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LETTERS High I

Dear HF,

Frontiers,

am

delighted to see that High Frontiers,

in the latest

annual and

in the newsletter, is

and excited by your maga-

I'm pleased zine, but

your

are driving

staff writers

me

continuing to shoot like a sleekly blazing

nuts with their carelessness. In 1986 conver-

rocket across the deep, deep blue!

sation with Nick Herbert,

"Ese est principe", which

Whittier, Ca.

"to

be

est

don't

I

know

principe means, because

it

Frontiers,

Nevertheless,

isn't Latin.

Have you heard about eLFIN?? eLFIN is an evolving global intelligence which intends

"to

I

exploitive sources of answers tions, to the

and ques-

people of our planet

on

the most advanced level.

Imagine wizards available

An

lightening conversation that dial

with your

tele-

— advancing freedom,

optimal health,

maximum

perceptus

esse.

not

that

As a

result

who

is

quoted as

klaatu marinda" which 'Klaatu barata nikto!"

about

it,

referring to "Gort

remember

I

Now

that

I

as

think

maybe Gort was addressed twice

(once by Neal, once by Rennie), but

have

about

to think

I'd

it.

In the 1987 annual, R. U. Sinus, in Soap-

box includes monotheism

as a result of

higher consciousness, along with human-

phone or personal computer. Elfin is organized by both topical and personal connections

est

is

couldn't accept the interview with R. A.

rather not

en-

definitely

it

be perceived", because

to

time and

in

space, continuously.

you can

is

Wilson,

in a lively

and interactive style. Imagine a brain planet where every consciousness may interlink interact

be

would be Esse

most accurate, non-

to provide the

and

say,

translated as

is

be perceived."

to

is

what Ese High

you have him

Jack Call

ism and progress. Pardon me, but

many

philosophers, ancient and modern, strongly disagree that

monotheism

is

a step

forward from polytheism. Pivotal assump-

lon-

smack of propag-

tions too glibly uttered

gevity, increasing intelligence,

andizing. planetary survival, personal

Ave atque vale, 999, Romulus Hespaeria

liberation tools, innovative

technologies, scientific break-

And When —

San Francisco

through, aesthetic erotics. -

How, Who, Where,

Tlie

BEST of Everything

Direc-

Romulus has misinterpreted what I actually said in my soapbox, causing me to ponder the truth of the popular Latin expression

tory.

This letter

is

your

invitation to

'Esse est principe,

begin engagement with eLFIN by nominat-

to the vulgate,

ing key participants. eLFIN, produced by

Sirius.

ELFNET, ards.

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ELFNET, INC. P.O Box 369, Big Sur, Ca. 93920-0369

R.U.,

To your knowledge,

is

forgotten, experiments

anyone currently

now

trying to duplicate those

lost,

but not

from the 1950s

that

gave the world that marvelous substance,

MacMurray on the subject at the time. Great things were promised "i.e. flying jalopies, a football anyone could kick a field goal with" and many other FLUBBER?? believe a was the world's leading I

amazing

Dr.

F.

authority

items. But they

What happened anyway? Scott

k 60s [NTO90's

the beef?"

brilliant

to attract love, interest,

WIZARDS OF

experts

which freely translated

Wiz-

and guide the emerging World Conversation.

"

means "Where's

Webster

remain

unfulfilled.

Doctor MacMurray, refusing big buck

of-

fers from automobile manufacturers, pro-

fessional football teams

Chamberlain

to

buy

and

Wilt "the

his patent,

ting the financing together to

bank loan was

day

the

his

he suffered an un-

to clear,

fortunate, but deadly,

market Blub-

On

ber independently in I960.

stilt"

was just get-

spasm

little

dies with

awesome

reputations. While

Chapter JO of my book, The Only Tongue There Is, tells the story honestly, the X-

sensurround film of the same name, slated for release in the summer of '88, should give consumers more of the flavor rated,

of the whole experience. R.

U. Sirius.

in his

central intelligence agency. Regretably, no records of the mysterious flubber formula could be found. However, rumor has it that ifyou

put your

say "Gort klaatu marinda too, will suffer

a deadly

and

Three Sons, "

now

your orgone

Tesla Coil in

box, tune in re-runs of My

spasm

in

lost,

trying to duplicate those

but not forgotten, experiments from

the 1950's that gave the world that marvelous

three times, you,

little

anyone currently

"...is

substance, FLUBBER??"

your

central intelligence agency. Sirius.

Dear High

Your

me

to

periodical has

in

been recommended

connection with

my

present re-

ship — especially the practice known

ian

in an-

and Taoism, Hawai-

Huna, and other magico-religious

sys-

tems as "the higher cunnilingus," often symbolized by the bee. I

understand that you have published ma-

terials

concerning "Cunnilinguistic Integra-

Therapy" which might be rooted

tional

or at least

somehow

in,

to get in

ways seemed, lic

searches into sex magic and Goddess wor-

cient Egypt, in Tantra

me

Permit

Frontiers,

goddess

a few

to

seem gus.

to

")

doesn

equip her for the Higher Cunnilin-

Of course my

sources are probably

would love to see what you 've uncovered. We are inaugurating a new sexology column in our next issue to be called Raging Hormones. We would be delighted ifyou would guest edit a column. Queen Mu.

related to, those an-

interest to you.

amazing thing

forthcoming book about the Hawaiian will deal

body cunnilingus

with higher and as a magical

and

I

just

had

newsletter

quite

to write

some

and

tell

you

that

your

the most interesting, most

is

that's hit

time.

my

mailbox for

Burroughs was fascinated

by the Kundalini piece and the Megabrain update.

And

I

am

looking forward to the

spiritual practice in considerable detail,

Martin Lee article in the next issue; Marty

touching also upon what surely might be

an old friend and associate of mine. Also,

considered therapeutic applications.

of course High Frontiers

Shall

we

assist

one another

in

our mutual

in

Again, our compliments

Yours, E. L.

Masters, Ph. D.

is

is

required reading

our house.

explorations?

Robert

't

highly bowdlerized. I

I

subtle

al-

a phal-

me. Her rejection of her vul-

Dear Reality Hackers,

Goddess Kapo

Kapo has

va ("Kapo of the wandering vulva

cient practices. If you could send me what you have published in this "area," might reciprocate with something that would be of

My

licks.

in her red eel aspect,

—

this

is

what's

happening! Best wishes,

Thank you, Dr. Masters, for your interest. For those ofyou unfamiliar with cunnilinguistic lore, Kapo was the freakiest of the Pele Sisters, three totally bitchin Hawaiian la-

James Grauerholz William Burroughs Communications Lawrence, Kansas

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The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet safely. The human imagination has gained such an immense power that the only environment friendly to it is the vacuum of deep space. It is

there that

dreams

for

mi

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it

will

lifted off

on

it

be

a scale

and

fulfilling rather

human

imagination

the surface of the planet

our survival and the survival of the plan-

et. It's

sss

that

than degrading. The has to be

produce a Los An-

Tokyo, and do

such a way

like a

signals. is at

mother come

shadow of psychedelic mushrooms and the cows graze quietly

Puerto Rico, and within the

in

that installation,

grow

in the fields

in the sunshine.

It's

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The dualism of

are

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We

the interior

democratic individual.

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the bipedal

monkeys we

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bernetics as an

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brains

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McKENNA

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cy-

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without destroying

TERENCE

away.

it

momentum

can express

itself

is,

as

it-

James

in the Ent.

and the

It

mind of

trated, the

human

the species.

of history.

at the tiller

It is

unconscious. However, it

amuses me

that the scientific

communi-

trial

intelligence

and has erected radio

tele-

the

It is

what

we is

it

call

not

not simply a cyber-

is

myth and memory. It is sort, and

netic repository of

an organized entelechy of some though human history

is its

signature,

very different from the primates. creature of pure information.

language.

It

It is

It is

is

it

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made

of

releases ideas into the flowing

stream of history to boost the primates

toward higher and higher levels of reflection.

has taken over the search for extraterres-

realized

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We

have

now

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This

is

monkey,

what the

self-

reached the point

where the masks are beginning ty

exteri-

dimension none of us have ever pene-

in a

the

force in nature.

human

far

may have to be overcome. The highest form of human organization is not realized

unconscious, and

We

a marvelous interpene-

and the

or

hand

to term, this

baby must now be born.

once were.

The

Arecibo

can erect the architectonic

that drive us to

geles, or a in

we

scopes to search the galaxy for world's largest radio telescope

to

that there

fall is

away,

an an-

struggling to get

historical crisis

is all

about.

Consciousness

is

more and more guage

is

attempting to

self-reflective.

the strategy that

is

become

Since lan-

being used,

we

are getting a fantastic accumulation of lan-

guages and cybernetic technology, technologies of storage and delayed replay. So

consciousness

is

ward an omega cleft in

bootstrapping

itself to-

point, but the creode, the

the epigenetic landscape that

is

di-

it toward this end point, already exsome sense. Plato said, "Time is the moving image of eternity."

recting ists in

The

historical task consists of

turning

itself

inside out.

humanity

The body, which

is

presently exteriorized must be interiorized

and the soul-mind, which

is

presently

felt,

be exteriorized.

One can

needs

to

to the

metaphors of alchemy

hark back

for the idea

should be potentially conden-

that the soul

sible as a visible object or a

form of

trans-

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end point of

to be.

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is

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actually

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FRINGE

(can, robots

fed?)

inner experience like our own. Culbertson's

quest for robot awareness has resulted in

Minds of Robots (1963), and the Flow of Time (SMATFOT, 1976), and the most re-

three books: The

OF CO NICK HERBERT

Sensations, Memories,

and Artificial

cent Consciousness: Natural "I'm afraid, Dave."

(1982).

When brik's

the spaceship's computer in Ku-

2001

gets

its

we

brains taken out,

mind is theory which

Culbertson's key to the nature of

symEinstein's special relativity

pathize

more with Hal

with the

What

is

human

the machine than pictures the

astronauts

it

has murdered.

machine consciousness

should be so mindful of

that

Man

world as a network of causal

connections in spacetime, a vast four-

dimensional reticulation stretching from

it?

the distant past into the far future. In special In 1950, Alan Turing devised his

famous relativity,

A

Turing Test for machine intelligence.

er for

computer it

in a

box passes

can convince a

another

human

the Turing Test

human being

in the box.

all

spacetime functions as a containevents that have ever happened

if

that there

and

all

time

is

events that ever will happen. Space-

is

Simple dialogue

a kind of giant snapshot of eternity.

Herman Weyl was speaking of this spacetime world view when he wrote: "The Physicist

programs already engage versations that, in

human

some

con-

in plausible

cases, reduce their

partners to tears. But for me, the

Turing Test misses the point: telligent to

it

seems unin-

human gullibility. Any worthwhile

is

crawling

upward along

life

as a fleeting

theory of consciousness least,

provide an objecthat

tive test of the

presence and quality of em-

my

bodied (or ensiliconed) awareness. To

knowledge the only candidate for a testable model of consciousness is Jim Culbertson's spacetime model of mind. Culbertson his theory

SRM,

ter is

You

I

this

my

world come to

space which con-

in

mentation. Culbertson's model offers least three different tests for the

in

SRM

postulate asserts

spacetime

is

aware of a

collection B, C, D, of other events,

and

that the existence

ness depends

on

network linking

and

quality of A's aware-

the details of the causal

A

events B, C, and

and

to B, C,

D

is

A

D

.

The

enjoys concerning

determined by a sim-

complexity of the causal connections

smallest

ing

processes are imbued with rudimentary

A

to the events that

it

link-

perceives.

Most events are unaware of one another.

at

A

crucial

concept

in Culbertson's

presence of the existence of "clear loops"

consciousness

line of

ple "awareness algorithm" that reflects the

see, Culbertsonian matits

A

inner experience that

think, as a philo-

not very material since

first

each event

calls

for "spacetime reductive

materialism," partly,

sophical joke.

image

consciousness,

life

tinuously changes in time."

Culbertson's

should, at the very

my

the

body, does a section of

conscious or not on

does not hap-

is; it

pen. Only to the gaze of

base the important question of

whether a machine

objective world simply

model

is

— special

in material configuration.

paths in spacetime that possess the correct After authoring pioneering

works on the sort of connectivity to

behavioral capabilities of automata

RAND, Culbertson moved

at

to Cal Poly

where he headed in succession; the math, computer science, and philosophy departments. Although he makes a living from his expertise concerning unconscious computing machines, Culbertson's real work a

—

virtual

Yale

obsession since his graduate days

— has been how

Clear loops enable simple events in space-

time to "see" one another.

an

Complex events

(minds) also experience one another via the mediation of clear loops.

Clear loops form the basis for Culbertson's First Test for the presence of aware-

at

ness. to give robots

channel awareness

from one region of spacetime to another.

To

test

the state of your

new

robot's

experience, connect your brain to her

stimuli, but

brain via a sufficiently capacious clear loop

corded and played back

Your own experience then becomes augmented by the experience of the robot. If Culbertson's model is right, the content

Culbertsonian future, sound and

cable.

of

human

raw experience

itself

can be

re-

at will. In a

syn-

light

be made obsolete by the ad-

thesizers will

vent of mind synthesizers.

consciousness can become a

model

Culbertson's consciousness

not

is

matter of public knowledge, exposing the

a

heretofore private nature of awareness as a

clear-cut engineering description of the

mere

vague verbal philosophy of mind but a

biological accident. Clear-loop iinks

effect a

kind of mechanical telepathy which

could open up not only the inner

lives

and perhaps even minerals.

Imagine being able to communicate

a

direct-

with different parts of your body ("The

heart has

its

to base

the important question of whether

robots and people but the inner lives of animals, plants

ly

seems unintelligent

...it

of

own

reasons.")...

machine is conscious or not on human gullibility.

Culbertson's Second Test stems from his

contention that memories are not stores

in

space, as in ordinary computers, but in

means

spacetime. This

what you wore

that

last Easter,

when you

recall

your mind recon-

nects via a clear spacetime loop to that past

no memories but

event. In the brain are

only the termini of myriads of clear loops. In

computer

state of affairs at the

SRM

is

a real

should concern themselves. In the field of consciousness research,

Jim Culbertson

model

— can outperform an un-

conscious computer of the same size be-

cause the storage capacity of the dead computer

is

limited to

memory. The

explicit

its

ability

onboard

of a conscious com-

puter to "beat the Shannon limit" gives

such machines an evolutionary advantage. Culbertson's awareness algorithm not

is

the

is

first

and

testable the-

ory of mind to emerge out of thousands of years of unverifiable philosophical speculation. Culbertson's

a

new

science

work

is

the

first

— the science of

awareness (not to be confused with intelligence,

which

is

awareness

found impact on our life's

inside.

The

will

its

inner

have a pro-

lives since

most intimate aspect

from the

it

— how

deals with it

cern with definite material circuitry,

spacetime nets correspond exactly to specific

conscious experiences. The Third Cul-

bertson Test for awareness consists of the ability to

produce,

in

another mind, a pre-

cisely specifiable experience

ing that

loop

mind

link.

to a

Z-network

Z by

adjoin-

via a clear-

According to the spacetime

feels

subject matter of

er events in spacetime but also determines certain

artificial

concerned only with

a machine's performance, not life). Artificial

stage of

artificial

ficial

—

SRM

a true pioneer. His

detailed

only specifies which events experience oth-

the quality of such experiences

refuted,

stands as a model for the type of con-

more properly elsewhen). The fact that conscious memories are stored outside the brain means that a conscious computer operating by Culbertsonian rules

if

sciousness theory with which serious people

only "addresses"; memories themselves

—

experimental

confirmation or refutation. Even

SRM

interface.

model of consciousness capa-

ble, in principle, of direct

jargon, the brain contains

reside elsewhere (or

mind/body

awareness research, despite

arti-

con-

its

is

not

mere arrangements of matter, but of experience itself, what philosophers sometimes call

"raw

feels."

steps of this

Witnessing the

first

crude

young science of the mind,

it

is

impossible to imagine the immense transformations of self and society that the

NICK HERBERT

new

author of

science of awareness research will urge

upon

us.

Reality:

Q

is

the

Quantum

Beyond

the

New

Physics and a forthcom-

model of awareness, not mere sensory

ing

HIGH FRONTIERS

13

book on time

travel.

.

SCENARIOS

PSYCHEDELIC

who were tial. This

fascinated

by LSD's poten-

circle including

such luminaries as

Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard and Christopher Isherwood. His vivid descriptions of psychedelic experiences inThe Beyond

(andcounting.

Within powerfully impressed a generation

.

.)

of seekers (including the authors). •

BRUCE EISNER & PETER STAFFORD

Two decades have passed since the Summer of Love made peace, acid and flower power household words. Hunter Thomson remembers this era: San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be part of. Maybe it means something.

Maybe

not, in the

long run... but no

mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world... you could strike sparks anywhere. Ihere was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning... Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in explanation, no

fighting

—

our side or

theirs.

momentum, we were riding and beautiful wave.

We had all

the

the crest of a

A new

generation has inherited the classic

psychedelics and a host of novel com-

pounds, sometimes psychedelics

known

as neo-

— empathogens,

entacto-

gens, "heart-openers", and cognitive enhancers. Certainly, the most bally-hooed of these has been

Despite

MDMA.

last year's flap

MDMA, we

about

have yet to see the great drug epidemic predicted by officials

who

exercized emergen-

cy scheduling powers to jor felony tals

make

MDMA

have no reports of MDMA-related

emergencies, and even the DEA's ministrative

own

law judge recommended

be removed from Schedule self,

ma-

a

— on a par with heroin. Hospi-

I.

ad-

that

The DEA

it

it-

however, remained intransigent. Har-

vard University's Lester Grinspoon and

high

The death by heart attack of Sidney Cohen this last May was another demon-

James Bakalar appealed the DEA's decision in the First Federal District Court, and on September 18th the court overturned the scheduling of

MDMA. The

first

Circuit

DEA

stration of transition to a

Court of Appeals ruled that the

new

lawfully follow the correct criteria for deter-

generation. In the

ter quarter of his life,

lat-

he

mining whether or not

MDMA

did not

met the

sided with the establish-

standard for "currently accepted medical

ment

use" and for "accepted safety for use

in

emphasizing the

.

.

dangers of psychedelics.

under medical supervision." They also

However,

buked the Department of Health and Hu-

member

it,

as colleagues re-

he was one of

the originators of use. In the 1950's,

its

social

he was

man

re-

Services for failing to perform their

proper role

in the

decision-making pro-

cess. Rick Cotton, attorney for Dr. Grin-

the center of a circle of

spoon, indicated the three options

non-experimental subjects

to the Feds.

now

left

They can take the case on review before the U. S. Supreme Court; assert that

MDMA

is

now more

uled under the current

properly sched-

amendments

to the

Controlled Substances Act dealing with analogues; or have the Administrator of the

DEA make

a redetermination based

evidence they already have on

on the

MDMA.

In-

formed sources

tell

us, at this writing, that

the third option has been exercized and that the

drug has been removed from

Schedule ule

to the

1

more appropriate Sched-

III.

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A trip through the San Francisco 60's conference (flashbacks included)

by Morgan Russell photos by Morgan Russell and Peter Booth Lee

16

60s INTO

SX is

"

"If I'm

saddled with having

about

all these people, I

.

psychedelic erotica and queue up by the as

to tell the truth

can

t

go explore

yet-unopened doors with the resolution

the areas that are interesting to me. Facts

Gandhi abstaining from

nymphs

are dull. Stories are interesting. -

am

Ken Kesey

"Y'know, sometimes

I

—

wonder

1

from

town

in the

assume such an unprovocgo out of town

ative posture that

1

books

My

like these.

a small

I

neurons

buy

to

lust lor

these

'

or what? -

ot

naked sleeping

to recharge his chakric batteries.

freshly arrived

Midwest where does existence precede essence ?—

his

Cherry Poptait

FADE "How do ties

EN:

go about

I

conference?"

I

De

AT THE PALACE

centralisation

registering for the Six-

ask the

woman

la vaporisation et

Tout

U.C. Berkeley Extension office.

"You mail a receipt

in

we

your check and

which you use

"The conference

is

to get in."

weekend, what

this

mailed

in

people

at

if

I

you

that's all

I

have

to do?"

I

murmurs a simultaneous translation: "Oh, you don't have to pay the $75 admission, just tell them the check is in the mail. Wink. Wink." The oldest trick in the book.

Id

I

certainly

level of subterfuge

intone the mantra,

expected

that a higher

would be needed

to slip

Dead walk

concert,

this.

project,

What

i.e.,

will

A

li-terally

advertising

for Christ's sake, the

man

wrote the book on fucking

reaucracy; surely they'd be

on guard I

make

I'll

is

supposed

A

tion.

devotional aids icons, to

3-D post-

be a

spiritual

work without remunera-

type of transsubstantiation takes

place: the

and am given

Art.

I

it.

don't

I

camera becomes

a

pyx wherein

the wafer of celluloid, transluced,

slide

through University Customs as easily as Jean Genet on K-Y

There

1

photograph

the photos?

— scapulars,

aspect to creating a

over Government, Big Business, and Buagainst clandestine conferees?

cards.

restraint

I'm not being paid for

from them

is

The

Grateful

"personal photography"

do with

I

No

With great

to the front. I'm here to

the speakers.

know, perhaps

who

sort

will get a seat in the

will get a seat in the front..."

I

The

U.C. Berkeley Extension

"I

doors open and no one runs.

into line at this psychedelic smorgasbord.

Abbie Hoffman

in

way, a

of Mature Ejaculation of neurotransmitters.

front.

My

be helped, they discharge

can't

it

anticipation, but in a restrained

"Yes."

Bingo.

packets of possibly illuminating mat-

little

ter;

the door

your check."

"You're sure

est la."

send you

don't get the receipt in time?" "Just tell the

becomes

envision Leary as high priest, his

al-

a re-

tar-ego passing along the rows of conferee

ceipt for $75 bearing an approximation of

communicants placing psychoactive pho-

my name and

to-booth-size pictures of

Jelly

telephone number.

The animated hum of

a rock concert

the air at the Palace of Fine Arts. to see

my

idols

The

is

in

desire

commingles with the dread

that not only their feet, but their

well,

may be made

of clay.

I

minds as

stoically pass

booksellers' tables piled high with copies of

Albert

Hofmann's LSD.

Child, Marty Lee's

LSD and

du Moi

the

at

My

Problem

Acid Dreams: The CIA, and other

the Sixties Rebellion,

Ken Kesey on

the

tongues of aspirants to True Understanding of the Sixties. No,

I

myself for the event.

and repair

my

have not premedicated I

stake out

to the foyer lor a

favorite

enhancers

Here and there

1

my

dose

ot

territory

one

oi

— coffee.

spy a look of vulnerable

expectation, a hopeful searching look from

an obviously psychedelicized Seeker yearning for a

Knowing

Clint in the eyes of his

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$5

,

A

Martin

Lee

.

is

the author, with

Bruce Schlain, of the bestselling book Acid Dreams. Here he talks to High Frontiers about left

some of the

he

bits

out of the book. In a recent

phone

tele-

conversation, Marty continues

to speculate

—

on

the connection be-

tween Italian Fascist philosopher Julius Evola with his "spiritual warrior

Rene Guenon

and

elite"

(the French esotericist)

mescaline; on the reported fascina-

Mauand Henri Michaux.

tion ivith psychedelics by Sartre, rice

Merleau-Ponti

Vie links are intriguing

if difficult to

pin down. Clearly though, by the 1930s, an awareness of hallucinogens had spread through artistic and literary circles in Berlin

capitals.

and other European the German Ro-

Founded on

mantic fascination with deliriants

like

was fueled by Lewis

Le-

henbane,

win

it

and Kurt

Phantastica

's

Beringer's

Der Mescalinrausch (1927). German Expressionist poet-physician Gottfried

Benn described tions

"

the "cerebral oscilla-

produced by alkaloids

"Provoked the Ego.

"

Life.

Klee, Kltiver, Hesse,

Jung round out the

who

in

The Anthropology of

list

and

of luminaries

reportedly dabbled in hallucino-

gens. All this merely con text ualizes the real heavy-duty experimentation with

psychedelics which Joseph Borkin

stumbled on in researching The Crime

and Passion of

I.G.

ery which Borkin

was

Farben.

left

A

discov-

out of the book-

that I.G. Farben maintained,

throughout the

30's,

a special

division devoted to research

secret

on psy-

chotomimetic agents. In Acid Dreams,

Martin Lee detailed the Nazi mind control

experiments with mescaline carried

on by Nazi doctors at Dachau. Here he raises the i>iteresting point that LSD, J'irst

synthesized in 1938, actually fell

into the

ambit of I.G. Farben when

they gobbled

And what

that same and curiouser!

up Sandoz

year. Curiouser

about the occult bureau with-

in the Tfiird Reich called the

werbe?

And

Ahn-

the secret societies oper-

ating within our own industrial telligence

56

60s INTO 90

and in-

communities? Read on!

,

HIGH FRONHERS:

Your book brought

to

mind the Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. // was like an allegory about human folly. LSD is the mysterious stranger who comes to town and everybody relates to him in their own strange way. Tliey all get to manifest their

and their positive traits in way through their interaction

/

came away from your book with this when people try to put their own

thought;

— either as a tool or a weapon —

stamp on the psychedelic experience

and use

it,

becomes problematic. ble

and

however noble.

an

I

how

can easily understand

it

too u>ipredicta-

doesn't conform to

character flaws intensified

It's

human people

goals,

like

with him. I thought that, of all the charact-

your

ers in

book,

LSD came

off the most ad-

mirably. In doing the book, what did you .

learn about the nature of reality

human

CIA was like an unwitting midwife in the birth of

.the

.

and about

beings? .

MARTY

LEE.

showed me

It

that

human

be-

the acid generation

ings have a fantastic capacity for self-

deception. As to mystical implications of

LSD experience, I wouldn't want people who read the book to come away with the idea that those people who thought was a wrong. And would not sacrament got want them to come away thinking that the perception of the infinite is beyond the the

Leary can assume

because they've had

that,

these incredible experiences, that the ex-

it

it

grasp or

would suggest quite the opposite. The drug, in and of itself, may not be a sacgeneral.

periences.

does produce mystical ex-

it

we

because

it's

an

If it's

ecstatic daig,

an

insightful daig,

it

have

is

because

it

is

if

because

that potential for mystical percepif

anything,

it

thing very basic about cuts across

ple.

is

have insights waiting to be born. And

tions. So,

that

it

are capable of experiencing ec-

yields mystical perceptions,

we

cultures

all

reaffirms

human and

some-

nature which

times and

all

should not be beyond the grasp of peo-

should be everybody's birthright to

It

have those kinds of experiences and perceptions. This, of course, does not necessarily require a drug.

makes

it

easier or quicker.

So

I

ple

who had

got

it

don't

want

that the

peo-

profound mystical experiences

wrong.

On

the other hand,

it

Once

own

you're thinking that way, the

wrong

in

seeing

producing drug.

LSD

becomes

to

make

this available to as

as possible

and then they

will

be

that will

interesting, insightful, helpful,

positive perceptions. Things can only get better.

I

can understand

how

people could

get into something like that, particularly

when

they had television and other mass

media have

at their disposal.

this

Not only did they

substance that seemed to be guar-

anteed to produce a certain kind of positive experience but they also had the media their

beck and

call.

message across It

was

just like that.

the combination of these

tors... for

the

first

time in

amounts so

is

fac-

history,

millions of

(a synthetic hallu-

minute

effective in

that the potential

tually unlimited,

two

human

you have massive amounts, cinogen which

at

So they could get the

supply

is

vir-

whereas previously you

had only natural hallucinogens) and also I

wouldn't want people to think that the CIA got

idea

doses of a hallucinogen

But LSD certainly

people to come away thinking

all

minds.

that their

automatically share certain perceptions

say that these experiences

I'd

ent in ourselves.

it

one else will have similar experiences. They were mistakenly attributing the experi-

many people

aren't inherent in the drug, they're inher-

we

inherent in the drug and every-

I

rament, but

stasy. If

is

ence to the drug rather

not the business of people in

is

perience

I

as an anxiety-

for the

first

time you have social move-

ments interacting with

this

new in a way

powerful

perceptual technology, television,

HIGH FRONTIERS

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that has

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So you have

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these

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two power-

technologies

in-

mation Bureau.

It

movements.

While

It

which was so

and

of promise

people did

that

Maybe would not make

pitfalls.

What made you want

into areas that

the question of the I

tually

much more

got

I

to

begin research in

had participated somewhat as an

standing what

"What

is

was happening with

the CIA

postulated the question,

I

between the sub-

the relationship

end of the

60's

ture sixties stuff?"

and

ying

happened

that

time to the

one can appreciate such matters fourteen. had an inherent interest in

extent that

I

being

my background roots.

was

r\

So

or

part of

it

stand something

me and

historical I

had

understanding

this. In

terms of the

stuff, that

from

literary

the

just think-

relationship

here.

You re been making lectures that

your

it

very clear in

your

investigation of the whole

relationship of the CIA to the psychedelic

personal interest

CIA

grows

and

was behind

it

cat got out of the bag

control

you

people

who read

to

conclude that

but rather thai the

all

and

manipulate

it,

you d expect spooks

it.

.

then,

do

.

it

did, it,

all the things

But a

to do.

the book

once

an eye on lot

of the

come away

think-

ing that the whole psychedelic counterculture thing

was just a CIA

plot.

Some con-

spiracy freaks are even saying that Leary

was

CIA.

journalistic inter-

That's terrible.

ests.

to

Did thai interest arise after ttie Church Committee as a result of the public testimony ttiat went on there? A little bit before. was interested in the I

was an important

the CIA did their best to keep

in

on what

CIA manipulated everything, but

something about It's

by stud-

was some grand conspiracy where

the CIA

a

z

light

which would shed light on me.

that there

wasn't thinking that

I

explosion has not led

and personal.

—

the 60's.

in

something about the culture

i

there

I

ing that there

trying to under-

about

it,

hunch

a

relationship and,

might throw some

identified strongly with both the political

upheavals of

had

I

was some kind of

I

and

j

Even-

interested in under-

terranean CIA business and the countercul-

"activist" at the tail

this

Washington, every-

in

and drugs.

mistakes.

this subject?

terms of

did

seemed related to Kennedy assassinations. And got into drug testing, mind control, initially thinking this would throw light on the whole assassination question, Mafia one got

Very early on,

at

We

odds.

all

plots against Castro, things like that.

not realize the

on the next go-around they

there against

we were down

Infor-

a legitimate, albeit

some good work

full

cultural

was

liding with social

interesting

I

— we were working

group called the Assassination

a

poorly funded, grass roots group.

created a situa-

same

wald aspect of that? some friends

Yes, with

tersecting, col-

tion

the

assassination.

You were researching the Lee Harvey Os-

on

perceptual

ful

Kennedy

Tim and was

the CIA

I

I

spent a

lot

of time talking

really like him. In like

some ways

an unwitting midwife

in

the

birth of the acid generation. Leary himself likes to say that the

but that's bole.

just a

CIA

started everything

touch of Learyesque hyper-

)

.

As

I

see the picture, you have certain

streams feeding into what

is

they were aware enough to sense the

going to be the

roaring river of the sixties upheavals, and

one of these streams

is

the

CIA army exper-

For the LSD story, Allan Dulles was Switzerland during the war;

iments. That overlaps with the scientific re-

was

search community, mostly the psychotom-

had been

imetic school.

Then

there are the

mate aboveground researchers

more of

at

in

one point he

who

joined in Switzerland by Carl Jung,

Germany up

in

1942 as edi-

until

tor of Zentralblatt fur Psychotherapie, per-

legiti-

who

power

there.

haps, the pre-eminent psychiatric journal.

are

the psychedelic school, rather

than the psychotomimetic school, and that overlaps with the literary

circles,

Huxley

and so forth, and the Beats to some degree. The Beats form almost a third stream. It is a commingling of all these different streams that sets the stage for

...everyone knows the Nazis were very much into the occult. There are

rumours

experimented

that Hitler

what happens. Grant-

with peyote.

ed, there are certain obvious sociological

make

factors that

it

a very ripe

and

fertile

when Jung,

That was

setting.

instead of talking

about the collective unconscious, started

Did you ever suspect the possibility of there being some secret society, perhaps having some occult or magical purposes, manipu-

talking about the racial unconscious

lating the whole thing

some

-

the CIA, the acid.

.

bump into anything in this area?. And didn't put any of this into my

did you I

did!

I

book, but

on

I'll

olic church, the

I have done research and regarding the Cath-

you.

tell

secret societies

Knights of Malta.

I

broke

the story a few years ago about the CIA and the Knights of Malta.

They

are a very old

order going back to the crusades, Freema-

sonry and that sort of thing. These secret societies

do play

a far greater role in history

First

mors

of

all,

much

everyone knows the Nazis were

into the occult.

that Hitler

We know mescaline

at

There are

ru-

experimented with peyote.

that the Nazis

Dachau.

Hitler's inner circle

experimented with

Now

consider that

was very much

archetypes were different from

He

other archetypes. of that

started getting into

think there

stuff. (I

he

side of Jung, although

me

ure, don't get

strange side to

is

was

an amazing

fig-

him

that

people

like to for-

get.)

Jung worked with Dulles giving psychological

assessments of the Nazi leaders and giv-

ing that information to the OSS. There

is

reason to believe Jung might also have ex-

perimented with peyote.

He

certainly

was

aware of such substances and had written contexts. contact.

I

don't

It's

imparted

know

if

in certain

he had personal

quite possible

Jung may have

to Dulles certain information

about these chemicals, and Dulles that the in a big

in-

a sleazy

wrong. But there was a

about them and referred to them

than most historians acknowledge.

very

how Jewish

and

way

LSD

in the

stuff

it

under

is

begins happening

CIA. Dulles' assistant

was Ann

Switzerland

bureau within the SS called the Ahnwerbe.

Jung's chief student at the time.

They were

written a book, Autobiography of a Spy,

interested in the Tibetan stuff,

interested in pre-Christian, Gnostic

Greek

pagan-oriented matters. These people ap-

pear to have been open-minded and ceptive to the notion of altered states.

re-

The

(

She has

published by Morrow.

Something

that I've

to as far as the

LSD

time from 1938,

Nazis were really uptight about the Freema-

synthesized

sons and tried

its

to crack down on them —

Bancroft,

in

who was

volved with the occult. They had an occult

effects.

it,

given

story

when

to

Before

some thought

goes

is

this

gap

in

Hofmann first 1943 when he discovered I

go

Dr.

into this,

let

IIK.II

1

me

put

ROMI1KS

it

V)

into context.

the

I

have no reason to

have automatic patent

or his story about

porations which were gobbled

how LSD was

through these

dis-

hope

I

mann

how

Europe.

wonder

about.

during the time ery,

agreements, to

which was the

lucky to have him.

technically speaking, that

would have been

the property of

Such

great guy.

He

the world and the

was

Auschwitz, bad news business. What

ments

mann really knew all along what somebody else did?

for his

some

curious

Again,

chemical

really the

links with

I.

G. Farb-

American phar-

of that link

was

Dr.

rep-

worked

But on the other hand,

says.

the effects of the stuff were't recog-

if

should've gone to

G. Farben

I.

when

they were testing mescaline

chau.

We

can be certain

command was

just

in

and giving the

it

Imagine

if

Da-

at

that the Nazi high

already aware of these sub-

They do not

stances.

go

testing

such

up knowing

orders.

the Nazis had LSD?

Or maybe

Hofmann and company withheld the dispolitical reasons. The patent

covery for

wasn't filed until 1946, three years after the

supposed discovery of the

still

who

the Third Reich

That

continuing

is

one

was

my

which

secret associations

to Captain Al

between American

discover

corporations and

earlier.

(Captain Alfred M.

who became

did not put in

I

it

effects.

then,

another story

is

book. According

Hubbard, Hofmann did not

in 1943,

nor

in '38,

which was

the spy

all illegal

and hush

seed of LSD) According to

the

but

much

Hubbard was

the Nazis,

Johnny AppleHubbard, Hof-

first

mann was

part of a small

who were

nominally connected with Stein-

er's

that

was so dominant during the they gobbled up everybody. San-

do/ was

a sitting duck. Generally speaking,

to

I.G Farben

By

collapsing.

There

story.

those links through

hush during the war.

it

time

at a

as a spy but also as a

businessman

90s

It

speaking, through the patent agreements,

the law firm Al-

was

don't

I

Switzerland not only

was

1

Hofmann

things without those very high

Dulles

was, or

curious.

is

it

about

len Dulles

n

But

resented by Sullivan

for.

60\s l\

lying.

and Cromwell which

was

hi

this into context.

is

Hof-

if

nized until 1943, even then, technically in

backbone of

effort.

put

it

the

at

could certainly have been an accident, as

even

company

I'll

believe that he

can't help but

maceutical corporations. The legal aspect

war

was running some of

concentration camps and slave labor

best advertise-

whole Third Reich war

en had extensive

G. Farben, this monster

I.

corporation which

is

one of the

G. Farben Chemical,

I.

would mean

it

A

linked, through cartel

largest

study of

synthesized LSD,

One point of interest is that when he made that discov-

Sandoz was

have every

I

Hofmann

that at the time

are really

product.

I

up by them

my

did from

it

G. Farben operated,

I.

in-

those cor-

cartel links. Therefore,

reason to believe

in

any new

rights to

made by

should that apply to Sandoz, as

to talk to Hof-

really

that

G. Farben entered

I.

vention or discovery

vitality.

came up

is

agreements whereby they would

mann's honesty

We

Nevertheless, there are

would work

it

doubt Dr. Hof-

covered.

things that

way

into these

group of people

anthroposophy group

in the early 30's

and they systematically decided and

make

a peace

pill

to help

set out

mankind. They

saw the beginnings of the Nazi emergence, so they consciously set out to make something like LSD, which they did and then kept it

My

sense

do with

ing to

So

that these societies

is

their original mystical roots.

sense they are not guarding mys-

in that

more like the secret mapower elite. When you get of power you know plenty of se-

secret from the world.

tical secrets.

Now

chinations of the

there

is

absolutely no evidence to

and Captain Al Hubbard is an Hubbard is an aggrandizer. He likes to be the one who knows. That's his character. But it's a curious story and would not completely discount it. Hubbard knows a lot of things. The basic outline of one rather wild story he told a friend of mine proved correct, although some of the confirm

that,

exaggerator.

to that level

crets but

have noth-

It is

don't think

I

it

has anything to

do

with the secrets of the mystical roots of Ma-

I

may be

details tale,

.when you come right down to it, the CIA

.

exaggerated. This particular

Regarding secret societies

you come down

And

to

it,

—

the CIA

well, is

when

a secret so-

within the CIA, there are

all

The The Knights of

kinds of secret societies operating.

Freemasons are

in the CIA.

a secret society.

is

could not confirm.

I

ciety.

.

Now,

sonry.

certainly

Masons

are not sup-

posed to reveal the rituals they go through. They lie in coffins with bandanas around

Malta are in the CIA, and other groups.

their eyes, with pictures of

These

and heads dripping blood. But

different secret societies are not just

within the CIA but in the corporate world, the Joint Chiefs of

the FBI, the De-

Staff,

this point,

I

think, at

mostly male bonding and

is

it

severed limbs

such.

fense Department, etcetera. These societies, if

we

understood them, might help

delineate certain factions within the

power

of this, what do you think about

LSD? Do you have an

existential or epis-

temological overview of what

elite. I

So, after all

think

it

—

letariat

works on two

For the pro-

levels.

for the rest of us

— the Rotary,

it

's

about?

all

I'm aware that these views exist. I'm aware

people

that

Terence McKenna and

like

Masonry, doesn't really mean anything.

Timothy Leary, and so on, have various

But on the very highest

models

levels,

then you are

dealing with very influential and powerful individuals. At that level,

perhaps studying

these different groups can shed

on understanding the ruling I

some

light

different factions within

don't think that these groups represent

vital

mystical bodies or traditions.

I

think

they're decrepit. They're like organized religion

and don't represent

a real mystical

current anymore. They're fossilized struc-

is

concrete.

shed

light

on

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that this wasn't

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to destroy the subtle military-

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complete with commentary

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that the

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