@@ -11,8 +11,13 @@ 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.
+
+p84 I warn
+my students that recreational drugs—now a toxic cocktail of
+black-market tranquilizers—may give short-term gains but
+impair long-term achievement.
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p59 Consisting of small groups of the disaffected or rootless, cults are sects that may or may not evolve into full religions.
@@ -42,5 +47,11 @@
1850's Emerson Thoreau Whitman
1950's beatniks Ginsberg Keroauc
+
1960's hippies and yippies - Leary
+
+p74 The term had been coined by a
+Canadian psychiatrist, Richard Maurice Bucke, in a very
+odd, spiritualistic book, Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in
+the Evolution of the Human Mind (1901).
