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Rather than go into detail about how parapsychology got started on the survival question, let me just say that we are currently approaching the question through what we call altered states of consciousness research. It’s kind of a back door approach, you might say, to this question.
By Julia HardyDecember 1976He was only another name, another guru, until I read Sally Kempton’s article in New York Magazine. Sally had written for Esquire a couple of years ago about her liberation as a woman. Now, she was writing about a different kind of liberation.
By Sy SafranskyJuly 1976To determine whether consciousness continues, as far as I am concerned, the best approach is to explore it where we are certain of finding it, that is in ourselves. Since we are concerned with the continuation or survival of consciousness, then this consciousness also exists before death and presumably can be studied there.
By Robert H. AshbyApril 1976Pornography is a dirty book. If you like a dirty book, it’s fine, nothing wrong with it.
By Dusty MillerJanuary 1976On an unconscious level people are preparing themselves psychically for the future I’ve talked about without consciously knowing it, since in the future, political action — except for the revolution of the minorities in the cities — is meaningless.
By Sy SafranskyDecember 1975“Illness,” she says, “is caused by your own actions in this or a former lifetime. Killing, stealing, and lying can draw illness to yourself.” In one out of ten illnesses, she continues, an evil spirit is present.
By Sy SafranskyJune 1975Each seed, each baby born, each word, each deed, all together now, creating the music of the world.
By Mike MathersApril 1975Work on yourself first, before you work on something else. That’s kind of the basic idea. The Zen people say wash your bowl. The Sufis say clean your mirror. It’s all the same thing. Work on yourself first, then those other questions answer themselves.
By Mike MathersFebruary 1974You start with the energy to be somebody, then use it to become nobody.
By Sy SafranskyJanuary 1974In a recent interview, Ram Dass, who moves and speaks with an economy of energy suited to the times, suggests that the energy crisis is, “like all trauma, an exquisitely designed opportunity to reawaken man.”
By Sy SafranskyJanuary 1974Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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