----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[snip] "I am NOT at all surprised by his Shamanic interests. One day I will right an ethnography of the American Caucasian tribal pursuit of native wisdom. These kinds of "seekers" are a dime a dozen in Ecuador and much of the Andes--especially members from the California branch of the tribe. (I recently sourced a journo in the UK writing a piece on Shamanistic travel junkets, that folks are dropping upwards of $5k for two weeks of "visioning" !). So I don't think his other stuff discredits his present work. (It is disappointing to hedge a bet that the Marxist/materialist blinders would lead one to think that EHM was a hoax, because he's a new-ager. That may help explain, sadly, why the US-left may never win hearts and minds of Christian-middle-America...woe to us all.) I think the best thing to do is just show that video with him and Rogoff!" ----- The confluence of financiers getting stoned and becoming enchanted with cultures they were fleecing is pretty old, no? I think the guy who was the model for a lot of baby boomers was R. Gordon Wasson, an international banker who, after having ingested a bunch of psylocibin in Mexico, wrote a big piece in Life magazine that attracted the attention of Timothy Leary. When Leary was in upstate NY he became buddies with a guy named Billy Hitchcock who took LSD not necessarily to gain metaphysical insights but rather with the goal of "how can I make more money on the stock market." Thus psychedelics, libertarianism and capitalism became an exit for some of the elites from the banalities of the Cold War. One other guy who was pretty instrumental was Willis Harman at Stanford who also mentored.......David Korten.
