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White Hand Society -  Peter Conners

White Hand Society (eBook)

The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
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2010
312 Seiten
City Lights Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-87286-575-4 (ISBN)
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The inside story of how Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary launched the psychedelic revolution together.

In 1960 Timothy Leary was not yet famous or infamous and Allen Ginsberg was both. Leary, eager to expand his experiments at the Harvard Psilocybin Project to include accomplished artists and writers, knew that Ginsberg held the key to bohemia's elite. Ginsberg, fresh from his first experience with hallucinogenic mushrooms in Mexico, was eager to promote the spiritual possibilities of psychedelic use. Thus, "e;America's most conspicuous beatnik"e; was recruited as Ambassador of Psilocybin under the auspices of an Ivy League professor, and together they launched the psychedelic revolution and turned on the hippie generation.White Hand Society weaves a fascinating and entertaining tale of the life, times and friendship of these two larger-than-life figures and the incredible impact their relationship had on America. Peter Conners has gathered hundreds of pages of letters, documents, studies, FBI files, and other primary resources that shed new light on their relationship, and a veritable who's who of artists and cultural figures appear along the way, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Thelonious Monk, Willem de Kooning, and Barney Rosset. The story of the "e;psychedelic partnership"e; of two of the most famous, charismatic and controversial members of America's counterculture brings together a multitude of major figures from politics, the arts, and the intersection of intellectual life and outlaw culture in a way that sheds new light on the dawn of the 1960s."e;Through the years City Lights has brought us seminal work by Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and now, this detail-rich double bio of Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. I knew both these men pretty well, and the times intimately, and Peter Conners has been true to it all. I don't know how he amassed the trunks of data he must have used to find the jillions of details which were new to me, but I'm certainly glad that he did. This book wins a well deserved spot on my shelf, and belongs with anyone who wants an intimate view of the Sixties-Seventies spinning of the Great Wheel of the Dharma."e; Peter Coyote, actor/author, Sleeping Where I Fall"e;Peter Conners has given us a wondrous tale of picaresque adventure and authentic friendship between Leary the trickster-explorer-scientist and Ginsberg the activist-bard-philosopher, two seminal figures who pioneered new pathways through the cultural maelstrom of the sixties."e;Ralph Metzner, co-author, with Ram Dass & Gary Bravo, of Birth of a Psychedelic Culture"e;The Psychedelic Revolution of the Sixties began with the meeting of two visionary explorers into the unmapped regions of inner consciousness Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. In the White Hand Society Peter Conners charts the course from the earliest dirt roads of laughing gas to the superhighways of LSD in one compelling story. It is a thrilling ride on what Ginsberg called the Trackless Transit System, going where no one else had dared venture. Take this as a new kind of guidebook into the mystery of the mind."e; Bill Morgan, author of Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America and The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation"e;Peter Conners' White Hand Society is a gripping account of a key event in 20th Century history, the decision to actively promote strong psychedelics to the population at large. Conners tells the Timothy Leary story from the traditional perspective of the West Coast counterculture, but he emphasizes the egalitarian influence that the Beat movement had on him and, in particular, the huge Blakean personality of Allen Ginsberg. The result is a portrait of two remarkable figures who came together and changed our culture forever."e; John Higgs

lt;div>Peter Conners is author of the memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009). His other books include the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter and the novella Emily Ate the Wind. His next poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees, is forthcoming from White Pine Press in spring 2011. He is also editor of PP/FF: An Anthology which was published by Starcherone Books in April 2006. His writing appears regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Beloit Fiction Journal and will be included in the Forty Under Forty poetry anthology forthcoming from Yale University Press.

Section I: Turn On

Chapter 1: Blake Vision in Harlem
Chapter 2: A New Game
Chapter 3: The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
Chapter 4: Immovable if not Immortal
Chapter 5: St. Anthony’s Fire
Chapter 6: The Road to November
Chapter 7: Ambassador of Psilocybin

Section II: Tune In

Chapter 8: Dear Mr. Monk
Chapter 9: El Hombre Invisible
Chapter 10: Applied Mysticism
Chapter 11: Fallout at the Crimson
Chapter 12: Allen Abroad
Chapter 13: Enter LSD, Exit Harvard

Section III: Drop Out

Chapter 14: “Superheroes wanted for real life movie work.”
Chapter 15: The King of May
Chapter 16: Human Be-In
Chapter 17: Rib & Soul
Chapter 18: “America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”
Chapter 19: Om Ah Hum

Notes
Thanks and Appreciations
Bibliography
About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.11.2010
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte Beat Generation and hallucinogenics • Beat Generation and hippies • Beat Generation poets • Ginsberg in Mexico • Harvard Psilocybin Project • psychedelic revolution
ISBN-10 0-87286-575-4 / 0872865754
ISBN-13 978-0-87286-575-4 / 9780872865754
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