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FREEDOM Now! The Beat Generation to 2012 and more UPdated v 2.0 pt. 10
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The Subgenius Psychlopaedia of Slack: The BobliographonThe Subgenius Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon by J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
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The Church of the Subgenius
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public ... Pres (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public ... Pres (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Allen Ginsberg
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The Beat Generation, Beatniks, or The Beats was the only Major American Literary movement, like our very own Renaissance, and the general population in the United States doesn't even know of it
Cursed from Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr.Cursed from Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr. by William S. Burroughs Jr.
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Evil RiverEvil River by William S. Burroughs
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Burroughs"Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted"Felt IF reality isPrerecorded onlyTHEprerecordings Rnot prerec.Felt language creates"control"N he could alter the prerec N"control"By cutting up lang
Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat HeroNeal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero by David Sandison
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Along w/ Howl N Burroughs' "Naked Lunch", On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the most popular Beat Generation book about Kerouac N his friend Neal Cassady's adventures with hitch hiking and road tripping across America. A movie made about Neal Cassady is called "The Last Time I Committed Suicide" and Johnny Depp portrays Kerouac in "The Source" and Kiefer Sutherland stars as William Burroughs in "Beat
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and GinsbergOff the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg by Carolyn Cassady
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Neal Cassady, years later, after “On The Road” would again become an important figure in another book that spurred and defined another generation, that book being Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”. That book recounts the actions and events of Ken Kesey author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and his “Merry Pranksters” and their cross-country trip in the bus "Furthur
Speed and Kentucky HamSpeed and Kentucky Ham by William S. Burroughs Jr.
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I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy LearyI Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary by John Higgs
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"Tim was a chieftain He stomped on the terra and he left his elegant hoof prints on all our lives" -Hunter S Thompson "Leary probably made more people happy than anybody else in history" -Terence Mckenna
The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" will be published in its unedited original scroll version by Viking Press, which published the Beat Generation classic in September 1957. John Sampas, executor of the writer's literary estate and brother of Stella Sampas, Kerouac's third wife, said he hopes the work will be out by the end of next year, the 50th anniversary of the publication.
The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and MeThe Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me by Ralph Steadman
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Hunter S. Thompson the Gonzo Journalist portrayed in movies by Bill Murray in Where the Buffalo Roam N by Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas N by Sean Penn in the upcoming The Curse of Lono
Nothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion GysinNothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin by John Geiger
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Gysin's art has been exhibited w/ Picasso, the most important Beat Generation painter and an accomplished writer he also invented William Burroughs "Cut Ups" & the Dream Machine! "He was the only man I have ever respected. I have admired many others, esteemed and valued others, but respected only him."-William Burroughs "Gysin is one of the great hedonic mystic teachers." -Timothy Leary
Robert Anton Wilson - Maybe LogicRobert Anton Wilson - Maybe Logic
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"I have learned more from Bob than from any other source."-George Carlin "Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity. I was astonished and delighted."-Philip K. Dick "The man's either a genius or Jesus."–Sounds "A super-genius. He has written everything I was afraid to write."-Dr. John Lilly "We've needed this for a long time "-Henry Miller
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck
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Psychedelic explorer Daniel Pinchbeck is the son of Beatnik Joyce Johnson.
Minor Characters: A Beat MemoirMinor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson
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Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-DateMaya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date by John Major Jenkins
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Terence is the most important N entertaining visionary scholar in America"Tom Robbins"He will someday B regarded as the CopernicusOfConsciousness"TheVillage Voice"Mckenna's ideasR rare jewels"AlexGrey
The FountainThe Fountain by Darren Aronofsky
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written by and soon to be a movie by the director of "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream" and who is directing 1 of the 3 upcoming Timothy Leary movies, Leonardo Dicaprio to star as Tim in another of the 3
Tales of Beatnik GloryTales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders
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Ed Sanders, also a member of the music group "The Fugs
The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South TexasThe Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas by Rob Johnson
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(Below) William Burroughs was taught English at Harvard by Alfred Korzybski and William so thoroughly believed in Reich's Orgone Accumulator that he constructed and used one everywhere he traveled.
Drive Yourself Sane : Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics, Revised Second EditionDrive Yourself Sane : Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics, Revised Second Edition by Susan Presby Kodish
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WeLive in a Society Created on theLogic of Philosopher Aristotle who lived384-322BCE.Harvard professor Alfred Korzybski in1933created"General Semantics"A worldview he proposed 2makeThe world more Sane
The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Construction Plans Experimental Use and Protection Against Toxic EnergyThe Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Construction Plans Experimental Use and Protection Against Toxic Energy by James DeMeo
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Like Carl Jung Reich was Freud's student, Read why the United States government BURNED Reich's books then said to "not try his experiments because they don't work"Reich died in a U.S prison FOR IDEAS!
Go: A NovelGo: A Novel by John Clellon Holmes
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Before "On The Road" the 1st Beat book published was "GO"
The Herbert Huncke ReaderThe Herbert Huncke Reader by Herbert Huncke
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Herbert Huncke is credited with being the first to use the word "Beat". (of course not ever but in the context that it would come to describe a generation.)
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics)The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley
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Wild Ducks Flying BackwardWild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins
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Death on the Installment PlanDeath on the Installment Plan by Louis Celine
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To Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and many other writers he is Saint Celine, the man who showed them what could be done, how to howl. Mr. Ginsberg's Kaddish is the text to consult. To others, Celine is a charlatan, an exhibitionist, a mythomaniac, a coward, a liar; in literature, a slave to an argot already quaint.
The Crying of Lot 49The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
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The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the CountercultureThe Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture by Adam Gorightly
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Kerry Thornley or Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst as he was also known amongst Discordians was one of the two authors of one of the most sacred books in modern times, the "Principia Discordia
Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the YoungerPrincipia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger by Malaclypse
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Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos MagicCondensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic by Phil Hine
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"Phil Hine's book is the most concise statement...of the logic of modern magic. Magic, in the light of modern physics, quantum theory and probability theory is now approaching science. We hope that a result of this will be a synthesis so that science will become more magical and magic more scientific." -William Burroughs
Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the OccultBook of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult
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Book of Lies has contributions by or about William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Terence Mckenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Genesis P-Orridge, Brion Gysin, Robert Anton Wilson, Phil Hine N others.
Godstar: Thee Director's Cut by Psychic TVGodstar: Thee Director's Cut by Psychic TV by Psychic TV
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Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV, dadaist,performance artist, exile, (anti)cult leader,N gender breaker,created Industrial music in 70s w/ Throbbing Gristle & the Rave by breaking in2 warehouses in 80s. There is also a biography of Genesis P-Orridge called "Wreckers of Civilisation" by Simon Ford
William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle (Re/Search #4/5)William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle (Re/Search #4/5) by V. Vale
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"I have known Genesis P-Orridge over a period of years and I consider him a devoted and serious artist in the Dada tradition. He instructs by pointing out banality through startling juxtapositions. Genesis P-Orridge is an artist and not a pornographer." -William Burroughs
Tripping: A Memoir of Timothy Leary & Co.Tripping: A Memoir of Timothy Leary & Co. by B. H. Friedman
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(for above) "Genesis P-Orridge is not only equipped with a lot of know-how but he is also a very powerful person in person. A very colorful and effective teacher. He is developing new methods of communicating, new forms of art. We're friends and we're brothers and we learn from each other. Genesis has been an invaluable pioneer in developing a new language, a tremendous influence." -Timothy Leary
When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School (P.S.)When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School (P.S.) by Sam Kashner
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Beat PunksBeat Punks by Victor Bockris
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Zen & the Beat WayZen & the Beat Way by Alan Watts
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Collected Poems 1947-1997Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
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The biography "I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg" includes in the margins of it's pages what poem Ginsberg was working on at every moment in his life and on what page the poem can be found in this book, "Collected Poems 1947 - 1997
The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden PracticesThe Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden Practices by Barbara Foster
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"Blakean imagery in Alexandra David-Neel’s “Magic and Mystery in Tibet” magnetized me toward Buddhist meditation half a lifetime ago. Now, in Forbidden Journey, her own vast sacred life record is happily accessible to her lineage descendants.” –Allen Ginsberg
The Fugitive Philosopher (Leary, Timothy)The Fugitive Philosopher (Leary, Timothy) by Timothy Leary
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The Chicago Conspiracy TrialThe Chicago Conspiracy Trial by John Schultz
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A beautiful, compelling, tear-jerking, mind-boggling book." – William Burroughs. This book is the "trial" of those called the "Chicago Seven", John Lennon's friend and Black Panther, Bobby Seale and the radical revolutionary Abbie Hoffman of the 1960s counterculture N anti-war movements and author of "Steal This Book" were among those "tried".