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The Beat Poet and Art Bohemian Influenced Counterculture of the
Sixties and the More Marxist Counter
By: bernardpyron Date: November 3, 2018, 2:55 pm
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The Beat Poet and Art Bohemian Influenced Counterculture of the
Sixties and the More Marxist Counterculture of the Seventies,
and Beyond
Bernard Pyron
There was a time in the major Hippie centers, such as in San
Francisco and the Lower East Side of N.Y., and in a few major
universities, like the University of Michigan and University of
Wisconsin, when the American Left was not totally Marxist.
The hippies came partly out of the Timothy Leary and Richard
Alpert LSD movement, which mixed mysticism of some Oriental
religions with the psychedelic experience. Timothy Leary and
Richard Alpert were both Ph.D. psychologists. So, they brought
clinical and humanistic psychology into the mix of oriental
mysticism and the psychedelic experience, Remember also that
both came out of California psychology departments, Leary got
his Ph.D. from Berkeley and Alpert from Stanford University.
Along with the interest then in oriental religions, there was
also an interest in the Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching, by
some.. I Ching is a fairly sophisticated topic, and some
psychologists then were interested in it back in the sixties.
The LSD drug movement was also promoted by Aldous Huxley. And
Gregory Bateson at the Palo Alto VA Hospital helped to
popularize the use of LSD. Bateson served in the OSS during
World War II.
Aldous Huxley – of the British Elite – was important in creating
the LSD or drug movement in both California and in the Boston
area through his associates, Gregory Bateson, Timothy Leary and
Richard Alpert. Huxley promoted his LSD project in California by
making use of Alan Watts and Gregory Bateson. Watts was the guru
of a Zen Buddhist cult. Bateson, who had been with the OSS,
became the director of a hallucinogenic drug experimental clinic
at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital. Bateson was
one of the first to experiment with giving LSD to mental
patients and others.
Bateson had some association with Stanford University in Palo
Alto Among the people that Bateson gave LSD to do in
experiments was a graduate student at Stanford, Ken Kesey.
Kesey, who became famous for his novel "One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest," soon organized a group of LSD users called
“The Merry Pranksters.”
Ken Kesey made the famous trip in the LSD Bus from California to
Houston with the "Merry Pranksters" to see Kesey's friend, Larry
McMurtry. Kesey and McMurtry became friends when both of them
were in a in creative writing project at Stanford University in
the early sixties.
And so the history of the beginning of the LSD movement as part
of the Hippie Culture intertwines with the history of the end of
the Cowboy Hero Western in the work of Texan Larry McMurtry.
Ken Kesey's dates are 1935-2001, and Larry McMurtry is
apparently still living, having been born in 1936. McMurtry
wrote some more conventional Western novels, such as Horseman
Pass By of 1962. After Ken Kesey died, Larry McMurtry married
his widow.
During the 1960-1961 academic year, Ken Kesey was a Wallace
Stegner Fellow at the Stanford University Creative Writing
Center,. The North Texan Larry McMurtry was also a Stegner
Fellow who became friends with Ken Kesey.
Though McMurtry wrote some Western novels before Lonesome Dove,
it was his Lonesome Dove series which made him famous. The
Lonesome Dove stories are faithful to the Texan Cowboy of myth
and reality, but McMurtry departs in this series from the
Western Hero Formula.
Another major influence upon the Hippie movement which began in
about 1962 were the Beat Poets, such as Jack Kerouac, William S.
Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (who may still be alive at
about 100), Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Lamantia,
Michael McClure and Philip Whalen.
Then there are also the Art Bohemians who are forerunners of the
Hippie Movement.. The art bohemians go back to 19th century
French Painters, and the list of names include Claude Monet,
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne.
The Surrealists of about 1920 to 1940 mostly in France continued
the lifestyle of the Art Bohemians. And after the end of World
War II, the New York Abstract Expressionist painters and
sculptors tended to be Art Bohemians. Since many of these
painters and sculptors lived in the Lower East Side,of New York
City, when the Hippie movement began, some early hippies mixed
in with the Art Bohemian groups on the Lower East side and
apparently absorbed some of the Art Bohemian Culture.
In the surrealism of 1920 to 1940 there was some interest in
mental states. Andre Breton, surrealist poet said in his novel
Nadja , 1928, that "La beauté sera convulsif ou ne sera pas du
tout," "Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
In the Hippie movement the interest was in Mental or Brain
States, and pot as well as LSD and other drugs were used by
Hippies to change their mental states. Sex in the Hippie
movement was a way of changing Brain States, Hence the interest
of the Hippies in sex.
Marxism does not necessarily lead to such an interest in brain
states and changes in brain states can be positive or negative.
Brain states can be under the sympathetic nervous system or
under the parasympathetic system. Brain states can be
pleasurable or terrifying, and apparently both are sometimes
experienced under LSD.
Marxism is so systematically opposed to the absolute nature of
scripture and Christian morality that a devoted Marxist does not
easily develop faith in Jesus Christ and in scripture. And all
who follow Marxism do not know they are Marxists.
"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is
established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)
Some Hippies, under the influence of the LSD-Oriental-
Mysticism-Beat Poet-Art Bohemianism did become Jesus Freaks.
The question is, did the Hippies as Jesus Freaks come out of
those influences enough to have faith in Christ and come to love
his doctrines? Was the mind of Christ in them? Maybe they could
come out of the Beat Poet and Art Bohemian influence easier than
they could have come out of New Left Marxism?
HTML http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI3074101/
"This dissertation seeks to demonstrate that many Christian
Right activists did not come out of a fundamentalist or
Pentecostal or even new evangelical background but rather came
out of the counterculture"
Thats an interesting idea. Could it be said that some members of
the elect of Christ did not come out of fundamentalism but out
of the Counterculture?. Usually what is meant by fundamentalism
is dispensationalism.
The book, Hippies of the religious Right: The counterculture and
American evangelicalism in the 1960s and 1970s, by Preston
Shires, whose link is shown above, goes on to say "But the
countercultural spirit was indeed in evidence. And as one looks
at the cultural pedigree of some of the radical activists of the
Christian Right, one discovers that many of them were of
countercultural descent."
Hippies of the Religious Right: From the Counterculture of Jerry
Garcia to the Subculture of Jerry Falwell, by Preston Shires,
Baylor University Press,: 2007, "This volume demonstrates that
the Christian Right has a surprising past. Historical analysis
reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism
share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives
in both parties need to heed this fact if they hope to either,
in the case of the Republican Party, retain their evangelical
constituency, or, in the case of the Democratic Party, recruit
new evangelical voters.".
This makes it clear that what Shires means by the Religious
Right is dispensationalism.
We know that Chuck Smith at Calvary Chapel in Southern
California accepted many Jesus Freaks into his congregation in
spite of their being too smelly and poorly dressed to come into
a conventional church. And we know that Chuck Smith was a
dispensationalist. Most likely many of the Jesus Freaks under
him became dispensationalists.
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Re: The Beat Poet and Art Bohemian Influenced Counterculture of
the Sixties and the More Marxist Cou
By: patrick jane Date: August 28, 2020, 3:11 pm
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Good post
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Re: The Beat Poet and Art Bohemian Influenced Counterculture of
the Sixties and the More Marxist Cou
By: patrick jane Date: October 29, 2020, 1:33 pm
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=210.msg16736#msg16736
date=1598645496]
Good post
[/quote]yep
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