Kool-Aid Corner #14
To finish: trippy clippings, merry pranks, and psychedelic student life
Graph of the Week
Reactive vs sex-economic ways of working…
From: The Function of the Orgasm, Wilhelm Reich (1948)
My bookshelf weighs a ton
Notable new purchases for the occult library. Strictly second hand snap-ups only. This week: LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof
Buy MAPS’ natty two-volume Way of the Psychonaut set
If James Fadiman’s Psdychedelic Explorer’s Guide is the basic primer on Vital, this is the advanced text.
I was saving up for MAPS’ natty two-volume Way of the Psychonaut (WotP) set but so many clever people mentioned LSD Psychotherapy off-hand in their lectures, and implored students to read it, that I followed the signs and grabbed a copy of the general 1980 release. I wasn’t disappointed.
Within Grof’s reflections were the missing four corners of the jigsaw puzzle: LSD Therapy squared my impressions of the experience, its mystic and medicinal qualities, plus even putting on the the blindfold and ‘going under’.
LSD Therapy features illustrated plates picturing art created on LSD by Grof’s patients, including a chap who, while others are painting tableaux featuring EG a rising phoenix, daubs cartoons about his wife and his car.
I get the impression Grof books are like Smiths albums and crossover a little content-wise, so buy WotP rather than scurry around Abe Books snapping up what you can.