>would people see god on acid if no one had
>told them that they might?
Yes, no, maybe? I mean, I saw all sorts of things nobody told me I'd see:
Rabbit lays out in the backseat of the Galaxy
snared in the rush of auto lights flashing wave
after wave across the interior ceiling. All of
his muscles, even his teeth, begin to relax in
The Light From Behind! He’s lifted out of his
hide into The Lights!
"We are already where we’ve been going!"
- Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of mindfight
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 1:43 PM
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Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug....
>Visions are more valuable than the vehicle. Life is the most
> powerful because it combines vision/vehicle
agree, and just as poetry is a vehicle\means to a visionary end that relies
on a body of literature, exercises, interpretations and creations pondering
the vision as well as the vehicle, so are drugs. Should not be exalted or
taken for anything else than what they are (the drugs) - but what are
they, -apart from the plants or fungi that they 'reside in'-, if not the
accumulated knowledge that has established it as a means\vehicle to an end,
rather than simply just 'fun'? would people see god on acid if no one had
told them that they might?
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From: "Frank Parker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug....
> >>_The 7% Solution_ (referring to Holmes' cocaine injections)
>
> My mistake (10%), you are right, Martin (7%).
>
> I shudder anymore even when I see a hypodermic needle on TV. Yet, I am who
I am,
> have experienced what I have experienced, and I'm alive and well, have
moved on.
> Various drugs have provided glimpses into other forms of consciousness.
Forms to
> access in more permanent(?) fashion through poetry? Seems more lasting
anyway,
> more viable in the world. But forms first glimpsed or aided by one drug or
> another. I don't exalt it, I don't call it anything, just is or was a
place I go
> or have gone. Visions are more valuable than the vehicle. Life is the most
> powerful because it combines vision/vehicle. My two cents.
>
> - Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Martin J. Walker
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:30 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug....
>
>
> Before I go ~ wasn't Sherlock a cocaine freak like Freud? As I remember,
> opium is associated with crime in the Holmes stories, as in the Victorian
> era in general (though many used it in the form of laudanum), which may or
> may not be connected with subliminal guilt about turning on the Chinese
> nation to papaverum somniferum (which I've never had the opportunity to
try,
> sigh) & even fighting 2 wars about the British right to peddle to the
> heathen Chinee. There's quite an amusing crime novel about Holmes & Freud,
> btw, _The 7% Solution_ (referring to Holmes' cocaine injections). I'd
heard,
> as Martin Mindfight says, that E is largely adulterated nowadays, one
reason
> why I stopped taking it in the early 90s. That's the trouble with any
drugs
> you don't grow or pick yourself. For the all-time worst scenario
concerning
> drug distribution read P.K.Dick's _A Scanner Darkly_.
> Martin
>
>
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