June / July 2006

ALTERED STATES by Don Eulert

I have had peak moments, but altered states . . . I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Move from heat to cold and back again Make love, shout each other’s names Listen for owls’ music after midnight hook-up cries Sing blues with who you harmonize Dream about sifting rubies from sand Walk through blooming orange trees Wend into the space behind a waterfall so the ions will get you if all else fails Suspend yourself in tropical shoals all day face down in wonder Lean your head back for three sixty of stars until you fall over backwards Stare into cherry light from oak chunks flare your observer eyes it’s all cosmic fire See the freeway as everybody’s altar to burn what grew 500 million years ago Shout the brain’s endogenous orgasm then Let the big-eyed owl of winged mind go hunting in the luscious canopy of stars

Cover Stories:

First Cover Story:

REFLECTIONS ON THE CONCEPT OF
Altered States of Consciousness
—Ralph Metzner

3rd Cover Story

Transpersonal Healing with Hallucinogens
— Roger Marsden and David Lukoff

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