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CASTALIA FOUNDATION MILLBROOK SUMMER SCHOOL

PSYCHEDELIC TRAINING COURSES 1966

VERY RARE ITEM

TIMOTHY LEARY

This is a 8-page stapled brochure and application measuring 9 3/4 inches x 8 inches printed in Green and Black inks in near fine condition with 2 folds.

Announcing "Psychedelic Training Courses will be conducted at Millbrook , New York from June 19 through August 28 , 1966.

First Printing of this Information paper, distributed to the press and interested persons at the time of the just before the formation of the League for Spiritual Discovery, a religious organization incorporated in the state of New York Oct. 1966 at a press conference at League Headquarters, a storefront in Greenwich Village. Timothy Leary was undoubtedly the principal author.  

"The League Spiritual Discovery is an orthodox, psychedelic religion. Like the founding group of every great world religion, the League Spiritual Discovery aims to expand consciousness…."  

 See : Leary Bibliography L24 (page 289) 

Rare and historic.  

CONTENTS

1. PURPOSES

2. BACKGROUND

3. SETTING

4. PROGRAMS

a. TO PRODUCE THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE

b. TO RECOGNIZE AND DIRECT PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE

c. TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE OF THE SYSTEM

d. TO COMMUNICATE AND "LIVE OUT" THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE

A central aim of the Castalia Summer School is to teach basic techniques of psychedelic communication. Students will receive training in six forms of psychedelic art

5. STAFF who will be directing the various psychedelic departments are:

Psychedelic theory: Timothy Leary, Ph. D.

Psychedelic method: Ralph Metzner, Ph. D.

Psychedelic philosophy: Rolf von Ekartsberg, Ph. D.

Psychedelic poetry: Ilsa von Ekartsberg, Ph. D.

Electronics: Rene Jaeger and others

Instrumental sound: Maynard Ferguson

Indian Music: Shyam Bhatnagar

Psychedelic painting: Allen Atwell and others

Light transformation: Don Snyder, Jackie Cassen

Movement and dance: Sri Kalikananda

6. DAILY SCHEDULE

7. PSYCHEDELIC SESSIONS

8. PSYCHEDELIC THEATRE PROGRAM

9. FINANCES

10. SELECTION OF APPLICANTS

11. IN SUMMARY

12. CASTALIA FOUNDATION PSYCHEDELIC TRAINING   COURSE APPLICATION FOR SUMMER 1966

Millbrook was the headquarters of the Castalia Foundation, so named after the intellectuals' colony in Hermann Hesse's book Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game), the last and finest novel by Hermann Hesse, the story of which is set in the Alpine province of Kastalien around the year 2400.

MORE ABOUT == The League For Spiritual Discovery was a spiritual organization inspired by the works of Timothy Leary, and strove for legal use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for the purpose of meditation, insight and spiritual understanding. It was in existence until the end of the 1960s, and eventually closed by Leary.

The organization was re-founded in 2006, to continue and expand upon the original work. The original logo of The League for Spiritual Discovery was a 'Tetracross', a double infinity sign enclosed in a circle.

History == On September 19, 1966, Timothy Leary founded the League for Spiritual Discovery, a religion with LSD as its holy sacrament. By doing this, he hoped to legalize LSD based on a "freedom of religion" argument. Although The Brotherhood of Eternal Love would subsequently consider Leary their spiritual leader, The Brotherhood did not evolve out of the League for Spiritual Discovery. The motto of the group, "Turn on, tune in, drop out" became synonymous with the sixties.

On October 6, 1966, LSD was made illegal in the state of California. Later, on October 24, 1968, LSD was added to the list of Schedule 1 substances, which made it illegal to possess, manufacture, or use for any purpose. All scientific research programs using the drug were shut down.

During late 1966 and early 1967, Leary toured college campuses to spread the psychedelic gospel by presenting a multi-media performance called "The Death of the Mind" which attempted to artistically replicate the LSD experience.

Leary said the League for Spiritual Discovery was limited to 360 members and was already at its membership limit, but he encouraged others to form their own psychedelic religions. He published a pamphlet in 1967 called Start Your Own Religion to encourage people to do so.

In February 1968, Leary was evicted from the Millbrook estate, and shortly thereafter moved to California. He was arrested again on December 26, 1968 in Texas for possession of marijuana. In 1970, Leary received a ten-year sentence for the marijuana arrest. During this time period, The League was closed down, and all centers abandoned.

Reborn == In October 2006, The League For Spiritual Discovery was restarted, taking all of the original intents of the prior organization as a foundation, but updating the message and expanding the work.

The new League's goal is to create spiritual centers throughout the world, and generate "League Centers" for exploration, art, music, and instruction among members. It also works to enable communication and convergence of all aspects regarding spirituality within the culture of today.

  MORE FROM THE DICTIONARY ABOUT  == Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and Mescaline , Sacred plants were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard P Project, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Both studies produced useful data, but Leary and his associate Richard Alpert were fired from the university.

 Leary believed LSD showed therapeutic potential for use in psychiatry. He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as "turn on, tune in, drop out", "set and setting", and "think for yourself and question authority". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase and life extension (SMI²LE), and he developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology (1977).

 During the 1960s and 1970s, Leary was arrested regularly and was held captive in 29 different prisons throughout the world. President Richard Nixon once described Leary as "the most dangerous man in America". Leary authored and co-authored over twenty books and was featured on more than a dozen audio recordings.

He had an acting career that included over a dozen appearances in movies and television shows, over thirty appearances as himself in the same, and produced and/or collaborated in both multi-media presentations and computer games.

  In June 2011 The New York Times reported that the New York Public Library had acquired Leary's personal archives, including papers, videotapes, photographs and other archival material from the Leary estate, including correspondence and documents relating to Allen Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Arthur Koestler, G. Gordon Liddy and other prominent cultural figures. Following an archiving period of up to two years, the material will be open to scholars.

 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg asked Leary to participate in the experiments after hearing about the Harvard research project. According to Leary's autobiography, Flashbacks, LSD was given to 300 professors, graduate students, writers and philosophers and 75 percent of the test subjects reported the experience as one of the most educational and revealing experiences of their lives.

 Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert founded the International Foundation for Internal Freedom in 1962 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This was run by Lisa Bieberman (now known as Licia Kuenning), a disciple of Leary and one of his many lovers.

Their research attracted a great deal of public attention and, as a result, many people wanted to participate in the experiments, but were unable to do so because of the high demand. In order to satisfy the curiosity of those who were turned away, a black market for psychedelics developed near the Harvard University Campus.

 On September 19, 1966, Leary founded the League for Spiritual Discovery, a religion declaring LSD as its holy sacrament, in part as an unsuccessful attempt to maintain legal status for the use of LSD and other psychedelics for the religion's adherents, based on a "freedom of religion" argument.

(Although The Brotherhood of Eternal Love would subsequently consider Leary their spiritual leader, The Brotherhood did not evolve out of IFIF International Foundation for Internal Freedom.) On October 6, 1966, LSD was made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only were possession and recreational use criminalized, but all legal scientific research programs on the drug in the US were shut down as well.

During late 1966 and early 1967, Leary toured college campuses presenting a multi-media performance "The Death of the Mind", which attempted to artistically replicate the LSD experience. Leary said the League for Spiritual Discovery was limited to 360 members and was already at its membership limit, but he encouraged others to form their own psychedelic religions. He published a pamphlet in 1967 called Start Your Own Religion, to encourage people to do so .

Leary was invited to attend the January 14, 1967 Human Be-In by Michael Bowen the primary organizer of the event. Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and uttered the famous phrase, "Turn on, tune in, drop out". In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary stated that slogan was "given to him" by Marshall McLuhan during a lunch in New York City.

Leary added that Marshall, "was very much interested in ideas and marketing, and he started singing something like, 'Psychedelics hit the spot / Five hundred micrograms, that's a lot,' to the tune of a Pepsi commercial. Then he started going, 'Tune in, turn on, and drop out.'"