@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@+!on drugs
+
p58-59 The neuro-logical risks of long-term drug use were denied or underesti-mated: the most daring sixties questers lost the ability to articulate and transmit their spiritual legacy to posterity.
+
+p63 This episode first brought lsd to public attention.
+An Irish Catholic turned self-described prophet, Leary envi-sioned
+a world network of “psychedelic churches” whose
+Vatican would be his League for Spiritual Discovery (acro-nym:
+lsd) http://www.leary.com/archives/text/books/religion/18.html
+
+p68 The testimony of those
+radical explorers of inner space has largely been lost: they
+ruined their minds and bodies by overrelying on drugs as a
+shortcut to religious illumination.
+
+----
p59 Consisting of small groups of the disaffected or rootless, cults are sects that may or may not evolve into full religions.
p60 chryselephantine: Made of gold and ivory, as certain pieces of sculpture or artwork in ancient Greece.
@@ -17,10 +32,4 @@ there is evidence that the Bacchanalia had evolved into pri-vate
sex clubs.
Just down the street, a modern incarnation... http://www.orageclub.com/
-
-p63 This episode first brought lsd to public attention.
-An Irish Catholic turned self-described prophet, Leary envi-sioned
-a world network of “psychedelic churches” whose
-Vatican would be his League for Spiritual Discovery (acro-nym:
-lsd) http://www.leary.com/archives/text/books/religion/18.html
