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THE FREE REPUBLIC WELCOMES THE MERRY PRANKSTERS!!! (9-09 Book Discussion Thread)
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| September 2, 2002
| PJ-Comix
Posted on 09/02/2002 7:29:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: weegee
I hate that Unbearable tripe. No nothing no talent swill.
Like fake literature. Posing, trying to hard, not having a clue -- not on the bus at all.
To: Multicultural Jihad
Wilson is a nutcase and that is the nicest thing to be said about his writings and ideas.
To: Syncro
Hi again, Syncro. There were two kinds of rolfees....those who writhed in pain afterwards, and those who got free immediately. I was quite young, so might have contributed to terrific results. I literally came dancing out of first session with Ida...free at last! I suspect that a good rolfer is hard to find nowadays, but if you know any rolfers trained by Ida, you'd probably get terrific results. Years after my esalen sojourn, my son had a broken leg from sports injury, limped badly after cast removed, but after one session with a rolfer in LA, limp was gone. Powerful juju.
To: Dr. Zoo
Were you in any sessions that Perls filmed on video camera?All of our sessions were filmed by some fellow named Todd. We could watch them afterwards. Don't know whether these videos were ever sold or made public. We did one session with Ann Halpern that I believe was for sale.
We were there to use the place and play muzic and entertain the people...a friend was the wine steward there he drove a new mercedes how did he affort that on wine steward pay?
Many if not most people on staff were trust fund babies...lots of them had big bucks. When were you there?
As for Fritz, the best I got from him came from casual chats. He really did see the difference between my authentic self and the heavily programmed behavior I'd been taught. He even liked my little kids, tho he professed not to like children at all. He volunteered to babysit one night when I had to run into town, and spoiled them rotten with candy. Many fond memories of that strange and wonderful year.
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To: weegee
I went to a Professors home one evening after Alpert's first trip to India to see what he had to offer from his grate experience.
He talked for hours about root beer, but looked so spiritual in his long India-style shirt...
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09/05/2002 4:24:41 PM PDT
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Dr. Zoo
To: PoisedWoman
I was there 67, 68 and 69, maybe a little of 70.
It would nice to see some of those tapes.
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09/05/2002 4:28:52 PM PDT
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Dr. Zoo
To: Dr. Zoo
Leary and Alpert (Richard nee Baba Ramm Dass) and one other notable, do you remember his name? Ralph Metzner
To: PoisedWoman
In my last post to you, please insert "be" in between "would" and "nice"...
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09/05/2002 5:30:49 PM PDT
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Dr. Zoo
To: PhilDragoo
Thank you PhilDragoo...
Actually today I was thinking Metzker or something like that; that is grate, thanks for the link...the dynamick trio.
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09/05/2002 5:31:46 PM PDT
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Dr. Zoo
To: weegee
...a commune where things are mind numbingly boring and no one is pulling their share. The theory in practice...An accurate assesment.
Five or so others and myself lived on 100 acres separatly and were working on Art and Music projects.
We would periodically visit various communes in the Greater Santa Cruz area and observed what you described.
Most of these people thought they were on a new wave tht would change civilization as we know it...LOL...then they came down.
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09/05/2002 5:35:55 PM PDT
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Dr. Zoo
To: weegee
Everyone's life serves a purpose. Some people may be an example of how not to live. Saw a lot of the in the sixties
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09/05/2002 5:37:08 PM PDT
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Dr. Zoo
To: weegee
Paul Krassner originally ...Paul Krassner was wierd.
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09/05/2002 5:38:50 PM PDT
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Dr. Zoo
To: tet68
"Where was there ever greater disparity between seeing and hearing."Aristeides the Rhetor "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates, Oedipus Rex
"You smoke this sh!t to escape from reality? Me I don't need this sh!t. . .I am reality."
Tom Berenger as Sgt. Barnes, Platoon
To: weegee
There is an odd dichotimy between G. Gordon Liddy and Tim Leary. Leary starts in a military academy and both cross paths several times. Is there any comprehensive video of the lectures that these two did together? About 20 years ago I watched a fascinating documentary entitled "Return Engagement" that went behind the scenes of Leary and Liddy's debating road show across college campuses.
The movie mad clear that the politically authoritarian Liddy was the "liberal" on moral matters (cheating on his wife, riding with Hell's Angels, etc.) and the politically libertarian Leary was more of a "conservative" lifestyle-wise.
To: Libertarian Billy Graham
I think I saw that video. If I remember, radio talk host, Carole Hemmingway, was the moderator of the Leary-Liddy debates. BTW, Liddy once busted Leary for drugs in upstate NY.
To: weikel
Too late..We're already here!
Well the first days are the hardest days
don't you worry anymore
cause when life looks like easy street
there is danger at your door.
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09/06/2002 6:33:51 AM PDT
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Valin
To: PoisedWoman
My friend Jan was trained by Ida.
I never took him up on his offer I really couldn't reconcile it as being the right thing to do.
Jan was kind of strange, I think he got pleasure from the fact that his Rolfing was painful. LOL
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09/06/2002 9:38:50 PM PDT
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Syncro
To: PJ-Comix
Kesey's theory about going "beyond acid" bombed when crying baby Jed was ignored.
Owsley was correct "...It's the drugs that do it. It's all the drugs, man. None of it would have happened without the drugs."
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09/09/2002 11:04:25 AM PDT
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shetlan
To: Bahbah; contessa machiaveli; BADJOE; Mr.Clark; Betty Jane; Orblivion; Non-Sequitur; dixie sass; ...
Let the discussions begin!!!
BTW, one of my favorite parts of the book was when the Merry Pranksters basically ruined the annual California Unitarian conference. Kesey and the Pranksters were just supposed to be sort of guest speakers there but they basically took over the conference and made it very uncomfortable for the establishment Unitarians.
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