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Tuesday Mar 18, 2003
Acid Dreams
When I was living in Brentwood, California, an artist friend who had worked with Oscar Janiger on a book had invited me to meet the well-known psychiatrist.
Oscar was a pioneer in the study of LSD’s potential for liberating the intellect and creativity. He gave LSD to some 1,000 volunteers (1954-1962) before it was made illegal. Oscar was interested in how LSD juiced up creativity, raised consciousness, and for its value as a tool in therapy.
Oscar had a comfortable home in the Santa Monica Canyon area and one of the largest personal libraries I had seen—nearly 20,000 volumes and he seemed to know the location of every title.
Saturday Mar 08, 2003
Last Days in LA
Toward my last days in Los Angeles some years back when I was living in the Hollywood Hills, I had a moving sale of various items, not art. A bearded man came to the door, looked around quickly, and went directly to an item leaning against one of my easels.
“How much is that,” he asked.
I said: “Do you know what this is?”
Thursday Mar 06, 2003
As Luck Will Have It
I heard this Chinese folktale many years ago and its meaning stuck with me as a true friend.
A man named Sei Weng owned a beautiful mare, which was praised far and wide. One day this beautiful horse disappeared. The people of his village offered sympathy to Sei Weng for his great misfortune. Sei Weng said simply, “That’s the way it is.”
Wednesday Feb 26, 2003
No Dharma Bum
I had come out of successful meeting with a producer in Los Angeles.
At one point in our meeting, he turned to me and uttered those immortal words: “Hey, y’know, I’m a big Hollywood producer.”
Sunday Feb 23, 2003
Wake Up!
In “The Metamorphosis,” Franz Kafka shocked readers with a grotesque fable about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into an insect, which dovetails with the Buddhist world view of rebirth, or transmigration of the soul.
Is this possible?
