(I love you,\u2026)<\/p>\r\n
Dear Parents\u2014\u2014<\/p>\r\n
Hi\u2014\u2014and thank you!<\/p>\r\n
\u201cAnd finally, of course, thanks are due to my parents, without whose assistance my production would have been impossible.\u201d (Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, concluding the Introduction to his new book, \u201cReal Magic.\u201d Mr. Bonewits is 22 yrs. old, & just graduated last year with a B.A. in MAGIC from U.C. Berkeley\u2026!? (From the last chapter: \u201cAnd, if\u2026 [this] entire book makes absolutely no sense at all to you, ask this question: Is this<\/u> what one of the nation\u2019s best universities is putting out? And if so, who<\/u> is to blame?\u201d))<\/p>\r\n
Anyway, thank you for the phone calls, letters & birthday gift offer\u2026 after due consideration, I\u2019ve chosen to gifts I\u2019d appreciate\u2026<\/p>\r\n
#1: it would please me more than ANYTHING if you\u2019d read & reflect on the enclosed book,<\/p>\r\n
\u201cPURSUIT OF LONELINESS\u201d<\/p>\r\n
(American Culture at the Breaking Point)<\/p>\r\n
By Phillip Slater\u2026<\/p>\r\n
If you like, you could consider (t)his book to be a long personal letter from me to you\u2026 It takes a little while to read, but his conversational style makes the reading not too tedious. Marcy just read this copy, and underlined many segments\u2026 I think she underlined those parts most cogent & revelatory to her<\/u>, so it will be interesting for you to see if you \u201cenjoy\u201d the same passages, or others\u2026<\/p>\r\n
I was unfamiliar with this man\u2019s work, until it was mentioned in my math class on \u201cAutomata\u201d\u2026 I read 20 pg\u2019s of the teacher\u2019s copy in the math library, then ran out & bought a copy\u2026.Today I bought a new copy to send to Paul & Linda\u2026<\/p>\r\n
Well, #2 gift is, as you\u2019d anticipated, money: but with a twist to make it interesting\u2026 I am sending you two five dollar money orders and, in violation of the instructions, mailing<\/u> you xxx<\/strike> one copy** of the letter that explains the scheme\u2026 please mail the two money orders, and then type up as many letters as you want to sell (each for $10), with the top name removed & yours added to the bottom. In this way, a.) I discharge my obligation to continue the cycle, and b.) you\u2019d send me $20, & I paid x<\/strike> $10 out for the letter, so we\u2019d get $10 surplus as a birthday gift, and c.) you\u2019d stand to realize, if<\/u> the chain remained unbroken, each person selling 2, the sum of<\/p>\r\n
TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS<\/p>\r\n
for each letter you sold\u2026<\/p>\r\n
**I\u2019m sending one copy so as not to have to go out & copy it\u2014\u2014(we don\u2019t have a typewriter\u2014\u2014thinking of buying us one for my b-day), but we would like to sell each<\/u> of you a letter, 2 x $10 = $20.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
The back of p. 1 of the above is a photocopied page from The Villager<\/cite>, the local newsletter\/newspaper that Marcy was editing; it\u2019s titled \u201cVietnamese Children\u2019s Song,\u201d but it\u2019s a poem in English about the real enemy being cruelty and hatred and such, reprinted from Good Times<\/cite>, overlaid with a line drawing of a bald child facing away from the viewer and toward a barbed-wire fence. I strongly suspect that it\u2019s not a real Vietnamese children\u2019s song, but I don\u2019t know for sure. I\u2019ve decided not to reproduce it here, but if you want to see the text, you can find copies of it online by searching for the phrase [\"Kill people, who shall we live with then\"] (with quotation marks).<\/p>\r\n Below is part two.<\/p>\r\n mon.<\/p>\r\n eve.<\/p>\r\n Dear Parents\u2014\u2014<\/p>\r\n I just gave up, for the nonce, the number theory game\u2026 I have five very hard problems to do before Thursday noon, and after working & rassling with them for several hrs. tonite, i now consign them to the fertile garden of the unconscious, to be mulled over\u2026<\/p>\r\n Wanted to tell you about my term project in biomathematics\u2014\u2014approved by prof today\u2014\u2014it\u2019s to measure ESP in city vs. country, using modified Rhine-type ESP cards: a) cards with emotional value, as opposed to neutral Rhine cards:<\/p>\r\n instead of these neutral symbols, we\u2019ll use pictures with associated affect<\/u>, perhaps tarot cards, and i think we\u2019ll use a lot of blue & white & green colors, hopefully to maximize the results.<\/p>\r\n Written in margin:<\/span><\/p>\r\n \u201cThere is no darkness, only blindness.\u201d<\/p>\r\n \u201cThere are no problems, only opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\r\n D.J. Hamrick<\/p>\r\n I think that R.D. Laing\u2019s psychiatric viewpoints will relate with this experiment, as will Jeffrey went to an international meeting of parapsychologists in Palo Alto, and saw movies of people in USSR \u201cfloating\u201d object across the room with their mind-power\u2026\u2026.!<\/p>\r\n There were also reports by soviet scientists about the photographing of the human aura!!<\/p>\r\n I made an appointment with my \u201cAutomata\u201d professor (full professor, with tenure) John Rhodes, pioneer<\/u> in the field of algebraic theory of finite-state machines (he\u2019s 34 yrs. old, spent 12 yrs. at m.i.t.!), and went to his home and channelled joh-rei energy to his wife & him, & their 3-week-old baby; it was super-nice, the energy-exchange that took place\u2026<\/p>\r\n very, sincerely, yours,<\/p>\r\n peter<\/p>\r\n In margin:<\/span> Looking forward to Nov. 28, Dad! (= Jed\u2019s 3\u2154 birthday, and Joaquin's 1\u00be birthday: 28=1+2+4+7+14, yay! a perfect #!)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n Notes:<\/p>\r\n In which Peter asks his parents to read Pursuit of Loneliness<\/cite> (as a birthday present to Peter), asks his parents to join a pyramid scheme, and describes a psi experiment that he\u2019s planning. \u201cyou\u2019d stand to realize, if<\/u> the chain remained unbroken, [\u2026] the sum of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-peter","category-uc-berkeley"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n
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\r\nx<\/strike> a treatise i\u2019ve found on topological psychology, and the effects of Johrei on the frequency\/ies of brain-waves\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n