Reports of Chemical Explorations of the Inner World.
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♥ Psychedelic Poetry ♥
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PROSE IS TALK, poetry is music. Prose is linear, grammatic-logic, sequential condensation of experience—what the categorizing mind can remember from the ever-changing flow of experience.
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Poetry is one step closer: What is communicated is more image than thought, multifaceted rather than linear, musical-emotional more than conceptual-mental. It is not surprising then that many attempts have been made to translate the fantastic experiential explosions induced by psychedelics into poetic metaphor.
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The first poem, "A Glass of Ayahuasca," is extracted from a larger, soon to be published volume of South American writings by Allen Ginsberg, who has been called "the most popular American." His good-humored and sensible approach to controversial political issues have won him the respect and admiration of political and social leaders and persons in all walks of life. His most devoted audience though is found on college campuses where with readings and mantra-chanting, he incarnates sometimes an ancient Indian philosopher-poet, sometimes an inspired Hebrew prophet; an American Jeremiah, whose Wichita Vortex Sutra touches one deeply, at the most human level.
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Timothy Leary's Pyschedelic Prayers constitutes a psychedelic manual, adapted freely from the Chinese wisdom text, the Tao Te Ching. Rewritten and tested many times in actual LSD sessions, they are designed to be read during psychedelic trips. "Psychedelic poetry, like all psychedelic art, is crucially concerned with flow. Each psychedelic poem is carefully tailored for a certain time in the sequence of the session." The two poems reprinted here are "prayers invoking cellular consciousness, seed consciousness. Odes glorifying the DNA code....the brain of cellular life....
Psychedelic poetry should be read aloud at a slow tempo, in a low natural voice....
To the consciousness released from imprinted statics these prayers can become precise bursts of trembling energy and breathless meaning."
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Posted by: Lyta |
Time: Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
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