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Gardner to Speak on Urban Future
Grass busts ‘•coincidental’-Foot Patrol By MIKE GORDON Frierson admitted that “There may report automatically on all students. This Community dissatisfaction with the have been some question as to our right was by request of the Chancellor.” Foot Patrol and other police agencies to be where we were,” and furthermore But the pair aroused support from surfaced Thursday night as two Patrol acknowledged that there had been no lost onlookers at least once, when Frierson members and County Supervisor Dan child. He used the story because “we agreed that liquor should be available in Grant faced question-and-answer sessions needed to set you at ease” while I.V. at a meeting of Richard Applebaum’s searching for a cocaine dealer in the Earlier, Supervisor Grant declared his Sociology 127 class, billed as an “ Open vicinity, he said. conditional support for I.V. incorporation. “Incorporation should Forum on Isla Vista.” Countering a claim that the Foot An audience of over 100 repeatedly provide a rallying point,” he exhorted Patrol employed informers in I.V., the listeners, “to turn this community around questioned Foot Patrol officers Bob police representatives explained, “We Frierson and Bill Mauras on police and get going.” don’t try to cultivate informers. This is Grant recounted a history of zoning attitudes toward drug use and expanding something narcotics officers do.” Foot Patrol coverage in Isla Vista. and governmental problems in Isla Vista, Frierson added that “we have been beginning in 1927 when the entire area Commenting earlier, Supervisor Grant, needled by other (Sheriffs officers”) asked if he favored the incorporation of was zoned into 25-foot-wide lots for oil because they feel Foot Patrol officers are developers. -
Copyright by Noah Phillips 2012
Copyright By Noah Phillips 2012 Imperialism, Neo-colonialism and International Politics in Aldous Huxley’s Island By Noah Phillips, B.A. A Thesis Submitted to the Department of English California State University Bakersfield In Partial Fulfillment of the Degree of Masters of English Spring 2012 Signature Page Imperialism, Neo-colonialism and International Politics in Aldous Huxley's Island By Noah Phillips This thesis of project has been accepted on behalf of the Department of English by their supervisory committee: ' Dr. Charles C. MacQuarrie Committee Member TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Imperialism, Neo-colonialism and International Politics in Aldous Huxley’s Island…………………………………………………….…………………4 CHAPTER ONE: A Review of the Scholarship of Island………………………………………………………….7 CHAPTER TWO: International Politics and 20th Century History in Island: A Historicist Approach to Plot and Character………………………………………………..22 CHAPTER THREE: An Application of Dependency Theory and World Systems Analysis to the Political and Economic Arguments of Island………………………………………………………………...43 CHAPTER FOUR: CONCLUSIONS: Aldous Huxley, Political Philosopher, Novelist………………………….61 BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………………........67 3 INTRODUCTION Imperialism, Neo-colonialism and International Politics in Aldous Huxley’s Island The purpose of this thesis is to understand and analyze Aldous Huxley’s presentation of neo-colonialism in his utopian novel Island. Particular attention will be given to his portrayal of economic relations between first world powers and the third world in this novel. Furthermore, his fictional rendition of military intervention and foreign policy by the United States and Britain and the role it has played in the developing world during the 20th century will be the central focus of this thesis. Huxley’s claims and critique presented in Island of the process by which first world powers dominate international politics, world markets and peripheral economies through the use of military intervention and foreign policy will be supported by historical accounts. -
ELCOCK-DISSERTATION.Pdf
HIGH NEW YORK THE BIRTH OF A PSYCHEDELIC SUBCULTURE IN THE AMERICAN CITY A Thesis Submitted to the College of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon By CHRIS ELCOCK Copyright Chris Elcock, October, 2015. All rights reserved Permission to Use In presenting this thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Postgraduate degree from the University of Saskatchewan, I agree that the Libraries of this University may make it freely available for inspection. I further agree that permission for copying of this thesis in any manner, in whole or in part, for scholarly purposes may be granted by the professor or professors who supervised my thesis work or, in their absence, by the Head of the Department or the Dean of the College in which my thesis work was done. It is understood that any copying or publication or use of this thesis or parts thereof for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. It is also understood that due recognition shall be given to me and to the University of Saskatchewan in any scholarly use which may be made of any material in my thesis. Requests for permission to copy or to make other use of material in this thesis in whole or part should be addressed to: Head of the Department of History Room 522, Arts Building 9 Campus Drive University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5A5 Canada i ABSTRACT The consumption of LSD and similar psychedelic drugs in New York City led to a great deal of cultural innovations that formed a unique psychedelic subculture from the early 1960s onwards. -
Mysticism and Pacifism
Chapter 4 Mysticism and Pacifism Huxley’s mystical turn in the mid-1930s was intimately associated with paci- fism, and his pacifist convictions were reinforced by the mystical philosophy of Gerald Heard and Jiddu Krishnamurti. As noted in Chapter 1, Huxley’s involve- ment with Ottoline Morrell and the Garsington set during World War i had led him to adopt a pacifist position, and the rise of Mussolini and Hitler and the imperial tensions of the 1930s had done nothing to change his mind. His disparaging article “What Gandhi Fails to See” (1930), would seem to contradict this statement, but Huxley was not objecting to Gandhi as a pacifist but as an “ascetic salvationist” whose spirituality blinded him to inconvenient facts, such as the “distressingly easy passage from non-violence to violence”,1 or the fact that reverting to a pre-industrial civilisation, as Gandhi was advocating, would entail the “death by starvation of millions upon millions of human be- ings” (in other words, the exponential increase in population made possible by industrialisation).2 Huxley’s interest in mysticism had been dampened by his trip to India and south-east Asia in 1925–26. In the article, Gandhi is pilloried as a representative of the kind of Hindu spirituality that Huxley had deplored in Jesting Pilate (1926): “To my mind ‘spirituality’ […] is the primal curse of India and the cause of all her misfortunes. […] A little less spirituality and the Indians would now be free – free from foreign dominion and from the tyranny of their own prejudices and traditions”.3 But as the 1930s progressed, Huxley was compelled by personal circumstances to re-evaluate his opinion of both Gandhi and mysticism and by 1936 he was publicly advocating satyagraha and practising meditation with Gerald Heard and members of the Peace Pledge Union (ppu). -
Messenger 17.2 Pages 1-96
The Evaluation of Research In October 2008 the Italian National University Council (CUN, Consiglio Universitario Nazionale) requested all scholarly societies in the humanities to express their views on the evaluation of research. The paper below, produced by the Board of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) outlining AIA’s position and circulated to all its members, was also signed by Compalit (Associazione per lo Studio della Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura), by AIS (Associazione Italiana degli Slavisti) and by SUSLFF (Società Italiana per gli Studi di Lingua e di Letteratura Francese). The Research Dimension in Evaluation by all.2 Although its promoters tend to say that the classification does not have an evaluative As we start it needs to be remembered that the function, it has inevitably led to category “C” evaluation of research products is just one taking on a negative valence as the “recipient” dimension of evaluation. Other dimensions of everything which has not been placed in the include teaching and the contribution made to “higher” categories.3 The panels responsible the discipline in the form of participation in for the ERIH classification then argue that the colloquia and conferences, preparation of merit of each contribution is totally unconnected academic events etc. It is to be hoped that, in to the categories where the journal is “placed”: deciding the criteria for the evaluation of every category can host contributions whose products, those factors are not sidelined which intrinsic value is highly diverse. -
^M 2 Students Killed
Vol. 17, No. 32 Califomia State University, Northrldge r da Friday, November 17, 1972 2 students killed (BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA Baton Rouge Mayor W.W. Du UPI)—Two students were killed mas said, "Two have been shot in a battle between police and and there may be more if ne Blacks who had token over a cessary," building at Southern University He added, "We've sent the dogs here today. in to get them out of the build The battle broke out when po ing. Our people are out there lice swept onto the campus to now. We are going to take back oust the Blacks who had occu over the administration at any pied the administration building cost." this morning. "There is a price that you A smoke grenade was thrown pay for appeasement," Dumas from the building toward police said, "and if you appease people, and gunshots were fired. Police you can expect the worse." answered with tear gas,,,but Militant students at the mostly sheriff Al Amiss of East Baton Black college had boycotted Rouge, said as far as he knows, classes for two weeks, seeking none of his men fired gunshots. the resignation of the school pre He said police used only tear sident and more student control gas. over campus Ufe. However, at the end of the ten They held the administration ^mminut e battle, two students lay building for eight days but gave dead on the campus. it up last week when the pre Sheriff Amiss said there were sident resigned. They took it two-thousand students in and over again today. -
Psychozoic Press #8
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. -
Wisdom's Maw - the Story Behind the Story
Wisdom's Maw - The Story Behind the Story Wisdom's Maw - The Story Behind the Story "If someone were to take you out - today - would anyone see the book?" It was an absurd question. But we live in absurd times, and so I paused in reflection and took a quick mental inventory of just how many copies of the manuscript were floating around the U.S. and England. In the final analysis - including published excerpts from the book (13) - there are far too many copies of Wisdom's Maw circulating "out there" to do anything about. For better or worse, the CIA will have to lie with its mistakes. There was a time, though, several years ago, late Spring of 1990, when I found myself worrying about the little things: the car that had been in my rearview mirror for several miles and many odd street changes, or the sonar blip somewhere in the bowels of my phone line to which I could set my watch, or whether this turn of the ignition key would be the last move I would ever make. Democratic Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, in a closed door session of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1978, deemed Project MK-ULTRA, "the most diabolical experiment imaginable in a democratic society." And from what I know now, from the four-plus years it took to research and complete Wisdom's Maw, I would have to agree. 1 of 4 Wisdom's Maw - The Story Behind the Story For over twenty years, several branches of the federal government of the United States of America - most notably the Army Chemical Corps, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation - sought as their ultimate objective nothing less than total control over human behavior. -
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES SPECIAL EDITION: Psychedelics, Death and Dying Edited by David Jay Brown, M.A. VOLUME XX NUMBER 1 • $8.95 MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES “Wanderer Awake” by Andrew “Android” Jones, created for David Wilcock’s album cover. Painted live on the beach of Salvador, Brazil on the first dawn of 2009. This image, in various sizes and mediums, as well as other artwork by Andrew Jones, is available for purchase with proceeds benefiting MAPS at: www.maps.org/androidjones maps bulletin • volume xx number 1 maps bulletin • volume xx number 1 1 MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) 2 Letter from Rick Doblin, Ph.D., MAPS President is a membership-based organization. Founded in 1986, MAPS is an IRS approved 501 (c)(3) non-profit corpora- 3 Letter from the Editor, David Jay Brown, M.A. tion funded by tax deductible donations. Our mission is 1) 6 Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death: to treat conditions for which conventional medicines provide limited relief—such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax, David Jay Brown, M.A. pain, drug dependence, anxiety and depression associated with end-of-life issues—by developing psychedelics and mari- 9 The Experience of Death and Dying: Psychological, Philosophical, and juana into prescription medicines; 2) to cure many thousands Spiritual Aspects, Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. of people by building a network of clinics where treatments can be provided; and 3) to educate the public honestly 14 A Conversation with Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D., David Jay Brown, M.A. -
Director Admits Rents Rincon Rasidmit
ftmMMMSitmmmimmmmm :-iii •' 'mmu Director admits rents Rincon rasidMit. Giagni had and himadtf, Mondkd said the wanted to know ^y the hiring Ron Rodman, anotho- Sli^WllliV aaked in his letter «^y, if rent would incHMse on a 60% peopte mho had sin^^ nxmu free-roomer at Rincon, as a debt retirement and occupancy projectioa. on my roster w«re not being security guard. But ac S6Bto4Jaivwiiil^, lldtthrieigft operating ov«rhead for Later, refMrring to Km* sent to Linda Hainley in ceding to Giagni, Rodman housing directm*. said Rinccm was gdng down, and nard's allegation that aceounting and why those worked as a security guard Wednesday that he has beoi 20 people wwe receiving rent Mondol intended to write out people were not being last semester, but declined to giving free rooms to cuts, shouki other residents six of the 12 RA jobs, biUed.' work this semester. "As long residents of Rincon Hall in have to pi^ more rent next Mondol said, "I will see you According to Mondol, the as I've been in security this exchange for services ren faU. always have a job. Not only way to keep the rent semester I've never seen dered to the dorm, a practice George Kennard, iden necessarily an RA job, but it down was to have students Rodman," Giagni said. which Mondol admitted is tified by Giagni as the source is my duty to see you have a perform services at the hall Rich Pena, who is also on ill^al. for his charges, said that job," in retum for a free room. -
Psychozoic Press #7
THE PSYCHOZOIC PRESS Spring 19'8/f #7 Peelefs Lepiota An Information and Communication Exchange Paper on Psychedelics. THE PSYCHOZOIC PRESS Spring, 198*f Issue No. 7 Contents The OMI Report .12 LSD vs. Insanity—A Personal Account..15 —Tom Lyttle Ayahuasca Drinkers Among the Chama I n d i a n s 3 6 c« —Heinz Kusel Interview with Terence McKenna (part 3) • 60 —Slvin D. Smith The Leniota Peele Mushroom 66 —Stephen L. Peele Bookshelf Reviews 71 Invitation for Contributory Works 75 The Mailbox 76 **************************************** Ad Rates Times Full Page Half Page 1 1 0 5 2 2 0 1 0 3 2 5 1 5 k 3 0 2 0 **************************************** The PSYCHOZOIC PRESS is produced quar terly at 2121 BraleyRd., Coos Bay, OR 97k20. Subscription, $7/year. Back issues are $2 each, except #1, which is $1. The #2 issue has been reprinted and all issues are now available. @ 198/f by Elvin D. Smith. **************************************** We are not in the substances trade. **************************************** 2 % Ml ISHROOM ■ G R O W I N G W MYCOLOGY LAB SYSTEMS AND TECHNICS For the Cultivation of WILD EDIBLE MUSHROOMS. Equipment, supplies, and technical advice for every level of experience and budget, from the novice to commercial and research projects. Send S3 for a copy of our <3>< 21 page color catalog and technical manual delivered toy first class mail. BIOLOGICAL LABOPATORlCfi Box 949 Chico, CA 9592? (916) 893-W2 ,<&■» Open Monday through Friday 8:30 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Terence and Dennis McKenna THE INVISIBLE LANDSCAPE Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I_ Ching Contents: 250 pages 1. -
The Last Days of John Lennon
Copyright © 2020 by James Patterson Hachette Book Group supports the right to free expression and the value of copyright. The purpose of copyright is to encourage writers and artists to produce creative works that enrich our culture. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like permission to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please contact [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104 littlebrown.com twitter.com/littlebrown facebook.com/littlebrownandcompany First ebook edition: December 2020 Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The Little, Brown name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. The Hachette Speakers Bureau provides a wide range of authors for speaking events. To find out more, go to hachettespeakersbureau.com or call (866) 376-6591. ISBN 978-0-316-42907-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2020945289 E3-111020-DA-ORI Table of Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 — Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 — Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24