Kool-Aid Corner #12
To finish: trippy clippings, merry pranks, and psychedelic student life
Graph (or Fig.) of the Week
Comparison of calcified pineal glands with ossified compact bones:
From: Pineal Calcification, Melatonin Production, Aging. Associated Health Consequences and Rejuvenation of the Pineal Gland by Dun Xian Tan, Bing Xu, Xinjia Zhou and Russel J Reiter. Published in Molecules January 2018
My bookshelf weighs a ton
Notable new purchases for the occult library. Strictly second hand snap-ups only. This week: The Process by Brion Gysin
£23 fittingly. Hardcover first editions go for £1500+.
Naked Lunch author William Burroughs called his best friend and Dream Machine co-inventor Gysin “the only man I ever respected.” Gysin might be best known for ‘cut up technique’ a writing method used by David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Jello Biafra, much loved by English teachers.
The Process is a dreamlike, luscious ‘spiritual novel’ like Dune. It’s set in the desert too (sync). and a tableaux of his own soul’s development. His groovy mates have affectionate cameos in it. Gysin is said to have tutored Genesis P Orridge of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth in the mystic arts. ‘I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali,’ his alter ego Ulysses O Hanson, a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.”