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From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
Subject: Re: TR evangelism
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:58:38 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.

I was introduced to T.R. sort of indirectly... I bought a whole load of
books at a library sale, including a tradepaperback version of ANA...
I read Terry Southern's Red Dirt Marajuana around a dozen times (it was
left in the backseat of my dad's car for amusement on long rides) and
then I read Still Life with Woodpecker... and then, I was attracted to ANA
by the cover, I don't remember what was on it... maybe a semi-nude woman?
Anyway, it was a pretty cool cover, and then I started reading, and I
thought it was pretty cool... then I read an article about TR, and dug up
jitterbug perfume from the library and another one of his books...

Thom
From: fap@crosfield.co.uk (felix power)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
Subject: Re: good book
Date: 30 Jul 92 12:53:54 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

In article <Bs5yKJ.C05@news.udel.edu> wilhited@brahms.udel.edu (Douglas Ben Wilhite) writes:
>In article <1992Jul29.181203.8732@news.media.mit.edu> tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul28.160733.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsjdh@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>>>Damn, Still Life With Woodpecker is a good book!
>>>>Yup!

Surely that should be :

Yum!


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From: wilhited@brahms.udel.edu (Douglas Ben Wilhite)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
Subject: Re: good book
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:41:06 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <1992Jul29.181203.8732@news.media.mit.edu> tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.160733.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsjdh@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>>Damn, Still Life With Woodpecker is a good book!
>>>Yup!
>>>>Damn Straight!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
From: wilhited@brahms.udel.edu (Douglas Ben Wilhite)
Subject: Re: TR evangelism
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:10:38 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.194809.18918@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> rob@philo.mcgill.ca writes:
>Does everybody out there evangelize Tom Robbins books?
>
>I suppose everybody else on this group does that too,
>since it IS a fan group.  How were you introduced to
>Tom Robbins?
>
>Just curious,
>Rob Macfarlane

Yeah - actually, it's almost a religion.  And, just to make things hairy if
you haven't noticed already - hold a pack of Camels up to the mirror.
CHOICE really doesn't reflect.

When my Robbins mentor showed me that one I nearly fainted.  It kind of
makes Still Life a bible o love.

doug
From: snively.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
Subject: ARA -- I'm done!
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:39:56 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

I just finished reading ANother_Roadside_Attraction last night.  Wow. 
It's funny.  I know someone that's just like Amanda.  It's funny, too, 
'cause she's the one that gave me the book.  Hmmm.  Well, no lisp, and no 
fleas, but other than that...

I wonder if she thinks I'm more Ziller, Marx, or Plucky.  Hmm. :-)

Love and weenies,
Seer

p.s. I've already got 3 other people reading this book.  Are the others 
as good?

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
From: sdavis@cwis.unomaha.edu (Scott Davis)
Subject: The rookie speaks...
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:49:08 GMT

Yes, I am but a novice.  I'm only about halfway through Another
Roadside Attraction.  I like it bunches.

For all you seasoned vets out there, who are some authors that live
on the same block as Robbins?  Kurt Vonnegut definitely comes to mind.
Maybe a little Jack Kerouac/Dharma Bums?  Kundera/Unbearable Lightness
of Being?  N. Baker/Vox?  Copeland/Generation X?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
From: chuck@nimbus.drexel.edu (Wombozni Klik)
Subject: Re: TR evangelism
Organization: Drexel University Department of Physics
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:40:51 GMT
X-Posted-From: nimbus.physics.drexel.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


I didn't know anything at all about TR until I accidentally found
Still Life in a bookstore one Monday at lunch, a few years ago. I was
on a work-study job, and didn't get anything done for the rest of that
week.

Still Life is my favorite TR book - by far. I lived and breathed it
that week. Every time I reread it, it's the same feeling. I got my
fiancee to read it, and she got the same goofiness. Go figure.

Since I started reading TR, it seems like most of the really
interesting people in my life know his work. 

No reflection on me, however... ;-)

Chuck

Chuck Browne
Drexel University Department of Physics
chuck@nimbus.physics.drexel.edu
From: fsjdh@acad3.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
Subject: good book
Date: 29 Jul 92 00:07:33 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Damn, Still Life With Woodpecker is a good book!
From: bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
Subject: Re: good book
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:55:20 GMT
Distribution: usa

> That's all you can say about the book that taught you what it is
> to be an outlaw, the real meaning of the moon and how to make love
> stay? It has been a while since the woodpecker crossed my path
> but I still remember his flaming red head and it seared across
> my consiousness, making me aware of the magic of choice.

Hmmm.  I find it a bit curious that "Still Life with Woodpecker" seems
to be the definitive Tom Robbins novel to a lot of people.  Personally,
I found it to be the least interesting of the five of his that I've read:

	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
	Another Roadside Attraction
	Jitterbug Perfume
	Skinny Legs and All
	Still Life with Woodpecker

(the above would be my personal ranking - you're entitled to yours, of course)

And I don't mean to suggest that it's lousy, so don't break out any nasty
remarks - I don't want to fence with anybody.  It's just that years and
years and several states ago I read "Cowgirls" and "Another Roadside
Attraction".  Only years ago, and one physical state removed from the
one I reside in now, I read "Still Life with Woodpecker", and was sort
of disappointed.  For me, it just lacked the magical quality of the other
two.  I was also annoyed that I waited and waited, and STILL got stuck
buying it in an overpriced "trade paper" edition, but that didn't color
my thinking - honest.

I was a bit apprehensive when "Jitterbug Perfume" came out, but I liked it,
and rereading it has only made it better.

> I don't mean to flame you, just to light a fire under you.
> Pour out what you feel, don't just exclaim it. Learn the
> lessons that Dr. Robbins has taught and dare to make an
> unseemly metaphor. Let the rosy fingers and thumbs of the
> dawn bring the bright butter-basted mushrooms to light. Let
> the bass note of beets anchor the perfume of dynamite that
> Nobelly blows away the veils from your eyes.

Somebody else has read all the chapters of the lesson, and I'm not going
to try to do a cross-novel metaphor of my own.  All I'm saying is that
we have different keys that unroll our personal sardine tins - "Woodpecker"
just didn't fit mine as well as some of the others.

> Dare to be the pagan you were born to be, not just a "yup" or
> "damn-straight" person.

yup ;-).  Hard to remember how, sometimes.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.asprin
From: rm104449@ee.tut.fi (M{kinen Riku)
Subject: I say? I say?
Originator: rm104449@ee.tut.fi
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 09:02:05 GMT


Hi there!
A couple of weeks ago I asked about the (forthcoming?) 'The sweet myth-ery of
life' -book (or something), but couldn't read the answers (if any), becouse I
was out of town. So: is it published yet? If not, when is it due? Thanks.
-- 
   Riku M{kinen                \   "When things are blackest I just say to     
   e-mail: rm104449@ee.tut.fi   \   myself 'Cheer up, things could be worse!'  
   phone: +358 31 183029        /   And sure enough, they get worse." -Skeeve
Newsgroups: alt.colorguard
Subject: <None>
From: cputnam@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:22:31 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City


Heard anything about next year's shows?  Anything at all, rumors, etc..?
I would like to know.  I believe that Kansas City will be holding a regional
this winter in Feb.  It will be hosted by Hickman Mills High School if it does
come here.  The Enid Regional is gone next year because their guard director
came to Hickman.  My alma mater.

Please post or Email.

Thanks!!

IRC nick-BlueDevil

Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: 13r43@math.ucrf.edu
Subject: Re: yo :    yo what?
Organization: McGill University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:31:36 GMT

In article <Bs4nGq.BB3@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> kjubandh@minotaur.UWaterloo.ca  
(Kris Jubandhu) writes:
> In article <1992Jul27.204400.5829@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> 13r43@math.ucrf.edu  
> writes:
> > In article <Bs23FG.C0K@news.larc.nasa.gov> curtis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov  
> (Scott  
> > Curtis) writes:
> > > 
> > > yo
> > 
> > yo what ?
> 
> yo ho ho
and a bottle of rum
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: jlbell@bharh56.bnr.co.uk (John Bell)
Subject: Re: Unwanted McDonalds
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:15:31 GMT
From: mordea@terapin.com (Annie Benson)
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: Mcdonalds as the seventh sign of the apocalypse.
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:37:56 GMT
Organization: BBS

In article <1992Jul18.115742.13000@corax.udac.uu.se>,
magnus@solaris.astro.uu.se (Magnus Selhammar) writes:
>I thought mexican food was american food. (?)
>
>Magnus


He's right.  Mexico is part of the North American Continent
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds,talk.bizarre
From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Mcdonalds as the seventh sign of the apocalypse.
Organization: The World
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:06:49 GMT


We're getting some sort of McDonald's Lobster Roll here in Brookline
(Boston.) Haven't tried it, it's $3.99 and probably about the size of
a small hot dog roll.

The sign says it's made with real lobster, that probably means they
had a lobster sitting nearby while they made the filling out of
whatever Mrs. Paul couldn't bear to put into her fish flake fillets.

--
        -Barry Shein

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From: markway1112@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: RE: apple pies
Date: 22 Jul 92 11:42:41 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

I had heard from our head manager that, in a couple of months
or sooner, we will also have the fresh-baked cherry pies. (Thank
goodness!  I hate apple pies)  And, good point- why not bring
back the blueberry or strawberry-rhubarb pies too, as long as
the McLean is kept?

Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown)
Subject: Steak Sandwichs?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:13:06 GMT

OK, I heard a rumor that McDonald's was supposed to be coming out
with steak sandwiches a few months back, but instead (at least around
here) they brought back the McRib.  Now they've got triple cheeseburgers.

I WANT MY STEAK SANDWICH!!!  What happened?!?!?!?!!
-- 
Mike Brown
mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
"The Universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter."
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: grady@world.std.com (Dick Grady)
Subject: Re: Steak Sandwichs?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:45:20 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.001306.13492@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown) writes:
>OK, I heard a rumor that McDonald's was supposed to be coming out
>with steak sandwiches a few months back, but instead (at least around
>here) they brought back the McRib.  Now they've got triple cheeseburgers.
>
>I WANT MY STEAK SANDWICH!!!  What happened?!?!?!?!!

Perhaps you heard it wrong.  Around here (New England, USA), Burger King
has steak sandwiches.
-- 
            Dick Grady               grady@world.std.com
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Mcdonalds as the seventh sign of the apocalypse.
Organization: The World
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:09:04 GMT


>>I thought mexican food was american food. (?)
>>
>>Magnus
>
>
>He's right.  Mexico is part of the North American Continent

Q. How can you distinguish between someone from the US and someone
from Canada?

A. Call them each an American. The Canadian will act offended at
either usage, the American (er, USian) at neither.

--
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Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: magnus@solaris.astro.uu.se (Magnus Selhammar)
Subject: Re: yo 
Keywords: yo 
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:19:42 GMT

In article <Bs23FG.C0K@news.larc.nasa.gov>, curtis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Curtis) writes:
|> 
|> yo

Jo p} dig sj{lv!
M
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Unwanted McDonalds
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:12:43

>Does anyone know how to get rid of a McDonalds store?

How much dynamite can you get your hands on?
From: 185422285@ucis.vill.edu (Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366)
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: yo :    yo what?
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:11:00 GMT
Organization: Villanova University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <1992Jul27.204400.5829@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>, 13r43@math.ucrf.edu writes...
?In article <Bs23FG.C0K@news.larc.nasa.gov> curtis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (Scott  
?Curtis) writes:
?> 
?> yo
? 
?yo what ?

Give a BigMac and fries. 



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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:10:05 EDT
From: <LXS117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: RE: yo

yo YO!
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: brea9430@mach4.wlu.ca (breadner kenneth cecil joseph u)
Subject: Re: Unwanted McDonalds
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 12:17:45 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.171601.26249@dircon.co.uk> uad1214@dircon.co.uk (Peter Cox) writes:
>
>Does anyone know how to get rid of a McDonalds store?
>-- 
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Peter Cox
>uad1214@dircon.co.uk
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Now why would you ever want to do a thing like that?

Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: uad1214@dircon.co.uk (Peter Cox)
Subject: Unwanted McDonalds
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:16:01 GMT


Does anyone know how to get rid of a McDonalds store?
-- 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Peter Cox
uad1214@dircon.co.uk
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: caserrat@cayley.waterloo.edu ()
Subject: Apple (or potato) Pies?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:33:26 GMT

Sorry if this has already been answered somewhere but I was once told by someone
who worked at McD's that the apple pies are actually made with potatoes instead of
apples because potatoes are cheaper!?!
Is there any truth to this ?
I've talked to other ex-employees and they all told me that this was a load of crap and that the pies are premade and frozen when they get there so there would
be no way an employee would know anyhow.
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: curtis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Curtis)
Subject: yo 
Keywords: yo 
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:35:40 GMT


yo
From: dsdd@okcforum (Roy Barrett)
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Triple Cheeseburgers?!?
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:04:47 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Originator: news@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: yo
From: elee9tv@elroy.uh.edu (DANIEL)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:15:00 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Keywords: yo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <Bs23FG.C0K@news.larc.nasa.gov>, curtis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Curtis) writes...
> 
>yo
	As a person from NASA, surely you have something more intelligent
     to say! Unless you are one of the janitors and some how got
	 an account. 
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: 13r43@math.ucrf.edu
Subject: Re: yo :    yo what?
Organization: McGill University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:44:00 GMT

In article <Bs23FG.C0K@news.larc.nasa.gov> curtis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (Scott  
Curtis) writes:
> 
> yo

yo what ?
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: kjubandh@minotaur.UWaterloo.ca (Kris Jubandhu)
Subject: Re: yo :    yo what?
Reply-To: kjubandh@zeus.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:43:38 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.204400.5829@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> 13r43@math.ucrf.edu  
writes:
> In article <Bs23FG.C0K@news.larc.nasa.gov> curtis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov  
(Scott  
> Curtis) writes:
> > 
> > yo
> 
> yo what ?

yo ho ho
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla)
Subject: Re: Non-drug consciousness altering techniques...
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:38:01 GMT

In article <DLB.92Jul29093625@fanny.wash.inmet.com> dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton) writes:
>I can not help with this particular book; however, "Mind Games", by
>Robert Masters and Jean Houston, is not out of print.  It provides
>detailed instructions for a non-pharmacological method of drastically
>altering consciousness and exploring hypnotic mechanisms for expanding
>consciousness.

So you wouldn't type in "a few of the best" techniques?

-- 
jjj@mits.mdata.fi     Thanks, Life; thanks, Death    And the other me:
jjj@niksula.hut.fi    for freeing me from self       Jenny L{rv{joki
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
From: spent@milton.u.washington.edu (Spencer mullen)
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
Subject: Re: Non-drug consciousness altering techniques...
Summary: Book
Date: 29 Jul 92 06:48:30 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

One book that covers a hundred or so ways to get high without drugs is
"Free Rides" by Douglas Rushkoff and Patrick Wells.
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
From: probst@fraser.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
Subject: Re: Language and thought
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:59:35 GMT

In article <BILL.92Jul17213539@ca3.nsma.arizona.edu> bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>
>   >> Do you think that you think in a language or is language just used to
>   >> express your thoughts to others?
>
>To give a little background: This question is probably the biggest
>controversy in the whole field of psycholinguistics, and it is by no
>means resolved. 

i'm glad to see this come up - gratifies the heart of a closet psycholinguist
-and whorfian, i should admit.

lakoff's book is extremely interesting, returning repeatedly as it does to
the idea of the metaphorical nature of all language, including abstract
concepts. the last time i did any journal reading, the most thourough re-look
at the linguistic relativity question was by Lucy and Schweder, a couple of
anthropologists who took Eleanor Rosch's earlier experiments apart
very thouroughly indeed. this accounts at least somewhat for the resurgence of
the whorfians (nice name for a star trek character, "whorf"), as well as the
fact that Rosch herself has apparently reconsidered a lot of what she said in
the early '70s (although few people recall her revisions - you still will find
references to her original studies and conclusions in the journals today).

anyway, i'm a psychlinguistic relativist myself, i can't think of any other
way to put it...
-- 
Scott Probst: Brain and Behaviour Laboratory, Psychology dept, SFU
              Graduate Issues Officer, Simon Fraser Student Society.
e-mail: probst@fraser.sfu.ca - ph: (604) 291 3354/3181 - fax: (604) 291 5843
              "yes, well, and here we go again..."   Dr H.S. Thompson
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
From: cavrak@emba-news.uvm.edu.UUCP (Steve Cavrak)
Subject: Re: nirvana ?
Originator: cavrak@newton.emba.uvm.edu
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:55:00 GMT

In Hinduism, Nirvana is a final reunion with Bhrama - achieved through
elimination of individual existence.

In Buddhism, Nirvana is the final state, a release from the cycle of
reincarnation, and the extinction of self.

In Sanskrit, nirvana is "extinction (of individual existence).

A friend explained that it is "blissful", but not "our" blissfullness,
but that of the "oneness".

Steve
From: dwp+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
Subject: Re: Tibetan Book of the Dead
Summary: something salient, shortly stated, sadly seldom satoric
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:56:44 GMT
Organization: EIEI-U

In article <zlsiida.1021@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
	zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
+In article <1992Jul21.163546.229431@cs.cmu.edu>
    dwp+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug Philips) writes:
+>wouldn't be apropos to your experience.  Makes sense to me.
+Essentially this claims a Tibetan gets a clear white light and others don't.
+Yet others report that they do.  I'm reading other stuff on what to do when 
+one dies just in case!

Then I misrepresented what Levine said.   He was not claiming that the white
light was apropos only to Tibetas, but rather the various demons, their
form, and meaning, etc.

-Doug
From: dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton)
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
Subject: Re: Non-drug consciousness altering techniques...
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:36:25 GMT
Organization: Intermetrics Inc., Washington Division, USA

In article <1992Jul28.130206.122861@cs.cmu.edu> dwp+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug
Philips) writes:

   In that book, the authors talk about "The Book of Highs: 250
   Methods for Altering Your Consciousness Without Drugs" by Ed
   Rosenfeld, published by Quadrangle/New York Times Books.

I can not help with this particular book; however, "Mind Games", by
Robert Masters and Jean Houston, is not out of print.  It provides
detailed instructions for a non-pharmacological method of drastically
altering consciousness and exploring hypnotic mechanisms for expanding
consciousness.

Now all I need to do is find a group that wants to practice this!

					Dave Barton
					dlb@hudson.wash.inmet.com
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