CHRONOLOGICAL COLLECTION CATALOGUE

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1968.06.001  Handbill:  “The Rolling Renaissance presents a Series of Poetry Readings June 8 - 14 1968”
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1968.06.002  Handbill:  “Notice to Free CityDEFEND YOURSELVESChicago Comm/Co 6/12/68”
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1968.06.003  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information CenterBULLETIN No. 18June, 1968Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the author’s frustration and dismay with the failure of psychedelic communities, as exemplified by the Millbrook asylum, the tendency for every organized effort to fall apart, and of the flashiness and dishonesty of the hip scene and its leaders. It also reports that young persons, especially, who use LSD frequently tent to have a very poor grasp of reality, are subject ot acute “flashbacks”, ego dissolution, and the loosening of mental acuity concerned with this reality. In the fall of 1966 Lisa Bieberman, one of Timothy Leary’s followers, started publishing a more-or-less bi-monthly “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN.” The early issues focused primarily on various recipes to prepare psychedelic agents from various plants. The later issues espouse conclusions about drug use (“marijuana inflates one’s self-conceit; but LSD undermines it.”), the status of various laws and legal cases concerning drug usage and possession, the results of clinical trials of psychotropic agents, the psychological repercussions of using LSD (flashbacks), the physiological repercussions of using LSD (chromosome damage), the religious use of LSD, and in the final issue, 5 years later, Lisa’s realization that she did not understand LSD and that she did not plan to “take psychedelics any more because I am afraid of them.”
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1968.06.004  Handbill:  “aaron russo's electric theaterBlue CheerChicagoJune 28-29-30, 1968”