From tyagi@bjt.net Thu Nov 21 18:17:49 1996 Return-Path: tyagi@bjt.net Received: from mx2.smtp.psi.net (mx2.smtp.psi.net [38.9.26.2]) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA23680 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:17:05 -0500 Received: from kudonet.com by mx2.smtp.psi.net (8.7.5/SMI-5.4-PSI) id QAA25635; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:26:46 -0500 (EST) Received: by kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA07167; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:21:24 -0800 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:21:24 -0800 Message-Id: <199611212121.NAA07167@kudonet.com> To: tyagi@hollyfeld.org Subject: Magick/9611.drgsmgk.ps3 From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Reply-To: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Status: O >Path: kudonet.com!news.scruz.net!miwok!news1.best.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!portc02.blue.aol.com!portc01.blue.aol.com!audrey01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail >From: pstuart@aol.com >Newsgroups: alt.magick >Subject: Re: Drugs and Magick >Date: 16 Nov 1996 15:56:51 GMT >Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com >Lines: 33 >Sender: news@aol.com >Message-ID: <19961116155900.KAA14958@ladder01.news.aol.com> >References: >NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder01.news.aol.com 93 Octy writes: <> Indeed he was, but it was unrelated to his magickal practices. He was prescribed heroin to treat chronic asthma and repiratory ailments. That was a common prescription in the early part of the 20th century, and many, many people became addicted to heroin for that reason. Heroin, you may remember, was originally touted as the best cough suppressant ever (it probably is, but it's also almost as addictive as nicotine). Crowley spent a lot of time trying to kick the habit later in his life, and his diaries of those attempts are available. It seems he may have succeeded for short periods of time, and may have managed to stabilize the habit, but did not ultimately kick it. He did not use heroin as part of magickal practice, as far as I've seen. Cannabis, mescaline and nitrous oxide seemed to be his ritual substances of choice. 93 93/93 Phil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paradigm: Culture in Transformation http://members.aol.com/para93/paradgm.htm CyberMagick Center http://members.aol.com/hadit1/center.htm FUTURERITUAL: Magick for the 21st Century by Philip H. Farber "I found this book absolutely unique - the first magick manual entirely contemporary with modern science and the only one that will really prepare the student for life in the 21st Century." -- Robert Anton Wilson (Eschaton Productions, Chicago, 1995) ISBN 1-57353-107-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------