Millbrook
Subtitle: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism
Publisher: Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church
Published: 2005
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
Description: Recension of 2005
Table of contents: title: PREFACE
pagenum: 1990: The author's well-deserved reputation among persons of good will and sound mind is briefly described by the Archon of Alaska.; title: IMPORTANT NOTICE; title: A WORD OF EXPLANATION
pagenum: 1968: Timothy Leary threatens to "go over to Tommy's side" if he doesn't get Maynard Ferguson's furniture back from the Buddha of the Future.; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 1963: JFK is assassinated. William and Thomas Mellon Hitchcock finance and promote Psychedelianism on their 2,500-acre estate at Millbrook, New York. Teenage queens fail to behave in a manner to which the author has become accustomed.
title: CAMELOT; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 1960: Patchogue, Long Island. The author, in his fifth year as a school and clinical psychologist, takes half a gram of mescaline sulfate, with the usual consequences.
title: KING ARTHUR'S COURT; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 1963: First visit to the Mellon Hitchcock estate. IFIF. The Castalia Foundation. The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Drs. Leary, Metzner and Alpert, and the supporting cast of the early days. A professor of art from Cornell loses track of which side is which.
title: KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 1964: Cambridge. IFIF. Lisa Bieberman. The Psychedelic Review. A eulogy for Aldous Huxley. The author gets stoned and loaded with Alan Watts.
title: SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: Easter vacation at Millbrook. Lost in a meditation closet.
title: AN INSPIRATION; label: Chapter 6
pagenum: Solipsism and synchronicity. Enlightenment is a gas. Ideas of reference are where it's at.
title: THE ECLIPSE; label: Chapter 7
pagenum: Dick Alpert's photos of co-educational shit-ins. A trip with Tim aborted by Susans who think I'm bananas. Did Herman Hesse smoke edelweiss or what?
title: MERLIN'S TOWER; label: Chapter 8
pagenum: A candle explodes, threatening universal urination. The Zmms; Snazzm, Fazzm and McPozzm are introduced and defined. William Mellon Hitchcock hopes to use LSD to make more money on the stock market. Tim says the author is having a bad trip.
title: THE BOSS; label: Chapter 9
pagenum: Fired by a Person person. The hidden hand at work. A visit from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A refusal to love shit, despite Tim's glowing recommendation.
title: THE TOURNAMENT; label: Chapter 10
pagenum: Morning Glory Lodge on Cranberry Lake. The Neo-American Church, foundation and former and present doctrines and practices of. Peyote to the people.
title: BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION; label: Chapter 11
pagenum: Millbrook. Tim's in Nepal with a Swedish model of aristocratic lineage. The author finds it hard to believe that "Poughkeepsie" means "Place of Overflowing Shitholes" in the language of the Iroquois. Hollingshead twirls. Ralph pulls out joints. The author reads a sermon on digestion to paying visitors in bed sheets. A Psychedelian PTA meeting.
title: THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE; label: Chapter 12
pagenum: Millbrook. Bombed with 1,000 mics. The Kundalini experience.
title: SLOW TORTURE; label: Chapter 13
pagenum: 1965-66: Summer at Cranberry Lake. Winter in Miami. Back to the lake. Visitors, including Jack Kerouac, appear for sugar cubes and conversation. In Texas, a Sado-Judeo-Paulinian (these people are not "Christians") punishment freak sentences Tim to thirty years in prison because hemp was discovered in his daughter's pants.
title: FREEMEN!; label: Chapter 14
pagenum: Fun and games in the palaces of the ruling Sado-Judeo-Paulinian serial killers and mass murderers of Washington, D.C. A territorial dispute with a hireling of the American Medical Association, who has a point, sort of.
title: "DEFEND THEE, LORD!"; label: Chapter 15
pagenum: Meat Hook Baird, M.D., tells the Senate of the United States that acid heads are skinny, bespectacled, hedonistic runts with covert and overt homosexual conflicts, pugnacious noses, receding chins and marked "gratification complexes." The author, front page news, causes Bobby Kennedy to foam at the mouth.
title: SANDY'S TALE; label: Chapter 16
pagenum: Stabbed in the back on the home front.
title: MORGAN LE FAY; label: Chapter 17
pagenum: Marijuana goddesses galore. Bill Haines and the Sri Ram Ashrama are introduced to Timothy Leary and the League for Spiritual Discovery. Hired by a funny farm in New Jersey, but there are blackbirds on the left.
title: A ROYAL BANQUET; label: Chapter 18
pagenum: Really stabbed in the back on the home front. Billy Hitchcock tries to help, but Tim thinks I should go to Alabama.
title: IN THE QUEEN'S DUNGEONS; label: Chapter 19
pagenum: The author, a cockeyed optimist, finds something good to say about delirium tremens.
title: KNIGHT-ERRANTRY AS A TRADE; label: Chapter 20
pagenum: How not to live over a white-lightning run. Jailed in Florida. Back to Millbrook. You're as good a man as I am, Bali Ram.
title: THE OGRE'S CASTLE; label: Chapter 21
pagenum: January, 1967: Tim's in California. Haines is in charge of the Big House. All present are accounted for. The author recovers.
title: THE PILGRIMS; label: Chapter 22
pagenum: Under the benign tyranny of William Haines, a.k.a. "Sri Sankara," a fun time is had in the Big House by Leaguers and Ashramites alike.
title: THE HOLY FOUNTAIN; label: Chapter 23
pagenum: Bob Ross, goat lover vs. the author and Otto H. Baron von Albenesius, sheep herders.
title: RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN; label: Chapter 24
pagenum: A crazed dentist disgraces the Neo-American Church on the West Coast, but the author excommunicates the rotten bastard. A sociable trip in the Meditation House.
title: A RIVAL MAGICIAN; label: Chapter 25
pagenum: Tim decides to return, despite a deal he made with the despots of the Place of Overflowing Shitholes to never do so. He demands that we evict Rudy and Jackie first.
title: A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION; label: Chapter 26
pagenum: They are driven forth and the author gets their room. The Bombardment and Annihilation of the Planet Saturn and Divine Toad Sweat: Bloated House Organ of the Church. The Mysterium Tremendum on $5 a day.
title: THE FIRST NEWSPAPER; label: Chapter 27
pagenum: The view from that room was lovely when snow was falling, a hushed surround both brilliant and subdued, which, for all its detail, gave little hint of what century or country we were in.
title: THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO; label: Chapter 28
pagenum: Barefoot Michael Green, Bill Haines and the author are invited to the Bungalow for drinks. Then Bali Ram (shod in gold slippers), Bill Haines and the author are invited to the Bungalow for a trip.
title: DRILLING THE KING; label: Chapter 29
pagenum: Suzanne and Aurora are fixing the drinks?
title: THE SMALLPOX HUT; label: Chapter 30
pagenum: "The needle leaked. Tee hee." Oh well, in for a dime, in for a dollar.
title: THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR HOUSE; label: Chapter 31
pagenum: Holy shit!
title: MARCO; label: Chapter 32
pagenum: "What do you think this is, Sham? The Calcutta bazaar?" Wendy's offer to strip is accepted, on a trial basis.
title: DOWLEY'S HUMILIATION; label: Chapter 33
pagenum: Tim returns, but too late. Things have changed. Is "Victory Over Horseshit!" a "gentle love message"? Does Tim have enough clout with the Hitchcocks to evict the Ashram? No, to both questions.
title: SIXTH-CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY; label: Chapter 34
pagenum: Peggy Hitchcock throws a "psychedelic seder" at her town house in New York. Bill Haines and author prepare the punch for this celebration of mass racist infanticide. An Episcopal priest sees the light. The Neo-American Church gets the Gatehouse.
title: THE YANKEE AND THE KING SOLD AS SLAVES; label: Chapter 35
pagenum: The Kriya Press of the Sri Ram Ashrama prints 2,000 copies of the Neo-American Church Catechism and Handbook. Tim's "review" thereof. Moonlight madness and the Mellon millions.
title: A PITIFUL INCIDENT; label: Chapter 36
pagenum: Billy Hitchcock and the author, now boon companions, do not entirely succeed in resisting the artful wiles of ruthless adventuresses who seek to enmesh our souls in the toils of carnality.
title: AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK; label: Chapter 37
pagenum: Egalitarian primitivists are all over the place. Tord moves in. The author appears on the Alan Burke Show. It becomes clear Tim would rather rule in Hell than share Heaven with the likes of us. |
title: AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT; label: Chapter 38
pagenum: The great Fourth of July party of 1967. Champagne Charlie Rumsey, Joe Gross, M.D., Huntington Hartford and daughter, Cathy, dedicated missionary bee hee. A fast forward to a contrasting, occultist kind of party in California in '68. Tim evicts an East Village, freeloading, female freak from the Bungalow. |
title: SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE; label: Chapter 39
pagenum: The author is the sanest person on the property? According to Tim and a public poll, yes. Tim pronounces himself a charlatan. Susan is upset, but a Virginian Mellon of Pennsylvania, or vice versa, is delighted to hear it. Capitalism in action.
title: THE YANKEE'S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS; label: Chapter 40
pagenum: An editor pockets an editorial without reading it. Back to 1967. Wendy and author tie the knot. So do Howie and Betsy, with Pat O'Neill dancing naked on the Big House roof at the reception. The repetition compulsion is bad news.
title: THREE YEARS LATER; label: Chapter 41
pagenum: The Sado-Judeo-Paulinian Voodoo-Papist gang lords of the Place of Overflowing Shitholes order their minions to assault us, women and children first.
title: THE INTERDICT; label: Chapter 42
pagenum: Tommy deeds territory to all three persecuted sects. Tim invites the author to take over the Big House.
title: WAR!; label: Chapter 43
pagenum: Little Billy takes Orange Sunshine. Suzanne is accused of indecent exposure. The author barfs on a limo, and other mopping-up operations.
title: THE BATTLE OF THE SAND BELT; label: Chapter 44
pagenum: The author claims to have loved every minute of it, even when he was barfing on the limo.
title: A POSTSCRIPT BY CLARENCE; title: FINAL P.S. BY M.T.
pagenum: Have some solipsistic nihilism with a little Snazzm, Fazzm and McPozzm on the side.; title: PREFACE
pagenum: It is, of course, a thing which ought to be settled, and I am not going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway.