Ha ha. All right.
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That was the first, the oldest of six Catholic children.
And I went to a Catholic school for my whole grammar school period.
It was astutely Catholic.
But by the time I was 11, I kind of demanded that I be put into a public
school, which my parents did for two years.
But then I started turning into such a little scowlag, responding to the early
vibrations of the rock culture, wanting to have a duck tail.
All the accoutrements of the young hoe daddy in 1957 or 1958.
And so I was put for a year into a fine young man's school.
I was miserable at this prep school, but on the other hand, my mind saw it
constantly for our means of escape.
So I really fixated heavily on the ocean as a symbol.
So I started surfing that summer.
My identity became so tied up with surfing.
And surfing was a stimulus.
So strong, you know, it was really good for me physically.
Plus it got me going through the motions of finding things, exploring California.
It's so precarious, you know.
I mean, you're literally inside a tube of water.
You're in the eye of the wave, and it's terrifying.
It really is.
But it's also exhilarating.
Extremely psychedelic.
Your senses are just barraged by energy.
I've been doing it for 12 years.
I still relate to it, but it's not.
I used to be a surfer, first and foremost.
Now I might think, well, I'm really a mammal.
Oh, this thing's sketchy so loaded?
They're just the finest thing that ever hit these people.
Mike and I got those people so loaded at that party that we were at that
everybody forgot, they just forgot any trips.
Everybody was just sitting there.
They were just sitting there digging each other and digging
me and digging Michael.
It was a primal feeling, really a primal feeling.
We had a really high collection of people there.
That really helped.
Hot is almost a constant.
Smoking weed.
The first J I smoked during a day always is unique, you know, because it's kind
of a fresh impetus to the nervous system.
And so overall effect is one of
kind of being a tranquilizer, actually.
My status piece for the season, hand-printed Christmas card.
The idea I got from the tarot, one of my favorite cards in a card corresponding
to me astrologically, is the hermit.
Sometimes I project into my myth qualities that are ascribed to this particular
sign, which is a, I think it represents a person or an aspect of the personality,
the evolving personality, where it's reached
not the final degree of enlightenment.
Like you can't call him really a master of wisdom, but yet he's the attained
degree of wisdom or world knowledge, sufficient that he has a responsibility to
turn on his brothers, you know, his fellow man.
Hello.
[...] Kitten. That's Sharon. That's my brother.
What are you doing?
Getting loaded.
What have you been doing?
Nothing.
You sound speech.
Shh.
I just came by to see some of your pots and stuff.
I went by some for Christmas presents and stuff.
Do you have any?
I went to Orange Coast College, a junior college, for a year and a half after
high school, although I didn't know then why I was doing it, nor do I ignore now.
This is what we do next.
And I got turned on to drugs kind of when I was going there.
And at the same time, I got caught by my parents returning on,
which caused, you know, just shrieking.
My son died on June 16th, and I got sent to the shrink to get better.
At the end of that summer, I took acid, and it just blew my mind.
Like, it was so extreme in experience.
A real acid trip, you know, is like, it's beyond pleasure, it's beyond pain, it's
beyond complacency, it's beyond fear.
You just fucking get your mind blown.
Okay. How's things been going?
We had a pretty good month in December because I sold a bunch of pottery.
Oh, you did? Good. Yeah.
Did you keep a list of how much you made?
I made about 75 bucks.
You didn't keep a record?
No. Because I gave so many of them away.
Are you still doing this?
Yeah, but I haven't any now. I've been doing a little carpentry thing.
Like, I'm doing it for a brother downtown, and
he's got about as much money as I do.
I think I made about making somewhere upwards of 25 bucks a week.
Sharon? Yeah.
You still working for the health department?
I was in a period of taking a lot of LSD and living in, actually living the,
just the archival dropout existence in town here.
And when you're, you know, when you're taking psychedelic chemicals, you're
really sensitive to the fact that
what you've normally recognized as being reality, you know, how your
consciousness reacts to the everyday bullshit, there is just a
fraction of what's there.
And so usually you kind of undertake a search to find what you think is real and
what isn't, what will verify the experiences you've
had, you know, taking these drugs, and what doesn't.
And the tarot, the tarot isn't LSD, but LSD and the tarot are both
involved in self-realization.
You have been looking for work, haven't you?
Oh, yeah. Well, I... You know, like, I'm not idle.
I built that bedroom before you came.
Yeah, I'm going to get out of the light.
What? That extension out there.
And I built on an extension of the bathroom.
But I live in a, I don't know what you'd call the community I live in, but
nobody's got any money. So, like, I work every week.
But sometimes I do it for free.
I used to work at the Akron about a year ago.
I worked at the Akron. It was a disclaimer.
But besides some, I mean, I
couldn't work for the Akron because of some of the things they were selling.
I just couldn't believe it, you know, like they're selling DDP.
You know, it's like committing suicide slowly to assist, you know.
You know, that destructive a phase of the marketplace.
I've taken just about every psychedelic except for organic mushrooms.
I don't know how many times I've dropped. I could probably estimate around 150.
Most of it's been a waste. Most of it's
just been a burden on my nervous system, frankly.
Maybe the 150 doses, you know, trips I've taken, 10 really stand out.
You know, 10 really were psychedelic experiences.
I just didn't take enough or I took too much in the wrong place, you know.
You can really goof taking the things, that's for sure.
If you're in a hung up state and you take them, I mean, it's going
to focus right in on that, usually.
And you can have what is called a bun trip, which is just meaning you get sucked
away by some unresolved aspect and you can't get free of it.
Bun trips are all kinds of things, but
they can really be avoided, I think, a lot.
I did two years. I did it last year and I didn't like it at all.
I didn't do it for a year and then I did it two weeks
ago for the Christmas formal.
The Christmas formal is a fucking compliment.
Just see, you know, because the Christmas formal last year is so funny.
I thought, well, maybe I didn't like Mexican before, but I had such a good time.
It was just so funny.
It's a nice chemical. I mean, it stimulates nice parts of your consciousness.
I think these are times where if we're going to survive on a very large scale, we
have to stop acting blindly, you know, acting by impulse and on an ego
level and investigate what we really need as a whole being and act in accordance
to the needs of the species rather than what TV tells you that you ought to be.
And mostly in terms of what you consume and what you can afford and what you own.
And Asif definitely does that. It cuts away the bullshit.
No stocks or bonds. Do you have any court ordered payments?
Charles Fort Alimony, payments probation department.
Are you attending college or receiving any training?
I'm receiving lots of training up at the pottery school, but it's all, it's just
on a, there's no capital involved. It's just Brother Lou [...]
Those are beautiful sized buttons.
That one's thick.
I had some Navajo Indians from the Native American church ceremony.
Outside. That's the last time I was taking a psychedelic.
It was so good I haven't wanted to since.
They know how to use that medicine. So good.
If you take a cap of Mescalin or Psilocybin or LSD, you're taking a cap of
whatever somebody decided they were going to make in the market, you know,
because this stuff is part of the marketplace.
And so I don't take commercial LSD. I just don't do it because I've, you know,
too many fucking times I've taken a drug and in 20 minutes I've known I've taken
some bum fucking drug.
The peyote, there's no doubt, you know who made it.
The fuzz, there's kind of this spiny fiberglass like fuzz in the center.
And I'm not sure what the chemical content is, but it's repulsive deed.
Actually, the fresh peyote cactus is repulsive deed.
You need orange in this world.
You need one piece of orange with a button and it tastes really good.
It's a good combination.
You just take the fuzz out and put it in water and make a tea out of it.
You should boil it for about two hours at least.
Make a tea out of it, chug it down as quickly as you can.
Chase it with an orange and don't eat anything before because it will come up.
The psychedelics, if you relate to them as a sacrament, you will have the
experience more times than not that you would expect of a sacrament.
Like when I had my first communion, I waited, you know, like I was so primed.
I was seven years old and I went, uh-huh, and got the host and swallowed it.
And I sat there and waited and the priest had given me a nudge and said, go on,
because there are a bunch of good after me because nothing happened.
But I can guarantee it, man, if you take a psychedelic, something will
happen every time.
Heaven or hell, it's all within you.
You know, there's nothing in the LSD that isn't in you.
You know, all it is is a catalyst.
I want to go hiking.
Let me at it.
Get me out of this town.
I know, I think it's all my energy up there.
I just kind of...
I know it.
And I don't want to floss around here because we've got to drive.
Psychedelics, ma
'am, that's another good thing about them.
They turn you on to levels of play that you'd never have the hair, you know,
to break your facade and do.
And you need it.
It's in the organism.
You need to play.
You need to just get up and nudge your pal, you know, and go through a couple
of...
You know, and shit like that, making faces.
Oh,
boy.
What are you feeling, son?
Incredible lack of games to play.
More than anything.
That's why I like to come up here and play.
There's nothing you can do to match it, you know, so you don't have
to do anything except be with it.
[...]
I'm about to...
What's going on inside your head, ma'am?
Do you feel it?
I'm trying to be as still as possible so that I can feel my body and
feel nature as best I can.
I feel really good.
I feel really...
I don't know.
It's hard to say it in words.
The peyote doesn't let up.
[...]
Really merged with the rest of the energy around me.
I feel really good.
I really... I must have gotten contact high.
That would...
It would look, um...
Psychedelic level.
This clean's so earthy.
I'm starting to see lightning flashes out of the corner of my eye.
That's a sign that I'm really alone in.
Brotherhood of man.
I really believe in it.
And that belief is probably due, in part, to acid trips because
I've experienced it, you know.
Or I've felt that I was experiencing some incredibly real living link between
myself and the rest of the human organism.
And I believe in that vision.
Say, say, boom.
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