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| Shy Exhibitionist 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The one acid Peter had a lot of in the late '60s was what he refers to as "computer acid." This came a hundred to a sheet -- five rows of twenty brownish dots (whose hue deepened over time). Since Peter had a bunch, he and a friend once took two hits, then four some six hours later, then eight half a dozen hours later, then 16, then 32 and eventually 50 at similar intervals. Peter thought to use more would be wasteful. The two of them, nonetheless, achieved a three-day full-blown trip. Revelations continued throughout. They certified, of course, the phenomenon of "tachyphylaxis" (rapid onset of drug tolerance). Even after half a sheet each, effects hardly mounted to that occasioned by two hits at the start. |
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| Peter's conclusion from all this was that massive amounts could extend the lucidity period prompted by LSD. The literature describes how LSD is its own worst enemy. But it usually fails to note that such is not nearly so true taken regularly in small amounts. Peter also tried this a couple of times, noting virtually no tachyphylaxis at all. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peter went to Manhattan in 1964 to sell a book he and a friend had begun to put together. This was to be called Students & Drugs, and to be either by Dr. Charles S. Reede (a 19th century novelist whose name Alister Sims assumes in the movie The Green Man) or by "Jack Drug." Peter thought he could get this book into press within six months. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| That didn't work out. But several editors at Esquire magazine were up for publishing his "Underneath Reality" account of a bum trip. Peter was for this, but eventually demurred. They wouldn't allow an additional two or three paragraph intro. He wanted to point out that this alleged Romilar wasn't typical of psychedelics being used, and neither was the experience. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| After arriving in New York, Peter contacted several literary agents. In each instance, his stuff was held for at least half a year and nothing ever came of these arrangements. (Sterling Lord, one of the hot shots there, handed Peter's manuscripts back with the comment that he didn't want his daughter smoking DMT.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Meanwhile, Peter had begun teaching a course about "Psychedelics -- Their Uses & Implications" at the Free University of New York. This school, on 14th St., was more or less Marxist-Leninist in orientation. It appeared an embarrassment that more people signed up for Peter's lectures than for anything else in its catalog. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Here he first met Bonnie Golightly, coauthor of the first book he was involved in getting through the press. She came with his friend Stan Krippner -- greatly interest in all this and doing dream studies involving ESP at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn. She invited Peter that evening to an upcoming lecture by John Beresford -- the man who ordered from Sandoz Pharmaceuticals the gram of LSD labeled "H-00047" which is featured in Peter's Magic Grams. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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