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An edition of Millbrook (1977)

Millbrook

A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

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Recension of 2005

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Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church
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Drug abuse, Hallucinations and illusions, Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience, History, Neo-American Church, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Drug abuse

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Art Kleps, Timothy Francis Leary (1920-), Timothy Leary (1920-1996)

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Millbrook, Millbrook (N.Y.), New York

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20th century

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Table of Contents

PREFACE
Page 1990: The author's well-deserved reputation among persons of good will and sound mind is briefly described by the Archon of Alaska.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
A WORD OF EXPLANATION
Page 1968: Timothy Leary threatens to "go over to Tommy's side" if he doesn't get Maynard Ferguson's furniture back from the Buddha of the Future.
Chapter 1. CAMELOT
Page 1963: JFK is assassinated. William and Thomas Mellon Hitchcock finance and promote Psychedelianism on their 2,500-acre estate at Millbrook, New York. Teenage queens fail to behave in a manner to which the author has become accustomed.
Chapter 2. KING ARTHUR'S COURT
Page 1960: Patchogue, Long Island. The author, in his fifth year as a school and clinical psychologist, takes half a gram of mescaline sulfate, with the usual consequences.
Chapter 3. KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND
Page 1963: First visit to the Mellon Hitchcock estate. IFIF. The Castalia Foundation. The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Drs. Leary, Metzner and Alpert, and the supporting cast of the early days. A professor of art from Cornell loses track of which side is which.
Chapter 4. SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST
Page 1964: Cambridge. IFIF. Lisa Bieberman. The Psychedelic Review. A eulogy for Aldous Huxley. The author gets stoned and loaded with Alan Watts.
Chapter 5. AN INSPIRATION
Page Easter vacation at Millbrook. Lost in a meditation closet.
Chapter 6. THE ECLIPSE
Page Solipsism and synchronicity. Enlightenment is a gas. Ideas of reference are where it's at.
Chapter 7. MERLIN'S TOWER
Page Dick Alpert's photos of co-educational shit-ins. A trip with Tim aborted by Susans who think I'm bananas. Did Herman Hesse smoke edelweiss or what?
Chapter 8. THE BOSS
Page A candle explodes, threatening universal urination. The Zmms; Snazzm, Fazzm and McPozzm are introduced and defined. William Mellon Hitchcock hopes to use LSD to make more money on the stock market. Tim says the author is having a bad trip.
Chapter 9. THE TOURNAMENT
Page Fired by a Person person. The hidden hand at work. A visit from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A refusal to love shit, despite Tim's glowing recommendation.
Chapter 10. BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION
Page Morning Glory Lodge on Cranberry Lake. The Neo-American Church, foundation and former and present doctrines and practices of. Peyote to the people.
Chapter 11. THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE
Page Millbrook. Tim's in Nepal with a Swedish model of aristocratic lineage. The author finds it hard to believe that "Poughkeepsie" means "Place of Overflowing Shitholes" in the language of the Iroquois. Hollingshead twirls. Ralph pulls out joints. The author reads a sermon on digestion to paying visitors in bed sheets. A Psychedelian PTA meeting.
Chapter 12. SLOW TORTURE
Page Millbrook. Bombed with 1,000 mics. The Kundalini experience.
Chapter 13. FREEMEN!
Page 1965-66: Summer at Cranberry Lake. Winter in Miami. Back to the lake. Visitors, including Jack Kerouac, appear for sugar cubes and conversation. In Texas, a Sado-Judeo-Paulinian (these people are not "Christians") punishment freak sentences Tim to thirty years in prison because hemp was discovered in his daughter's pants.
Chapter 14. "DEFEND THEE, LORD!"
Page Fun and games in the palaces of the ruling Sado-Judeo-Paulinian serial killers and mass murderers of Washington, D.C. A territorial dispute with a hireling of the American Medical Association, who has a point, sort of.
Chapter 15. SANDY'S TALE
Page Meat Hook Baird, M.D., tells the Senate of the United States that acid heads are skinny, bespectacled, hedonistic runts with covert and overt homosexual conflicts, pugnacious noses, receding chins and marked "gratification complexes." The author, front page news, causes Bobby Kennedy to foam at the mouth.
Chapter 16. MORGAN LE FAY
Page Stabbed in the back on the home front.
Chapter 17. A ROYAL BANQUET
Page Marijuana goddesses galore. Bill Haines and the Sri Ram Ashrama are introduced to Timothy Leary and the League for Spiritual Discovery. Hired by a funny farm in New Jersey, but there are blackbirds on the left.
Chapter 18. IN THE QUEEN'S DUNGEONS
Page Really stabbed in the back on the home front. Billy Hitchcock tries to help, but Tim thinks I should go to Alabama.
Chapter 19. KNIGHT-ERRANTRY AS A TRADE
Page The author, a cockeyed optimist, finds something good to say about delirium tremens.
Chapter 20. THE OGRE'S CASTLE
Page How not to live over a white-lightning run. Jailed in Florida. Back to Millbrook. You're as good a man as I am, Bali Ram.
Chapter 21. THE PILGRIMS
Page January, 1967: Tim's in California. Haines is in charge of the Big House. All present are accounted for. The author recovers.
Chapter 22. THE HOLY FOUNTAIN
Page Under the benign tyranny of William Haines, a.k.a. "Sri Sankara," a fun time is had in the Big House by Leaguers and Ashramites alike.
Chapter 23. RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN
Page Bob Ross, goat lover vs. the author and Otto H. Baron von Albenesius, sheep herders.
Chapter 24. A RIVAL MAGICIAN
Page A crazed dentist disgraces the Neo-American Church on the West Coast, but the author excommunicates the rotten bastard. A sociable trip in the Meditation House.
Chapter 25. A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
Page Tim decides to return, despite a deal he made with the despots of the Place of Overflowing Shitholes to never do so. He demands that we evict Rudy and Jackie first.
Chapter 26. THE FIRST NEWSPAPER
Page They are driven forth and the author gets their room. The Bombardment and Annihilation of the Planet Saturn and Divine Toad Sweat: Bloated House Organ of the Church. The Mysterium Tremendum on $5 a day.
Chapter 27. THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO
Page The view from that room was lovely when snow was falling, a hushed surround both brilliant and subdued, which, for all its detail, gave little hint of what century or country we were in.
Chapter 28. DRILLING THE KING
Page Barefoot Michael Green, Bill Haines and the author are invited to the Bungalow for drinks. Then Bali Ram (shod in gold slippers), Bill Haines and the author are invited to the Bungalow for a trip.
Chapter 29. THE SMALLPOX HUT
Page Suzanne and Aurora are fixing the drinks?
Chapter 30. THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR HOUSE
Page "The needle leaked. Tee hee." Oh well, in for a dime, in for a dollar.
Chapter 31. MARCO
Page Holy shit!
Chapter 32. DOWLEY'S HUMILIATION
Page "What do you think this is, Sham? The Calcutta bazaar?" Wendy's offer to strip is accepted, on a trial basis.
Chapter 33. SIXTH-CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY
Page Tim returns, but too late. Things have changed. Is "Victory Over Horseshit!" a "gentle love message"? Does Tim have enough clout with the Hitchcocks to evict the Ashram? No, to both questions.
Chapter 34. THE YANKEE AND THE KING SOLD AS SLAVES
Page Peggy Hitchcock throws a "psychedelic seder" at her town house in New York. Bill Haines and author prepare the punch for this celebration of mass racist infanticide. An Episcopal priest sees the light. The Neo-American Church gets the Gatehouse.
Chapter 35. A PITIFUL INCIDENT
Page The Kriya Press of the Sri Ram Ashrama prints 2,000 copies of the Neo-American Church Catechism and Handbook. Tim's "review" thereof. Moonlight madness and the Mellon millions.
Chapter 36. AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK
Page Billy Hitchcock and the author, now boon companions, do not entirely succeed in resisting the artful wiles of ruthless adventuresses who seek to enmesh our souls in the toils of carnality.
Chapter 37. AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT
Page Egalitarian primitivists are all over the place. Tord moves in. The author appears on the Alan Burke Show. It becomes clear Tim would rather rule in Hell than share Heaven with the likes of us. |
Chapter 38. SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE
Page The great Fourth of July party of 1967. Champagne Charlie Rumsey, Joe Gross, M.D., Huntington Hartford and daughter, Cathy, dedicated missionary bee hee. A fast forward to a contrasting, occultist kind of party in California in '68. Tim evicts an East Village, freeloading, female freak from the Bungalow. |
Chapter 39. THE YANKEE'S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS
Page The author is the sanest person on the property? According to Tim and a public poll, yes. Tim pronounces himself a charlatan. Susan is upset, but a Virginian Mellon of Pennsylvania, or vice versa, is delighted to hear it. Capitalism in action.
Chapter 40. THREE YEARS LATER
Page An editor pockets an editorial without reading it. Back to 1967. Wendy and author tie the knot. So do Howie and Betsy, with Pat O'Neill dancing naked on the Big House roof at the reception. The repetition compulsion is bad news.
Chapter 41. THE INTERDICT
Page The Sado-Judeo-Paulinian Voodoo-Papist gang lords of the Place of Overflowing Shitholes order their minions to assault us, women and children first.
Chapter 42. WAR!
Page Tommy deeds territory to all three persecuted sects. Tim invites the author to take over the Big House.
Chapter 43. THE BATTLE OF THE SAND BELT
Page Little Billy takes Orange Sunshine. Suzanne is accused of indecent exposure. The author barfs on a limo, and other mopping-up operations.
Chapter 44. A POSTSCRIPT BY CLARENCE
Page The author claims to have loved every minute of it, even when he was barfing on the limo.
FINAL P.S. BY M.T.
Page Have some solipsistic nihilism with a little Snazzm, Fazzm and McPozzm on the side.
PREFACE
Page It is, of course, a thing which ought to be settled, and I am not going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway.

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