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Mark Bennett
Mon 17 Aug, 2009 05:33

Re: Bugs
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this was sent to me by someone on my orgonite trial. He mailed it wed, I replied and he sent it 3 more times. Seems my replies aren't getting through even from a 2nd email acccount:

> Hi,
>
> in regards to your post on the EW forum (would have replied
> direct but am not on it), I have also often felt that both
> Thompson & Burroughs were tapping directly into
> alternate reality tunnels, albeit perhaps unwittingly,
> whilst in their respective 'higher' states. Vegas being the

yes, thats what I'm thinking now. Actually met and shot a portrait of Burroughs. Thompson not met but did meet his illustrator a few years ago. I'm still wondering how someone with so much drug use and experience wasn't able to stop the pain he had before he shot himself.


> notorious hive that it is would doubtless be riddled with
> reptilians visible to Thompson's dilated eye (the last time
> I watched Gilliam's film version that scene in the circus
> really got me), whilst Burroughs' drug of choice having been
> long associated with all things parasitic. Other interesting

yup.

> drug / bug connections to be found in 'A Scanner Darkly'
> also.

curiously there's now orgonite in Philip K Dicks house where he got 17 rejection letters in a day. Turns out someone I know who was working with a Boston based band lives there now and her garden is doing amazingly well.


> Just recently re-reading R.A. Wilsons 'Cosmic Trigger' also
> flagged up aspects of the McKenna's early Amazonian
> psychedelic experiments & their reported communication
> with an alien insectoid entity.

if memory serves Crawley too and looked a bit like a 'grey'. 

M