence

tied

is

with time - that's how we measure

all,

compassion.

definitely agree with

I

ciently different technology will appear as magic. You meet shamanic technologies

ularly that time is related to the speed

the

nothing

yeah.

of light. Sarfatti deals a lot with time

you hf>

Oh,

him, and not only... Well, advanced is a sort of linear word, but just a suffi-

lot

from the perspective of physics; partic-

faster than time,

very close to my own approach.

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they deal with time a

,

theory of

processes variance,

interesting.

can only describe events

happen the same way,

I

which

given

the

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Uhen you spoke at Shared Visions on •Psychedelic Time', toward the end of the

lecture,

you

got

into

something

about science as opposed to magic or shamanism or alchemy. You sort of placed magic or alchemy as somewhere beyond the

reach of science, quote

from

and

Arthur C.

I

thought of that Clarke,

that

a

get some

You've spoken about voices that you during visionary experiences, and of

them are not

genuine

voices,

they are voices there to deceive and...

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I

think you deal with voices

the head the way you deal with anyone

anywhere.

You have to realize, the uni-

verse

swarming with

is

intelligences,

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with their own purposes, drives, and

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desires.

allies and who are

are

resisting

of

laboratory

experience

irrelevant to you.

is

it

the

And then much

want to have happen.

you

the nagician.

is

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plant

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infomation they

the

voices?

their

humaneness,

can

the

their

convey.

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diet,

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of

And

And

this

pressure isn't on people

use synthetic drugs.

must

They must be humane and they

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reasonable

be

life-

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about

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to

chemicals as coming from the

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Multiple Media Malcolm McCluhan and Marshall McClaren When High Frontiers asked us to review most of the other newsprint tabloids in the bay area, we seriously questioned the editor's sanity. It seemed to us somehow arrogant, tacky, and downright dangerous to criticise your sister publications on your first time out. Which is why we took the assignment. I suppose that's why we were asked. Bad choice. We're the wrong crowd. We like to make fun. We're really asking for it. So here goes... THE EAST BAY EXPRESS - Grade: BThis paper is loaded down with snot from a to b and back again. Anybody with a new idea, some hope, or who happens to like cappucino and croissants can expect to be subjected to a stream of caustic, colorfullyworded, off-handed and, quite frankly, ill-informed put-downs. Naturally, we kinda like it. At least it's colorful enough to make us mad, not like that bland Bay Guardian. Also, Norman Dog is great! And the free personals on the back pages bring out little tidbits of Berkeley eccentricity at its best. We should give this paper a B but we downgraded it half-a-step for having lots of stuff in it which we disagree with. We're sure they'd do the same. THE BAY GAURDIAN - Grade: CBland! Predictable left-liberal politics attatched to predictable reviews and unimaginative features. This sort-of reminds us of The Village Voice in its general point-ofview, except The Village Voice has -many undeniably good writers, Lucy Lippard, Cockburn and Ridgeway, and stand out as examples. J. Hoberman We've upgraded the Bay Gaurdian halfa-step because we happen to agree passionately with left-liberals on approximately 75% of the issues, and we're sure the intention is good. THE PACIFIC SUN - Grade: BSomehow, this doesn't anger or disappoint us each week, as does the East Bay Express and the Bay Guardian. It must be a case of lower expectations, o_f exp ecting something light, friendly, and liberal out of Marin, and accepting it as such- Upgraded half-a-step for strongly decrying the monoculturalization of KTIM-FM.

OTHER ROOMS - Grade: A We've seen 3 issues so far, 2 of which were great. You can read this for reviews of industrial and other extreme music which you have very little chance of actually hearing, unless you actively seek it out (which if you don't do already, you definitely should) You also get intelligent interviews with the likes of John Cage, Steve Reich and Peter Gordon. In the last issue, they even had a transcription of a lecture on psychoactive substances, given by Ralph Metzner! This is a paper worth going out of your way to find. .

TWISTED IMAGE - Grade: AThis punk paper from Bezerkeley has a strong, humanistic heart beating just beneath its twisted-image surface. Really. The East Bay Express could take some lessons. Articles about street people as human beings, or features about San Francisco's heroic bicycle messengers as same, streetwise and heartfelt, speak well for the flowers in the dustbin of the corporate state.

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APPEAL TO REASON - Grade: BThis updated version of a "new left" counterculture paper possibly deserves our support. But it's such a total downer. Really. This has such a depressing tone to it, I don't know how they ever expect to inspire anyone to spend 50 cents, never mind revolution. Editor John Bryant apparently can't see an inch past his face as regards technology and science. Since bad guys use it, it must be bad stuff. What's good about this paper is much of the culturally-oriented "Open City" section. Here, we find a mix of personal, experiential story-telling, reviews, political commentary, satire, and outrage, all of it coming from a street-level, left-anarchist perspective. We wish we could say that we were thrilled by contributions from the likes of Harold Norse and Laurence Ferlinghetti, but apparently the beat's been going on a little bit too long. We upgraded this half-a-step because editor John Bryant is such a vehement critic of our friend, Tim Leary, that we didn't want to feel that we were downgrading his paper for the same reason. UTOPIAN CLASSROOM - Grade: DA wierd little paper by a wlerd little tribe with wierd little names. I suppose your wondering, then, why we don't like this paper. Well, something about the way they present their peculiar psychological tunnel-reality presses our mindfucker-avoidance buttons. Downgraded a step-and-a-half for getting sucked into cold-war myopia. If you don't know already, these people support Reagan's militaristic escapades. Hey, folks. The torture and slaughter of entire families in El Salvador and Guatemala is a pretty wierd form of gestalt-o-rama, if you get our drift. Painless punk, my -ss.

efforts as such. Listen. As anarchists, upwingers, and mutant- individualists, we agree. But maybe you better cool back just a bit, because in a pure Darwinian media jungle, you schmucks are goners!

ReSEARCH - Grade: A We're not sure if this will ever return to tabloid form, but we wanted to talk about this, anyhow. This appeared first as an excellent punk interview paper called Search and Destroy in 1977, when the energy of that scene was still pretty revolutionary. It ran some wellwritten and informative articles on such themes as anarchism, surrealism, and black humor. Dropped out as punk became predictable, and re-emerged as Research, a paper dedicated to "survival information." This included lots of interviews with, and articles about, peoples of all cultures and sub-cultures, including our own, seemingly, in search of some kind of wisdom, or information, to help us survive the coming wierd times. All of it made for some great reading. We're not terribly hot on the last 2 book-sized issues, however. The first one, a special issue devoted to William Burroughs, dwelt excessively on terror and other morbid subject matter, apparently, the obsession of the interviewers, but just one of the areas explored by the

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OUR CONSCIOUS LOVE - GRADE: F Our self-conscious crap. Bad poetics linked to Ayn Randish diatribes. The couple who publishes this spends too much verbal effort arguing their case, which is basically that they have the right to be individual, creative artists, without fitting into the liberal/socialist morality system which dominates much of the bay area art and print media, and that they have the right to get rich by their

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