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One bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon. Must be returned full and unopened. Best offer. Write to Jules McKenzington 24 Boynton Way Northbridge, MV

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The contents of my briefcase. 65 cents a day plus all applicable local, state and federal taxes and tariffs. 1 Proctor Business District, Cubicle 1.

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Dave Vendel’s Gardening Reminders

Helpful Hints for the Amateur Domicile-Adjacent-Area Horticulturalist

Dave Vendel
Dave Vendel is a Soil and Granule Science expert and member of the Department of the Interior’s Super Soil Action Awareness Team.

Howdy Guys, guess what? It’s spring again and you know what that means. It’s time to dig out that hoe and get those clods a turning. That’s right, it’s time again for all of us gardeners to wage our little wars against nature. So, this month, I’ll be offering some useful information for dealing with those pesky spring gardening problems.

Log Jam
Many small lawns throughout the region occasionally suffer from an affliction termed “log jam.” This unsightly mass of logging castoffs makes many a block party difficult, if not impossible. Log jam makes lawns difficult to traverse, interact upon and mow. Be wary of the snakeoil merchants plying chemical-based solutions to this dilemma. There are no legal controls of such a nature. One may reduce the severity and frequency of the condition by posting armed sentries to control illegal lumber dumps.

Concrete Pest
Check your new concrete walkways for attacks by the orange blood fly. These large flies resemble small flies and will begin laying eggs in your concrete minutes after pouring. An unchecked infestation can result in a pockmarked or wholly non-functional walkway. After the eggs hatch, the giant larvae tunnel out of the con-crete, leaving their molted, gooey exoskeletons on undamaged portions of your lawn walkway. The best solution is to remain vigilant in your yard between March 17 and April 30. Keep a bat handy.

Read the Label
Read the labels of artificial lawn generation products carefully and thoroughly before purchase. Many companies make wild claims about nanotechnology, genetically-engineered “mini-gardeners” or other such artificial methods of lawn creation. Buyer beware! Most such methods do not work, contrary to your intuition.

Hand-Pick Bugs
Look, bugs have been around for so much longer than humanity that you’re just not going to get rid of them, no matter what kind of chemical or pseudo-organic methods you use. The best bet is to hand-pick the type of bug of which you wish to have an infestation. You’ll be better off knowing that you made the choice best for you and the bugs will have a healthy sense of self-worth.

Spring Cleanup for Yards and Gardens
Contrary to the “advice” offered in Poor Richard’s “Almanac,” the home yard or garden is not the best place to dis-pose of deceased relatives, friends or strangers. Corpses can make lawns bumpy and invite pests in gardens. Remember: no corpse, healthy gorse!

Tip o' the Day

An Histronomy Thesis

The Life and Work of Psychologistics Researcher Timothy Leary
By Scott Birdseye (Doctor of Philosophy)

Scott Birdseye
Dr. Scott Birdseye is Head of the Histronomy Department at the Montsylvania College of Agricultural Technology Design Arts. He has two cats; Bumpers and Scruffy.

The continuing story of science, and its interaction with society as a whole, is an account which shows a strong dichotomy between the beloved and revered scientists, and the infamous per-sonalities, known more for their deviance than for their research. Dr. Timothy Leary was one such deviant, who in a time of social conformity and paranoia, sought to bring enlightenment and understanding to the whole of humanity by merging Eastern mysticism, Native-American spirituality, and Western sci-ence. Although Leary’s goals as a psychiatrist were altruistic, his cultural alliances and personal behaviors cost him his university position, and his status within the psychology community, and made the mainstream of both academic and public society hostile to his research efforts and his conclusions.

At a time when Behavioralism rigidly dominated American psychology, Leary went against the mainstream to edge psychology back towards its esoteric and philosophic roots, creating a radical new view of behavior, and helping to usher in important changes in American life.

Though Timothy Leary would eventually become known as the guru of the 1960s Counter-Culture, he spent the decade of the twenties as normally as any other child of the time, his thoughts filled with baseball and images of the Wild West and the Indians who populated it. His time spent at Classical Preparatory High School was filled with extracurricular activities, including trouble making and drinking, which were probably the cause of Leary’s poor academic performance. Classmates have remembered that Leary cared little of others’ opinions of him, but was optimistic, especially during times of punishment.

Low grades and constant scuffles with authority were not brought to an end by his high school graduation in 1938, but rather remained with Leary throughout his subsequent collegiate career. In 1940, Leary entered West Point Military Academy, following his expulsion from Holy Cross College at the end of his freshman year. Westpoint shared much in common with Holy Cross however, regarding its opinion of Timothy Leary. A night of heavy drinking, following the annual Army-Navy game, brought Leary to the attention of the school’s Honor Committee. After refusing to honorably resign, the remainder of Leary’s single year at the Academy was marked by continually hazing, punishment and social isolation, a treatment which soured Leary on both Westpoint and organized authority. In true form, Leary continued his usual behavior at the University of Alabama, although he actually managed to remain enrolled long enough to graduate in 1945, with a degree in psychology. Graduate school in Washington State and doctoral work at Berkeley followed, where Leary focussed on Personality Psychology.

One would be hard pressed to find a decade in which Timothy Leary would be more out of place in than the 1950s, an era of conformity, mass consumerism and paranoia. In his book The Lonely Crowd, sociologist David Riesman described the post-war fifties as a time when Americans began, for the individualist nation’s first time, to view the national strength as more important than the individual’s needs . The collapse of the great Western empires, most notably that of the British, created the Third World, and gave the United States and the Soviet Union a battle ground for the new, nuclear fueled Cold War. Stockpiling of nuclear weapons created, for the first time in history, an atmosphere of Mutually Assured Destruction, in which a nuclear attack by either side would, with retaliatory action by the other, guarantee complete destruction of human kind. With the specter of nuclear annihilation cast over everyday life, paranoia and fear grew exponentially. Nonconformists came under attack, and social and religious harmony became paramount in the minds of most Americans. Church attendance grew enormously, although American religion in the 1950s was less about spirituality and more about civil and social obligation . To be upright and American, an individual was expected to conform to rigid and hostile standards of normality, brought about by simple fear.

His outlaw reputation seemingly behind him, the fifties saw Leary as head of the Kaiser Foundation for Psychology Research, where he explored the long-term effects of psychotherapy on patient outcomes, and came to the conclusion that traditional psychological methods were of little or no value. Other research findings, which described the human personality as made up of component behaviors which were capable of being initially taught and later restructured, led to Leary’s 1957 book Diagnosis of
Personality, which was well received by the academic psychological community.

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The success of his personality theory brought Leary an invitation to a permanent position at Harvard, which he accepted in 1959. His first year at Harvard brought Leary little prominence or notoriety, however, a trip to Mexico the subsequent summer with an anthropological team, whose goal was to study indigenous religious practices, would change his reputation at the university, for it was on this trip that Leary had his first experience with peyote, a native medicinal plant with powerful hallucinogenic properties. Leary returned to Harvard, and with fellow professor George Litwin began a new research project, known as the Concord Prison Experiment, which studied the effects of the hallucinogen psilocybin on the behavior of repeat offender prison inmates with antisocial personalities.

The Concord studies showed that hallucinogenic psychotherapy had a positive effect on the prison population, reducing the incidence of repeat arrests in the test group. The study created controversy however, within the Harvard psychology department, as Leary and Litwin used themselves and their graduate assistants as the control group.

Timothy Leary was not the first psychologist to scientifically experiment with hallucinogenic drugs, nor was he the first to use them in an attempt to heal psychological conditions. Peyote, from which is derived mescaline, and which formed the chemical basis for the synthetic lysergic acid diethylamide 25, or LSD, was first used as a medicinal plant to treat all manner of conditions, and later as a religious substance, acting as the basis for the spiritual rites of the early Native-American cultures who first discovered it. Famed psychologist William James later experimented with peyote, although he drew no particular conclusions as to its psychological use. Peyote’s and LSD’s main effect is to increase serotonin levels in the brain, producing euphoria and producing a psychological action known as synethesia, a distortion of the brain’s recognition of sensory perceptions.

Following the accidental discovery of LSD’s effects, four years after its discovery in 1937, many projects were conducted, most notably by the newly created American Central Intelligence Agency, as to LSD’s psychological effects and potential uses, although the drug did not gain any real notice within the academic community until Leary’s controversial Concord Prison Experiment.

The experiment’s notoriety exploded when Litwin, infuriated by his partner’s breach of ethics, revealed that not only had Leary been using the drugs as part of his research, but also for recreational purposes, and had even been holding parties in which students were invited to use LSD and other drugs, including marijuana. Conflict with those in charge was natural to Timothy Leary, and rather than back down from the familiar authoritarian commands and threats, he continued his informal personal research with LSD, often ignoring the university’s policies and standards outright .

While his reputation at Harvard became further tarnished, international interest in the subject of LSD for use in psychotherapy was growing, and in 1961, Leary was invited to speak at the Fourteenth International Congress of Applied Psychology in Copenhagen. In his speech, he boldly declared that traditional psychology was at an end, and that a new, more existential psychology would be born, a more humanistic science concerned with the conscious mind, rather than with the rote learning of mindless conditioning:

“Up until recently I considered myself a behavioral scientist and limited the scope of my work to overt and measurable behavior. In doing so I was quite in the Zeitgeist of modern psychology…this decision to turn our backs on consciousness is, of course, typically Western… tonight, I speak to you… presenting a theory which is Chinese, in that behavior is seen as an intricate social game; Indian in its recognition of consciousness and the need to develop a more cosmic awareness, and finally Western in its concern to do good measurably well .”

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The speech served as a declaration. On August 19, 1961, Dr. Timothy Leary forever broke from mainstream psychology, and began down his own scientific path. Although he was not initially rejected by the psychological community, after Copenhagen, Leary started a journey, the result of which, would be his complete ostracization from the scientific and academic communities.

At the same time that Timothy Leary became frustrated with traditional psychology, many Americans were becoming disillusioned with the conformist culture in which they lived, which relegated women, minorities and those with differing political or religious opinions to a lesser status. As poverty grew in the inner cities due to the white flight to the nation’s growing suburbs, many blacks became disenfranchised within public life, forced into a separate, but unequal, world.

These matters brought an open divide into American culture, blatantly illustrating how post-war prosperity had not reached all members of society. The landmark 1954 desegregation Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education, brought renewed strength to the ongoing Civil Rights struggle, bringing it out into the open public and giving it massive media attention . The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 only further inten-sified American disillusionment. Many youths saw their parents’ world in an unfavorable light, and used the escalating conflict in Vietnam as a rallying point. Youths, dubbed the Counter-Culture, modeled themselves after the non-conformist Beat Generation, and allied themselves with the Civil Rights Movement and the new psychology on a larger scale than could be accomplished within a university setting.

This new personification however, made Leary even more controversial, and the leaders of Harvard turned him into a villain. In 1963, breaking from university life, Leary traveled the country, exploring the new culture by stopping at free-love communes, Hell’s Angel’s camps, and the homes of poets, writers, musicians, and mystics . A trip to Mexico to seek out one such mystic however, proved disastrous, as Leary was arrested on the U.S. border and was sentenced to thirty years in a federal prison. The drug convictions were too much for Harvard, which fired Leary in 1965. He was subsequently barred from the American Psychological Association. Leary, however, remained optimistic, and after five years in various prisons, and after countless legal battles, escaped from San Luis Obispo Prison and fled to Nigeria.

Free from his academic restraints, Leary began working intensely to formulate and specifically explain his new perspectives on psychology. Ever an outlaw, Leary held a grim, yet optimistic view of society and how it was governed by psychological laws. Society, in this view, functions as a balance between maintenance of the social order and the development of individual con-sciousness . Society, he maintains, is kept ordered by indoc-trinating individuals according to behavioral principals.

Just as Leary held that personality is a construct of learned be-haviors which could be broken down and restructured, so he extrapolated this principal to the whole of society. Society exists as a series of common behaviors which can be both learned and unlearned, however, those who, for whatever reason, fail to learn or unlearn society’s behaviors, they are either mentally restructured or eliminated.

Psychological stress then, stems from an individual’s innate desire to expand their own conscious-ness and society’s refusal to allow such growth. Only by separating an individual from the social order, can psycho-logical health and conscious growth occur. This separation could, according to Leary, be best achieved through the use of LSD in rituals based upon Eastern meditation. Such rituals provide for a temporary break from the ingrained behaviors instilled by society since birth, and allow for a restructuring of the mental process, which enables the individual consciousness to expand without the hindrance of social order.

The LSD experience allows a person to see themselves as an individual, rather than as a part of society, enabling them to achieve a higher level of thought and a greater freedom of behavior, liberated from psychologically harmful societal constraints.

In the Counter-Culture, Leary saw a group of people who were ripe for LSD induced behavioral modification, and began to see the establishment as a master group, in control and enslaving the free individuals through social construction of the mental processes of thought and personality. In a 1974 letter to the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, Leary advocated a violent revolution by the Counter-Culture in order to free society from its masters, and create a new society, based on principals of conscious-expanding drug use to raise the level of human thought and start a new period in human evolution. Those who knew Leary, however, insisted that the letter was intended only as a final declaration of separation from the normal society, not as a literal advocacy of violence.

The timing of the letter, however intended, caused it to be interpreted literally. Starting in the late 1960s, the Peace Movement, with which Leary was associated, had grown increasingly violent. The race riots following the assassina-tion of Martin Luther King Jr., and the rioting outside the 1968 Democratic Convention were only important benchmarks in an era marked by heightened social unrest and chaos. Frustration with the lack of success in stopping war or in expand-ing civil rights, coupled with the murder of students by the National Guard at Kent State in 1970, caused many fringe groups such as the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Black Panthers, and the Weathermen to believe that peaceful protest had failed and that violent revolution was the only means left to achieving political and social change.

Many people felt that a civil war was inevitable . Thus, when Leary, who was associated with both the Black Panthers and the Weathermen, began to publicly talk of revolution, many people took notice, most notably, the FBI. While most of the would-be revolutionaries were arrested, Leary was merely scrutinized and investigated by the FBI, and managed to avoid serious charges. His reputation as an academic however, was beyond repair. In popular opinion, Tim-othy Leary was seen as a drug guru and spokesman for the dwindling and disappearing Counter-Culture, rather than as a research psychologist. Despite this, Leary continued to be involved in psychological research until his death, and was one of the first to attempt to integrate computers into psychotherapy, psychological testing and bio-feedback.

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Since the turbulent days of the 1960s, many researchers have explored the use of LSD and other drugs in psychotherapy. Such research has shown that LSD creates dream-state waves in a conscious individual, and others have claimed that its use activates parts of the brain, which are rarely activated and thought to be normally utilized only in the early stages of infantile development, although, no definitive proof has been shown. The majority of research has shown LSD’s effects to be too unpredictable for use in therapy. Political pressure, no doubt tied to Timothy Leary’s outlaw behavior, has determined that the legal supply of LSD is small and funding for research projects using LSD is rare.

Although Dr. Timothy Leary’s ideas were radical and could have profoundly changed psychology’s views of society’s effect upon the individual mind’s behavioral and cognitive pro-cesses, Leary’s own well practiced anti-authoritarian views and behaviors, came at a time when American culture was caught in a conflict between a potentially dangerous Counter-Culture and a fearful conservative academia and establishment. Leary chose his allies, and as the peaceful move-ments of the mid-sixties grew into the violence of the late-sixties and early-seventies, his fate became sealed, forever one of the Counter-Culture, and never again a part of the university system.

In later decades, the radicals of the sixties embraced mainstream culture, and Leary was left with-out allies, but with a reputation tarnished and destroyed. His achievements in the field of psychology, potentially ground-breaking have been discounted as outlandish and pseudoscien-tific. Though his contributions to the science of psychology are largely ignored, Leary’s radical ideas have made him a part of the larger scope of American culture, as well known in popular society as Freud, Pavlov, or Skinner, but known as a drug guru, rather than as a respected research psychologist.

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Senator (D: Montsylvania)

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Gardening Structural Engineering

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Historian and Explorer

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President for Life of the Democratic
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Emile Legartho
Esperanto Ambassador to the
United Nations