Love & Theft

Timothy Leary on the Wall Street Occupation Movement

Timothy Leary Foresaw the Wall Street Occupation

"In one of his last published writings, Timothy Leary foresaw the current generation of youth making use of the exploding technology of new communication software and devices to challenge the control exerted by centralized governments and corrupt institutions. The following was written in 1990 and revised in 1994."

Remembering

"Huxley's experience with acid had definite religious overtones, compared to the primarly esthetic mood of his mescaline visions. Writing to Humphrey Osmond, another important G1 psychonaut, Huxley describes 'the direct, total awareness, from the inside, so to say, of Love as the primary and fundamental cosmic fact. The words, of course, have a kind of indecency and must necessarily ring false, sound like twaddle. But the fact remains.' "

Reflections on Psychedlics from an Elder

Albert Hoffman Releases Himself

Albert Hoffman has died.
Bless him and his discovery.
Bless the medicine and the mind.
Bless us all, that we may awaken to the beauty and love and joyous cooperation that ALL IS.

ALOHA

I too am not a bit tamed — I too am
untranslatable;
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the
world.

The last scud of day holds back for me;
It flings my likeness after the rest, and true
as any, on the shadow’d wilds;
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.

I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the
runaway sun;
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in
lacy jags.

I bequeath myself to the dirt, to grow from the
grass I love;
If you want me again, look for me under your
boot-soles.

You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean;
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fiber your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged;

Missing me one place, search another;
I stop somewhere, waiting for you.

(unknown author)

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The latest MAPS Bulletin is available to read/download online.



This latest collection of articles/documents focuses on the personal experiences with psychedelics and their personal and intimate effects on people's bodies, minds, and lives. I have read a few of the essays and have found them to be very inspiring, passionate, and moving. I imagine that this issue will remind many people within and without the psychedelic community of why it is that we choose to take action and stand for the appropriate understanding, relationship, and application of these plants and substances that we have been sculpted and enlivened by.

Many blessings as the dark night of the seasons rolls over us and we are reminded why it is so lovely to be awakened by a throbbing star-sun every day of our lives.

ALOHA

Sweet days into sweet night,

Michael Eugene Brown II - the Brown Rabbit