There was no script. There was a pink horse, ha ha, but after you’ve seen one pink horse, you’ve seen them all. okneoac.org/millbrook/ch40

The next morning, hearing that I needed a bottle, Narad, the “man of iron,” offered to drive me to town…. Narad, Karen had informed me, was “quite a character.” According to her, he spent much of his spare time rolling huge stones around the property

I have argued with quite a few dualists over the years and have never encountered one yet who didn’t give up his fundamental ideas like a patient surrendering his appendix. okneoac.org/dts/multiver...

The French doors from the living room which opened on the terrace were guarded by two, five-foot-high, Chinese temple dogs.

“They didn’t redecorate, and they never fired anyone." dutchessmagazine.com/the-end-of-a...

Nightmares cannot be conquered or ameliorated or avoided merely by deploring them. Honest analysis is called for. Trite as it is, it will often turn out that one’s errors are due to bad habits and hanging out with the wrong crowd.

The ego at bay is a mobilized ego, alert to all danger, suspicious of your every move and word. Always assume that the victim can “see right through you,” no matter how bizarre his behavior. Be honest.

I will no longer use terms like “God” or “soul,” because I have come to feel the necessity of explaining with great care, every time I do so, that I don’t mean any thing or entity external to myself, but just categories of impressions or ideas, and it is a drag to constantly explain this.

1974 draft by Art Kleps

When a scrawny Ashramite named Jean-Pierre emerged from the van wearing a bed sheet, Haines, who had also alighted, boomed out, “Ah, Jean-Pierre! You look like Jesus Christ after a hard night!”

At the Big House, which was all lit up and looked like a gigantic and fantastic ornament set in the unbroken darkness of the trees, Haines immediately demonstrated his ability to hang on to his sense of humor while elevated on the Supreme Sacrament.

Avoid syntactic rigidity. Remember that the relations you find are relations of meaning; not relations of physical cause and effect, power, or spatiality.

“Hippy?” The media and media mongers like Tim used the term constantly but the Psychedelians I knew in the ’60s almost never used it to refer to themselves. okneoac.org/millbrook/ch13

…even a light marijuana high is much more than a recreational experience. It is a liberating and uplifting experience which tends to bring out the best in people. (“The best” in some people may not seem like much to other people.)

The sacraments will, if you let them, produce a cool and sophisticated perspective, full of nuance and intricate and often ironical allusions and reflections. okneoac.org/millbrook/ch5

Snazzm is ideation founded on the assumption that all experience is (in the nature of) a dream. The externality of relations is denied. The only delusion maintained is that a self exists, within whose dream, and by and for and of whom, all appearances are determined.