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Prelude The First Supper: Entheogens and the Origin of Religion Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided madness is given us by way of divine gift. —Socrates, Phaedrus Various traditions recall the events of a "First Supper." In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story...

1976 City Lights BooksThis comprehensivc selection of the thoughts of Governor Ed-mund G. Brown of Califomia has been culled from his press conferenees, radio, television and magaziné interviews, addresses to the California Legislature and other speeches. Because these remarks are often...

WAR Red Sun over Echo Park orbiting an unheard-of botany of disfigured statues sprung never far from the twig. Underneath this fig leaf my mother became an atheist. A persimmon's throw from Black Monday were the clack of the trolleys the stomp of the Lindy the crackle of zootsuiters...

CONTRIBUTORS Geoffrey Rips is coordinator of the Freedom to Write Committee of PEN American Center. He is the winner of a 1979 CAPS grant for fiction. His fiction and poetry have appeared in New Directions 36 43; ForNeruda, For Chile; Ox ford Literary Review; and California Quarterly. He has...