The poetry of madness
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The poetry of madness (part 1 of 2)
The second of two symposia sponsored by the Esalen Institute on the value of psychotic experience, entitled “The Poetry of Madness”, recorded July 31, 1968 at the Longshoremen’s Memorial Hall in San Francisco. Panelists are John Perry, a San Francisco-based psychiatrist; Claudio Naranjo, a psychiatrist from Chile; Allen Ginsberg, poet; and Alan Watts, philosopher and…
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The poetry of madness (part 2 of 2)
The second of two symposia sponsored by the Esalen Institute on the value of psychotic experience, entitled “The Poetry of Madness”, recorded July 31, 1968 at the Longshoremen’s Memorial Hall in San Francisco. Question-and-answer session with audience. Panelists discuss the philosophy of George Gurdjieff, whether there’s been any success in treating chronic schizophrenics, Scientology, whether…