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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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Regressed to Vancouver A Canadian psychotherapist (he named one of his kids Soma) has been barred from entering the United States because forty years ago he took a bunch of drugs. A border agent looking the guy over Googled his name and became "engrossed" in a 2001 article he wrote about the drugs, in a journal called Janus Head: "... I traveled to many regions many times with the help of many different substances. I took peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, cannabis, MDMA, DMT, ketamine, nitrous oxide 5-MEO-DMT, but I kept coming back to LSD. Acid seemed my most spacious, most helpful ally. While on it, I explored my past, regressed to the womb, to my conception. I remembered, grieved, and mourned many painful events. I saw how my parents would have liked to love me, and how they didn't because they didn't know how. I learned, on acid, to endure troubling and frightening states of mind. This enabled me, as meditation has done, to identify with being the witness of the workings of my mind, observing whatever was going on, while knowing that I was simply captivated by the forms produced by my own psyche." It's an absurd outcome -- his kids live in the States; he's an eminent psychologist -- but you can sort of see how his deathless prose did him in. |