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PSY summer 1984 no. 8 f Information & Communication change Paper on Psychedelics et]p vsycj) ozoir ?r?Bg summer 1984 no. 8 The Green Line Circles About Everv- Thing by 'Wu* Albus 4 Double-Spaced Question Remarks: A Brief Chat With Elvin D. Smith by D i d y m o s 6 The Sacred Mushroom and Freedom of Religion by Elvin D. Smith . 20 Getting the Most Sense for Yo-ur Money by Dot Saure 27 Terence. McKenna Interview (part A) ... 37 Some Notes on Brain Chemistry, Infor mation Processing & the Psychedelic Exper i ence by Thomas Lyttle A3 A Few Practical Guidelines for the Small-Scale Mushroom Cultivator by Ronald Koffman Bookshelf Book Reviews 68 The Psychozoic Press Mailbox 8 0 The V.ychozoic Paw* U pentad ^K^Uy at 2121 Knaliv Koad, Coo* Bar/, 0ACfion 97420 SubtcAlpUont'a** *? pe* **«*• Bact-^uc* ane. $? tach (Our Cover: An anonymous piece inspired from the psychozoic era; circa 197 7 . <§) copyr i ght ^1984 Thomas Lyttle *a Ml works by ,Wui Albus. Dot Saure, Thoma* Lyttle, 6 Didv-os c copyright 1984 by Thomas Lyttle. All else c copyright 19b< Elvin D. 5tr.ith. 2 NULLA RES SPIRITUALIS VESCENV1T SINE IWPUMEWTO T l i e t c i m c e oi WANTRA i n v o l v t t t h e beliei that $h<L thapt, t t y l t A n d tound o{ c t K t a i n won.dt can i n £ l u t n c e e v e n t t a n d c a l l i o A t h deep a r c h e t y p a l and tpin.it ual I0A.CI6. A hidden hnowleidge o& tim- < i n g i t i n volved; at pi anting a t etd 0 ut oi te.at- o n w i l l bean little. i n u i t . The ^O'tmulc ne produced h ene hat tun.n ed up in p l a c e t at &an. ap- an.t at Pen peii, Had\ia n t * W a l l in Nc fitheKn Er.Q • Zand and on Coptic pa pn.i ditco v e i e d i n E o y p t . I n A t i a Mincn, it u!' a t i d e n t i tied c n a bronze c/iGAm dati ng back to the 4th 0 n Sth Centn.ua AD, in Auttnia on a 16th C entuKy co in and i n t r a n c e on a B±ble pendant in The Abbey o£ St. Gcn.mair. dc Fn.et. The faeinula hat been tiantlattd in a variety o£ loote way*. SATQR teemt tc mean "a towc-i" on. "to ^ok' teedt"; AREP0 may come inom annepo 11 CAt£p to) and KtitAt to a plow;TlH£T mcar.t "a btliei ; OPERA meant "a te.nvi.ee, on. woif ,an& ROTAS neleit to ciAclet on. a wheel. fn.om thit 7 might Koughly tKanttatc thit tentcnte at "Thnough thit woik, beliz^t may be pa\ttd to that citative id eat can be planted". -Tkom&& Ltfltlt. 1964 LINEA VIRIDIS GYRAT UNIVERSA AMEN Today, with so much communications tech nology available to us,, why is disinfor mation about ps.ychedelics so common? Lamentably, the average man on the street, most of the news media and the establish ed scientific community still find them selves victims of this perplexing quan- drum. The media- out of beat with the pulsing psychedelic black-market - stand unable to grasp and label anything sub stantial or sellable about hallucinogens. Studying psychedelics from across the table, modern science sits absorbed but unable to capture and control the spir itual lens that is necessary for unlock ing the potentials and latent deeper mean ings surrounding these elixers. Tn this light, the following is excerpted from Swaniihi Satyananda's Tantra of K u n d a 1 - ini Yoga published by the Bihar School of Yoga, Monghyr, India 1973. 'The fourth method of awake ning according to yoga is through herbs. In Sanskrit the word is AUSHADHI but it should not mean drugs. Through herbs either the partial or the fuller awakening can be brought about. Either the awakening of IDA or PINGALA or awakening of SUSHUMNA which means the entire total awak ening can be brought about. That is known as AUSHADHI but it is also said that the herbs which should be used to awaken this potentiality, or this life in man should be understood or should be got only through the GURU, not without the GURU. Be cause there are certain herbs that awaken IDA and there are others that can awaken PINGALA only; and there are others that can esren suppress both of these functions so that you can go to the mental asylum very quick ly! So the question of AUSHADHI or the herbal awakening is very risky, quick but unreliable method. It should only be got from one who is a very reliable person and who knows the science very wellf. 'Wu' Albus DOUBLE-SPACED QUESTION REMARKS: A BRIEF CHAT WITH ELVIN D. SMITH by Didymos When I 1st ordered a copy of the Psy chozoic Press it was to supplement my growing library on the subjects of altered-states and psychedelics. I really didn't know just what to ex pect.. ... I figured anyone creating a forum for this controversial & oft en illegal subject roust be nuts for calling attention to themself. The times are just too strange and the ordeals for free-thinking just too harsh these days. I'm pretty careful about these tilings, I believe that psychedelics could be come the next pornography unless sin cere, honest & intelligent folks set the truth & the facts about this sub ject for everyone to see. The Psychozoic Press passed this test hands down, In fact, it took my scru tiny and critical faculties & turned them into support & contribution.... I guess I'm not alone. In the past few months, Ken Kesey, Stan Krippner, Tim Leary, Peter Stafford, Terence McKenna and others have also taken the time to compliment the Psycho- zoic Press. Something's going on here and its going in the right direction I decided to talk to the creator & get some kind of perspective on the purpose and reasons that give this unusual communique its1 appeal. Also, rather than it just being °a communication exchange0, I wanted the author Elvin Smith to take part in a communication sharing. Put your ear to the ground* and listen (£: Obviously you have had some spir itual experiences and quickenings with psychedelics.Would you comment on the usefulness & drawbacks you've discovered from this controversial spiritual path? ELVIN: Well, sure! You know, I've tr ied to talk to people about the id eas I've come up with in regards to the psychedelic experience. It usually ends up with them saying: 'Elvin, what the hell are you talking about?! My 1st use of psychedelics were grand . I started using them every week-end, etc. and things seemed to be cruising along beautifully! After a few years I realized that I couldn't maintain that level of use without. being more productive about what was coming down in my mind. This is one drawback to the psychedelic spiritual path. There is sj> much in even a single psychedelic session. After it's finished, a person has to take inventory about just what it is that he got out of the whole thing. Otherwise, it's just sort of a 'ce rebral mastrubation! You should come back with something that people can relate to.... I've learned this over the space of a few years, so I try to pass it on. The advantage of this spiritual path is that it helped me integrate quest ions that I had about my relationship \o society. AFTER,A PERSON HAS TO TAKE INVENTORY. OTHERWISE,IT'S CEREBRAL MASTURBATION! In grade-school I used to have to pra ctise air-raid & atomic bomb drills. These things affect kids' perspectives as they grow. Vague fears and a sense of impermanence enlarge with you. Psychedelics gave me a way to deal with this. The way, of course, is just to forget it! In light of the psychedel ic experience, things like this are just trivial! There are more import ant things. It's like watching your fingernails grow or waiting for an earthquake. .you just can't spend the t ime . Q: Do you have a wife & kids? Do you think that one can support the average middle-American lifestyle & still main tain a developed psychedelic perspecti i v e ? ELVI N: W e l l s u r e , I've got a w ife &2 k i d s . I h a v e a good job that I like a lot . I w o r k w i t h lumber & oft en the beau t y o f t h ese d if ferent woods s p a r k my c r e a t ive , p s y c h e delic side. I can u s e a l l t h i s a nd make useful t hin gs for iny h ome & f a in i ly. Som e t ime s wor ki ng the Psyc h o z o i c P r ess do es encroach on my per s o n a l f ami l y l i f e, but I've got my pr io r it i es in o r d e r .