So it is with great respect and admiration that I celebrate the life of Robert Anton Wilson during this memorial week by remembering that he was the great believing skeptic, someone for whom the collection and curating of all that is weird was his...
Posts tagged "Peter Bebergal"
RAW Believer
Peter Bebergal on Robert Anton Wilson, from a post at BoingBoing:
Getting There Too Quickly:
Aldous Huxley and Mescaline
By Peter Bebergal
Between his 1932 vision of a sterile dystopia in Brave New World and the 1962 novel Island about a spiritual utopia, the author Aldous Huxley experienced two things; the Hindu religious philosophy known as Vedanta and psychedelic drugs. In Brave New World, people are addicted to Soma, a hallucinogenic that artificially simulates a...
I’ll Never Grow So Old Again:
Ditching the Drugs But Still Looking for the Transcendence
An exclusive excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Too Much To Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood, published last week. Bebergal will be reading from Too Much at the NYU Bookstore on Wednesday, October 12th, at 5 pm. Come on by; he'll sign a copy for you. For more details, click here.
By Peter Bebergal
In 1882 the...
A Lexicon of Morality:
Before Nature and Magic Went Separate Ways
A review of Gregory McNamee's translation of On the Nature of Animals (Trinity University Press, 192 pp., July 2011).
By Peter Bebergal
July saw the publication of Claudius Aelian’s On the Nature of Animals translated by Gregory McNamee. Aelian was a Roman teacher whose proficiency in Greek made him famous. Aeilan (ca. 175 – ca....
Fall 2011 Revealer Reading Series
Books and more books! Join us this fall for three reading events that will feature some of our very favorite religion writers.
Pathologizing the Sexual Revolution
Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010.”
by Peter Bebergal
The Sixties counterculture beleaguered most traditional religious communities. Not only was there an increase in behavior deemed inappropriate (drug use, promiscuous sex, and the generalized spread...
Kosher Enough
By Peter Bebergal
In April 2009, at the peak of the Swine Flu scare, Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman of Israel urged people to refer to the virus as the Mexican Flu, because, as we all know, pigs aren’t kosher. While both insulting and at its face absurd, Litzman’s request brings to the surface what...
