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• MILLBROOK: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism, by Art Kleps
  

• A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

  by Art Kleps © 2005
  

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  FRONT MATTER
  
  PREFACE
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  Easter vacation at Millbrook. Lost in a meditation closet.
  Chapter 6
  THE ECLIPSE
  Solipsism and synchronicity. Enlightenment is a gas. Ideas of reference are where it's at.
  Chapter 7
  MERLIN'S TOWER
  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
  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
  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
  [URL="http://www.okneoac.org/millbrook/ch10"]BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION
  [/URL] 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
  [URL="http://www.okneoac.org/millbrook/ch11"]THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE
  [/URL] 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
  Millbrook. Bombed with 1,000 mics. The Kundalini experience.
  Chapter 13
  FREEMEN!
  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!"
  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
  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
  Stabbed in the back on the home front.
  Chapter 17
  A ROYAL BANQUET
  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
  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
  The author, a cockeyed optimist, finds something good to say about delirium tremens.
  Chapter 20
  THE OGRE'S CASTLE
  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
  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
  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
  Bob Ross, goat lover vs. the author and Otto H. Baron von Albenesius, sheep herders.
  Chapter 24
  A RIVAL MAGICIAN
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  Suzanne and Aurora are fixing the drinks?
  Chapter 30
  THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR HOUSE
  "The needle leaked. Tee hee." Oh well, in for a dime, in for a dollar.
  Chapter 31
  MARCO
  Holy shit!
  Chapter 32
  DOWLEY'S HUMILIATION
  "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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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!
  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
  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
  The author claims to have loved every minute of it, even when he was barfing on the limo.
  FINAL P.S. BY M.T.
  Have some solipsistic nihilism with a little Snazzm, Fazzm and McPozzm on the side.
  
  
  
• The Boo Hoo Bible: The Neo-American Church Catechism and Handbook, by Art Kleps
  

• The Neo-American Church Catechism and Handbook

  by Art Kleps © 1971
  
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  • HOW TO GUIDE A SESSION
    
  • SYNCHRONICITY AND THE PLOT/PLOT
    
  
  
• Divine Toad Sweat: The Dilated House Organ of the OKNeoAC

  Dilated House Organ of the OKNeoAC

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  1970s [TD="colspan: 2"]The Neo-American Ten Commandments [/TD]
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  1973 [TD="colspan: 2"]The Excommunication of Timothy Leary [/TD]
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  [TD="colspan: 2"]Snazzm, Fazzm and McPozzm [/TD]
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  1974 [TD="colspan: 2"]Rhetorical Strategy in Confrontations with Occultists, Cosmicminders, and Supernaturalists[/TD]
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  [TD="colspan: 2"]On Archetypes as Solipsistical Dream Figures[/TD]
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  1975 [TD="colspan: 2"]Principles of Interior Decoration for Neo-Americans[/TD]
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  1977 [TD="colspan: 2"]Chief's View[/TD]
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  1989 [TD="colspan: 2"]The Ten Commandments of the OKNeoAC Sportsman[/TD]
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• Principles of Interior Decoration for Neo-Americans (1975)
  
• The Neo-American Ten Commandments (1970s)
  
• Art Kleps, letter to the editor, Rolling Stone, July 4, 1974