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William David Sherman

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The Novels of Ken Kesey

Journal of American Studies August 1, 1971 William David Sherman 3 citations

In their manual based upon The Tibetan Book of the Dead , Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner and Timothy Leary discuss the signs of the ‘Third Bardo’ existence in a psychedelic experience in the vocabulary of Ken Kesey's fiction: Where Tibetans saw demons and beasts of prey, a Westerner may see impersonal machinery grinding, or depersonalizing and controlling devices of different futuristic...

DOI: 10.1017/s0021875800000761 (opens in new tab) Cuckoo Vision Literature Art history +2