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Abe, Masao, 28 , 151 , 186n45 , 211n7 , 213n4 Artaud, Antonin, 10 , 29 – 30 , 142 “Abomunism,” 3 , 53 , 59 – 60 Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumara, 142 Abraham, 33 To Have Done with the Judgment of God , 30 Abstract Expressionism, 40 , 58 Assisi, St. Francis of, 3 , 66 , 124 , 128 – 29 , Acts of h omas, 70 149 , 169 Adorno, h eodor, 148 astrology, 1 – 2 , 4 , 7 , 8 , 24 , 38 , 42 , 62 , 133 , 138 , “ h eses Against Occultism,” 148 160 , 169 , 176 , 184n27 Age of Aquarius, 23 , 43 , 133 , 176 , 215n6 Asvaghosa, 74 Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius, 3 , 36 , 41 , 45 , 131 , Athanasian Creed, 20 139 , 190n27 Atlantis, 24 , 96 , 200n38 De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres, 45 atman, 67 , 154 , 160 Albigensians, 27 , 39 , 50 Atta of Nishapur, 149 alchemical, 30 , 42 – 43 , 62 , 103 , 107 , Avatamsaka, 152 138 – 39 , 147 – 48 Avila, St. Teresa of, 85 alchemy, 1 – 2 , 4 , 16 , 23 – 24 , 30 , 35 , 42 , 44 , 123 , ayahuasca, 10 , 100 , 111 138 , 147 – 48 , 160 Azevedo, Warren L.d’, 141 Alcott, Bronson, 8 , 103 Aztecs, 40 , 109 , 119 Alexander the Great, 8 , 33 Alexie, Sherman, 172 Bach, J. S., viii , 84 , 154 Allen, Don, 164 Baldwin, James, 73 Allen, Paula Gunn, 51 , 191n42 “Sonny’s Blues,” 73 “Deer Woman,” 51 Ball, Hugo, 58 Altieri, Charles, 34 , 188n68 Byzantinisches Christentum: Drei anarchist, 16 – 17 , 36 , 59 , 65 , 137 Heiligenleben, 58 Anatman, 79 Baraka, Amiri (Leroi Jones), 6 , 11, 40 , 129 Angels, 93 , 124 , 125 , 131 , 195n23 , 205n2 , Barlow, Robert, 109 207n28 , 222 Bataille, Georges, 10 , 65 , 139 – 40 , 144 , 208n15 , Apocalypse, 6 , 13 , 69 , 128 , 179 , 215n11 , 220 209n23 , 210n40 Apocryphon of John, 32 “ h e Surrealist Religion,” 139 apophatic theology, 15 , 142 – 43 Baudrillard, Jean, 117 Apuleius, 8 Bauduin, Tessel, 148 h e Golden Ass, 8 Surrealism and the Occult: Occultism and Areopagite, Pseudo- Dionysius the, 3 , 17 , 24 , 93 , Western Esotericism in the Work of Andre 95 , 137 , 141 – 42 Breton , 148 h e Celestial Hierarchy , 124 , 144 Beach, Mary, 64 Mystical h eology , 3 , 143 Beatitude, 53 Armed with Madness, 27 Beatles, h e 29 , 102 , 178 , 215n10 Arp, Hans, 58 beatnik, 53 – 54 , 83 – 84 Arnold, Matthew, 83 , 175 Beckett, Samuel “Dover Beach,” 175 Waiting for Godot, 5 Empedocles on Aetna , 83 Belgrad, Daniel, 28 , 186n45

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Beiles, Sinclair, 109 Borges, Jorge Luis, 10 , 31 , 80 , 197n64 Bell, Catherine, 20 , 184n17 Bouthoul, Betty, 119 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 69 Bowles, Paul and Jane, 112 , 203n19 Berdyaev, Nicholas, 22 , 184n22 Brahma, 62 , 160 Bergson, Henri, 86 brahman, 8 – 9 , 154 , 160 Berkeley, i , 18 , 26 – 27 , 91 , 93 , 164 , 181n5 , 183n7 , Brahmasastra, 46 185n30 , 185n31 , 185n33 , 185n38 , 186n46 , Brahms, Johannes, 154 – 158 187n56 , 188n1 , 190n32 , 191n44 , 192n4 , Brautigan, Richard, 54 193n21 , 194n11 , 194n14 , 194n6 , 198n1 , “Bread and Wine Mission,” 53 199n21 , 201n61 , 201n65 , 203n25 , 204n31 , Breton, Andre, 133 , 138 – 40 , 146 , 209n16 , 208n4 , 210n46 , 211n7 , 212n24 , 214n19 , 210n47 , 217 214n24 , 214n28 , 219 – 22 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 60 , 114 , 144 , 150 , Berkeley Bussei, 18 155 , 157 – 59 Berlin, Isaiah, 88 , 198n12 , 212n14 Broek, Roelof Van Den, 143 Berman, Wallace, 29 , 31 , 41 , 179 , 186n55 , Browning, Robert, 12 187n60 , 218 Bruno, Giordano, 34 , 36 , 41 , 187n65 , 188n67 , 222 Bernal, Martin, 129 Buber, Martin, 23 Berryman, John, 90 Bucke, Richard M., 9 Bestsellie, Melvin, 122 Buddha, v , 2 , 7 , 43 , 47 , 61 , 63 , 65 , 74 – 79 , 81 , 83 , Bhagavad Gita, 6 , 8 , 58 , 150 , 157 , 160 , 169 , 221 91 – 92 , 100 , 105 , 113 , 115 , 127 , 149 , 168 – 71 , bhikkhu, 81 173 , 182n15 , 194 , 211n7 , 213n32 , 214n14 Black Chant: Languages of African- American Buddhism, 1 – 3 , 5 , 10 , 11 , 13 – 16 , 18 – 19 , 21 – 22 , 28 , Postmodernism, 61 36 , 39 , 43 , 46 – 47 , 51 – 53 , 60 – 65 , 67 , Black Elk, Wallace, 122 74 – 85 , 87 , 91 , 93 , 97 – 100 , 102 , 104 , 109 , Black, Jack, 116 121 – 22 , 145 , 148 , 150 – 51 , 161 , 163 , 164 , Black Mountain College, 29 166 , 167 – 71 , 173 , 182n15 , 186n43 , 189n10 , Blackmur, R. P., 23 189n14 , 190n29 , 190n32 , 191n45 , 193 , Blake, William, 1 , 2 , 14 , 16 , 36 , 40 , 74 , 76 , 193n24 , 193n26 , 193n28 , 194n3 , 196n34 , 85 , 87 – 90 , 92 – 97 , 103 – 5 , 125 , 137 – 38 , 196n49 , 196n50 , 197n64 , 201n72 , 160 , 176 , 181n1 , 199n15 , 200n45 , 201n78 , 203n26 , 211n8 , 212n13 , 213n12 , 205n2 , 215n5 214n12 , 214n14 , 214n21 , 214n24 , 214n25 , “Ah! Sun- l ower,” 85 218 – 19 , 221 “ h e Chimney Sweeper,” 92 Buddhist Ray, h e 1 8 “ h e Divine Image,” 176 Budge, E. A. Wallis, 108 , 118 “Jerusalem,” 89 Bukkyo Seinenkai, 18 “ h e Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” 90 Bukowski, Charles, i , vii , 29 , 67 , 78 , 130 , “ h e Sick Rose,” 85 205n47 , 218 Songs of Experience, 85 Burnet, John, 152 “A Vision of the Last Judgment,” 97 Burnouf, Eugene, 9 Blaser, Robin, 26 Introduction à l‘histoire du Buddhisme Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 10 , 18 , 26 , 38 , 75 , indien, 9 150 , 184n8 , 185n37 Burroughs, William S., i , v , 2 – 3 , 10 , 13 – 15 , Isis Unveiled , 18 , 26 27 , 29 , 39 , 53 , 56 , 66 , 71 , 73 , 78 – 79 , Bloom, Harold, 32 , 96 , 187n63 , 187n65 , 84 – 86 , 104 , 106 – 23 , 126 – 27 , 129 – 30 , 145 , 200n39 , 200n45 175 – 76 , 179 , 181n1 , 195n23 , 197n78 , 202 , h e American Religion, 32 , 187n63 202n1 , 202n2 , 202n3 , 202n4 , 202n5 , Bloy, Leon, 31 202n6 , 202n7 , 202n8 , 203n10 , 203n11 , Blyth, R. H., 151 203n13 , 203n16 , 203n17 , 203n19 , 203n20 , Bodhidharma, 40 , 152 203n21 , 203n22 , 203n23 , 203n24 , 203n25 , Bodhisattva, 47 , 81 , 98 , 171 203n27 , 202 – 4 , 204n29 , 204n30 , 204n31 , Boehme, Jacob, 21 – 22 , 32 , 36 , 58 , 75 , 89 , 140 , 204n32 , 204n33 , 204n35 , 204n36 , 184n18 , 184n22 , 217 204n37 , 204n38 , 204n39 , 204n40 , De Signatura Rerum, 21 204n42 , 204n44 , 205n47 , 205n50 , Boethius, 142 205n51 , 205n52 , 205n53 , 205n54 , 205n56 , Book of Job, 70 205n58 , 205n60 , 219 – 22

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Ah Pook Is Here, 109 , 204n45 Christ, 24 , 27 – 28 , 32 , 43 , 56 – 57 , 59 , 82 , 84 , 88, h e Book of Breething, 118 105 , 125 , 127 , 145 – 46 “ h e Conspiracy,” 123 Christian, 4 , 11 , 14 , 18 – 19 , 24 , 26 , 30 , 34 , 37 , 41 , h e Electronic Revolution , 121 – 122 43 , 50 , 55 – 57 , 59 , 62 – 63 , 65 , 68 , 71 , 81 , Junkie , 3 , 106 , 111 86 , 93 , 115 , 118 , 128 , 137 , 142 , 146 , 149 – 50 , Last Words , 123 161 , 164 , 177 – 78 , 187n61 , 187n63 , 187n65 , Minutes to Go , 109 , 120 188n67 , 190n27 , 191n39 , 192n14 , 192n6 , “My Purpose is to Write for the Space Age,” 110 198n3 , 198n9 , 199n35 , 206n16 , 210n40 , Naked Lunch , 3 , 109 , 111 – 12 , 127 , 203n17 , 210n53 , 214n14 203n20 , 203n22 , 203n24 Christian, Barbara, 60 Nova Trilogy, 116 Christianity, 1 , 8 – 12 , 20 , 39 , 41 , 53 , 56 – 57 , 82 , h e Place of Dead Roads, 107 , 116 – 17 , 120 , 117 – 18 , 125 , 129 , 163 , 186n43 , 189n10 , 202n2 , 204n30 , 204n35 , 204n45 191n38 , 202n82 , 220 Queer, 110 , 202n5 , 203n10 City Lights Bookshop, 29 “Roosevelt after the Inauguration,” 39 Clark, R. T. Rundle, 35 , 131 , 206n26 h e Soft Machine, 109 , 112 , 116 Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, 131 h e h ird Mind, 117 Clark, Tom, 28 , 185n38 h e Ticket h at Exploded, 112 , 114 , 116 , 203n25 Cloud of Unknowing, h e 143 Butts, Mary Francis, 27 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 2 , 86 , 103 , 107 Byron, Lord George, 2 Collins, Burgess Franklin (“Jess”), 26 , 29 Coltrane, John, 54 , 63 , 72 , 194n30 , 195n27 Caen, Herb, 53 “Confessional Poets,” 89 Cage, John, 108 Confucius, 9 , 113 , 127 calculus, 4 Analects, 165 “Calendar,” 152 Conway, David, 121 California, vii , 1 , 16 – 18 , 24 , 26 , 36 , 41 , 45 , 47 , Magic: An Occult Primer, 121 61 , 91 , 93 , 137 , 147 , 152 , 165 , 172 , 183n3 , Copenhaver, Brian P., 4 183n7 , 184n8 , 184n9 , 185n30 , 185n31 , Corbin, Henry, 27 , 35 , 120 – 21 , 205n48 185n33 , 185n38 , 187n56 , 189n12 , 190n24 , Corpus Hermeticum, 8 , 33 , 132 , 146 , 188n66 , 218 190n32 , 191n44 , 191n46 , 199n21 , 201n61 , Corso, Gregory, i , v , 3 , 5 – 6 , 10 , 13 – 14 , 33 , 36 , 204n31 , 208n4 , 211n7 , 220 – 21 39 , 45 , 66 , 71 , 93 , 102 , 109 , 120 , 124 – 35 , Campbell, Joseph, 46 , 58 137 , 140 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 176 , 182n10 , 205 , h e Hero with a h ousand Faces, 46 205n1 , 205n2 , 205n3 , 205n4 , 205n5 , Camus, Albert, 40 206n11 , 206n12 , 206n14 , 206n18 , Caples, Garrett, 149 206n20 , 206n23 , 206n27 , 206n6 , 206n7 , Carlyle, 31 206n8 , 207n28 , 207n29 , 207n32 , 207n34 , Carroll, Lewis, 178 – 79 207n36 , 207n41 , 208n44 , 208n45 , 221 Casaubon, Isaac, 33 American Express, 125 Cassady, Carolyn, 75 “ h e American Way”, 125 , 129 Cassady, Neal, 7 , 59 , 61 , 66 , 69 , 74 – 75 , 81 , 85 , “Bomb,” 6 , 124 , 127 – 28 88 , 101 , 145 , 193n21 , 194n5 , 196n35 , 198n1 Elegiac Feelings American , 130 Castaneda, Carlos, 121 , 122 “For Homer,” 125 Cathar, 41 , 50 , 191n40 “ h e Geometric Poem,” i , 14 , 33 , 120 , Catholic, 2 , 14 , 20 , 26 , 65 , 81 , 84 , 123 – 25 , 129 , 124 , 130 – 133 137 , 142 , 145 , 149 , 157 , 198n7 , 219 “God? She’s Black,” 6 Catholicism, 20 – 21 , 36 , 66 , 76 , 82 , 84 , 131 , Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit , 124 137 , 146 “Logos Logos Logos,” 135 – 136 Cavalcanti, Guido, 143 “Marriage,” 14 , 124 , 126 – 127 , 206n7 , 206n8 Cayce, Edgar, 59 , 75 “Open Letter: Poetry and Religion,” 124 Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 67 “Nevermore Baltimore,” 131 , 134 Cezanne, Paul, 86 “Saint Francis,” 128 – 129 Chadwick, Nora K., 152 “Spontaneous Requiem for the American Chandogya Upanishad, 62 , 152 Indian,” 134 – 135 Chardin, Teilhard de, 75 “Spirit,” 133 Charles, Ray, 98 Costantini, Giovanna, 133

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Couliano, Iona P. “Hymn,” 63 Eros and Magic in the Renaissance , 41 “ Introduction” to h e Hermetic and Alchemical counterculture, vii , 1 , 2 , 4 , 11 , 16 , 19 , 35 – 36 , Writings of Paracelsus, 42 40 – 41 , 47 , 49 , 66 , 80 , 134 , 140 , “John Dee,” 27 , 47 – 8 153 , 168 – 69 , 177 , 179 “Light/and Keats,” 50 Cowley, Malcolm, 75 Loba, 48 – 51 Crane, Hart, 2 , 54 , 78 , 96 , 99 , 137 , 177 , 200n38 , Memoirs of a Beatnik , 17 , 39 200n40 , 215n7 h e Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on “General Aims and h eories,” 96 H. D ., 38 “To Brooklyn Bridge,” 96 h e New Handbook of Heaven , 40 Crick, Francis, 3 “Notes on h e Art of Memory,” 44 Crow, h omas, 30 , 186n54 “Number Seven,” 46 Crowley, Aleister, 27 , 36 , 119 , 129 , 179 “Number h irteen,” 46 Crumb, Robert, 178 “Number Twenty-Eight,” 46 – 7 cryptogram, 25 “Number h irty-Two,” 179 “Number h irty-Five,” 43 da Vinci, Leonardo, 130 “Number Fifty-Four,” 44 Dada Manifesto of 1918 , 58 “Number Fifty-Seven,” 45 – 6 Dada Painters and Poets , (ed. Robert “Number Seventy-Seven,” 46 Motherwell), 58 “Paracelsus,” 42 – 3 , 47 Dadaist, 3 , 12 , 14 , 53 , 97 , 108 , 178 “ Preface” to John Dee’s Monas Daftary, Farhad, 120 Hieroglyphica, 47 Dalai Lama, 101 , 168 Recollections of My Life as a Woman: h e New Dali, Salvador, 138 York Years, 37 , 41 Damon, Maria, 64 Revolutionary Letters , 4 6 Damon, S. Foster, 89 h is Kind of Bird Flies Backward, 40 dana, 76 , 82 “Tsogyal,” 51 dana paramita, 76 Diamond Sutra, 22 , 75 – 77 , 81 Dandekar, R. N., 158 Dick, Philip K., 116 Dante, 36 , 144 Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture, 5 5 Darwin, Charles, 18 , 175 Dionysian, 11 , 17 , 30 Dasa, Philangi, 18 d- LSD, 3 Daumal, René, 10 , 60 , 193n16 Dodds, E. R., 50 , 86 , 90 , 198n2 , Davis, Miles, 54 198n3 , 199n21 Dee, John, 3 , 11 , 26 , 36 , 38 , 41 , 45 , 124 , 131 Dogen, 166 Monas Hieroglyphica, 27 , 47 Dolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 14 , 24 , 34 , 37 , 41 , 185n31 , Delattre, Pierre, 53 , 57 , 61 , 193n17 188n7 , 189n1914 , 24 Derrida, Jacques, 144 Dostoevsky, Fyodor 85 , 99 Deuteronomy, 97 Dr. Strangelove, 128 Dharma, 7 , 46 , 47 , 62 , 66 , 77 , 80 – 83 , Drucker, Johanna, 45 , 190n27 65 – 66 , 153 , 167 , 170 , 173 , 186n53 , 186n55 , Druids, 8 , 33, 152 193n24 , 193n27 , 197n66 , 197n70 , 201n75 , Duchamp, Marcel, 139 211n8 , 213n11 , 214n16 Dummett, Michael, 134 Dharmakara, 168 Duncan, Edward Howard, 24 Pistoia, Leonardo di, 33 Duncan, Robert, i , v , 2 , 12 – 17 , 24 – 32 , 34 – 39 , 41 , Di Prima, Diane, i , v , 1 , 3 , 5 , 6 , 12 , 14 , 17 , 45 , 50 , 52 , 66 , 89 , 96 , 99 , 104 , 120 , 125 , 20 , 24 , 26 – 28 , 31 , 35 – 44 , 46 – 52 , 56 , 132 , 143 , 169 , 183 , 185n30 , 185n31 , 185n33 , 60 , 62 – 63 , 65 – 66 , 82 , 85 , 89 , 105 , 108 , 185n34 , 185n38 , 185n39 , 186n42 , 186n43 , 115 , 124 , 131 , 133 , 139 , 150 , 154 , 172 , 186n44 , 186n49 , 186n55 , 187n59 , 187n62 , 176 , 179 , 183n6 , 188 , 188n2 , 188n7 , 187n64 , 188n69 , 189n10 , 189n19 , 202n84 , 189n18 , 189n21 , 191n36 , 191n47 , 194n31 , 218 – 20 , 222 194n7 , 215n11 “ h e Albigenses,” 27 Dinners and Nightmares, 40 Faust Foutu, 29 “Early Pot Notes,” 39 “ h e Homosexual in Society,” 30 h e Floating Bear, 39 “Ideas of the Meaning of Form,” 35

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Letters, 5 , 12 , 31 , 43 , 45 – 46 , 111 , 179 , 181n3 , Elkholy, Sharin N., 13 , 193n25 182n18 , 182n20 , 183n6 , 187n59 , 187n62 , Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 8 , 9 , 33 , 89 , 103 , 158 , 215n10 187n64 , 188n8 , 190n23 , 190n27 , 190n28 , Empedocles, 83 , 152 , 197n74 190n29 , 196n37 , 196n38 , 196n54 , 197n60 , Enlightenment, 4 197n61 , 197n78 , 199n36 , 200n38 , Enoch, 33 200n40 , 201n58 , 202n8 , 203n15 , 203n19 , entheogen, 2 , 3 , 12 , 14 , 19 , 40 , 85 , 87 , 111 , 161 204n44 , 205n2 , 215n11 , 215n7 Entzauberung, 4 Medieval Scenes, 27 , 50 , 186n42 Epiphanius, 49 “Short Invention of the h eme of the Erasmus, Desiderius, 151 Adam,” 32 Erdrich, Louise, 172 “Transgressing the Real, Passages 27,” 26 , Ernst, Max, 139 , 208n12 185n38 esoteric, i , vii , 4 , 9 – 10 , 14 , 23 , 25 , 31 , 34 , 38 – 39 , h e Truth and Life of Myth: An Essay in 52 , 85 , 93 , 106 , 120 , 129 , 132 – 33 , 138 , 142 , Essential Autobiography, 25 , 27 , 32 , 146 , 148 , 153 , 160 , 178 186 , 187n64 Everson, William (Brother Antoninus), 5 , 16 – 17 , “Wallace Berman: h e Fashioning Spirit,” 30 26 , 68 , 102 , 183n2 , 183n6 , 194n11 “What Do I Know of the Old Lore?,” 99 “Dionysus and the Beat Generation: Four Durkheim, Emile, 11 , 183n22 Letters on the Archetype,” 5 h e Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, existentialism, 29 , 40 , 173 11 , 183n22 Experimental Review, h e 2 5 Durozoi, Gerard, 138 Ezekiel, 92 Durrell, Lawrence, 116 , 129 Dylan, Bob, 17 , 49 , 78 , 94 , 101 , 109 , 128 , 134 , Faivre, Antoine, 93 , 199n30 178 – 79 , 196n52 , 196n53 , 201n69 , 202n7 , Falk, Jane, 62 206n13 , 207n39 Faulkner, William 78 Chronicles: Volume One, 78 , 128 Fazzino, Jimmy, 13 , 59 , 192n12 “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”, 102 Fellini, Federico, 177 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, i , 2 , 4 , 6 – 7 , 12 , 16 – 17 , Easy Rider, 29 , 72 , 177 , 195n27 29 , 39 , 60 , 67 , 114 , 153 , 168 , 182n10 , Eberhart, Richard, 17 , 183n5 183n1 , 193n15 , 212n13 , 218 Ecclesiastes, 69 A Coney Island of the Mind, 4 ecology, 3 , 170 “I Am Waiting,” 4 Eckhart, Meister, 3 , 75 , 83 , 86 , 140 “Sometime during Eternity,” 114 Egypt, 8 , 14 , 24 , 33 , 35 , 56 , 70 , 95 , 108 , 113 , Ficino, Marsilio, 33 , 36 , 41 , 132 118 – 19 , 124 , 129 – 35 , 146 – 49 , 160 , 185n29 , Fields, Rick, 169 206n26 , 207n27 , 207n31 , 207n32 , Finkelstein, Norman, 24 , 185n31 210n50 , 210n52 First Noble Truth, 65 , 74 , 81 Egyptian, 3 , 8 , 10 , 24 , 33 – 34 , 48 , 56 , 70 , 106 , 108 , Fiske, Edward B., 176 113 , 117 – 18 , 120 , 124 , 126 , 129 – 32 , 134 – 35 , Flamel, Nicolas, 139 137 , 145 – 47 , 175 , 199n35 , 207n33 , Flint, Valerie, 27 210n57 Fludd, Robert, 3 , 36 Egyptian hieroglyphics, 3 Fonda, Peter, 29 , 177 , 195n27 Eightfold Path, 78 Ford, Charles Henri, 138 Ein Sof, 45 Ford, Phil, 55 Einstein, Albert, 24 Fortune, Dion, 36 , 121 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 7 , 55 , 192n6 Fowden, Garth, 132 Eliade, Mircea, 20 , 25 , 76 , 91 , 172 , 175 , 185n35 , Foye, Raymond, 61 , 193n19 187n57 , 196n45 , 199n24 , 215n3 Franklin, H. Bruce, 57 Eliot, T. S., 20 , 61 , 84 – 86 , 106 , 126 , 134 , 143 , Frazer, Sir James, 24 , 48 151 – 52 , 159 , 197n79 , 210n35 , 212n23 , 221 h e Golden Bough, 24 , 41 , 48 , 58 Ash Wednesday , 143 Fredman, Stephen, 38 , 186n43 , 187n60 , 189n10 Four Quartets , 20 , 85 , 197n79 Freud, Sigmund, 86 “ h e Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 126 Civilization and Its Discontents, 86 h e Wasteland, 134 , 152 , 159 , 212n23 Froehlich, Karlfried, 142 Murder in the Cathedral , 61 Fulcanelli, 36 , 139

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Hinduism, 18 , 62 , 150 , 189n14 , 201n70 , 212n19 , Joron, Andrew, 148 212n26 , 218 Joyce, James, 138 Hippolytus of Rome, 71 Judaism, 1 , 91 , 99 H o f man, Abbie, 103 Jung, Carl Gustav, 24 , 29 – 30 , 35 , 43 , 79 , 116 , 138 , H o f man, John, 81 , 208n1 179 , 190n23 , 197n60 H o f mann, Albert, 3 Holliday, Billie, 54 Kabbalah, 1 – 2 , 10 , 23 – 24 , 31 , 34 – 35 , 38 – 39 , 41 , Holmes, John Clellon, 2 , 74 , 181n3 44 – 45 , 63 , 85 , 88 – 89 , 99 , 133 , 185n28 , Holst, Gustav, 32 187n60 , 190n25 , 200n56 Hooker, John Lee, 154 Kabbalistic, 11 , 14 , 45 , 50 , 62 , 85 , 96 , 99 Housman, A. E., 115 Kadmon, Adam, 32 humor, black, 30 , 44 , 128 Kali, 46 , 48 , 51 , 100 , 128 , 169 , 191n44 Huncke, Herbert, 66 , 108 kali yuga, 171 Hungerford, Amy, 103 Kandel, Lenore, 47 , 82 , 168 , 190n33 Hurst, Jane, 152 h e Love Book, 47 Husserl, Edmund, 175 Kant, Immanuel, 150 Hutton, Ronald, 49 , 191n36 Kantorowicz, Ernst, 26 Huxley, Aldous, 3 , 18 – 19 , 34 , 90 , 100 , 121 , Karma, 7 , 75 , 80 , 99 , 114 , 122 , 196 181n4 , 196n43 Kaufman, Bob, i , v , 3 , 6 , 12 , 14 , 29 , 41 , h e Doors of Perception, 3 52 – 64 , 72 , 85 , 89 , 97 , 113 , 125 , 138 , “Hymn of Jesus,” 32 178 , 191 , 192n5 , 192n7 , 192n10 , 192n12 , “Hymn of the Pearl,” 70 , 120 192n13 , 192n14 , 192n9 , 193n16 , 193n20 , 193n21 , 193n22 , 193n23 , 193n24 , I Ching, 10 , 41 , 58 , 108 , 160 193n27 , 193n28 Iamblichus, 33 , 95 “Abomunist Manifesto,” 59 , 63 , 97 , 114 Imamura, Reverend Kanmo and “Benediction,” 56 Jane, 18 “A Buddhist Experience,” 63 Institutes of Hindu Law, h e 9 “Does the Secret Mind Whisper?,” 59 , Isaiah, 73 , 97 , 128 61 – 62 , 193n20 Isherwood, Christopher, 18 “Hymn,” 63 Ishmalian, 1 , 115 , 119 “Lone Eagle,” 62 Isis, 8 , 18 , 26 , 48 , 129 , 184n8 “Saraswati,” 62 Islam, 1 , 5 , 118 , 120 – 21 , 204n45 , 205n49 “Second April,” 59 Ismaili, 106 , 145 “ h e Trip, Dharma Trip, Sangha Trip, 62 – 63 , Ismailism, 1 , 3 , 106 , 121 , 145 167 , 196n41 Ives, Charles, 5 Keats, John, 2 , 36 – 38 , 44 , 50 , 188n8 , 190n24 , 190n25 , 191n34 , 191n40 Jacobus, Harry, 29 Kennedy, John F., 61 James, William, 18 , 79 , 184n11 , 197n59 Kennedy, Robert, 169 h e Varieties of Religious Experience, 18 , 79 , kensho, 40 184n11 , 220 Kerouac, Jack, i – 2 , 6 , 7 , 9 , 13 – 14 , 17 , 18 , 20 , 21 , 27 , Jane Eyre, 37 29 , 35 , 37 , 39 , 47 , 51 , 55 – 56 , 63 – 85 , 89 , Jarry, Alfred, 60 91 – 94 , 96 – 97 , 100 , 102 , 104 , 106 , 108 – 9 , Ubu Roi, 60 112 , 114 – 15 , 120 , 121 , 124 , 129 , 143 – 45 , 149 , jazz, 14 , 17 , 40 , 44 , 53 – 55 , 63 , 67 , 72 , 78 , 102 , 151 , 153 , 158 , 164 , 167 , 176 , 177 , 181n3 , 183n1 , 138 , 153 186n47 , 194 , 194n1 , 194n3 , 194n10 , 194n12 , J e f ers, Robinson, 167 194n13 , 194n14 , 194n2 , 194n32 , 195n14 , Jeremiah, 92 195n18 , 195n20 , 195n22 , 195n23 , 195n24 , Jewish, 6 , 25 , 53 , 98 – 99 , 150 , 187n57 , 200n56 195n31 , 195n32 , 196n36 , 196n37 , 196n38 , Joans, Ted, 60 196n40 , 196n41 , 196n44 , 196n45 , 196n46 , Johnson, Joyce, 79 196n47 , 196n49 , 196n51 , 197n55 , 197n56 , Johnson, Kay, 125 197n58 , 197n61 , 197n63 , 197n66 , 197n70 , Jonas, Hans, 49 , 103 , 191n38 197n71 , 197n72 , 197n76 , 198n80 , 198n81 , h e Gnostic Religion, 49 199n36 , 202n7 , 206n16 , 209n32 , 210n41 , Jones, Hettie, 11 210n43 , 211n7 , 213n11 , 213n33 , 218 – 22

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Kerouac, Jack (cont.) “Between the Gulfs,” 146 Big Sur, 47 , 78 , 82, 84 , 170 , 197n56 “Destroyed Works,” 144 Desolation Angels , 29 , 64 , 68 – 70 , 77 – 78 , “Echo of St. h erese of the Child Jesus,” 149 83 , 145 , 153 , 194n13 , 194n32 , “Egypt II,” 33 – 34 197n76 , 210n43 Erotic Poems, 141 Dr. Sax , 71 “ h e Future of Surrealism,” 140 “Lamb, No Lion,” 65 “Lava,” 141 Lonesome Traveler , 65 , 194n3 , 195n31 Meadowlark West, 10 , 138 , 147 Mexico City Blues , 63 , 65 , 77 – 78 , 82 , 194n32 , “Nativity of Love,” 141 196n47 , 197n71 “Notes Toward a Rigorous Intepretation of On the Road , 65 – 66 , 68 – 69 , 71 , 74 , 80 , 120 , Surrealist Occultation,” 147 177 , 194n12 , 195n14 , 195n16 , 195n18 , “Redwood Highway,” 141 195n24 , 195n32 , 197n63 , 213n4 “Seraphim City,” 149 h e Scripture of the Golden Eternity , 7 6 – 7 8 , “Shot into the Sun,” 146 167 , 196n41 “Spring,” 147 Some of the Dharma , 2 , 65 , 69 , 77 – 78 , 83 , Tau, 146 196n45 , 197n55 “ h e Touch of the Marvelous,” 140 h e Subterraneans , 74 “Unachieved,” 137 h e Town and the City , 66 Landa, Bishop Diego de, 118 Visions of Cody , 66 , 78 Lang, Fritz, 97 Visions of Gerard , 65 Metropolis (i lm), 97 Kether, 45 Lankavatara, 75 , 151 – 52 King, Jr., Martin Luther, 169 Lanman, Charles, 159 King Ubu Gallery, 29 Laughlin, James, 19 , 67 , 184n13 , 194n7 Kitkitdizze, 1 Lautreamont, Comte de, 148 Kivy, Peter, 157 Lawrence, D. H., 10 , 17 , 23 , 74 , 96 , 119 , 166 , Kline, Franz, 40 179 , 182n19 , 204n43 , 213n8 , 215n11 Knight, Brenda, 13 , 188n1 Studies in Classic American Literature/h e Women of the Beat Generation, 13 , 188n1 , Symbolic Meaning , 10 189n11 , 220 Women in Love, 166 koan, 61 , 152 , 161 Laws of Menu, h e 9 Koran, 94 , 141 , 145 Leary, Timothy, 3 , 72 , 168 Korzybski, Alfred, 108 Lemuria, 24 Kripal, Jef rey J., 150 , 178 , 191n44 , 211n4 Levi, Eliphas, 140 , 146 Krishna, 6 , 43 , 102 , 114 , 178 Levi- Strauss, Claude, 139 , 169 , 208n15 Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 11 , 18 , 59 Levinas, Emmanuel, 67 , 168 , 214n15 “Kubla Khan”, 107 Totality and Ini nity, 168 Kubrick, Stanley, 128 Leviticus, 97 Kyger, Joanne, 24 , 26 , 49 , 54 , 100 , 153 , 185n37 , levy, d.a., 30 201n65 , 212n13 liminal, 13 , 26 , 129 Lindsay, David, 116 L’ Her ne, 64 Loewinsohn, Ron, 152 Laing, R. D., 90 , 97 Lorde, Audre, 38 Lamantia, Philip, v , 3 , 6 , 10 – 11 , 14 , 17 , 19 , Lotus of the True Law, 9 26 , 29 – 30 , 33 , 36 , 57 , 66 , 71 , 80 – 81 , Lotus Sutra, 9 94 – 95 , 108 , 120 , 124 , 126 , 134 – 35 , Lovecraft, H. P., 10 , 137 137 – 38 , 139 – 42 , 144 – 49 , 161 , 178 , Lowell, Robert, 89 , 100 , 201n58 183n22 , 208n1 , 208n14 , 208n2 , 208n3 , Lowes, J. Livingston, 107 208n4 , 208n6 , 208n8 , 208 – 9 , 209n19 , Lubicz, R. A. Schwaller de, 146 209n24 , 209n26 , 209n28 , 209n29 , Lumholtz, Carl, 142 209n30 , 209n33 , 210n37 , 210n38 , Lydenberg, Robin, 109 210n42 , 210n46 , 210n48 , 210n54 , Lyon, William, 122 210n55 , 211n65 “Advent,” 145 Machiavelli, Niccolo, 37 “An American Place,” 138 Mad Magazine, 126 Bed of Sphinxes, 137 , 148 Magee, Glenn Alexander, 140

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Magi, 8 Mirandola, Pico della, 36 , 41 magic, i , 4 , 8 , 11 , 20 , 24, 27 , 31 , 35 , 41 , 43 , 45 , 47 , Miro, Joan, 138 51 , 52 , 79 – 80 , 95 , 101 , 103 , 106 , 119 , 121 , Mitchell, Joni, 7 122 , 131 – 32 , 134 , 136 , 139 – 40 , 148 – 49 , 175 , “Woodstock,” 7 181n6 , 182n14 , 184n16 , 186n40 , 187n61 , Mithraism, 8 189n18 , 189n19 , 190n32 , 204n42 , 205n54 , Mithras, 8 206n27 , 209n18 , 210n47 , 218 , 221 Moby Dick, 9 , 103 , 117 Magritte, Rene, 95 Momaday, N. Scott, 171 Mahabharata, h e 9 House Made of Dawn , 171 Mahayana, 28 , 75 – 77 , 151 – 52 , 164 , 168 , 170 moksa, 145 , 158 Maier, Michael, 36 Momigliano, Arnaldo, 8 , 182n13 Mailer, Norman, viii , 7 , 10 , 55 , 110 , 118 , 182n20 , Alien Wisdom: h e Limits of Hellenization, 8 204n38 Montsegur, 50 “ h e White Negro,” 7 Monk, h elonious, 44 , 54 , 67 , 138 , 154 Maitrayana Upanishad, 83 Montaigne, Michel de, 73 Maitreya, 46 – 47 , 82 , 168 Monty Python’s Flying Circus, 127 , 178 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 148 Morrison, Grant, 116 Mandan, 1 Mortenson, Erik, 13 , 67 , 194n7 Mani, 116 Moses, 31 , 33 , 56 , 63 , 143 , 147 Manicheanism, i , 1 , 3 , 14 , 70 , 89 , 106 , 115 – 116 , Motherwell, Robert, 58 119 , 145 , 204n28 Mount Tamalpais, 80 , 137 , 158 mantras, 3 , 46 , 50 , 102 , 104 , 125 , 170 , 178 mudra, 170 Marcuse, Herbert, 83 Mumford, Lewis, 37 , 188n1 Eros and Civilization, 11 , 83 Technics and Civilization, 37 , 188n1 Martinelli, Sheri, 38 Murphy, Timothy, 121 Maslow, Abraham, 72 Murray, Margaret, 36 Mathers, Samuel MacGregor, 10 , 45 Muyumba, Walton, 54 , 192n5 Matrix, h e 115 Myrsiades, Kostas, 13 Maya, 108 , 112 – 14 , 171 , 203n21 mystic, 10 , 21 , 25 , 35 , 65 , 70 , 86 , 99 , 108 – 9 , 112 , Mayan, 3 , 27 , 106 , 109 , 112 – 13 , 118 , 175 143 , 149 , 158 Mazzinanda, Reverend, 18 mystical literature, 15 , 85 McClure, Michael, 3 , 17 , 24 , 28 – 30 , 101 , 143 , mysticism, 11 , 19 , 25 , 27 , 31 , 34 , 38 , 41 – 42 , 70 , 168 , 183n4 86 , 93 , 137 , 146 h e Adept, 30 h e Beard , 30 Nagarjuna, 79 , 151 “Peyote,” 3 Native Americans, 1 , 3 , 6 , 9 , 11 , 14 , 16 , 21 , McGuire, Barry, 6 26 , 40 , 50 , 58 , 62 , 73 , 80 , 122 , 124 , McKenna, Terence, 28 , 95 , 186n45 , 199n35 133 – 35 , 137 , 141 , 148 , 163 , 167 , 169 – 72 , McLeod, Hugh, 6 , 101 , 181n9 , 201n68 191n42 , 214n26 h e Religious Crisis of the 1960s, 6 , 181n9 , Naturphilosophie, 4 201n68 , 220 negative theology, 19 , 144 , 150 , 157 McNeill, Malcolm, 109 , 130 Neihardt, John, 122 Mead, G. R. S., 39 Black Elk Speaks, 122 Medici, Cosimo de, 33 Neoplatonism, 2 , 24 , 39 , 86 , 88 meditation, 3 Neo- Pythagorean, 28 Melville, Herman, 9 , 27 , 70 , 103 , 117 New Critics, 23 “Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Newman, Barnett, 58 Twelfth Century,” 9 New York Times Book Review, 17 Pierre, 70 Newton, Isaac, 4 , 24 , 187n65 , 188n68 , 189n21 Merton, h omas, 2 , 181n3 nidana, 91 , 170 mescaline, 19 , 90 , 100 Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, 61 Miller, Henry, i , vii , 9 , 12 , 66 , 77 , Nietzsche, Friedrich, 37 , 63 , 99 , 127 , 153 – 154 , 96 , 129 , 182n16 , 183n1 , 184n9 , 194n7 , 218 158 , 175 , 215n1 Milton, John, 96 , 200n37 Also Sprach Zarathustra, 37 , 63 Paradise Lost, 96 , 200n37 Die Geburt der Tragodie aus dem Geiste der Mingus, Charles, 54 , 72 Musik , 154

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nigredo, 30 Plato, 33 , 37 , 85 , 90 , 115 , 147 , 150 , 177 , 199n20 , Nilsson, M. P., 37 210n40 , 210n58 Primitive Time-Reckoning , 37 “Allegory of the Cave,” 115 nirvana, 7 , 11 , 62 , 80 , 98 , 114 , 151 , 194n3 Phaedrus, 85 , 90 , 199n20 Nisenson, Eric, 72 Timaeus, 147 Nishapur, Atta of Plethon, Gemistos, 39 h e Conference of the Birds, 149 Plotinus, 24 , 33 , 70 , 85 – 86 , 89 , 94 , 103 , nitrous oxide, 19 , 100 198n2 , 198n3 Noah, 33 h e Enneads , 86 North American Native Church, 40 Poe, Edgar Allan, 10 , 94 – 95 , 134 , 137 – 38 , 179 Norton, Jody, 147 Pollock, Jackson, 58 Norwich, Lady Julian of, 64 Pope Francis, 56 Porphyry, 33 , 95 O’Neill, Eugene, 78 Portuges, Paul, 88 Obama, Barack, 176 Pound, Ezra, 14 , 34 – 35 , 38 , 48 , 153 , 166 , 186n43 , Obeyesekere, Gananath, 94 189n10 , 221 occult, i , 3 – 5 , 14 , 25 – 26 , 42 , 45 , 88 , 106 – 7 , 120 , ABC of Reading, 38 134 , 146 , 178 Cantos , 34 , 35 , 48 Olson, Charles, 27 , 185n38 , 186n43 , 186n49 “Pierre Vidal Old,” 48 Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 6 Prabhavananda, Swami, 18 , 75 , 196n39 Ophites, 9 , 71 , 103 , 117 , 202n82 Prabhupada, A. C. Bhaktivedanta, 102 Orage, A. R., 39 pradakshina, 158 Orphic mystery schools, 39 Prajnaparamita, 102 , 151 – 52 Osiris, 8 , 129 – 30 , 132 pratitya- samutpada, 28 Ouspensky, P. D., 59 Prevert, Jacques, 60 “Pater Noster,” 60 pacii st, 11 , 16 , 56 , 176 prisca theologia, 33 , 147 Padmasambhava, 51 Prisoner, h e 177 paganism, 4 , 20 , 39 , 186n43 , 189n10 Prothero, Stephen, 13 , 55 , 183n23 , 192n6 Page, Jimmy, 119 “On the Holy Road: h e Beat Movement as Paglia, Camille, 13 , 183n23 Spiritual Protest,” 13 , 55 “Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Proust, Marcel, 67 Vision in the American 1960s,” 13 Provence, 39 , 48 , 50 Paracelsus, 3 – 4 , 12 , 36 , 41 – 43 , 48 , 51 , 89 , 133 , 139 , Psalm 137 , 91 183n22 , 187n65 , 189n20 , 189n21 , 190n23 Pseudo- Areopagite, Dionysius the, 15 , 19 , 58 , Paramahansa Yogananda, 179 83 , 124 paramitas, 82 psilocybin, 3 Park, Josephine Nock- Hee, 166 Pynchon,h omas, 68 Parker, Charlie, 54 , 62 – 63 , 67 , 138 Pythagoras, 33 , 62 , 89 , 132 , 147 , 193n25 Parkinson, h omas, 17 , 200n41 ‘pataphysicians, 60 Quispel, Gilles, 147 , 187n61 , 210n53 Patchen, Kenneth, 17 Pater, Walter, 55 , 156 , 212n18 Reed College, 151 Peale, Norman Vincent, 55 Reich, Wilhelm, 106 , 126 h e Power of Positive h inking, 55 Revelation of John, h e 6 9 Pelieu, Claude, 64 Rexroth, Kenneth, i , v , 2 , 14 , 16 – 24 , 26 , 28 , 29 , perennial philosophy, 34 , 142 32 , 35 , 37 , 66 , 81 , 85 , 132 , 139 , 152 , Persia, 8 , 89 , 158 164 – 65 , 183 , 183n1 , 183n7 , 184n10 , 184n12 , Petronius, 177 184n14 , 184n15 , 184n17 , 184n19 , 184n23 , peyote, 10 , 39 – 40 , 81 , 96 , 100 , 111 , 141 – 42 , 185n28 , 188n1 , 213n7 , 219 145 , 169 “Autumn Rain,” 165 philosophia perennis, 34 “ h e Dragon and the Unicorn,” 37 , 188n1 physics, 4 h e Heart’s Garden, h e Garden’s Heart, 21 Picasso, Pablo, 74 h e Phoenix and the Tortoise, 16 Plath, Sylvia, 90 “Revolt True and False,” 16

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“ h e Signature of h ings,” 21 – 22 , 165 Saraswati, 62 , 193n23 “Toward an Organic Philosophy,” 28 Saroyan, William, i , vii , 6 , 9 , 12 , 14 , 65 – 66 , “ h ou Shalt Not Kill,” 17 194n6 , 194n7 Rig Veda, 8 h e Daring Young Man on the Flying Rimbaud, Arthur, 29 , 36 , 62 , 64 , 85 , 94 , 99 , 126 , Trapeze, 66 130 , 138 , 148 Inhale and Exhale , 67 Illuminations, 29 h e Time of Your Life , 9 , 66 “Une Saison en Enfer,” 94 h ree Times h ree , 67 Rimpoche, Gelek, 102 satori, 20 , 40 ritual, 8 , 10 , 20 , 23 , 25 – 26 , 43 , 62 , 91 , 110 , 119 , Satori in Paris, 1 , 7 , 78 , 126 , 137 , 158 – 59 , 169 181n3 , 197n58 Roethke, h eodore, 90 , 199n18 Satyricon, 177 Rome, 8 , 71 , 104 , 133 Savage, Hope, 125 Roshi, Richard Baker, 161 Schenk, H. G., 154 h e Rosicrucian Fellowship, 18 Schimmel, Annemarie, 120 Roszak, h eodore, 2 , 207n38 Scholem, Gershom, 9 , 31 , 44 Rothko, Mark, 58 Schultes, Richard Evans, 3 , 111 Rosicrucians, 36 Schwab, Raymond, 158 Roth, Philip, 99 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 37 , 158 Portnoy’s Complaint, 99 Scientology, 106 , 115 , 123 Rougemont, Denis de, 38 Seager, Richard Hughes, 46 , Love in the Western World, 38 190n29 Rumi, 35 Seligmann, Kurt, 139 Russell, George, 116 Sen, Ramprasad, 48 , 51 Russell, Sanders, 25 Sephirot, 45 Seton, Ernest h ompson, 106 , 163 Sabbah, Hassan- i, 106 , 119 – 21 h e Book of Woodcraft and Indian Sacred Time, 20 Lore, 107 , 163 saddhu, 101 Sexton, Anne, 90 Saint Germain, Comte de, 140 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Saint Teresa, 81 Band, 29 , 178 Sakyamuni, 2 , 82 , 92 Shakespeare, William, 25 , 41 , 101 , 149 Salinger, J. D., 67 shaman, 10 , 25 , 26 , 52 , 63 , 72 , 122 , 172 , Samadhi, 7 174 , 176 samsara, 62 , 114 , 145 , 151 shamanism, 2 – 3 , 5 , 9 , 24 – 25 , 89 , 102 , 111 , Samuel Mathers and the Golden Dawn, 36 142 , 172 Sand, George, 33 Shankara, 160 San Francisco, v , 2 , 9 – 10 , 14 , 16 – 17 , 26 , 29 , 31 , Shanon, Benny, 111 41 , 53 , 57 , 60 , 62 , 66 , 78 , 80 – 81 , 93 , 100 , Sheen, Fulton J., 55 128 , 137 – 38 , 141 , 144 , 155 , 157 , 161 , Peace of Soul, 5 5 163 – 64 , 168 – 70 , 174 , 176 , 181n5 , Shekhinah, 45 , 99 , 200n56 , 200n57 183 , 183n3 , 183n4 , 184n14 , 186n40 , Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 2 , 70 , 98 , 103 , 125 , 133 , 186n52 , 186n55 , 188n1 , 188n9 , 189n13 , 200n52 , 214n16 189n15 , 189n17 , 190n26 , 190n27 , “ Ode to the West Wind,” 70 193n15 , 194n3 , 194n7 , 194n8 , 195n14 , Shiva, 51 , 62 , 169 , 178 195n21 , 196n41 , 196n51 , 201n71 , Shri Matakrishnaji, 88 202n82 , 203n15 , 204n35 , 205n50 , Sierras, 19 206n16 , 208n1 , 208n10 , 208n11 , Silko, Leslie Marmon, 172 208n5 , 209n23 , 209n27 , 209n30, Simon and Garfunkel, 7 , 144 210n51 , 211n63 , 212n13 , 214n13 , 214n19 , Simon Magus, 126 215n11 , 218 – 20 Sinnett, A. P., 150 San Francisco Renaissance, v , 2 , 16 , 26 , 29 , Skau, Michael, 133 93 , 176 , 183 , 186n40 , 218 –19 Skerl, Jennie, 13 , 113 , 192n12 , 202n6 , 203n11 , 219 San Joaquin Valley, 16 , 66 Slick, Grace, 178 Sanders, Ed, 103 , 194n3 , 201n78 Smith, Huston, 100

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Snyder, Gary, 1, 2 , 3 , 5 , 9 , 12 – 15 , 17 – 18 , 20 , 24 , Surrealism, 14 , 59 , 137 , 139 – 40 , 145 , 148 , 187n60 , 26 , 29 – 30 , 49 , 54 , 62 , 66 – 68 , 73 , 76 – 78 , 192n12 , 208n13 , 208n15 , 208n8 , 209n16 , 80 – 81 , 84 , 91 , 98 , 100 – 2 , 106 , 114 , 134 , 209n17 , 209n20 , 210n47 , 211n61 , 137 , 142 , 151 – 53 , 158 , 161 , 163 , 175 – 76 , 211n62 , 217 – 18 181n2 , 181n8 , 183n22 , 184n17 , 186n52 , surrealist, 30 , 60 , 139 , 146 – 47 , 149 186n55 , 194n14 , 200n48 , 203n25 , 209n32 , sutras, 11 , 75 , 76 , 78 , 85 , 87 , 91 , 93 , 97 , 102 , 151 , 210n41 , 211n1 , 213 , 213n2 , 213n4 , 213n5 , 152 , 160 , 170 – 71 , 199n25 , 199n28 , 201n73 , 213n6 , 213n8 , 213n9 , 214n12 , 214n16 , 214n20 , 214n24 214n20 , 214n17 , 214n20 , 214n24 , 214n26 , Suzuki, D. T., 40 , 60 – 61 , 151 , 153 , 164 , 213n4 214n28 , 214n29 , 214n30 , 215n6 , 215n32 , Suzuki, Shunryu, 41 , 45 , 102 219 , 221 Svetasvatara Upanishad, 159 “Amitabha’s Vow”, 98 , 167 – 168 , 200n48 Swarthmore College, 38 “A Berry Feast,” 166 – 167 Swift, Jonathan, 114 h e Great Clod: Notes and Memoirs on Nature syncretic, 11 , 24 , 98 , 103 , 106 , 145 and History in East Asia, 6 8 “Mid- August at Sourdough Mountain Tabula Smaragdina , or Emerald Tablet, 4 , 32 , Lookout,” 152 , 165 – 166 210n53 “Passage to More h an India,” 5 , 169 Tanguy, Yves, 139 “Piute Creek,” 166 Tantra, 2 – 3 , 47 , 82 , 102 , 169 , 171 Riprap, 164 , 166 , 213n6 Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 42 – 43 “Riprap,” 164 – 165 Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of “Smokey the Bear Sutra,” 12 , 76 , 91 , 163 , Rationality , 42 170 – 171 , 214n22 , 214n24 Tao Te Ching, 58 , 68 h is Present Moment, 167 Taoism, 18 h e Practice of the Wild, 173 Tarot, 1 , 2 , 10 , 14 , 23 , 27 , 35 – 36 , 38 , 41 , 45 , 124 , Turtle Island, 172 , 214n26 133 – 34 , 138 , 169 , 178 , 185n39 , 190n28 , Solomon, Carl, 90 , 97 , 199n23 207n37 , 207n38 Song of Songs, h e 70 , 141 Tathagata, 76 , 84 Sophia, 104 , 126 – 27 Taves, Ann, 25 Southern California, 18 Fits, Trances and Visions: Experiencing Religion Southern, Terry, 128 , 179 and Explaining Experience from Wesley to Spengler, Oswald, 13 , 73 , 195n30 James, 25 Decline of the West, 7 3 Taylor, h omas, 103 Spicer, Jack, 26 – 27 , 133 , 185n39 , Tetragrammaton, 45 , 131 186n40 , 219 h e Rosicrucian Fellowship, 18 Spinoza, Baruch, 37 h e Song of Songs, 70 , 141 Splendor Solis, 138 h e Tibetan Book of the Dead, 63 spontaneity, 28, 40 h eodotus, 115 St. John of the Cross, 87 , 94 – 95 , 144 , 198n7 h eosophy, 2 , 10 , 18 , 24 , 26 , 35 , 38 , 75 , 138 “Nine verses made upon an ecstasy of high h eravada, 151 contemplation,” 87 theurgy, 8 , 95 – 96 Stace, W. T., 86 h omas, Dylan, 17 , 94 , 179 Starer, Jacqueline, 91 In Country Sleep, 17 Steinbeck, John, 78 h oreau, Henry David, 9 , 74 , 82 , 89 , 103 , 158 , Steiner, George, 5 – 6 , 31 , 181n9 174 , 182n15 , 182n17 , 218 “Language and Gnosis,” 31 Civil Disobedience, 9 Stephenson, Gregory, 13 Walden , 9 Sterritt, David, 81 , 197n69 , 199n22 Tibetan Buddhism, 2 , 102 Stevens, Matthew Levi, 13 , 121 Tingley, Kathleen, 18 Stevens, Michael, 118 Tiryakian, Edward, 140 Stravinsky, Igor, 74 , 154 “Toward the Sociology of Esoteric Streiber, Whitley, 122 Culture,” 140 S u i sm, 1 , 5 , 10 , 149 Tlingit, 50 sunyata, 7 9 Tolkien, J. R. R., 128 Surangama Sutra, 7 5 Tonkinson, Carole, 13

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Totem Press, 40 211n9 , 212n13 , 212n15 , 212n16 , 212n21 , Transcendentalists, 8 , 70 , 75 , 89 , 103 212n24 , 213n32 , 213n33 , 221 “Transmigrations of the Seven Brahmans, h e ” 9 “A Birthday Poem,” 152 Tree of Life, 45 – 46 “Calendar,” 152 Trigilio, Tony, 13 , 102 , 201n72 h e Diamond Noodle, 146 , 159 – 160 , 210n46 , Trungpa, Chogyam, 36 , 85 , 102 , 121 212n24 , 212n26 Turner, Victor, 26 , 67 , 129 , 185n35 , 206n15 “In the Palace of the Heart,” 152 h e Ritual Process: Structure and “Invocation and h eophany,” 151 , 158 – 59 Anti- Structure, 26 Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head, 15 , Tyana, Apollonius of, 28 , 140 , 148 150 – 151 , 154 , 159 , 161 , 212n21 , 213n27 Tytell, John, 71 “Mahayana,” 151 Tzara, Tristan, 58 , 108 , 192n11 “Plus Ça Change,” 153 Tzu, Lao, 68 “Powell & Market,” 161 “Song of Amergin,” 152 University of California at Berkeley, 17 “ h ree Mornings”, 151 , 155 – 158 , 161 Upanishads, 3 , 8 , 15 , 114 , 150 – 52 , 154 , You Didn’t Even Try, 15 , 150 , 158 – 59 , 212n21 156 – 59 , 212n25 Whitehead, Alfred North, 28 – 29 , 40 , 186n45 , 222 Upward, Allen, 39 Adventures of Ideas , 28 Urban, Hugh B., 47 , 190n32 Process and Reality, 28 White, Lynn, 164 Vajrayana, 1 , 5 , 171 “ h e Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Van Gogh, Vincent, 62 , 92 , 99 Crisis,” 164 Vaughan, h omas, 23 Whiti eld, Stephen, 7 , 182n12 Vedanta, 15 , 18 , 76 , 150 , 160 , 196n39 Whitman, Walt, 2 , 5 , 8 – 9 , 10 , 22 , 33 , 82 , 87 , 89 , Ventadorn, Bernart de, 36 92 – 93 , 96 , 100 , 103 , 105 , 138 , 141 , 158 , via negativa, 15 , 142 – 43 169 , 184n24 , 191n1 , 199n27 , 206n7 Vishnu Purana, 9 Leaves of Grass, 9 , 87 , 184n24 , 199n27 visio beatii ca, 1 , 65 “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” 92 Vizenor, Gerard, 172 “Passage to India,” 5 , 169 Voltaire, 150 Wilentz, Sean, 78 , 102 , 196n52 Williams, William Carlos, 2 , 17 , 34 , 93 , 156 , Wagner, Richard, 154 166 , 212n18 Waite, A. E., 23 , 42 , 45 , 134 , 139 , Wilson, Robert A., 169 184n26 , 209n18 Winans, A. D., 64 Azoth, or the Star in the East, 23 Wintu, 1 h e Holy Kabbalah, 23 Wirick, Richard, 161 Whaley Jr., Preston, 73 witchcraft, 5 , 106 , 176 Wasson, R. Gordon, 3 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 142 Watson, Steven, 63 , 185n32 , 193n29 , Wolfe, h omas, 66 , 85 194n33 , 196n54 Wordsworth, William, 2 , 88 , 177 , 198n11 Watts, Alan, 81 , 83 , 142 , 144, 153 , 164 , 169 , 174 , “Tintern Abbey,” 88 197n72 , 197n73 , 209n33 , 215n33 World War II, 7 , 11 , 16 , 40 , 56 , 99 , 167 , 175 “Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen”, 83 Weaver, Helen, 70 yab- yum, 47 , 82 Weaver, Raymond, 70 Yahweh, 126 Weber, Max, 4 , 140 , 181n7 Yates, Frances, 31 , 34 , 187n58 , 187n65 “Science as a Vocation,” 4 Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Webern, Anton von, 154 Tradition, 34 Weinberg, Steven, 130 h e Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Welch, James, 172 Age , 31 , 187n58 Welch, Lew, 151 , 156 , 164 , 211n1 Yeats, W. B., 1 , 10 , 36 , 38 , 45 , 85 , 116 , Whalen, Philip, i , v , 3 , 7 , 15 , 18 , 26 , 49 , 60 , 62 , 181n1 , 182n18 , 190n26 , 78 – 80 , 83 , 114 , 137 , 144 , 146 , 150 , 163 – 64 , 190n28 , 221 184n9 , 197n75 , 209n32 , 210n41 , 210n46 , Yoga, 3 , 14 , 17 , 76 , 84 , 109 , 150 , 196n45 , 210 – 11 , 211n1 , 211n11 , 211n2 , 211n6 , 211n7 , 215n10

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yogis/ yogins, 30 , 83 Z e i relli, Franco, 129 Young, Lester, 54 , 68 , 98 Zen, 3 , 15 , 17 – 19 , 28 , 29 , 36 , 40 – 41 , 45 , Yugen, 11 , 134 , 207n40 51 , 53 , 59 – 63 , 82 – 83 , 92 , 102 , Yutang, Lin, 3 , 150 150 – 53 , 161 , 164 , 166 – 69 , 171 , 173 , 184n9 , h e Wisdom of China and India, 3 , 150 186n45 , 193 , 197n72 , 211n7 , 212n13 , 212n16 , 213n33 , 213n4 , 214n13 , 217 , Zaehner, R. C., 19 , 100 219 , 221 Mysticism Sacred and Profane, 19 , 222 Zend Avesta, 8 Zen, Drugs and Mysticism 1 9 Zohar, 31 , 99 Zagreus, Dionysus, 39 Zorastrianism, 8 zazen, 3 , 151 , 161 Zoroaster, 8 , 33