Thursday, March 15, 2012

Electric suit, what do you think of my Buddha?

Kesey is finally out of jail but no one seems to notice it which surprises him because he expected everyone to miss him dearly. Kesey visits with his wife and kids, whom Wolfe didn't know he had, and talks about his experience and is completely non-chalant about it. I loved this part because I expect myself to be arrested some day (for a good cause, probably while doing peace awareness protests) and it doesn't scare me. Kesey compares it to a 'cops-and-robers' game and says its 'nothing personal'.
Interviewers come to talk to Kesey and they ask him to refrain from bringing up the whole LSD movement, but Kesey has something to share with them. He says when he was in new mexico, opening his mind with LSD, he stepped into a lightning storm and felt the lightning forming around him. He thinks this is a religious type thing and that he's on a whole new level in the universe and he wants people to know.
Wolfe talks about Kesey's background and his story and how he became the leader of the Merry Pranksters. Kesey recieved a scholarship to study art at stanford so he moves into an artist commune. He was an althlete at Universtiy of Oregon before attending Stanford and he was raised by a farmer father. One of the kids in the commune with Kesey gets him interested in physchology. Kesey and this student volunteer at a local mental hospital and try to understand what's really happening there. They see that this place is trying to help vetrans over come their mental disabilities through the use of different forms of LSD. Kesey gets a job working there and it inspires him to write a novel. Kesey moves back to his artist commune and meets new people and they start to experiment with drugs and they eventually move in to their current home in La Honda, Cali.

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