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if you’re not a psychonaut, then what are you?

THIS AR­TICLE STARTED AS A JOKE but will serve as an in­tro­duc­tion to psy­cho­nau­tics for the non-experienced. I use the word “ex­pe­ri­enced” here in its Hen­drixian meaning, re­fer­ring to the Jimi Hen­drix Ex­pe­ri­ence’s “Are You Ex­pe­ri­enced?” from their 1967 album of the same title: “Are you ex­pe­ri­enced? [Read more] “if you’re not a psychonaut, then what are you?”

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on writing a fan letter to harlan ellison

WE SPENT A WEEK IN JUNE at Ocean Shores on the west coast of Wash­ington. It was our first time there, and the first time I had been near an ocean in al­most thirty years! While I in­tended to spend a lot of time in the water—whose tem­per­a­ture was in the mid-50s—and be in­volved in sundry so­cial ac­tiv­i­ties, I also planned on doing some reading. [Read more] “on writing a fan letter to harlan ellison”